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===[[The Story Keeper Unrest by Anna MazzolaJesper Stein]]===
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Audrey, DCI Steen is assigned a complex mix puzzling case – the tortured body of flights a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot that had the area swarming in police. How could anyone have been murdered and left in the open with so many police on site? Unless the killer is one of fancy them… As the case becomes more and seriousness, wanting, needingmore complicated, it soon begins to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from take a toll on Steen's already troubled personal life. He won't stop until the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning killer is controlled by her fathercaught, who only once in his life threw caution to whatever the wind and married way beneath him for loveconsequences. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned But the consequences may turn out to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is be greater than expected. – especially for Axel himself… [[The Story Keeper Unrest by Anna MazzolaJesper Stein|Full Review]]
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===[[Four Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Andy JonesDominic Watson]]===
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Friends are niceEven 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 couple friends are doubly nice, giving you like minded people it does involve leaving the 9 to spend time with. A pair 5 behind for a yacht and the silky blue waters of pairsthe Caribbean, or but only for a couple of couplesyear, and then I will be back, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still to come. Married couple Sally and Al have known Mike for ages – Sally from universityAlso, Al through I like work. His new girlfriend Faye completes their foursome My job is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters and though she doesnit't have their shared historys not badly rewarded. So no, sheI's a lot of fun – a bit younger than m not planning to retire just yet. But as the rest premise of themthis book is about planning (and if not now, an actress and so onthen when?) I was still intrigued. [[Four Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Andy JonesDominic Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[An Italian Summer Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Fanny BlakeLynda La Plante]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's FictionCrime|Women's FictionCrime]]
Set against It was February 1979 in the backdrop of Rome and Naples, ten very different people meet on a small strike-ridden 'Taste Winter of ItalyDiscontent' sightseeing trip. This is when a story of family, friendships and relationships – my favouritebody was discovered in Peckham. However, it It was a departure from to be the usual formulaic chicklit I normally read focused on sassy independent female characters first of two bodies in their twenties or thirtiestwo days, but the first - that of a young woman - would remain unidentified for some time. Here the characters are middle The second - an older lady -aged with children was found in their twenties and rather than looking for love they are facing different life challenges the boot of maintaining love, empty nest syndrome, her car by her son. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant and finds herself in the loss midst of loved onesan investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a quick result. Essentially it is a story of breaking out Four days later and new beginningsanother body to add to the count, the police have named their suspect, but Tennison has her doubts. [[An Italian Summer Murder Mile (Jane Tennison 4) by Fanny BlakeLynda La Plante|Full Review]]
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===[[Believe Me Broken Ground by J P DelaneyVal McDermid]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Claire Wright wanted to be an actressAs 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 was penniless and living 's in the right place at the right time when a body is dug up in New Yorkthe Highlands. She might have had a scholarship Initially it looks as though the death dates back to cover her school feesWWII, but the fact that the dead man is wearing a pair of Nikes means that the case is Karen's. A little while later she still had 'd come to find the money to live think that she'd been in one of the most expensive cities in wrong place at the world. There was a solution, although it didn't provide a regular income: wrong time when she became overheard a decoy for conversation in a firm of divorce lawyerscafe. The job was to trap straying husbands and tape them as they propositioned her. There were rules though: Intervening, she thought that she couldn't hit on them directly - they had d prevented a crime, but what she said would come back to proposition haunt her. There was no intention to trap the innocent. [[Believe Me Broken Ground by J P DelaneyVal McDermid|Full Review]]
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===[[Hell's Unveiling Half Moon Bay by Laura SolomonAlice LaPlante]]===
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A little while ago I really enjoyed [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and I was delighted by Half Moon Bay is a small town on the opportunity to read the sequelwest coast of America, ''Hell's Unveiling''a little down from San Francisco. It's probably not much of a spoiler to say that Marsha bested the devil in ''Marsha's Deal''Jane has just moved there, but the devil is not one to take defeat lying downstart a new life after losing everything when her teenage daughter was killed and her husband left her. He's out Although she has begun to wage war on Planet Earth and particularly on Marsha (who's thought of as find a 'goody two shoes' little peace in Hell). Although the quiet, seaside town, one day a strong personchild goes missing, she's vulnerable where bringing back painful memories for Jane of her foster children are concerned. Daniel is framed for a crime he didn't commit grief and sent to juvenile detention loss and refused permission to return to live with Marsha. Then, of course there are all also, rousing the other children who are not only targeted, but - worst suspicions of all - subverted to the devil's evil ends. He's out to prey on their fears and weaknesses and as with many foster children, their self esteem local townsfolk that she is very fragile. This is no small-scale operation, either - somehow involved in the devil has set up a training complex on earth, complete with an elevator to Helldisappearance. [[Hell's Unveiling Half Moon Bay by Laura SolomonAlice LaPlante|Full Review]]
