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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard:Category:Crime|Crime]]===
[[image:4Someone 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..5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Or can she? [[:Category:TeensDead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|TeensFull Review]]
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. [[Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard|Full Review]]<!-- Clear Hurwitz -->
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I1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''ve said this before but there are some books that you seek outtrained up, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! mission ready. And yet untested.''Atomic Habits'He' s in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all the impeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is in the last categoryOrphan X. [[Atomic Habits Out of the Dark by James ClearGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death Watching You by Tony KentLisa Jewell]]===
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The death of A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made man in the news: his crucifixion dominated it village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the Metyoung woman's Major Incident Team was husband in some work around the person whose job is was to find his killerhouse. She never thought Oh, and that it would be easy: teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in conspiracy theories? She's the course mother of his work for over half a centurythe girl he's spying on. It seems unreasonable Plus, the man she thinks is out to suggest that get her is the woman's husband (and is also the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given new headteacher at her a ray of hopedaughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All thatthere's needed is to find out what connects the two casesa lot of watching going on in this book. [[Marked for Death Watching You by Tony KentLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFantasy|General FictionFantasy]] This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud of having defeated the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work camps, away from open society, [[or even worse:Category:Humour|Humour]], expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[:Category:ParanormalFish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|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 James Atkinson -->
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Lark by Anthony McGowan:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]===
[[image:5starJames Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]] He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, [[Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me:Categoryhe's been on the other side. There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel:Teens|Teens]], it's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Home Workout for Beginners:Category:Confident Readers6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson|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]] <!-- Lucy Foley Adrian Cull -->
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===[[The Hunting Party Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Lucy FoleyAdrian Cull]]===
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To begin with we donFor many years now I't know a great deal. We know ve (half) joked that there's a body I intended to live forever and before too long we know that Dougso far, the gamekeeper, doesn't think it was an accidentworking out OK. You get the feeling that Doug knows about these things. Three days earlier Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there had been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that one, the seating is going to be awkwardwere a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. Someone is going It was time to be left on their own. The highland lodge is stunning thoughlook for a new approach and as so often happens, but these people who don't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really meansreviewing gods brought me the book I needed. In this case it means that it's an hour's drive to the ''road'' Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and that's when companies behind the weather's good. But this new year, the weather definitely anti-aging treatments''isn't'' good. This is serious snowseemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[The Hunting Party Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Lucy FoleyAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies The City In The Middle Of The Night by Richard RutherfordCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersScience Fiction|Emerging ReadersScience Fiction]]
In some ways it was January is a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to enjoy themselvesbegin with. They flew kites One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and went sledging if there was snow aroundtotally uninhabitable. Tim The other half is pure darkness and Mary's great-grandfather started ice, where a business creature can freeze to death in 1899 so our story seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is probably set in the nineteen seventiesa brief twilight that is barely survivable. Something which hasn't changedLife is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, unfortunatelyto close to the other, is bullying you die and yet the heat from the sun and two lads the water from the ice are making necessary for life miserable not just . Life for Tim the inhabitants of January is long, and Mary but for other children who gather in the playground. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sisterhard, who's two years younger than himand arduous, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies. will anything ever change? [[Tadcaster and the Bullies The City In The Middle Of The Night by Richard RutherfordCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Elaine Robertson NorthDavid Laws]]===
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When we first meet Dani sheAt the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit's about to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuse. SheNot just Brexit, but use of the word 's Alex CambridgeBrexit's agent . Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and /or the indications are that hepeople who just can's about t seem to make get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the big timeword. He's good looking, charismatic and appealing This biggest turn- well, he's an actor off has made people who have never so that's part of the spec much as tutted in their life slam down their tea- but his suggestion that he cups in high dudgeon and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by a statement that heleave the room until it's got no intention safe to return, when all mention of leaving his wife and three childrenit has subsided. SoI mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, what's but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it for Dani? Noseems, thereso the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's no need to answer thattheme really arises. Dani understands Here, at least though, the situation all too well and tells him soauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[I Can't Tell You Why Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Elaine Robertson NorthDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]===
