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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning The Gradual Disappearance of the Twenty-First Century Jane Ashland by Roland Schimmelpfennig Nicolai Houm and Jamie Bulloch Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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FirstJane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, forgive me if I don't refer a platitude that can apply to this book with its full title oftenall of us. ItJane's pointedly preciselife, accurateif anything, is going up and rather ungainly down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – when in fact the book these pages, but we soon learn that it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that recently found a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germanyvery deeply dark down place. Which means thatHere then, when the book starts properly, midscattered through a timeline-Februarybending narrative, it has had time to get we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometresstudent in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to be precise, for find her ancestors that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. He is trying takes her from rural America to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in Norway – and a month, and to be trip there with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair of lovenew-birds, found friend to watch the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern villagemusk oxen, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better oneall things. You just know there And nowhere in sight is anything like a chance that these characters – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…platitude… [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning The Gradual Disappearance of the Twenty-First Century Jane Ashland by Roland Schimmelpfennig Nicolai Houm and Jamie Bulloch Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger The Company of Eight by Keren DavidHarriet Whitehorn]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[imageFourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn't the slightest ability in that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. She takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that she'll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the islands of the Longest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a sedate, genteel job instead:5stargoverness, maybe, or draper's model. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThe Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn|TeensFull Review]]
Astor, Ontario, 1904. Emmy and her friend Sadie are walking along when a bloody and bruised boy staggers out of the forest clutching a pistol. Sadie runs off terrified. But something about the boy draws Emmy. She knows, deep inside, that he is not a danger. She kicks the pistol into the grass and cradles the boy until help arrives. Who is he? How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept him?[[Stranger by Keren David|Full Review]]<!-- Banks Bremner -->
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===[[W Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by John BanksIan Bremmer]]===
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On the slopes It wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationdoom and gloom. Josh Kinninger is inspired by The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angryworld, unmoored fuelling refugee crises and with his worries about national security. People keep saying that robots are coming to take all our jobs. Anti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with And inequality is as much of a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptproblem as it ever was – if not more so. [[W Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by John BanksIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===
===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HumourConfident Readers|HumourConfident Readers]] ''Get under your own skin, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, do and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors thoughhonestly, I don't see how you'll have could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to make curious children- from the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or skeletal system to the madmuscular system via circulation, bad respiration and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphansdigestion, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along right up to the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision..DNA that makes who we are. [[My Lady's Choosing Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Kitty Curran Nicola Edwards and Larissa ZagerisJem Maybank|Full Review]]<!-- Clover Keeley -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective by Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid[[image:4star. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crimejpg|link=Category: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a life. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Rory Branagan Detective by Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
In ''My Favourite People'' the central character takes us to meet all the important people in his life. There's Auntie Meg, who does brilliant haircuts and loves cats. She has four of them! There's Uncle Steve, who's a gentle giant and an inveterate joker. There's best friend Alice, who can do that clever whistle when you put your fingers in your mouth. There's Carmel the library lady, who always suggests brilliant books to read. And loads more. The book ends with a fabulous party to which everyone is invited. [[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Green Togawa -->
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===[[The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[To :Category:Crime|Crime]] Japan, the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lovely way with a world of both innocence and seedy nightclubs. When a young girl enters one alone for a drink she ends up singing along with the Edge musical duet doing the rounds of the World venues for tips – as does a man with a distinctive bass voice. They leave together. Six months later, she clings to a balcony at work, thinks about it – and drops to her death in suicide. She was pregnant. But the man involved, a rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and goings, is not having a perfect time, either. He returns to an old flame, to find her murdered – and then the lady who would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, and so on. From our point of view, he cannot be a killer of ladies, as the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[The Lady Killer by Julia GreenMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Hall -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785630806.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785630806/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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Jamie loves his new island home. He likes the school and he has even made some friends. But, with his history of being bullied, Jamie knows that he has some fears to conquer if he wants to follow his grandfather in the traditional island occupation of boat builder. His fear of the sea in particular. And this is what draws him to Mara, a strange, wild, independent girl who can handle a boat with aplomb. But Mara has her own demons and an approaching show down with the island authorities because of them...| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[To the Edge The Industry of the World Human Happiness by Julia Green|Full ReviewJames Hall]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] ''The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and foremost is a novel about music. It is about human beings being able to find music and magic in the simplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Full Review]] <!-- Marc Stitger and Sir Cary Cooper Kerr -->
