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===[[The Reckoning Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Nicolai Houm and Victoria Cribb Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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[[The Legacy: ChildrenJane Ashland is dying. That's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]], this series opened with a plot that derailed the careers description of both its leads a very early scene here – Huldar the policeman, and child psychologist Freyja. Demoted and stuck with a kind of love/hate connectionbut also, they are left staring into space for want of something to happen. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains the police have been tipped off aboutcourse, but still isn't allowed to investigate them, so he settles for the drudge work involved in a threat found left in a school's time capsule. Even Freyja platitude that can be persuaded apply to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him outall of us. ItJane's the nature life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these books pages, but we soon learn that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but howit recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we will be askinghave her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, will either relate to the prologueglimpses of therapy, where a young girl was snatched ten years ago, drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and what is a modern family under threat trip there with a new-found friend to do with watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything? like a platitude… [[The Reckoning Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Nicolai Houm and Victoria Cribb Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Child Whitehorn -->
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===[[Everything About You The Company of Eight by Heather ChildHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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In Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the futureMagical District, your social feed is your entire existencebut as she hasn't the slightest ability in that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridgeShe takes after her dad, it keeps up to date with your friends and fulfils your wishes. It is also stealing your jobs and, possibly, loosening your grip on reality. Freya is unexpectedly given a beta testing version of the latest smart specs, glasses which give her all the information she hopes desperately that she'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as it, complete with a personality tours to guide her. The problem is that the personality give performances on all the glasses is that islands of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by thisthe Longest World. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just canguardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not''t do this. Hearing approve: her sister's voice again is hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like sheher mother's right there, (and although make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she knows this is just Ruby's datadetermined her ward will take on a sedate, genteel job instead: governess, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accuratemaybe, it canor draper't be this Rubys model. Is it just possible that something more So poor Cass is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[Everything About You The Company of Eight by Heather ChildHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning Us vs Them: The Failure of the Twenty-First Century Globalism by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Ian Bremmer]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionPolitics and Society|General FictionPolitics and Society]]
First, forgive me if I donIt wasn't refer supposed to be like this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantitygloom. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the frozen river separating Poland world, fuelling refugee crises and eastern Germanyworries about national security. Which means People keep saying that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer robots are coming to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of take all our main characters sees itjobs. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city Anti-establishment political parties are a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other making huge gains in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on countries all around the off-chance of a better oneworld. You just know there And inequality is as much of a chance that these characters problem as it ever was – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…if not more so. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning Us vs Them: The Failure of the Twenty-First Century Globalism by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)Ian Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger by Keren David]]===
===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]] ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
Astor, OntarioThat's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, 1904I don't see how you could resist. Emmy and her friend Sadie are walking along when This informative book provides a bloody and bruised boy staggers out of the forest clutching a pistol. Sadie runs off terrified. But something wonderful primer about the boy draws Emmy. She knows, deep inside, that he is not a danger. She kicks human body to curious children- from the pistol into skeletal system to the grass muscular system via circulation, respiration and cradles digestion, right up to the boy until help arrivesDNA that makes who we are. Who is he? [[Humanatomy: How has he been living? And will the townsfolk accept him?[[Stranger Body Works by Keren DavidNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]]<!-- Banks Keeley -->
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionMy Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]===
On the slopes of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking exploration. Josh Kinninger is inspired by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westward, he's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corrupt[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[W by John Banks: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]]<!-- Curran Togawa -->
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===[[My The Lady's Choosing Killer by Kitty Curran Masako Togawa and Larissa ZagerisSimon Grove (translator)]]===
