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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Unrest by Boyd TonkinJesper Stein]]===
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Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – that if the tortured body of a man found in a book was so good cemetery in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', Copenhagen but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's left there during a riot – a market riot that has actually doubled had the area swarming in sales volume between 2000 police. How could anyone have been murdered and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, left in translation, are – as the introduction here open with so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means many police on site? Unless the killer is one of passing border poststhem… As the case becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters'toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. We here at the He won'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to t stop until the translatorkiller is caught, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our handswhatever the consequences. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and I might even then have missed consequences may turn out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thing. Should it take our time? be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Unrest by Boyd TonkinJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dr Nat TanohDominic Watson]]===
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Saga is eighteen andEven with a birthday fast approaching, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening I'm still a bit young to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of food, and learning be reading about girlsretirement. Living My next life change in an affluentthe pipeline will be a big one, liberal and protected suburbit does involve leaving the 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and the silky blue waters of the Caribbean, he has but only for a good lifeyear, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. HoweverAlso, the suburb I like work. My job is in Africainteresting, I get to travel, where childhoods can be snatched in an instantwhat we do matters and it's not badly rewarded. When his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives underSo no, he is forced I'm not planning to become an unlikely revolutionaryretire just yet. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead But as the premise of the soldiers desperate to stop himthis book is about planning (and if not now, then when? ) I was still intrigued. [[The Day of the Orphan Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dr Nat TanohDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lynda La Plante]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:5starIt was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a body was discovered in Peckham. It was to be the first of two bodies in two days, but the first - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of her car by her son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a quick result. Four days later and another body to add to the count, the police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubts.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersMurder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lynda La Plante|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Fionn is off to spend some time with his grandfather on the island of Arranmore. His older sister Tara is going with him. Tara is well into adolescence and she can be quite dismissive of her rather green younger brother. The siblings need some time away because their mother isn't coping well with the death of their father and needs time alone to get better. Grandfather is a strange, eccentric old man who lives in a tiny cottage full of candles. He has a crabby but wicked sense of humour and sometimes has trouble keeping hold of his memories. But he makes the candles dance and his eyes contain depths that hold the secret of the seas. [[The Storm Keeper’s Island by Catherine Doyle|Full Review]]<!-- Makkai Val McDermid -->
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===[[The Great Believers Broken Ground by Rebecca MakkaiVal McDermid]]===
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As the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the scene of the crime, but for once, she''The Great Believers'' follows s in the right place at the right time when a group of friends whose lives are devastated by the AIDS crisis body is dug up in Chicago during the late 1980’sHighlands. Beginning in 1985 Initially it looks as though the death dates back to WWII, but the reader follows Yale and his friends as they fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the case is Karen's. A little while later she'd come to terms with think that she'd been in the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation wrong place at the hands of wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a conservative Americacafe. Thirty years later Fiona Intervening, she thought that she'd prevented a devoted friend crime, but what she said would come back to Yale, is searching for haunt her estranged daughter on the streets of Paris, trying to rebuild a relationship beset by memories and old hurt. [[The Great Believers Broken Ground by Rebecca MakkaiVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Half Moon Bay by Chloe DaykinAlice LaPlante]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Half Moon Bay is a small town on the west coast of America, a little down from San Francisco. Jane has just moved there, to start a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and her husband left her. Although she has begun to find a little peace in the quiet, seaside town, one day a child goes missing, bringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and loss and, also, rousing the suspicions of the local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the disappearance. [[Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante|Full Review]]
Elvis Crampton Lucas was found, as a baby, on a bench at the zoo. He knows little else about himself, other than that's where his father found him one day and he took him home and named him after the first three vinyl records he took down from the shelf! Elvis' life has been a happy one, but as his twelfth birthday comes around he finds himself suddenly wanting to know, and needing to know, the truth about who left him on the bench and why. Elvis' quest takes him far away, to a new country, facing challenges he'd never imagined in his desire to know the truth. [[The Boy Who Hit Play by Chloe Daykin|Full Review]]<!-- Sheridan Hunt -->
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===[[Russian Roulette by Sara Sheridan]]===
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It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isn't a slightly eccentric grandma, a world-weary cop with as many hang-ups, bad habits and family traumas as her male colleagues, or a slick, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives in a loft and works out in the gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at her[[image:4star. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are not one hundred per cent on the right side of the law, and a refusal to faint at the sight of blood, but she is, as everyone around her will attest, first and foremost a lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her in this, the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of manners. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason not to be polite, is there? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Russian Roulette by Sara Sheridan:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a leecher - a futuristic kind of pickpocket who uses tech hacks to steal byts from hapless corps workers. The higher up in the city you live, the more sunlight you see and the easier your life. For leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, life is tough. But with the help of the hacking program Phantom, invented by legendary anti-corps hacker the Moth, Nova can sneak up to the city, leech some byts and at least make rent. v[[Phantom by Leo Hunt|Full Review]] <!-- Ramirez Claire Askew -->
