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===[[Ash Princess Take Me In by Laura SebastianSabine Durrant]]===
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It's not pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They'My name is Theodosia Eirene Houzzarave taken their toddler, Queen of AstreaJosh, to Greece on holiday and I will endure thisin the blink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in and disaster is averted. For the last decadeJust. They're grateful to him, Theodosia has lived at the fragile mercy of her vicious enemies. From the day her beloved country, Astreacourse they are, was invaded by but after the Kalovaxians usual hand shakes and her motherweeping hugs and the offer to buy lunch for everyone, Queen they're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of Flame their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and Fury, was brutally murdered directly in front although of hercourse they owe him a great deal, she has been forced into he is a life of submission and desperate survivallittle, well, intense. [[Ash Princess Take Me In by Laura SebastianSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Lex CoultonElisabeth Hyde]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel is Eighty-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 story about mistakesretired lawyer, failuresa state legislator, elected congressman and relationshipsnow an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. The main protagonist Ruth, Frances Pilgrima corporate lawyer, is would find fault and want to talk about him going into a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jacksonretirement home. George, a work colleaguenurse, would argue and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour Lizzie, a professor of her motherEnglish Literature, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. This relationship is complicated by the fact Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that Francessimply wasn's father disappeared at sea when she was five years oldt going to happen. [[Falling Short Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Lex CoultonElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aladdin Trial Riddle of the Runes by Abi SilverJanina Ramirez]]===
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When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy The name Janina Ramirez is found dead well known: her television programmes on the pavement outside the hospitalcultural history, especially of early medieval times, are both lively and informative. She shares her extensive learning with a light hand (and a police investigation is launched into whether she jumped or was pushed. Having just have surgery on frequent giggle) and her foot, there is sufficient grounds to think this was no accident, but the only suspect the police can link enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the death is the hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugee, Ahmad Qabbanisubjects she discusses. Solicitor Constance Lamb and barrister Judith Burton reunite to defend Ahmad, but with an uncooperative hospital staff, Barbara's self interested But how will that translate into children and Ahmad keeping secrets, it's going an increasingly difficult task to prove to fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the jury story dull and fact-packed? Will she hold up the mediaaction to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, that he is innocent. not a bit of it! [[The Aladdin Trial Riddle of the Runes by Abi SilverJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[A Demon In Silver The Grey Bastards by R S FordJonathan French]]===
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Take ''The Grey Bastards'' is an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a fantasy world where gods once walked the land super plot and magic influenced everything for millenniawell written characters, where magic was power and the entire world was shaped around its influencethis book is so much fun. ThenA word of caution though, overnightthis is not suitable for all readers. As the tittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, that power was ripped awaya LOT of bad language, sorcerers' died instantly thrown around all the time in general speech. In addition to this there is also some sex and magic sexual language too, there is never heard of again. Until now. A farm girl from some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the middle of nowhere has unleashed raw magic language and bawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the tribal leaders will stop at nothing to control her, using whatever means necessarybook for you. Can For anyone save her, or will they need saving from her? who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must read. [[A Demon In Silver The Grey Bastards by R S FordJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala The Boy at the Door by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Alex Dahl]]===
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''This Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the mysterious nature pool's receptionist asks a quick favour of storytelling: her – to drop off a little boy from the same start can also mean different endings, and different starts can lead class as his parents seem to have forgotten to the same finalecollect him. It's all subordinate The pool is about to the greater narrativeclose, which starts somewhere in Kievand it''. This beautiful book s not a big ask although Cecilia is exactly somewhat put out that, the mysterious art of storytellingit will interrupt her routine. The wayward meanderings of memoryBut, of tangents and digressions, of side notes minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to say no so she agrees and elaborations, but above all that of affection; for both bundles the story and boy whose name is Tobias into the storytellercar with her girls. What makes us who we are if not our culture This is a decision that will change her life, and heritage and in this book our narrator re-lives and re-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmotherthat minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her every waking moment. [[Lala The Boy at the Door by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Alex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Jean Ure]]===
===[[A Thousand Perfect Notes by C G Drews]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  ''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 DrewsConfident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
