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===[[84K Take Me In by Claire NorthSabine Durrant]]===
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Can you put It's not pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and in the blink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to him, of course they are, but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyone, they're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe him a price on human life?great deal, he is a little, well, intense. [[Take Me In by Sabine Durrant|Full Review]]
Theo can, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. The Company own everything and everyone, including handing out punishments for crime. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added to how much the victim would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cash. [[84K by Claire North|Full Review]] <!-- Fischel Elisabeth Hyde -->
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===[[Walls Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Emma FischelElisabeth Hyde]]===
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When Ned's parents decide they can no longer stay together they come up with what they think is an ingenious planEighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. He might be a retired lawyer, which is to divide their house in twoa state legislator, so elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there will could be a mum side trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Ruth, a dad sidecorporate lawyer, would find fault and the children can spend want to talk about him going into a week on either side at a timeretirement home. Whilst his parents hope this will be less disruptiveGeorge, a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a professor of English Literature, Ned is incensed by the walls that spoil his beautiful home who lived locally and kept and stop visited him from moving through the house as he used toregularly, would be unpredictable. The walls make him angry, and Murray hoped that anger grows and grows until one dayall would go smoothly, Ned suddenly discovers but that the walls are no longer important because he can walk through them! simply wasn't going to happen. [[Walls Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Emma FischelElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions Riddle of the Runes by Lydia SysonJanina Ramirez]]===
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On a remote volcanic island off the coast The name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural history, especially of New Zealandearly medieval times, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a homeare both lively and informative. When She shares her extensive learning with a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted light hand (and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and newcomers come together in viewers alike to explore further the search subjects she discusses. But how will that translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the childaction to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit not a bit of it. ! [[Mr Peacock's Possessions Riddle of the Runes by Lydia SysonJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[Nightfall Berlin The Grey Bastards by Jack GrimwoodJonathan French]]===
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I have heard it said that the best way to begin to tell a story ''The Grey Bastards'' is to create an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a multi-dimensional charactersuper plot and well written characters, imbued with compelling layers this book is so much fun. A word of detail - be it backstorycaution though, character quirks or behavioursthis is not suitable for all readers. The point seems to be that in creating As the tittle suggests there is a character in such lot of bad language, a way you begin to reflect the truth LOT of life wherein people are by definition multi-dimensional and thusbad language, you bring your story to lifethrown around all the time in general speech. In Major Tom Foxaddition to this there is also some sex and sexual language too, Grimwood has successfully created just such a character. In one man he gifts us an exciting there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and honourable figure who somehow simultaneously manages to present not as constant as damaged the language and flawedbawdy jokes. Grimwood provides some character history for Fox which clearly informs the actions of If this bothers you then this is not the character but I would suggest that rather than any written history provided book for Major Fox, it you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is in the way he interacts with the other characters and drives the action of the story that we come to know himan absolute must read. [[Nightfall Berlin The Grey Bastards by Jack GrimwoodJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[Beginning to End The Boy at the Door by Paul HughesAlex Dahl]]===
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Sir Mark Wright, Commissioner Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool's receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to drop off a little boy from the Metropolitan Policeclass as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. The pool is about to close, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that the Met was riddled with corruption, but in 1967 times were changing and Wright was determined it's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that he was going to upgrade the service by ridding it of corrupt officers and bringing in new technologywill interrupt her routine. UnsurprisinglyBut, there were minor inconvenience isn't really a lot of people against him: some were making very good money on the side enough reason to say no so she agrees and quite a few of bundles the old-timers weren't too keen on all this technology nonsense. They didn't think walkie-talkies would really work and computers would never really catch on. One of Wright's first actions was to bring in some new blood: what came to be known as 'boy whose name is Tobias into the trained brains' - people car with qualifications in specific areas who could introduce new ideasher girls. This is a decision that will change her life, whilst being mentored by the older, more experienced officersand that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[Beginning to End The Boy at the Door by Paul HughesAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates Showtime (Kat Wolfe 1Dance Trilogy) by Lauren St JohnJean Ure]]===
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Kat Wolfe lives with her mum, a vet, in London and following a break-in they decide that the time has come to move out of the citySecond years. 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 The girls couldn's cat. However this presents a problem t believe that Kat had not foreseen for they'd made it through the cat is a wild Savannah who resists all Kat's attempts to sooth and tame him. Furthermore when she starts a petfirst year -sitting agency to make pocket money Katin fact they's problems mount up. The owner d all made it, all eight of her first charge disappears leaving a series of mysterious clues behind himthem, which was most unusual. What started Usually some were thrown out as a promising escape from city life quickly escalates into a mystery that deepens and becomes steadily more dangerous- they might have grown too tall, didn't look right or didn't have the commitment required. Luckily Kat has her new friend Harper to support and help her. Although Harper is laid up with two broken legs thanks to Maddie felt a horse riding accident bit nervous when she is not thought about to let that stop her getting involved. Harper is last bit as there'd been a language and coding whizz and point when she and Kat are determined solve the clues and make people listen to themmight have been thrown out for that reason. Even if they can She't do s now determined that by themselves they know that they have their animal friends she ''really'' does want to helpbe a ballet dancer, except... Can the team work together to save the day? [[Kat Wolfe Investigates Showtime (Kat