===[[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction]]
BridieWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, or Little Bird as determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she prefers to be known, is a crofterhas found among her mother's daughter living possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the remote Scottish island of Tornish. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with the disability of Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a wasted arm time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and leg and often misses her motherJoe, a Catholic Priest, who died some remembers a time agowhen he hid something very different. Despite In thisstory of love, Little Bird has a warm loss and loving fatherbetrayal, sisters it remains to watch over her, be seen whether a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she is a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of her windswept, savagely beautiful island. war… [[Little Bird Flies The Hidden by Karen McCombieMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Painting Snails by Jason F BoggsStephen John Hartley]]===
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Young Nelson Jones was It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a young lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and gifted military cadet in where for the fascist new world order called best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'New Eratry it and see'. As Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discoveryA levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, he became a changed manbusker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). Picking up 20 months after the events of 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''The Devil, but that isn't really what the book's Dragon'about. There's a lot about rock & roll, Nelson is on an expedition which seems to uncover be the mystery real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the sungates, when entertainment genre either. Did we have a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries category for all involved. Meanwhile, 'doing the humans and impossible the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelsonhard way'? Yep - that's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to gloryone. It's autobiography. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… [[The Dragon's Harvest Painting Snails by Jason F BoggsStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) The Haven: Book 1 by Gabriel DylanSimon Lelic]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:HorrorConfident Readers|HorrorConfident Readers]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on!
Charlie is on a school tripWhen Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, skiing are abducted 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 middle of the night, things take a popular kiddangerous turn. Charlie tends Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to go off by himself - not always the Haven, a safe thing to do if you're staying secret underground community based in a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one network of underground tunnels that the ski guidesLondon above ground knows nothing about. Here, Hannachildren work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Hanna herself doesn't Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between themcity. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) The Haven: Book 1 by Gabriel Dylan Simon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook by Felicity Cloake]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Cookery|CookeryThe Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]===
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:General Fiction|Full ReviewGeneral Fiction]]
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? [[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy|Full Review]] <!-- Cookson Douglas Lindsay -->
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay]]===
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[[image:4starA man walked into a police station in Estonia. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the body was buried. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionSong of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay|General FictionFull Review]]
''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called <!-- Michelle Harrison --> |-| style="Empire Windrushwidth: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471124290. They struggled to find housingjpg|link=http://www. They worked as labourersamazon. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own communityco. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.''uk/dp/1471124290/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
''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 | style="vertical-align: top; text- all Jamaicans smoke weed, don't they? Everybody knows that! align: left;"|===[[The Man Who Came to London A Pinch of Magic by A S Cookson|Full ReviewMichelle Harrison]] ===
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Life in the small town ''A Pinch of Gavrik is trying to return to normalMagic'' follows three sisters – Betty, following the grim events of [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Dark Pines]]. As Tuva prepares to move Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on from both the death isle of her mother Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and her small hometownthe 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 drawn into another dark investigation. One suicide, determined that nothing and no-one murderwill prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. Are they connected? With black liquorice coins covering the murdered man's eyes, the hashtag #ferryman starts trendingBut in setting out to do just that, she and the local people stocking up on ammunitionher sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. With only a fortnight to investigate before moving to the SouthFrom their ancestors, Tuva is further troubled by as well as a blizzard that descends lifetime trapped on the townCrowstone, cutting Gavrik off from the larger world. Desperate to stop the killerthey have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, Tuva must go delve deep into a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the heart of eye and could possibly be the community – but who's key to say the Ferryman will let her go? their problem. [[Red Snow A Pinch of Magic by Will DeanMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street Never Tell by Magda SzaboLisa Gardner]]===
