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===[[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
Witchcraft, the supernatural and the will to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side of human nature. The land is unhappy, the old spirits want revenge and famine is kindling a resurgence of the old faith. As fear rises, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland:Category:For Sharing|Full ReviewFor Sharing]]
 Something's gone horribly wrong. It's Christmas Eve and everything is very busy in Santa's grotto. The presents are all ready and waiting to be loaded onto the sleigh and the reindeer are itching to get going. But Santa? Santa is just not in the mood. He is tired of delivering the latest toys to children who only play with them for five minutes. He wishes people would remember what Christmas is really about - a time for families to come together for love and friendship and goodwill to one another. [[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston|Full Review]]<!-- Sedgwick Keeley -->
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Horror|HorrorThe Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]===
Two hundred years ago, bad weather, bad company (well, the kind that is also mad, and dangerous to know), a spooky reading list and a few chance topics of discussion all led a young woman to start writing her first, and definitely her most famous ever, book[[image:4star. The narrator of this novel has brought himself to a remote Alpine building, in the centre of that first novel's world, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates it, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems to only be there and doing this for the publisher to whom he addresses a lot of the script we read. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
 In Victorian England, young Edward Fitzberranger is about to be infected with scarlet fever and die. Further back still in time, Sir Francis Fitzberranger is about to marry Tina, the love of his life. In the modern day, Henry and Luke are getting on with life. And in an alternate timeline, Ellie is working for a resistance movement and struggling under a Britain ruled by the Nazis... [[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley|Full Review]]<!-- Denzil Meyrick Wilson -->
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick]]===
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The site was rumoured to have been the home of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery by Professor Francombe and her team of archaeologists of the graves of three women initially caused great excitement, which rapidly turned to horror when they realised that the women had died just over twenty years ago[[image:4star. The graves would bring some closure though - these were the bodies of the three missing victims of the 'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow in the early to mid nineties. It was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront a failure in his past. He'd been on the original case and the murderer had never been found. He'd also lost a close friend and made some enemiesjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], one of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotland's Cold Case Unit arrived on the scene. [[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
Jago doesn't like Clementine. He knows there is something different about her and he doesn't like it. And he never lets her forget it. Clementine knows she's different too, and that the difference is magic. And as much as she tries to ignore it, Clementine's magic is getting stronger. So when Jago's bullying gets too much, it's not really surprising that Clem loses control of it and gets herself suspended from school. [[Snowglobe by Amy Wilson|Full Review]]<!-- Yuval Noah Harari Haig -->
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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari]]===
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Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us ''Sapiens''[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], which told the history of mankind and then [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can'Homo Deus'' which looked at mankindt speak unless it's futureto tell the truth. Now we have ''21 Lessons for You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the 21st Centurytruth isn'' which looks at the challenges we currently face t nice and sometimes a white lie is okay and sometimes it's enlightening, thought-provoking and occasionally just a little bit frighteningbetter to say nothing at all. It's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought You might not want to attract the attention of as a traditional warthe school bully by calling him mean and nasty, with armiesfor example, navies and air forces fighting it out hand or you might not want to hand. It's much more likely tell someone that the threats we'll face will be relatively you think their brand new. Harari haircut looks at them in some depthawful. [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century The Truth Pixie by Yuval Noah HarariMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by A N WilsonM B Vincent]]===
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In a country very much like New ZealandDr Jess Castle, but at the same time most avowedly notself proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, two women will find loveidyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Strong love tooRather than being delighted, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for family are suspicious, especially her partner was father, the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heardjudge. Luckily for Jess, and books and poems shedoesn'd read, and plays shet have to try too hard to dodge her family'd acted in – works s suspicions as a series of art gruesome local murders are taking place and that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole's all anyone is talking about. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from Jess accidentally finds herself in the off, because thick of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one investigation, and to her delight finds that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly notshe can actually be useful. This book then is the combined exploration of But with the lovers small population dwindling and the story sense of the quake. danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[Aftershocks Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by A N WilsonM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Magician Nothing Lasting by Piers TordayLaura Solomon]]===
