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===[[The Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly GriffithsAngela Marsons]]===
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DCI Harry Nelson's life Someone is complicated. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should be. His youngest daughter was conceived recreating every traumatic event in a (very) brief affair (letKim Stone's not call it a one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationship) past, starting with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowaythe death of her twin when she was six years old. MichelleSome of the events, Nelson's wifeor at least the details of them, knows about Kate and has been very understandingare not public knowledge, but then there's the matter whoever is behind this has a wealth of her affair with a black policeman which she'd rather not have information and is using it to discuss with her daughtersevil intent. Nelson knows about it and knows that That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of the baby which Michelle matter is about to deliver, could that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be Tim'srecreated. ThatStone probably - well, certainly - shouldn's 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 lot blind eye to cope with - and thatthe effect it's before he gets to workhaving on her for long enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? [[The Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) by Elly GriffithsAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest Out of the Dark by Jonathan KellermanGregg Hurwitz]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeThrillers|CrimeThrillers]]
It was a bridesmaid who found the victim's body in a rather disreputable toilet at the wedding venue1997. She didnEvan Smoak is 19 years old 't know who she was and neither did the bride or groom. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girltrained up, but she was furious that someone had set out to disrupt her weddingmission ready. And yet untested. Baby (yes, that was what people called Brearley) didn't come across as being particularly likeable' He's in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, despite which he executes with all the fact impeccable training that she said that everyone liked her, and her groom, Garrett didn't inspire confidence eitherhis youth belies. Lt Milo Sturgis was the senior investigating officer and he called on the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delaware Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[The Wedding Guest Out of the Dark by Jonathan KellermanGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Watching You by Douglas KennedyLisa Jewell]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionThrillers|Literary FictionThrillers]]
Douglas Kennedy's ''The Great Wide Open'' has been described as epic by just about everyoneA 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 it often feels as though that was the intentionhe is following her. Though the novel often feels like Meanwhile, a pastiche of the great American novel – epic in scopeyoung woman has moved back home after some time abroad, preoccupied with matters of money and literature, fixated develops a fascination with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogetherher new neighbour. InitiallyThe man's wife, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family dramameanwhile, in engages the latter half services of the novel it smoothly turns to examining young woman's husband in some work around the turn of American society since the 70shouse. Oh, and that teenage boy? He's her son. And the rapid rise of woman with the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated conspiracy theories? She's the west since mother of the election of Ronald Reagangirl he's spying on. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between Plus, the man she thinks is out to get her is the 70s woman's husband (and is also the 90s, new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trump, there's a lot of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing themwatching going on in this book. [[The Great Wide Open Watching You by Douglas KennedyLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[It Should Have Been Me by Susan Wilkins]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|CrimeFish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]===
It's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sister, Sarah, was murdered and her life since has been lived in the shadow of what happened[[image:4star. Jo was only eleven at the time and her parents' marriage broke up in the aftermathjpg|link=Category: 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 life. She wasn't pleased when Jo decided to join the police, but the job satisfies Jo. She's passed her sergeant'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 the younger generation. Still, being a detective is better than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs it. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[It Should Have Been Me by Susan Wilkins:Category:Fantasy|Full ReviewFantasy]]
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: expelled to the wilderness beyond the Central Authority's borders. [[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch|Full Review]] <!-- Yancey Williams James Atkinson -->
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Yancey WilliamsJames Atkinson]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionLifestyle|Literary FictionLifestyle]]
In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonJames Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They left with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandtbeen 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, Degas and VermeerRoyal Engineers. The frames remain empty He has another qualification which means a lot to this dayme: whilst there might have he's been rumours about on the whereabouts of the paintings, even promises that the case other side. There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child he was about slow to be solved, the paintings are still missingdevelop. Yancey Williams has a theory, which This means that he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesusunderstands'', and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, whowhat it's to say that like and heknows how his clients feel: it's wrong? Forget much more helpful than the assertions that it twenty-something who was down to the Mafia born super-fit and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverwith an attitude problem. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Yancey WilliamsJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by David MarkAdrian Cull]]===
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It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was told by working out OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a concerned stranger that she great deal fitter and her son had regularly seen an old woman who lived in a nearby cottage but she hadn't been for healthier than most people of my age there were a few daysnagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. Perhaps McAvoy could check that she It was alright? No - she wouldn't go with himtime to look for a new approach and as so often happens, but she'd tell him where the house wasreviewing gods brought me the book I needed. And so McAvoy went''Live Forever Manual: Science, only to find ethics and companies behind the windows open on a freezing cold day new anti- and inside an old lady was in her bath encased in ice. It aging treatments''might'' have been a tragic accident, but McAvoy suspected murder seemed like the answer to my problems - and he thought that someone had watched the woman dieonly you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by David MarkAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[To Catch a Killer The City In The Middle Of The Night by Emma KavanaghCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeScience Fiction|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersScience Fiction]]