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===[[A Necessary Murder by M J Tjia]]===
===[[Phantom by Leo Hunt]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)Teens|Crime (Historical)Teens]]
It's 1863 Sixteen-year-old Nova is an undercity dweller and a little girl has been found murdered at 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 family home in Stoke Newingtoneasier your life. A few days later and a few miles across LondonFor leechers like Nova, four hundred storeys below the surface, a man life is found dead in a similar way outside tough. But with the opulent townhouse help of Heloise Chanceythe hacking program Phantom, courtesan and partinvented by legendary anti-time detective. Could they be connected? And whatcorps hacker the Moth, if anything, does either of them have Nova can sneak up to do with Heloise's maid, Amah Li Leenthe city, leech some byts and the troubling events in her past which are threatening to resurface?at least make rent. v[[A Necessary Murder Phantom by M J TjiaLeo Hunt|Full Review]]
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===[[Apollo All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsClaire Askew]]===
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This incredible graphic novel is As a love letter to news item, school shootings always terrify me: the Moon landings and deaths are bad enough, but even the passion for young people who survive are always going to be scarred by the subject drips off every Apollo fact that this was done to them by Matt Fitchone of their number. It doesn't end on the day, Chris Baker and Mike Collinseither. This is School shootings cast a story we know well and because very long shadow. May the 14th had the makings of this the authors take being a few narrative shortcuts knowing that we can fill in normal day until Ryan Summers used three modified starting pistols to shoot thirteen fellow students - and one last bullet to kill himself. We follow the blanks. These shortcuts are story through the only downside to lives of three women: Moira Summers, the book. If you've ever read a comic book adaptation mother of a film you the murderer, Helen Birch, the newly-promoted detective inspector who will be familiar with investigate the slight feeling that there are scenes missing killings and that dialogue has been trimmed. This is a graphic novel that could easily have been three times as long and still felt too shortIshbel Hodgekiss, the mother of one of the victims. [[Apollo All the Hidden Truths (Three Rivers) by Matt Fitch, Chris Baker and Mike CollinsClaire Askew|Full Review]]
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===[[The War in the Dark Garrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Nick SetchfieldRachel 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:Fantasy|Fantasy]]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:Science FictionGarrison Girl (Attack on Titan) by Rachel Aaron|Science FictionFull Review]]
Europe – 1963. The world is used to the constant tensions between the West and Russia, with the Cold War a seemingly never ending threat in the lives of everyday people. What they don't know however, is that the real cold war is fought on the borders of this world, far from prying eyes at the edges of the light. British Intelligence agent Christopher Winter is forced to flee London when an assassination attempt goes horribly wrong, and is forced into a tense, unwelcome alliance with the lethal Karina Lazarova. As the threats rise, Christopher finds himself caught in a quest for centuries old hidden knowledge – an occult secret that will give instant supremacy to whichever nation possesses it. Racing against the enemy, Christopher is taken from ruins in Bavaria through to the haunted Hungarian border, all in search of something unholy – born of the power of white fire and black glass. It's a world of treachery, blood and magic. A world at war in the dark. [[The War in the Dark by Nick Setchfield|Full Review]]
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===[[Run Wild The Island by Gill LewisM A Bennett]]===
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Meet Izzy and Asha. Bullied away from A contemporary take on the savage classic ''Lord of the local attempt at Flies'': a skateparkgroup of mismatched, they find modern-day teenagers must fight to survive on a deserted island. Link is a huge waste ground in the shadow fish out of a derelict gasometer to practise on, which they duly dowater. Newly arrived from America, even though they have he is finding it hard to drag Izzy's younger brother with themsettle into the venerable and prestigious Osney School. The following day they all want Who knew there could be so many strange traditions to return, as does the brother's schoolfriend, despite – and understand? And what kind of course because of – there being a huge wolf living in school ranks its students by how fast they can run round the site. Can school quad - however ancient that quad may be? When Link runs the children survive living slowest time in years, he immediately becomes the urban wilderness, alongside such obvious dangers? butt of every school joke. And some students are determined to make his life more miserable than others... [[Run Wild The Island by Gill LewisM A Bennett|Full Review]]
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===[[Staying On Colour Me In by C M TaylorLydia Ruffles]]===
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Tony Metcalfe is Reeling from a Yorkshireman through tragedy and through and being honestunable to cope, Yorkshire's where he'd really like unemployed actor Arlo decides to be. You suspect that Scarborough would be perfect, but he's living in get on a mountain village just beyond the Costa Verde plane and running a pub. The Viva Espagñe isn't flourishing: Tony would really like to sell it and return to the UK, what with the uncertainty of Brexit and everything, but there are a couple of problems. First off, his wife - Laney - refuses to go back to the UK. She'd have you believe that she's not well, but there's a backstory there that's not being talked about. Then there's the pub, which isn't doing well enough to sell. In fact Tony's cleaning the swimming pools of expats who have left Spain and returned home, in order to make a bit of money to try and make ends at least come in sight of each other, even if they never meetsomewhere new. [[Staying On Colour Me In by C M TaylorLydia Ruffles|Full Review]]
