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===[[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) Friends Like These by Christina JamesSarah Alderson]]===
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The investigation into the thefts Life in London isn’t always glam, especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of farm machinery a balancing act. She has been going on for months and a nice home but it's getting DI Tim Yates down: he can't see where technically belongs to go nexther room-mate’s parents. It's almost a relief when Jack Fovargue, agricultural entrepreneur and local celebrity is assaulted She works in the streetentertainment industry, but no 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 understand why Fovargue is so reluctant to help the police with their enquiries, or although there’s a lot less of her to press charges, particularly when a police officer see than there once was also assaulted. Yates is then diverted into But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for the investigation which followed past and the discovery of the headless body of a woman in a canal near Lincoln: people from it's an interesting case but the downside is that the senior investigating officer is DI Michael Robinson. They're contemporaries but Robinson is bumptious and inclined to taking credit for other people's efforts. [[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) Friends Like These by Christina JamesSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[A Clean Death Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Adriaan VerheulTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Three very different men meet in It was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the police didn't know anything about it until the jungleman was discovered afterwards, led there by fatetied to a park bench in a cemetery. Davey sees conspiracies everywhere He was coy about how much ransom was paid, Oliver seeks answers about but it was sufficient that he'd felt the death pain of his fatherthe digital transfers. That would have been bad enough, and Captain Christmas leads but a community of armed men, women second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and children, hidden far from justice in the forest. As pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the three men are brought together, businessman ''and'' to capture the events could cause each kidnappers before they took anyone else. Worse was to lose something come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Was one of consequence: maybe illusionhis victims the murderer, maybe conviction, and maybe, just maybe, life itself… or was it someone he was about to expose? [[A Clean Death Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Adriaan VerheulTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Vera Magpie by Laura Solomon]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]===
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Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind is so busy processing whatAs an opening line that must take some beating, but Vera's going on in telling us the world around you that you just cantruth. The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it't catch a moment s difficult to understand why Vera would have killed him, particularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and simply 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 bea victim. She's not keen on having a sexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn'? Or that t risk the outside world just won't stop pressing security of her life in upon prison for the sake of a fling), but she is keen on getting an inner life that youeducation and she'd like to be more peaceful? s studying for a degree in English Literature. [[Beyond Thought Vera Magpie by Chris DhladhlaLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Where the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) The Whisperer by M J LeeKarin Fossum]]===
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DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath as he doesnWhen we first meet Ragna we can't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked to have a promising future in CID until he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months agounderstand what's going on. HeShe's back, but the word talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she'cancer'' leaves people doubting how well you really are, or are going to stay. Perhaps it would be better if he quietly retired? His wife, Polly, would like to see him s being held in custody because of a desk jobcrime which she admits she's committed. Ridpath would like to be back in front-line policingOnly, but all as we hear about Greta's life it seems thatshe's available 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 him is a secondment for three months as Coronerinjury she's Officerbeen left with a horrible scar across her throat. If thatShe's how it's got done her best to be, then he'll do make a go of her life though: she enjoys her work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the best job he candifficulties of communicating with people. [[Where the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) The Whisperer by M J LeeKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales of Love and Disability And So It Begins by Laura SolomonRachel Abbott]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] 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 pieces. 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]] 
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[[imageWe 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:4for 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.5star 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.jpg|link=Category This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] 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:Crime (Historical)And So It Begins by Rachel Abbott|Crime (Historical)Full Review]]
Even detectives need a break and for Kate Shackleton, photography gives her the mental relaxation which she needs. When the local Photographic Society proposed an outing, Kate was keen to take the opportunity to visit Haworth and Stanbury, not least because the deeds of the Brontë Parsonage are being handed over so that it can become a museum and her parents will be there for the event. What could be better than seeing her family, witnessing a momentous event and having the opportunity to take photographs of the setting for ''Wuthering Heights''? Nothing could go wrong. Or could it? [[A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody|Full Review]]<!-- Harrold Mick Herron -->
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===[[The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Mick Herron]]===