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You are Japan, the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lass lovely way with a world of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless both innocence and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinsterseedy nightclubs. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - When a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life young girl enters one alone, and fired by for a rogueish sense drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the rounds of the venues for adventuretips – as does a man with a distinctive bass voice. When it comes They leave together. Six months later, she clings to suitors thougha balcony at work, you'll have thinks about it – and drops to make her death in suicide. She was pregnant. But the ultimate decision between wittyman involved, pretty a rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and wealthy Sir Benedict Granvillegoings, wholesomeis not having a perfect time, either. He returns to an old flame, rugged to find her murdered – and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or then the madlady who would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenso on. With orphansFrom our point of view, werewolveshe cannot be a killer of ladies, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along as the way, title might imply – but what else could it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... mean? [[My The Lady's Choosing Killer by Kitty Curran Masako Togawa and Larissa ZagerisSimon Grove (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Clover Hall -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective The Industry of Human Happiness by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarJames Hall]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just a normal kid. He's a detective The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and he has foremost is a mystery novel about music. It is about human beings being able to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, then, Cassidy moves find music and magic in next door the simplest of places. Max and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full his younger cousin have realised their dream of ideasopening a gramophone company. This is just as well as they However, their ambition and hubris soon discover puts them on a very serious crime: Corner Boycourse towards London's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but no-one else underworld. They will believe he's in danger. It's up to Rory ascend broken and Cassidy to uncover the truth and save a lifetheir lives changed forever. [[Rory Branagan Detective The Industry of Human Happiness by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr]]===
 
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Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who was a sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the morgue of a hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the dark times of the war. With layered plots and double-crossing left, right and centre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story. [[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr|Full Review]]
 
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Jamie loves his new island home. He likes Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall – a woman as raw as the school and he has even made some friendslandscape that surrounds her. ButLiving with Bran, with his history of being bulliedher abusive cousin and common law husband, Jamie knows that he has some fears to conquer if he wants to follow his grandfather in the traditional island occupation of boat buildershe's never yet had her own baby. His fear of Discovering a waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the sea in particular. And this girl but is what draws him also rescued by the girl – given a new found strength to escape and to Mara, embark on a new journey. The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a strangedamaged, wildhurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, independent girl who can handle a boat with aplomb. But Mara has remake her own demons and an approaching show down with perhaps give her the island authorities because elusive sense of them..freedom she's been seeking.[[To the Edge of the World All Rivers Run Free by Julia GreenNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Tale of a Tooth by Marc Stitger and Sir Cary CooperAllie Rogers]]===
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I wasn't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare'Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilitiesA Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them and the legal minimum and constant reminders that resulting changes are described to the ''shareholders'' own reader through the company naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of the necessity of maximising their return. In the event I was only a few pages in before I discovered that I couldn't have been more wrong, that we were looking at ways of future proofing the company. I began to feel hopeful..four-year-old Danny. [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Tale of a Tooth by Marc Stitger and Sir Cary CooperAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Claudia by Peadar o GuilinAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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We already know that When Claudia is called to the Aes Sidhe are back. And in their quest reception of her Manchester Office block to win back Ireland from humankindmeet a visitor, they have placed she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a magical seal around the entire islandman she hasn't seen for fifteen years. At some point during adolescenceSamson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realmThe Aztec and The Sun King, that grey, colourless land to which they were banished thousands walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of years beforesuccess as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. If they can evade Reggie, Samson's son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in end of the human world) then and encourage humanity to embrace their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationsimpending doom. Fewer than one Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in ten children survive. Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Claudia by Peadar o GuilinAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Man I Think I Know by Stuart J KentMike Gayle]]===
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Meet the Catchers – a mix of young James DeWitt and old, magical and human, smart and, er, less smart. ItDanny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven's their job t taken them where they were supposed to round up Fabulous Beastsgo. At an all time low time for both of them, the two men reconnect and right from slowly find they're exactly what the get-go other needs. Together, they have a job on help each other put their hands in this, the second book to contain their adventureslives back together. Colin, the older and magical (if not completely smart) one, This is tasked with a recovery mission by a friend who boasted beautiful story about having a wonderful lion griffin, only for friendship and what it really means to vanishhelp another person. Well, wouldn't you, if you were a lion griffin called Muffin? Either way, we know the adventure is going to include more than that simple task implies, as the extended title of the book suggests, but is it any good? Is it rock bottom on the pile of juvenile fantasy reads, or does the combination of Pirates, Thieves, Zombies (both tame and wild) and Magic make this particular Muffin top? [[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Man I Think I Know by Stuart J KentMike Gayle|Full Review]] <!-- Hepworth Rhodes -->
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===[[The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionTeens|General FictionTeens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|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.''
