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===[[Beginning to End Take Me In by Paul HughesSabine Durrant]]===
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Sir Mark WrightIt's not pleasant, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Policefirst time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that the Met was riddled with corruptionJosh, but in 1967 times were changing and Wright was determined that he was going to upgrade the service by ridding it of corrupt officers Greece on holiday and bringing in new technology. Unsurprisingly, there were a lot of people against him: some were making very good money on the side and quite a few blink of the old-timers werenan eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't too keen on all this technology nonsense. They didnthere, Marcus isn't think walkie-talkies would really work looking, but Dave steps in and computers would never really catch ondisaster is averted. Just. One They're grateful to him, of Wrightcourse they are, but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyone, they's first actions was re a little relieved to bring in some new blood: what came return to be known as 'their villa and live out the trained brains' rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3- people with qualifications in specific areas who could introduce new ideasperson family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe him a great deal, he is a little, whilst being mentored by the olderwell, more experienced officersintense. [[Beginning to End Take Me In by Paul HughesSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Lauren St JohnElisabeth Hyde]]===
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Kat Wolfe lives with her mum, a vet, in London and following a breakEighty-in they decide that the time has come to move out of the city. Kat, a confirmed animal lover, is delighted when her mum accepts the offer of a job on the idyllic Dorset coast as the job comes with one special condition. They must agree to adopt the previous owner's cat. However this presents a problem that Kat had not foreseen -year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the cat is a wild Savannah who resists all Kat's attempts to sooth and tame him. Furthermore best when she starts a pet-sitting agency he waited for his three children to make pocket money Kat's problems mount up. The owner of her first charge disappears leaving a series of mysterious clues behind himarrive one Friday night. What started out as He might be a promising escape from city life quickly escalates into retired lawyer, a mystery state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that deepens there could be trouble when Ruth and becomes steadily more dangerousGeorge arrived. Luckily Kat has her new friend Harper to support Ruth, a corporate lawyer, would find fault and help her. Although Harper is laid up with two broken legs thanks want to talk about him going into a horse riding accident she is not about to let that stop her getting involvedretirement home. Harper is George, a language nurse, would argue and coding whizz Lizzie, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and she kept and Kat are determined solve the clues and make people listen to themvisited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Even if they can Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't do that by themselves they know that they have their animal friends going to helphappen. Can the team work together to save the day? [[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Lauren St JohnElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Riddle of the Runes by Cassandra ParkinJanina Ramirez]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into the sea The name Janina Ramirez is where we meet Jacob well known: her television programmes on cultural history, especially of early medieval times, are both lively and Ellainformative. They share She shares her extensive learning with a light hand (and a bathroom in the turret, old frequent giggle) and cold her enthusiasm encourages students and not really supposed viewers alike to be used…but this is where they hide away from explore further the shouts of their parents' argumentssubjects she discusses. Here they play the Underwater Breathing game, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob itBut how will that translate into children's just a way of drowning out fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the arguments…but for Ella it is more than that. She is terrified of story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the seaaction to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of the fact that it will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. ! [[Underwater Breathing Riddle of the Runes by Cassandra ParkinJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Grey Bastards by Victoria GlendinningJonathan French]]===
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''The Tudor era Grey Bastards'' is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such a wealth of intriguean absolute triumph! Fantasy, plots action and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and the written characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything to get therethis book is so much fun. This book, howeverA word of caution though, this is totally differentnot suitable for all readers. Set in As the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes tittle suggests there is a lot of Agnes Peppinbad language, a youngLOT of bad language, poor womanthrown around all the time in general speech. As a woman she can either marryIn addition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too, or join a conventthere is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the language and bawdy jokes. Since Agnes has disgraced herself If this bothers you then she has no choice at all, and she this is sent to join not the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeybook for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must read. [[The Butcher's Daughter Grey Bastards by Victoria GlendinningJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Boy at the Door by Dorothy KoomsonAlex Dahl]]===
