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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Take Me In by Tania UnsworthSabine Durrant]]===
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StellaIt's mother died when she was a little girlnot pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. Stella is growing up They've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and in a house with her dadthe blink of an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, who is often awayMarcus isn't looking, but Dave steps in and her grandmother, who disaster is starting averted. Just. They're grateful to experience the onset him, of dementia. This is all hard enough for a young girlcourse they are, but at after the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in at school, usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and as her grandmother begins the offer to lose her grip on realitybuy lunch for everyone, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stellathey's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. She is desperate re a little relieved to find out what happened return to her mum their villa and to uncover her live out the rest of their week in peace. Just a tight little 3-person family's secretsunit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, and although of course they owe him a great deal, he is a little, well, intense. [[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Take Me In by Tania UnsworthSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Victor DixenElisabeth Hyde]]===
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Six girls, six boys. Each in Eighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week best when he waited for his three children to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board camerasarrive one Friday night. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme He might be a retired lawyer, the world's craziest speed-dating show evera state legislator, aimed at creating the first human colony on Marselected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble when Ruth and George arrived. Leonor Ruth, an 18 year old orphana corporate lawyer, is one of the chosen oneswould find fault and want to talk about him going into a retirement home. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for George, a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns to nurse, would argue and Lizzie, a nightmareprofessor of English Literature, it is too late for regretswho lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all would go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happen. [[Ascension Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Victor DixenElisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
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===[[Riddle of the Runes by Janina Ramirez]]===
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Tungtang The name Janina Ramirez is not like other toads. She can't sit stillwell known: her television programmes on cultural history, tongue protrudingespecially of early medieval times, are both lively and wait to catch a flyinformative. 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 She shares her fellow toads extensive learning with stories of her exploits. That is, until a mean old crow comes along light hand (and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take frequent giggle) and her a lot enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knowsthe subjects she discusses. Infuriated by But how will that translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the crow story dull and inspired by fact-packed? Will she hold up the action to display her grandfather's stories of humans and ancient toad propheciesconsiderable knowledge? Nope, Tungtang decides on not a Real Adventure and heads off to the town bit of Little Cobblestone... it! [[The Toad Who Loved Tea Riddle of the Runes by Faiz KermaniJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Poison Bed Grey Bastards by E C FremantleJonathan French]]===
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''The year Grey Bastards'' is 1615 an absolute triumph! Fantasy, action and celebrated couple Robert adventure cleverly wrapped around a super plot and Frances Carr have been arrested well written characters, this book is so much fun. A word of caution though, this is not suitable for murderall readers. She As the tittle suggests there is young, beautifula lot of bad language, and a member LOT of bad language, thrown around all the notorious Howard familytime in general speech. He In addition to this there is one of the most powerful men in the kingdomalso some sex and sexual language too, risen from nothing yet has the King's ear. Both of them are suspected there is some violence but the crime this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as black the language and white as it seemsbawdy jokes. Is Frances an innocent or If this bothers you then this is she the witch so many believe her to be? Is Robert telling the truth when he says he knows nothing of not the murder? In between all these questions is King James I, book for it you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is his secret that is at stakean absolute must read. One of them is a killer, but who has committed the murder in question? [[The Poison Bed Grey Bastards by E C FremantleJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[Ash Princess The Boy at the Door by Laura SebastianAlex Dahl]]===
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Cecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool''My name s receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to drop off a little boy from the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. The pool is Theodosia Eirene Houzzara, Queen of Astreaabout to close, and I it's not a big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will endure thisinterrupt her routine. But, minor inconvenience isn''. For t really a good enough reason to say no so she agrees and bundles the last decade, Theodosia has lived at boy whose name is Tobias into the fragile mercy of car with her vicious enemiesgirls. From the day This is a decision that will change her beloved country, Astrealife, was invaded by the Kalovaxians and that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her mother, Queen of Flame and Fury, was brutally murdered directly in front of her, she has been forced into a life of submission and desperate survivalevery waking moment. [[Ash Princess The Boy at the Door by Laura SebastianAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Lex CoultonJean Ure]]===
