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===[[The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Fantasy|FantasySanta Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= A land under occupation. A legendary sword. A young man's journey to find his destiny. Aren has lived by the rules all his life. He's never questioned it; that's just the way things are. But then his father is executed for treason, and he and his best friend Cade are thrown into a prison mine, doomed to work until they drop. Unless they can somehow break free . . But what lies beyond the prison walls is more terrifying still. Rescued by a man who hates him yet is oath-bound to protect him, pursued by inhuman forces, Aren slowly accepts that everything he knew about his world was a lie. The rules are not there to protect him, or his people, but to enslave them. A revolution is brewing, and Aren is being drawn into it, whether he likes it or not. The key to the revolution is the Ember Blade. The sword of kings, the Excalibur of his people. Only with the Ember Blade in hand can their people be inspired to rise up . . . but it's locked in an impenetrable vault in the most heavily guarded fortress in the land. All they have to do now is steal it... Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding: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]]<!-- Felix Francis Keeley -->
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===[[Crisis by Felix Francis]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersConfident Readers|ThrillersConfident Readers]]
By training Harrison Foster is a lawyer, but he's working as a crisis manager for a London firm. He was called to Newmarket after a fire in a stable killed six very valuable horses, including the Derby favourite. On the surface it looked like a simple fire, but it wasn't long before Harrison discovered that all was not as it seemed, not least because there were human remains along with the charred bodies of the horses. As all the staff were accounted for, who was the human victim? Harrison was completely new to the world of thoroughbred racing: in fact he knew little about horses and positively disliked them. [[Crisis by Felix Francis|Full Review]]
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]]<!-- Thompson Wilson -->
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===[[Rosewater by Tade Thompson]]===
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Rosewater is a town on the edge[[image:4star. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodomejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless - people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumoured healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again - but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realisation about a horrifying future. [[Rosewater by Tade Thompson: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]]<!-- von Doviak Haig -->
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===[[Charlesgate Confidential by Scott Von Doviak]]===
[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]===
In 1946 a gang of criminals pull off an audacious art heist[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], making off with priceless works of art from a Boston Museum[[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. These missing art works are never foundShe's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell the truth. In 1988You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a student finds himself caught up in white lie is okay and sometimes it's better to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the mystery attention of the missing art school bully by calling him mean and hot on the trail of the multi-million-dollar reward. In 2014nasty, the art is still missing and now dead bodies are turning up at the eponymous Charlesgatefor example, filled with alumni celebrating or you might not want to tell someone that you think their 25th reunionbrand new haircut looks awful. As the body count rises, will we discover the truth behind the art theft decades earlier? [[Charlesgate Confidential The Truth Pixie by Scott Von DoviakMatt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]]
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===[[The Turn Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Midnight Death by Minette WaltersM B Vincent]]===
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At Dr Jess Castle, the beginning self proclaimed failure of 1349 there is a glimmer of a hope that the ravages prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the Black Death might be passingjudge. In Devilish in Dorset the population is wellLuckily for Jess, because she doesn't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as a series of Lady Annegruesome local murders are taking place and that's strict rules all anyone is talking about quarantine, which are regarded as heresy as they go against . Jess accidentally finds herself in the strict rules thick of the churchinvestigation, but their stores of food are dwindling and they know to her delight finds that when they are exhausted they will have no choice but to leaveshe can actually be useful. What will they find on But with the outside? Are they small population dwindling and the only survivorssense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? [[The Turn Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Midnight Death by Minette WaltersM B Vincent|Full Review]]
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===[[We Sold Our Souls Nothing Lasting by Grady HendrixLaura Solomon]]===
