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===[[The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 Friends Like These by Brian AndersonSarah Alderson]]===
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Originally passed Life in 1885London isn’t always glam, the law that had made homosexual relations especially if you’re young and underpaid. For Lizzie it’s all a bit of a balancing act. She has a crime remained nice home but it technically belongs to her room-mate’s parents. She works in place for 82 yearsthe entertainment industry, but her job itself is probably not one you’d covet. But during this She doesn’t have much spare time, restrictions on samebut that’s because she’s been working through some self-sex relationships did not go unchallengedimprovement. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appearedIf they could only see her now. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington SymondsAnd, 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 UKactually, they can, so the publications although there’s a lot less of these men were hugely significant – contributing her to the scientific understanding of homosexualitysee than there once was. But yes, and beginning she doesn’t really have much time for the struggle for recognition past and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967people from it. [[The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 Friends Like These by Brian AndersonSarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Books Malice in Malmo: (Tish Tarragon MysteryInspector Anita Sundstrom) by Amy Patricia MeadeTorquil MacLeod]]===
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Tish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Cookin' The Books, It was embarrassing when the opportunity to cater for the Library fundraiser comes her way. It's a bit of a poisoned chalice, in more ways than oneleading Malmo business man was kidnapped, particularly as the head of police didn't know anything about it until the library committeeman was discovered afterwards, Binnie Broderick is difficulttied to a park bench in a cemetery. In factHe was coy about how much ransom was paid, when shebut it was sufficient that he's poisoned at d felt the meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage pain of suspectsthe digital transfers. It's not just that she feels herself to be superior (she's a Darlington, you see)That would have been bad enough, but that she actively goes out of a second businessman was snatched soon afterwards and the pressure on Inspector Anita Sundström and her way colleagues was to make life difficult for find the businessman ''and'' to capture the kidnappers before they took anyone she encounterselse. The town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not Worse was to come though when an investigative journalist was found murdered in front his flat. Was one of his victims the sheriffmurderer, 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 or was it someone he was about to come to her cafe once it's opened. expose? [[Cookin' The Books Malice in Malmo: (Tish Tarragon MysteryInspector Anita Sundstrom) by Amy Patricia MeadeTorquil MacLeod|Full Review]]
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===[[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) Vera Magpie by Catriona McPhersonLaura Solomon]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
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Dandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester RossAs an opening line that must take some beating, but Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrivedVera's telling us the truth. They The first two husbands, Gary and Harry were there abusive, but Larry was a treasure, a keeper, and it's difficult to meet the family of Malloryunderstand why Vera would have killed him, her son Donaldparticularly when she was likely to get found out very quickly and now she's fianceein prison with a mandatory life sentence. It wasnHer only friend is Shirley, a lesbian, but Vera't that Dandy thought Donald s not one to let herself be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, but that Mallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirtya victim. There was also She's not keen on having a niggling worry because Donald wasnsexual relationship with Shirley (she wouldn't risk the sharpest pin security of her life in prison for the cushion. All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the fiftieth birthday sake of Lady Laviniaa fling), Mallorybut she is keen on getting an education and she'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 deadstudying for a degree in English Literature. [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) Vera Magpie by Catriona McPhersonLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Sand The Whisperer by Tasha SuriKarin Fossum]]===
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Mehr is a girl trapped between two culturesWhen we first meet Ragna we can't understand what's going on. Her father comes from the ruling classes She's talking to Inspector Konrad Sejer and it's obvious that she's being held in custody because of the empire but her mothera crime which she admits she's people were outcastscommitted. Only, Amrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the sandsas we hear about Greta's life it seems that she's more sinned against than sinning. Caught one night performing these forbidden rites, Mehr is brought After a botched operation on her vocal chords she can't speak above a whisper and to add insult to the attention of the Emperorinjury she's been left with a horrible scar across her throat. She's most feared mystics, who force done her best to make a go of her life though: she enjoys her into their service by way work in a shop and has learned ways of coping with the difficulties of an arranged marriagecommunicating with people. [[Empire of Sand The Whisperer by Tasha SuriKarin Fossum|Full Review]]
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===[[Alternative Medicine And So It Begins by Laura SolomonRachel Abbott]]===
