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===[[Take Me In by Sabine Durrant]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]===
[[image:4It'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.5starBecause although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe him a great deal, he is a little, well, intense.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensTake Me In by Sabine Durrant|TeensFull Review]]
''What he wants most in the world is to cut off his own hands. At the wrist would be best.'' What child would think such a thing? Beck would think such a thing. The son of a talented pianist who became ill and could no longer play, Beck is the servant of his thwarted mother's ambitions. He must be the pianist now. And Beck's mother - the Maestro - makes him practise for hours every day. If he rebels in any way, his mother's response is violent. But Beck doesn't want to play Chopin. He wants to compose. Forbidden music fills his head but it's an impossible dream.[[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews|Full Review]]  <!-- Ruth Mancini Elisabeth Hyde -->
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===[[In The Blood Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Ruth ManciniElisabeth Hyde]]===
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Bringing up a child on your own is difficult: Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when that child is severely disabled the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on a daily basishe waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. Ben is nearly five but still can't walk or talk and isn't toilet trained. His main way of communicating is to have He might be a retired lawyer, a screaming tantrumstate legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he will watch ''Teletubbies'' - for hours on endknew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. She has sympathy with Ellie when she's charged with trying to murder her sonRuth, a corporate lawyer, firstly by poisoning him would find fault and them by removing the dialysis line with was circulating his blood want to clean ittalk about him going into a retirement home. On the face George, a nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a professor of it there doesn't seem to English Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be a lot of chance of fighting the charge - unpredictable. Murray hoped that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - all would go smoothly, but Sarah isnthat simply wasn't quite so certaingoing to happen. [[In The Blood Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Ruth ManciniElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands Riddle of the Runes by Patrick WinnJanina Ramirez]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True CrimeConfident Readers|True CrimeConfident Readers]]
''HelloThe name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural history, especially of early medieval times, Shadowlands'' chronicles are both lively and informative. She shares her extensive learning with a light hand (and a booming crime wave in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from the meth industry in Myanmar frequent giggle) and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the abortion pill black market in the Philippines using both Winnsubjects she discusses. But how will that translate into children's personal accounts fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull and historical context. It is devastating to imagine the very real human lives that are swept fact-packed? Will she hold up in this cloud of refuse, and how the West helped create it and is doing nothing action to prevent display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it. ! [[Hello, Shadowlands Riddle of the Runes by Patrick WinnJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[Hunted The Grey Bastards by G X ToddJonathan French]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
''Do you not sometimes think a storm is coming?'' ''Hunted'' continues where the ''Voices'' series left off, with our heroine on the run without anyone to defend her whilst the world around her is descending into chaos[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
Lacey''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, barely escaped with her life after the events action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and well written characters, this book is so much fun. A word of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] and now she's being huntedcaution though, this is not suitable for all readers. By As the tittle suggests there is a boy driven by lot of bad language, a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece and by another incapable LOT of bad language, thrown around all the time in general speech. Both are determined In addition to find her at all costs this there is also some sex and sexual language too, there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the language and both are building up bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the book for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an army of followers to track her precise location before the otherabsolute must read. [[Hunted The Grey Bastards by G X ToddJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[Across The Boy at the Divide Door by Anne BoothAlex Dahl]]===
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Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool''I want all children s receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to know that they CAN already make drop off a little boy from the world a better place, and that there are other peopleclass as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. The pool is about to close, now and in history and in fiction, who stand alongside them in this.it''This s not a big ask although Cecilia is what author Anne Booth said about the inspiration behind somewhat put out that it will interrupt her latest childrenroutine. But, minor inconvenience isn's book and this thoughtful story about family, friendship and being brave t really a good enough reason to speak up for what you believe should help to achieve this. In Across the Divide say no so she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace and conflict agrees and bundles the boy whose name is Tobias into the history of conscientious objectors during World War 1 in car with her girls. This is a moving portrayal of young people trying to make sense of the world decision that will change her life, and the decisions made by adultsthat minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[Across The Boy at the Divide Door by Anne BoothAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Stephan CollishawJean Ure]]===
