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===[[Tales of Love and Disability Friends Like These by Laura SolomonSarah Alderson]]===
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I've Life in London isn’t always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and talent to write a short story which holds the reader glam, especially if you’re young and keeps them coming back for moreunderpaid. There are far too many collections of short stories which are For Lizzie it’s all too easy to put down and forget after you've read a couple bit of piecesa balancing act. I've recently read She has a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. She works in the entertainment industry, but her job itself is probably not one you’d covet. She doesn’t have much spare time, but that’s because she’s been working through some self- [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed themimprovement. If they could only see her now. And, well, actually, they can, so I was intrigued although there’s a lot less of her to see what than there once was. But yes, she could do with an even shorter formdoesn’t really have much time for the past and the people from it. [[Tales of Love and Disability Friends Like These by Laura SolomonSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Snapshot of Murder Malice in Malmo: (Kate Shackleton MysteriesInspector Anita Sundstrom) by Frances BrodyTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Even detectives need It was embarrassing when a break and for Kate Shackletonleading Malmo business man was kidnapped, photography gives her particularly as the police didn't know anything about it until the mental relaxation which she needsman was discovered afterwards, tied to a park bench in a cemetery. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outingHe was coy about how much ransom was paid, Kate but it was keen to take sufficient that he'd felt the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds pain of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the eventdigital transfers. What could be better than seeing her familyThat would have been bad enough, witnessing but a momentous event second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and having the opportunity pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to take photographs of find the setting for businessman ''Wuthering Heightsand''? to capture the kidnappers before they took anyone else. Nothing could go wrongWorse was to come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Or could Was one of his victims the murderer, or was itsomeone he was about to expose? [[A Snapshot of Murder Malice in Malmo: (Kate Shackleton MysteriesInspector Anita Sundstrom) by Frances BrodyTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]<!-- Harrold -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1408894319.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408894319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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===[[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
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As an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's telling us the truth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it's difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's in prison with a mandatory life sentence. Her only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera's not one to let herself be a victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the security of her life in prison for the sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an education and she's studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon|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]]<!-- Keeley Karin Fossum -->
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===[[The Whisperer by Karin Fossum]]===
===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]]
When we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's being held in custody because of a crime which she admits she's committed. Only, as we hear about Greta's life it seems that she's more sinned against than sinning. After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can't speak above a whisper and to add insult to injury she's been left with a horrible scar across her throat. She's done her best to make a go of her life though: she enjoys her work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people. [[The Whisperer by Karin Fossum|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]]<!-- Wilson Rachel Abbott -->
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===[[And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott]]===
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[[imageWe know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the story:4starwe begin by hearing how it's going to end and that someone must die.jpg|link=Category But that's just a hint:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[for the time being we're with two police persons. Stephanie's the sergeant and she has Jason, the probationer with her in the squad car, but Stephanie doesn't like where they're heading. The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it was because there was a dead body at the bottom of the stairs to the pool. This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]the omens are not good and when they enter the house they find two tangled, blood-soaked bodies in the bed. They both look dead, but one of them moves - it's Evie Clark and she confesses to killing her partner. [[:Category:TeensAnd So It Begins by Rachel Abbott|TeensFull Review]]
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]]<!-- Haig Mick Herron -->
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===[[The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Mick Herron]]===
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[[image:5starWhen you've done a job for any length of time, the memory, the instincts of it stay with you and they're impossible to forget.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] It was the same with Solomon Dortmund, [[a retired spy:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. Shewhen he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after the truthretired spooks. You might think this is Bachelor has problems of his own: the closest he comes to a good thing because telling lies home is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice back seat of his car and sometimes a white lie is okay and sometimes ithe's better to say nothing at allrun out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the night. You might not want The best he can do with Solomon's problem is to attract pass it on the attention of the school bully by calling him mean someone else and nasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone hope that you think their brand new haircut looks awfulthey'll deal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it. [[The Truth Pixie Drop: A Slough House Novella by Matt Haig and Chris MouldMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and Kingdom of the Eyeballs of Death Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by M B VincentLouise Penny]]===