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This is a story about Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the pastgun in her hands. A specific past, certainly, in the form Was this a domestic dispute which had got out of pre-war Budapesthand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen years ago, but also there's no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a story tragic accident' everyone said, as there was no doubt about how that past can impact on the present and love the futuretwo had for each other. In this book, D D had no worries at the first of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated and reissuedtime, we witness a heartbut just how many gun accidents can one woman have -rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt or is Evie about those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler misery. get away with murder again? [[Katalin Street Never Tell by Magda SzaboLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Winter of the Witch Midnight Hour by Katherine ArdenBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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After 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 'The Winter of the Witch'had'' a job) and so she is not quite sure what is the conclusion of the story following Vasya, Vasilisa Petronova, as she negotiates going on. Things turn even stranger still when her way towards dad goes off to find her destiny through the world of medieval males mum, and the Catholic Churchthen doesn's perception of witchcraftt come back. The story picks up directly from She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the action in the second novelMidnight Hour, [[The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden|The Girl in the Tower]]which seems to be London during Victorian times, and as a reader too much is lost if you haven't read this at the very least. My advice would full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to read all three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters find them and a wonderful balance of magic and action. This final novelrescue them, however, is an absolute triumph. so her life can go back to normal? [[The Winter of the Witch Midnight Hour by Katherine ArdenBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Paper Avalanche Gallowstree Lane by Lisa WilliamsonKate London]]===
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Ro Snow spends her time at school trying Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to pass under the radarlet him die. She doesn't want anyone The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to notice hersave Spence. Just one of those things you might, because then they might start asking questionsthink. Tragic, or they might want but teenage boys seem to be friends, and she can't have any friends because she can't ever have anyone come over to her housegetting stabbed on the streets of London all the time. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. You see, RoIt was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic's mum is a hoarder, and their whole houseinstruction, with sobbing as he held the exception of Rophone. But Ryan wasn's bedroom, is an ever-growing mound t prepared to accept that it was just one of rubbish and paper, and Ro lives in fear of social services finding out and taking her awaythose things. He wanted revenge. [[Paper Avalanche Gallowstree Lane by Lisa WilliamsonKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran]]===
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You might not think A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that Georgian London contained many black peoplewe 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.. 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 '' I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a beneficiary of his will. good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this'The Boy was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a Turbanflawed system I can'' tells the story t think of a fictional black character, James, in Georgian London. James, then Quaccoebetter one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is brought to the capital from a Jamaican plantation by a ship captain who wanted a servant for his two daughtersas rare as hen's teeth. [[How to Lose a Country: The Boy in a Turban 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Joseph HucknallEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[Lightning Chase Me Home A Danger to Herself and Others by Amber Lee DoddAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Named after two famous female explorers, Amelia Hester McLeod loves to listen ''They needed someone to stories of exciting adventuresblame, but when it comes to being brave herself she finds it very difficultand I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. She lives on a small Scottish island with her dad and her grandad, and spends her time daydreaming about where her adventurous mother might be off exploringPlaying the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances. When '' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her mum had lived with them, she had home-schooled Amelia, and parents tell her dad and grandad tried to continue that for a while. But now her dad She has decided it's time for Amelia to go to school on dined in fancy restaurants, explored the mainland. Amelia is afraid - afraid most sophisticated corners of having to make new friends, afraid of being picked on because of her problems with reading, the globe and afraid lived a life of what's happening luxury. [[A Danger to her since she went Herself and made a wish on a mysterious rock in the sea… [[Lightning Chase Me Home Others by Amber Lee DoddAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) When You Read This by Glenis WilsonMary Adkins]]===
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Of course it wasn't champion jackey Harry Radcliffe's faultSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, but that didn't stop him feeling guiltyduring which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. His attempts Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to solve the murder of prostitute Alice Goode had left cover his estranged wifemother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, Annabel and her partner, Sir Jeffrey running the branding agency in danger New York and it losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was Harry who had urged them to get away as quickly as possible for devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the sake age of themselves and their unborn childthirty three. It would be quite a while before He was surprised too when he woke in hospital to find discovered that Jeffrey and Annabel Iris had been involved in writing a serious car accident. It looked as though Jeffrey would be blog in a wheelchair for the last six months of her life and Annabel had lost the baby. On top her final request of Smith is that there was horsebox driver John Dunston's apparent suicidehe gets the blog published as a book. [[Dead Heat (A Harry Radcliffe Mystery) When You Read This by Glenis WilsonMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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