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===[[The Darkness Around Her by Neil White]]===
===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFor Sharing|CrimeFor Sharing]]
Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Year's Eve. It obviously wasn't the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizzie's friends at the pub, but before long Peter Box was arrested and charged. He'd sought treatment at the local hospital for an injury to his head which was the same shape as the heel of Lizzie's shoe - and her blood was on the shoe. Dan Grant was called in to represent Box, but there's a problem. Box won't talk - won't talk to the police or to Grant, so how is he to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious that he hadn't known her - so why would he kill her? [[The Darkness Around Her by Neil White|Full Review]]
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]]<!-- Connors Keeley -->
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===[[Blue Sky Black The Coming of the Spirits by John ConnorsRob Keeley]]===
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''When Tom Allenby, the 14 year-old boy who can control the elements, sees metal objects and cars rising into the air one night he knows he is facing a powerful enemy. The trail leads to stolen magnetic stones, sinister experiments in an old country house and a village hiding a secret. As each of his friends faces challenges of their own, can Tom fight a force which knows all about them?''
Of course he can! 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... [[ Blue Sky Black The Coming of the Spirits by John Connors Rob Keeley|Full Review]] <!-- Melissa Leet Wilson -->
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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 FictionSnowglobe by Amy Wilson]]===
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 motherjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], 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 families: 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. [[Landslide by Melissa Leet: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]]<!-- Pearse Haig -->
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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 Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
Have you ever found yourself staring out [[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 window slightly longer than needed to see what your neighbours are up to? This truth. You might think this is a common occurrence for Katy Speed who regularly watches 'The House Across good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the Streettruth isn' as t nice and sometimes a frequent stream of women are brought there in the same black hummer white lie is okay and seen leaving a short while latersometimes it's better to say nothing at all. Although slightly unusual, You might not much is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossip, that is until Katy is woken up in the early hours one morning want to find out that attract the same house has been burnt to attention of the groundschool bully by calling him mean and nasty, 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 example, or you might not want to prove her father's innocence whilst dealing with her unbearable mother and ultimately having the safety of many people's lives in her handstell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awful. [[The House Across the Street Truth Pixie by Lesley PearseMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Ghosts Death by Karen MaitlandM B Vincent]]===
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WitchcraftDr Jess Castle, the supernatural and self proclaimed failure of the will prestigious Castle family has returned home to survive at all costs collide in a story that never shies away from the darker side sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of human natureCastle Kidbury. The land is unhappyRather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the old spirits want revenge judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and famine that's all anyone is kindling a resurgence talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick of the old faith. As fear risesinvestigation, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne and to ignore her delight finds that something rotten has taken rootshe can actually be useful. The sacred well is tainted, its healing waters run red But with blood the small population dwindling and strangers are blowing in on the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a wind of change. grave mistake getting involved? [[A Gathering Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Ghosts Death by Karen MaitlandM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve Nothing Lasting by Marcus SedgwickLaura Solomon]]===
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Two hundred years agoWe never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to call him, bad weather, bad company (well, the kind that not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is also madalive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and dangerous to know)drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a spooky reading list and a few chance topics couple of discussion all led years in a young woman to start writing her firstmental hospital, and definitely but mainly because her most famous ever, bookghost continues to haunt Boyo. The narrator of this novel She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has brought himself to a remote Alpine building, in the centre of mind is 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 could be there and doing this for the publisher to whom he addresses a lot of the script we readfamous arsonist. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve Nothing Lasting by Marcus SedgwickLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Broken Things by Denzil MeyrickLauren Oliver]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image''This is the problem with words and even stories:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]there is never one truth''
Summer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The site was rumoured Way into Lovelorn''. They begin to have been believe it is real, that the home world of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery by Professor Francombe Lovelorn is really materialising around them, 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. The graves would bring some closure though start writing their own fan- these were the bodies of the three missing victims of the 'Midweek Murderer' who operated in Glasgow in the early to mid ninetiesfiction sequel. It was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront a failure One day, Summer is violently murdered in his past. He'd been on the original case woods where they all played and the murderer had never been found. He'd also lost a close friend everyone thinks Mia and made some enemies, one of whom would return to taunt him when Police Scotland's Cold Case Unit arrived on the sceneBrynn did it. [[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Broken Things by Denzil MeyrickLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[21 Lessons for the 21st Century What if It's Us by Yuval Noah HarariBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4''I believe in love at first sight.5starFate, the universe, all of it.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics But not how you're thinking. I don't mean it in the our souls were split and Society|Politics you're my other half forever and Society]]ever sort of way. I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path.''
