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===[[The Curious Heart Gradual Disappearance of Ailsa Rae Jane Ashland by Stephanie ButlandNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole Jane 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 just as she was edging closer to death she finallydown in levels of pleasure, energy – sobriety – in these pages, finally got the call but we soon learn that she neededit recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, that scattered through a heart was available for timeline-bending narrative, we have her to have days finding a Lincolnesque lover as a student in New York, glimpses of therapy, a transplant. Previously she had felt so helpless that she had used her blog drive to make decisions for find her, running polls amongst ancestors that takes her readers from rural America to decide on her actions. But Norway – and a trip there with her new heart, she has been given a new life. Can Ailsa manage -found friend to start to live on her ownwatch the musk oxen, and will her mother let her do that? of all things. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Curious Heart Gradual Disappearance of Ailsa Rae Jane Ashland by Stephanie ButlandNicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Spirit The Company of Eight by Sally ChristieHarriet Whitehorn]]===
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Matt Barker has seen something strangeFourteen-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. Something extraordinary She takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that no one would normally see. That wouldnshe't usually matter but Matt accidently tells ll pass the rest of his class when they're playing upcoming auditions for acrobats and join the 'truth game' Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the school bus. Now most islands of the class think heLongest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like her mother's either mad or (and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take on a liar. To make matters worsesedate, his classmate and new next-door neighbourgenteel job instead: governess, Jazzy O'Hanlonmaybe, believes him and sheor draper's determined model. So poor Cass is reduced to find a way to share his experiencepractising her routines in secret, even if that means losing using an old book her father left her best friend. [[Spirit The Company of Eight by Sally ChristieHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Us vs Them: The Smoke Thieves Failure of Globalism by Sally GreenIan Bremmer]]===
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Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian SeaIt wasn't supposed to be like this, was it? Every day seems to bring yet more news of doom and peace is definitely not on everyone's agendagloom. Instead power is sought by forceThe 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 manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up parties are making huge gains in countries all around the falloutworld. This story And inequality is as much of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. There are five separate story lines, each led by a colourful and interesting character, and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry problem as their paths cross and their lives intertwineit ever was – if not more so. [[Us vs Them: The Smoke Thieves Failure of Globalism by Sally GreenIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[PreceptHumanatomy: A Novel How the Body Works by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]''Get under your own skin, pick your brains, and go inside your insides!''
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 That's what ''NarrativeHumanatomy''invites you to do and honestly, DouglassI don's memoir of his life as a slave, will be accompanying the famous black American abolitionist on his speaking tourt see how you could resist. Nathan is deeply impressed by Douglass, who is This informative book provides 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 wonderful primer about the beginnings of human body to curious children- from the horrors of skeletal system to the potato famine muscular system via circulation, respiration and meets and befriends digestion, right up to the famous Irish nationalist, Daniel O'ConnellDNA that makes who we are. [[PreceptHumanatomy: A Novel How the Body Works by Matthew de Lacey DavidsonNicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]]<!-- Daniel Peltz Keeley -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz]]===
===[[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionFor Sharing|Historical FictionFor 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]]<!-- Togawa -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1782273646.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273646/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
When 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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz:Category:Crime|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]]<!-- Mohamed Hall -->
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===[[Falling Leaves The Industry of Human Happiness by Stefan MohamedJames Hall]]===
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When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they'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 hasnThe Industry of Human Happiness''t aged first and foremost is a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearancenovel about music. Shocked, confused It is about human beings being able to find music and emotionally reeling, Vanessa must return to her home town magic in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately cravessimplest of places. Max and his younger cousin have realised their dream of opening a gramophone company. But whatHowever, their ambition and hubris soon puts them on a course towards London's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… underworld. They will ascend broken and their lives changed forever. [[Falling Leaves The Industry of Human Happiness by Stefan MohamedJames Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Philip Kerr]]===
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Nickerbacher Set in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts'' is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons doa historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. That dragonly duty Bernie Gunther isa Berliner, of coursewho was a sarjeant during the second world war and now, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are forin this novel, after allis working in the morgue of a hospital. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She He finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested himself embroiled in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy a mystery, taking on ''a new role as an insurance claims investigator. The Late Knight Show''investigation takes him to Greece, and back into the dark times of the war. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too With layered plots and double- in factcrossing left, right and centre, itthere's his favourite TV show because he wants lots 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 intendedkeep you guessing throughout this story. [[Nickerbacher Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Terry John BartoPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Bee All Rivers Run Free by Bren MacDibbleNatasha Carthew]]===
