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===[[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) Friends Like These by Lisa ReganSarah Alderson]]===
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Detective Josie Quinn is no longer Chief of Police, but Life in many ways that's something of a reliefLondon isn’t always glam, although it does mean that she doesn't quite have the autonomy that she hadespecially if you’re young and underpaid. It also means that the other detectives have For Lizzie it’s all a habit bit of calling her 'boss'a balancing act. It's the autonomy bit that strikes home though when she She has to watch a fellow officer being arrested for a cold-blooded murder, nice home but what other conclusion can you come it technically belongs to when her room-mate’s parents. She works in the officer goes missingentertainment industry, but her vehicle and phone are off the radar and there's the body of a young man in 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 driveway? Josie Quinn now. And, well, actually, they can't believe that Gretchen - the woman she brought onto the Denton police force - could be guilty , although there’s a lot less of such a crimeher to see than there once was. But yes, but she and Noah Fraley are not going to doesn’t really have much time to prove that Gretchen is innocent, for the past and Gretchen doesn't seem inclined to help themthe people from it. [[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) Friends Like These by Lisa ReganSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Roy LewisTorquil MacLeod]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] Jenny Carson was just nine years old when she was murdered whilst taking a shortcut through Kenton Woods. 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]]
It 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, tied to a park bench in a cemetery. He was coy about how much ransom was paid, but it was sufficient that he'd 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 businessman ''and'' to capture the kidnappers before they took anyone else. Worse was to come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in his flat. Was one of his victims the murderer, or was it someone he was about to expose? [[Malice in Malmo: (Inspector Anita Sundstrom) by Torquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation Vera Magpie by Peter F HamiltonLaura Solomon]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science General Fiction|Science General Fiction]] Apparently the term ''space opera'' was coined in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from the high-brow musical art form, but from the common or garden 'soap opera'. It related to a particular kind of science fiction which the coiner (one Wilson Tucker) described as a ''hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn''. It would be fifty years later before the term started to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes of distant futures, military conflict, heroism and a simplistic set of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as compliment. [[Salvation by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]] <!-- Susan Fletcher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0349007640.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0349007640/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
''I have murdered three husbands.''
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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cure, treatments have advanced. At the beginning of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living life through a window and the tales her mother, Charlotte, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape the house after her mother's death - of a tumour at the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge of tropical plants led to the offer of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershire. [[House of Glass by Susan Fletcher|Full Review]] <!-- Rachael Blok Karin Fossum -->
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===[[Under the Ice (DCI Jansen) The Whisperer by Rachael BlokKarin Fossum]]===
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ItWhen we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. She's eleven days talking to Christmas Inspector Konrad Sejer and the cathedral city it's obvious that she's being held in custody because of St Albans is looking particularly festive with a covering of snow, but this belies the atmosphere: the body of a young girl has been found frozen in the local lakecrime which she admits she's committed. DCI JansenOnly, as we hear about Greta's only lead comes from Jenny Brennan - but life it seems that she's more sinned against than sinning. After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can you put any credence on statements made by the sleep-deprived mother of 't speak above a four month old child, particularly one who claims whisper and to add insult to have seen visions? Can you believe her statements that injury she's been sleep-walking in the middle left with a horrible scar across her throat. She's done her best to make a go of the night when her life though: she find evidence that the police have missed? When another girl goes missing the tiny city is enjoys her work in melt-down a shop and for Jenny it all seems close to home. Far too close to homehas learned ways of coping with the difficulties of communicating with people. [[Under the Ice (DCI Jansen) The Whisperer by Rachael BlokKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[The Light Between Worlds And So It Begins by Laura WeymouthRachel Abbott]]===