Pleasant Court is Danny was playing with a cul-de-sac a few minutes from the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in the street and it's the sort of place people aspire toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to. Certainly that's how the families who live there feel and there's a good sense of community. Ben and Essie are glad that Essie's mother is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago him when her first daughter he was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through that stage, but now there's Poppyshot by Officer Moore, who's been the perfect baby claims he was in fear for the first six months of her his life, but is just starting to be difficult. Benthat Danny, a five foot tall, in particulartwelve-year-old boy, is pleased was a threatening thug whose menace was such that he can rely on Barbara Officer Moore had no choice but to keep an eye on reach for his gun and eliminate the situation whilst he's out at workthreat. [[The Family Next Door Ghost Boys by Sally HepworthJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[Panic Room The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Robert GoddardStephanie Butland]]===
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Don Challenor is Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that she needed, that a down on his luck estate agent who gets tasked heart was available for her to sell have a house in Cornwall and upon meeting the live-in cleanertransplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, Blake, finds his life utterly turned upside downrunning polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex But with the addition of a witchher new heart, professional heavies and she has been given a mysterious panic roomnew life. Intrigue builds Can Ailsa manage to start to live on intrigue her own, and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complex. will her mother let her do that? [[Panic Room The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Robert GoddardStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town Spirit by Clare ElsomSally Christie]]===
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When Harriet, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park on Her Own' (iMatt Barker has seen something strange.eSomething extraordinary that no one would normally see. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she canThat wouldn't believe her eyes. The statue usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry his class when they're playing the Third (or Horace for short) starts to move. He not only moves but stamps his foot, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble with Harriet's mum, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet cantruth game't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around on the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – homeschool bus. His sights are firmly set on Now most of the Mayorclass think he's mansion either mad or a liar. To make matters worse, his classmate and itnew next-door neighbour, thereforeJazzy O'Hanlon, falls to Harriet to persuade believes him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horaceand she's visits determined to the museumfind a way to share his experience, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answereven if that means losing her best friend. [[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town Spirit by Clare ElsomSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[Gillie Can Share The Smoke Thieves by Sarah-leigh WillsSally Green]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone's agenda. Instead power is sought by force, and political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the fallout. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge.5starThere are five separate story lines, 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingThe Smoke Thieves by Sally Green|For SharingFull Review]]
Gillie the rabbit is baking cookies with Daddy. We might think they look most appetising (they're shaped liked carrots and rabbits, you know) but Gillie is really taken by the way that they smell. Lips are being licked. Does she dive in and eat them? No, she doesn't There are eight cookies. Two - a carrot and a rabbit - are for Grandma and Gillie hops off to deliver them. Another two are for Grandpa and then there are two for Mummy. Now there are just two left and Daddy gives them to Gillie, but Gillie is a kind, generous and thoughtful rabbit and whilst she eats one cookie, a rather scrumptious looking rabbit is offered to the reader. I wanted to hug her! [[Gillie Can Share by Sarah-leigh Wills|Full Review]]<!-- Henley de Lacey Davidson -->
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===[[Reckless Obsession by Dai Henley]]===
===[[Precept: A Novel by Matthew de Lacey Davidson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeHistorical Fiction|CrimeHistorical Fiction]]
It was several years since DCI Andy FloodNathan 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'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 GeorginaDouglass's death and she ran memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the home famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a charismatic figure and looked after the girlsa gifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. FloodWe watch him through Nathan'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 eyes as he sees for himself the murder beginnings of the wife of one horrors 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 potato famine and meets and works on befriends the statements from the casefamous Irish nationalist, looking for any inconsistenciesDaniel O'Connell. [[Reckless Obsession Precept: A Novel by Dai HenleyMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Bonnefoy Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[Black Sugar The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Daniel Peltz]]===
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Miguel Bonnefoy's ''Black Sugar'When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we' re in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a sensual epic chronicling three generations part-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, which is what the ruins of the Otero familyChiesa - a chapel - have now become. The tale begins Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the disappearance attention of Captain Henry Morganyoung and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there's treasure and then illustrates more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the power this treasure holds over people. Multiple people become obsessed with finding this fabled treasure that has become an urban legend in history of the town Vannini family, who helped in which building the story chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is setthe director of the museum. [[Black Sugar The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Daniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Zero and the One Falling Leaves by Ryan RubyStefan Mohamed]]===
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When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they''The Zero and the One'' is an incredibly well written and well crafted book. We meet our narratorre okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, Owen, on the plane to New York for the funeral of his even seven years after her best friendMark vanished. He is still reeling after recent eventsWhen he reappears, a suicide pact she's shocked not only by his presence back in which his friend died her life, but also by the fact that he livedhasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and he is going through the motions of the funeral and consoling family whilst still trying emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to get her home town in order to grips with his own feelings of grief and guilt. So far, help Mark find the answers he so simpledesperately craves. But this what's waiting for them is where the talent far more surprising than either 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. them could ever have dreamt… [[The Zero and the One Falling Leaves by Ryan RubyStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical FictionEmerging Readers|Historical FictionEmerging Readers]]
In eighteenth century LondonNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, sisters Fitzgeraldof course, Constance and Verity princess-guarding. That's what dragons are changed forever when they become entwined with the Fowler family - and charged with protecting a mysterious childfor, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. Fast forward to She finds the London of 2015, whole princessing thing quite boring really and the sisters are still waiting - with no way of knowing if the boy she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is alive or deadin watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Far awayNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, a hidden pool grants those who sup from it eternal life, but also forces them 's his favourite TV show because he wants to keep be a secret for two hundred yearsstand-up comedian himself. As those years pass by, those who were granted immortality find that itHe tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don's far from a blessing - with true darkness emerging in the absence of deatht always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[The Parentations Nickerbacher by Kate MayfieldTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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