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===[[The Old Religion Take Me In by Martyn WaitesSabine Durrant]]===
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The Cornish village 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 St Petroc an eye something awful happens. Tessa isn't on the tourist trail: there, Marcus isn's nothing particularly prettyt looking, or historicbut Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Just. They're grateful to him, or interesting about it, which might be one of the reasons why Tom Killgannon is there. He had been an undercover policemancourse they are, but something had gone badly wrong after the usual hand shakes and now he's in witness protection weeping hugs and working in the local pub. St Petroc feels safe and itoffer to buy lunch for everyone, they's put re a good deal little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of distance between him and some very violent peopletheir week in peace. He's got an onJust a tight little 3-againperson family unit. Because although Dave is a nice chap, off-again relationship with the local policewomanand although of course they owe him a great deal, with the on-again bits coinciding with the times when her husband's away. It's not an exciting lifehe is a little, but right now it suits Tom just fine. Until he meets Lilawell, that isintense. [[The Old Religion Take Me In by Martyn WaitesSabine Durrant|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde]]===
===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingGeneral Fiction|For SharingGeneral Fiction]]
''The Owen family were feeling sadEighty-one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for his three children to arrive one Friday night. There used to He might be a retired lawyer, a state legislator, elected congressman and now an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be five of themtrouble when Ruth and George arrived. There was Mum Ruth, a corporate lawyer, Dad would find fault and three children: Abiwant to talk about him going into a retirement home. George, a nurse, Jenny would argue and Joe. But then Abi died. Now there were only four Lizzie, a professor of them. Life felt very strange without their sisterEnglish Literature, who lived locally and kept and they were visited him regularly, would be unpredictable. Murray hoped that all very unhappywould go smoothly, but that simply wasn't going to happen.''[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer by Elisabeth Hyde|Full Review]]
How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|Full Review]]  <!-- Laura Solomon Ramirez -->
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===[[Marsha's Deal Riddle of the Runes by Laura SolomonJanina Ramirez]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [httpsThe name Janina Ramirez is well known://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva]her television programmes on cultural history, a rare disease which turned parts especially of her body to bone when they were damagedearly medieval times, are both lively and informative. Finally she was unable to stand She shares her life any longer extensive learning with a light hand (and a frequent giggle) 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 enthusiasm encourages students and she found herself face-viewers alike to-face with explore further the devilsubjects she discusses. And But how will that was when she made translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the pact. In exchange for details about some of those who had been close to her - their strengths story dull and weaknesses fact- packed? Will she would be reborn on hold up the same day action to the same parentsdisplay her considerable knowledge? Nope, but would live her life free not a bit of disease. it! [[Marsha's Deal Riddle of the Runes by Laura SolomonJanina Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mercy Seat Grey Bastards by Elizabeth H WinthropJonathan French]]===
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In ''The Grey Bastards'' is an isolated Louisiana townabsolute triumph! Fantasy, action and adventure cleverly wrapped around a young black prisoner sits in his dingy cellsuper plot and well written characters, staring at the shadow this book is so much fun. A word of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the evening's dying sun rays. At midnightcaution though, he will be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted this is not suitable for all readers. As the rape tittle suggests there is a lot of bad language, a white girlLOT of bad language, who later committed suicidethrown around all the time in general speech. He is resigned In addition to his fate; it this there is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to believe what really happened; after allalso some sex and sexual language too, love between a black man there is some violence but this is not actually very explicit and not as constant as the language and a white woman was never going to have a happy ending in a small town filled with small-minded peoplebawdy jokes. If this bothers you then this is not the book for you. For anyone who doesn't mind then this is an absolute must read. [[The Mercy Seat Grey Bastards by Elizabeth H WinthropJonathan French|Full Review]]
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===[[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Boy at the Door by Tania UnsworthAlex Dahl]]===