Second 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, 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 bit nervous when she thought about that last bit as there'd been a point when she might have been thrown out for that reason. She's now determined that she ''really'' does want to be a ballet dancer, except... [[Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Jean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Blood Gravediggers' Bread by Ruth ManciniFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Bringing up Blaise is at a child loose end, for having left Paris on your own is difficult: when that child is severely disabled 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 obstacles are almost insurmountable payphone finally finishes her business, and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a daily basis. Ben is nearly five but still canwallet dropped to the floor containing several days't walk or talk good money, and isn, when he tracks her to the village funeral directors't toilet trained, signs of her infidelity. His main way of communicating Lo and behold he is to have given a screaming tantrum, but he will watch job as the woman's husband'Teletubbies'' - for hours on end. She has sympathy with Ellie when s assistant, although she's charged with trying also starts to employ him in sending messages to murder her sonamour, firstly her childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of course deeply in love with the woman by poisoning him now, and them by removing hates the dialysis line two obstacles preventing him from being with was circulating his blood to clean ither. On One is the face of it there doesn't seem to be lover, a brutish bloke with little prospects and a lot bad case of chance epilepsy. Surely he will not fall by the wayside, and surely the brick wall of fighting the charge - that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - but Sarah isn't quite so certain. fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[In The Blood Gravediggers' Bread by Ruth ManciniFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands Boy Underwater by Patrick WinnAdam Baron]]===
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''HelloCymbeline Igloo (yes, Shadowlands'' chronicles that’s his real name!) is nine years old, and he has never been swimming, and this wouldn’t be a booming crime wave in South East Asia. It illuminates everything from really big problem except for the meth industry in Myanmar to fact that the abortion pill black market in school bully has somehow got the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts impression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, and historical context. It is devastating has challenged Cym to a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to imagine research swimming on the very real human lives internet, but there’s an accident at the pool that are swept up , initially, sees Cym embarrassed in this cloud front of refusethe other kids, and how but that results in his mum having a breakdown. Why has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the West helped pool create it and is doing nothing to prevent it. such devastation in Cym’s life? [[Hello, Shadowlands Boy Underwater by Patrick WinnAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Hunted Smoking Kills by G X ToddAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. He''Do you not sometimes think s a headhunter, and a storm successful one too, in an office in Paris. All around him however his world is coming?'' ''Hunted'' continues where 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 ''Voices'' series left offprospect of having such a change to his own personality, his imbued habits and lifestyle, with our heroine on 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 run without anyone to defend her whilst habit with that will surprise the world around her is descending into chaosmost.[[Smoking Kills by Antoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
Lacey, barely escaped with her life after the events of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] and now she's being hunted. By a boy driven by a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece and by another incapable of speech. Both are determined to find her at all costs and both are building up an army of followers to track her precise location before the other. [[Hunted by G X Todd|Full Review]] <!-- Booth Cullen -->
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===[[Across the Divide The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Anne BoothHelen Cullen]]===
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''I want all children to know that they CAN already make the world William Woolf is a better placeletter detective, and that there are other people, now and working in history and the Dead Letters Depot in fictionEast London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, who stand alongside them in this.''This is what author Anne Booth said about the inspiration behind her latest children's book tracking down mysterious people and this thoughtful story about familyreading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, friendship and being brave enough to speak up for what you believe should help to achieve thiseveryday life. In Across the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace and conflict and the history of conscientious objectors during World War 1 in a moving portrayal of young people trying to make sense of the world and the decisions made by adults. [[Across the Divide The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Anne BoothHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness by Stephan Collishaw]]===
===[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionTeens|Teens]]  ''Funny how no one ever uses the word 'love' when discussing my case. I do what I do because she's my mum. That pure and that simple.'' 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|General FictionFull Review]]
Mazowe Valley, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks at first might be a bird, but turns out to be a baby, abandoned to the birds on the kopje. 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 by Stephan Collishaw|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) The Old Religion by Paul HughesMartyn Waites]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
'''Caution[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category: Mild spoilers for {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Beginning to End by Paul Hughes:Category:Crime|Beginning to EndCrime]]'''
DS Kevin Devlin has settled into his new job at Scotland Yard very quicklyThe Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of the reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, although but something had gone badly wrong and now he didn't have much choice but to hit s in witness protection and working in the ground runninglocal pub. When we last saw him quite St Petroc feels safe and it's put a few good deal of the rogue element at MI5 and others who were causing Spearing distance between him 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 aboutvery violent people. Whilst he might have wanted to search for Spearing, thereHe's upheaval at got an on-again, off-again relationship with the local policewoman, with the Yard: on-again bits coinciding with the new commissioner is offering deals to corrupt officerstimes when her husband's away. They can leave with a yearIt's pay in lieu of notice or they can be prosecutednot an exciting life, but right now it suits Tom just fine. Unsurprisingly there are suddenly a lot of empty desks - and a promotion opportunity for DevlinUntil he meets Lila, that is. [[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) The Old Religion by Paul HughesMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Lied Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kim SlaterKelly Owen]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]
[[image''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of them. There was Mum, Dad and three children:5starAbi, Jenny and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four of them.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]Life felt very strange without their sister, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]and they were all very unhappy.''