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===[[Boards That DareGreeks Bearing Gifts: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Marc Stitger and Sir Cary CooperPhilip Kerr]]===
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I wasnSet in Germany in 1957, 't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That DareGreeks Bearing Gifts''is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilitiesBernie Gunther is a Berliner, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them who was a sarjeant during the legal minimum second world war and constant reminders that the ''shareholders'' own now, in this novel, is working in the company and morgue of the necessity of maximising their returna hospital. In the event I was only He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a few pages in before I discovered that I couldn't have been more wrongnew role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, that we were looking at ways and back into the dark times of future proofing the companywar. I began With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to feel hopeful..keep you guessing throughout this story. [[Boards That DareGreeks Bearing Gifts: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Marc Stitger and Sir Cary CooperPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) All Rivers Run Free by Peadar o GuilinNatasha Carthew]]===
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We already know Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that the Aes Sidhe are backsurrounds her. And in their quest to win back Ireland from humankindLiving with Bran, her abusive cousin and common law husband, they have placed she's never yet had her own baby. Discovering a magical seal around waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the entire island. At some point during adolescence, every teenager girl but is transported also rescued by the girl – given a new found strength to the Sidhe realm, that grey, colourless land escape and to which they were banished thousands of years beforeembark on a new journey. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a full day (just three minutes in the human damaged, hurting world) then their lives are spared– finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children surviveremake her and perhaps give her the elusive sense of freedom she's been seeking. [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) All Rivers Run Free by Peadar o GuilinNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Tale of a Tooth by Stuart J KentAllie Rogers]]===
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Meet the Catchers – Danny lives in a mix of young and oldsmall Sussex town with his mother, magical and human, smart and, er, less smartNatalie. It's their job to round up Fabulous BeastsLife is poor, and right from the getbut they manage -go until they have 're threatened by a job benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on their hands in this, the second book to contain their adventures. Colinfamily goes far beyond what they first expect, the older and magical (if not completely smart) one, is tasked with a recovery mission by a friend who boasted about having a wonderful lion griffin, only for it to vanish. Well, wouldn't you, if you were a lion griffin called Muffin? Either way, we know the adventure is going resulting changes are described to include more than that simple task implies, as the extended title of reader through the book suggests, but is it any good? Is it rock bottom on the pile naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of juvenile fantasy reads, or does the combination of Pirates, Thieves, Zombies (both tame and wild) and Magic make this particular Muffin top? four-year-old Danny. [[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Tale of a Tooth by Stuart J KentAllie Rogers|Full Review]] <!-- Hepworth Trevelyan -->
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===[[The Family Next Door Claudia by Sally HepworthAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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Pleasant Court When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a cul-de-sac visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a few minutes from the beach in Melbourneman she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Kids play in the street Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and itThe Sun King, walked out of Claudia's the sort life and into a world of place people aspire to. Certainly thatsuccess as a solar panel salesman – but now he's how the families who live there feel returned and therehe needs Claudia's a good sense of communityhelp. Ben and Essie are glad that EssieReggie, Samson's mother is living next door as Essie had son, has joined a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleeping. Miamysterious cult called ''Tarantula's come through that stage, but now there's Poppy, a group who's been the perfect baby prepare for the first six months end of her life, but is just starting the world and encourage humanity to be difficultembrace their impending doom. Ben, Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in particular, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara Manchester to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at work. end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[The Family Next Door Claudia by Sally HepworthAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[Panic Room The Man I Think I Know by Robert GoddardMike Gayle]]===
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Don Challenor is a down on his luck estate agent who gets tasked to sell a house in Cornwall James DeWitt and upon meeting the live-Danny Allen are both men in cleaner, Blake, finds his life utterly turned upside downtheir early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition At an all time low time for both of a witchthem, professional heavies the two men reconnect and slowly find they're exactly what the other needs. Together, they help each other put their lives back together. This is a mysterious panic room. Intrigue builds on intrigue beautiful story about friendship and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complexit really means to help another person. [[Panic Room The Man I Think I Know by Robert GoddardMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town by Clare Elsom]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Emerging Confident Readers]] ''How small I look. Laid out flat, my stomach touching ground. My right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood.''