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When you''Tell them what The Afterwards is aboutve done a job for any length of time, the memory, the instincts of it stay with you and they said.''<br>''Hopefully you know this, butre impossible to forget...''<br>'' It's was the same with Solomon Dortmund, a book with friendship in it.''<br>''It's retired spy: when he watches a book with death in it.''<br>''It's woman making a book with betrayal in it.''<br>''Itdrop he knows exactly what he's a book seeing and he passes this on John Batchelor, the man charged with love in itlooking after the retired spooks.''<br>''It's Bachelor has problems of his own: the closest he comes to a book with a cat in it.''<br>''Thathome is the back seat of his car and he's what I knowrun out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the night.''<br>''That The best he can do with Solomon's what I can tell you.''<br>''Thatproblem is to pass it on the someone else and hope that they'll do medeal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it.''[[The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Mick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Louise Penny]]===
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It 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: given that the deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal. Then a body is found. That's not Gamache's only problem though: 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. [[Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Louise Penny|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 Kate Atherley -->
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===[[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Kate Atherley]]===
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I've been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with success. I've knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''they've'' been stuck. Would a knitter's dictionary really be of any help to me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of it. [[The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Kate Atherley|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 Samesh Ramjattan -->
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===[[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan]]===
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[[imageThere are a lot of self-help books about:4starit's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it'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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Even with hard work and dedication, 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? [[:Category:TeensBe Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan|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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786894327.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786894327 /ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. She's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell the truth. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is bad, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a white lie is okay and sometimes it's better to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the attention 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 awful. [[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould|Full Review]] <!-- Vincent Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death Black Light by M B VincentLaura Solomon]]===
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Dr Jess CastleJim is a university student and, as the self proclaimed failure of the prestigious Castle family has returned home to the sleepy, idyllic chocolate box town of Castle Kidbury. Rather than being delightedsaying goes, her family are suspicious, especially her father, the judge. Luckily for Jess, she doesnhe hasn't have got his troubles to try too hard to dodge her familyseek. His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's suspicions never really managed to connect with his step-father. His younger brother would be kindly described as a series of gruesome local murders are taking place having learning difficulties: if you were being honest you'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and thatfor him. Jim's all anyone is talking about. Jess accidentally in love with a woman, but she finds herself in him repulsive and you can understand why: the thick of looks, the investigationattitude, the (lack of) conversational ability and the clothing all leave a lot to her delight finds be desired. Despite all that she can 's he's not about to sit back and allow his life to drift: he's actually be useful. But with the small population dwindling writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the sense of danger moving ever closer to home, has Jess made a grave mistake getting involved? pub. [[Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death Black Light by M B VincentLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Nothing Lasting Redemptor Domus by Laura SolomonGamelyn Chase]]===
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We never know A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. It's what his mother used As the boy travels to call himthe school, not least because he found it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his mother is alivea family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, if not ''living'' as most people would understand itwith an uncertain future. She spends her days watching daytime television Plunged into a school full of danger and drinking. Housework betrayal, the boy is seen as a foreign countrytrophy by friends and enemies alike. When she dies she's not missedWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in a mental hospital, but mainly because her ghost continues it comes to the boy to haunt Boyo. She wants him attempt to achieve something in his life: what she clean up the pit of filth that the school has in mind is that he could be a famous arsonistbecome. [[Nothing Lasting Redemptor Domus by Laura SolomonGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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===[[Broken Things The Long Path To Wisdom by Lauren OliverJan-Philipp Sendker]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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SummerOn my travels around the world, Mia and Brynn are obsessed with I have a novel called ''The Way into Lovelorn''. They begin tendency to believe it is real, end up in any bookshop that the world of Lovelorn is really materialising around themselling English-language books, and start writing their own fanwhile I buy as many second-fiction sequel. One dayhand escapist tales as the next person, Summer what I'm really looking for is violently murdered in the woods where they 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all played and everyone thinks Mia and Brynn did it: the folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go. [[Broken Things The Long Path To Wisdom by Lauren OliverJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[What if It's Us Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraJulia Jones]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
