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===[[When the Mountains Roared The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Jess ButterworthNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensGeneral Fiction|TeensGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction]] ''My fingers come away deep red. My breath catches. Blood. I wipe my shaky hands on my trousers. There's a leopard out there, injured. And I have to find it before they do.''
Two months earlier, RubyJane Ashland is dying. That's dad had dropped a bombshell. They were moving from Australia to Indiadescription of a very early scene here – but also, of course, where her father had got a job at a hotel in the mountains. It was platitude that can apply to be a new start and it would help both Ruby and her father get over the death all of her motherus. Ruby wasnJane't so sure about that s life, if anything, is going up and didn't get more optimistic on arrival - to find a rundown building full down in levels of scary corners pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn that it recently found a very deeply dark down place where the dark is really dark and the wildlife includes scorpions. Here then, bears andscattered through a timeline-bending narrative, well, you get the picture. Ruby has struggled since we have her mother died and it pretty much feels days finding a Lincolnesque lover as though a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a drive to find her father has brought ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – and a place that makes everything worse..trip there with a new-found friend to watch the musk oxen, of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[When the Mountains Roared The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Jess ButterworthNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn]]===
===[[Me Mam. Me Dad. Me by Malcolm Duffy]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]]
Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasn't the slightest ability in that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. She takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that she'It was ll pass the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the day islands of the clocks went backLongest World. ThatHer guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a sedate, genteel job instead: governess, maybe, or draper's when I decided model. So poor Cass is reduced to kill himpractising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her.''[[The Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
''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 Bremner -->
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===[[I Have Lost My Way Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Gayle FormanIan Bremmer]]===
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It wasn''I Have Lost My Way'' tells the story of three individuals who have each lost something important t supposed to them leading be like this, was it? Every day seems to them losing their waybring yet more news of doom and gloom. Freya has lost her voiceThe spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the world, Harun has lost his love fuelling refugee crises and Nathaniel has lost everythingworries about national security. However, these three elements do not give justice 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 extent world. And inequality is as much of what each character has lost. In this expertly written novel, Gayle Forman writes about how these three dissimilar individuals each came to lose what a problem as it ever was most important to them, causing them to all meet one fateful day in New York City– if not more so. [[I Have Lost My Way Us vs Them: The Failure of Globalism by Gayle FormanIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Dyed Souls by Gary Santorella]]===
===[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]] ''Get under your own skin, [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
The USA, early 1980s. Charlie (or Charles, if heThat's feeling belligerent, what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and he often is) is being taken back to his home by his drop-outhonestly, slutty mother. The home is called a Cottage, and while the book doesnI don'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 supervisionsee how you could resist. There's This informative book provides a paddock with horses for wonderful primer about the kids human body to ride, their own school – and all curious children- from the adults are armed with Thorazine skeletal system to calm the kids down. Charliemuscular system via circulation, despite his obvious bookish intelligencerespiration and digestion, is struggling to get to grips with why and how he's ended right 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-oldDNA that makes who we are. [[Dyed Souls Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Gary SantorellaNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]]<!-- Sigurdardottir Keeley -->
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===[[The Reckoning by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)]]===
===[[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersFor Sharing|ThrillersFor Sharing]]
[[The Legacy: ChildrenIn ''My Favourite People''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 central character takes us to meet all the policemanimportant people in his life. There's Auntie Meg, who does brilliant haircuts and child psychologist Freyjaloves cats. Demoted and stuck with a kind She has four of love/hate connectionthem! There's Uncle Steve, 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 isnwho't allowed to investigate them, so he settles for the drudge work involved in s a threat found left in a schoolgentle giant and an inveterate joker. There's time capsule. Even Freyja best friend Alice, who can be persuaded to stop twiddling her thumbs and help him outdo that clever whistle when you put your fingers in your mouth. ItThere's Carmel the nature of these library lady, who always suggests brilliant books that we know both plots will be connected somehow – but how, we will be asking, will either relate to the prologue, where read. And loads more. The book ends with a young girl was snatched ten years ago, and what fabulous party to which everyone is a modern family under threat to do with anything? invited. [[The Reckoning My Favourite People by Yrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Child Togawa -->
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===[[Everything About You The Lady Killer by Heather ChildMasako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersCrime|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] In the future, your social feed is your entire existence. 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? [[Everything About You by Heather Child|Full ReviewCrime]]
