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===[[I Have Lost My Way The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Gayle FormanNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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Jane Ashland is dying. That''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story s a description of a very early scene here – but also, of three individuals who have each lost something important course, a platitude that can apply to them leading to them losing their wayall of us. Freya has lost her voiceJane's life, if anything, Harun has lost his love is going up and Nathaniel has lost everythingdown in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. HoweverHere then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, these three elements do not give justice to the extent glimpses of what each character has lost. In this expertly written noveltherapy, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to lose what was most important Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to themwatch the musk oxen, causing them to of all meet one fateful day things. And nowhere in New York City. sight is anything like a platitude… [[I Have Lost My Way The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Gayle FormanNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls The Company of Eight by Gary SantorellaHarriet Whitehorn]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:4Fourteen-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.5starShe 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.jpg|link=CategoryHer guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[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:Category:Teens|Teens]]governess, maybe, or draper's model. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[:Category:General FictionThe Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn|General FictionFull Review]]
The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if he's feeling belligerent, and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-out, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesn't guide us to understand it perfectly, it seems to mean he has a private room in a large self-contained bungalow, on a gated compound with round-the-clock adult supervision. There's a paddock with horses for the kids to ride, their own school – and all the adults are armed with Thorazine to calm the kids down. Charlie, despite his obvious bookish intelligence, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended up where he is, but it must have something to do with his single parent mother being violent, and the fact he is no longer allowed to stay with his grandfather. This book is a slightly woozy look at his thoughts, as he tries to build a relationship with a girl in a different Cottage, and work out his lot. He certainly has a lot on his plate for a thirteen-year-old. [[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella|Full Review]]<!-- Sigurdardottir Bremner -->
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===[[Us vs Them: The Reckoning Failure of Globalism by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Ian Bremmer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]]
[[image:4It wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the world, fuelling refugee crises and 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.5starAnd inequality is as much of a problem as it ever was – if not more so.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Us vs Them:Category:ThrillersThe Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer|ThrillersFull Review]]
[[The Legacy: Children's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]], this series opened with a plot that derailed the careers of both its leads – Huldar the policeman, and child psychologist Freyja. Demoted and stuck with a kind of love/hate connection, 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 about, 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 can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him out. It's the nature of these books that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but how, we will be asking, will either relate to the prologue, where a young girl was snatched ten years ago, and what is a modern family under threat to do with anything? [[The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Child Edwards -->
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===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]===
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In the future, your social feed is your entire existence[[image:5star. A.I. is here and it is all around you. It fills your fridge, 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'll ever need, right in front of her eyes by barely thinking about it, complete with a personality to guide her. The problem is that the personality on the glasses is that of her missing and presumed dead sister. Freya is thrown and unsettled by this. Her mum tells her to stop using them or at the very least to reset them to a different personality. But Freya just can't do this. Hearing her sister's voice again is like she's right there, and although she knows this is just Ruby's data, part of Freya can't believe that it can be this accurate, it can't be this Ruby. Is it just possible that something more is feeding this personality than Ruby's data? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Everything About You by Heather Child:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!'' That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]] <!-- Schimmelpfennig Keeley -->
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)]]===
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First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often[[image:4star. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germany. Which means that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees it. 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 are a teenaged pair of love-birds, the boy and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot on the off-chance of a better one. You just know there is 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…jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator):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]]<!-- David Togawa -->
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===[[Stranger The Lady Killer by Keren DavidMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCrime|TeensCrime]]
AstorJapan, Ontario, 1904the early 1960s. Emmy The prologue of this book sets us up in a lovely way with a world of both innocence and her friend Sadie are walking seedy nightclubs. When a young girl enters one alone for a drink she ends up singing along when a bloody and bruised boy staggers out with the musical duet doing the rounds of the forest clutching venues for tips – as does a pistolman with a distinctive bass voice. Sadie runs off terrifiedThey leave together. But something Six months later, she clings to a balcony at work, thinks about the boy draws Emmyit – and drops to her death in suicide. She knowswas pregnant. But the man involved, deep insidea rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and goings, that he is not having a dangerperfect time, either. She kicks He returns to an old flame, to find her murdered – and then the pistol into the grass lady who would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, and cradles the boy until help arrivesso on. Who is From our point of view, he? How has he been living? And will cannot be a killer of ladies, as the townsfolk accept himtitle might imply – but what else could it mean?[[Stranger The Lady Killer by Keren DavidMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Banks Hall -->