''None How does a family cope with the loss 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 a beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the first time in death of a long, long time, I was actually telling the truth.''loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|Full Review]]
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 Laura Solomon -->
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===[[84K Marsha's Deal by Claire NorthLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]]
Can you put a price on human life?[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
Theo canMarsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], he calculates the worth a rare disease which turned parts of each person her body to the pennybone when they were damaged. The Company own everything Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and everyonewent to Dignitas, including handing out punishments for crimethe Swiss euthanasia clinic. Theo sleepwalks through life keeping his head down whilst working for She'd thought that would be the Criminal Audit Office. Doing just enough work end, but after cremation her body went straight to hell and she found herself face-to avoid anyone noticing him, he calculates, without emotion, -face with the cost of devil. And that was when she made the crimes filling his inboxpact. They are variables In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on a spreadsheet, a simple mathematical equation, the expense of solving the crime added same day to how much the victim same parents, but would have contributed to their community. Prisons are uneconomical so criminals in this world pay their debt to society in cold hard cashlive her life free of disease. [[84K Marsha's Deal by Claire NorthLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Walls The Mercy Seat by Emma FischelElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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When Ned's parents decide they can no longer stay together they come up with what they think is In an ingenious planisolated Louisiana town, which is to divide their house a young black prisoner sits in twohis dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnight, so that there he will be dead; strapped to a mum side chair and electrocuted for the rape of a dad sidewhite girl, and the children can spend a week on either side at a timewho later committed suicide. Whilst He is resigned to his parents hope this will be less disruptive, Ned fate; it is incensed by the walls that spoil futile to protest his beautiful home innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and stop him from moving through the house as he used a white woman was never going tohave a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded people. 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 Mercy Seat by Emma FischelElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Lydia SysonTania Unsworth]]===
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On Stella's mother died when she was a little girl. Stella is growing up in a remote volcanic island off house with her dad, who is often away, and her grandmother, who is starting to experience the coast onset of New Zealanddementia. This is all hard enough for a young girl, but at the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, a family of settlers struggle struggling to fit in at school, and as her grandmother begins to make such an unforgiving place a homelose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When a ship appearsStella's only school friend suddenly moves away, they feel that their wishes have been granted and their community reinvigorated – but high hopes are swiftly dashed when a vulnerable boy disappearsStella struggles even more. As both settlers She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and newcomers come together in the search for the child, they to uncover far, far more than they were looking for – discovering dark her family's secrets about both the island and those who inhabit it. [[Mr Peacock's Possessions The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Lydia SysonTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Nightfall Berlin Ascension by Jack GrimwoodVictor Dixen]]===
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I Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have heard it said that the best way six minutes each week to begin seduce and to tell a story is to create a multi-dimensional charactermake their choices, imbued with compelling layers under the unblinking eye of detail the on- be it backstory, character quirks or behavioursboard cameras. The point seems to be that They are the contenders in creating a character in such a way you begin to reflect the truth of life wherein people are by definition multiGenesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dimensional and thusdating show ever, you bring your story to lifeaimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. In Major Tom FoxLeonor, Grimwood an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has successfully created just such signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a character. In one man he gifts us an exciting and honourable figure who somehow simultaneously manages to present as damaged and flawed-way ticket. Grimwood provides some character history for Fox which clearly informs Even if the actions of the character but I would suggest that rather than any written history provided for Major Foxdream turns to a nightmare, it is in the way he interacts with the other characters and drives the action of the story that we come to know himtoo late for regrets. [[Nightfall Berlin Ascension by Jack GrimwoodVictor Dixen|Full Review]]
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===[[Beginning to End by Paul Hughes]]===
===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFor Sharing|CrimeFor Sharing]]
Sir Mark WrightTungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, Commissioner of tongue protruding, and wait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to be on the Metropolitan Policemove. Sometimes, based at New Scotland Yard was aware that she even hops right the way over to the Met was riddled rotten tree stump in her community of Muddy River. And she loves to regale her fellow toads with corruptionstories of her exploits. That is, but in 1967 times were changing until a mean old crow comes along and Wright was determined tells Tungtang that he was going to upgrade a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knows. Infuriated by the service crow and inspired by ridding it her grandfather's stories of corrupt officers humans and bringing in new technology. Unsurprisinglyancient toad prophecies, there were Tungtang decides on a lot of people against him: some were making very good money on Real Adventure and heads off to the side and quite a few town of the old-timers weren't too keen on all this technology nonsenseLittle Cobblestone. 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 'the trained brains' - people with qualifications in specific areas who could introduce new ideas, whilst being mentored by the older, more experienced officers. [[Beginning to End The Toad Who Loved Tea by Paul HughesFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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