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The night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is washed up and unhappy. Few We never know of her past as guitarist of 90the man's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – a band once tipped for greatness, name but destined let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo careercall him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, rocketing to stardom as if not ''Koffinliving''as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is a foreign country. When a shocking act of violence turns Krisshe dies she's life upside down – not missed, firstly because she is forced 'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues to look back haunt Boyo. She wants him to a past achieve something in his life: what she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made in mind is that may have sabotaged more than just the band. In a journey that will take Kris from a dusty hotel to he could be a hellish music festival, she's determined to face the man who ruined her lifefamous arsonist. But with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, will Kris be able to defeat the odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the Earth…? [[We Sold Our Souls Nothing Lasting by Grady HendrixLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery Broken Things by Steve BurrowsLauren Oliver]]===
[[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''This is the problem with words and even stories: there is never one truth''
DCI Domenic JejeuneSummer, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn's most celebrated case was his rescue of the Home Secretary's daughter when she was kidnapped. It's always been his deep regret that he failed They begin to rescue the man who was kidnapped with her and this has all resurfaced now believe it is real, that the case world of Lovelorn is being reviewed. Long-buried secrets are bound to come to lightreally materialising around them, even though the officer reviewing the case, DC Desdemona Gill, is a and start writing their own fan of his to the extent that it's almost embarrassing-fiction sequel. The review isn't the only problem he has though: a body has been found on some waste groundOne day, but it's so badly burned that identification Summer is difficult - violently murdered in the woods where they all played and everyone thinks Mia and made more difficult by the indecision of the Medical ExaminerBrynn did it. [[A Tiding of Magpies: A Birder Murder Mystery Broken Things by Steve BurrowsLauren Oliver|Full Review]]
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===[[The Darkness Around Her What if It's Us by Neil WhiteBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4star''I believe in love at first sight.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]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.''
Lizzie Barnsley was escaping from her abusive boyfriend when she was murdered on the canal towpath on New Year''What If It's Eve. It obviously wasnUs't the boyfriend as he was still being held by Lizzie's friends at the pubis one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, but before long Peter Box was arrested fun and chargedeasy read. He'd sought treatment I was surprised at the local hospital for an injury to his head which was the same shape as the heel collaboration of Lizzie's shoe - Silvera and her blood was on Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the shoeother for tragedy – but they really work together well. Dan Grant was called in to represent Box, but there's Each takes a problem. Box won't talk - won't talk to the police or to Grantcharacter and their voices are so distinct, so how is he to represent the man? And had Box killed Lizzie? It was obvious real, that he hadn't known her - so why would he kill her? you are immediately sucked in. [[The Darkness Around Her What if It's Us by Neil WhiteBecky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Quentin Bates]]===
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[[image:4starGunna 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) by Quentin Bates|TeensFull Review]]
''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! [[ Blue Sky Black by John Connors |Full Review]] <!-- Melissa Leet Emmich -->
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===[[Landslide by Melissa Leet]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], ==[[Dear Evan Hansen:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's FictionThe Novel by Val Emmich]]===
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 [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a year older than Jilllot of time indoors by himself. Susie lived with her mother, an alcoholic, and Jill lived with ''her'' This worries his mother, who dedicated herself has engaged a therapist to her gardentry to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. JillEvan's father was Jay Tutletherapist 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, the photographera rather scary boy at school, but he spent much finds one of his time working away - often for months on end. In reality there was little difference between the two families: Mrs SmithEvan's alcoholism caused serious illness whilst Susie was still young. Joy letters and tragedy would visit Jill's home. ''Landslide'' is gets the story wrong end of how what happened determined the course of Jillstick because Evan has mentioned Zoe, the girl he has a crush on and who is Connor's life and how great tragedy can breed resilience and hopesister. [[Landslide Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel by Melissa LeetVal Emmich|Full Review]]
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===[[The House Across Agatha Raisin and the Street Dead Ringer by Lesley PearseM C Beaton]]===