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Five years ago Evelyn, Philippa 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 James Hapwell escaped to that someone must die. But that's just a hint: for the time being we're with two police persons. Stephanie's the safety of their air raid shelter as bombs fell all around sergeant and she has Jason, the streets of London. In probationer with her in the terrifying darkness waiting for their parents to join themsquad car, Evelyn prayed to be anywhere elsebut Stephanie doesn't like where they're heading. A plea that The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it was because there was answered by The Woodlandsa dead body at the bottom of the stairs to the pool. One moment in grey London This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help: the omens are not good and when they enter the next surrounded by a rich green foresthouse they find two tangled, blood-soaked bodies in the three children were transported from bed. They both look dead, but one world trapped in war, of them moves - it's Evie Clark and she confesses to another on the brink of its ownkilling her partner. [[The Light Between Worlds And So It Begins by Laura WeymouthRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[Clownfish The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Alan DurantMick Herron]]===
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When Dakyou's dad dies very suddenlyve done a job for any length of time, from a heart attackthe memory, Dak is left feeling lost the instincts of it stay with you and alonethey're impossible to forget. His mum is lost inside her own griefIt was the same with Solomon Dortmund, struggling to take care of herself, let alone care for Dak, and so a retired spy: when he watches a woman making a drop he escapes to the local aquarium - somewhere that both knows exactly what he 's seeing and his dad had loved. But then he discovers that actuallypasses this on John Batchelor, the man charged with looking after the retired spooks. Bachelor has problems of his dad has turned into own: the closest he comes to a clownfish home is the back seat of his car and is living at he's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the local aquarium! night. What will Dak The best he can do when the aquariumwith Solomon's future problem is in question, to pass it on the someone else and he may potentially lose his dad all over again? hope that they'll deal with it/solve the problem/quietly forget about it. [[Clownfish The Drop: A Slough House Novella by Alan DurantMick Herron|Full Review]]
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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:5stargiven 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]] 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]]
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 Kate Atherley -->
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===[[Two Dark Reigns The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Kendare BlakeKate Atherley]]===
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I've been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with success. I'You cannot put on a costume ve knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and become something else. You are I'm currently knitting blankets for a queen of Fennbirn islandcharity to sell. There hasn't been an occasion when I' Following on from [[Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake|Three Dark Crowns]] ve been stuck and its sequel [[One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake|One Dark Throne]], in people have often come to ''me'' for help when ''Two Dark Reignsthey've' each of the Goddess' daughters have their own battles to fightbeen stuck. All her life, Katharine has dreamed Would a knitter's dictionary really be of being the great Queen the island of Fennbirn deserves. Having won the crown though, she is facing trial after difficult trial and murmurs any help to me? I was surprised by just how much I got out of dissent and revolution grow louder on the streets each and every dayit. And without evidence of her sisters' death does anyone but herself and the old queens buried under her skin, believe she is the one true Queen? [[Two Dark Reigns The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Kendare BlakeKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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===[[A Spark of Light Be Your Higher Self by Jodi PicoultSamesh Ramjattan]]===
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The Center is There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the last remaining abortion clinic in the state most thriving sections of Mississippi and is the source of great controversy when average bookshop, but it comes 's not always easy to find the Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice debatebook you need. It is at The Center where one man Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', George Goddard, takes it upon himself a book which allows us all to get revenge for the loss make sense of his grandchild, our place in the form world, as most of a mass-shootingus 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. What arises is Ramjattan offers us a novel that details guide to the lives of spirit world, the remaining hostageschakras, karma and reincarnation as well as other characters central to information about the story. One age of these characters is Hugh McElroy, a hostage negotiator called in to help deflate the situation, who soon discovers that his sister Aquarius and daughter, Wren, happened to be at the clinic that dayego. It's a slim book - just 128 pages - so can it provide us with the answers we seek? [[A Spark of Light Be Your Higher Self by Jodi PicoultSamesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) Black Light by Christina JamesLaura Solomon]]===