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Mazowe ValleySecond years. The girls couldn't believe that they'd made it through the first year - in fact they'd all made it, all eight of them, 2011 – Natalie hears which was most unusual. Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, didn't look right or didn't have the commitment required. Maddie felt a sharp cry bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there'd been a point when she thinks at first might be a bird, but turns have been thrown out for that reason. She's now determined that she ''really'' does want to be a babyballet dancer, abandoned to the birds on the kopjeexcept. She is there with her uncle and they take the child, back to his farm initially and then to a local village where it is taken in. They do not report it to the police. [[A Child Called Happiness Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Stephan CollishawJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok The Gravediggers' Bread by Frederic Dard and Melanie Florence (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2translator) by Paul Hughes]]===
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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 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'Caution: Mild spoilers for 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. One is the lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy. 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? [[Beginning to End The Gravediggers' Bread by Paul HughesFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Beginning to EndFull Review]]'''
DS Kevin Devlin has settled into his new job at Scotland Yard very quickly, although he didn't have much choice but to hit the ground running. When we last saw him quite a few of the rogue element at MI5 and others who were causing Spearing and Devlin difficulties were conveniently dead and as Spearing has gone missing, Devlin can't help but wonder if Spearting was involved in some way in bringing this convenient solution about. Whilst he might have wanted to search for Spearing, there's upheaval at the Yard: the new commissioner is offering deals to corrupt officers. They can leave with a year's pay in lieu of notice or they can be prosecuted. Unsurprisingly there are suddenly a lot of empty desks - and a promotion opportunity for Devlin. [[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) by Paul Hughes|Full Review]] <!-- Slater Baron -->
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===[[Boy Underwater by Adam Baron]]===
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[[image: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]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[:Category:TeensBoy Underwater by Adam Baron|TeensFull Review]]
''None of them believed me. Nobody believed I really couldn't remember what happened to my brother. I wanted to scream at them to listen. Because, for the first time in a long, long time, I was actually telling the truth.'' Ed Clayton is a teller of tall stories. He just can't help it - even though he knows and everybody else knows that most of what comes out of his mouth is complete fantasy. It all started when Ed's father was accused of fraud and sent to prison. Then mum's mental health went to pieces. Then, with nobody bringing money into the house, poverty - real, grinding, poverty - set in and life became all about scratching about for pennies and visiting the food bank. All of this is horribly shaming, so is it any wonder that Ed has become a bit of a Billy Liar, hiding the truth of his home life in the hopes the power of imagination can make it all disappear?[[The Boy Who Lied by Kim Slater|Full Review]]<!-- North Laurain -->
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===[[84K Smoking Kills by Claire NorthAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian General Fiction|Dystopian General Fiction]] Can you put a price on human life?
Theo canMeet Fabrice Valantine. He's a headhunter, he calculates the worth of each person to the penny. The Company own everything and everyonea successful one too, including handing out punishments for crimein an office in Paris. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping All around him however his head down whilst working for the Criminal Audit Officeworld is changing – yes, there is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. Doing just enough work to avoid anyone noticing himGoaded by his non-smoking wife, he calculateseven though they met over an ashtray, without emotionof sorts, the cost of the crimes filling his inbox. They are variables on he sees a spreadsheet, hypnotist who had success with a simple mathematical equationmutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the expense prospect of solving the crime added having such a change to how much the victim would have contributed to their communityhis own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in He needs this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cashpleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[84K Smoking Kills by Claire NorthAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Walls The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Emma FischelHelen Cullen]]===
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When Ned's parents decide they can no longer stay together they come up with what they think William Woolf is an ingenious plana letter detective, which is to divide their house working in the Dead Letters Depot in twoEast London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, so that there will be a mum side tracking down mysterious people and a dad sidereading endless letters of love, guilt, death, and the children can spend a week on either side at a time. Whilst his parents hope this will be less disruptive, Ned is incensed by the walls that spoil his beautiful home and stop him from moving through the house as he used toeveryday life. The walls make him angry, and that anger grows and grows until one day, Ned suddenly discovers that the walls are no longer important because he can walk through them! [[Walls The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Emma FischelHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category: Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionThe Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan]]===
On a remote volcanic island off the coast of New Zealand, a family of settlers struggle to make such an unforgiving place a home[[image:4. When a ship appears, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappears. As both settlers and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Mr Peacock's Possessions by Lydia Syson:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
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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.