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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 St Ethelred'The House Across s Church in the Street' as idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a frequent stream team of women are brought there in dedicated bell ringers, with the same black hummer keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and seen leaving a short while laterwhen we first meet them they're preparing for the bishop's visit. Although slightly unusual Now you might be expecting an older, not much perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is said aside from your typical neighbourhood gossip, that a little different. One description is until Katy 'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is woken up in a little smitten - at first - but there's 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 merest whiff of a whole lot worse for Katy when her father is arrested for starting scandal about the firebishop. What follows is an engrossing depiction of Katy It's quest to prove her father's innocence whilst dealing with her unbearable mother and ultimately having the safety mystery of many peoplethe bishop's lives in ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her handsbody have ever been found. [[The House Across Agatha Raisin and the Street Dead Ringer by Lesley PearseM C Beaton|Full Review]]
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===[[A Gathering Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] It is the middle of Ghosts 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]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[XX by Karen MaitlandAngela Chadwick]]===
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Witchcraft, Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the supernatural 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 will first ever clinical trial that would allow them to survive at all costs collide in have a story that never shies away from child of their own without the darker side of human natureneed for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. The land What follows is unhappy, a story that shows the old spirits want revenge harshness and famine is kindling a resurgence at times disgraceful behaviour of the old faith. As fear risesmedia, it is increasingly difficult for Prioress Johanne to ignore that something rotten has taken root. The sacred well is taintedand the general public, its healing waters run red when faced with blood and strangers are blowing in on a wind controversial technique that could lead to the demise of changemen. [[A Gathering of Ghosts XX by Karen MaitlandAngela Chadwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick]]===
===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident 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...[[:Category:HorrorMr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|HorrorFull Review]]
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. 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, Tweet scheduled for he sees it as badly written and with some unwelcome biases9. He seems to only be there and doing this for the publisher to whom he addresses a lot of the script we read15clare@headofzeus. But what if some greater force wanted him there too? [[The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]com
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===[[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Denzil MeyrickDeborah Kay Davies]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeLiterary Fiction|CrimeLiterary Fiction]]
The site was rumoured to have been the home This is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of Viking warlord Somerled so the discovery by Professor Francombe E. M. Forster, ''[Tirzah and her team of archaeologists of the graves Prince of three women initially caused Crows'' has no great excitement, which rapidly turned to horror when they realised and stirring action but rather small ripples that the women had died just over twenty years agomake a huge impact. The graves would bring some closure though - these were the bodies of the three missing victims Tirzah is a young girl of the 'Midweek Murderer' who operated sixteen raised in Glasgow a small Welsh town in the early to mid nineties. It was also an opportunity for DCI Jim Daley to confront 1970s by highly religious parents as part of a failure in his paststrict religious community. He'd been on the original case and the murderer had never been found. He'd also lost The book follows Tirzah though a close friend tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she wants to be, and made some enemies, one of whom would return what she wants to taunt him when Police Scotland's Cold Case Unit arrived on the scenedo with her life. [[The Relentless Tide (DCI Daley) Tirzah and the Prince of Crows by Denzil MeyrickDeborah Kay Davies|Full Review]]
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===[[21 Lessons Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for the 21st Century Every Room by Yuval Noah HarariVivika DeNegre (Editor)]]===
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Yuval Noah HarariIf The problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. gave us ''Sapiens'', which told the history Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection of mankind and then ''Homo Deus'' which looked at mankindpatterns from today's futuretop designers. Now we have As a word of warning, if you read ''21 Lessons for the 21st CenturyModern Patchwork Magazine'' which looks at the challenges we currently face and ityou may well find that there's enlighteningnothing new in the book, thought-provoking and occasionally just a little bit frightening. Itbut if you's unlikely that mankind will face what - eighty years ago - would have been thought of as a traditional war, with armies, navies and air forces fighting it out hand re new to hand. It's much more likely that the threats we'll face will magazine this could well prove to be relatively new. Harari looks at them in some deptha delightful collection from the back catalogue. [[21 Lessons Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for the 21st Century Every Room by Yuval Noah HarariVivika DeNegre (Editor)|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks The Chaos of Now by A N WilsonErin Lange]]===