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In 1993, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the beach as theypool're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: s receptionist asks a body quick favour of her – to drop off a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceased. The find hits little boy from the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants class as his parents seem to have forgotten to forget it ever happenedcollect him. Fast forward 25 years and Nell The pool is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads about to go on, the Police closed the case without cracking itclose, and so it remains one of those unsolved mysteries 's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that become part of local folkloreit will interrupt her routine. But, but Nell struggles minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, lie. As for Jude, well say no one knows if so she agrees and bundles the discovery still haunts boy whose name is Tobias into the car with her because no one knows where she girls. This is. Shortly after a decision that fateful nightwill change her life, she too disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. There's more to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pride, it seemsthat minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[The Brighton Mermaid Boy at the Door by Dorothy KoomsonAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[A Taste for Vengeance Showtime (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelDance Trilogy) by Martin WalkerJean Ure]]===
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Bruno Courreges is now Second years. The girls couldn't believe that they'd made it through the police chief for the whole first year - in fact they'd all made it, all eight of the Vezere valleythem, but the promotion is not without its drawbacks, as the chain of command is not quite as clear as it which was when he knew that he worked for the mayormost unusual. StillUsually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, on a cool, damp Sunday afternoon in spring he had other things on his mind: he was watching the St Denis womendidn't look right or didn's rugby team playing in t have the regional finalcommitment required. One player stood Maddie felt a bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there'd been a point when she might have been thrown out: Paulette was the daughter of the local florists and she was the best player for that Bruno had ever trained, male or femalereason. He had hopes of her making the national squad, but there might She's now determined that she ''really'' does want to be a cloud on the horizon - Paulette had been sick and had fainted in the showersballet dancer, except... [[A Taste for Vengeance Showtime (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelDance Trilogy) by Martin WalkerJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gravediggers' Bread by Frederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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[[image:4Blaise is at a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend's idea, he's stuck outside a call box waiting to report back before he gets the train. The woman in the post office using the payphone finally finishes her business, and leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to the floor containing several days' good money, and, when he tracks her to the village funeral directors', signs of her infidelity. Lo and behold he is given a job as the woman's husband's assistant, although she also starts to employ him in sending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of course deeply in love with the woman by now, and hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her.5starOne is the lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Surely he will not fall by the wayside, and surely the brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[:Category:Confident ReadersThe Gravediggers' Bread by Frederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Aimee like languages. She's particularly keen on Latin and enjoys a sparring session or two with her teacher. Aimee would like nothing better than to have her head stuck in a book all day every day. But that's not possible when it's 1918 and you live in the town of Bray - captured and recaptured by the Germans and the British during WWI. The Germans are advancing and Aimee's mother decides it's finally time to tell her daughter that she is part of a secret spy ring, helping the British. Aimee is desperate to help. And help she does, soon uncovering a traitor in the British camp. [[The Silver Hand by Terry Deary|Full Review]] <!-- Lean Baron -->
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===[[Boy Underwater by Adam Baron]]===
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''Grandfather had been gone for two Cymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is nine years but I old, and he has never thought it would been swimming, and this wouldn’t be a really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has somehow got the impression that Cym is actually an ordinary day he'd come backamazing champion swimmer, like and has challenged Cym to a Monday or a Tuesday... I always knew he'd return across race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the internet, but there’s an accident at the waterpool that, triumphing over a few monsters on initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of the wayother kids, I just didn't known whenbut that results in his mum having a breakdown.'' Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[Boy Underwater by Adam Baron|Full Review]]
Azi lives on a Mediterranean island. Since his grandfather left, he has been living with his irascible uncle who owns a busy tourist restaurant. Azi helps out as much as he can and he goes to school and works hard at his lessons. But he isn't really interested in Uncle's restaurant or playing with his classmates. Azi is interested in two things: the sea, and the return of Grandfather.[[The Sand Dog by Sarah Lean|Full Review]]<!-- Penaflor Laurain -->
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===[[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
 
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===Meet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, and a successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of sorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[All of This Is True Smoking Kills by Lygia Day PenaflorAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]''Undertow'' is the latest YA novel to hit the best seller lists. It's a study in grief and Miri is its biggest fan. So, when author Fatima Ro comes to Long Island for a book signing, Miri is determined to meet her and takes her friends along. Soleil has writing ambitions of her own and so she is overjoyed when Fatima takes the group of friends under her wing. Penny wants to be noticed and will do anything for Fatima, who notices. And Jonah? Well, Jonah has secrets and Fatima loves secrets... [[All of This Is True by Lygia Day Penaflor|Full Review]]<!-- Longridge Cullen -->
