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===[[Staying On Unrest by C M TaylorJesper Stein]]===
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Tony Metcalfe DCI Steen is assigned a Yorkshireman through and through and being honest, Yorkshire's where he'd really like to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, puzzling case – the tortured body of a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but he's living in left there during a riot – a mountain village just beyond riot that had the Costa Verde and running a pubarea swarming in police. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it How could anyone have been murdered and return to left in the UK, what open with so many police on site? Unless the uncertainty killer is one of Brexit them… As the case becomes more and everythingmore complicated, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back it soon begins to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's take a backstory there thattoll on Steen's not being talked aboutalready troubled personal life. Then thereHe won's t stop until the pubkiller is caught, which isn't doing well enough to sellwhatever the consequences. In fact Tony's cleaning But the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order consequences may turn out to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meet. be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Staying On Unrest by C M TaylorJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]===
[[image:4starEven with a birthday fast approaching, I'm still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one, and it does involve leaving the 9 to 5 behind for a yacht and the silky blue waters of the Caribbean, but only for a year, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Also, I like work. My job is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters and it's not badly rewarded. So no, I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of this book is about planning (and if not now, then when?) I was still intrigued.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Rockstar Retirement Programme:Category:TeensHow to retire like a rockstar by Dominic Watson|TeensFull Review]]
Jess is in a meeting with Dr Harrison, the school counsellor. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come to terms with the death of her room-mate, Hanna. But he's not having much success, largely because Jess has no intention of telling him how she feels. Instead, she feigns a grief she does not feel so that he is satisfied and she gets out of there as quickly as possible. [[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton|Full Review]] <!-- Nadin Lynda La Plante -->
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===[[Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Lynda La Plante]]===
===[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin]]=== [[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]]
Bridie It was February 1979 in the strike- Birdy - Jones is eleven and finding life rather hardridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a body was discovered in Peckham. After her mother died, it used It was to be just Birdy and Dad and that was okaythe first of two bodies in two days, but now there's Birdy, Dad, the first - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. The second - an overbearing step mum, a little sister and another baby on older lady - was found in the wayboot of her car by her son. There's precious little room for Birdy any more Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the only place she really feels happy midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and secure is at her grandfather's pigeon loftpressure to get a quick result. Birdy loves pigeons. She loves caring for them, training them, Four days later and releasing them another body to wait for them add to find the count, the police have named their way homesuspect, but Tennison has her doubts. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Joanna NadinLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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Elizabeth Klehfoth's debut novel is a mystery thriller written from As the Officer in Charge of the Historic Cases Unit, DCI Karen Pirie rarely finds herself at the perspective scene of Charlie Callowaythe crime, a teenage girl but for once, she's in her final years the right place at boarding school who the right time when a body is plagued by her mother’s disappearancedug up in the Highlands. As Initially it looks as though the story progresses she begins to learn more about what happened death dates back to her motherWWII, finding out along but the way fact that not everyone was who the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the case is Karen's. A little while later she thought they were. Titled 'd come to think that she'All These Beautiful Strangersd been in the wrong place at the wrong time when she overheard a conversation in a cafe. Intervening, she thought that she'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers tood prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to haunt her. [[All These Beautiful Strangers Broken Ground by Elizabeth KlehfothVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls Half Moon Bay by Carrie Hope FletcherAlice LaPlante]]===
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A thoroughly, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from the first page and takes you Half Moon Bay is a small town on a roller coaster ride towards the last. Fletcher weaves together a dash of ''Whodunit'' the thrill west coast of romanceAmerica, (the course of which never runs smoothly,) and an unpredictable ghosta little down from San Francisco. The ghost appears once a year, the principal star of her very own showJane has just moved there, to meet with the love of start a new life after losing everything when her life teenage daughter was killed and re-enact her deathhusband left her. A tragic accident with Although she has begun to find a little peace in the roots buried deep within the whole array of human nature. Lovequiet, joyseaside town, careone day a child goes missing, friendshipbringing back painful memories for Jane of her grief and loss and, jealousyalso, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stagerousing the suspicions of the local townsfolk that she is somehow involved in the disappearance.[[Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Teens|TeensPhantom by Leo Hunt]]===
Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isn't very good at it at all[[image:4star. Lending freely and rarely collecting, he leaves the family on the edge of poverty, until Miryem must step in. Hardening her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagers, she becomes a person of great interest when she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from her Grandfather and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creatures, from the dark beings that haunt the wood through to a King who's eager to exploit Miryem's talents – she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik: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]] <!-- Hall Claire Askew -->
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===[[The Party All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Lisa HallClaire Askew]]===