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Dr Jess Castle, the self proclaimed failure It came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town estate of Castle Kidburya woman he'd never met. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her father Another villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, but the judgethird is a stranger to them both. Luckily for Jess, The mystery deepens when the will is read: given that the deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she doesn't would have to try too hard to dodge had the millions which she bequests at her familydisposal. Then a body is found. That's suspicions as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place and thatnot Gamache's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick only problem though: one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the investigationpolice academy for drug dealing, and the enquiry into the incident which led to her delight finds that she can actually be useful. But with his suspension as the head of the small population dwindling Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? outcome is looking increasingly ominous. [[Jess Castle and Kingdom of the Eyeballs of Death Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by M B VincentLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[Nothing Lasting The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Laura SolomonKate Atherley]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:HorrorCrafts|HorrorCrafts]], [[:Category:FantasyReference|FantasyReference]]
We never know I've been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with success. I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the mandozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. There hasn's name but lett been an occasion when I's call him ve been stuck and people have often come to ''Boyome''. Itfor help when 's what his mother used to call him, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alive, if not 'they'livingve'' as most people would understand itbeen stuck. She spends her days watching daytime television and drinking. Housework is Would a foreign country. When she dies sheknitter's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple dictionary really be of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues any help to haunt Boyo. me? She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonistI was surprised by just how much I got out of it. [[Nothing Lasting The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Laura SolomonKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Things Be Your Higher Self by Lauren OliverSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it'This is s not always easy to find the book you need. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with words hard work and even stories: there is never one truthdedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to understand why or how they can be overcome. Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the age of Aquarius and the ego. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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]] <!-- Albertelli Laura Solomon -->
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===[[What if It's Us Black Light by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''I believe in love at first sight[[image:3. Fate, the universe, all of it5star. 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.''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn''What If Itt got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's Usnever really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim' is one of those books that just gives you s in love with a boost when woman, but she finds him repulsive and you need it. A feel goodcan understand why: the looks, the attitude, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the collaboration (lack of Silvera ) conversational ability and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the other for tragedy – but they really work together wellclothing all leave a lot to be desired. Each takes a character Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked he reads excerpts from these to his friends inthe pub. [[What if It's Us Black Light by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) Redemptor Domus by Quentin BatesGamelyn Chase]]===
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Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties to become a bodyguard. It wasn't just A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the sheer inconvenience of it - away scenic North Wales coast, sent far from home for however long his family in the job took and with no contact with the family - she wasn't Far East. As the only one boy travels to have doubts about the man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strandschool, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself family tragedy causes the boy to helping refugees escape arrive at the carnage in their Middle Eastern homelandschool a vulnerable orphan, or a money-laundering gunrunnerwith an uncertain future. The truth was probably Plunged into a combination school full of danger and betrayal, the twoboy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. With them locked into their scheming and plotting, but whichever or whatever was correct, there's money on Osman's head and this is it comes to the reason why he and Gunna are holed boy to attempt to clean up in an isolated house outside Reykjavik, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and with a group the pit of armed police in a nearby housefilth that the school has become. [[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) Redemptor Domus by Quentin BatesGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[The Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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[[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 motherOn my travels around the world, who has engaged I have a therapist tendency to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issues. Evan's therapist assigns him the task of writing a daily letter to himself end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as a way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself and the world around him. But Connor Murphynext person, a rather scary boy at school, finds one of Evanwhat I'm really looking for is the 'local's letters and gets – the wrong end of cookbook maybe, the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoemaps definitely, but above all: the girl he has a crush on and who is Connorfolk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won's sistert need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel Long Path To Wisdom by Val EmmichJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer Pebble (Strong Winds series) by M C BeatonJulia Jones]]===
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St EthelredLiam isn's Church t ''quite'' the youngest in a large family: he doesn't have the idyllic Cotswold village distinction of Thirk Magna has a team of dedicated bell ringers, with being the keenest being twins Mavis baby anymore and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them theyhe doesn're preparing for t have the bishop's visit'heft'' of his older brothers and sisters. Now you might be expecting an older, perhaps He's rather grey man, like one of the pebbles on a large shingle beach: part of the mass but this bishop is a little differenteasily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. One description is He doesn'sex on legst want to bother his mother as she' s heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten when he asked his elder step- at first - but theresister, Anna, if she's the merest whiff of a scandal about the bishopll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. ItIn fairness she's the mystery got important exams and Liam's convinced that it's just a case of the bishopgetting spectacles, but Liam's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynby, who disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her body have ever been foundeyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer Pebble (Strong Winds series) by M C BeatonJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[Louisiana's Way Home So Many Doors by Kate DiCamillo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] It is the middle of the night when twelve year old Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they must leave home immediately. Granny is prone to middle of the night ideas so initially Louisiana is not too worried by this but then gradually she realises that this time it is different. This time Granny intends that they will never return. Separated from her friends, Raymie and Beverly and her cat, Archie, Louisiana is devastated and desperate. She is determined that she will find her way home somehow. But as her life becomes entwined with the people living in a small Georgia town Louisiana starts to worry about the ''curse'' Granny told her was upon her head and fears that she is destined only for goodbyes. [[Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo|Full Review]] <!-- Chadwick --> |-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:0349700249.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[XX by Angela ChadwickOakley Hall]]===
