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Nightfall Berlin ===[[Take Me In by Jack GrimwoodSabine Durrant]]=== 
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I have heard it said that It's not pleasant, the best way to begin to tell a story is to create a multi-dimensional characterfirst time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, imbued with compelling layers of detail - be it backstoryJosh, character quirks or behaviours. The point seems to be that Greece on holiday and in creating a character the blink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in such a way you begin and disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to reflect the truth him, of life wherein people course they are by definition multi-dimensional , but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and thus, you bring your story the offer to life. In Major Tom Foxbuy lunch for everyone, Grimwood has successfully created just such they're a character. In one man he gifts us an exciting and honourable figure who somehow simultaneously manages little relieved to return to present as damaged their villa and flawed. Grimwood provides some character history for Fox which clearly informs live out the actions rest of the character but I would suggest that rather than any written history provided for Major Foxtheir week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, it is in the way he interacts with the other characters and drives the action although of the story that we come to know course they owe hima great deal, he is a little, well, intense. [[Nightfall Berlin Take Me In by Jack GrimwoodSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Beginning to End Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Paul HughesElisabeth Hyde]]===
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Sir Mark Wright, Commissioner of Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the Metropolitan Policebest when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that the Met was riddled with corruptiona state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but in 1967 times were changing and Wright was determined he knew that he was going to upgrade the service by ridding it of corrupt officers there could be trouble when Ruth and bringing in new technologyGeorge arrived. UnsurprisinglyRuth, there were a lot of people against corporate lawyer, would find fault and want to talk about him: some were making very good money on the side and quite going into a few of the old-timers weren't too keen on all this technology nonsenseretirement home. They didn't think walkie-talkies George, a nurse, would really work argue and Lizzie, a professor of English Literature, who lived locally and kept and computers visited him regularly, would never really catch onbe unpredictable. One of WrightMurray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn's first actions was t going to bring in some new blood: what came to be known as 'the trained brains' - people with qualifications in specific areas who could introduce new ideas, whilst being mentored by the older, more experienced officershappen. [[Beginning to End Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Paul HughesElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) Riddle of the Runes by Lauren St JohnJanina Ramirez]]===
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Kat Wolfe lives with The name Janina Ramirez is well known: her mumtelevision programmes on cultural history, a vetespecially of early medieval times, in London are both lively and following a break-in they decide that the time has come to move out of the cityinformative. Kat, a confirmed animal lover, is delighted when She shares her mum accepts the offer of a job on the idyllic Dorset coast as the job comes extensive learning with one special condition. They must agree to adopt the previous owner's cat. However this presents a problem that Kat had not foreseen for the cat is a wild Savannah who resists all Kat's attempts to sooth light hand (and tame him. Furthermore when she starts a pet-sitting agency to make pocket money Kat's problems mount up. The owner of her first charge disappears leaving a series of mysterious clues behind him. What started out as a promising escape from city life quickly escalates into a mystery that deepens frequent giggle) and becomes steadily more dangerous. Luckily Kat has her new friend Harper to support enthusiasm encourages students and help her. Although Harper is laid up with two broken legs thanks viewers alike to a horse riding accident explore further the subjects she is not about to let discusses. But how will that stop translate into children's fiction? Will her getting involved. Harper is a language and coding whizz academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and fact-packed? Will she and Kat are determined solve hold up the clues and make people listen action to them. Even if they can't do that by themselves they know that they have their animal friends to help. Can the team work together to save the daydisplay her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it! [[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) Riddle of the Runes by Lauren St JohnJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing The Grey Bastards by Cassandra ParkinJonathan French]]===
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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 Grey Bastards'' is where we meet Jacob an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and Ella. They share adventure cleverly wrapped around a bathroom in the turretsuper plot and well written characters, old and cold and not really supposed to be used…but this book is where they hide away from the shouts so much fun. A word of their parents' argumentscaution though, this is not suitable for all readers. Here they play As the Underwater Breathing gametittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they can. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way LOT of drowning out bad language, thrown around all the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thattime in general speech. She In addition to this there is terrified of the seaalso some sex and sexual language too, of there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the fact that it will come language and swallow their housebawdy jokes. She needs to know that she can survive under waterIf this bothers you then this is not the book for you. She has to practiceFor anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must read. [[Underwater Breathing The Grey Bastards by Cassandra ParkinJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Boy at the Door by Victoria GlendinningAlex Dahl]]===
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The Tudor era Cecilia is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool's receptionist asks a wealth of intrigue, plots and machinations. The regular cast quick favour of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many her – to choose drop off a little boy from that the well never seems class as his parents seem to run dry and the characters are often those high up in the circles of power, or those prepared to do anything have forgotten to get therecollect him. This book, however, The pool is totally different. Set in the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppinabout to close, and it's not a young, poor womanbig ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her routine. As a woman she can either marryBut, or join minor inconvenience isn't really a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then good enough reason to say no so she has no choice at all, agrees and she bundles the boy whose name is sent to join Tobias into the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeycar with her girls. This is a decision that will change her life, and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[The Butcher's Daughter Boy at the Door by Victoria GlendinningAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Dorothy KoomsonJean Ure]]===
