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===[[Landslide by Melissa Leet]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's FictionSanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
The area where Jill and Susie lived wasn't highly populated so it was fortunate that they became such good friends, despite the fact that Susie was a year older than Jill[[image:4star. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' mother, who dedicated herself to her garden. Jill's father was Jay Tutle, the photographer, but he spent much of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two familiesjpg|link=Category: Mrs Smith's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is the story of how what happened determined the course of Jill's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hope. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Landslide by Melissa Leet: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]]<!-- Pearse Keeley -->
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===[[The House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersThe Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]===
Have you ever found yourself staring out the window slightly longer than needed to see what your neighbours are up to? This is a common occurrence for Katy Speed who regularly watches 'The House Across the Street' as a frequent stream of women are brought there in the same black hummer and seen leaving a short while later. Although slightly unusual, not much is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossip, that is until Katy is woken up in the early hours one morning to find out that the same house has been burnt to the ground, along with the woman who lives there. This situation is made a whole lot worse for Katy when her father is arrested for starting the fire. What follows is an engrossing depiction of Katy's quest to prove her father's innocence whilst dealing with her unbearable mother and ultimately having the safety of many people's lives in her hands[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The House Across the Street by Lesley Pearse: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]]<!-- Maitland Wilson -->
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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 FictionSnowglobe by Amy Wilson]]===
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[[image:4star. 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 taintedjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], its healing waters run red with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind of change. [[A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland: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]]<!-- Sedgwick Haig -->
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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 Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
Two hundred years ago[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell the truth. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad weather, bad company (well, right? But sometimes the kind that truth isn't nice and sometimes a white lie is also mad, okay and dangerous sometimes it's better to know), a spooky reading list and a few chance topics of discussion say nothing at all led a young woman to start writing her first, and definitely her most famous ever, book. The narrator of this novel has brought himself You might not want to a remote Alpine building, in attract the centre attention of that first novel's worldthe school bully by calling him mean and nasty, to revisit it in honour of its bicentenary. He hates itfor example, for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases. He seems or you might not want to only be there and doing this for the publisher to whom he addresses a lot of the script we readtell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve Truth Pixie by Marcus SedgwickMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Denzil MeyrickM B Vincent]]===
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The site was rumoured Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to have been the home sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery by Professor Francombe and Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her team of archaeologists of father, the graves of three women initially caused great excitementjudge. Luckily for Jess, which rapidly turned she doesn't have to try too hard to horror when they realised dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and that the women had died just over twenty years ago's all anyone is talking about. The graves would bring some closure though - these were Jess accidentally finds herself in the bodies thick of the three missing victims of the 'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow in the early investigation, and to mid ninetiesher delight finds that she can actually be useful. It was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront a failure in his past. He'd been on But with the original case small population dwindling and the murderer had never been found. He'd also lost a close friend and made some enemies, one sense of whom would return danger moving ever closer to taunt him when Police Scotland's Cold Case Unit arrived on the scene. home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death by Denzil MeyrickM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century Nothing Lasting by Yuval Noah HarariLaura Solomon]]===
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Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us We never know the man's name but let'Sapienss call him '', which told the history of mankind and then Boyo''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind. It's futurewhat his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoying. Now When we have first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not ''21 Lessons for the 21st Centuryliving'' which looks at the challenges we currently face and as most people would understand it's enlightening, thought-provoking . She spends her days watching daytime television and occasionally just drinking. Housework is a little bit frighteningforeign country. ItWhen she dies she's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years ago - would have been thought of as in a traditional warmental hospital, with armies, navies and air forces fighting it out hand but mainly because her ghost continues to handhaunt Boyo. It's much more likely She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that the threats we'll face will he could be relatively new. Harari looks at them in some deptha famous arsonist. [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century Nothing Lasting by Yuval Noah HarariLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks Broken Things by A N WilsonLauren Oliver]]===
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In a country very much like New Zealand, but at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heard, and books and poems she'd read, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbole. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers problem with words and the story of the quake. [[Aftershocks by A N Wilson|Full Review]]even stories: there is never one truth''
Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. They begin to believe it is real, that the world of Lovelorn is really materialising around them, and start writing their own fan-fiction sequel. One day, Summer is violently murdered in the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and Brynn did it. [[Broken Things by Lauren Oliver|Full Review]] <!-- Torday Albertelli -->
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===[[The Lost Magician What if It's Us by Piers TordayBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersTeens|Confident ReadersTeens]] ''I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the universe, all of it. But not how you're thinking. I don't mean it in the our souls were split and you're my other half forever and ever sort of way. I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path.''
