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===[[The Great Wide Open Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Douglas KennedyAngela Marsons]]===
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Douglas KennedySomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by just about everyonepast, and it often feels as though that starting with the death of her twin when she was the intentionsix years old. Though the novel often feels like a pastiche Some of the great American novel – epic in scopeevents, preoccupied with matters or at least the details of money and literaturethem, are not public knowledge, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy but whoever is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogether. Initially, the novel presents itself as an intimate study behind this has a wealth of family drama, in the latter half of the novel information and is using it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since the 70sevil intent. That might seem bad enough, and but the rapid rise brutal truth of the hypermatter is that people -capitalist neoliberal values innocent people - are dying so that have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reaganthese dramas can be recreated. Though it takes place over a twenty Stone probably -year period between the 70s and the 90swell, it notably always keeps one an eye certainly - shouldn't be on the present day (Trumpcase, but who has better knowledge of coursewhat 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, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing themshe can sort it out... Or can she? [[The Great Wide Open Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Douglas KennedyAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me Out of the Dark by Susan WilkinsGregg Hurwitz]]===
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It1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old 's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sister, Sarahtrained up, was murdered and her life since has been lived in the shadow of what happenedmission ready. Jo was only eleven at the time and her parents' marriage broke up in the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go and live with his father but Jo stayed with her mother who was mentally frail and not coping with everyday lifeAnd yet untested. She wasn't pleased when Jo decided to join the police, but the job satisfies Jo. She's passed her sergeantHe's exams but in the Met these days it's a case of dead men's shoes and no one seems inclined to make way for foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all the younger generationimpeccable training that his youth belies. Still, being a detective Evan Smoak is better than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs itOrphan X. [[It Should Have Been Me Out of the Dark by Susan WilkinsGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Watching You by Yancey WilliamsLisa Jewell]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumA 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. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtMeanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, Degas and Vermeerdevelops a fascination with her new neighbour. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about man's wife, meanwhile, engages the whereabouts services of the paintingsyoung woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, even promises and that teenage boy? He's her son. And the case was about to be solved, woman with the paintings are still missing. Yancey Williams has a theory, which he delaborates on in his novel conspiracy theories? She''The Resurrection s the mother of Jesusthe girl he's spying on. Plus, the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman', s husband (and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, whois also the new headteacher at her daughter's to say that heschool). Whichever way you look at it, there's wrong? Forget the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilvera lot of watching going on in this book. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Watching You by Yancey WilliamsLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) by David Mark]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeFantasy|CrimeFantasy]]
It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told This novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by a concerned stranger that she nuclear conflict and what's left of the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and her son had regularly seen an it is very proud of having defeated the old woman who lived in a nearby cottage but she hadnpatriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't been for a few days, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. Perhaps McAvoy could check And if that she was alright? No - she wouldndoesn't go with himwork, but shethey'd tell him where the house was. And so McAvoy wentre sent to work camps, away from open society, only or even worse: expelled to find the windows open on a freezing cold day - and inside an old lady was in her bath encased in ice. It ''mightwilderness beyond the Central Authority'' have been a tragic accident, but McAvoy suspected murder - and he thought that someone had watched the woman dies borders. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Fish Seeking Bicycle by David MarkKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Emma KavanaghJames Atkinson]]===
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If James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you're need in a detective on a murder squad one of workout instructor and he looks the first things you learn is detachmentpart. You develop He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a distance from the victim: it allows you do do your job with the minimum amount member of emotion9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. ThatHe has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met been on the woman they would need to call Jane Doe other side. There was a time when she he was alive, albeit only justoverweight and not particularly strong. She As a child he was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling slow to cope with the fact develop. This means that the womanhe ''understands'' what it's throat had been cut like and shehe knows how his clients feel: it'd been stabbed several times. The attack had been called in by a dog walker s much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and Alice had been walking to work when the call came over her Airwave radiowith an attitude problem. [[To Catch a Killer Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Emma KavanaghJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull]]===
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[[image:4For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance.5star It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed.jpg|link=Category ''Live Forever Manual:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Live Forever Manual:Category:TeensScience, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull|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 Anders -->
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IJanuary is a dying planet. It wasn've said this before but there are some books t exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you seek outdie, to close to the other, some books that you stumble across die and yet the heat from the sun and some books that drop into your the water from the ice are necessary for life because you really MUST read them. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, likeand arduous, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in the last category. will anything ever change? [[Atomic Habits The City In The Middle Of The Night by James ClearCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Tony KentDavid Laws]]===