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===[[W The Industry of Human Happiness by John BanksJames Hall]]===
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On the slopes ''The Industry of Mt Hood in Oregon, an 1000-year old Viking Human Happiness'' first and foremost is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationa novel about music. Josh Kinninger It is inspired by about human beings being able to find music and magic in the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored simplest of places. Max and with his world in turmoilyounger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. Beginning However, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a journey westward, hecourse towards London's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptunderworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[W The Industry of Human Happiness by John BanksJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisPhilip Kerr]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HumourCrime (Historical)|HumourCrime (Historical)]], [[:Category:Historical FictionThrillers|Historical FictionThrillers]]
You are Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is a lass of twenty eighthistorical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Plucky Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, penniless who was a sarjeant during the second world war and now, in this novel, is working in Regency era London the race is morgue of a hospital. He finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life new role as an eternal spinsterinsurance claims investigator. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager The investigation takes him to save you from a life aloneGreece, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make back into the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or dark times of the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Cravenwar. With orphanslayered plots and double-crossing left, werewolves, long lost lovers right and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the waycentre, itthere's clear lots to keep you guessing throughout this isn't going to be an easy decision..story. [[My Lady's Choosing Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisPhilip Kerr|Full Review]] <!-- Clover Carthew -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective All Rivers Run Free by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarNatasha Carthew]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the coast of Cornwall – a normal kidwoman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. HeLiving with Bran, her abusive cousin and common law husband, she's never yet had her own baby. Discovering a detective and he has waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a mystery new found strength to solve – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where escape and to start butembark on a new journey. The journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a damaged, thenhurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, Cassidy moves in next door remake her and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full perhaps give her the elusive sense of ideas. This is just as well as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boyfreedom she'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 lifeseeking. [[Rory Branagan Detective All Rivers Run Free by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[To the Edge of the World by Julia Green:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]===
[[image:4Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie.5starLife is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and the resulting changes are described to the reader through the naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny. [[:Category:TeensTale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers|TeensFull Review]]
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...[[To the Edge of the World by Julia Green|Full Review]] <!-- Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper Trevelyan -->
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Claudia by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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I wasnWhen Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't optimistic when I started reading expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia'Boards That Dares life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he needs Claudia's help. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilitiesReggie, Samson's son, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum and constant reminders that the has joined a mysterious cult called ''shareholdersTarantula'' own , a group who prepare for the company and end of the necessity of maximising world and encourage humanity to embrace their returnimpending doom. In Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to 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 end of future proofing the company. I began to feel hopeful... world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Claudia by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Man I Think I Know by Peadar o GuilinMike Gayle]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensGeneral Fiction|TeensGeneral Fiction]]
We already know that the Aes Sidhe James DeWitt and Danny Allen are back. And both men in their quest early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around the entire islandgo. At some point during adolescencean all time low time for both of them, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realm, that grey, colourless land to which two men reconnect and slowly find they were banished thousands of years before're exactly what the other needs. If Together, they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for a full day (just three minutes in the human world) then help each other put their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilationstogether. Fewer than one in ten children surviveThis is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another person. [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Man I Think I Know by Peadar o GuilinMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic by Stuart J Kent]]===
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Meet the Catchers – a mix of young and old, magical and human, smart and''How small I look. Laid out flat, er, less smartmy stomach touching ground. It's their job to round up Fabulous Beasts, My right knee bent and right from the getmy brand-go they have a job on their hands in this, the second book to contain their adventuresnew Nikes stained with blood. Colin, the older and magical (if not completely smart) one, is tasked '' Danny was playing with a recovery mission toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by a friend Officer Moore, who boasted about having a wonderful lion griffin, only claims he was in fear for it to vanish. Wellhis life, wouldn't youthat Danny, if you were a lion griffin called Muffin? Either wayfive foot tall, we know the adventure is going to include more than twelve-year-old boy, was a threatening thug whose menace was such that simple task implies, as the extended title of the book suggests, Officer Moore had no choice but is it any good? Is it rock bottom on to reach for his gun and eliminate 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? threat. [[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Ghost Boys by Stuart J KentJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]] <!-- Hepworth Butland -->