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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I have heard it said that the best way to begin to tell a story is to create a multi-dimensional character, imbued with compelling layers of detail - be it backstory, character quirks or behaviours. The point seems to be that in creating a character in such a way you begin to reflect the truth of life wherein people are by definition multi-dimensional and thus, you bring your story to life. In Major Tom Fox, Grimwood has successfully created just such a character. In one man he gifts us an exciting and honourable figure who somehow simultaneously manages to present as damaged and flawed. Grimwood provides some character history for Fox which clearly informs the actions of the character but I would suggest that rather than any written history provided for Major Fox, it is in the way he interacts with the other characters and drives the action of the story that we come to know him. [[Nightfall Berlin by Jack Grimwood|Full Review]] <!-- Paul Hughes Waites -->
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===[[Beginning to End The Old Religion by Paul HughesMartyn Waites]]===
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Sir Mark Wright, Commissioner The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the Metropolitan Policetourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that which might be one of the Met was riddled with corruptionreasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, but in 1967 times were changing something had gone badly wrong and Wright was determined that now he was going to upgrade the service by ridding it of corrupt officers 's in witness protection and bringing working in new technologythe local pub. Unsurprisingly, there were St Petroc feels safe and it's put a lot good deal of people against distance between him: and some were making very good money violent people. He's got an on -again, off-again relationship with the side and quite a few of local policewoman, with the oldon-timers werenagain bits coinciding with the times when her husband't too keen on all this technology nonsenses away. They didnIt't think walkie-talkies would really work and computers would never really catch ons not an exciting life, but right now it suits Tom just fine. One of Wright's first actions was 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 ideasUntil he meets Lila, whilst being mentored by the older, more experienced officersthat is. [[Beginning to End The Old Religion by Paul HughesMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) by Lauren St John]]===
===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFor Sharing|Confident ReadersFor 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.''
Kat Wolfe lives How does a family cope with her mum, a vet, in London and following a break-in they decide that the time has come to move out loss of the city. Kat, a confirmed animal lover, is delighted when her mum accepts beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the offer death of a job on the idyllic Dorset coast as the job comes with loved 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 children 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 and becomes steadily more dangerous. Luckily Kat has her new friend Harper to support and help her. Although Harper is laid up with two broken legs thanks to a horse riding accident she is not about to let that stop her getting involved. Harper is a language and coding whizz and she and Kat are determined solve the clues and make people listen 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 day? [[Kat Wolfe Investigates (Kat Wolfe 1) families by Lauren St JohnKelly Owen|Full Review]]
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===[[Underwater Breathing Marsha's Deal by Cassandra ParkinLaura Solomon]]===
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A tumble-down Edwardian house that will sooner rather than later tumble down the mud cliffs and away into Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the sea is where we meet Jacob and Ellafirst time around. They share She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a bathroom in the turret, old and cold and not really supposed rare disease which turned parts of her body to be used…but this is where bone when they hide away from the shouts of their parents' argumentswere damaged. Here they play the Underwater Breathing gameFinally she was unable to stand her life any longer and went to Dignitas, submerging themselves in the water holding their breath for as long as they canSwiss euthanasia clinic. For sixteen year old Jacob itShe's just a way of drowning out the arguments…but for Ella it is more than d thought that. She is terrified of would be the seaend, of but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to-face with the fact that it will come and swallow their housedevil. She needs to know And that was when she can survive under watermade the pact. She has 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 practicethe same parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Underwater Breathing Marsha's Deal by Cassandra ParkinLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Butcher's Daughter Mercy Seat by Victoria GlendinningElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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The Tudor era is often chosen for historical fiction because it has such In an isolated Louisiana town, a wealth of intrigueyoung black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, plots and machinations. The