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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime|General FictionCrime]]
The final novel Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Alan KennedyKim Stone's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotlandpast, providing trade craft spy trainingstarting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything Some of the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabotevents, instigator or at least the details of the disinformation campaignthem, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and returned is using it to find her missingevil intent. A failed mission is one thing That might seem bad enough, but no Justine the brutal truth of the matter is quite anotherthat people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Alex can Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't get Justine out be on the case, but who has better knowledge of his head. Has what happened to her than she left does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the service? Does effect it's having on her for long enough, she know too much? Is can sort it out... Or can she even still alive? [[The Things That are Lost Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Alan KennedyAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Song Out of the Dead (DI Westphall) Dark by Douglas LindsayGregg Hurwitz]]===
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A man walked into a police station in Estonia1997. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his story, but this man, or the man he says he Evan Smoak is - John Baden - died twelve 19 years agoold ''trained up, mission ready. His body was identified by his partner, Emily King and by his parents - and then the body was buriedAnd yet untested. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because of his background '' He's in MI6a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, but which he executes with all the impeccable training that brings some baggage with it toohis youth belies. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetimeEvan Smoak is Orphan X. [[Song Out of the Dead (DI Westphall) Dark by Douglas LindsayGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic Watching You by Michelle HarrisonLisa Jewell]]===
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A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, and that teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She'No Widdershins s the mother of the girl has ever been able to leave Crowstonehe's spying on. If we doPlus, wethe man she thinks is out to get her is the woman'll die by s husband (and is also the next sunsetnew headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there''s a lot of watching going on in this book. [[Watching You by Lisa Jewell|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]] <!-- Lisa Gardner Cooch -->
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===[[Never Tell by Lisa Gardner]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:ThrillersFantasy|ThrillersFantasy]]
Evie CarterThis novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with left of the gun in her handsold United States is run from Center City. Was Women run this a domestic dispute which had got out world and it is very proud of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediatelyhaving defeated the old patriarchy. It might have been sixteen years agoMen must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, but thereif they don's no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot and killed her father: t, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn'a tragic accidentt work, they' everyone saidre sent to work camps, away from open society, as there was no doubt about or even worse: expelled to the love wilderness beyond the two had for each otherCentral Authority's borders. 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? [[Never Tell Fish Seeking Bicycle by Lisa GardnerKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderJames Atkinson]]===
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After James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a big blow-up fight with her mummember of 9 Parachute Regiment, Emily is left alone with her dadRoyal Engineers. Her mum He has gone away another qualification which means a lot to me: he's been on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' the other side. There was a job) time when he was overweight and so she is not quite sure what is going onparticularly strong. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off As a child he was slow to find her mum, and then doesn't come backdevelop. She heads out to investigate This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and discovers a strange, secret world called he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, twenty-something who was born super-fit and is full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, so her life can go back to normal? with an attitude problem. [[The Midnight Hour Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Kate LondonAdrian Cull]]===
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Spencer For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, it was just fifteen years old when he stepped working out into OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a London Street great deal fitter and asked healthier than most people of my age there were a complete stranger for help, begging him not to let him diefew nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. The stranger It was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient time to save Spence. Just one of those things you mightlook for a new approach and as so often happens, think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the streets of London all reviewing gods brought me the timebook I needed. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic's instruction'Live Forever Manual: Science, sobbing as he held ethics and companies behind the phone. But Ryan wasnnew anti-aging treatments''t prepared seemed like the answer to accept that it was my problems - only you get so much more than just one of those things. He wanted revenge101 tips. [[Gallowstree Lane Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Kate LondonAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship City In The Middle Of The Night by Ece TemelkuranCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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A little while ago January is a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced begin with the question ''Discuss the factors which led to.One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable..'' I agreed that she was right The other half is pure darkness and wasn't certain whether it was ice, where a good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading creature can freeze todeath in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. I think now In the middle is a brief twilight that I do knowis barely survivable. We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's Life is a flawed system I can't think of a better knife-edge, stray too close to oneside you die, to close to the other, particularly as you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the 'benevolent dictator' inhabitants of January is as rare as hen's teeth. long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship City In The Middle Of The Night by Ece TemelkuranCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Alyssa SheinmelDavid Laws]]===
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At the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'They needed someone to blame. Not just Brexit, and I was but use of the only available scapegoatword 'Brexit'. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the scapegoat was people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the least I could do under use of the circumstancesword. 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'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell hers safe to return, when all mention of it has subsided. She has dined 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 fancy restaurantsa very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, explored so the most sophisticated corners reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, the globe and lived a life of luxuryauthor's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[A Danger to Herself and Others Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Alyssa SheinmelDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This The Hidden by Mary AdkinsChamberlain]]===
