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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
 
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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 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. And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)|Full Review]]
 
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===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]===
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Danny was playing with a toy gun his friend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by Officer MooreFourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, who claims he was but as she hasn't the slightest ability in fear that direction she doesn't exactly fit in. She takes after her dad, and she hopes desperately that she'll pass the upcoming auditions for his lifeacrobats and join the Circus Boat as it tours to give performances on all the islands of the Longest World. Her guardian Mrs Potts, however, does ''not'' approve: her hope that DannyCass 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, a five foot tallgenteel job instead: governess, twelve-year-old boymaybe, was a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but or draper's model. So poor Cass is reduced to reach for his gun and eliminate the threatpractising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[Ghost Boys The Company of Eight by Jewell Parker RhodesHarriet Whitehorn|Full Review]]
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===[[Us vs Them: The Curious Heart Failure of Ailsa Rae Globalism by Stephanie ButlandIan Bremmer]]===
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Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole lifeIt wasn't supposed to be like this, and just as she was edging closer it? Every day seems to death she finally, finally got bring yet more news of doom and gloom. The spectre of terrorism hangs over most of the call that she neededworld, fuelling refugee crises and worries about national security. People keep saying that a heart was available for her robots are coming to have a transplanttake all our jobs. 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 actionsAnti-establishment political parties are making huge gains in countries all around the world. But with her new heart, she has been given And inequality is as much of a new lifeproblem as it ever was – if not more so. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[Us vs Them: The Curious Heart Failure of Ailsa Rae Globalism by Stephanie ButlandIan Bremmer|Full Review]]
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===[[Spirit by Sally 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'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 worseGet under your own skin, pick your brains, his classmate and new next-door neighbour, Jazzy Ogo inside your insides!'Hanlon, believes him and she's determined to find a way to share his experience, even if that means losing her best friend. [[Spirit by Sally Christie|Full Review]]
That's what ''Humanatomy'' invites you to do and honestly, I don't see how you could resist. This informative book provides a wonderful primer about the human body to curious children- from the skeletal system to the muscular system via circulation, respiration and digestion, right up to the DNA that makes who we are.[[Humanatomy: How the Body Works by Nicola Edwards and Jem Maybank|Full Review]] <!-- Green Keeley -->
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===[[The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green]]===
===[[My Favourite People by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensFor Sharing|TeensFor 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:Category1782273646.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782273646/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align:Teensleft;"|Teens===[[The Lady Killer by Masako Togawa and Simon Grove (translator)]]===
Tension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone's agenda. Instead power is sought by force, and political manoeuvring of the worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in the fallout. This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the main characters, who move between kingdoms, face challenge after challenge. There are five separate story lines, each led by a colourful and interesting character, and Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and their lives intertwine[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green: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]]<!-- de Lacey Davidson Hall -->
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===[[The Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall]]===
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[[image:4star''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:Historical FictionThe Industry of Human Happiness by James Hall|Historical FictionFull Review]]
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]]<!-- Daniel Peltz Kerr -->
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===[[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Daniel PeltzPhilip Kerr]]===
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When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria weSet in Germany in 1957, ''Greeks Bearing Gifts''re in the company of Molly Cavendish is a historical crime thriller with everything from dodgy Nazi past histories to insurance fraud. Bernie Gunther is a Berliner, who is was a part-time guide at sarjeant during the Museo di Santa Mariasecond world war and now, in this novel, which is what working in the ruins morgue of the Chiesa - a chapel - have now becomehospital. Crowds flock to see its centrepieceHe finds himself embroiled in a mystery, taking on a renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and oldnew role as an insurance claims investigator. Molly uses the history The investigation takes him to entertain the touristsGreece, but there's more too it than she knows, particularly as and back into the history dark times of the building is also the history of the Vannini familywar. With layered plots and double-crossing left, who helped in building the chapel some six hundred years ago right and one of whose descendants is the director of the museumcentre, there's lots to keep you guessing throughout this story. [[The Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria Greeks Bearing Gifts: Bernie Gunther Thriller 13 by Daniel PeltzPhilip Kerr|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Leaves All Rivers Run Free by Stefan MohamedNatasha Carthew]]===