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Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisationall as V, is dead. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part Jack sits in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them his cell refusing to talk to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male interventionlawyer tasked with his defence. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and Starting at times disgraceful behaviour of the mediamurderous finale, and Hall skillfully weaves together the general publicstories of his key players, when faced with in a controversial technique that could lead to the demise tale of menlove spanning decades and states, marriages and tragedies. By the time the truth is revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[XX So Many Doors by Angela ChadwickOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Brian Anderson]]===
===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersHistory|History]], [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Biography|Confident ReadersBiography]]
Betsy K Glory lives Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a rather wonderful life crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on a peaceful island where nothing horrible ever happenssame-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Her fatherBetween 1891 and 1908, Alonso, makes three books on the most wonderful ice cream in every flavour you could imaginenature of homosexuality appeared. Her mother, Myrtle, is a mermaid They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and comes to visit regularlyJohn Addington Symonds, although she still lives in as well as the seaheterosexual Havelock Ellis. Betsy dreams Exploring the margins of two things: firstlysociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the circus owned by a tiger publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and whether it would ever come to her island beginning the struggle for recognition and secondlyequality, about a magical ice cream made from leading to the berries milestone legalisation of the Gongalong bushsame-sex relationships in 1967. One scoop [[The Fraternity of this ice cream can make wishes come true.the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Brian Anderson|Full Review]]
And then Mr Tiger and his circus arrive. And a journey is planned...[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] Tweet scheduled for 9.15clare@headofzeus.com <!-- Davies Amy Patricia Meade -->
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===[[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Deborah Kay DaviesAmy Patricia Meade]]===
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This Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, when the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her way. It's a quiet but remarkable storybit of a poisoned chalice, written in a style reminiscent more ways than one, as the head of E. Mthe library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. Forster In fact, when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, there'[Tirzah and the Prince s no shortage of Crowssuspects. It's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she' has no great and stirring action s a Darlington, you see), but rather small ripples that she actively goes out of her way to make a huge impactlife difficult for anyone she encounters. Tirzah is The town might be heaving a young girl collective sigh of sixteen raised relief (except not in a small Welsh town front of the sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in the 1970s by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious community. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as meal she tries 'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to decide who she wants come to be, and what she wants to do with her lifecafe once it's opened. [[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Deborah Kay DaviesAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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The problem with a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results from your labours is also traditionalDandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashionedbut Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection They were there to meet the family of patterns from todayMallory, her son Donald's top designersfiancee. As a word of warningIt wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, if you read but that Mallory was rather ''Modern Patchwork Magazineold'' you may well find that therefor him at thirty. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn's nothing new t the sharpest pin in the bookcushion. All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's mother, but if you're new it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from engagement when the back cataloguenews arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room by Vivika DeNegre A Step So Grave (EditorDandy Gilver)by Catriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chaos Empire of Now Sand by Erin Lange]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Eli, a talented hacker, is one of those people who manage to fly below the radar. When new friends offer him the chance to enter a prestigious competition he soon realises this golden opportunity has a sting in its tail. How many people can hand on heart say that they have not made mistakes? Most people are fortunate not to have a permanent online reminder, the very presence of which refuses to allow you to adapt, to change, to grow. Eli has a few mistakes skulking online, moments of madness that if discovered would change his life forever. [[The Chaos of Now by Erin Lange|Full Review]] <!-- Clár Ní Chonghaile -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1787198146.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787198146/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Reckoning by Clar Ni ChonghaileTasha Suri]]===
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As Mehr is a girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from the ruling classes of the blurb saysempire but her mother's people were outcasts, ''In a cottage in NormandyAmrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the sands. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Lina Rose Mehr is writing brought to the daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole attention of Chonghailethe Emperor's second novel is a series most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way 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 meetingan arranged marriage. [[The Reckoning Empire of Sand by Clar Ni ChonghaileTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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