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Imagine Ia Pendilly lives in a world without bees. Not just how nice it would be to eat jam sandwiches in caravan on the garden without having coast of Cornwall – a woman as raw as the little yellow landscape that surrounds her. Living with Bran, her abusive cousin and black torpedoes attacking you - 'common law husband, she'really'' imagine its never yet had her own baby. No beesDiscovering a waif washed up on shore, no pollination. No pollination, no Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the girl – given a new plants. No found strength to escape and to embark on a new plants, no foodjourney. Simple. SoThe journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a damaged, if those pesky chemicals we use kill off practically every bee in the hurting world, humans – finding family and memories long hidden will have to take over their work. Childrenbreak Ia, in fact, because you need small, nimble fingers to work those tiny feathers full remake her and perhaps give her the elusive sense of pollen into the flowers and turn them into delicious fruitsfreedom she's been seeking. [[How to Bee All Rivers Run Free by Bren MacDibbleNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Turn Tale of a Blind Eye Tooth by Vicky NewhamAllie Rogers]]===
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DI Maya Rahman Danny lives in a small Sussex town with his mother, Natalie. Life is just back from Bangladesh and she should poor, but they manage - until they're threatened by a benefits sanction. A Job Centre employee looks to be their salvation - but her impact on compassionate leave as she went there to bury her brother after he committed suicide. Instead of grieving at home the family goes far beyond what they first expect, and getting over her jet lag she's pitched straight into a murder investigation as a new member of staff discovers the body of popular headteacher Linda Gibson in her study at Mile End High School. Her hands resulting changes are bound and beside her strangled body is a card with a Buddhist precept: ''I shall abstain from taking described to the ungiven.'' It's reader through the second naive yet perceptive and wholly original eyes of five precepts and Maya is worried that there's been a murder that hasn't been spotted four-year- and that there will be more deathsold Danny. [[Turn Tale of a Blind Eye Tooth by Vicky NewhamAllie Rogers|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Claudia by David O'ConnellAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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Archie McBudge When Claudia is sitting in called to the reception of Honeystone Hall with his mother. And her Manchester Office block to meet a visitor, she doesn't expect it to be her father figure – a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information man she hasn't seen for Archiefifteen years. A great uncle he has never heard Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and The Sun King, walked out of has died Claudia's life and Archie is his sole heir. This means that Honeystone Hall into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now belongs to Archie. But that isnhe't all - this young boy is now sole owner of Scotlands returned and he needs Claudia's premier sweets giant: McBudgehelp. Reggie, Samson's Fudge son, has joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', a group who prepare for the end of the world and Confectionery Company..encourage humanity to embrace their impending doom. Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in Manchester to the end of the world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Claudia by David O'ConnellAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward The Man I Think I Know by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistMike Gayle]]===
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When I read the blurb James DeWitt and Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to go. At an all time low time for this bookboth of them, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of the two people trying to start men reconnect and slowly find they're exactly what the other needs. Together, they help each other put their lives again following serious life changesback together. This is a beautiful story about friendship and what it really means to help another person. The book did not disappoint. [[Two Steps Forward The Man I Think I Know by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]], [[: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.''
Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is on Danny was playing with a birding trip toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to Colombia: well it's ostensibly a birding triphim when he was shot by Officer Moore, but the reality is that who claims he's trying to establish what really happened was in the manslaughter case which has left fear for his brother a fugitive. It's a difficult situation as the police force don't want him to do this and the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctantlife, that Danny, but Jejeune has always been a law unto himself. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on the North Norfolk coast there's been a brutal murder of a woman, and DI Marvin Larabyfive foot tall, Jejeune's nemesistwelve-year-old boy, has been drafted in was a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to replace Jejeune during reach for his absencegun and eliminate the threat. How's that going to work out? [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds Ghost Boys by Steve BurrowsJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[I Stop Somewhere The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by T E CarterStephanie Butland]]===
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Ellie Ailsa Rae has to change schools. It's a chance for renewal been sick her whole life, and Ellie sets just as she was edging closer to work to make death she finally, finally got the most of it. She doesn't want to be homecoming queen or anything - call that she just wants to fit in without anyone noticing needed, that she's a bit too curvy and doesn't heart was available for her to have the money to buy fashionable clothesa transplant. With the help of a neighbour, Kate, Previously she manages it pretty well. And had felt sohelpless that she had used her blog to make decisions for her, when Caleb notices running polls amongst her, tells readers to decide on her she's beautiful, Ellie can almost believe itactions. But there's something not quite right about Calebwith her new heart, she has been given a new life. He blows hot and cold and his smile doesn't quite meet his eyes. But it's nice Can Ailsa manage to start to be wanted live on her own, and so Ellie ignores the warning signs... will her mother let her do that? [[I Stop Somewhere The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by T E CarterStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary Spirit by Lucy WorsleySally Christie]]===