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When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move Ia Pendilly lives in a caravan on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they're okay? And what would you do if they reappeared in your life? the coast of Cornwall – all questions a woman as raw as the landscape that Vanessa faces every daysurrounds her. Living with Bran, even seven years after her best friend Mark vanished. When he reappearsabusive cousin and common law husband, she's shocked not only by his presence back in never yet had her lifeown baby. Discovering a waif washed up on shore, Ia rescues the girl but is also rescued by the fact that he hasn't aged girl – given a new found strength to escape and to embark on a day – for him, no time has passed since his disappearancenew journey. ShockedThe journey takes her deep into a troubled society and through a damaged, confused hurting world – finding family and emotionally reelingmemories long hidden will break Ia, Vanessa must return to remake her and perhaps give her home town in order to help Mark find the answers he so desperately craves. But whatelusive sense of freedom she's waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… been seeking. [[Falling Leaves All Rivers Run Free by Stefan MohamedNatasha Carthew|Full Review]]
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===[[Tale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers]]===
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[[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. 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersTale of a Tooth by Allie Rogers|Emerging ReadersFull Review]]
Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto|Full Review]] <!-- MacDibble Trevelyan -->
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===[[How to Bee Claudia by Bren MacDibbleAnthony Trevelyan]]===
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Imagine When Claudia is called to the reception of her Manchester Office block to meet a world without bees. Not just how nice visitor, she doesn't expect it would to be to eat jam sandwiches in the garden without having the little yellow her father figure – a man she hasn't seen for fifteen years. Samson Glaze – otherwise known as Wild Samson, The Aztec and black torpedoes attacking you - The Sun King, walked out of Claudia's life and into a world of success as a solar panel salesman – but now he'reallys returned and he needs Claudia'' imagine its help. No beesReggie, no pollination. No pollinationSamson's son, no new plants. No new plantshas joined a mysterious cult called ''Tarantula'', no food. Simple. So, if those pesky chemicals we use kill off practically every bee in a group who prepare for the end of the world, humans will have and encourage humanity to take over embrace their workimpending doom. Children, Claudia's journey takes her far from her home in fact, because you need small, nimble fingers Manchester to work those tiny feathers full the end of pollen into the flowers and turn them into delicious fruits. world – where encounters with hammer-wielding assassins make things very difficult indeed… [[How to Bee Claudia by Bren MacDibbleAnthony Trevelyan|Full Review]]
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===[[Turn a Blind Eye The Man I Think I Know by Vicky NewhamMike Gayle]]===
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DI Maya Rahman is just back from Bangladesh James DeWitt and she should be on compassionate leave as she went there Danny Allen are both men in their early thirties whose lives haven't taken them where they were supposed to bury her brother after he committed suicidego. Instead At an all time low time for both of grieving at home them, the two men reconnect and getting over her jet lag sheslowly find they's pitched straight into a murder investigation as a new member of staff discovers re exactly what the body of popular headteacher Linda Gibson in her study at Mile End High Schoolother needs. Her hands are bound and beside her strangled body is a card with a Buddhist precept: ''I shall abstain from taking the ungivenTogether, they help each other put their lives back together.'' It's the second of five precepts and Maya This is worried that there's been a murder that hasn't been spotted - beautiful story about friendship and that there will be more deathswhat it really means to help another person. [[Turn a Blind Eye The Man I Think I Know by Vicky NewhamMike Gayle|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) by David O'Connell]]===
===[[Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.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.''
Archie McBudge is sitting in the of Honeystone Hall Danny was playing with a toy gun his mother. And a lawyer called Mr Tatters has some important information friend Carlos had lent to him when he was shot by Officer Moore, who claims he was in fear for Archie. A great uncle he has never heard of has died and Archie is his sole heir. This means life, that Honeystone Hall now belongs to Archie. But that isn't all Danny, a five foot tall, twelve-year- this young old boy is now sole owner of Scotland's premier sweets giant: McBudge's Fudge , was a threatening thug whose menace was such that Officer Moore had no choice but to reach for his gun and Confectionery Company..eliminate the threat. [[The Chocolate Factory Ghost (The Dundoodle Mysteries) Boys by David O'ConnellJewell Parker Rhodes|Full Review]]
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===[[Two Steps Forward The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistStephanie Butland]]===
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When I read Ailsa Rae has been sick her whole life, and just as she was edging closer to death she finally, finally got the blurb 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 this bookher, I found myself instantly interested in its premise of two people trying running polls amongst her readers to start their lives again following serious decide on her actions. But with her new heart, she has been given a new life changes. The book did not disappoint. Can Ailsa manage to start to live on her own, and will her mother let her do that? [[Two Steps Forward The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae by Graeme Simsion and Anne BuistStephanie Butland|Full Review]]
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===[[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds Spirit by Steve BurrowsSally Christie]]===
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Detective Chief Inspector Domenic Jejeune is on a birding trip to Colombia: well itMatt Barker has seen something strange. Something extraordinary that no one would normally see. That wouldn's ostensibly a birding trip, t usually matter but Matt accidently tells the reality is that herest of his class when they's trying to establish what really happened in re playing the manslaughter case which has left his brother a fugitive. It's a difficult situation as the police force dontruth game't want him to do this and on the Colombian authorities are understandably reluctant, but Jejeune has always been a law unto himselfschool bus. Meanwhile in Saltmarsh on Now most of the North Norfolk coast thereclass think he's been either mad or a brutal murder of a womanliar. To make matters worse, his classmate and DI Marvin Larabynew next-door neighbour, JejeuneJazzy O'Hanlon, believes him and she's nemesis, has been drafted in determined to find a way to replace Jejeune during share his absenceexperience, even if that means losing her best friend. How's that going to work out? [[A Shimmer of Hummingbirds Spirit by Steve BurrowsSally Christie|Full Review]]
