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===[[Friends Like These by Sarah Alderson]]===
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[[image:RATEstarLife 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. 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-improvement. If they could only see her now.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]]And, well, actually, they can, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]although there’s a lot less of her to see than there once was. But yes, she doesn’t really have much time for the past and the people from it. [[:Category:Confident ReadersFriends Like These by Sarah Alderson|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page. Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky and his learning-disabled brother Kenny. Their mum is coming to visit - the mum who abandoned them a long time ago. They haven't seen her for years and the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger. [[Lark by Anthony McGowan|Full Review]]<!-- Lisa Regan Torquil MacLeod -->
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===[[Her Final Confession Malice in Malmo: (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Lisa ReganTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Detective Josie Quinn is no longer Chief of PoliceIt was embarrassing when a leading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the police didn't know anything about it until the man was discovered afterwards, but tied to a park bench in many ways that's something of a reliefcemetery. He was coy about how much ransom was paid, although but it does mean was sufficient that she doesnhe't quite have d felt the pain of the autonomy that she haddigital transfers. It also means that the other detectives That would have been bad enough, but a habit of calling second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her colleagues was to find the businessman ''bossand'' to capture the kidnappers before they took anyone else. It's the autonomy bit that strikes home though when she has Worse was to watch a fellow officer being arrested for a cold-blooded murder, but what other conclusion can you come to though when the officer goes missing, her vehicle and phone are off the radar and there's the body of a young man an investigative journalist was found murdered in her driveway? his flat. Josie Quinn can't believe that Gretchen - Was one of his victims the woman she brought onto the Denton police force - could be guilty of such a crimemurderer, but she and Noah Fraley are not going or was it someone he was about to have much time to prove that Gretchen is innocent, and Gretchen doesn't seem inclined to help them. expose? [[Her Final Confession Malice in Malmo: (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Lisa ReganTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder Vera Magpie by Roy LewisLaura Solomon]]===
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Jenny Carson was just nine years old when she was ''I have murdered whilst taking a shortcut through Kenton Woodsthree husbands. Her father blamed lawyer Charles Lendon for her death - not that he thought he was physically responsible, but because Lendon had refused to allow the local children to use his driveway as a shortcut to school, forcing them to cut through the woods if they were late. Lendon wasn't a popular man - he would say that lawyers never are - partly because of his attitudes, but his incessant womanising had made him a lot of enemies. When Lendon was murdered a couple of months after Jenny's death, there was no shortage of suspects. [[The Woods Murder by Roy Lewis|Full Review]]<!-- Betty Rowlands -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B07GX7KGVR.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GX7KGVR/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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===[[Salvation The Whisperer by Peter F HamiltonKarin Fossum]]===
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Apparently the term When we first meet Ragna we can't understand what'space operas going on. She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it' was coined s obvious that she's being held in 1941 as custody because of a pejorativecrime which she admits she's committed. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art formOnly, but from the common or garden as we hear about Greta'soap operas life it seems that she's more sinned against than sinning. It related to After a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as 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'hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn''. It would be fifty years later before the term started s done her best to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes make a go of distant futures, military conflict, heroism her life though: she enjoys her work in a shop and a simplistic set has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentcommunicating with people. [[Salvation The Whisperer by Peter F HamiltonKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass And So It Begins by Susan FletcherRachel Abbott]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'We know there's something very strange going on as soon as we join the story: these days we begin by hearing how it would probably be called brittle bone disease 's going to end and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advancedthat someone must die. At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant But that Clara was confined to her home, living life through 's just a window and hint: for the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought hometime being we're with two police persons. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones Stephanie's the sergeant and she has Jason, the probationer with her in the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would 'squad car, but Stephanie doesn'list bones t like continents'where they're heading. Clara would only escape The house is stunning, but the house after her motherlast 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 death - of been a 999 call with a tumour at woman screaming for help: the omens are not good and when they enter the age of thirty nine house they find two tangled, blood- and soaked bodies in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardensthe bed. Her growing knowledge They both look dead, but one of tropical plants led them moves - it's Evie Clark and she confesses to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershirekilling her partner. [[House of Glass And So It Begins by Susan FletcherRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[Under the Ice (DCI Jansen) The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Rachael BlokMick Herron]]===
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ItWhen you's eleven days to Christmas and the cathedral city of St Albans is looking particularly festive with ve done a covering job for any length of snowtime, but this belies the atmosphere: memory, the body instincts of a young girl has been found frozen in the local lakeit stay with you and they're impossible to forget. DCI JansenIt was the same with Solomon Dortmund, a retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he knows exactly what he's only lead comes from Jenny Brennan - but can you put any credence seeing and he passes this on statements made by John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after the sleep-deprived mother retired spooks. Bachelor has problems of his own: the closest he comes to a four month old child, particularly one who claims to have seen visions? Can you believe her statements that shehome is the back seat of his car and he's been sleep-walking in the middle run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the night when she find evidence that the police have missed? . When another girl goes missing The best he can do with Solomon's problem is to pass it on the tiny city is in melt-down someone else and for Jenny hope that they'll deal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it all seems close to home. Far too close to home. [[Under the Ice (DCI Jansen) The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Rachael BlokMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[The Light Between Worlds Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Laura WeymouthLouise Penny]]===
