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===[[Friends Like These by Sarah Alderson]]===
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[[image:4starLife in London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of a balancing act. She has a nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind is so busy processing what's going on She works in the world around you that you just 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-improvement. If they could only see her now. And, well, actually, they can't catch , although there’s a moment lot less of her to see than there once was. But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for the past and simply ''be''? Or that the outside world just won't stop pressing in upon an inner life that you'd like to be more peaceful? people from it. [[Beyond Thought Friends Like These by Chris DhladhlaSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Where the Truth Lies Malice in Malmo: (DI RidpathInspector Anita Sundstrom) by M J LeeTorquil MacLeod]]===
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DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as he doesnthe police didn't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, tied to have a promising future park bench in CID until he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months agoa cemetery. Hewas coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was sufficient that he's backd felt the pain of the digital transfers. That would have been bad enough, but a second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the word businessman ''cancerand'' leaves people doubting how well you really are, or are going to staycapture the kidnappers before they took anyone else. Perhaps it would be better if he quietly retired? His wife, Polly, would like Worse was to see him come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in a desk jobhis flat. Ridpath would like to be back in front-line policingWas one of his victims the murderer, but all that's available to him is a secondment for three months as Coroner's Officer. If that's how or was it's got someone he was about to be, then he'll do the best job he can. expose? [[Where the Truth Lies Malice in Malmo: (DI RidpathInspector Anita Sundstrom) by M J LeeTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales of Love and Disability Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
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I've 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 and keeps them coming back for more. There are far too many collections of short stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after you've read a couple of piecesI have murdered three husbands. I've recently read a couple of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] and enjoyed them, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form. [[Tales of Love and Disability by Laura Solomon|Full Review]] <!-- Frances Brody -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349414327.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349414327/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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]]
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===[[The Whisperer by Karin Fossum]]===
===[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]]
When we first meet Ragna we can''Tell them t understand what The Afterwards is about, they said.''<br>''Hopefully you know this, but..s going on. She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it'<br>''Its obvious that she's being held in custody because of a book with friendship in it.''<br>''Itcrime which she admits she's a book with death in itcommitted.''<br>''It Only, as we hear about Greta's a book with betrayal in life it.''<br>''Itseems that she's more sinned against than sinning. After a book with love in it.botched operation on her vocal chords she can''<br>''Itt speak above a whisper and to add insult to injury she's a book been left with a cat in ithorrible scar across her throat.''<br>''That She's what I knowdone 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.''<br>''That's what I can tell you.''<br>''That'll do me.''[[The Whisperer by Karin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott]]===
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We know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the story: we begin by hearing how it's going to end and that someone must die. But that's just a hint: 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: 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. [[And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott|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 Mick Herron -->
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===[[The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Mick Herron]]===
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When 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. It was the same with Solomon Dortmund, a retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after the retired spooks. Bachelor has problems of his own: the closest he comes to a home is the back seat of his car and he's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the night. The best he can do with Solomon's problem is to pass it on the someone else and hope that they'll deal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it. [[The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Mick Herron|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 Louise Penny -->
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===[[Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Louise Penny]]===
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[[imageIt came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the estate of a woman he'd never met. Another villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, but the third is a stranger to them both. The mystery deepens when the will is read:4stargiven that the deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal.jpg|link=Category Then a body is found. That's not Gamache's only problem though:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the police academy for drug dealing, and the enquiry into the incident which led to his suspension as the head of the Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and the outcome is looking increasingly ominous. [[:Category:TeensKingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Louise Penny|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 Kate Atherley -->
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===[[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Kate Atherley]]===
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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]I've been knitting for well over sixty years, [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixiefollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. She I's cursed! She canve knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I't speak unless it's m currently knitting blankets for a charity to tell the truthsell. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn There hasn't nice been an occasion when I've been stuck and sometimes people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. Would a white lie is okay and sometimes itknitter's better dictionary really be of any help to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the attention me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of the school bully by calling him mean and nasty, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think their brand new haircut looks awfulit. [[The Truth Pixie Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Matt Haig and Chris MouldKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death Be Your Higher Self by M B VincentSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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Dr Jess Castle, the There are a lot of self proclaimed failure -help books about: it's one of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to most thriving sections of the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delighted, her family are suspicious, especially her fatheraverage bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the judgebook you need. Luckily for Jess, she doesn Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self't have to try too hard to dodge her family's suspicions as , a series book which allows us all to make sense of gruesome local murders are taking our place and that's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally finds herself in the thick world, as most of the investigationus only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with hard work and dedication, obstacles present themselves and it's difficult to her delight finds that she understand why or how they can actually be usefulovercome. But with Ramjattan offers us a guide to the spirit world, the small population dwindling chakras, karma and reincarnation as well as information about the sense age of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made Aquarius and the ego. It's a grave mistake getting involvedslim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death Be Your Higher Self by M B VincentSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Things Black Light by Lauren OliverLaura Solomon]]===
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Jim is a university student and, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's never 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'This is d just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. Jim's in love with a woman, but she finds him repulsive and you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the problem with words clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and even storiesallow his life to drift: there is never one truthhe's actually writing ''two''novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Black Light by Laura Solomon|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 Chase -->
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===[[What if It's Us Redemptor Domus by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraGamelyn Chase]]===