Wolfe 1Dance Trilogy) by Lauren St JohnJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing The Gravediggers' Bread by Cassandra ParkinFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down Blaise 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 mud cliffs and away into post office using the sea is where we meet Jacob payphone finally finishes her business, and Ella. They share leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a bathroom in wallet dropped to the turretfloor containing several days' good money, old and cold and not really supposed , when he tracks her to be used…but this is where they hide away from the shouts village funeral directors', signs of their parents' argumentsher infidelity. Here they play Lo and behold he is given a job as the Underwater Breathing gamewoman's husband's assistant, submerging themselves although she also starts to employ him in the water holding their breath for as long as they cansending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. For sixteen year old Jacob it's just a way Blaise is of drowning out course deeply in love with the arguments…but for Ella it is more than thatwoman by now, and hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. She One is terrified the lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by the seawayside, and surely the brick wall of the fact that it fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will come and swallow their house. She needs to know that she can survive under water. She has to practice. remain two men tall? [[Underwater Breathing The Gravediggers' Bread by Cassandra ParkinFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Boy Underwater by Victoria GlendinningAdam Baron]]===
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The Tudor era Cymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is often chosen for historical fiction because it nine years old, and he has such a wealth of intriguenever been swimming, plots and machinations. The regular cast of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from this wouldn’t be a really big problem except for the fact that the well never seems to run dry and school bully has somehow got the characters are often those high up in the circles of powerimpression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, or those prepared and has challenged Cym to do anything a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to get there. This bookresearch swimming on the internet, but there’s an accident at the pool that, howeverinitially, is totally different. Set sees Cym embarrassed in front of the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes of Agnes Peppinother kids, but that results in his mum having a young, poor woman. As a woman she can either marry, or join a conventbreakdown. Since Agnes Why has disgraced herself then she has no choice never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at all, and she is sent to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey. pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[The Butcher's Daughter Boy Underwater by Victoria GlendinningAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Mermaid Smoking Kills by Dorothy KoomsonAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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In 1993, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on the beach as theyMeet Fabrice Valantine. He're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: s a body of headhunter, and a young womansuccessful one too, partially strippedin an office in Paris. All around him however his world is changing – yes, totally deceased. The find hits the girls there is a new ban on smoking in different waysall workplaces. Nell becomes obsessed with finding the identity Goaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, of the girl – sorts, he sees a hypnotist who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of had success with a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happenedmutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. Fast forward 25 years and Nell is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads The session seems to go onhave been successful, however he faces the Police closed the case without cracking it, and so it remains one prospect of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles having such a change to let sleeping dogshis own personality, or even sleeping mermaidshis imbued habits and lifestyle, lie. As for Jude, well no one knows if the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she is. Shortly after that fateful night, she too disappearedwith fear, when he realises it will never to be seen or heard from againgrant him any pleasure. ThereHe needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's more to Brighton than Stag Dos and Gay Pride, it seemswhat he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[The Brighton Mermaid Smoking Kills by Dorothy KoomsonAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief The Lost Letters of Police Novel) William Woolf by Martin WalkerHelen Cullen]]===
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Bruno Courreges William Woolf is now the police chief for the whole of the Vezere valley, but the promotion is not without its drawbacks, as the chain of command is not quite as clear as it was when he knew that he worked for the mayor. Still, on a coolletter detective, damp Sunday afternoon working in spring he had other things on his mind: he was watching the St Denis women's rugby team playing Dead Letters Depot in the regional finalEast London. One player stood out: Paulette was the daughter He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of the local florists and she was the best player that Bruno had ever trainedlove, guilt, death, male or female. He had hopes of her making the national squadhope, but there might be a cloud on the horizon - Paulette had been sick and had fainted in the showerseveryday life. [[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief The Lost Letters of Police Novel) William Woolf by Martin WalkerHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Silver Hand Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Terry DearyBrian Conaghan]]===
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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 Funny how no one ever uses the word 'love' when itdiscussing my case. I do what I do because she's 1918 my mum. That pure and you live in the town of Bray - captured and recaptured by the Germans and the British during WWIthat simple. 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]]
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===[[All of This Is True by Lygia Day Penaflor]]=== [[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 -->|-| 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:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:ThrillersCrime|ThrillersCrime]]
As The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the shadow tourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of the Second World War descends upon the planetreasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, four people are explored but something had gone badly wrong and now he's in witness protection and working in the local pub. St Petroc feels safe and it's put a tale good deal of love distance between him and friendshipsome very violent people. Henri He's got an on-again, fulfilling a family tradition in joining off-again relationship with the Foreign Legionlocal policewoman, Bill, arriving at Cambridge with the on -again bits coinciding with the times when her husband's away. It's not an RAF scholarship, Leo, struggling to align his beliefs with those of his upbringing, and Elisabethexciting life, crossing continents and changing names are all brought together by strife and turmoilbut right now it suits Tom just fine. As the war rages Until he meets Lila, these men are tested like never before, with trust, loyalty and love leading to decisions that affect both their lives and those all around themis. [[Silence in the Desert The Old Religion by David LongridgeMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensFor Sharing|TeensFor Sharing]]  ''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.''