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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'Lady Maryre playing the 'truth game' chronicles on the famous story school bus. Now most of Henry VIIIthe class think he's love affair with Anne Boleyneither mad or a liar. To make matters worse, his divorce from Katherine of Aragonclassmate and new next-door neighbour, AnneJazzy O's execution for adulteryHanlon, believes him and Henryshe's subsequent marriage determined to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of find a male heir. This timeway to share his experience, the story is told through the eyes of an important but often neglected player - Henry's young daughter, Mary. Mary's hopes of her family staying together are crushed by the divorce and she is treated terribly by a father under the influence of the Boleyn faction. Lady Mary follows even if that means losing her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous eventsbest friend. [[Lady Mary Spirit by Lucy WorsleySally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wolf Smoke Thieves by Leo CarewSally Green]]===
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Travel to a world that is familiar and yet utterly different. We are in a version of ancient Britain with enough landmarks to make us feel at home yet it is a smoked glass. North of Tension exists among the river Abus we have kingdoms surrounding the AnakimPitorian Sea, a race that isnand peace is definitely not on everyone't quite human; they are something mores agenda. The Anakim are virtual giants Instead power is sought by force, and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates instead. Below political manoeuvring of the Abus are worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the Sutheners, humansfallout. Theirs This story of warring nations is an ancient grudge and fast moving from page one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battle. Unfortunately it is rare when humans are involved for things to be straightforward , and the same is true heremain characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. On both sides politics There are five separate story lines, each led by a colourful and machinations complicate the quests for glory. With the Anakim we have a boy coming to power interesting character, and vying with the greatest warrior in the land for the throne. Amongst the Sutheners we see Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a commoner having the temerity to lead an army alongside his betters. Both battles are tapestry as interesting as the war itselftheir paths cross and their lives intertwine. [[The Wolf Smoke Thieves by Leo CarewSally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson]]===
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OkNathan Whyte is tremendously excited about the arrival of Frederick Douglass in Ireland. I dare you to tell me And even more excited that you his Quaker father, who is publishing the British edition of ''donNarrative't', Douglass' want to read 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 story about charismatic figure and a house with chicken legsgifted orator. There is no way anyone could resistBut Ireland will have as big an impact on Frederick Douglass as Frederick Douglass will have on it. I certainly couldnWe watch him through Nathan'ts 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]]<! Marinka lives -- Daniel Peltz -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912083779.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912083779/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Daniel Peltz]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in this chickenthe company of Molly Cavendish who is a part-legged house with her grandmother, Baba Yagatime guide at the Museo di Santa Maria, whose job it which is what the ruins of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now become. Crowds flock to guide dead people through The Gatesee its centrepiece, a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and old. But Marinka 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 ''lonely''. The housealso the history of the Vannini family, her grandmother who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka to make any friends. And Marinka one of whose descendants is determined to change this. But the chicken-legged house has its own agenda..director of the museum. [[The House with Chicken Legs Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Sophie AndersonDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[Pandora's Boy Falling Leaves by Lindsey DavisStefan Mohamed]]===
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RelaxWhen your best friend vanishes, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues how can you begin to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever wasmove 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, the crimes committed are as complex and intriguingeven seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappears, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her fathershe's exploits so engaging. Newcomers to the series need shocked not fearonly by his presence back in her life, but also by the way: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at homefact that he hasn't aged a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearance. This timeShocked, despite some serious misgivingsconfused and emotionally reeling, Albia is investigating Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popularanswers he so desperately craves. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[PandoraBut what's Boy by Lindsey Davis|Full Review]] waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Pandora's Boy Falling Leaves by Lindsey DavisStefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
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===[[When the Mountains Roared by Jess Butterworth]]===
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Two months earlierNickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, Rubyof course, princess-guarding. That's dad had dropped a bombshellwhat dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. They were moving from Australia to India, where her father had got a job at a hotel in She finds the mountains. It was to be a new start whole princessing thing quite boring really and it would help both Ruby and her father get over the death of her mothershe is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Ruby wasnNickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show't so sure about that and didn't get more optimistic on arrival too - to find a rundown building full of scary corners in a place where the dark is really dark and the wildlife includes scorpions, bears andfact, well, you get the picture. Ruby has struggled since her mother died and it pretty much feels as though her father has brought her 's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a place that makes everything worse.stand-up comedian himself.He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[When the Mountains Roared Nickerbacher by Jess ButterworthTerry John Barto|Full Review]]
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