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Laura SolomonWe know there's publisher describes something very strange going on as soon as we join the short stories in story: we begin by hearing how it's going to end and that someone must die. But that'Alternative Medicines just a hint: for the time being we'' as ''black comedy re with a twist of surrealism''two police persons. IStephanie'm rather glad that I didns the sergeant and she has Jason, the probationer with her in the squad car, but Stephanie doesn't see this until like where they''after'' I'd finished reading as I'm not normally re heading. The house is stunning, but the last time she was here it was because there was a fan dead body at the bottom of either, but I've come the stairs to two conclusions about the bookpool. This time there's been a 999 call with a woman screaming for help: what the publisher says is correct - and I really enjoyed it. The comedy is omens are not ''too'' black good and when they enter the surrealism is gentle and perhaps best described as a twist or flick house they find two tangled, blood-soaked bodies in the bed. They both look dead, but one of reality when you were least expecting them moves - it. Your comfort zones are going 's Evie Clark and she confesses to be invaded in the nicest possible waykilling her partner. [[Alternative Medicine And So It Begins by Laura SolomonRachel Abbott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Count of 9 Drop: A Slough House Novella by Erle Stanley GardnerMick Herron]]===
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When you''The Count ve done a job for any length of time, the memory, the instincts of 9it 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 a hardboiled detective story written in the 1950sback seat of his car and he's run out of people whose sofas he can commandeer for the night. It revolves around The best he can do with Solomon's problem is to pass it on the detective duo of Donald Lam someone else and Bertha Cool as hope that they attempt to 'll deal with it/solve the theft of priceless Bornean artefacts. However, their case quickly turns into something darker - an impossible murderproblem/quietly forget about it. [[The Count of 9 Drop: A Slough House Novella by Erle Stanley GardnerMick Herron|Full Review]]
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===[[Every Colour Kingdom of You the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Amelia MandevilleLouise Penny]]===
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Zoe believes in adding life to years It came as well something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as years to lifeliquidator in the estate of a woman he'd never met. Her world, like her name Another villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, but the third is bursting with life and coloura stranger to them both. She The mystery deepens when the will is read: given that the sort of girl who deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would sing have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal. Then a rainbow if she couldbody is found. Tristan (or ''Tree 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 she calls him) is the opposite. Fresh out head of hospital following a prolonged stay the Sûreté in a psychiatric unit, he sees a world as a grey placeQuebec is dragging on and the outcome is looking increasingly ominous. [[Every Colour Kingdom of You the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache) by Amelia MandevilleLouise Penny|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Quintin JardineKate Atherley]]===
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Bob Skinner left the police service in Scotland when it was amalgamated into one unit. He didnI't believe in it then and he doesn't now and many serving officers would agree ve been knitting for well over sixty years, following patterns of varying complexity with himsuccess. He might be retired but heI's hardly idle: heve knit Aran sweaters, socks by the dozen and I's contracted to spend one day a week working m currently knitting blankets for a media group, but usually gives more. His family - six children now - is important charity to himsell. Therehasn's the occasional private commission, although he stops short of calling himself a private investigator, but het been an occasion when I's just ve been presented with a problem which itstuck and people have often come to 's difficult to refuse. It's not the problem thatme's the difficulty - it's the person who is asking for help. Sir James Proud was Skinnerwhen ''they've's predecessor as Chief Constable and he's been approached by a blogger who feels that he has evidence that Proud was involved in a famous murder for which a man was convictedstuck. He subsequently committed suicide whilst in prison - and went Would a knitter's dictionary really be of any help to his death denying that he me? I was guiltysurprised by just how much I got out of it. [[Cold Case (Bob Skinner) The Knitter's Dictionary: Knitting Know-How from A to Z by Quintin JardineKate Atherley|Full Review]]
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There are a lot of self-help books about: it's one of the most thriving sections of the average bookshop, but it's not always easy to find the book you need. Samesh Ramjattan has addressed this problem in ''Be Your Higher Self'', a book which allows us all to make sense of our place in the world, as most of us only glimpse our true potential and few people ever achieve it. Even with 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? [[Be Your Higher Self by Samesh Ramjattan|Full Review]]
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===[[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) Black Light by Lisa ReganLaura Solomon]]===
