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===[[The Wedding Guest Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Jonathan KellermanAngela Marsons]]===
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It was a bridesmaid who found the victimSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's body in a rather disreputable toilet at past, starting with the wedding venuedeath of her twin when she was six years old. She didn't know who she was and neither did Some of the bride events, or groom. The bride wasn't particularly worried about at least the dead girldetails of them, are not public knowledge, but she was furious that someone had set out whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to disrupt her weddingevil intent. Baby (yesThat might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the matter is that was what people called Brearley) didn- innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't come across as being particularly likeablebe on the case, despite the fact that but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she said that everyone liked does? If her, and boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her groomfor long enough, Garrett didn't inspire confidence eithershe can sort it out.. Lt Milo Sturgis was the senior investigating officer and he called on the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delaware. Or can she? [[The Wedding Guest Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Jonathan KellermanAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Out of the Dark by Douglas KennedyGregg Hurwitz]]===
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Douglas Kennedy1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old 's 'trained up, mission ready. And yet untested.'The Great Wide Open'He' has been described as epic by just about everyone, and it often feels as though that was the intention. Though the novel often feels like s in a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scope, preoccupied with matters of money and literatureforeign city on an officially unofficial mission, fixated which he executes with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogether. Initially, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family drama, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since all the 70s, and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values impeccable training that have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reaganhis youth belies. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90s, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing them Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[The Great Wide Open Out of the Dark by Douglas KennedyGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me Watching You by Susan WilkinsLisa Jewell]]===
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ItA 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 seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sisterwife, Sarahmeanwhile, was murdered and her life since has been lived in engages the shadow services of what happened. Jo was only eleven at the time and her parentsyoung woman' marriage broke up s husband in some work around the aftermath: her brother Carl opted to go house. Oh, and live with his father but Jo stayed with that teenage boy? He's her mother who was mentally frail and not coping son. And the woman with everyday life. the conspiracy theories? She wasn't pleased when Jo decided to join s the mother of the policegirl he's spying on. Plus, but the job satisfies Jo. Sheman she thinks is out to get her is the woman's passed husband (and is also the new headteacher at her sergeantdaughter's exams but in the Met these days school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a case lot of dead men's shoes and no one seems inclined to make way for the younger generation. Still, being a detective is better than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs itwatching going on in this book. [[It Should Have Been Me Watching You by Susan WilkinsLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus by Yancey Williams]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonThis novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandt, Degas and Vermeerof the old United States is run from Center City. The frames remain empty to Women run this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts world and it is very proud of having defeated the paintingsold patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, even promises that the case was about to be solvedif they don't, the paintings are still missingmedicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. Yancey Williams has a theoryAnd if that doesn't work, which he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus'they're sent to work camps, and whilst his suspects might seem unlikelyaway from open society, who's or even worse: expelled to say that hethe wilderness beyond the Central Authority's wrong? Forget the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverborders. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Fish Seeking Bicycle by Yancey WilliamsKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by David MarkJames Atkinson]]===
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It James Atkinson has all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by the qualifications which you need in a concerned stranger that she workout instructor and her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived in a nearby cottage but she hadnhe looks the part. He't s been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a few daysmember of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she was alright? No - she wouldnHe has another qualification which means a lot to me: he't go with him, but she'd tell him where s been on the house other side. There wasa time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. And so McAvoy went, only to find the windows open on As a freezing cold day - and inside an old lady child he was in her bath encased in iceslow to develop. It This means that he ''understands'might'what it' have been a tragic accident, but McAvoy suspected murder - s like and he thought that someone had watched knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the woman dietwenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by David MarkJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Emma KavanaghAdrian Cull]]===
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If youFor 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're m a detective on great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a murder squad one few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of the first things you learn is detachmentbalance. You develop It was time to look for a distance from new approach and as so often happens, the victim: it allows you do do your job with reviewing gods brought me the minimum amount of emotionbook I needed. That's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the woman they would need to call Jane Doe when she was alive, albeit only just. She was being tended by an offnew anti-duty paramedic who was struggling to cope with the fact that the womanaging treatments's throat had been cut and she'd been stabbed several times. The attack had been called in by a dog walker and Alice had been walking seemed like the answer to work when the call came over her Airwave radiomy problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[To Catch a Killer Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Emma KavanaghAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders]]===