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Lex CoultonSecond years. The girls couldn's debut novel is a story about mistakest believe that they'd made it through the first year - in fact they'd all made it, failuresall eight of them, and relationshipswhich was most unusual. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen Usually some were thrown out with her best friend Jackson- they might have grown too tall, a work colleague, and is grappling with didn't look right or didn't have the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mothercommitment required. This relationship is complicated by the fact 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 Francesreason. She's father disappeared at sea when now determined that she was five years old''really'' does want to be a ballet dancer, except... [[Falling Short Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Lex CoultonJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aladdin Trial Gravediggers' Bread by Abi SilverFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
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When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy Blaise is found dead at a loose end, for having left Paris on the pavement outside the hospitala wild goose chase for a job, a police investigation is launched into whether she jumped or which was pushed. Having just have surgery on her foothis friend's idea, there is sufficient grounds he's stuck outside a call box waiting to think this was no accident, but report back before he gets the only suspect train. The woman in the police can link to post office using the death is the hospital cleanerpayphone finally finishes her business, and leaves him with a Syrian refugeestrong impression – as well as a wallet dropped to the floor containing several days' good money, Ahmad Qabbani. Solicitor Constance Lamb and barrister Judith Burton reunite , when he tracks her to defend Ahmadthe village funeral directors', but with an uncooperative hospital staff, Barbarasigns of her infidelity. Lo and behold he is given a job as the woman's self interested children and Ahmad keeping secrets, ithusband's going an increasingly difficult task assistant, although she also starts to prove employ him in sending messages to her amour, her childhood love before circumstances changed. Blaise is of course deeply in love with the jury woman by now, and hates the two obstacles preventing him from being with her. One is the medialover, that a brutish bloke with little prospects and a bad case of epilepsy. Surely he is innocent. will not fall by the wayside, and surely the brick wall of fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[The Aladdin Trial Gravediggers' Bread by Abi SilverFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[A Demon In Silver Boy Underwater by R S FordAdam Baron]]===
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Take Cymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is nine years old, and he has never been swimming, and this wouldn’t be a fantasy world where gods once walked really big problem except for the fact that the school bully has somehow got the land and magic influenced everything for millenniaimpression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, where magic was power and has challenged Cym to a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the entire world was shaped around its influence. Theninternet, overnightbut there’s an accident at the pool that, that power was ripped awayinitially, sorcerers' died instantly and magic is never heard of again. Until now. A farm girl from the middle sees Cym embarrassed in front of nowhere has unleashed raw magic and the tribal leaders will stop at nothing to control herother kids, using whatever means necessarybut that results in his mum having a breakdown. Can anyone save her, or will they need saving from herWhy has she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the pool create such devastation in Cym’s life? [[A Demon In Silver Boy Underwater by R S FordAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. He''This is the mysterious nature of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endingss a headhunter, and different starts can lead to the same finalea successful one too, in an office in Paris. It's all subordinate to the greater narrativeAll around him however his world is changing – yes, which starts somewhere there is a new ban on smoking in Kiev''all workplaces. This beautiful book is exactly thatGoaded by his non-smoking wife, even though they met over an ashtray, the mysterious art of storytellingsorts, he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in stopping their nicotine habit. The wayward meanderings session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of memoryhaving such a change to his own personality, of tangents his imbued habits and digressionslifestyle, of side notes and elaborationswith fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but above all it's what he replaces the habit with that of affection; for both the story and will surprise the storyteller. What makes us who we are if not our culture and heritage and in this book our narrator re-lives and re-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmothermost. [[Lala Smoking Kills by Jacek Dehnel Antoine Laurain and Antonia LloydLouise Rogers-Jones Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen]]===
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[[image:4William Woolf is a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London.5starHe spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThe Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|TeensFull Review]]
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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.
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In The Blood by Ruth Mancini]]===''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.''