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In a world ravaged by We never know the horrors of the Second World Warman's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, two boys if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and two girls move to the countryside to stay with drinking. Housework is a professorforeign country. They find When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a secret door and then couple of years in a strange and enthralling world where they are neededmental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to play haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a major role in an epic battlefamous arsonist. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician Nothing Lasting by Piers TordayLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Things by Lauren Oliver]]===
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[[image''This is the problem with words and even stories:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] there is never one truth''
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend Summer, Mia and, while waiting for his wife Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. They begin to arrivebelieve it is real, finds a mysterious key down that the back world of an antique chairLovelorn is really materialising around them, and start writing their own fan-fiction sequel. The grubby One day, Summer is violently murdered in the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and torn label to which is attached reads..Brynn did it. [[The Amber Maze Broken Things by Christopher BowdenLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? What if It's Us by Catherine Pickles Becky Albertelli and Chantal BourgonjeAdam Silvera]]===
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When we [[Worzel says hello! Will ''I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the universe, all of it. But not how you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|last met Worzel Woolface]] he was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people're thinking. HeI don's a bit better now t mean it in the our souls were split and something which he really enjoys is going for a walk. Ityou's not just a case of attaching a lead re my other half forever and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot ever sort of other things way. I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think about firstthe universe nudges them into your path. [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|Full Review]]''
''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character and their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. [[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a bodyguard. It wasn'Bellewether'' tells t just the fascinating tale sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long the Wilde House job took and all its inhabitants. In with no contact with the present tense aspects, family - she wasn't the Wilde House is being turned into a museum due only one to have doubts about the legacy left man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curatorprominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a saint who is intrigued by devoted himself to helping refugees escape the ghost who haunts the house and carnage in their story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sisterMiddle Eastern homeland, Lydia, and or a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jeanmoney-Philippe who was sent to live therelaundering gunrunner. The perspective truth was probably a combination of the book is continuously shifted between Charleytwo, but whichever or whatever was correct, then Lydia there's money on Osman's head and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell this is the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time reason why he and Gunna are holed up in historyan isolated house outside Reykjavik, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herselfwith Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and with a group of armed police in a nearby house. [[Bellewether Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Susanna KearsleyQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure (Legend of Kevin 1) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre]]===
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Meet Kevin[[image:4.5star. He's jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a flying ponylot of time indoors by himself. This worries his mother, and he's who has engaged a little on the plump sidetherapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. He loves biscuits too much is why, but heEvan's happily living in therapist assigns him the middle task of nowhere, in the wild, wet hills writing a daily letter to himself as a way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the Outermost Westworld around him. Now meet Max. He's a simple human beingBut Connor Murphy, not flying anywhere, and wishing for a pet to share his time in his top-floor flat withrather scary boy at school, something his Byronically goth sister finds one of Evan's letters and parents don't agree with. One night, however, gets the wild and wet hills are wilder and wetter than usual, and an enormous storm blows Kevin out wrong end of his nestthe stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, the girl he has a crush on and on to the balcony outside Maxwho is Connor's windowsister. The two are bound to become friends, but they might not be able to relax just yet, for the bad weather has not finished… [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure (Legend of Kevin 1) Novel by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[The Murder of Harriet Monkton Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Elizabeth HaynesM C Beaton]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]] ''But that's just it'', she said. ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harriet. It's some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquest: something to be summed up like a spirit, to be examined and pored over, to be sneered at and judged. Harriet deserves to be remembered as she was to us, not picked at like carrion.''