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In 1993, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on the beach as they're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceasedSecond years. The find hits the girls in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity of the girl – who she calls couldn't believe that they'd made it through the Brighton Mermaidfirst year - in fact they'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget d all made it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads to go on, the Police closed the case without cracking it, and so it remains one all eight of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklorethem, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogswhich was most unusual. Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didn't look right or even sleeping mermaids, liedidn't have the commitment required. As for Jude, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where Maddie felt a bit nervous when she is. Shortly after thought about that fateful night, last bit as there'd been a point when she too disappeared, never to be seen or heard from againmight have been thrown out for that reason. There She's more now determined that she ''really'' does want to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pridebe a ballet dancer, it seemsexcept... [[The Brighton Mermaid Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Dorothy KoomsonJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[A Taste for Vengeance The Gravediggers' Bread by Frederic Dard and Melanie Florence (A Bruno, Chief of Police Noveltranslator) by Martin Walker]]===
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Bruno Courreges Blaise is now the police chief 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 whole of train. The woman in the Vezere valley, but post office using the promotion is not without its drawbackspayphone finally finishes her business, and leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to the chain of command is not quite as clear as it was floor containing several days' good money, and, when he knew that he worked for tracks her to the mayorvillage funeral directors', signs of her infidelity. Still, on Lo and behold he is given a cool, damp Sunday afternoon in spring he had other things on his mind: he was watching job as the St Denis womenwoman's husband's rugby team playing assistant, although she also starts to employ him in the regional finalsending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. One player stood out: Paulette was the daughter Blaise is of course deeply in love with the local florists woman by now, and she was hates the best player that Bruno had ever trained, male or femaletwo obstacles preventing him from being with her. He had hopes of her making One is the national squadlover, but there might be a cloud on brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by the horizon - Paulette had been sick wayside, and had fainted in surely the showers. brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[A Taste for Vengeance The Gravediggers' Bread by Frederic Dard and Melanie Florence (A Bruno, Chief of Police Noveltranslator) by Martin Walker|Full Review]]
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===[[Boy Underwater by Adam Baron]]===
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[[image:4.5starCymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is nine years old, and he has never 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 amazing champion swimmer, and has challenged Cym to a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the internet, but there’s an accident at the pool that, initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of the other kids, but that results in his mum having a breakdown.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[:Category:Confident ReadersBoy Underwater by Adam Baron|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 Laurain -->
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===[[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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[[image:5starMeet 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersSmoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
''Grandfather had been gone for two years but I never thought it would be an ordinary day he'd come back, like a Monday or a Tuesday... I always knew he'd return across the water, triumphing over a few monsters on the way, I just didn't known when.'' 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 Cullen -->
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen]]===
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[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]''Undertow'' William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the latest YA novel to hit the best seller lists. It's a study Dead Letters Depot in grief and Miri is its biggest fanEast London. So, when author Fatima Ro comes to Long Island for a book signingHe spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, Miri is determined to meet her tracking down mysterious people and takes her friends along. Soleil has writing ambitions reading endless letters 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 Fatimalove, guilt, death, who notices. And Jonah? Wellhope, Jonah has secrets and Fatima loves secrets..everyday life. [[All The Lost Letters of This Is True William Woolf by Lygia Day PenaflorHelen Cullen|Full Review]]<!-- Longridge -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788034503.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788034503/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Silence in the Desert by David Longridge]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] As the shadow of the Second World War descends upon the planet, four people are explored in a tale of love and friendship. Henri, fulfilling a family tradition in joining the Foreign Legion, Bill, arriving at Cambridge on an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabeth, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoil. As the war rages, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around them. [[Silence in the Desert by David Longridge|Full Review]] <!-- Gregory Conaghan -->
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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]]''
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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 third wife of Henry VIII, popular opinion is divided[[image:4. Some see her as a scheming marriage-wrecker from an ambitious family who would stop at nothing to gain favour in the king's eyes. Others view her as a pious 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 predecessor5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen by Alison WeirCategory:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
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How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?
[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|Full Review]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Don't Make a Sound by David Jackson]]=== [[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)]]===
===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary FictionFor Sharing|Literary FictionFor Sharing]]
Jane Ashland Tungtang is dyingnot like other toads. ThatShe can's a description of a very early scene here – but alsot sit still, of coursetongue protruding, and wait to catch a platitude that can apply fly. Tungtang needs to all of usbe on the move. Jane's lifeSometimes, if anything, is going up and down she even hops right the way over to the rotten tree stump in levels her community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of pleasureher exploits. That is, energy – sobriety – in these pages, but we soon learn until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang that it recently found a very deeply dark down place. Here then, scattered through real adventure would take her a timeline-bending narrative, we have her days finding lot further than a Lincolnesque lover as tree stump by a student in New York, glimpses bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the crow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of therapyhumans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a drive to find her ancestors that takes her from rural America to Norway – Real Adventure and a trip there with a new-found friend heads off to watch the musk oxen, town of all thingsLittle Cobblestone... And nowhere in sight is anything like a platitude… [[The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland Toad Who Loved Tea by Nicolai Houm and Anna Paterson (translator)Faiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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