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===[[A Treachery of Spies by Manda Scott]]===
===[[The Truth About Lies by Tracy Darnton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|TeensHistorical Fiction]]
Jess When Inspector Inès Picaut is in called to investigate the horrific murder of a meeting with Dr Harrisonstrikingly beautiful elderly lady, she's puzzled – whilst the school counsellor. Dr Harrison is hoping to help Jess come to terms with identity of the death of her room-matewoman has been erased, Hanna. But heit's not having much success, largely because Jess clear that she has no intention 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 telling him how she feels1940s France were engaged in a desperate, brutal fight for survival against their Nazi oppressors. InsteadAs more and more secrets come to light, she feigns a grief she does not feel so Inès discovers that he is satisfied there are many in the present who would rather their past stay buried – and she gets out of there as quickly as possible. many who would kill to keep secrets safe… [[The Truth About Lies A Treachery of Spies by Tracy DarntonManda Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Anomaly by Michael Rutger]]===
===[[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones by Joanna Nadin]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersHorror|Confident ReadersHorror]]
Bridie - Birdy - Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones is eleven and finding life rather hard. After her mother died, it used to be just Birdy and Dad and that was okay, but now there's Birdy, Dad, within an overbearing step mumX-Files episode, a little sister and another baby on for the wayYoutube era. ThereJoin the intrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for ''an anomaly''s precious little room for Birdy any more and the only place she really feels happy and secure is at her grandfather's pigeon loft. Birdy loves pigeonsto (spoilers) actually find one. She loves caring for themImagine if, training theminstead of being scared by their own acting, Derek Acorah and releasing them to wait for them to 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 their way homethemselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and conspiracy thrown into the blend. [[Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones The Anomaly by Joanna NadinMichael Rutger|Full Review]]
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Elizabeth Klehfoth's debut novel Nick is in the middle of wedding preparations when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London and take up a mystery thriller written from post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the perspective building of Charlie Calloway, a teenage girl in her final years at boarding school who is plagued by her mother’s disappearancechildren's hospital. As the story progresses she begins to learn more about He has no idea what happened to her mother, finding out along the way that not everyone was who she thought they were. Titled ''All These Beautiful Strangers'' it really makes you question whether you are surrounded by strangers toohe is getting himself into. [[All These Beautiful Strangers The Water Thief by Elizabeth KlehfothClaire Hajaj|Full Review]]
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===[[When The Curtain Falls Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Carrie Hope FletcherPeter Lovesey]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]
A thoroughlyChildren love wrecking balls, magical and riveting story that hooks you in from so the first page and takes you on a roller coaster ride towards young lad wasn't going to pass up the last. Fletcher weaves together opportunity to watch one hit a dash building through one of ''Whodunit'' those very tempting holes in fencing which you find around building sites. The problem was that when the thrill of romancedust settled a skeleton, sitting in an armchair and clad in clothes which looked to be a few hundred years old, (was visible in the course loft of which never runs smoothly,) the half-demolished building. The lad's father ceased his explanations about kinetic energy and an unpredictable ghosthurried the boy away. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was not so lucky. The ghost appears once Viewing the corpse from a yearcherry picker, an unfortunate adjustment to the principal star of her very own showcontrols left him eye to, er, to meet eye socket with the love of her life corpse and re-enact her death. A tragic accident with the roots buried deep within the whole array of human naturepicture was caught by a press photographer. Love, joy, care, friendship, jealousy, possessiveness, selfishness, cold ambition, all laid bare on centre stage It was too good not to go viral.[[Beau Death (Peter Diamond Mystery) by Peter Lovesey|Full Review]]
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===[[Spinning Silver Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Naomi NovikKatherine Webber]]===
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Miryem comes from a long line of moneylenders – but her Father isnThough it't very good at it at all. Lending freely and rarely collectings been 5 years since Mika died, he leaves Reiko still sees the family on the edge ghost of povertyher sister every day, until Miryem must step inforever 14. Hardening It's something that brings her heart and collecting what is owed from local villagerscomfort, but also a constant reminder that she becomes a person has to make up for being one when there should have been two. She has to shine bright enough for both of great interest when them. When she borrows a pouch of silver pennies from befriends outsider Seth, he presents her Grandfather and returns it full of gold, soon becoming entangled with an array of strange creaturesescape. From her family, her friends, from the dark beings grief and loss that haunt the wood through continue to a King scar them all. Seth is instantly smitten with her. After all, whowouldn's eager to exploit Miryemt fall for gorgeous, popular Reiko Smith-Mori? But while she falls in love with the escape that he represents from her grief, it's talents – not so clear that she soon becomes aware that her skills may be more trouble than they're worth… s falling in love with him. [[Spinning Silver Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Naomi NovikKatherine Webber|Full Review]]