And that was St Ethelred's Church in the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends - idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a fellow teacherteam of dedicated bell ringers, her would-be lover, her seducer with the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them they're preparing for the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knewbishop's visit. Some spoke of her as kindlyNow you might be expecting an older, virtuous and piousperhaps rather grey man, but that was before her body was found behind the chapel which she regularly attended in Bromleythis bishop is a little different. SheOne description is 'd been poisoned sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - or had taken her own lifebut there's the merest whiff of a scandal about the bishop. After It's the mystery of the inquest was opened another Harriet would emergebishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, one who was about six months pregnant disappeared very suddenly and who had obviously not neither she nor her body have ever been living the chaste life expected of a young, unmarried woman in 1843found. [[The Murder of Harriet Monkton Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Elizabeth HaynesM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[You Only Live Once Louisiana's Way Home by Jess VallanceKate DiCamillo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] It is the middle of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to middle of the night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she realises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that they will never return. Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick --> |-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:0349700249.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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Gracie Dart is a studious, responsible student with a colour coded timetable and French verbs covering her walls. She| style='s hardworking and smart but once her final school exams are over, Gracie has a revelation. After she mistakenly thinks she's contracted a fatal illness (the perils of looking up symptoms on the internet) Gracie decides to start living her life. Her studies are finished for the summer so Gracie wants to say yes to every opportunity that comes her way, and just like her meticulous study timetable, Gracie Dart doesnvertical-align: top; text-align: left;'t do anything by half measures. '|===[[You Only Live Once XX by Jess Vallance|Full ReviewAngela Chadwick]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Bennett Gardner -->
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===[[Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett]]===
===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyConfident Readers|FantasyConfident Readers]]
Sancia Grado is just about to pull off the biggest heist of her fugitive Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life for more money than she has on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever seen before happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in all her gruelling years on Tevanne's streetsevery flavour you could imagine. The job: steal Her mother, Myrtle, is a small wooden box from a safe deep inside the Waterwatch-patrolled harbour mermaid and deliver it untouched comes to the client. Fearless and quickvisit regularly, although she is still lives in the best thief Foundryside has to offer and has never interfered with jobs beforesea. Yet once she has the box in her possession, she can't shake the uneasy apprehensive feeling Betsy dreams of what lies within. For Sancia is no ordinary thieftwo things: firstly, with about the magical ability to scrive circus owned by a tiger and understand everything she touches she's about to discover a secret that will sent her fleeing for her life, unearthing myths that are whether it transpires more truth than fairy-tale. Working against the clock, Sancia will work would ever come to save her world island and prevent secondly, about a descent into destructionmagical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. [[Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett|Full Review]]
And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] Tweet scheduled for 9.15clare@headofzeus.com <!-- Stone Davies -->
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===[[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Deborah Kay Davies]]===
===[[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Literary Fiction|General Literary Fiction]]
Sasha This is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. Forster, ''[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows'' has no great and stirring action but rather small ripples that make a lot on her platehuge impact. Husband Jeremy Tirzah is distant and absent and a young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in the marriage needs work1970s by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious community. Son Zac is entering The book follows Tirzah though a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard tumultuous year as she tries to know how decide who she wants to redirect him. Mother Anniebe, an alcoholic, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of times. Thank heavens for what she wants to do with her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional lovelife. [[What's Left Unsaid Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Deborah StoneKay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[A Holiday to Die For Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Marion LeighVivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
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It was the holiday of The problem with a lifetime: Petra Minx was accompanying her childhood friendcraft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, Carlo, to his cousinor - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of patterns from today's wedding in South Africa and taking the opportunity to see as much of the country as she could whilst she was theretop designers. Petra works for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Carlo is from Interpol, so they're hoping for As a holiday free from crimeword of warning, although Carlo does seem to have rather more interest in diamond smuggling than the average tourist and Petraif you read 's boss doesn't seem to appreciate that sheModern Patchwork Magazine's on vacation. It's not asking much for her to track down a young girl whoyou may well find that there's nothing new in the daughter of an influential friend and check that she's OK, is it? Then there are Megan and Hilary: they're on a gap yearbook, but Petra can't help but think that theyif you're getting themselves into dangers they don't understand. Still, it's not going new to the magazine this could well prove to spoil be a wedding in a vineyard, is it? The bride does seem strangely uninvolved in delightful collection from the proceedings, though..back catalogue. [[A Holiday to Die For Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Marion LeighVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange]]===
 