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===[[I Stop Somewhere The Smoke Thieves by T E CarterSally Green]]===
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Ellie has to change schools. ItTension exists among the kingdoms surrounding the Pitorian Sea, and peace is definitely not on everyone's a chance for renewal agenda. Instead power is sought by force, and Ellie sets to work to make political manoeuvring of the most of it. She doesn't want to be homecoming queen or anything - she just wants to fit worst kind sees families torn apart and innocent victims swept up in without anyone noticing that she's a bit too curvy and doesn't have the money to buy fashionable clothesfallout. With This story of warring nations is fast moving from page one, and the help of a neighbourmain characters, Katewho move between kingdoms, she manages it pretty wellface challenge after challenge. And soThere are five separate story lines, when Caleb notices hereach led by a colourful and interesting character, tells her she's beautiful, Ellie can almost believe it. But there's something not quite right about Caleb. He blows hot and cold Sally Green weaves them together beautifully like a tapestry as their paths cross and his smile doesn't quite meet his eyes. But it's nice to be wanted and so Ellie ignores the warning signs..their lives intertwine. [[I Stop Somewhere The Smoke Thieves by T E CarterSally Green|Full Review]]
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===[[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley]]===
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''Lady Mary'' chronicles the famous story of Henry VIII's love affair with Anne Boleyn, his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, Anne's execution for adultery, and Henry's subsequent marriage to Jane Seymour, which finally produces the much longed for birth of a male heir. This time, 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 her through these awful years and you can't help but root for the little girl stuck in the middle of these tumultuous events[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley: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]]<!-- Carew Daniel Peltz -->
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===[[The Wolf Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Leo CarewDaniel Peltz]]===
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Travel to a world that When we first visit the Chiesa di Santa Maria we're in the company of Molly Cavendish who is familiar and yet utterly different. We are in a version of ancient Britain with enough landmarks to make us feel part-time guide at home yet it the Museo di Santa Maria, which is a smoked glass. North what the ruins of the river Abus we Chiesa - a chapel - have the Anakimnow become. Crowds flock to see its centrepiece, a race that isn't quite human; they are something more. The Anakim are virtual giants renaissance fresco with a history which grabs the attention of young and their ribs are not cages but bone breastplates insteadold. Below Molly uses the Abus are history to entertain the Suthenerstourists, humans. Theirs is an ancient grudge and one where blood is spilled frequently in pitched battle. Unfortunately but there's more too it is rare when humans are involved for things to be straightforward and than she knows, particularly as the history of the same building is true here. On both sides politics and machinations complicate also the quests for glory. With history of the Anakim we have a boy coming to power and vying with the greatest warrior Vannini family, who helped in building the land for chapel some six hundred years ago and one of whose descendants is the throne. Amongst the Sutheners we see a commoner having the temerity to lead an army alongside his betters. Both battles are as interesting as director of the war itselfmuseum. [[The Wolf Indomitable Chiesa di Santa Maria by Leo CarewDaniel Peltz|Full Review]]
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===[[The House with Chicken Legs Falling Leaves by Sophie AndersonStefan Mohamed]]===
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When your best friend vanishes, how can you begin to move on? How can you live your life not knowing whether they'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'My house t aged a day – for him, no time has chicken legspassed since his disappearance. Two or three times a yearShocked, without warningconfused and emotionally reeling, it stands up Vanessa must return to her home town in order to help Mark find the middle of the night and walks away from where we've been livinganswers he so desperately craves.But what''s waiting for them is far more surprising than either of them could ever have dreamt… [[Falling Leaves by Stefan Mohamed|Full Review]]
Ok. I dare you to tell me that you ''don't'' want to read a story about a house with chicken legs. There is no way anyone could resist. I certainly couldn't! Marinka lives in this chicken-legged house with her grandmother, Baba Yaga, whose job it is to guide dead people through The Gate. But Marinka is ''lonely''. The house, her grandmother and Marinka never stay anywhere long enough for Marinka to make any friends. And Marinka is determined to change this. But the chicken-legged house has its own agenda... [[The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson|Full Review]] <!-- Davis Barto -->
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===[[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto]]===
Relax, die-hard fans of Falco and his spirited British daughter Albia. Rome continues to be as splendid and as sordid as it ever was, the crimes committed are as complex and intriguing, and our heroine just as determined and cynical, with that light dusting of humour which made tales of her father's exploits so engaging. Newcomers to the series need not fear, by the way[[image: each book contains just enough background detail to make you feel immediately at home. This time, despite some serious misgivings, Albia is investigating the sudden death of a fifteen-year-old girl, described as bright, affectionate and popular4star. Was she poisoned by an illegal love-potion, or did she die of a broken heart? [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davisjpg|Full Reviewlink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Pandora's Boy by Lindsey Davis:Category:Emerging Readers|Full ReviewEmerging Readers]]
Nickerbacher is doing his dragonly duty as all dragons do. That dragonly duty is, of course, princess-guarding. That's what dragons are for, after all. But Gwendolyn isn't any princess. She finds the whole princessing thing quite boring really and she is much less interested in fairy tales than she is in watching comedy on ''The Late Knight Show''. Nickerbacher likes ''The Late Knight Show'' too - in fact, it's his favourite TV show because he wants to be a stand-up comedian himself. He tries out his jokes on Princess Gwendolyn but they don't always come off quite as Nickerbacher intended. [[Nickerbacher by Terry John Barto|Full Review]]
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