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===[[The Party by Lisa Hall]]===
===[[Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay]]=== [[image:3star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersConfident Readers|ThrillersConfident Readers]]
Rachel wakes Samkad is living high up in a strange bedroom, with the worst hangover she's ever had and no memory of mountainous Philippine jungle just as the nineteenth century turns to the night beforetwentieth. And even though she But Samkad has no memory, she knows at the core idea about any of her being that something very bad . He has happened to her at her neighbournever met anyone from outside his own small tribe and his thoughts are focused on becoming a man. He's New Year's Eve party. But with everyone there appearing desperate for the Elders to be hiding something and no one giving her a straight answer permit him to her questionsjoin the ranks of the warriors who protect his tribe from their headhunting enemies, even though he knows it will Rachel ever find out what happened at the party? mean leaving his childhood friend Little Luki behind. [[The Party Bone Talk by Lisa HallCandy Gourlay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Con Artist Summerland by Fred Van LenteHannu Rajaniemi]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeDystopian Fiction|CrimeDystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:HumourScience Fiction|HumourScience Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]]
Comic-Cons are Imagine a place world in which death was no longer something to fear but something to aspire to. After discovery of wonder and sanctuary for many peoplethe afterlife, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Conthe British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, he's looking the Big Smoke for both that the recently deceased. In 1938 the British Empire is caught up in a race against Soviet spies and sanctuary dealing with other fans and creators, plus a mole buried deep in the chance heart of maybeSummerland. When Rachel White, just maybe reuniting with his ex. Howeveran ambitious SIS agent, when his rival is found deadbecomes suspicious about the potential rogue agent, Mike she must decide how far she is forced willing to navigate every dark corner of the con in order go and how much she is willing to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans risk to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creatoruncover the truth. [[The Con Artist Summerland by Fred Van LenteHannu Rajaniemi|Full Review]]
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===[[Going To The 100 Best Novels in Translation Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Boyd TonkinK D Knight]]===
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ConsiderIn the opening story a man whose wife has deserted him visits Sandown with little money, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book was so good but comes away with cash in one tongue it could never survive being put into anotherhis pocket - and his wife. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and In ''BreathA Grey Day'', but he could translate an owner struggles with the problem of whether or not to run his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross bordershorse in the Gold Cup when the ground is against him. It My favourite was 's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium TrilogyThe Story of H''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means story of passing border posts, Foinavon. H is depicted as a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, kind horse who only wanted to please people. After changing hands on various occasions he came to the Republic yard of Letters''John Kempton. We here at H (or Foinavon) was entered in the 'Bag regularly try Grand National and give equal credit to the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our handsconsidered a no-hoper. But all that said, do we really need In one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book most dramatic runnings of the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I dierace, and I might even then have missed out a zeropile up occured at the 23rd fence. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through Foinavon, who had been many lengths adrift, cleared the fence and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrickgalloped to the line, it's not a short thingwinning the race at odds of 100/1. Should it take our time? [[Going To The 100 Best Novels in Translation Last: Short Stories About Horse Racing by Boyd TonkinK D Knight|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day of the Orphan by Dr Nat Tanoh]]===
===[[The Frog Who Was Blue by Faiz Kermani]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFor Sharing|General FictionFor 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!''
Saga is eighteen andBiriwita hails from Lake Ticklewater. Many creatures find a home there, like many eighteen-year oldsincluding frogs. For some reason that nobody can remember, his prime concerns all the Lake Ticklewater frogs are listening to what his mum calls ''hop-hip'', eating copious amounts blue. They think nothing of food, and learning about girlsit. Living in an affluentSo, liberal and protected suburbwhen Biriwita wins a place at Croak College, he has the first Ticklewater frog to manage such a good life. Howeverfeat, the suburb he is filled with excitement and his only worry is in Africa, where childhoods can be snatched in an instant. When how much he will miss his friends and family are dragged into the conflict raging around the dictatorship that Saga lives under, he is forced to become an unlikely revolutionary. 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 Frog Who Was Blue by Dr Nat TanohFaiz Kermani|Full Review]]
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