[[image:4Bobby 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.5starBobby can barely keep his eyes off Lou.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeThe Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan|CrimeFull Review]]
Bringing up a child on your own is difficult: when that child is severely disabled the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on a daily basis. Ben is nearly five but still can't walk or talk and isn't toilet trained. His main way of communicating is to have a screaming tantrum, but he will watch ''Teletubbies'' - for hours on end. She has sympathy with Ellie when she's charged with trying to murder her son, firstly by poisoning him and them by removing the dialysis line with was circulating his blood to clean it. On the face of it there doesn't seem to be a lot of chance of fighting the charge - that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks - but Sarah isn't quite so certain. [[In The Blood by Ruth Mancini|Full Review]]
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands The Old Religion by Patrick WinnMartyn Waites]]===
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The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the tourist trail: there'Hellos nothing particularly pretty, Shadowlandsor historic, or interesting about it, which might be one of the reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policeman, 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' chronicles s put a booming crime wave in South East Asiagood deal of distance between him and some very violent people. It illuminates everything from He's got an on-again, off-again relationship with the meth industry in Myanmar to local policewoman, with the abortion pill black market in on-again bits coinciding with the Philippines using both Winntimes when her husband's personal accounts and historical contextaway. It is devastating to imagine the very real human lives that are swept up in this cloud of refuse's not an exciting life, and how the West helped create but right now it and suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lila, that is doing nothing to prevent it. [[Hello, Shadowlands The Old Religion by Patrick WinnMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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''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:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]]
Lacey''The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of them. There was Mum, barely escaped with her life after the events of [[Defender by G X Todd|Defender]] Dad and three children: Abi, Jenny and now she's being huntedJoe. But then Abi died. By a boy driven by a voice stealing away his sanity piece by piece and by another incapable Now there were only four of speechthem. Both are determined to find her at Life felt very strange without their sister, and they were all costs and both are building up an army of followers to track her precise location before the othervery unhappy. [[Hunted by G X Todd|Full Review]]''
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===[[Across the Divide Marsha's Deal by Anne BoothLaura Solomon]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'I want all children d been afflicted with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva], a rare disease which turned parts of her body to know that bone when they CAN already make the world a better place, were damaged. Finally she was unable to stand her life any longer and that there are other peoplewent to Dignitas, now and in history and in fiction, who stand alongside them in thisthe Swiss euthanasia clinic. She''This is what author Anne Booth said about d thought that would be the inspiration behind end, but after cremation her latest children's book body went straight to hell and this thoughtful story about family, friendship and being brave enough she found herself face-to speak up for what you believe should help to achieve this-face with the devil. In Across the Divide And that was when she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace and conflict and made the history pact. In exchange for details about some of conscientious objectors during World War 1 in a moving portrayal of young people trying those who had been close to make sense of her - their strengths and weaknesses - she would be reborn on the world and same day to the decisions made by adultssame parents, but would live her life free of disease. [[Across the Divide Marsha's Deal by Anne BoothLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[A Child Called Happiness The Mercy Seat by Stephan CollishawElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Historical Fiction|General Historical Fiction]]
Mazowe ValleyIn an isolated Louisiana town, 2011 – Natalie hears a sharp cry that she thinks young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at first might the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnight, he will be dead; strapped to a bird, but turns out to be chair and electrocuted for the rape of a babywhite girl, abandoned who later committed suicide. He is resigned to the birds on the kopje. She his fate; it is there with her uncle and they take the child, back futile to protest his farm initially innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after all, love between a black man and then a white woman was never going to have a local village where it is taken happy ending in. They do not report it to the policea small town filled with small-minded people. [[A Child Called Happiness The Mercy Seat by Stephan CollishawElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Running Amok (DCI Spearing and DI Devlin Series Book 2) The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Paul HughesTania Unsworth]]===
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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 experience the onset of dementia. This is all hard enough for a young girl, but at the same time Stella finds that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in at school, and as her grandmother begins to lose her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves away, Stella struggles even more. She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and to uncover her family'Caution: Mild spoilers for s secrets. [[Beginning to End The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Paul HughesTania Unsworth|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 Dixen -->
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===[[Ascension by Victor Dixen]]===
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[[image:5starSix girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a single spaceship. They have six minutes each week to seduce and to make their choices, under the unblinking eye of the on-board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programme, the world's craziest speed-dating show ever, aimed at creating the first human colony on Mars. Leonor, an 18 year old orphan, is one of the chosen ones. She has signed up for glory. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]Even if the dream turns to a nightmare, it is too late for regrets. [[:Category:TeensAscension by Victor Dixen|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 Kermani -->
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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian FictionThe Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]===
Can you put a price on human life? 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[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[84K by Claire North:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
Tungtang is not like other toads. She can't sit still, tongue protruding, and wait to catch a 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 exploits. That is, 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 crow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of humans and ancient toad prophecies, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and heads off to the town of Little Cobblestone... [[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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