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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]===
===[[Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  It's two years since Suzanne hit rock bottom. She's had extensive therapy and a stint with a lovely foster family. And now she's eighteen and must leave the Looked After system. Suzanne is apprehensive but excited. She's found herself a job, a bedsit has been rented, and she's about to return to Brighton, the only place she's ever felt truly at home, and to Caddy and Rosie, her two best friends. [[BOOK by AUTHOR|Full Review]]<!-- Clear -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1847941834.jpgCrime|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1847941834/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21Crime]]
Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the case, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death Out of the Dark by Tony KentGregg Hurwitz]]===
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The death of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made the news: his crucifixion dominated it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Met1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained up, mission ready. And yet untested.'' He's Major Incident Team was in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all the person whose job is was to find his killer. She never thought impeccable training that it would be easy: the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in the course of his work for over half a centuryyouth belies. It seems unreasonable to suggest that the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her a ray of hope, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All that's needed Evan Smoak is to find out what connects the two casesOrphan X. [[Marked for Death Out of the Dark by Tony KentGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Watching You by Ruth HoganLisa Jewell]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
[[image:5starA teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, and that teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the girl he's spying on.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]Plus, [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this book. [[:Category:ParanormalWatching You by Lisa Jewell|ParanormalFull Review]]
Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]<!-- McGowan Cooch -->
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===[[Lark Fish Seeking Bicycle by Anthony McGowanKate Cooch]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
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This novel is set about a hundred years into the fourth future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and last story about Nicky what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and Kennyit is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Try not Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to cry before youkeep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn've t work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, or even read worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond the first pageCentral Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]]
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]] <!-- Lucy Foley James Atkinson -->
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===[[The Hunting Party Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Lucy FoleyJames Atkinson]]===
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To begin with we don't know James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a great dealworkout instructor and he looks the part. We know that thereHe's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a body and before too long we know that Doug, the gamekeepermember of 9 Parachute Regiment, doesn't think it was an accidentRoyal Engineers. You get the feeling that Doug knows about these things. Three days earlier there had He has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that one, the seating is going to be awkwardother side. Someone is going to be left on their ownThere was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. The highland lodge is stunning though, but these people who don't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult As a child he was slow to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really meansdevelop. In this case it This means that it's an hourhe 's drive to the 'understands'road'what it' s like and thathe knows how his clients feel: it's when much more helpful than the weather's good. But this new year, the weather definitely ''isn't'' good. This is serious snowtwenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[The Hunting Party Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Lucy FoleyJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the Bullies new anti-aging treatments by Richard RutherfordAdrian Cull]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersLifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Emerging ReadersPopular Science]]
In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to enjoy themselves. They flew kites live forever and went sledging if there that so far, it was snow aroundworking out OK. Tim Time has passed though and Maryalthough I's m a great-grandfather started deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventiesfew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just It was time to look for Tim a new approach and Mary but for other children who gather in as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the playgroundbook I needed. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sisterLive Forever Manual: Science, whoethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at seemed like the stage where he knows how answer to deal with bulliesmy problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Tadcaster Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the Bullies new anti-aging treatments by Richard RutherfordAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why The City In The Middle Of The Night by Elaine Robertson NorthCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Science Fiction|Women's Science Fiction]]
When we first meet Dani sheJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn's about t exactly pleasant to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refusebegin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. She's Alex Cambridge's agent The other half is pure darkness and the indications are that he's about ice, where a creature can freeze to make the big time. He's good lookingdeath in seconds, charismatic and appealing - well, he's an actor so that's part of totally uninhabitable. In the spec - but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship middle is hedged by a statement brief twilight that he's got no intention of leaving his wife and three childrenis barely survivable. SoLife is a knife-edge, what's in it for Dani? Nostray too close to one side you die, there's no need to answer thatclose to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Dani understands Life for the situation all too well inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and tells him so. arduous, will anything ever change? [[I Can't Tell You Why The City In The Middle Of The Night by Elaine Robertson NorthCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David Laws]]===
===[[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersThrillers|Confident ReadersThrillers]]