Japan, the early 1960s. The prologue of this book sets us up in a lovely way with a world of both innocence and seedy nightclubs. When a young girl enters one alone for a drink she ends up singing along with the musical duet doing the rounds of the venues for tips – as does a man with a distinctive bass voice. They leave together. Six months later, she clings to a balcony at work, thinks about it – and drops to her death in suicide. She was pregnant. But the man involved, a rampant womaniser with an intricate diary of all his comings and goings, is not having a perfect time, either. He returns to an old flame, to find her murdered – and then the lady who would be his alibi for that death also gets killed, and so on. From our point of view, he cannot be a killer of ladies, as the title might imply – but what else could it mean? [[The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)|Full Review]]<!-- Schimmelpfennig Hall -->
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===[[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning The Industry of the Twenty-First Century Human Happiness by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)James Hall]]===
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First, forgive me if I don't refer to this book with its full title often. It's pointedly precise, accurate, The Industry of Human Happiness'' first and rather ungainly – when in fact the book it describes has only the former two attributes in any quantity. What happens in January foremost is that a wild wolf walks across the frozen river separating Poland and eastern Germanynovel about music. Which means that, when the book starts properly, mid-February, it has had time It is about human beings being able to get a lot closer to Berlin – within 80 kilometres, to be precise, for that is find music and magic in the road marker where one simplest of our main characters sees itplaces. He is trying to get back to work in Berlin for the first time in a month, Max and to be with his girlfriend, not knowing she has had an infidelity while he was awayyounger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. Also fancying the bright lights and big city are a teenaged pair of love-birdsHowever, the boy their ambition and girl next door to each other in an eastern village, who flee an unhappy lot hubris soon puts them on the off-chance of a better onecourse towards London's underworld. You just know there is a chance that these characters – human They will ascend broken and lupine alike – are sucked into one combined narrative, but you won't know quite what that will entail…their lives changed forever. [[One Clear Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning The Industry of the Twenty-First Century Human Happiness by Roland Schimmelpfennig and Jamie Bulloch (translator)James Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Stranger Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Keren DavidPhilip Kerr]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
[[image:5starSet 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Greeks Bearing Gifts:Category:TeensBernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr|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 Carthew -->
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===[[W All Rivers Run Free by John BanksNatasha Carthew]]===
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On Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on the slopes coast of Mt Hood in OregonCornwall – a woman as raw as the landscape that surrounds her. Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and common law husband, an 1000-year old Viking is discovered frozen - three thousand miles further west than any previously known Viking explorationshe's never yet had her own baby. Josh Kinninger Discovering a waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but is inspired also rescued by the Viking discovery - three personal catastrophes having left him angry, unmoored girl – given a new found strength to escape and with his world in turmoilto embark on a new journey. Beginning The journey takes her deep into a journey westwardtroubled society and through a damaged, hurting world – finding family and memories long hidden will break Ia, heremake her and perhaps give her the elusive sense of freedom she's filled with a desire to wreak vengeance on the individuals he finds morally corruptbeen seeking. [[W All Rivers Run Free by John BanksNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[My Lady's Choosing Tale of a Tooth by Kitty Curran and Larissa ZagerisAllie Rogers]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
[[image:4starDanny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life is poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]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:Historical FictionTale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]<!-- Clover Trevelyan -->
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===[[Rory Branagan Detective Claudia by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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Ten-year-old Rory Branagan isnWhen Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't just a normal kid. He's a detective and he has a mystery expect it to solve be her father figure – why did his dad disappear when he was three? Rory doesna man she hasn't know where to start butseen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, thenThe Aztec and The Sun King, Cassidy moves in next door walked out of Claudia's life and he discovers he has an accomplice who is full into a world of ideas. This is just as well success as they soon discover a very serious crime: Corner Boysolar panel salesman – but now he's dad has been poisoned returned and is at risk of dying but no-one else will believe heneeds Claudia's in dangerhelp. ItReggie, Samson's up son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the end of the world and encourage humanity to Rory and Cassidy embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to uncover the truth and save a life. end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[Rory Branagan Detective Claudia by Andrew Clover and Ralph LazarAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man I Think I Know by Mike Gayle]]===
===[[To the Edge of the World by Julia Green]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:TeensGeneral Fiction|TeensGeneral Fiction]]
Jamie loves his new island home. He likes the school James DeWitt and he has even made some friendsDanny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. But, with his history At an all time low time for both of being bulliedthem, Jamie knows that he has some fears to conquer if he wants to follow his grandfather in the traditional island occupation of boat buildertwo men reconnect and slowly find they're exactly what the other needs. His fear of the sea in particularTogether, they help each other put their lives back together. And this This is a beautiful story about friendship and what draws him it really means 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..help another person. [[To the Edge of the World The Man I Think I Know by Julia GreenMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary Cooper]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and FinanceTeens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Business and FinanceConfident Readers]] ''How small I look. Laid out flat, my stomach touching ground. My right knee bent and my brand-new Nikes stained with blood.''