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Five years ago Evelyn, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped to the safety It came as something of their air raid shelter a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as bombs fell all around liquidator in the streets estate of Londona woman he'd never met. In Another villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, but the terrifying darkness waiting for their parents third is a stranger to join them, Evelyn prayed to be anywhere elseboth. A plea The mystery deepens when the will is read: given that the deceased was answered by The Woodlandsa cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal. One moment in grey London and the next surrounded by Then a rich green forestbody is found. That's not Gamache's only problem though: one of his protégées, Amelia Choquet, has been expelled from the three children were transported from one world trapped in warpolice academy for drug dealing, and the enquiry into the incident which led to another his suspension as the head of the Sûreté in Quebec is dragging on and the brink of its ownoutcome is looking increasingly ominous. [[The Light Between Worlds Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Laura WeymouthLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[Clownfish The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Alan DurantKate Atherley]]===
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When DakI's dad dies very suddenlyve been knitting for well over sixty years, from a heart attackfollowing patterns of varying complexity with success. I've knit Aran sweaters, Dak is left feeling lost socks by the dozen and aloneI'm currently knitting blankets for a charity to sell. His mum is lost inside her own grief, struggling There hasn't been an occasion when I've been stuck and people have often come to take care of herself, let alone care ''me'' for Dak, and so he escapes to the local aquarium - somewhere that both he and his dad had lovedhelp when ''they've'' been stuck. But then he discovers that actually, his dad has turned into Would a clownfish and is living at the local aquarium! What will Dak do when the aquariumknitter's future is in question, and he may potentially lose his dad all over againdictionary really be of any help to me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of it. [[Clownfish The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Alan DurantKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan]]===
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[[imageThere are a lot of self-help books about:5starit's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] 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 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]]
Kel Crow lives with a heart defect that could kill her at any time. Her only hope is to escape the floodridden, waterlogged Cornish world she lives in, to leave her drug-running family far behind, and get to America with enough money for an operation. She has a plan: stowaway on a ship, kidnap a rich girl, exchange the girl for enough money for the journey to America and the surgery that will change her life. [[Only the Ocean by Natasha Carthew |Full Review]]<!-- Blake Laura Solomon -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns Black Light by Kendare BlakeLaura Solomon]]===
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''You cannot put on Jim is a costume university student and become something else. You are a queen of Fennbirn island, as the saying goes, he hasn't got his troubles to seek.'' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] His father committed suicide when he was young and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], in ''Two Dark Reigns'somehow he' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles s never really managed to fightconnect with his step-father. All her life 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, Katharine has dreamed of being the great Queen the island of Fennbirn deservesbut Jim does his best with and for him. Having won the crown though Jim's in love with a woman, but she is facing trial after difficult trial finds him repulsive and murmurs you can understand why: the looks, the attitude, the (lack of dissent ) conversational ability and revolution grow louder on the streets each clothing all leave a lot to be desired. Despite all that's he's not about to sit back and every day. And without evidence of her sistersallow his life to drift: he's actually writing ''two'' death does anyone but herself novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the old queens buried under her skin, believe she is the one true Queen? pub. [[Two Dark Reigns Black Light by Kendare BlakeLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light Redemptor Domus by Jodi PicoultGamelyn Chase]]===
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The Center is A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the last remaining abortion clinic scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the state of Mississippi and is Far East. As the source of great controversy when it comes boy travels to the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debate. It is at The Center where one manschool, George Goddard, takes it upon himself a family tragedy causes the boy to get revenge for arrive at the loss of his grandchildschool a vulnerable orphan, in the form of a mass-shootingwith an uncertain future. What arises is Plunged into a novel that details the lives school full of danger and betrayal, the remaining hostages, boy is seen as well as other characters central to the storya trophy by friends and enemies alike. One of these characters is Hugh McElroyWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, a hostage negotiator called in it comes to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister and daughter, Wren, happened boy to attempt to be at clean up the clinic pit of filth that daythe school has become. [[A Spark of Light Redemptor Domus by Jodi PicoultGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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The investigation into On my travels around the thefts of farm machinery has been going on for months and it's getting DI Tim Yates down: he can't see where world, I have a tendency to go next. It's almost a relief when Jack Fovargueend up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, agricultural entrepreneur and local celebrity is assaulted in while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the streetnext person, but no one can understand why Fovargue what I'm really looking for is so reluctant to help the police with their enquiries'local' – the cookbook maybe, or to press chargesthe maps definitely, particularly when a police officer was also assaulted. Yates is then diverted into the investigation which followed the discovery of the headless body of a woman in a canal near Lincolnbut above all: it's an interesting case but the downside is that the senior investigating officer is DI Michael Robinsonfolk tales. TheyIf I ever get to Burma, I won're contemporaries but Robinson is bumptious and inclined t need to taking credit for other people's effortshunt, I can read before I go. [[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) The Long Path To Wisdom by Christina JamesJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[A Clean Death Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Adriaan VerheulJulia Jones]]===