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StellaCecilia is picking her daughters up from swimming when the pool's mother died when she was receptionist asks a quick favour of her – to drop off a little girlboy from the class as his parents seem to have forgotten to collect him. Stella The pool is growing up in about to close, and it's not a house with big ask although Cecilia is somewhat put out that it will interrupt her dad, who is often awayroutine. But, minor inconvenience isn't really a good enough reason to say no so she agrees and her grandmother, who bundles the boy whose name is starting to experience Tobias into the onset of dementiacar with her girls. This is all hard enough for a young girl, but at the same time Stella finds decision that she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in at school, and as her grandmother begins to lose will change her grip on reality, Stella struggles with feeling very alone. When Stella's only school friend suddenly moves awaylife, Stella struggles even more. She is desperate to find out what happened to her mum and to uncover that minor inconvenience quickly becomes something much larger that will haunt her family's secretsevery waking moment. [[The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid Boy at the Door by Tania UnsworthAlex Dahl|Full Review]]
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===[[Ascension Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Victor DixenJean Ure]]===
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Six Second years. The girls, six boys. Each in couldn't believe that they'd made it through 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 onfirst year -board cameras. They are the contenders in the Genesis programmefact they'd all made it, the world's craziest speed-dating show everall eight of them, aimed at creating the first human colony on Marswhich was most unusual. Leonor Usually some were thrown out - they might have grown too tall, an 18 year old orphan, is one of didn't look right or didn't have the chosen onescommitment required. She has signed up 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 glorythat reason. She has signed up for love. She has signed up for a one-way ticket. Even if the dream turns 's now determined that she ''really'' does want to be a nightmareballet dancer, it is too late for regretsexcept... [[Ascension Showtime (Dance Trilogy) by Victor DixenJean Ure|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gravediggers' Bread by Frederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)]]===
===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For SharingCrime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|For SharingThrillers]]
Tungtang Blaise is not like other toads. She canat a loose end, for having left Paris on a wild goose chase for a job, which was his friend't sit stills idea, tongue protrudinghe'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 wait to catch leaves him with a strong impression – as well as a fly. Tungtang needs wallet dropped to be on the move. Sometimesfloor containing several days' good money, and, she even hops right the way over when he tracks her to the rotten tree stump in village funeral directors', signs of her community of Muddy Riverinfidelity. And Lo and behold he is given a job as the woman's husband's assistant, although she loves also starts to employ him in sending messages to regale her fellow toads 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 stories of her exploits. That One isthe lover, until a mean old crow comes along brutish bloke with little prospects and tells Tungtang that a real adventure would take her a lot further than a tree stump by a bridge everyone knowsbad case of epilepsy. Infuriated Surely he will not fall by the crow and inspired by her grandfather's stories of humans and ancient toad prophecieswayside, Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and heads off to surely the town brick wall of Little Cobblestone... fate keeping Blaise from his intended destiny will remain two men tall? [[The Toad Who Loved Tea Gravediggers' Bread by Faiz KermaniFrederic Dard and Melanie Florence (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Poison Bed Boy Underwater by E C FremantleAdam Baron]]===
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The year Cymbeline Igloo (yes, that’s his real name!) is 1615 nine years old, and celebrated couple Robert and Frances Carr have he has never been arrested for murder. She is young, beautifulswimming, and this wouldn’t be a member of really big problem except for the notorious Howard family. He is one of fact that the most powerful men in school bully has somehow got the kingdomimpression that Cym is actually an amazing champion swimmer, risen from nothing yet and has challenged Cym to a race at their very first school swimming lesson! He tries to research swimming on the King's ear. Both of them are suspected internet, but the crime is not as black and white as it seems. Is Frances there’s an innocent or is she accident at the witch so many believe her to be? Is Robert telling the truth when he says he knows nothing pool that, initially, sees Cym embarrassed in front of the murder? In between all these questions is King James Iother kids, for it is but that results in his secret that is at stakemum having a breakdown. One of them is a killer, but who Why has committed she never taken Cym swimming? And why does his accident at the murder pool create such devastation in questionCym’s life? [[The Poison Bed Boy Underwater by E C FremantleAdam Baron|Full Review]]