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''I believe A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in love at first sightthe Far East. FateAs the boy travels to the school, a family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the universeschool a vulnerable orphan, all with an uncertain future. Plunged into a school full of itdanger and betrayal, the boy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. But not how you're thinking. I don't mean With them locked into their scheming and plotting, it in comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the our souls were split and you're my other half forever and ever sort pit of way. I just think you're meant to meet some people. I think filth that the universe nudges them into your pathschool has become.''[[Redemptor Domus by Gamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
''What If It's Us'' is one of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, fun and easy read. I was surprised at the collaboration of Silvera and Albertalli – one known for happy endings, the other for tragedy – but they really work together well. Each takes a character and their voices are so distinct, so real, that you are immediately sucked in. [[What if It's Us by Becky Albertelli and Adam Silvera|Full Review]] <!-- Quentin Bates Sendker -->
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===[[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) The Long Path To Wisdom by Quentin BatesJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties On my travels around the world, I have a tendency to become a bodyguard. It wasn't just the sheer inconvenience of it end up in any bookshop that is selling English- away from home for however long the job took language books, and with no contact with while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the family - she wasnnext person, what I't m really looking for is the only one to have doubts about 'local' – the man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strandcookbook maybe, Ali Osman was either a saint who devoted himself to helping refugees escape the carnage in their Middle Eastern homelandmaps definitely, or a money-laundering gunrunnerbut above all: the folk tales. The truth was probably a combination of the twoIf I ever get to Burma, but whichever or whatever was correct, thereI won's money on Osman's head and this is the reason why he and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavikt need to hunt, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and with a group of armed police in a nearby houseI can read before I go. [[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) The Long Path To Wisdom by Quentin BatesJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Julia Jones]]===
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[[imageLiam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in a large family:4he doesn't have the distinction of being the baby anymore and he doesn't have the ''heft'' of his older brothers and sisters.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends He's rather like one of the pebbles on a lot large shingle beach: part of time indoors by himselfthe mass but easily overlooked as an individual. This worries So when he starts having problems with his mother, who has engaged a therapist to try sight no one really takes any notice. He doesn't want to help Evan with bother his extreme anxiety issues. Evanmother as she's therapist assigns him heavily involved in the task of writing a daily letter to himself as a way of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself Luminal Festival and the world around when he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, if she'll take him for an eye test, she puts himoff. But Connor Murphy, a rather scary boy at school, finds one of Evan In fairness she's letters got important exams and gets the wrong end Liam's convinced that it's just a case of the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoegetting spectacles, the girl he has a crush on and who is Connorbut Liam's sistereyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[Dear Evan Hansen: The Novel Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Val EmmichJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer So Many Doors by M C BeatonOakley Hall]]===
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St Ethelred's Church Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the lawyer tasked with his defence. Starting at the murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the idyllic Cotswold village stories of Thirk Magna has his key players, in a team tale of dedicated bell ringers, with the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin love spanning decades and when we first meet them they're preparing for the bishop's visit. Now you might be expecting an olderstates, perhaps rather grey man, but this bishop is a little different. One description is 'sex on legs' marriages and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - at first - but there's the merest whiff of a scandal about the bishoptragedies. It's By the mystery of time the bishop's ex-fiancee, local heiress Jennifer Toynbytruth is revealed, V will be dead but who disappeared very suddenly and neither she nor her body have ever been found. else will lose their life? [[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer So Many Doors by M C BeatonOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] It is the middle The Fraternity 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 friendsEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 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 1891-1908 by Kate DiCamillo|Full ReviewBrian Anderson]] <!-- Chadwick --> |-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:0349700249.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349700249/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
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[[imageOriginally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men:5starEdward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Fraternity of the Estranged:Category:LGBT Fiction|LGBT Fiction]]The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, [[:Category:Science Fiction1891-1908 by Brian Anderson|Science FictionFull Review]]
Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores the possibility of two women being able to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-to-Ovum fertilisation. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial that would allow them to have a child of their own without the need for a sperm donor or any other male intervention. What follows is a story that shows the harshness and at times disgraceful behaviour of the media, and the general public, when faced with a controversial technique that could lead to the demise of men. [[XX by Angela Chadwick|Full Review]] <!-- Gardner Amy Patricia Meade -->
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===[[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade]]===
===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:5star4star.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 GardnerCrime|Full ReviewCrime]]
Tweet scheduled Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, when the opportunity to cater for 9the Library fundraiser comes her way.15clare@headofzeus It's a bit of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult.com In fact, when she's poisoned at the meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspects. It's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she's a Darlington, you see), but that she actively goes out of her way to make life difficult for anyone she encounters. The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in front of the sheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the fact that Binnie died face down in a meal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to her cafe once it's opened. [[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Deborah Kay DaviesCatriona McPherson]]===
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This is a quiet Dandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, but remarkable storyDandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the family of Mallory, written in a style reminiscent of Eher son Donald's fiancee. M. Forster, It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''[Tirzah and the Prince of Crowsyoung'' has no great and stirring action at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather small ripples that make a huge impact''old'' for him at thirty. Tirzah is There was also a young girl of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the 1970s by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious communitycushion. The book follows Tirzah All the doubts had faded into insignificance though a tumultuous year as she tries when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to decide who she wants to becelebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and what she wants Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to do with her lifeput an end to the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[Tirzah and the Prince of Crows A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Deborah Kay DaviesCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room Empire of Sand by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)Tasha Suri]]===
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The problem with Mehr is a craft which is largely based on traditional designs is that what results girl trapped between two cultures. Her father comes from your labours is also traditional, or - depending upon what light you shine on it - old-fashioned. Vivika DeNegre has curated a collection the ruling classes of patterns from todaythe empire but her mother's top designers. As a word people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of warning, if you read ''Modern Patchwork Magazine'' you may well find that there's nothing new in the booksands. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, but if you're new Mehr is brought to the magazine this could well prove to be a delightful collection from attention of the back catalogueEmperor's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage. [[Modern Patchwork Home: Dynamic Quilts and Projects for Every Room Empire of Sand by Vivika DeNegre (Editor)Tasha Suri|Full Review]]
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