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The death At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit'. Yes, people hate the news: his crucifixion dominated people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy complete it, but they also hate the use of the Metword. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's Major Incident Team was the person whose job is was safe to find his killerreturn, when all mention of it has subsided. She never thought that I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it would be easy: too seems to get to the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies actual Brexiting in the course of his work for over half a centuryvery protracted manner. It Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems unreasonable to suggest that , so the crucifixion reader of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her this book has to get through a ray of hopelot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be random? All thatthe author's needed is to find out what connects the two casesdelaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Marked for Death Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Tony KentDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel The Hidden by Ruth HoganMary Chamberlain]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
[[image:5starWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]In this story of love, [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[:Category:ParanormalThe Hidden by Mary Chamberlain|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 Stephen John Hartley -->
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===[[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia FriendlyAutobiography|Dyslexia FriendlyAutobiography]], [[:Category:TeensLifestyle|TeensLifestyle]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  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 - 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 lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for Nicky the best results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his learning-disabled brother KennyA levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). Their mum is coming I found out that there's an awful lot more to visit - the mum who abandoned them what goes on in a long time ago. They havenMajor Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't seen her for years and really what the impending visit is stirring up book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of uncomfortable feelings. And NickyHartley's girlfriend has ended thingslife, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. To take their minds off it all, Nicky and Kenny plan Did we have a day out, trekking across category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that's the moorsone. But it doesn It't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible dangers autobiography. [[Lark Painting Snails by Anthony McGowanStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|CrimeConfident Readers]]
To begin When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with we don't know guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a great dealdangerous turn. We know that there's a body and before too long we know that DougRescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the gamekeeperHaven, doesn't think it was an accident. You get a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the feeling that Doug London above ground knows nothing about these things. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that oneHere, the seating is going children work together to be awkwardbattle great evils. Someone And there is going an immediate enemy to be left on their ownfight. The highland lodge is stunning though, but these people who don't usually get outside Ollie would have been the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really meanshundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. In this case it means that it's an hour's drive And Maddy intends to destroy the ''road'' and that's when the weather's good. But this new year, the weather definitely ''isn't'' good. This is serious snowcity. [[The Hunting Party Haven: Book 1 by Lucy FoleySimon Lelic|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies by Richard Rutherford]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction]]
In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were aroundThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselvesproviding trade craft spy training. They flew kites It's stifling and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim suffocating and Mary's great-grandfather started feels as much like a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in prison to Alex as anything the nineteen seventiesGermans would provide. Something which And where is Justine? Alex hasn't changedseen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, unfortunatelyinstigator of the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary one thing but for other children who gather in the playgroundno Justine is quite another. TimAlex can's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for t get Justine out of his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at head. Has she left the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Tadcaster and the Bullies The Things That are Lost by Richard RutherfordAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Elaine Robertson NorthDouglas Lindsay]]===
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When we first meet Dani she's about to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuseA man walked into a police station in Estonia. She's Alex Cambridge's agent He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and the indications are that he's about to make the big timesperm donation. He's good looking, charismatic X-rays and appealing - well, he's an actor so that's medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the spec man he says he is - but John Baden - died twelve years ago. His body was identified by his suggestion that he partner, Emily King and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by a statement that he's got no intention of leaving his wife parents - and three childrenthen the body was buried. So, what's who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it for Dani? too. NoWestphall cannot, will not, there's no need to answer thatget on a plane. Dani understands the situation all too well and tells him soHis last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[I Can't Tell You Why Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Elaine Robertson NorthDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]===
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Bridie''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, or Little Bird as she prefers to be known, is a crofter's daughter living Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the remote Scottish island isle of TornishCrowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. Life The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the disability of a wasted arm and leg world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and often misses her mother, who died some time agosisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. Despite thisFrom their ancestors, Little Bird has as well as a warm and loving fatherlifetime trapped on Crowstone, sisters to watch over herthey have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a good friend in Will set of wooden nesting dolls and a laird for whom she is a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch an antique handheld mirror – all of her windswept, savagely beautiful islandwhich are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[Little Bird Flies A Pinch of Magic by Karen McCombieMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Never Tell by Jason F BoggsLisa Gardner]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionCrime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Science FictionThrillers]]
