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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
===[[Me Mamimage:4. Me Dad5star. Me by Malcolm Duffyjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]===
[[image:5starJane Ashland is dying. That's a description of a very early scene here – but also, of course, a platitude that can apply to all of us. Jane's life, if anything, is going up and down in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all things.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[:Category:TeensThe Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|TeensFull Review]]
''It was the day the clocks went back. That's when I decided to kill him.'' ''I'' is fourteen-year-old Danny. ''Him'' is Danny's stepfather Callum. Up until a year ago, it was just Danny and Mam. They lived in a damp, cold council flat and didn't have much money to spare, but things were pretty good. Danny and his Mam got on well, they saw a lot of their lovely extended family, and Danny not only had mates but even a girlfriend, Amy. But a lot has changed. They're now living in Callum's posh house and Danny gets holidays and plenty of Christmas presents. Great, right? [[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me by Malcolm Duffy|Full Review]]<!-- Forman Whitehorn -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way The Company of Eight by Gayle FormanHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn't the slightest ability in that direction she doesn'I Have Lost My Wayt exactly fit in. She takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that she'' tells ll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the story islands of three individuals who have each lost something important to them leading to them losing their waythe Longest World. Freya has lost Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her voice, Harun has lost his love mother's (and Nathaniel make Mrs Potts very rich) has lost everything. Howeverbeen disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a sedate, these three elements do not give justice to the extent of what each character has lost. In this expertly written novelgenteel job instead: governess, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what was most important to themmaybe, causing them or draper's model. So poor Cass is reduced to all meet one fateful day practising her routines in New York Citysecret, using an old book her father left her. [[I Have Lost My Way The Company of Eight by Gayle FormanHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Gary SantorellaIan 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]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[Us vs Them:Category:General FictionThe Failure of Globalism by Ian Bremmer|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 Edwards -->
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===[[The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)]]===
===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersConfident Readers|ThrillersConfident Readers]] ''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
[[The Legacy: ChildrenThat's House Book 1 by Yrsa Sigurdardottir what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and Victoria Cribb (translator)|Last time]]honestly, this series opened with I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a plot that derailed wonderful primer about the careers of both its leads – Huldar human body to curious children- from 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 skeletal system to happen. Huldar can even find some gruesome human remains the police have been tipped off aboutmuscular system via circulation, but still isn't allowed to investigate themrespiration and digestion, so he settles for the drudge work involved in a threat found left in a school's time capsule. Even Freyja can be persuaded right up to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him out. It's the nature of these books DNA that makes who 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? are.[[The Reckoning Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Nicola Edwards and Victoria Cribb (translator)Jem Maybank|Full Review]]<!-- Child Keeley -->
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===[[Everything About You by Heather Child]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian FictionMy Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]===
In the future, your social feed is your entire existence[[image:4star. 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: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]]<!-- Schimmelpfennig Togawa -->
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century The Lady Killer by Roland Schimmelpfennig Masako Togawa and Jamie Bulloch Simon Grove (translator)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime|General FictionCrime]]
FirstJapan, forgive me if I don't refer to the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lovely way with its full title oftena world of both innocence and seedy nightclubs. It's pointedly precise, accurate, and rather ungainly – when in fact When a young girl enters one alone for a drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the book it describes has only rounds of the former two attributes in any quantityvenues for tips – as does a man with a distinctive bass voice. What happens in January is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern GermanyThey leave together. Which means thatSix months later, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time she clings to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometresbalcony at work, to be precise, for that is the road marker where one of our main characters sees thinks about it. He is trying to get back – and drops to work her death in Berlin for suicide. She was pregnant. But the first time in man involved, a month, and to be rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his girlfriendcomings and goings, is not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was away. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are having a teenaged pair of love-birdsperfect time, the boy and girl next door either. He returns to each other in an eastern villageold flame, to find her murdered – and then the lady who flee an unhappy lot would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, and so on the off-chance . From our point of view, he cannot be a better one. You just know there is a chance that these characters killer of ladies, as the title might imply – human and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…else could it mean? [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century The Lady Killer by Roland Schimmelpfennig Masako Togawa and Jamie Bulloch Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- David Hall -->
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===[[Stranger The Industry of Human Happiness by Keren DavidJames Hall]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
[[image:5star''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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThe Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|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 Kerr -->
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===[[W Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by John BanksPhilip Kerr]]===
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On 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 slopes second world war and now, in this novel, is working in the morgue of Mt Hood a hospital. He finds himself embroiled in Oregona mystery, taking on a new role as an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationinsurance claims investigator. Josh Kinninger is inspired by The investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the dark times of the Viking discovery war. With layered plots and double- three personal catastrophes having crossing left him angry, unmoored right and with his world in turmoil. Beginning a journey westwardcentre, hethere's filled with a desire lots to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptkeep you guessing throughout this story. [[W Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by John BanksPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing All Rivers Run Free by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisNatasha Carthew]]===
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You are Ia Pendilly lives in a lass caravan on the coast of twenty eightCornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. PluckyLiving with Bran, penniless her abusive cousin and in Regency era London common law husband, she's never yet had her own baby. Discovering a waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the race girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a new found strength to escape and to embark on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinsternew journey. Along your The journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from takes her deep into a life alone, troubled society and fired by through a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between wittydamaged, pretty hurting world – finding family and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesomememories long hidden will break Ia, rugged remake her and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or perhaps give her the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, itelusive sense of freedom she's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision..been seeking. [[My Lady's Choosing All Rivers Run Free by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisNatasha Carthew|Full Review]] <!-- Clover Rogers -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective Tale of a Tooth by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarAllie Rogers]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isn't just Danny lives in a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery to solve – why did small Sussex town with his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesn't know where to start but, thenmother, Cassidy moves in next door and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full of ideasNatalie. This Life is just as well as poor, but they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boy's dad has been poisoned and is at risk of dying but nomanage -one else will believe heuntil they's in dangerre threatened by a benefits sanction. It's up A Job Centre employee looks to Rory be their salvation - but her impact on the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and Cassidy the resulting changes are described to uncover the truth reader through the naive yet perceptive and save a lifewholly original eyes of four-year-old Danny. [[Rory Branagan Detective Tale of a Tooth by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[Claudia by Anthony Trevelyan]]===