''I believe in love at first sight[[image:4. Fate, the universe5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], 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.''[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Liam isn't 'What If It's Usquite'' is one the youngest in a large family: he doesn't have the distinction of those books that just gives you a boost when you need it. A feel good, fun being the baby anymore and easy read. I was surprised at he doesn't have the collaboration ''heft'' of Silvera his older brothers and Albertalli – sisters. He's rather like one known for happy endings, of the pebbles on a large shingle beach: part of the other for tragedy – mass but they easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really work together welltakes any notice. Each takes a character He doesn't want to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and their voices are so distinctwhen he asked his elder step-sister, Anna, so realif she'll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. In fairness she's got important exams and Liam's convinced that you it's just a case of getting spectacles, but Liam's eyes are immediately sucked changing ina rather strange way. [[What if It's Us Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Becky Albertelli and Adam SilveraJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) So Many Doors by Quentin BatesOakley Hall]]===
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Gunna wasn't too keen when she was taken off police duties Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to become a bodyguardall as V, is dead. It wasn't just the sheer inconvenience of it - away from home for however long Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the job took and with no contact lawyer tasked with his defence. Starting at the family - she wasn't murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the only one to have doubts about the man she was guarding. Invited to Iceland by prominent politician Steinunn Strandstories of his key players, 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 tale of the two, but whichever or whatever was correctlove spanning decades and states, there's money on Osman's head marriages and this tragedies. By the time the truth is the reason why he and Gunna are holed up in an isolated house outside Reykjavikrevealed, with Gunna toting a gun under her fleece and with a group of armed police in a nearby house. V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Cold Breath (Gunnhildur Mystery) So Many Doors by Quentin BatesOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Brian Anderson]]===
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[[image:4Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years.5starBut during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Evan Hansen spends a lot Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of time indoors homosexuality appeared. They were written by himself. This worries his mothertwo homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, who has engaged a therapist to try to help Evan with his extreme anxiety issuesas well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Evan's therapist assigns him Exploring the task of writing a daily letter to himself as a way margins of getting Evan to think more constructively about himself society and studying homosexuality was common on the world around him. But Connor MurphyEuropean Continent, a rather scary boy at schoolbut barely talked about in the UK, finds one so the publications of Evan's letters and gets these men were hugely significant – contributing to the wrong end scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the stick because Evan has mentioned Zoestruggle for recognition and equality, leading to the girl he has a crush on and who is Connor's sistermilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[Dear Evan HansenThe Fraternity of the Estranged: The Novel Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Val EmmichBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by M C BeatonAmy Patricia Meade]]===
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St EthelredTish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin's Church in the idyllic Cotswold village of Thirk Magna has a team of dedicated bell ringersThe Books, with when the keenest being twins Mavis and Millicent Dupin and when we first meet them they're preparing opportunity to cater for the bishopLibrary fundraiser comes her way. It's visit. Now you might be expecting an oldera bit of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, perhaps rather grey manas the head of the library committee, but this bishop Binnie Broderick is a little differentdifficult. One description is In fact, when she'sex on legs' and even Agatha Raisin is a little smitten - s poisoned at first - but the meal Tish has catered, there's the merest whiff no shortage of a scandal about the bishopsuspects. It's the mystery of the bishopnot just that she feels herself to be superior (she's ex-fianceea Darlington, local heiress Jennifer Toynbyyou see), who disappeared very suddenly and neither but that she nor actively goes out of her body have ever been foundway 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. [[Agatha Raisin and the Dead Ringer Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by M C BeatonAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Louisiana's Way Home A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) 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 ChadwickCatriona McPherson]]===
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Angela Chadwick's debut novel explores Dandy Gilver and family had made the possibility of two women being able arduous journey to produce a baby girl through a process called Ovum-Wester Ross, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to-Ovum fertilisationmeet the family of Mallory, her son Donald's fiancee. It centres around Rosie and Jules who take part in the first ever clinical trial wasn't that would allow them Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to have be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. There was also a child of their own without niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the need for a sperm donor or any other male interventioncushion. What follows is a story that shows All the harshness and doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at times disgraceful behaviour Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's mother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the media, daughter. Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the general public, engagement when faced with a controversial technique the news arrived that could lead to the demise of menLady Lavinia had been found dead. [[XX A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Angela ChadwickCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri]]===
===[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersFantasy|Confident ReadersFantasy]]  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 Mehr is a journey is plannedgirl trapped between two cultures.Her father comes from the ruling classes of the empire but her mother's people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the sands.Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Mehr is brought to the attention of the Emperor's most feared mystics, who force her into their service by way of an arranged marriage.[[Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon Empire of Sand by Sally GardnerTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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