Joni is halfway through her A levels. But she has How does a lot more than A levels to think about. Life is pretty tough at family cope with 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 loss of a school trip coming up that needs to be paid for. Older brother Jamie got the sack from his dream job beloved child and, although he found somewhere else to work, is a big ball of resentment. To make matters worse, sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the charity that runs the housing on their estate is running out of money and thinking death of selling up. But Joni has a great group of friends and a lovely mum and dad loved one to children and a teacher who thinks she could get into university. [[Skylarks families by Karen GregoryKelly Owen|Full Review]]
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===[[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[The Colour of the Sun by David Almond:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]===
Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [[imagehttps:5star//en.wikipedia.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts of her body to bone when they were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, the Swiss euthanasia clinic. She'd thought that would be the end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the devil. And that was when she made the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the same day to the same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[:Category:Confident ReadersMarsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
''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 Winthrop -->
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===[[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Mercy Seat by Ruth HoganElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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MashaIn an isolated Louisiana town, a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's son Gabriel died some years agodying sun rays. She'd been At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a single parent with help from her friend, Edward, who had grieved as much as Masha chair and whilst Edward has moved on (his boyfriend moved out in electrocuted for the immediate aftermath rape of the drowninga white girl, but there's now a new love interest) Masha who later committed suicide. He is still stricken, feeling that resigned to his fate; it would somehow be disloyal is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to Gabriel if she believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and a white woman was never going to be have a happy. An independent, rebellious woman has somehow been diminishedending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Particular Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes Mercy Seat by Ruth HoganElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Alison WeirTania Unsworth]]===
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When it comes Stella's mother died when she was a little girl. Stella is growing up in a house with her dad, who is often away, and her grandmother, who is starting to Jane Seymour, experience the third wife onset of Henry VIII, popular opinion dementia. This is divided. Some see her as all hard enough for a scheming marriage-wrecker from young girl, but at the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an ambitious family who would stop oddball, struggling to fit in at nothing school, and as her grandmother begins to gain favour in the kinglose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella's eyesonly school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. Others view She is desperate to find out what happened to her as a pious mum and God-fearing woman who brought calm and stability into Henryto uncover her family'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 predecessorsecrets. [[Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Alison WeirTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Don't Make a Sound Ascension by David JacksonVictor Dixen]]===
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Malcolm Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and Harriet to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are a little odd. That much is clear from the start, from contenders in the way he is around herGenesis programme, the way he prepares things in such a way as to make her happy. Itworld's a nice sentimentcraziest speed-dating show ever, but something is offaimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. We meet their daughter Daisy and againLeonor, it all seems nice enough but there's a vibean 18 year old orphan, a hint is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a feeling that all is not what it seemsone-way ticket. Just how bad things are, thoughEven if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is yet to be revealedtoo late for regrets. [[Don't Make a Sound Ascension by David JacksonVictor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. He is tended by a single doctor, Doctor Geiger, who gives him a pencil and notebook and encourages him to write down his observations and memories. The notebook is thick, like a novel. How can Innokenty fill it if he cannot remember anything? But slowly the memories start to return, memories of childhood holidays at the beach, of life in the dacha, of the airfield and the aviators...and the island...it seems like some memories may be better left buried. He remembers that he is the same age as the century, born in 1900. But if that is the case, how is he still a young man when the pills by his bedside are dated 1999? [[The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Major -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:168369015X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/168369015X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel The Toad Who Loved Tea by Caitlin Major and Kelly BastowFaiz Kermani]]===
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In a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, Tungtang is Manfriednot like other toads. HeShe can's t sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to catch a typical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapesfly. Tungtang needs to be on the move. Sometimes, demanding more food than he can suitably eat, but at she even hops right the same time being way over to the perfect companion for his owner, Steve Catsonrotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her exploits. To such an extent that Steve, who That is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, is actually having nightmares about becoming until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the neighbourhood crow and inspired by her grandfather''crazy man cat''. But when a window gets left open by mistake, s stories of humans and Manfried goes missingancient toad prophecies, the only thing for it is Tungtang decides on a massive Real Adventure and energised man-hunt… heads off to the town of Little Cobblestone... [[Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel The Toad Who Loved Tea by Caitlin Major and Kelly BastowFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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