===[[To the Edge of the World by Julia Green]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:TeensGeneral Fiction|TeensGeneral Fiction]]
Jamie loves his new island homeWhen Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. He likes the school Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he's returned and he has even made some friendsneeds Claudia's help. ButReggie, with his history of being bulliedSamson's son, Jamie knows that he has some fears to conquer if he wants to follow his grandfather in joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the traditional island occupation of boat builder. His fear end of the sea in particular. And this is what draws him world and encourage humanity to Mara, a strange, wild, independent girl who can handle a boat with aplombembrace their impending doom. But Mara has Claudia's journey takes her far from her own demons and an approaching show down with home in Manchester to the island authorities because end of them...the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[To the Edge of the World Claudia by Julia GreenAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards The Man I Think I Know by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperMike Gayle]]===
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I wasnJames DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't optimistic when I started reading ''Boards That Dare''taken them where they were supposed to go. I feared that I would encounter new ways At an all time low time for both of minimising tax liabilitiesthem, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum two men reconnect and constant reminders that the slowly find they''shareholders'' own re exactly what the company and of the necessity of maximising other needs. Together, they help each other put their returnlives back together. In the event I was only This is 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 companybeautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another person. I began to feel hopeful... [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards The Man I Think I Know by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) by Peadar o Guilin]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[: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.''
We already know Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in fear for his life, that the Aes Sidhe are back. And in their quest to win back Ireland from humankindDanny, they have placed a magical seal around the entire island. At some point during adolescencefive foot tall, every teenager is transported to the Sidhe realmtwelve-year-old boy, was a threatening thug whose menace was such that grey, colourless land Officer Moore had no choice but to which they were banished thousands of years before. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind reach for a full day (just three minutes in his gun and eliminate the human world) then their lives are spared, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survivethreat. [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Ghost Boys by Peadar o GuilinJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stuart J KentStephanie Butland]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
[[image:2starAilsa 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 heart was available for her to have a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, running polls amongst her readers to decide on her actions. But with her new heart, she has been given a new life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Stephanie Butland|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Meet the Catchers – a mix of young and old, magical and human, smart and, er, less smart. It's their job to round up Fabulous Beasts, and right from the get-go they have a job on their hands in this, the second book to contain their adventures. Colin, 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 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 by Stuart J Kent|Full Review]]<!-- Hepworth Christie -->
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===[[The Family Next Door Spirit by Sally HepworthChristie]]===
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Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from Matt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in rest of his class when they're playing the street and it's truth game' on the sort school bus. Now most of place people aspire to. Certainly that's how the families who live there feel and thereclass think he's either mad or a good sense of communityliar. Ben To make matters worse, his classmate and Essie are glad that Essie's mother is living new next -door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through that stageneighbour, but now thereJazzy O's PoppyHanlon, whobelieves him and she's been the perfect baby for the first six months of her life, but is just starting determined to find a way to be difficult. Ben, in particularshare his experience, is pleased even if that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at workmeans losing her best friend. [[The Family Next Door Spirit by Sally HepworthChristie|Full Review]]
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===[[Panic Room The Smoke Thieves by Robert GoddardSally Green]]===
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Don Challenor Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is a down definitely not on his luck estate agent who gets tasked to sell a house 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 Cornwall the fallout. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and upon meeting the live-in cleanermain characters, Blakewho move between kingdoms, finds his life utterly turned upside downface challenge after challenge. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition of There are five separate story lines, each led by a witchcolourful and interesting character, professional heavies and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a mysterious panic room. Intrigue builds on intrigue tapestry as their paths cross and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complextheir lives intertwine. [[Panic Room The Smoke Thieves by Robert GoddardSally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town by Clare Elsom]]===
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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' (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 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 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 it, therefore, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in the park reveals the perfect answer[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town by Clare Elsom: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]]<!-- Wills Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[Gillie Can Share The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Sarah-leigh WillsDaniel Peltz]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:4When 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.5star 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:For SharingThe Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz|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 Mohamed -->
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===[[Reckless Obsession Falling Leaves by Dai HenleyStefan Mohamed]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]],
[[image:4starWhen your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're 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. When he reappears, she's shocked not only by his presence back in her life, but also by the fact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. Shocked, confused and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But what's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[:Category:CrimeFalling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|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 Barto -->
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===[[Black Sugar by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)]]===
===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionEmerging Readers|Literary FictionEmerging Readers]]
Miguel BonnefoyNickerbacher 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 ''Black SugarThe Late Knight Show'' is a sensual epic chronicling three generations of the Otero family. Nickerbacher likes ''The tale begins with the disappearance of Captain Henry MorganLate Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's treasure and then illustrates the power this treasure holds over peoplehis favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. Multiple people become obsessed with finding this fabled treasure that has become an urban legend in the town in which the story is setHe tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Black Sugar Nickerbacher by Miguel Bonnefoy and Emily Boyce (translator)Terry John Barto|Full Review]]
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