In ''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a world ravaged by boost when you need it. A feel good, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the horrors collaboration of the Second World WarSilvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, two boys and two girls move to the countryside to stay with a professorother for tragedy – but they really work together well. They find Each takes a secret door character and then a strange and enthralling world where they their voices are neededso distinct, to play a major role so real, that you are immediately sucked in an epic battle. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician What if It's Us by Piers TordayBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Quentin Bates]]===
 
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Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a bodyguard. It wasn't just the sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long the job took and with no contact with the family - she wasn't the only one to have doubts about the man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, or a money-laundering gunrunner. The truth was probably a combination of the two, but whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is the reason why he and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and with a group of armed police in a nearby house. [[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Quentin Bates|Full Review]]
 
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===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]===
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Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset for the weekend and, while waiting for his wife to arrive, finds a mysterious key down the back of an antique chair. The grubby and torn label to which is attached reads... ===[[Dear Evan Hansen: The Amber Maze Novel by Christopher Bowden|Full ReviewVal Emmich]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a lot of time indoors by himself. This worries his mother, who has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. Evan's therapist assigns him the task of writing a daily letter to himself as a way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the world around him. But Connor Murphy, a rather scary boy at school, finds one of Evan's letters and gets the wrong end of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, the girl he has a crush on and who is Connor's sister. [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Val Emmich|Full Review]] <!-- Pickles M C Beaton -->
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===[[Worzel goes Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by M C Beaton]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] St Ethelred's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a team of dedicated bell ringers, with the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them they're preparing for the bishop's visit. Now you might be expecting an older, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a little different. One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - but there's the merest whiff of a Walkscandal about the bishop. Will you come too? It's the mystery of the bishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her body have ever been found. [[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeM C Beaton|Full Review]]===
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When we [[Worzel says hello! Will you be my friend? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonjeimage:5star.jpg|last met Worzel Woolfacelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] he was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting people. He's a bit better now and something which he really enjoys is going for a walk. It's not just a case of attaching a lead and heading for your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things to think about first. [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident 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]]
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===[[Bellewether XX by Susanna KearsleyAngela Chadwick]]===
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Flitting between the present day and mid 16thcentury, Angela Chadwick''Bellewether'' tells s debut novel explores the fascinating tale possibility of the Wilde House and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspects, the Wilde House is two women being turned into able to produce a museum due baby girl through a process called Ovum-to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde-Ovum fertilisation. It is told from centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the perspective first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of Charley, their own without the museum curator, who need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and their a story; a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, shows the harshness and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live there. The perspective at times disgraceful behaviour of the book is continuously shifted between Charleymedia, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in historygeneral public, just as Charley is beginning when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to unravel it herselfthe demise of men. [[Bellewether XX by Susanna KearsleyAngela Chadwick|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]]===
===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  Betsy K Glory lives a rather wonderful life on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happens. Her father, Alonso, makes the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imagine. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid and comes to visit regularly, although she still lives in the sea. Betsy dreams of two things: firstly, about the circus owned by a tiger and whether it would ever come to her island and secondly, about a magical ice cream made from the berries of the Gongalong bush. One scoop of this ice cream can make wishes come true. 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]]
Meet Kevin. He's a flying pony, and he's a little on the plump side. He loves biscuits too much is why, but he's happily living in the middle of nowhere, in the wild, wet hills of the Outermost West. Now meet Max. He's a simple human being, not flying anywhere, and wishing Tweet scheduled for a pet to share his time in his top-floor flat with, something his Byronically goth sister and parents don't agree with9. One night, however, the wild and wet hills are wilder and wetter than usual, and an enormous storm blows Kevin out of his nest, and on to the balcony outside Max's window15clare@headofzeus. The two are bound to become friends, but they might not be able to relax just yet, for the bad weather has not finished… [[The Legend of Kevin: A Roly-Poly Flying Pony Adventure (Legend of Kevin 1) by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre|Full Review]]com
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===[[The Murder Tirzah and the Prince of Harriet Monkton Crows by Elizabeth HaynesDeborah Kay Davies]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]], [[:Category:True Crime|True Crime]]
''But that's just it'', she said[[image:5star. ''It's ''not'' Harriet, is it? Not our Harriet. It's some manufactured creature, that exists only for this blessed inquestjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: 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.''Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]
And that was the problem: it seemed that there were two Harriets. There was the one her friends - This is a fellow teacherquiet but remarkable story, her would-be loverwritten in a style reminiscent of E. M. Forster, her seducer ''[Tirzah and the man who was her landlord who was also her lover - knew. Some spoke Prince of her as kindly, virtuous Crows'' has no great and pious, stirring action but rather small ripples that was before her body was found behind make a huge impact. Tirzah is a young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in the chapel which 1970s by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she regularly attended in Bromley. She'd been poisoned - or had taken her own life. After the inquest was opened another Harriet would emergewants to be, one who was about six months pregnant and who had obviously not been living the chaste what she wants to do with her life expected of a young, unmarried woman in 1843. [[The Murder Tirzah and the Prince of Harriet Monkton Crows by Elizabeth HaynesDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[You Only Live Once Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Jess VallanceVivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