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===[[Ash Princess Smoking Kills by Laura SebastianAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)]]===
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Meet Fabrice Valantine. He''My name is Theodosia Eirene Houzzaras a headhunter, Queen of Astreaand a successful one too, and I will endure this''in an office in Paris. For the last decadeAll around him however his world is changing – yes, Theodosia has lived at the fragile mercy of her vicious enemiesthere is a new ban on smoking in all workplaces. From the day her beloved country, AstreaGoaded by his non-smoking wife, was invaded by the Kalovaxians and her mothereven though they met over an ashtray, Queen of Flame and Furysorts, was brutally murdered directly he sees a hypnotist who had success with a mutual friend in front stopping their nicotine habit. The session seems to have been successful, however he faces the prospect of herhaving such a change to his own personality, she has been forced into a life of submission his imbued habits and desperate survivallifestyle, with fear, when he realises it will never again grant him any pleasure. He needs this pleasure when further changes at work come about – but it's what he replaces the habit with that will surprise the most. [[Ash Princess Smoking Kills by Laura SebastianAntoine Laurain and Louise Rogers-Lalaurie (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Falling Short The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Lex CoultonHelen Cullen]]===
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Lex Coulton's debut novel William Woolf is a story about mistakesletter detective, failuresworking in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and relationships. The main protagonistreading endless letters of love, Frances Pilgrimguilt, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jacksondeath, a work colleaguehope, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mothereveryday life. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Lex CoultonHelen Cullen|Full Review]]
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===[[The Aladdin Trial by Abi Silver]]===
===[[The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian Conaghan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|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|ThrillersFull Review]]
When elderly hospital patient Barbara Hennessy is found dead on the pavement outside the hospital, a police investigation is launched into whether she jumped or was pushed. Having just have surgery on her foot, there is sufficient grounds to think this was no accident, but the only suspect the police can link to the death is the hospital cleaner, a Syrian refugee, Ahmad Qabbani. Solicitor Constance Lamb and barrister Judith Burton reunite to defend Ahmad, but with an uncooperative hospital staff, Barbara's self interested children and Ahmad keeping secrets, it's going an increasingly difficult task to prove to the jury and the media, that he is innocent. [[The Aladdin Trial by Abi Silver|Full Review]]
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===[[A Demon In Silver The Old Religion by R S FordMartyn Waites]]===
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Take a fantasy world where gods once walked The Cornish village of St Petroc isn't on the land and magic influenced everything for millenniatourist trail: there's nothing particularly pretty, or historic, or interesting about it, where magic was power and which might be one of the entire world was shaped around its influencereasons why Tom Killgannon is there. Then He had been an undercover policeman, overnight, that power was ripped away, sorcerersbut something had gone badly wrong and now he' died instantly s in witness protection and working in the local pub. St Petroc feels safe and magic is never heard it's put a good deal of distance between him and some very violent people. He's got an on-again. Until now. A farm girl from , off-again relationship with the local policewoman, with the middle of nowhere has unleashed raw magic and on-again bits coinciding with the tribal leaders will stop at nothing to control times when herhusband's away. It's not an exciting life, using whatever means necessarybut right now it suits Tom just fine. Can anyone save herUntil he meets Lila, or will they need saving from her? that is. [[A Demon In Silver The Old Religion by R S FordMartyn Waites|Full Review]]
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===[[Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)]]===
===[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionFor Sharing|Literary FictionFor Sharing]]
''This is the mysterious nature The Owen family were feeling sad. There used to be five of storytellingthem. There was Mum, Dad and three children: the same start can also mean different endingsAbi, Jenny and different starts can lead to the same finaleJoe. It's all subordinate to the greater narrative, which starts somewhere in Kiev''But then Abi died. This beautiful book is exactly that, the mysterious art Now there were only four of storytellingthem. The wayward meanderings of memory, of tangents and digressionsLife felt very strange without their sister, of side notes and elaborations, but above they were all that of affection; for both the story and the storytellervery unhappy. 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 grandmother. [[Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|Full Review]]''