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[[image:4January is a dying planet. It wasn'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.5starLife is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[:Category:TeensThe City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders|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 Laws -->
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I've said At the time of my writing this before but , there are some books that you seek outis one thing uniting Britain, some books that you stumble across and some books this is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit'. Yes, people hate the people that drop into your life because you really MUST read theminstigated it then disappeared, likeand/or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, right now! but they also hate the use of the word. 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''Atomic Habits'' s safe to return, when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, 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 seems, so the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, the last categoryauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Atomic Habits Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by James ClearDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death The Hidden by Tony KentMary Chamberlain]]===
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The death of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the news: his crucifixion dominated it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Metmysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's Major Incident Team was the person whose job is was possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to find his killerconfront their pasts. She never thought that it would be easy: Revisiting their time on the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in the course of his work for over half Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a century. It seems unreasonable to suggest that the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given time when she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a ray time when he hid something very different. In this story of hopelove, but surely two such grisly killings cannot loss and betrayal, it remains to be random? All that's needed is to find out what connects seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the two cases. darkest shadows of war… [[Marked for Death The Hidden by Tony KentMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Painting Snails by Ruth HoganStephen John Hartley]]===
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Tilda returns It's very difficult to Brightonclassify ''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 tidy away plant when and where for the remains best results. The answer would be something along the lines of her mother's life after her deathtry it and see'. Whilst there Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, she returns to the Paradise hoteldid an engineering apprenticeship, became a haven for eccentrics busker, finally got into medical school and misfitsis now an A&E consultant (part time). A place where people can be themselves 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'', and let go of thoughts but that torment them elsewhereisn't really what the book's about. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as There's a childlot about rock & roll, from this place which seems to be the real passion of wonderHartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. With Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart hard way'? Yep - that's the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant motherone. It's autobiography. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Painting Snails by Ruth HoganStephen John Hartley|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan Lelic -->
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===[[Lark The Haven: Book 1 by Anthony McGowanSimon Lelic]]===
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I'll warn you firstWhen 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]]
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 Kennedy -->
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===[[The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeGeneral Fiction|CrimeGeneral Fiction]]
To begin with we donThe final novel in Alan Kennedy't know a great deals WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. We know that thereIt's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a body and before too long we know that Doug, the gamekeeper, doesn't think it was an accident. You get prison to Alex as anything the feeling that Doug knows about these thingsGermans would provide. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that one, the seating And where is going to be awkward. Someone is going to be left on their own. The highland lodge is stunning though, but these people who donJustine? Alex hasn't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult seen her since he went to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really means. In this case it means that it's an hour's drive to disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the ''road'' disinformation campaign, and that's when the weather's goodreturned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. But this new year, the weather definitely ''isnAlex can't'' good. This is serious snowget Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Hunting Party Things That are Lost by Lucy FoleyAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and Song of the Bullies Dead (DI Westphall) by Richard RutherfordDouglas Lindsay]]===
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In some ways it was A man walked into a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside to enjoy themselvespolice station in Estonia. They flew kites He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and went sledging if there was snow aroundsperm donation. Tim X-rays and Mary's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our medical examination bear out this part of his story , but this man, or the man he says he is probably set in the nineteen seventies- John Baden - died twelve years ago. Something which hasn't changedHis body was identified by his partner, unfortunately, is bullying Emily King and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim by his parents - and Mary but for other children who gather in then the playgroundbody was buried. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to feel responsible for Estonia because of his younger sisterbackground in MI6, who's two years younger than himbut that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, but he's will not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Tadcaster and Song of the Bullies Dead (DI Westphall) by Richard RutherfordDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[I Can't Tell You Why A Pinch of Magic by Elaine Robertson NorthMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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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 refuse. She's Alex CambridgeA Pinch of Magic''s agent follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the indications are that he's about to make isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the big timeneighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. He's good lookingThe middle sister, Betty, charismatic has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and appealing she is determined that nothing and no- well, he's an actor so one will prevent her from seeing everything that's part of the spec - but his suggestion world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that he , she and Dani should start her sisters discover a relationship is hedged by 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 statement that he's got no intention set of leaving his wife wooden nesting dolls and three children. So, what's in it for Dani? No, there's no need to answer that. Dani understands an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the situation all too well eye and tells him socould possibly be the key to their problem. [[I Can't Tell You Why A Pinch of Magic by Elaine Robertson NorthMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Never Tell by Lisa Gardner]]===