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Detective Josie Quinn Jim is no longer Chief of Policea university student and, but in many ways that's something of a reliefas the saying goes, although it does mean that she doesnhe hasn't quite have the autonomy that she hadgot his troubles to seek. It also means that the other detectives have a habit of calling her His father committed suicide when he was young and somehow he'bosss 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'd just say that he was very difficult, but Jim does his best with and for him. ItJim's the autonomy bit that strikes home though when she has to watch in love with a fellow officer being arrested for a cold-blooded murderwoman, but what other conclusion she finds him repulsive and you can you come to when understand why: the looks, the officer goes missingattitude, her vehicle and phone are off the radar (lack of) conversational ability and there's the body of clothing all leave a young man in her driveway? lot to be desired. Josie Quinn canDespite all that's he't believe that Gretchen - the woman she brought onto the Denton police force - could be guilty of such a crime, but she and Noah Fraley are s not going about to have much time sit back and allow his life to prove that Gretchen is innocent, drift: he's actually writing ''two'' novels and Gretchen doesn't seem inclined he reads excerpts from these to help themhis friends in the pub. [[Her Final Confession (Detective Josie Quinn Book 4) Black Light by Lisa ReganLaura Solomon|Full Review]]
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===[[The Woods Murder Redemptor Domus by Roy LewisGamelyn Chase]]===
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Jenny Carson was just nine years old when she was murdered whilst taking a shortcut through Kenton WoodsA young boy arrives at an exclusive faith school on the scenic North Wales coast, sent far from his family in the Far East. Her father blamed lawyer Charles Lendon for her death - not that he thought he was physically responsible, but because Lendon had refused As the boy travels to allow the local children to use his driveway as school, a shortcut family tragedy causes the boy to arrive at the schoola vulnerable orphan, forcing them to cut through the woods if they were latewith an uncertain future. Lendon wasn't Plunged into a popular man - he would say that lawyers never are - partly because school full of his attitudesdanger and betrayal, but his incessant womanising had made him the boy is seen as a lot of trophy by friends and enemiesalike. When Lendon was murdered a couple of months after Jenny's deathWith them locked into their scheming and plotting, there was no shortage it comes to the boy to attempt to clean up the pit of suspectsfilth that the school has become. [[The Woods Murder Redemptor Domus by Roy LewisGamelyn Chase|Full Review]] <!-- Betty Rowlands Sendker -->
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===[[Murder at the Manor Hotel (Melissa Craig 4) The Long Path To Wisdom by Betty RowlandsJan-Philipp Sendker]]===
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Melissa Craig should On my travels around the world, I have been getting on with writing her latest mystery novel but she'd been sidetracked into working on the script for a pantomime. It wasn't a traditional pantotendency to end up in any bookshop that is selling English-language books, but a spoof for and while I buy as many second-hand escapist tales as the birthday party of a local millionairenext person, to be held on Halloween. Itwhat I's got all m really looking for is the hallmarks of a mystery 'local'and'' a pantomime and it looks as though cast and audience are – the cookbook maybe, the maps definitely, but above all in for a good time with : the rehearsals being held in a luxury hotelfolk tales. WellIf I ever get to Burma, I won't need to hunt, they were until one member of the cast turns up dead in the cellar at the bottom of a steep flight of stairsI can read before I go. What was he doing there and why is the hotel manager acting so strangely? [[Murder at the Manor Hotel (Melissa Craig 4) The Long Path To Wisdom by Betty RowlandsJan-Philipp Sendker|Full Review]]
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===[[Salvation Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Peter F HamiltonJulia Jones]]===
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Apparently the term Liam isn't ''space operaquite'' was coined the youngest in 1941 as a pejorative. It was borrowed not from large family: he doesn't have the distinction of being the high-brow musical art form, but from baby anymore and he doesn't have the common or garden 'soap opera'heft'' of his older brothers and sisters. It related to He's rather like one of the pebbles on a particular kind large shingle beach: part of science fiction which the coiner (mass but easily overlooked as an individual. So when he starts having problems with his sight no one Wilson Tucker) described really takes any notice. He doesn't want to bother his mother as a she''hackys heavily involved in the Luminal Festival and when he asked his elder step-sister, grindingAnna, stinkingif she'll take him for an eye test, outworn, spaceship yarnshe puts him off. In fairness she's got important exams and Liam's convinced that it'. It would be fifty years later before the term started to be re-appropriated to cover – if still the same themes s just a case of distant futuresgetting spectacles, military conflict, heroism and but Liam's eyes are changing in a simplistic set of values – more literary, more expansive works. The term is now taken as complimentrather strange way. [[Salvation Pebble (Strong Winds series) by Peter F HamiltonJulia Jones|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass So Many Doors by Susan FletcherOakley Hall]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there Vassilia Caroline Baird, known to all as V, is still no curedead. Jack sits in his cell refusing to talk to the lawyer tasked with his defence. Starting at the murderous finale, treatments have advanced. At Hall skillfully weaves together the beginning stories of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her homehis key players, living life through in a window tale of love spanning decades and the tales her mother, Charlottestates, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones marriages and the sounds they made on breakingtragedies. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''. Clara would only escape By the house after her mother's death - of a tumour at time the age of thirty nine - and in her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. truth is revealed, V will be dead but who else will lose their life? 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 So Many Doors by Susan FletcherOakley Hall|Full Review]]