BridieAt the time of my writing this, or Little Bird as she prefers to be knownthere is one thing uniting Britain, and this is a crofterhatred of 'Brexit's daughter living on . Not just Brexit, but use of the remote Scottish island of Tornishword 'Brexit'. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with Yes, people hate the disability of a wasted arm people that instigated it then disappeared, and leg /or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and often misses her mothercomplete it, who died some time agobut they also hate the use of the word. Despite this, Little Bird This biggest turn-off has a warm made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and loving fatherleave the room until it's safe to return, sisters when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to watch over herthis book because it is partly about Brexit, a good friend but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in Will and a laird for whom she is very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the reader of this book has to get through a particular favouritelot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Little Bird knows every inch of her windswept Here, at least though, savagely beautiful islandthe author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Little Bird Flies Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Karen McCombieDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Hidden by Jason F BoggsMary Chamberlain]]===
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Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discoveryWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after determined to identify the events of ''The Devilmysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's Dragon''possessions, Nelson is Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on an expedition to uncover the mystery of the sungatesChannel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involved. Meanwhileshe concealed her Jewish identity, the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existenceJoe, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billisa Catholic Priest, finds remembers a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glorytime when he hid something very different. As Nelson In this story of love, loss and his friends race against the clock in order betrayal, it remains to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing be seen whether a power beyond imagination… speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Dragon's Harvest Hidden by Jason F BoggsMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley]]===
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[[imageIt's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'':4originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results.5star The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's autobiography. [[:Category:HorrorPainting Snails by Stephen John Hartley|HorrorFull Review]]
Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on! Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you're staying in a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one of the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between them. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan |Full Review]] <!-- Felicity Cloake Lelic -->
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook by Felicity Cloake]]===
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It's a novel concept for a cookery book[[image: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found to do a particular job - the job of delivering the best meal, the ''Completely Perfect'' meal of the title4star. Think of it as the equivalent of a comparison site for when you want to renew the car insurance and then taking the best elements out of each recipe to make perfection. There's nothing cutting edge here: it's the sort of food which we've been eating for decades and probably will be for decades to come. There's a reason for thatjpg|link=Category: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' and providing that you don't have a vegetarian or a vegan at table, it's a meal which is unlikely to do other than go down well. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook by Felicity CloakeCategory:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic|Full Review]] <!-- Cookson Kennedy -->
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===[[The Man Who Came to London Things That are Lost by A S CooksonAlan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.'' ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?'' Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000s, answering the call for teachers. He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, and the way he was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thames. He thinks about the love of cricket and football, shared by both countries. And he thinks of the generations of the diaspora who came before him. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! [[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson|Full Review]]
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| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left;"|===the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Red Snow The Things That are Lost by Will Dean]]===[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:CrimeAlan Kennedy|CrimeFull Review]]
Life in the small town of Gavrik is trying to return to normal, following the grim events of [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Dark Pines]]. As Tuva prepares to move on from both the death of her mother and her small hometown, she is drawn into another dark investigation. One suicide, and one murder. Are they connected? With black liquorice coins covering the murdered man's eyes, the hashtag #ferryman starts trending, and the local people stocking up on ammunition. With only a fortnight to investigate before moving to the South, Tuva is further troubled by a blizzard that descends on the town, cutting Gavrik off from the larger world. Desperate to stop the killer, Tuva must go delve deep into the heart of the community – but who's to say the Ferryman will let her go? [[Red Snow by Will Dean|Full Review]] <!-- Szabo Douglas Lindsay -->
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===[[Katalin Street Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Magda SzaboDouglas Lindsay]]===
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This is A man walked into a story about the pastpolice station in Estonia. A specific past, certainly, in the form He told a tale of pre-war Budapesthaving been held prisoner, but also used as a story about how that past can impact on the present donor for organ harvesting and the futuresperm donation. In X-rays and medical examination bear out this bookpart of his story, but this man, or the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness a heartman he says he is - John Baden -rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survivedied twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to longby his parents -gone times, feelings and experiences which mark then the here and nowbody was buried. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, staining and warping but that brings some baggage with it into anothertoo. Westphall cannot, will not, subtler miseryget on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Katalin Street Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Magda SzaboDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[The Winter A Pinch of the Witch Magic by Katherine ArdenMichelle Harrison]]===
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''The Winter of the Witch'' is the conclusion of the story following Vasya, Vasilisa PetronovaNo Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone. If we do, as she negotiates her way towards her destiny through the world of medieval males and the Catholic Churchwe's perception of witchcraft. The story picks up directly from the action in the second novel, [[The Girl in the Tower ll die by Katherine Arden|The Girl in the Tower]], and as a reader too much is lost if you havennext sunset. ''t read this at the very least. My advice would be to read all three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters and a wonderful balance of magic and action. This final novel, however, is an absolute triumph. [[The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden|Full Review]]