How does a family cope with the loss of a beloved child and sibling?[[The Dragonfly Story: Explaining the death of a loved one to children and families by Kelly Owen|Full Review]]  <!-- Drews Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon]]===
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Marsha didn't have an easy ride in life the first time around. She'd been afflicted with [[imagehttps:4//en.5starwikipedia.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]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:TeensMarsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|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 Winthrop -->
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===[[In The Blood Mercy Seat by Ruth ManciniElizabeth H Winthrop]]===
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Bringing up In an isolated Louisiana town, a child on your own is difficult: when that child is severely disabled young black prisoner sits in his dingy cell, staring at the shadow of the window bars cast onto the concrete wall by the obstacles are almost insurmountable and criminal defence lawyer Sarah Kellerman struggles on a daily basis. Ben is nearly five but still canevening't walk or talk and isn't toilet traineds dying sun rays. His main way of communicating is to have a screaming tantrumAt midnight, but he will watch ''Teletubbies'' - be dead; strapped to a chair and electrocuted for hours on endthe rape of a white girl, who later committed suicide. She has sympathy with Ellie when she's charged with trying He is resigned to his fate; it is futile to protest his innocence or to expect anyone to murder her sonbelieve what really happened; after all, firstly by poisoning him love between a black man and them by removing the dialysis line with a white woman was circulating his blood never going to clean it. On the face of it there doesn't seem to be have a happy ending in a lot of chance of fighting the charge - that's certainly what Sarah's boss thinks small town filled with small- but Sarah isn't quite so certainminded people. [[In The Blood Mercy Seat by Ruth ManciniElizabeth H Winthrop|Full Review]]
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===[[Hello, Shadowlands The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Patrick WinnTania Unsworth]]===
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Stella''Hello, Shadowlands'' chronicles s mother died when she was a booming crime wave in South East Asialittle girl. It illuminates everything from the meth industry Stella is growing up in Myanmar a house with her dad, who is often away, and her grandmother, who is starting to experience the abortion pill black market in the Philippines using both Winn's personal accounts and historical contextonset of dementia. It This is devastating to imagine all hard enough for a young girl, but at the very real human lives same time Stella finds that are swept up she feels like rather an oddball, struggling to fit in this cloud of refuseat school, and how the West helped create it 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 is doing nothing to prevent ituncover her family's secrets. [[Hello, Shadowlands The Girl Who Thought Her Mother Was a Mermaid by Patrick WinnTania Unsworth|Full Review]]
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===[[Hunted Ascension by G X ToddVictor Dixen]]===
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''Do you not sometimes think Six girls, six boys. Each in the two separate bays of a storm is coming?'' ''Hunted'' continues where 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''Voices'' series left offs craziest speed-dating show ever, with our heroine 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. Even if the run without anyone dream turns to defend her whilst the world around her a nightmare, it is descending into chaostoo late for regrets. [[Ascension by Victor Dixen|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 Kermani -->
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===[[Across the Divide by Anne Booth]]===
===[[The Toad Who Loved Tea by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFor Sharing|Confident ReadersFor Sharing]]
Tungtang is not like other toads. She can''I want all children to know that they CAN already make the world a better placet sit still, and that there are other peopletongue protruding, now and in history and in fictionwait to catch a fly. Tungtang needs to be on the move. Sometimes, who stand alongside them she even hops right the way over to the rotten tree stump in thisher community of Muddy River.''This And she loves to regale her fellow toads with stories of her exploits. That is what author Anne Booth said about , 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 inspiration behind crow and inspired by her latest childrengrandfather's book stories of humans and this thoughtful story about familyancient toad prophecies, friendship Tungtang decides on a Real Adventure and being brave enough to speak up for what you believe should help heads off to achieve this. In Across the Divide she cleverly combines current issues regarding peace and conflict and the history town 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 adultsLittle Cobblestone... [[Across the Divide The Toad Who Loved Tea by Anne BoothFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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