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===[[Under The Fraternity of the Ice (DCI Jansen) Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Rachael BlokBrian Anderson]]===
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It's eleven days to Christmas and the cathedral city of St Albans is looking particularly festive with a covering of snowOriginally passed in 1885, but this belies the atmosphere: the body of law that had made homosexual relations a young girl has been found frozen crime remained in the local lakeplace for 82 years. DCI Jansen's only lead comes from Jenny Brennan But during this time, restrictions on same- but can you put any credence sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on statements made 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 sleep-deprived mother margins of a four month old childsociety and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, particularly one who claims to have seen visions? Can you believe her statements that she's been sleep-walking but barely talked about in the middle UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the night when she find evidence that scientific understanding of homosexuality, and beginning the police have missed? When another girl goes missing struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the tiny city is milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in melt-down and for Jenny it all seems close to home1967. Far too close to home. [[Under The Fraternity of the Ice (DCI Jansen) Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908 by Rachael BlokBrian Anderson|Full Review]]
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===[[Cookin' The Light Between Worlds Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Laura WeymouthAmy Patricia Meade]]===
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Five years ago EvelynTish Tarragon is working towards opening her literary cafe, Philippa and James Hapwell escaped Cookin' The Books, when the opportunity to cater for the safety Library fundraiser comes her way. It's a bit of their air raid shelter a poisoned chalice, in more ways than one, as bombs fell all around the streets head of Londonthe library committee, Binnie Broderick is difficult. In fact, when she's poisoned at the terrifying darkness waiting for their parents meal Tish has catered, there's no shortage of suspects. It's not just that she feels herself to join thembe superior (she's a Darlington, Evelyn prayed you see), but that she actively goes out of her way to be anywhere elsemake life difficult for anyone she encounters. A plea that was answered by The Woodlands. One moment town might be heaving a collective sigh of relief (except not in grey London and front of the next surrounded by a rich green forestsheriff, obviously) but Tish is worried that the three children were transported from one world trapped fact that Binnie died face down in war, a meal she'd prepared might mean that people will not be all that keen to come to another on the brink of its ownher cafe once it's opened. [[Cookin' The Light Between Worlds Books (Tish Tarragon Mystery) by Laura WeymouthAmy Patricia Meade|Full Review]]
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===[[Clownfish A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Alan DurantCatriona McPherson]]===
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When Dak's dad dies very suddenlyDandy Gilver and family had made the arduous journey to Wester Ross, from a heart attack, Dak is left feeling lost and alonebut Dandy had mixed feelings even when they arrived. His mum is lost inside her own grief, struggling They were there to take care meet the family of herselfMallory, let alone care for Dakher son Donald's fiancee. It wasn't that Dandy thought Donald to be rather ''young'' at twenty three to be contemplating matrimony, and so he escapes to the local aquarium - somewhere but that both he and his dad had lovedMallory was rather ''old'' for him at thirty. But then he discovers that actually, his dad has turned into There was also a clownfish and is living at niggling worry because Donald wasn't the sharpest pin in the local aquarium! cushion. What will Dak do All the doubts had faded into insignificance though when they arrived at Applecross: they might have come to celebrate the aquariumfiftieth birthday of Lady Lavinia, Mallory's future is in questionmother, but it soon became obvious that Donald was smitten by the mother rather than the daughter. Dandy and he may potentially lose his dad all over again? 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. [[Clownfish A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Alan DurantCatriona McPherson|Full Review]]
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===[[Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Only the Ocean by Natasha Carthew :Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Kel Crow lives with Mehr is a heart defect that could kill her at any timegirl trapped between two cultures. Her only hope is to escape father comes from the ruling classes of the floodridden, waterlogged Cornish world she lives in, to leave empire but her drug-running family far behindmother's people were outcasts, and get to America with enough money for an operationAmrithi nomads who worshipped the spirits of the sands. She has a plan: stowaway on a shipCaught one night performing these forbidden rites, kidnap a rich girl, exchange Mehr is brought to the girl for enough money for attention of the journey to America and the surgery that will change Emperor's most feared mystics, who force her lifeinto their service by way of an arranged marriage. [[Only the Ocean Empire of Sand by Natasha Carthew Tasha Suri|Full Review]]
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