Young Nelson Jones Evie Carter's husband was a young shot dead in his own home and gifted military cadet she was found with the gun in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'her hands. As his experiences led him on Was this a path domestic dispute which had got out of conflict and self-discoveryhand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen years ago, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devilbut there's Dragonno mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a tragic accident'everyone said, Nelson is on an expedition to uncover as there was no doubt about the mystery of love the sungates, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries two had for all involvedeach other. Meanwhile, the humans and D D had no worries at the Aesini fight for their very existencetime, as Nelson's nemesis, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore the New Era to glory. As Nelson and his friends race against the clock in order but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… get away with murder again? [[The Dragon's Harvest Never Tell by Jason F BoggsLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[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 After a school tripbig blow-up fight with her mum, skiing in the Austrian mountainsEmily is left alone with her dad. He Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn's t think her mum even ''had'' a job) and so she is not having much funquite sure what is going on. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and hethen doesn's not a popular kidt come back. Charlie tends She heads out to go off by himself - not always investigate and discovers a safe thing strange, secret world called the Midnight Hour, which seems to do if you're staying in a ski resort - be London during Victorian times, and this is what brings him into contact with one full of the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and this forms a connection between rescue them. , so her life can go back to normal? [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) The Midnight Hour by Gabriel Dylan Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook Gallowstree Lane by Felicity CloakeKate London]]===
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It's Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a novel concept complete stranger for a cookery book: these are help, begging him not Felicity Cloake's recipes to let him die. The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but the best ones she found even his skills were insufficient to do a particular job - the job save Spence. Just one of delivering the best mealthose things you might, think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the ''Completely Perfect'' meal streets of London all the titletime. Think of it as the equivalent of a comparison site for His friend Ryan was with Spence when you want to renew he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the car insurance and then taking ambulance on the best elements out of each recipe to make perfection. There's nothing cutting edge here: itparamedic's instruction, sobbing as he held the sort of food which we've been eating for decades and probably will be for decades to comephone. ThereBut Ryan wasn's a reason for t prepared to accept that: 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 wellwas just one of those things. He wanted revenge. [[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook Gallowstree Lane by Felicity CloakeKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionPolitics and Society|General FictionPolitics and Society]] ''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[[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]], 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?''[[:Category:History|History]]
Freddie arrives in London 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 early 2000s, answering question ''Discuss the call for teachersfactors which led to... He thinks about his own Jamaican education, based on the British system, '' I agreed that she was right and the way he wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was taught English nursery rhymes and about the River Thamesleading to. I think now that I do know. He thinks about the love We are in danger of cricket losing democracy and footballwhilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, shared by both countries. And he thinks of particularly as the generations of the diaspora who came before him'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. 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! [[How to Lose a Country: The Man Who Came 7 Steps from Democracy to London Dictatorship by A S CooksonEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[Red Snow A Danger to Herself and Others by Will DeanAlyssa Sheinmel]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]], [[:Category:CrimeGeneral Fiction|CrimeGeneral Fiction]]
Life in the small town of Gavrik is trying ''They needed someone to return to normalblame, following and I was the grim events of [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Dark Pines]]only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best friend. As Tuva prepares to move on from both Playing the scapegoat was the least I could do under the death of circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her mother and parents tell her small hometown, she is drawn into another dark investigation. One suicideShe has dined in fancy restaurants, and one murder. Are they connected? With black liquorice coins covering explored the murdered man's eyes, most sophisticated corners of the hashtag #ferryman starts trending, globe and the local people stocking up on ammunition. With only lived 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 worldlife of luxury. 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 A Danger to Herself and Others by Will DeanAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[Katalin Street When You Read This by Magda SzaboMary Adkins]]===
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This is a story about Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the pastaltar on their wedding day. A specific past Smith, certainlymeanwhile, in the form of pre-war Budapestrelied on Iris, but also a story about how that past can impact his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the present branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the futurepressures got too much for him. In this book, He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the first age of thirty three Magda Szabó wrote on . He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the same theme between 1969 last six months of her life and 1987 and now newly translated and reissued, we witness her final request of Smith is that he gets the blog published as a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt 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 miserybook. [[Katalin Street When You Read This by Magda SzaboMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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