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Rachel wakes up in As a strange bedroomnews item, with school shootings always terrify me: the worst hangover shedeaths are bad enough, but even the young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the fact that this was done to them by one of their number. It doesn's ever had and no memory of t end on the night beforeday, either. And even though she has no memory, she knows at School shootings cast a very long shadow. May the 14th had the core makings of her being that something very bad has happened a normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to her at her neighbour's New Year's Eve party. But with everyone there appearing to be hiding something shoot thirteen fellow students - and no one giving her a straight answer last bullet to her questionskill himself. We follow the story through the lives of three women: Moira Summers, the mother of the murderer, Helen Birch, the newly-promoted detective inspector who will Rachel ever find out what happened at investigate the party? killings and Ishbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of the victims. [[The Party All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Lisa HallClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Fred Van LenteRachel Aaron]]===
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Comic-Cons are a place of wonder ''You want me to be like everyone else and sanctuary for many peoplespend my life hiding inside the walls where it's safe, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, hebut that's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his exan illusion. However, when his rival So long as there are titans out there… no one is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]safe''
In the dystopian world of Attack on Titan, humanity hides behind the safety of high impenetrable walls to keep out the enemies outside. Known as titans, these enemies are impossibly tall human like creatures, with sharp hungry teeth and regenerative powers. 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… [[Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Full Review]]  <!-- Tonkin Bennett -->
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===[[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Island by Boyd TonkinM A Bennett]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ReferenceTeens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|ReferenceGeneral Fiction]]
Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say itA contemporary take on the savage classic 's impossible – that if a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as Lord of the introduction here so smartly puts it – Flies'': a privileged means group of passing border postsmismatched, modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a sort fish out of universal passport issued by that Utopian statewater. Newly arrived from America, he is finding it hard to settle into the Republic of Letters''venerable and prestigious Osney School. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading understand? And what we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one kind of those list books about school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the subjectschool quad - however ancient that quad may be? I got given a book When Link runs the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I dieslowest time in years, and I might even then have missed out a zerohe immediately becomes the butt of every school joke. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday And some students are determined to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thingmake his life more miserable than others... Should it take our time? [[The 100 Best Novels in Translation Island by Boyd TonkinM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan Colour Me In by Dr Nat TanohLydia Ruffles]]===
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Saga is eighteen Reeling from a tragedy andunable to cope, like many eighteen-year olds, his prime concerns are listening unemployed actor Arlo decides to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts of food, and learning about girls. Living in an affluent, liberal and protected suburb, he has get on a good life. However, the suburb is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When his friends plane and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionarygo somewhere new. Can chubby Saga really stand up to a murderous regime? And can he stay one step ahead of the soldiers desperate to stop him? [[The Day of the Orphan Colour Me In by Dr Nat TanohLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott]]===
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[[image:5starWhen Inspector Inès Picaut is called to investigate the horrific murder of a strikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's 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 time when the men and women of 1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] As more and more secrets come to light, Inès discovers that there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[:Category:Confident ReadersA Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott|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 Rutger -->
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===[[The Great Believers Anomaly by Rebecca MakkaiMichael Rutger]]===
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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 ''The Great Believersan anomaly'' follows a group only to (spoilers) actually find one. Imagine if, instead of friends whose lives are devastated being scared by the AIDS crisis in Chicago during the late 1980’s. Beginning in 1985their own acting, the reader follows Yale Derek Acorah and his friends as they come to terms with the increasingly virulent illness spreading throughout their community, alongside their demonisation at Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is the hands starting point of a conservative Americathis book. Thirty years later Fiona, Deep in a devoted friend to Yale, is searching for her estranged daughter on cave within the streets Grand Canyon our team of Paris, trying to rebuild adventurers find themselves trapped in a relationship beset by memories Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and old hurtconspiracy thrown into the blend. [[The Great Believers Anomaly by Rebecca MakkaiMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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===[[The Boy Who Hit Play Water Thief by Chloe DaykinClaire Hajaj]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a children's hospital. He has no idea what he is getting himself into. [[The Water Thief by Claire Hajaj|Confident ReadersFull 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 Peter Lovesey -->
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===[[Russian Roulette Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Sara SheridanPeter Lovesey]]===