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===[[Silence in the Desert The Lost Letters of William Woolf by David LongridgeHelen Cullen]]===
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As the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in William Woolf is a tale of love and friendship. Henriletter detective, fulfilling a family tradition working in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his upbringingdays deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and Elisabethreading endless letters of love, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the war ragesguilt, these men are tested like never beforedeath, with trusthope, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themeveryday life. [[Silence in the Desert The Lost Letters of William Woolf by David LongridgeHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Skylarks The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Karen GregoryBrian Conaghan]]===
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Joni is halfway through her A levels''Funny how no one ever uses the word 'love' when discussing my case. But I do what I do because she has a lot more than A levels to think about. Life is pretty tough at the moment. There isn't much money about, the family is behind on bills, Dad's back is getting worse and worse, and little brother Jack has a school trip coming up that needs to be paid formy mum. Older brother Jamie got the sack from his dream job That pure and, although he found somewhere else to work, is a big ball of resentment. To make matters worse, the charity that runs the housing on their estate is running out of money and thinking of selling upsimple. But Joni has a great group of friends and a lovely mum and dad and a teacher who thinks she could get into university. [[Skylarks by Karen Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Almond -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444919555.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444919555/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]''
Bobby Seed's mum has MS and it's getting worse. Bobby, who is seventeen, shoulders most of her care. And he also keeps house and also looks after his little brother Danny. He gets some help from his best friend Bel, who has her own reasons for spending as much time as possible not at home, but it's still a slog. But Bobby doesn't mind because he loves his mum and they have a wonderful relationship, mostly based on taking the mickey out of each other. Bobby also attends a support group for young carers. It's a bit daft with all the role play exercises and the like, but it's nice to meet other kids in the same boat as you. Especially Lou, the American boy with the weird way of speaking and the Vespa and the air of cool. Bobby can barely keep his eyes off Lou.[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Full Review]]
===[[The Colour of the Sun by David Almond]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  ''This book... explores what excites and mystifies me about the nature of being young, and dramatises the joys and excitements of growing up. And I guess it embodies my constant astonishment at being alive in this beautiful, weird, extraordinary world.'' This is what David Almond says about his latest novel for young people, ''The Colour of the Sun''. And, having now read it, I see what he is saying so clearly. This is a story of being young - both older than you used to enjoy being and younger than you aspire to be. And it's a story of finding strangeness in ordinary things.[[The Colour of the Sun by David Almond|Full Review]] <!-- Hogan Waites -->
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Old Religion by Ruth HoganMartyn Waites]]===
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MashaThe Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there's son Gabriel died some years agonothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of the reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. She'd He had been a single parent with help from her friendan undercover policeman, Edward, who but something had grieved as much as Masha gone badly wrong and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out now he's in witness protection and working in the immediate aftermath local pub. St Petroc feels safe and it's put a good deal of distance between him and some very violent people. He's got an on-again, off-again relationship with the drowninglocal policewoman, but therewith the on-again bits coinciding with the times when her husband's away. It's not an exciting life, but right now a new love interest) Masha is still stricken, feeling that it would somehow be disloyal to Gabriel if she was to be happysuits Tom just fine. An independentUntil he meets Lila, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedthat is. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Old Religion by Ruth HoganMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison Weir]]===
 
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When it comes to Jane Seymour, ===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the third wife death of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing loved one to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious children and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henry's life following his turbulent marriage to Anne Boleyn. Perhaps both sides are true, to an extent. In ''The Haunted Queen,'' the third book in the ''Six Tudor Queens'' series, author and historian Alison Weir puts flesh on the bones of a Queen haunted by the shadow of a formidable predecessor. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen families by Alison Weir|Full ReviewKelly Owen]]===
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''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of them. There was Mum, Dad and three children: Abi, Jenny and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of them. Life felt very strange without their sister, and they were all very unhappy.''