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===[[The Family Next Door Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Sally HepworthStephanie Butland]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in the street Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and it's just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the sort of place people aspire call that she needed, that a heart was available for her to. Certainly that's how the families who live there feel and there's have a good sense of communitytransplant. Ben and Essie are glad Previously she had felt so helpless that Essie's mother is living next door as Essie she had a mental breakdown three years ago when used her first daughter was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through that stage, but now there's Poppy, who's been the perfect baby blog to make decisions for the first six months of her life, but is just starting running polls amongst her readers to be difficultdecide on her actions. BenBut with her new heart, in particularshe has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, is pleased and will her mother let her do that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at work. ? [[The Family Next Door Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Sally HepworthStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[Panic Room Spirit by Robert GoddardSally Christie]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersConfident Readers|ThrillersConfident Readers]]
Don Challenor is 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 down on liar. To make matters worse, his luck estate agent who gets tasked to sell a house in Cornwall classmate and upon meeting the livenew next-in cleanerdoor neighbour, BlakeJazzy O'Hanlon, finds believes him and she's determined to find a way to share his life utterly turned upside down. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition of a witchexperience, professional heavies and a mysterious panic room. Intrigue builds on intrigue and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complexeven if that means losing her best friend. [[Panic Room Spirit by Robert GoddardSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town The Smoke Thieves by Clare ElsomSally Green]]===
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When HarrietTension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, aged seven and a quarter, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to the Park peace is definitely not on Her Owneveryone' (is agenda.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 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 mumInstead power is sought by force, and climbs down from his pillar. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around political manoeuvring of the town as Horace searches for a new – worst kind sees families torn apart and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on innocent victims swept up in the Mayor's mansion and it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternativefallout. SadlyThis story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, Horace's visits to and the museummain characters, cinemawho move between kingdoms, train stationface challenge after challenge. There are five separate story lines, playgroundeach led by a colourful and interesting character, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a competition in the park reveals the perfect answertapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town The Smoke Thieves by Clare ElsomSally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[Gillie Can Share by Sarah-leigh Wills]]===
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Gillie [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Nathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the rabbit is baking cookies with Daddyarrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. We might think they look most appetising (they're shaped liked carrots and rabbitsAnd even more excited that his Quaker father, you know) but Gillie who is really taken by publishing the way that they smell. Lips are being licked. Does she dive in and eat them? NoBritish edition of ''Narrative'', she doesnDouglass't There are eight cookiess memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tour. Two - Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is a carrot charismatic figure and a rabbit - are for Grandma and Gillie hops off to deliver themgifted orator. But Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. Another two are We watch him through Nathan's eyes as he sees for Grandpa himself the beginnings of the horrors of the potato famine and then there are two for Mummy. Now there are just two left meets and Daddy gives them to Gilliebefriends the famous Irish nationalist, but Gillie is a kind, generous and thoughtful rabbit and whilst she eats one cookie, a rather scrumptious looking rabbit is offered to the readerDaniel O'Connell. I wanted to hug her! [[Gillie Can Share Precept: A Novel by Sarah-leigh WillsMatthew de Lacey Davidson|Full Review]]<!-- Henley Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[Reckless Obsession The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Dai HenleyDaniel Peltz]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4starWhen 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, which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old. Molly uses the history to entertain the tourists, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the director of the museum.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeThe Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz|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 Mohamed -->
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===[[Black Sugar Falling Leaves by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Stefan Mohamed]]===
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Miguel BonnefoyWhen your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they's ''Black Sugar'' is a sensual epic chronicling three generations of the Otero familyre okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? – all questions that Vanessa faces every day, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. The tale begins with the disappearance of Captain Henry MorganWhen he reappears, she's treasure and then illustrates shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the power this treasure holds over people. Multiple people become obsessed with finding this fabled treasure fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has become an urban legend in the passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in which order to help Mark find the story answers he so desperately craves. But what's waiting for them is set. far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Black Sugar Falling Leaves by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Stefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[The Zero and the One by Ryan Ruby]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary FictionNickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]===
''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:Emerging Readers|Full ReviewEmerging Readers]]
Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto|Full Review]]
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