Yuval Noah HarariIf gave us ''SapiensWhat If It's Us''is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, which told the history of mankind fun and then ''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankind's futureeasy read. Now we have ''21 Lessons for the 21st Century'' which looks I was surprised at the challenges we currently face collaboration of Silvera and it's enlighteningAlbertalli – one known for happy endings, thought-provoking and occasionally just a little bit frighteningthe other for tragedy – but they really work together well. It's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought of as Each takes a traditional warcharacter and their voices are so distinct, with armiesso real, navies and air forces fighting it out hand to hand. It's much more likely that the threats we'll face will be relatively new. Harari looks at them you are immediately sucked in some depth. [[21 Lessons for the 21st Century What if It's Us by Yuval Noah HarariBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by A N WilsonQuentin Bates]]===
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In Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a country very much like New Zealand, but at bodyguard. It wasn't just the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was however long the job took and with no contact with the family - she wasn't the only thing one to make sense of all those exaggerated songs have doubts about the man she'd heardwas guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strand, and books and poems she'd readAli Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the carnage in their Middle Eastern homeland, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperboleor a money-laundering gunrunner. It The truth was entirely unrequited love for quite some timeprobably a combination of the two, but it does burgeonwhichever or whatever was correct, or so wethere's money on Osman're promised from s head and this is the offreason why he and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, because of something quite drastic – with Gunna toting 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 gun under her fleece and the story with a group of the quakearmed police in a nearby house. [[Aftershocks Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by A N WilsonQuentin Bates|Full Review]]
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===[[The Lost Magician by Piers Torday]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Confident Readers|Confident ReadersThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
In [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a world ravaged lot of time indoors by the horrors of the Second World Warhimself. This worries his mother, two boys and two girls move who has engaged a therapist to the countryside try to stay help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. Evan's therapist assigns him the task of writing a professor. They find daily letter to himself as a secret door way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and then the world around him. But Connor Murphy, a strange rather scary boy at school, finds one of Evan's letters and enthralling world where they are neededgets the wrong end of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, to play the girl he has a major role in an epic battlecrush on and who is Connor's sister. Sound familiar? [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Lost Magician Novel by Piers TordayVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime|General FictionCrime]]
Hugh Mullion goes away to Dorset 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 weekend andbishop's visit. Now you might be expecting an older, while waiting for his wife to arriveperhaps rather grey man, finds but this bishop is a mysterious key down little different. One description is 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - but there's the back merest whiff of an antique chaira scandal about the bishop. The grubby It's the mystery of the bishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and torn label to which is attached reads..neither she nor her body have ever been found. [[The Amber Maze Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer by Christopher BowdenM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? Louisiana's Way Home by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeKate DiCamillo]]===
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When we [[Worzel says hello! Will 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. HeIt is the middle of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's a bit better now granny wakes her up to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and something which he really enjoys 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 going for a walkdifferent. This time Granny intends that they will never return. It's not just a case of attaching a lead Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and heading for your favourite spot - there are desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a lot of other things small Georgia town Louisiana starts to think worry about firstthe ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[Worzel goes for a Walk. Will you come too? Louisiana's Way Home by Catherine Pickles and Chantal BourgonjeKate DiCamillo|Full Review]]
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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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===[[The Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Michael Pronko]]===
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[[imageThe funeral is a good time to rob a house in Tokyo - and even better when they're famous as most people will be there. Bernard Mattson had been famous - one of the great political thinkers - and renowned for his support of the American bases in Japan. One of the great tragedies of his murder was that he was just a few days short of meeting up with his daughter Jamie:4starthey hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to the USA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Jamie and her mother came back for the funeral, but her mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie to settle her father's affairs. The only problem is that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and they're prepared to be violent to get their hands on it.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionThe Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Michael Pronko|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 John Clare -->
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===[[A Holiday to Die For Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon by Marion LeighJohn Clare]]===
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It I was the holiday of a lifetimelittle bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling: Petra Minx was accompanying her childhood friend, Carlo, to his cousinThe Presenter's wedding in South Africa and taking the opportunity to see as much of the country as she could whilst she was thereSecret Weapon''. Petra works for After all, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Carlo is from Interpol, so theymajority of presentations which I're hoping for ve seen or given were in a holiday free from crimebusiness context and what was required was absolute professionalism, although Carlo does seem to have rather more interest in diamond smuggling than the average tourist and Petra's boss doesn't seem to appreciate that she's not an act put on vacationfor light entertainment. ItI needn's not asking much for her to track down a young girl who's t have worried though: the daughter of book is an influential friend essential guide to preparing and check that she's OKgiving your presentation, is it? with or without what has now come to be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. Then there are Megan and Hilary: theyI're on a gap year, ve been making presentations successfully (but Petra canI'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 ll say more about this later) in various professional situations for some forty or more years and I did wonder if the proceedings, thoughbook would be able to teach me anything. It did.. [[A Holiday to Die For by Marion Leigh|Full Review]]
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===[[The Place Where Love Should Be Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Elizabeth EllisChris Priestley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  ''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[[image:4.5star. Many of them simply managed to put one foot in front 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 biggest fans of their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's run down. It's gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and that's discounting the teachers. But when they find out that there's no money left and the school might close they realise that, tatty and morose as the other until things calmed down but some will have found Maudlin Towers is, it harder and developed post-natal depressionis ''home''. So they set their minds on a rescue mission... [[The Place Where Love Should Be Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Elizabeth EllisChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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