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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Malcolm and Harriet are a little odd. That much is clear from the start, from the way he is around her, the way he prepares things in such a way as to make her happy. It's a nice sentiment, but something is off. We meet their daughter Daisy and again, it all seems nice enough but there's a vibe, a hint of a feeling that all is not what it seems. Just how bad things are, though, is yet to be revealed. [[Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson|Full Review]] <!-- Vodolazkin Laura Solomon -->
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===[[The Aviator Marsha's Deal by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Laura Solomon]]===
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Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up Marsha didn't have an easy ride in a hospital bed life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with no recollection of who he is or how he got there[https://en.wikipedia. He is tended by a single doctor, Doctor Geigerorg/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], who gives him a pencil and notebook and encourages him rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to write down his observations stand her life any longer and memories. The notebook is thick, like a novel. How can Innokenty fill it if he cannot remember anything? But slowly the memories start went to returnDignitas, memories of childhood holidays at the beach, of life in Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be the dachaend, of the airfield but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the aviatorsdevil...and And that was when she made the island..pact.it seems like In exchange for details about some memories may of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be better left buried. He remembers that he is reborn on the same age as day to the centurysame parents, born in 1900but would live her life free of disease. But if that is the case, how is he still a young man when the pills by his bedside are dated 1999? [[The Aviator Marsha's Deal by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Laura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel The Mercy Seat by Caitlin Major and Kelly BastowElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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In an isolated Louisiana town, a world where cats stand on two feetyoung black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, go to work staring at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, is Manfried. Hethe shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapesdying sun rays. At midnight, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for the same time being the perfect companion for his ownerrape of a white girl, Steve Catsonwho later committed suicide. To such an extent that Steve, who He is resigned to his fate; it is getting known for futile to protest his man-oriented thinkinginnocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''crazy love between a black man cat''. But when and a white woman was never going to have a window gets left open by mistake, and Manfried goes missing, the only thing for it is happy ending in a massive and energised mansmall town filled with small-hunt… minded people. [[Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel The Mercy Seat by Caitlin Major and Kelly BastowElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[In Gold's Name The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Marcus DalrympleTania Unsworth]]===
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It Stella's mother died when she was about 1509 when a series of mystical events foreshadowed the end of the Aztec Empire and the inhabitants were to some extent conditioned to accept the pale faces who arrived many years later with their deer-without-antlerslittle girl. Some thought the Spaniards were gods. Antonio Vega was no godStella is growing up in a house with her dad, who is often away, but he was essentially a decent manand her grandmother, particularly by who is starting to experience the standards onset of the timedementia. He was the finest marksman with his harquebus on the forceThis is all hard enough for a young girl, but at the age of twenty three he believed same time Stella finds that the expedition she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in October 1520 was to establish trade links at school, and as her grandmother begins to convert the local inhabitants to Christianity from the local religions which required human sacrificeslose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. HeWhen Stella'd joined the army from a seminary s only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and whilst you wouldn't call him naive, he'd failed to appreciate that uncover her family'establishing trade links' meant finding and removing the Aztec gold and that any conversion would not be by winning hearts and minds but by threats and tortures secrets. [[In Gold's Name The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Marcus DalrympleTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Persons Unknown Ascension by Susie SteinerVictor Dixen]]===
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A well-dressed man bled to death just yards from Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a Cambridgeshire police headquarterssingle spaceship. DI Manon Bradshaw would normally be involved but she's side-lined They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on cold cases - and then she finds that thereboard cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's a solid reason why she can't be involved: Joncraziest speed-Oliver Ross was dating show ever, aimed at creating the father first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of her sister's son and he was probably in town to see young Sollythe chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. And Even if that wasn't close enough, her adopted son, Fly, was caught on CCTV passing the man just as he was about dream turns to collapse. Detective Superintendent Stanton a nightmare, it is certain that Fly's good too late for the murder and won't tolerate any other avenues of investigationregrets. [[Persons Unknown Ascension by Susie SteinerVictor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary FictionThe Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]===
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]] <!-- Whitehorn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1847159222.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1847159222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Company of Eight by Harriet Whitehorn]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFor Sharing|Confident ReadersFor Sharing]]
Fourteen-year-old orphan Cass lives in the Magical District, but as she hasnTungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to be on the slightest ability in that direction she doesn't exactly fit inmove. She takes after her dadSometimes, and she hopes desperately that she'll pass even hops right the upcoming auditions for acrobats and join way over to the Circus Boat as it tours rotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. And she loves to give performances on all the islands regale her fellow toads with stories of the Longest Worldher exploits. Her guardian Mrs PottsThat is, however, does ''not'' approve: until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her hope that Cass will demonstrate magical abilities like a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the crow and inspired by her mothergrandfather's (stories of humans and make Mrs Potts very rich) has been disappointed so she is determined her ward will take ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a sedate, genteel job instead: governess, maybe, or draper's modelReal Adventure and heads off to the town of Little Cobblestone.. So poor Cass is reduced to practising her routines in secret, using an old book her father left her. [[The Company of Eight Toad Who Loved Tea by Harriet WhitehornFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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