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In Eli, a country very much like New Zealandtalented hacker, but at is one of those people who manage to fly below the same time most avowedly not, two women will find loveradar. When new friends offer him the chance to enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a sting in its tail. Strong love too, for our narrator will How many people can hand on heart say that her first attraction for her partner was they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, the only thing very presence of which refuses to allow you to make sense of all those exaggerated songs she'd heardadapt, and books and poems she'd readto change, and plays she'd acted in – works of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperboleto grow. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, but it does burgeon, or so we're promised from the off, because moments of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like the one madness that hit Christchurch, but at the same time most avowedly not. This book then is the combined exploration of the lovers and the story of the quakeif discovered would change his life forever. [[Aftershocks The Chaos of Now by A N WilsonErin Lange|Full Review]]
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As the blurb says, ''In a world ravaged by the horrors of the Second World Warcottage in Normandy, two boys and two girls move Lina Rose is writing to the countryside daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel is a series of letters addressed to stay with Diane. Lina is now in her seventies and Diane is a professormother herself. They find have met just once since Lina gave her up for adoption. It was not a secret door and then a strange and enthralling world where they are needed, to play a major role in an epic battlegood meeting. Sound familiar? [[The Lost Magician Reckoning by Piers TordayClar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]
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===[[The Amber Maze by Christopher Bowden]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionThrillers|General FictionThrillers]]
Hugh Mullion goes away The funeral is a good time to Dorset for 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 weekend great political thinkers - and, while waiting renowned for his wife 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: they hadn't been estranged, but when Mattson and her mother divorced she took the teenager to arrive, finds a mysterious key down the USA and father and daughter just drifted apart. Jamie and her mother came back of an antique chairfor the funeral, but her mother departed as soon (or even before) she decently could, leaving Jamie to settle her father's affairs. The grubby only problem is that an awful lot of people seem very interested in Bernard Mattson's legacy - and torn label they're prepared to which is attached reads..be violent to get their hands on it. [[The Amber Maze Moving Blade (Detective Hiroshi 2) by Christopher BowdenMichael Pronko|Full Review]]
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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 I was a rather frightened dog who had difficulty meeting peoplelittle bit nervous when I picked up ''Storytelling: The Presenter's Secret Weapon''. HeAfter all, the majority of presentations which I's ve seen or given were in a bit better now business context and something which he really enjoys is going what was required was absolute professionalism, not an act put on for a walklight entertainment. ItI needn's not just a case of attaching a lead t have worried though: the book is an essential guide to preparing and heading for giving your favourite spot - there are a lot of other things presentation, with or without what has now come to think be known as The Dreaded PowerPoint. I've been making presentations successfully (but I'll say more about firstthis 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. [[Worzel goes for a Walk It did. Will you come too? by Catherine Pickles and Chantal Bourgonje|Full Review]]
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Flitting between [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] (If multiple categories use the present day same format, separated by comma + space)Sponge and mid 16thcenturyMildew are not the biggest fans of their school, Maudlin Towers. Who would be? It's run down. It'Bellewethers gloomy. You can't move for gargoyles and that' tells s discounting the fascinating tale of the Wilde House teachers. But when they find out that there's no money left and all its inhabitants. In the present tense aspectsschool might close they realise that, tatty and morose as the Wilde House Maudlin Towers is being turned into a museum due to the legacy left by Captain Benjamin Wilde. It is told from the perspective of Charley, the museum curator, who it is intrigued by the ghost who haunts the house and ''home''. So they set their story; minds on a tale that ends in tragedy involving Benjamin Wilde's sister, Lydia, and a French-Canadian lieutenant, Jean-Philippe who was sent to live thererescue mission. The perspective of the book is continuously shifted between Charley, then Lydia and Jean-Philippe. The latter two tell the truth about what was happening during this chaotic time in history, just as Charley is beginning to unravel it herself. [[Bellewether Treasure of the Golden Skull (Maudlin Towers) by Susanna KearsleyChris Priestley|Full Review]]
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