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Steven RamirezClaire Askew]]===
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In As a news item, school shootings always terrify me: the deaths are bad enough, but even the young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the third and final part fact that this was done to them by one of their number. It doesn't end on the ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' seriesday, Dave Pulaski is headed either. School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of being a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to Los Angeles – seeking revenge shoot thirteen fellow students - and retributionone last bullet to kill himself. With We follow the events story through the lives of book two still weighing heavily on Davethree women: Moira Summers, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and saves Sasha – a young escapee from mother of the secret testing facility. As events come to a climaxmurderer, Helen Birch, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an exthe newly-military sociopath promoted detective inspector who will investigate the killings and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims aliveIshbel Hodgekiss, the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out mother of this alive? And what kind one of world will he have left? the victims. [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Steven RamirezClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Steven RamirezRachel Aaron]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] ''You want me to be like everyone else and spend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, but that's an illusion. So long as there are titans out there… no one is safe''
[[image:4In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside.5starKnown as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]Difficult to kill and innumerable they roam the Earth looking for prey, and whilst the walls have always kept them out, that has begun to change… [[:Category:ThrillersGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|ThrillersFull Review]]
Still battling the zombie hordes who first appeared in ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'', Dave Pulaski thinks his prayers have been answered when the Black Dragon Security team show up to rescue him and his wife Holly. But things only get worse – with the virus mutating, and the infected getting smarter. When Dave discovers the truth behind the contagion it will drive him past all limits of faith or reason – but will he able to manage dealing with this knowledge whilst protecting Holly and those closest to him? [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez|Full Review]]
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Island by Steven RamirezM A Bennett]]===
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A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had a long road to recovery, but finally feels like hecontemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the Flies''s getting his life back. Then - : a plague hits the towngroup of mismatched, turning the majority of the population into fleshmodern-hungry monsters who crave the taste of humans. Fighting day teenagers must fight to survive - Dave's urge to hide away and drink on a deserted island. Link is strong - will a fish out of water. Newly arrived from America, he fight is finding it hard to live when settle into the chances of survival are venerable and prestigious Osney School. Who knew there could be so slimmany strange traditions to understand? With the hordes And what kind of school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the undead growing and school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the security forces outnumberedslowest time in years, it seems that hell has arrived for Davehe immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead The Island by Steven RamirezM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Gilded Ones Colour Me In by Brooke FieldhouseLydia Ruffles]]===
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It was Reeling from a hot day in 1984 tragedy and Pulse had two job interviews for the dayunable to cope, but the heat wasn't the only reason why he wasn't feeling unemployed actor Arlo decides to get on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream the night before. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult route, probably plane and go somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the road. The passenger, a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia...'', she said. ''It's spelled the German way.'' Of the two job interviews, the first was with an up-and-coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's career. The second was with a run-down practice based in an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewis, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with the dream of the night before was too much for Pulse to refuse the offer of a job. He couldn't resist the lure of the mysterynew. [[The Gilded Ones Colour Me In by Brooke FieldhouseLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up A Treachery of Spies by Allyson JuleManda Scott]]===
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When Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she'Speaking Ups puzzled – whilst the identity of the woman has been erased, it' s clear that she has been killed in the same way that traitors to the resistance were executed in World War Two. Solving the mystery will lead Inès deep into the history of this woman – and back to a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects time when the men and shapes our notions of gender. It looks at our use women of language 1940s France were engaged in mediaa desperate, education, religion, the workplace brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. As more and personal relationships. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body of research from the mid twentieth century more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present day. Reading it, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault who would rather their past stay buried – and the Kardashians with equal rigour. many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[Speaking Up A Treachery of Spies by Allyson JuleManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[You Were Made for This The Anomaly by Michelle SacksMichael Rutger]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
I'm not really sure what to say about this book. It was a really good psychological thriller with plenty of twists and turns but unfortunately it just wasn't really my cup of tea[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[You Were Made for This by Michelle Sacks:Category:Horror|Full ReviewHorror]]
Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X-Files episode, for the Youtube era. Join the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly'' only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the starting point of this book. Deep in a cave within the Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend. [[The Anomaly by Michael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart The Water Thief by John WebleyClaire Hajaj]]===
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George Engleheart was one of Nick is in the leading portrait miniaturists middle of Georgian wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London, with and take up a career lasting from post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the 1770s to the Regency erabuilding of a children's hospital. He was also one of the most prolific, painting nearly 5,000 miniatures altogether (over twenty of them being of King George III). Throughout most of that time has no idea what he carefully recorded the names of each of his clients, and subsequently transcribed them is getting himself into what is referred to as his fee book. [[G Engleheart Pinxit 1805: A year in the life of George Engleheart The Water Thief by John WebleyClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[The Mapmakers' Race Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Eirlys HunterPeter Lovesey]]===