If you're a detective on a murder squad one of the first things you learn January is detachment. You develop a distance from the victim: it allows you do do your job with the minimum amount of emotiondying planet. That's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when theyIt wasn're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the woman they would need t exactly pleasant to call Jane Doe when she was alivebegin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, albeit only justand totally uninhabitable. She was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to cope with death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the fact middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the woman's throat had been cut other, you die and she'd been stabbed several times. The attack had been called in by a dog walker yet the heat from the sun and Alice had been walking to work when the call came over her Airwave radiowater from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[To Catch a Killer The City In The Middle Of The Night by Emma KavanaghCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David Laws]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]===
[[image:4At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit'. Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, 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'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.5star Here, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Exit Day:Category:TeensBrexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David Laws|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 Chamberlain -->
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IWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother've said this before but there s possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are some books that you seek outswiftly 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, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themJoe, likea Catholic Priest, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in remembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the last category. darkest shadows of war… [[Atomic Habits The Hidden by James ClearMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[Marked for Death Painting Snails by Tony KentStephen John Hartley]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeAutobiography|CrimeAutobiography]], [[:Category:ThrillersLifestyle|ThrillersLifestyle]]
The death of a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made the newsIt's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': his crucifixion dominated originally I thought that as it and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of the Met's Major Incident Team was loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the person whose job is was to find his killerbest results. She never thought that it The answer would be easy: the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in something along the course lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his work for over half A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a centurybusker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). It seems unreasonable I found out that there's an awful lot more to suggest what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the crucifixion of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her book's about. There's a ray lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion of hopeHartley's life, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be randomit didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the hard way'? All Yep - that's needed is to find out what connects the two casesone. It's autobiography. [[Marked for Death Painting Snails by Tony KentStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[The Haven:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Paranormal|ParanormalBook 1 by Simon Lelic]]===
Tilda returns to Brighton[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, to tidy away are abducted in the remains middle of her mother's life after her deaththe night, things take a dangerous turn. Whilst thereRescued by Dodge, she returns Ollie is taken to the Paradise hotelHaven, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go secret underground community based in a network of thoughts underground tunnels that torment them elsewherethe London above ground knows nothing about. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a childHere, from this place of wonderchildren work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. With Ollie would have been the help hundredth victim of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to pick apart destroy the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mothercity. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel The Haven: Book 1 by Ruth HoganSimon Lelic|Full Review]] <!-- McGowan Kennedy -->
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===[[Lark The Things That are Lost by Anthony McGowanAlan Kennedy]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[: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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and his learning-disabled brother Kennybanished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. Their mum is coming It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to visit - Alex as anything the mum who abandoned them a long time agoGermans would provide. They havenAnd where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her for years and since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the impending visit is stirring up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it alldisinformation campaign, Nicky and Kenny plan a day out, trekking across the moorsreturned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. But it doesnAlex can't go to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible dangerget Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Lark The Things That are Lost by Anthony McGowanAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hunting Party Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Lucy FoleyDouglas Lindsay]]===
[[image:43.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
To begin with we don't know A man walked into a great dealpolice station in Estonia. We know that there's He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a body donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and before too long we know that Dougmedical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the gamekeeper, doesn't think it was an accidentman he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. You get His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the feeling that Doug knows about these thingsbody was buried. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers on the train: however you cut that oneSo, the seating who is going to be awkward. this man? Someone DI Ben Westphall is going sent to be left on their own. The highland lodge is stunning thoughEstonia because of his background in MI6, but these people who don't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really means. In this case it means that brings some baggage with it's an hour's drive to the ''road'' and that's when the weather's goodtoo. But this new yearWestphall cannot, will not, the weather definitely ''isn't'' goodget on a plane. This is serious snowHis last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[The Hunting Party Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Lucy FoleyDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies A Pinch of Magic by Richard RutherfordMichelle Harrison]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging ReadersTeens|Emerging ReadersTeens]]
In some ways it was a gentler time: video games were around, but children usually went outside ''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to enjoy themselvesleave Crowstone. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and MaryIf we do, we's great-grandfather started a business in 1899 so our story is probably set in the nineteen seventies. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunately, is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in ll die by the playgroundnext sunset. Tim's probably about ten - just at the stage where he's beginning to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at the stage where he knows how to deal with bullies. [[Tadcaster and the Bullies by Richard Rutherford|Full Review]]