I wasn't optimistic Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to him when I started reading ''Boards That Dare''. I feared that I would encounter new ways of minimising tax liabilitieshe was shot by Officer Moore, of getting as much as possible out of employees whilst paying them the legal minimum and constant reminders that the ''shareholders'' own the company and of the necessity of maximising their return. In the event I who claims he was only a few pages in before I discovered fear for his life, that I couldn't have been more wrongDanny, a five foot tall, twelve-year-old boy, was a threatening thug whose menace was such that we were looking at ways of future proofing Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and eliminate the company. I began to feel hopeful..threat. [[Boards That Dare: How to Future-proof Today's Corporate Boards Ghost Boys by Marc Stigter and Sir Cary CooperJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Peadar o GuilinStephanie Butland]]===
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We already know Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the call that the Aes Sidhe are back. And in their quest she needed, that a heart was available for her to win back Ireland from humankind, they have placed a magical seal around the entire islandtransplant. At some point during adolescence, every teenager is transported Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog to the Sidhe realm, that greymake decisions for her, colourless land running polls amongst her readers to which they were banished thousands of years beforedecide on her actions. If they can evade the vengeful faerie kind for But with her new heart, she has been given a full day (just three minutes in the human world) then their lives are sparednew life. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, although they are often sent back with horrific mutilations. Fewer than one in ten children survive. and will her mother let her do that? [[The Invasion (The Call, Book 2) Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Peadar o GuilinStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[The Catchers in Pirates, Thieves, Zombies and Magic Spirit by Stuart J KentSally Christie]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:2starMatt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn't usually matter but Matt accidently tells the rest of his class when they're playing the 'truth game' on the school bus. Now most of the class think he's either mad or a liar. To make matters worse, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's determined to find a way to share his experience, even if that means losing her best friend.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersSpirit by Sally Christie|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 Green -->
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===[[The Family Next Door Smoke Thieves by Sally HepworthGreen]]===
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Pleasant Court is a cul-de-sac a few minutes from Tension exists among the beach in Melbourne. Kids play in kingdoms surrounding the street Pitorian Sea, and itpeace is definitely not on everyone's the sort agenda. Instead power is sought by force, and political manoeuvring of place people aspire to. Certainly that's how the worst kind sees families who live there feel torn apart and there's a good sense innocent victims swept up in the fallout. This story of community. Ben and Essie are glad that Essie's mother warring nations is living next door as Essie had a mental breakdown three years ago when her first daughter was having difficulty sleeping. Mia's come through that stagefast moving from page one, but now there's Poppyand the main characters, who's been the perfect baby for the first six months of her lifemove between kingdoms, but is just starting to be difficultface challenge after challenge. BenThere are five separate story lines, in particulareach led by a colourful and interesting character, is pleased that he can rely on Barbara to keep an eye on the situation whilst he's out at workand Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[The Family Next Door Smoke Thieves by Sally HepworthGreen|Full Review]]
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===[[Panic Room by Robert Goddard]]===
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Don Challenor is a down on his luck estate agent who gets tasked to sell a house in Cornwall and upon meeting the live-in cleaner, Blake, finds his life utterly turned upside down. A simple sales job gets increasingly complex with the addition of a witch, professional heavies and a mysterious panic room. Intrigue builds on intrigue and what started fairly simply becomes something far more complex[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Panic Room by Robert Goddard: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]]
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===[[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Clare ElsomDaniel Peltz]]===
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When Harriet, aged seven and we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is a quarterpart-time guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, decides to go to Princes Park to practise 'Going to which is what the Park on Her Own' (i.e. with her Grandad walking at least thirty steps behind) she can't believe her eyes. The statue ruins of Lord Commander Horatio Fredrick Wallington Nincompoop Maximus Pimpleberry the Third (or Horace for short) starts Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to move. He not only moves but stamps his footsee its centrepiece, shouts something that would get him in serious trouble a renaissance fresco with Harriet's mum, a history which grabs the attention of young and climbs down from his pillarold. Understandably Harriet can't resist following and quickly finds herself dragged all around Molly uses the town as Horace searches for a new – and more suitable – home. His sights are firmly set on history to entertain the Mayortourists, but there's mansion and more too itthan she knows, thereforeparticularly as the history of the building is also the history of the Vannini family, falls to Harriet to persuade him that there must be a better alternative. Sadly, Horace's visits to who helped in building the museum, cinema, train station, playground, bank chapel some six hundred years ago and library all cause mayhem. Luckily, however, a competition in one of whose descendants is the park reveals director of the perfect answermuseum. [[Horace & Harriet Take on the Town The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Clare ElsomDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[Gillie Can Share Falling Leaves by Sarah-leigh WillsStefan Mohamed]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]],
[[image:4When 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.5starShocked, 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:For SharingFalling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|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 Barto -->
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===[[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeEmerging Readers|CrimeEmerging Readers]]
It was several years since DCI Andy FloodNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's wife had been murderedwhat dragons are for, but heafter all. But Gwendolyn isn'd not come to terms with itt any princess. His daughters were coping reasonably well, not least because his mother had moved She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in after Georginawatching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show'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 couldnNickerbacher likes 't believe that they'd do this when the murder of the wife of one of their own was unsolved, but The Late Knight Show''hetoo - in fact, it's'' determined not his favourite TV show because he wants to give be a stand-up on the casecomedian himself. Each evening when he's finished work he goes into He tries out his study and works jokes on the statements from the case, looking for any inconsistenciesPrincess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Reckless Obsession Nickerbacher by Dai HenleyTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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