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[[imageEvie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands. Was 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, but there's no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father:5star'a tragic accident' everyone said, as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each other.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? [[:Category:Confident ReadersNever Tell by Lisa Gardner|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Bridie, or Little Bird as she prefers to be known, is a crofter's daughter living on the remote Scottish island of Tornish. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with the disability of a wasted arm and leg and often misses her mother, who died some time ago. Despite this, Little Bird has a warm and loving father, sisters to watch over her, a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she is a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch of her windswept, savagely beautiful island. [[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie|Full Review]] <!-- Jason Boggs Read -->
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Midnight Hour by Jason F BoggsBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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Young Nelson Jones was After 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 selfbig blow-discoveryup fight with her mum, he became a changed manEmily is left alone with her dad. Picking up 20 months after the events of Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even 'The Devil's Dragonhad'', Nelson a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on an expedition . Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to uncover the mystery of the sungatesfind her mum, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involvedand then doesn't come back. MeanwhileShe heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the humans and the Aesini fight for their very existenceMidnight Hour, as Nelson's nemesiswhich seems to be London during Victorian times, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to restore the New Era to glory. As Nelson find them and his friends race against the clock in order rescue them, so her life can go back to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… normal? [[The Dragon's Harvest Midnight Hour by Jason F BoggsBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane by Kate London]]===
===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:HorrorCrime|HorrorCrime]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on!
Charlie is on Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a school tripcomplete stranger for help, skiing in the Austrian mountains. He's begging him not having much funto let him die. A miserable home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go The stranger was an off by himself - not always a safe thing duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to do if save Spence. Just one of those things you're staying in a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact might, think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all the time. His friend Ryan was with one of Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the ski guidesparamedic's instruction, Hannasobbing as he held the phone. Hanna herself doesn But Ryan wasn't have the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between themprepared to accept that it was just one of those things. He wanted revenge. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) Gallowstree Lane by Gabriel Dylan Kate London|Full Review]]
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===[[Completely PerfectHow to Lose a Country: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Felicity CloakeEce Temelkuran]]===
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It's A little while ago a novel concept for a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to do a particular job - the job of delivering the best meal, come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Completely PerfectDiscuss the factors which led to...'' meal of the title. Think of I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it as the equivalent of was 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. Theregood or bad thing that we didn's nothing cutting edge here: itt know what all 's the sort of food which wethis've been eating for decades and probably will be for decades was leading to come. ThereI think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' and providing that you donflawed system I can't have a vegetarian or think of a vegan at tablebetter one, itparticularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's a meal which is unlikely to do other than go down wellteeth. [[Completely PerfectHow to Lose a Country: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Felicity CloakeEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
''In 1948They needed someone to blame, and I was the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush"only available scapegoat. They struggled to find housingTheir daughter was my best friend. They worked as labourersPlaying the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. Decades laterShe has dined in fancy restaurants, Freddy makes explored the most sophisticated corners of the same journeyglobe and lived a life of luxury.''[[A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
''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]]  <!-- Dean Mary Adkins -->
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===[[Red Snow When You Read This by Will DeanMary Adkins]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:CrimeGeneral Fiction|CrimeGeneral Fiction]]
Life in the small town of Gavrik is trying to return to normalSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, following during which time Iris left her husband at the grim events of [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Dark Pines]]altar on their wedding day. As Tuva prepares Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to move on from both the death of her cover his 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 eyesnursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the hashtag #ferryman starts trending, branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the local people stocking up on ammunitionage of thirty three. With only He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a fortnight to investigate before moving to blog in the South, Tuva last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is further troubled by a blizzard that descends on he gets the town, cutting Gavrik off from the larger worldblog published as a book. 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 When You Read This by Will DeanMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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