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Three very different men meet Liam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in a large family: he doesn't have the distinction of being the jungle, led there by fate. Davey sees conspiracies everywhere, Oliver seeks answers about baby anymore and he doesn't have the death ''heft'' of his father, older brothers and Captain Christmas leads sisters. He's rather like one of the pebbles on a community large shingle beach: part of armed men, women and children, hidden far from justice in the forestmass but easily overlooked as an individual. As So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. He doesn't want to bother his mother as she's heavily involved in the three men are brought togetherLuminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, the events could cause each to lose something of consequence: maybe illusionAnna, maybe convictionif she'll take him for an eye test, she puts him off. In fairness she's got important exams and maybe, Liam's convinced that it's just maybea case of getting spectacles, life itself… but Liam's eyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[A Clean Death Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Adriaan VerheulJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[So Many Doors by Oakley Hall]]===
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Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is so busy processing what's going on dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the world around you that you just can't catch lawyer tasked with his defence. Starting at the murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories of his key players, in a moment tale of love spanning decades and simply ''states, marriages and tragedies. By the time the truth is revealed, V will be''? Or that the outside world just won't stop pressing in upon an inner dead but who else will lose their life that you'd like to be more peaceful? [[Beyond Thought So Many Doors by Chris DhladhlaOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Where The Fraternity of the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by M J LeeBrian Anderson]]===
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DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath as he doesn't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked to have Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a promising future crime remained in CID until he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months agoplace for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. He's backBetween 1891 and 1908, but three books on the word ''cancer'' leaves people doubting how nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well you really are, or are going to stayas the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Perhaps it would be better if he quietly retired? His wifeExploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, Pollybut barely talked about in the UK, would like so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to see him in a desk job. Ridpath would like to be back in front-line policingthe scientific understanding of homosexuality, but all that's available to him is a secondment and beginning the struggle for three months as Coroner's Officer. If that's how it's got recognition and equality, leading to be, then he'll do the best job he canmilestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. [[Where The Fraternity of the Truth Lies (DI Ridpath) Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by M J LeeBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales of Love and Disability Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Laura SolomonAmy Patricia Meade]]===
[[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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]] 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 -->|-| 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]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  ''Tell them what The Afterwards is about, they said.''<br>''Hopefully you know this, but...''<br>''It's a book with friendship in it.''<br>''It's a book with death in it.''<br>''It's a book with betrayal in it.''<br>''It's a book with love in it.''<br>''It's a book with a cat in it.''<br>''That's what I know.''<br>''That's what I can tell you.''<br>''That'll do me.'' To be honest, I'd be surprised if that wouldn't do you, too.[[The Afterwards by A F Harrold and Emily Gravett|Full Review]]<!-- Vanston -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1911569740.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1911569740/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Santa Goes on Strike by Jem Vanston]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For 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]]<!-- Keeley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789017165.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789017165/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Coming of the Spirits by Rob Keeley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
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 bit of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as the head of the library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. 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]]
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 Catriona McPherson -->
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===[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Snowglobe by Amy Wilson:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]===
[[image:4starDandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. They were there to meet the family of Mallory, her son Donald's fiancee. It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. There was also a niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the cushion.jpg|link=Category All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]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 daughter. Dandy and Hugh were considering whether or not they should try to put an end to the engagement when the news arrived that Lady Lavinia had been found dead. [[:Category:TeensA Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|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 Suri -->
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===[[Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Truth Pixie by Matt Haig and Chris Mould:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]===
[[image:5starMehr is a girl trapped between two cultures.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Poor old Truth Pixie. SheHer father comes from the ruling classes of the empire but her mother's cursed! She can't speak unless it's to tell people were outcasts, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the truthsands. You might think this is a good thing because telling lies is badCaught one night performing these forbidden rites, right? But sometimes the truth isn't nice and sometimes a white lie Mehr is okay and sometimes it's better brought to say nothing at all. You might not want to attract the attention of the school bully by calling him mean and nastyEmperor's most feared mystics, for example, or you might not want to tell someone that you think who force her into their brand new haircut looks awfulservice by way of an arranged marriage. [[The Truth Pixie Empire of Sand by Matt Haig and Chris MouldTasha Suri|Full Review]]
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