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Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends offer him the chance to enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a sting in its tail. How many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, the very presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, to grow. Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange|Full Review]]
 
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===[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis]]===
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''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep[[image:5star. I had thirty stitches in my perineum, the wounds still tug and itch. They had to do the stitches twice because the first lot became infected. The old-school midwife told me I wasn’t paying enough attention to personal hygiene. I must shower twice a day, or better still, take a salt bath. Do they really expect me to do that? Have they ever tried to shower when a baby is crying and you’re so tired you can barely stand and your partner is banging around downstairs because he’s late for work again?''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
I think most women have felt like this shortly after having As the blurb says, ''In a cottage in Normandy, Lina Rose is writing to the daughter she abandoned as a baby. Many ''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel is a series of them simply managed letters addressed to put one foot Diane. Lina is now in front of the other until things calmed down but some will her seventies and Diane is a mother herself. They have found it harder and developed post-natal depressionmet just once since Lina gave her up for adoption. It was not a good meeting. [[The Place Where Love Should Be Reckoning by Elizabeth EllisClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[Unrest The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Jesper SteinMichael Pronko]]===
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DCI Steen The funeral is assigned a puzzling case – the tortured body of good time to rob a man found house in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left Tokyo - and even better when they're famous as most people will be there during a riot – a riot that . Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the area swarming great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of the American bases in policeJapan. How could anyone have One of the great tragedies of his murder was that he was just a few days short of meeting up with his daughter Jamie: they hadn't been murdered estranged, but when Mattson and left in her mother divorced she took the open with so many police on site? Unless teenager to the killer is one of them… As USA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Jamie and her mother came back for the case becomes more and more complicatedfuneral, it but her mother departed as soon begins (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie to take a toll on Steensettle her father's already troubled personal lifeaffairs. He won The only problem is that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson't stop until the killer is caught, whatever the consequences. But the consequences may turn out s legacy - and they're prepared to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… violent to get their hands on it. [[Unrest The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Jesper SteinMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Rockstar Retirement ProgrammeStorytelling: How to retire like a rockstar The Presenter's Secret Weapon by Dominic WatsonJohn Clare]]===
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Even with I was a birthday fast approaching, little bit nervous when Ipicked up ''Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon''m still a bit young to be reading about retirement. My next life change in the pipeline will be a big one After all, and it does involve leaving the 9 to 5 behind for majority of presentations which I've seen or given were in a yacht business context and the silky blue waters of the Caribbeanwhat was required was absolute professionalism, but only not an act put on for a year, light entertainment. I needn't have worried though: the book is an essential guide to preparing and then I will be backgiving your presentation, tanned and refreshed but barely 40 and with many working years still or without what has now come to comebe known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. Also, I like work. My job is interesting, I get to travel, what we do matters and it's not badly rewarded. So no, ve been making presentations successfully (but I'm not planning to retire just yet. But as the premise of ll say more about this book is about planning (later) in various professional situations for some forty or more years and I did wonder if not now, then when?) I was still intriguedthe book would be able to teach me anything. It did. [[Rockstar Retirement Programme: How to retire like a rockstar by Dominic 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]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeTreasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley]]===
It was February 1979 in the strike-ridden 'Winter of Discontent' when a body was discovered in Peckham[[image:4.5star. It was to be jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the first of two bodies in two dayssame format, but separated by comma + space)Sponge and Mildew are not the first - that biggest fans of a young woman - their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would remain unidentified for some timebe? It's run down. The second - an older lady - was found in the boot of her car by her sonIt's gloomy. Jane Tennison has been promoted to Sergeant You can't move for gargoyles and finds herself in that's discounting the midst of an investigation hindered by press articles about police incompetence and pressure to get a quick resultteachers. Four days later But when they find out that there's no money left and another body to add to the countschool might close they realise that, tatty and morose as the police have named Maudlin Towers is, it is ''home''. So they set their suspect, but Tennison has her doubtsminds on a rescue mission... [[Murder Mile Treasure of the Golden Skull (Jane Tennison 4Maudlin Towers) by Lynda La PlanteChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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