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It makes a pleasant change to have a female detective who isnChildren love wrecking balls, so the young lad wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to watch one hit a slightly eccentric grandma, building through one of those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the dust settled a world-weary cop with as many hang-upsskeleton, bad habits sitting in an armchair and family traumas as her male colleagues, or clad in clothes which looked to be a slickfew hundred years old, skinny, sharp-shooting type who lives was visible in a the loft of the half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and works out in hurried the gym after work, boxing with (and trouncing) every big burly bloke they can throw at herboy away. Mirabelle may have somehow got herself involved in crime-fighting, with all the requisite tropes of climbing through unguarded windows, contacts who are Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not one hundred per cent on so lucky. Viewing the right side of the lawcorpse from a cherry picker, and a refusal an unfortunate adjustment to faint at the sight of bloodcontrols left him eye to, but she iser, as everyone around her will attest, first eye socket with the corpse and foremost a lady. Indeed, the first encounter we have with her in this, the sixth book in this excellent series, sees her giving picture was caught by a police superintendent an icy stare for his lack of mannerspress photographer. No matter what the life-and-death crisis, there's no reason It was too good not to be polite, is there? go viral. [[Russian Roulette Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Sara SheridanPeter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Steven RamirezKatherine Webber]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorTeens|HorrorTeens]]
In Though it's been 5 years since Mika died, Reiko still sees the third and final part ghost of the her sister every day, forever 14. It''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' seriess something that brings her comfort, Dave Pulaski is headed but also a constant reminder that she has to Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retributionmake up for being one when there should have been two. With the events She has to shine bright enough for both of book two still weighing heavily on Davethem. When she befriends outsider Seth, he struggles against presents her with an escape. From her family, her friends, the rage burning inside him grief and saves Sasha – a young escapee from the secret testing facilityloss that continue to scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. As events come to a climaxAfter all, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alivewouldn't fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make escape that he represents from her grief, it out of this alive? And what kind of world will he have left? 's not so clear that she's falling in love with him. [[Even The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Steven RamirezKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven Ramirez]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersBone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]===
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[[image:4. But things only get worse – with the virus mutating, and the infected getting smarter5star. 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? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dead Is All You Get: Book Two of Tell Me When I'm Dead by Steven RamirezCategory: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]] <!-- Ramirez Rajaniemi -->
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===[[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Summerland by Steven RamirezHannu Rajaniemi]]===
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A recovering alcoholic, Dave Pulaski has had Imagine a long road world in which death was no longer something to recovery, fear but finally feels like he's getting his life backsomething to aspire to. Then - a plague hits After discovery of the townafterlife, turning the majority of British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, the Big Smoke for the recently deceased. In 1938 the population into flesh-hungry monsters who crave British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and dealing with a mole buried deep in the taste heart of humansSummerland. Fighting When Rachel White, an ambitious SIS agent, becomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, she must decide how far she is willing to survive - Dave's urge to hide away go and drink how much she is strong - will he fight willing to live when risk to uncover the chances of survival are so slim? With the hordes of the undead growing and the security forces outnumbered, it seems that hell has arrived for Dave..truth. [[Tell Me When I'm Dead: Book One of Tell Me When I'm Dead Summerland by Steven RamirezHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The Gilded Ones Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Brooke FieldhouseK D Knight]]===
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It was In the opening story a hot day man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, but comes away with cash in 1984 his pocket - and Pulse had two job interviews for the day, but the heat wasnhis wife. In ''t the only reason why he wasnA Grey Day't feeling on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream an owner struggles with the night before. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult route, probably somewhere problem of whether or not to run his horse in the Alps Gold Cup when the Porsche went off the roadground is against him. The passenger, a man, was dead, but the woman My favourite was still alive. ''I'm Freia...The Story of H'', she saidthe story of Foinavon. ''It's spelled the German wayH is depicted as a kind horse who only wanted to please people.'' Of After changing hands on various occasions he came to 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 careeryard of John Kempton. The second H (or Foinavon) was with a run-down practice based entered in an old London house the Grand National and headed by Patrick Lloydconsidered a no-Lewis, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstanceshoper. The link with In one of the dream most dramatic runnings of the night before was too much for Pulse to refuse race, a pile up occured at the offer of a job23rd fence. He couldn't resist Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and galloped to the line, winning the lure race at odds of the mystery100/1. [[Going To The Gilded Ones Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Brooke FieldhouseK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[Speaking Up by Allyson Jule]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular ScienceFor Sharing|Popular ScienceFor 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!''
'Speaking Up' has Biriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a fascinating subject matter - how language reflects and shapes our notions of genderhome there, including frogs. It looks at our use of language in media, education, religionFor some reason that nobody can remember, all the workplace and personal relationshipsLake Ticklewater frogs are blue. Author Allyson Jule calls on an encyclopedic body They think nothing of research from it. So, when Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, the mid twentieth century first Ticklewater frog to the present day. Reading itmanage such a feat, we feel that she has studied everything that has ever been said on gendered linguistics; she references Foucault he is filled with excitement and his only worry is how much he will miss his friends and the Kardashians with equal rigourfamily. [[Speaking Up The Frog Who Was Blue by Allyson JuleFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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