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ItChildren love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn's easily done. You nip off t going to fill everyone's water bottles, and your mum starts pass up the opportunity to fret watch one hit a building through one of those very tempting holes in case fencing which you don't make it back before find around building sites. The problem was that when the train leaves. Mum gets off dust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to find yoube a few hundred years old, you make it back was visible in good time but she doesnthe loft of the half-demolished building. The lad't, s father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and hey prestohurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. Viewing the corpse from a cherry picker, four children and a parrot disappearing into an unfortunate adjustment to the unknown controls left him eye to, er, eye socket with no money, no home the corpse and the picture was caught by a press photographer. It was too good not a parent in sightto go viral. [[The Mapmakers' Race Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Eirlys HunterPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[The Death of Mrs Westaway Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ruth WareKatherine Webber]]===
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IThough it've only just got into psychological thrillers sos been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the ghost of her sister every day, forever 14. It's something that brings her comfort, despite but also a constant reminder that she has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough for both of them. When she befriends outsider Seth, he presents her with an international best-sellerescape. From her family, her friends, author Ruth Ware has passed me by until nowthe grief and loss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all, who wouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? Butwhile she falls in love with the escape that he represents from her grief, I can see why it's not so clear that she's much acclaimed as I absolutely loved this book and can't wait to get started on her previous three books nowfalling in love with him. [[The Death of Mrs Westaway Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Ruth WareKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport]]===
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The basic facts about the deaths of Nicholas and Alexandra, some of which were deliberately obscured at the time for various reasons, have long since been established[[image:4. For the last few months of their lives in Russia the former Tsar and Tsarina, their children and few remaining servants, were held in increasingly squalid, humiliating captivity. To prevent them from being rescued, in July 1918 the revolutionary regime had them all shot and bayoneted to death in circumstances which, once the news was confirmed beyond all doubt, horrified their relatives in Europe5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen RappaportCategory:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
Samkad is living high up in the mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the twentieth. But Samkad has no idea about any of that. He has never met anyone from outside his own small tribe and his thoughts are focused on becoming a man. He's desperate for the Elders to permit him to join the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay|Full Review]] <!-- Durrant Rajaniemi -->
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===[[Take Me In Summerland by Sabine DurrantHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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It's not pleasant, the first time Marcus and Tessa meet Dave. They've taken their toddler, Josh, to Greece on holiday and Imagine a world in the blink of an eye which death was no longer something awful happens. Tessa isn't there, Marcus isn't looking, to fear but Dave steps in and disaster is averted. Justsomething to aspire to. They're grateful to him, After discovery of course they arethe afterlife, but after the usual hand shakes and weeping hugs and British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the offer to buy lunch Big Smoke for everyone, they're a little relieved to return to their villa and live out the rest of their week in peacerecently deceased. Just a tight little 3-person family unit. Because although Dave In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a nice chap, race against Soviet spies and although dealing with a mole buried deep in the heart of course they owe him a great dealSummerland. When Rachel White, he is a littlean ambitious SIS agent, wellbecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, intenseshe must decide how far she is willing to go and how much she is willing to risk to uncover the truth. [[Take Me In Summerland by Sabine DurrantHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Elisabeth HydeK D Knight]]===
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EightyIn the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in his pocket -one-year-old Murray Blaire hoped for the best when he waited for and his three children to arrive one Friday nightwife. He might be a retired lawyer, a state legislator, elected congressman and now In ''A Grey Day'' an amateur farmer but he knew that there could be trouble owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Gold Cup when Ruth and George arrivedthe ground is against him. RuthMy favourite was ''The Story of H'', the story of Foinavon. H is depicted as a corporate lawyer, would find fault and want kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to talk about him going into a retirement homethe yard of John Kempton. George, a nurse, would argue H (or Foinavon) was entered in the Grand National and Lizzie, considered a professor no-hoper. In one of English Literaturethe most dramatic runnings of the race, who lived locally and kept and visited him regularly, would be unpredictablea pile up occured at the 23rd fence. Murray hoped that all would go smoothlyFoinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, but that simply wasn't going cleared the fence and galloped to happenthe line, winning the race at odds of 100/1. [[Go Ask Fannie Farmer Going To The Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Elisabeth HydeK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[Riddle of the Runes by Janina Ramirez]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFor Sharing|Confident ReadersFor Sharing]] ''Biriwita the blue frog longs to be accepted at Croak College, the most famous school for frogs in Malawi, but the other students all turn their backs on him. He is just too different!''
The name Janina Ramirez is well known: her television programmes on cultural historyBiriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, especially of early medieval timesincluding frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, all the Lake Ticklewater frogs are both lively and informativeblue. They think nothing of it. She shares her extensive learning with So, when Biriwita wins a light hand (and place at Croak College, the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a frequent giggle) feat, he is filled with excitement and her enthusiasm encourages students and viewers alike to explore further the subjects she discusses. But his only worry is how much he will that translate into children's fiction? Will her academic desire for accuracy make the story dull miss his friends and fact-packed? Will she hold up the action to display her considerable knowledge? Nope, not a bit of it! family. [[Riddle of the Runes The Frog Who Was Blue by Janina RamirezFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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