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Gracie Dart The problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is a studiousthat what results from your labours is also traditional, responsible student with a colour coded timetable and French verbs covering her wallsor - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. She's hardworking and smart but once her final school exams are over, Gracie Vivika DeNegre has curated a revelation. After she mistakenly thinks shecollection of patterns from today's contracted top designers. As a fatal illness (the perils word of looking up symptoms on warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the internet) Gracie decides book, but if you're new to start living her life. Her studies are finished for the summer so Gracie wants magazine this could well prove to say yes to every opportunity that comes her way, and just like her meticulous study timetable, Gracie Dart doesn't do anything by half measuresbe a delightful collection from the back catalogue. [[You Only Live Once Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Jess VallanceVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[Foundryside The Chaos of Now by Robert Jackson BennettErin Lange]]===
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Sancia Grado Eli, a talented hacker, is just about to pull off the biggest heist one of her fugitive life for more money than she has ever seen before in all her gruelling years on Tevanne's streets. The job: steal a small wooden box from a safe deep inside the Waterwatch-patrolled harbour and deliver it untouched those people who manage to fly below the clientradar. Fearless and quick, she is When new friends offer him the best thief Foundryside has chance to offer and enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has never interfered with jobs beforea sting in its tail. Yet once she has the box in her possessionHow many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, she can't shake the uneasy apprehensive feeling very presence of what lies within. For Sancia is no ordinary thiefwhich refuses to allow you to adapt, with the magical ability to scrive and understand everything she touches she's about change, to discover grow. Eli has a secret few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that will sent her fleeing for her if discovered would change his life, unearthing myths that are it transpires more truth than fairy-tale. Working against the clock, Sancia will work to save her world and prevent a descent into destructionforever. [[Foundryside The Chaos of Now by Robert Jackson BennettErin Lange|Full Review]]
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[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]===
[[image:4starAs the blurb says, ''In a cottage in Normandy, Lina Rose is writing to the daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel is a series of letters addressed to Diane. Lina is now in her seventies and Diane is a mother herself. They have met just once since Lina gave her up for adoption. It was not a good meeting.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionThe Reckoning by Clar Ni Chonghaile|General FictionFull Review]]
Sasha has a lot on her plate. Husband Jeremy is distant and absent and the marriage needs work. Son Zac is entering a rebellious adolescent phase and it's hard to know how to redirect him. Mother Annie, an alcoholic, is beginning the journey into dementia and has never been an easy person at the best of times. Thank heavens for her lovely dog, Sebastian, and his unconditional love. [[What's Left Unsaid by Deborah Stone|Full Review]] <!-- Marion Leigh Michael Pronko -->
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===[[A Holiday to Die For The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Marion LeighMichael Pronko]]===
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It was the holiday of The funeral is a lifetime: Petra Minx was accompanying her childhood friend, Carlo, good time to his cousin's wedding rob a house in South Africa Tokyo - and taking even better when they're famous as most people will be there. Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the opportunity to see as much great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of the country as she could whilst she was thereAmerican bases in Japan. Petra works for One of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Carlo is from Interpol, so great tragedies of his murder was that he was just a few days short of meeting up with his daughter Jamie: theyhadn're hoping for a holiday free from crimet been estranged, although Carlo does seem but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to have rather more interest in diamond smuggling than the average tourist USA and father and Petra's boss doesn't seem to appreciate that she's on vacationdaughter just drifted apart. It's not asking much Jamie and her mother came back for the funeral, but her mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie to track down a young girl whosettle her father's the daughter affairs. The only problem is that an awful lot of an influential friend and check that shepeople seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's OK, is it? Then there are Megan legacy - and Hilary: they're prepared to be violent to get their hands on a gap year, but Petra can't help but think that they're getting themselves into dangers they don't understand. Still, it's not going to spoil a wedding in a vineyard, is it? The bride does seem strangely uninvolved in the proceedings, though... [[A Holiday to Die For The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Marion LeighMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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===[[Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by John Clare]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]]===
[[imageI was a little bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling:4starThe Presenter's Secret Weapon''.jpg|link=Category After all, the majority of presentations which I've seen or given were in a business context and what was required was absolute professionalism, not an act put on for light entertainment. I needn't have worried though:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] the book is an essential guide to preparing and giving your presentation, with or without what has now come to be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or more years and I did wonder if the book would be able to teach me anything. It did.
''Edward is six weeks old and I’ve had no sleep. 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?''
I think most women have felt like this shortly after having a baby. Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front of the other until things calmed down but some will have found it harder and developed post-natal depression[[The Place Where Love Should Be by Elizabeth Ellis|Full Review]] <!-- Stein Priestley -->
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===[[Unrest by Jesper Stein]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersTreasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Chris Priestley]]===
DCI Steen is assigned a puzzling case – [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the same format, separated by comma + space)Sponge and Mildew are not the tortured body biggest fans of a man found in a cemetery in Copenhagen but left there during a riot – a riot their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's run down. It's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and that had 's discounting the area swarming in policeteachers. How could anyone have been murdered But when they find out that there's no money left and left in the open with so many police on site? Unless school might close they realise that, tatty and morose as the killer Maudlin Towers is one of them… As the case becomes more and more complicated, it soon begins to take is ''home''. So they set their minds on a toll on Steen's already troubled personal liferescue mission.. He won't stop until the killer is caught, whatever the consequences. But the consequences may turn out to be greater than expected – especially for Axel himself… [[Unrest Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Jesper SteinChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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