When Harriet, aged seven and Danny was playing with a quartertoy gun his friend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by Officer Moore, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. The statue of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace who claims he was in fear for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his footlife, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mumDanny, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on the Mayor's mansion and itfive foot tall, thereforetwelve-year-old boy, falls to Harriet to persuade him was a threatening thug whose menace was such that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits Officer Moore had no choice but to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank reach for his gun and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in eliminate the park reveals the perfect answerthreat. [[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town Ghost Boys by Clare ElsomJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[Gillie Can Share The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Sarah-leigh WillsStephanie Butland]]===
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Gillie the rabbit is baking cookies with Daddy. We might think they look most appetising (they're shaped liked carrots Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and rabbitsjust as she was edging closer to death she finally, you know) but Gillie is really taken by finally got the way call that they smell. Lips are being licked. Does she dive in and eat them? Noneeded, she doesn't There are eight cookies. Two - a carrot and that a rabbit - are heart was available for Grandma and Gillie hops off her to deliver themhave a transplant. Another two are Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for Grandpa and then there are two for Mummyher, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. Now there are just two left and Daddy gives them to GillieBut with her new heart, but Gillie is a kind, generous and thoughtful rabbit and whilst she eats one cookie, has been given a rather scrumptious looking rabbit is offered new life. Can Ailsa manage to the reader. I wanted start to hug live on her own, and will her! mother let her do that? [[Gillie Can Share The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Sarah-leigh WillsStephanie Butland|Full Review]] <!-- Henley Christie -->
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[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|Confident Readers]] Matt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest of his class when they're playing the 'truth game' on the school bus. Now most of the class think he's either mad or a liar. To make matters worse, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's determined to find a way to share his experience, even if that means losing her best friend. [[Spirit by Sally Christie|CrimeFull Review]]
It was several years since DCI Andy Flood's wife had been murdered, but he'd not come to terms with it. His daughters were coping reasonably well, not least because his mother had moved in after Georgina's death and she ran the home and looked after the girls. Flood's real problem was that the Met had moved the murder to cold case status. He couldn't believe that they'd do this when the murder of the wife of one of their own was unsolved, but ''he's'' determined not to give up on the case. Each evening when he's finished work he goes into his study and works on the statements from the case, looking for any inconsistencies. [[Reckless Obsession by Dai Henley|Full Review]]<!-- Bonnefoy Green -->
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===[[Black Sugar The Smoke Thieves by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Sally Green]]===
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Miguel BonnefoyTension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone's ''Black Sugar'' agenda. Instead power is a sensual epic chronicling three generations sought by force, and political manoeuvring of the Otero familyworst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the fallout. The tale begins with the disappearance This story of Captain Henry Morgan's treasure warring nations is fast moving from page one, and then illustrates the power this treasure holds over peoplemain characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. Multiple people become obsessed with finding this fabled treasure that has become an urban legend in the town in which the There are five separate story is setlines, each led by a colourful and interesting character, and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[Black Sugar The Smoke Thieves by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Sally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[The Zero and the One by Ryan Ruby]]===
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''The Zero and the One'' is an incredibly well written and well crafted book. We meet our narrator, Owen, on the plane to New York for the funeral of his best friend. He is still reeling after recent events, a suicide pact in which his friend died but he lived, and he is going through the motions of the funeral and consoling family whilst still trying to get to grips with his own feelings of grief and guilt. So far, so simple. But this is where the talent of Ryan Ruby steps in and slowly, so slowly, he reveals little tantalising clues that all is not what it seems, a throw-away comment here, a mis-step there, and it becomes clear that Owen is not a reliable narrator[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Zero and the One by Ryan Ruby:Category:Historical Fiction|Full ReviewHistorical Fiction]]
Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. And even more excited that his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''Narrative'', Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and a gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and meets and befriends the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'Connell. [[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Mayfield Daniel Peltz -->
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In eighteenth century LondonWhen we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, sisters Fitzgerald, Constance and Verity are changed forever when they become entwined with which is what the ruins of the Fowler family Chiesa - and charged with protecting a mysterious childchapel - have now become. Fast forward Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the London attention of 2015, young and old. Molly uses the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if history to entertain the boy is alive or dead. Far awaytourists, a hidden pool grants those who sup from but there's more too it eternal lifethan she knows, but particularly as the history of the building is also forces them to keep a secret for two hundred years. As those years pass bythe history of the Vannini family, those who were granted immortality find that it's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the absence director of deaththe museum. [[The Parentations Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Kate MayfieldDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32 Falling Leaves by B C R Fegan and Lenny WenStefan Mohamed]]===
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Mr Nicholas Noo is the host of the magical Hotel of Hoo and he's just welcoming his very first guests. TheyWhen your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're going to be okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in room number one and it looks very comfortable with a cosy fire and comfortable bedyour life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. But Mr Noo is a considerate host and When he shows his guests around the hotel. Therereappears, she's shocked not only one rule: donby his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't ever look behind door 32aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. NowShocked, confused and emotionally reeling, you're going Vanessa must return to wonder about what, exactly is her home town in room 32, because we'll see some exciting and wonderful things as you move from room 2 order to room 31help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. Forget expensive theme parks: youBut what'd be much better off going to the Hotel s waiting for them is far more surprising than either of Hoo. them could ever have dreamt… [[Don't Ever Look Behind Door 32 Falling Leaves by B C R Fegan and Lenny WenStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeEmerging Readers|CrimeEmerging Readers]]
Bruno Kahn Nickerbacher is a bit like Marmite: people either love him or hate himdoing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. HeThat's a psychiatristwhat dragons are for, who has managed to insert himself into one of the richest families in Franceafter all. There are those who suspect that heBut Gwendolyn isn's exerting undue influence over t any princess. She finds the head of the family, Guy Larroque, who whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is either in watching comedy on 'not as sharp as he used to be' or The Late Knight Show'suffering from vascular dementia', depending on where you stand within the family. At the vascular dementia end of the continuum is GuyNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show's daughter, Sabine Larroque, who's paid Samuel Bencherif, a freelance photographertoo - in fact, to dog the footsteps of Kahn and Guy Larroqueit's (very) young wife in the hope of finding something which she can use his favourite TV show because he wants to free her father from their clutchesbe a stand-up comedian himself. So far, so very much He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as the very rich live, until Bencherif is found bludgeoned to death in a passageway by the Theatre de l'Odeon in the centre of ParisNickerbacher intended. [[Silver-Tongued Nickerbacher by David BarrieTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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