regular cast staring at the shadow of courtly characters are usually rich and powerful, with so many to choose from that the well never seems to run dry and window bars cast onto the characters are often those high up in concrete wall by the circles of powerevening's dying sun rays. At midnight, or those prepared he will be dead; strapped to do anything to get there. This book, however, is totally different. Set in a chair and electrocuted for the mid–to–late 1500s we see the world through the eyes rape of Agnes Peppin, a youngwhite girl, poor womanwho later committed suicide. As a woman she can either marry, He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or join a convent. Since Agnes has disgraced herself then she has no choice at to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and she is sent a white woman was never going to join the nuns of Shaftesbury Abbeyhave a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. [[The Butcher's Daughter Mercy Seat by Victoria GlendinningElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[The Brighton Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Dorothy KoomsonTania Unsworth]]===
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In 1993, two teenagers stumble across a horrific scene on the beach as theyStella're sneaking home after an un-authorised night out: s mother died when she was a body of a young woman, partially stripped, totally deceasedlittle girl. The find hits the girls Stella is growing up in different ways. Nell becomes obsessed a house with finding the identity of the girl – her dad, who she calls ''the Brighton Mermaid'' because of a distinguishing tattoo – whereas Jude just wants to forget it ever happened. Fast forward 25 years is often away, and Nell her grandmother, who is still haunted by what happened that night. With few leads starting to go on, the Police closed experience the case without cracking it, and so it remains one onset of those unsolved mysteries that become part of local folklore, but Nell struggles to let sleeping dogs, or even sleeping mermaids, liedementia. As This is all hard enough for Judea young girl, well no one knows if but at the discovery still haunts her because no one knows where she is. Shortly after same time Stella finds that fateful night, she too disappearedfeels like rather an oddball, never struggling to be seen or heard from againfit in at school, and as her grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. There When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more . She is desperate to Brighton than Stag Dos find out what happened to her mum and Gay Pride, it seemsto uncover her family's secrets. [[The Brighton Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Dorothy KoomsonTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Ascension by Martin WalkerVictor Dixen]]===
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Bruno Courreges is now the police chief for Six girls, six boys. Each in the whole two separate bays of the Vezere valley, but the promotion is not without its drawbacksa single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, as under the chain unblinking eye of command is not quite as clear as it was when he knew that he worked for the mayoron-board cameras. Still, on a coolThey are the contenders in the Genesis programme, damp Sunday afternoon in spring he had other things on his mind: he was watching the St Denis womenworld's rugby team playing in craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the regional finalfirst human colony on Mars. One player stood out: Paulette was the daughter Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the local florists and she was the best player that Bruno had ever trained, male or femalechosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. He had hopes of her making the national squad, but there might be She has signed up for a cloud on the horizon one- Paulette had been sick and had fainted in way ticket. Even if the showersdream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets. [[A Taste for Vengeance (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Ascension by Martin WalkerVictor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Silver Hand Toad Who Loved Tea by Terry DearyFaiz Kermani]]===
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Aimee Tungtang is not like languagesother toads. Shecan's particularly keen on Latin t sit still, tongue protruding, and enjoys wait to catch a sparring session or two fly. Tungtang needs to be on the move. Sometimes, she even hops right the way over to the rotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her teacherexploits. Aimee That is, until a mean old crow comes along and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would like nothing better take her a lot further than to have her head stuck in a book all day every daytree stump by a bridge everyone knows. But that's not possible when it's 1918 and you live in Infuriated by the town of Bray - captured crow and recaptured inspired by the Germans and the British during WWI. The Germans are advancing and Aimeeher grandfather's mother stories of humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides it's finally time on a Real Adventure and heads off to tell her daughter that she is part the town of a secret spy ring, helping the BritishLittle Cobblestone. Aimee is desperate to help. And help she does, soon uncovering a traitor in the British camp. [[The Silver Hand Toad Who Loved Tea by Terry DearyFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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