''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire lives. The middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their ancestors, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the eye and could possibly be the key to their problem. [[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison|Full Review]] <!-- Elaine Robertson North Lisa Gardner -->
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===[[I Can't Never Tell You Why by Elaine Robertson NorthLisa Gardner]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's FictionCrime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Women's FictionThrillers]]
When we first meet Dani sheEvie Carter's about to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuse. She's Alex Cambridge's agent husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the indications are that he's about to make the big timegun in her hands. He's good looking, charismatic and appealing - well, he's an actor so that's part of the spec - but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship is hedged by Was this a statement that he's domestic dispute which had got no intention out of leaving his wife and three children. hand? So, what's in Was it for Danipregnancy hormones running rampant? NoDetective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen years ago, but there's no need to answer thatmistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: 'a tragic accident' everyone said, as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each other. Dani understands D D had no worries at the situation all too well and tells him so. time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? [[I Can't Never Tell You Why by Elaine Robertson NorthLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
===[[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Bridie, or Little Bird as she prefers to be knownAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is a crofter's daughter living left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on the remote Scottish island of Tornish. Life is hard but often happy some strange job (even though Little Bird struggles with the disability of Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a wasted arm job) and leg and often misses so she is not quite sure what is going on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mothermum, who died some time agoand then doesn't come back. Despite this She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, Little Bird has a warm and loving fathersecret world called the Midnight Hour, sisters which seems to watch over herbe London during Victorian times, a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she is a particular favourite. Little Bird knows every inch full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her windsweptparents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, savagely beautiful island. so her life can go back to normal? [[Little Bird Flies The Midnight Hour by Karen McCombieBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[The Dragon's Harvest Gallowstree Lane by Jason F BoggsKate London]]===
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Young Nelson Jones Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a young London Street and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'asked a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him die. As The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his experiences led him on a path skills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one of conflict and self-discoverythose things you might, he became a changed manthink. Picking up 20 months after the events of ''The Devil's Dragon'' Tragic, Nelson is but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on an expedition to uncover the mystery streets of London all the sungates, time. His friend Ryan was with Spence when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involvedhe was stabbed. Meanwhile, It was Ryan who called the humans and ambulance on the Aesini fight for their very existence, as Nelsonparamedic's nemesisinstruction, Major Ira Billis, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore sobbing as he held the New Era phone. But Ryan wasn't prepared to gloryaccept that it was just one of those things. He wanted revenge. 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 Gallowstree Lane by Jason F BoggsKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran]]===
===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensPolitics and Society|TeensPolitics and Society]], [[:Category:HorrorAutobiography|HorrorAutobiography]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on![[:Category:History|History]]
Charlie is on A little while ago a school trip, skiing 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 Austrian mountainsquestion ''Discuss the factors which led to. He..'' I agreed that she was right and wasn's not having much fun. A miserable home life has given Charlie t certain whether it was a good or bad attitude reputation thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We are in danger of losing democracy and hewhilst it's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if youflawed system I can're staying in t think of a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with better one of , particularly as the ski guides, Hanna. Hanna herself doesn't have the happiest backstory and this forms a connection between thembenevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Gabriel Dylan Ece Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook A Danger to Herself and Others by Felicity CloakeAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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It's a novel concept for a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found They needed someone to do a particular job - the job of delivering blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. Their daughter was my best meal, the ''Completely Perfect'' meal of the titlefriend. Think of it as Playing the equivalent of a comparison site for when you want to renew scapegoat was the car insurance and then taking least I could do under the best elements out of each recipe to make perfectioncircumstances. There's nothing cutting edge here: it's Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the sort most sophisticated corners of food which we've been eating for decades the globe and probably will be for decades to come. There's lived a reason for 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 welllife of luxury. [[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook A Danger to Herself and Others by Felicity CloakeAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This by Mary Adkins]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] ''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.'' ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
Freddie arrives in London in the early 2000sSmith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, answering during which time Iris left her husband at the call for teachersaltar on their wedding day. He thinks about Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his own Jamaican educationmother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, based on running the British system, branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the way he pressures got too much for him. He was taught English nursery rhymes devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and about died at the River Thamesage of thirty three. He thinks about was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the love last six months of cricket her life and football, shared by both countries. And her final request of Smith is that he thinks of the generations of gets the diaspora who came before himblog published as a book. 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 When You Read This by A S CooksonMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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