''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison|Full Review]] <!-- Williamson Lisa Gardner -->
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===[[Paper Avalanche Never Tell by Lisa WilliamsonGardner]]===
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Ro Snow spends her time at school trying to pass under the radar. She doesnEvie Carter't want anyone to notice her, because then they might start asking questions, or they might want to be friends, s husband was shot dead in his own home and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over to was found with the gun in her househands. You seeWas this a domestic dispute which had got out of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen years ago, Robut there's mum is no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a hoardertragic accident' everyone said, and their whole house, with as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each other. D D had no worries at the exception of Ro's bedroomtime, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is an ever-growing mound of rubbish and paper, and Ro lives in fear of social services finding out and taking her Evie about to get away. with murder again? [[Paper Avalanche Never Tell by Lisa WilliamsonGardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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[[image:4starAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and then doesn't come back.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, so her life can go back to normal? [[:Category:Historical FictionThe Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Historical FictionFull Review]]
You might not think that Georgian London contained many black people. But it contained more than you think. You may have heard of Francis Barber, the black African slave who became the friend of lexicographer Samuel Johnson and was a beneficiary of his will. ''The Boy in a Turban'' tells the story of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoe, is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughters. [[The Boy in a Turban by Joseph Hucknall|Full Review]]  <!-- Dodd Kate London -->
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===[[Lightning Chase Me Home Gallowstree Lane by Amber Lee DoddKate London]]===
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Named after two famous female explorersSpencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, Amelia Hester McLeod loves begging him not to listen let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to stories save Spence. Just one of exciting adventuresthose things you might, think. Tragic, but when it comes teenage boys seem to being brave herself she finds it very difficult. She lives be getting stabbed on a small Scottish island with her dad and her grandad, and spends her the streets of London all the time daydreaming about where her adventurous mother might be off exploring. When her mum had lived His friend Ryan was with them, she had home-schooled Amelia, and her dad and grandad tried to continue that for a whileSpence when he was stabbed. But now her dad has decided itIt was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic's time for Amelia to go to school on instruction, sobbing as he held the mainlandphone. Amelia is afraid - afraid of having But Ryan wasn't prepared to make new friends, afraid accept that it was just one of being picked on because of her problems with reading, and afraid of what's happening to her since she went and made a wish on a mysterious rock in the sea… those things. He wanted revenge. [[Lightning Chase Me Home Gallowstree Lane by Amber Lee DoddKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Glenis WilsonEce Temelkuran]]===
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Of course it A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to...'' I agreed that she was right and wasn't champion jackey Harry Radcliffe's fault, but certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't stop him feeling guiltyknow what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. His attempts to solve the murder of prostitute Alice Goode had left his estranged wife, Annabel and her partner, Sir Jeffrey We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it was Harry who had urged them to get away as quickly as possible for the sake 's a flawed system I can't think of themselves and their unborn child. It would be quite a while before he woke in hospital to find that Jeffrey and Annabel had been involved in a serious car accident. It looked better one, particularly as though Jeffrey would be in a wheelchair for life and Annabel had lost the baby. On top of that there was horsebox driver John Dunston'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's apparent suicideteeth. [[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Glenis WilsonEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Lonely People A Danger to Herself and Others by David OwenAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Kat and Wesley are both loners, looking for places to fit in. Kat finds this with online communities, where she feels like she can be her true self - a feminist, an activist, someone who isn't scared to speak out. Wesley's desire They needed someone to feel a sense of belonging sees him fall in with an altogether nastier crowdblame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Bullies, trolls, extremistsTheir daughter was my best friend. When he pulls Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the final trigger on a violent, targeted online bullying campaign, Kat is forced to delete circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her entire online presence. Bereft of everything that represented her identityShe has dined in fancy restaurants, Kat's physical self starts to fade as well. As explored the entire world slowly forgets that Kat ever existed, only Wesley seems to remember most sophisticated corners of the girl whom he erased. Wesley is faced with globe and lived a choice: get sucked further into a sinister alt-right movement or help Kat to stop themlife of luxury. [[All the Lonely People A Danger to Herself and Others by David OwenAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier When You Read This by Stuart RobertsMary Adkins]]===
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My birth certificate might suggest a higher figureSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, but I know that I'm only 42. I learned a long during which time ago that I could retain that feeling by keeping my life in balanceIris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. This meant eating sensiblySmith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, getting quality sleep and having regular exercise which I enjoyed. There but his attention was an added bonus too: I was juggling four chronic conditions and living this way meant that I could keep three of them on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the background. Then a silly mis-step meant that branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the hip problem flared uppressures got too much for him. The only way I could get more than an hour or two asleep He was to take pain relief devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the duodenal ulcer started to complainage of thirty three. Because I He was masking symptoms I didn't dare to exercise - surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that he gets the black dog of depression prowled along behind meblog published as a book. [[Keep Your Health and Fitness For Life: Don't Let Age Be A Barrier When You Read This by Stuart RobertsMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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