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The investigation into Jim is a university student and, as the thefts of farm machinery has been going on for months and it's getting DI Tim Yates down: saying goes, he canhasn't see where got his troubles to go nextseek. ItHis father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he's almost a relief when Jack Fovarguenever 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, agricultural entrepreneur but Jim does his best with and local celebrity is assaulted for him. Jim's in the streetlove with a woman, but no one she finds him repulsive and you can understand why Fovargue is so reluctant to help : the police with their enquirieslooks, or to press chargesthe attitude, particularly when a police officer was also assaulted. Yates is then diverted into the investigation which followed the discovery (lack of ) conversational ability and the headless body of clothing all leave a woman in a canal near Lincoln: itlot to be desired. Despite all that's an interesting case but the downside is that the senior investigating officer is DI Michael Robinson. Theyhe're contemporaries but Robinson is bumptious s not about to sit back and inclined allow his life to taking credit for other peopledrift: he's effortsactually writing ''two'' novels and he reads excerpts from these to his friends in the pub. [[Gentleman Jack (DI Yates 7) Black Light by Christina JamesLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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Three very different men meet A young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the jungle, led there by fateFar East. Davey sees conspiracies everywhereAs the boy travels to the school, Oliver seeks answers about a family tragedy causes the death of his fatherboy to arrive at the school a vulnerable orphan, and Captain Christmas leads with an uncertain future. Plunged into a community school full of armed men, women danger and childrenbetrayal, hidden far from justice in the forestboy is seen as a trophy by friends and enemies alike. As the three men are brought togetherWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, it comes to the events could cause each boy to attempt to lose something clean up the pit of consequence: maybe illusion, maybe conviction, and maybe, just maybe, life itself… filth that the school has become. [[A Clean Death Redemptor Domus by Adriaan VerheulGamelyn Chase|Full Review]]
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[[imageOn my travels around the world, I have a tendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the next person, what I'm really looking for is the 'local' – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all:4starthe folk tales. If I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, I can read before I go.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleThe Long Path To Wisdom by Jan-Philipp Sendker|LifestyleFull Review]]
Have you ever felt trapped by your own thoughts? That your mind is so busy processing what's going on in the world around you that you just can't catch a moment 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? [[Beyond Thought by Chris Dhladhla|Full Review]] <!-- M J Lee Julia Jones -->
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===[[Where the Truth Lies Pebble (DI RidpathStrong Winds series) by M J LeeJulia Jones]]===
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DI Thomas Ridpath - call him Ridpath as Liam isn't ''quite'' the youngest in a large family: he doesn't think Tom or Thomas suits him - looked to have a promising future in CID until the distinction of being the baby anymore and he was forced to take extended sick leave nine months ago. Hedoesn's back, but t have the word ''cancerheft'' leaves people doubting how well you really are, or are going to stayof his older brothers and sisters. Perhaps it would be better if he quietly retired? His wife, Polly, would He's rather like to see him in one of the pebbles on a desk joblarge shingle beach: part of the mass but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one really takes any notice. Ridpath would like He doesn't want to be back bother his mother as she's heavily involved in frontthe Luminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-line policingsister, but all thatAnna, if she's available to ll take him is a secondment for three months as Coroneran eye test, she puts him off. In fairness she's Officer. If thatgot important exams and Liam's how convinced that it's got to bejust a case of getting spectacles, then hebut Liam'll do the best job he cans eyes are changing in a rather strange way. [[Where the Truth Lies Pebble (DI RidpathStrong Winds series) by M J LeeJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[Tales of Love and Disability So Many Doors by Laura SolomonOakley Hall]]===
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I've always believed that less-able writers produce longer books: it takes a great deal of skill and talent Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is dead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to write a short story which holds the reader and keeps them coming back for morelawyer tasked with his defence. There are far too many collections of short Starting at the murderous finale, Hall skillfully weaves together the stories which are all too easy to put down and forget after you've read a couple of pieces. I've recently read his key players, in a couple tale of novellas by Laura Solomon - [[Marsha's Deal by Laura Solomon|Marsha's Deal]] love spanning decades and [[Hell's Unveiling by Laura Solomon|Hell's Unveiling]] states, marriages and enjoyed themtragedies. By the time the truth is revealed, so I was intrigued to see what she could do with an even shorter form. V will be dead but who else will lose their life? [[Tales of Love and Disability So Many Doors by Laura SolomonOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[A Snapshot The Fraternity of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Frances BrodyBrian Anderson]]=== [[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[[image:5star. 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? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton Mysteries) by Frances Brody:Category:History|Full ReviewHistory]]<!-- Harrold -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align, [[: top; text-alignCategory: center;"Reference|Reference]], [[image:1408894319.jpgCategory:Biography|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408894319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21Biography]]
Originally 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: Edward 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. [[The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Brian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Amy Patricia Meade]]===
===[[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 ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]]
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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