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Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four yearsWhen Barbara Hummel arrives, during which time Iris left determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsinpossessions, running the branding agency in New York Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and losing money gambling when are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time on the pressures got too much for him. He was devastated Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when Iris developed she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a terminal cancer and died at the age of thirty three. He was surprised too time when he discovered that Iris had been writing a blog in the last six months hid something very different. In this story of her life love, loss and her final request betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of Smith is that he gets light can diffuse the blog published as a book. darkest shadows of war… [[When You Read This The Hidden by Mary AdkinsChamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day We Met Painting Snails by Roxie CooperStephen John Hartley]]===
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This is It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an epic love story spanning ten years of 'will theyallotment it would be a lifestyle book, won't theybut you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. Stephanie The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and Jamie are 'meant to besee'. When they meet on Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an art course they have engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an instant strong connection but both are with other peopleA&E consultant (part time). However, what I loved was found out that itthere's not an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty''typical boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever afterbut that isn't really what the book' storys about. In fact far from itThere's a lot about rock & roll, without wanting which seems to give too much awaybe the real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignanthard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's autobiography. [[The Day We Met Painting Snails by Roxie CooperStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well by Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona]]===
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I thought I was getting a cookbook[[image: I liked the idea of a series of recipes which would make me feel happy. For once this isn't a case of 'if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' - it's a case of getting something which could change your life for the better - for good - rather than a quick fix4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaCategory:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a dangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, children work together to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy to fight. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. [[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic|Full Review]] <!-- Jameson Kennedy -->
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===[[The Last by Hanna Jameson]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian FictionThe Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]===
Jon Keller is in a hotel in Switzerland [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  The final novel in the remote countryside when the world ends. He has no idea if his family is alive, he has no idea whatAlan Kennedy's going on in the nearest city, or if the nearest city has been obliterated. Shocked, amid the mass hysteria WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and exodusbanished to Scotland, Jon decides to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and homeproviding trade craft spy training. HeIt's not alone, twenty other people also stay stifling and suffocating and gradually form feels as much like a small communityprison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. One dayAnd where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, when helping instigator of the hotel managerdisinformation campaign, Jon finds the body of a girl deemed and returned to have been killed before the world endedfind her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girlAlex can's killer and finding t get Justine out of his head. Has she left the truth about what is possibly the last community on earth. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Last Things That are Lost by Hanna JamesonAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel Song of the Dead (translatorDI Westphall)by Douglas Lindsay]]===
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For those of you who have read books of life A man walked into a police station in the Nazi camps – and Estonia. He told a tale of coursehaving been held prisoner, used as a donor for those organ harvesting and sperm donation. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of you who have not – his story, but this can be considered a next stepman, or the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. It begins His body was identified by his partner, after all, with someone escaping Dachau Emily King and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, and you'd not blame her one minute, as her career was deemed to be cessby his parents -tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by then the Germansbody was buried. In Munich So, she stumbles on help who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for workEstonia because of his background in MI6, or companybut that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, or transport elsewherewill not, either official or otherwiseget on a plane. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once His last experience of flight was more, and by then eyebrows are being raisedthan enough for one lifetime. [[Deviation by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel Song of the Dead (translatorDI Westphall)by Douglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner A Pinch of Magic by Alok Ranjan TripathyMichelle Harrison]]===
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So, what brought me to this book? As the owner of a small business and a buyer of IT services I should be the senior partner in the relationship with my suppliers, but I've frequently found myself the junior partner and I've regularly No Widdershins girl has ever been let down by themable to leave Crowstone. I needed to know where I could improve that relationship andIf we do, we'll die by looking at the situation from the suppliernext sunset. 's point of view, what steps I needed to take. Alok Tripathy's book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some of the answers as to how my suppliers could better help me. [[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner by Alok Ranjan Tripathy|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]] <!-- Kemmerer Lisa Gardner -->
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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:4star'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:TeensNever Tell by Lisa Gardner|TeensFull Review]]
Harper's life is pretty disastrous at the moment, through no fault of her own. Her mother has cancer and not long to live. Her father has scarpered but not taken his debts with him. And her brother is forever getting into trouble. But Harper soldiers on nonetheless, despite coping with her own cerebral palsy. One day, she sees an attempted abduction of young girl and intercedes, only to find herself kidnapped in the girl's place. But even an imaginative girl like Harper couldn't have guessed where she was being taken... [[A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer|Full Review]]   <!-- Teresa Heapy and Katie Cleminson Read -->
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===[[Loved to Bits The Midnight Hour by Teresa Heapy Benjamin Read and Katie CleminsonLaura Trinder]]===
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''Loved to Bits'' is the heartwarming story of After a boy's love for his bear. Bear's adventures big blow-up fight with boy take him to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their wayher mum, from the jungle to the seaEmily is left alone with her dad. Inevitably mishaps occur Her mum has gone away on the way . The loss of an arm, a leg, an ear or an eye are nothing to Stripy Ted who shrugs off all injuries with a cheery some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even 'don't worry, I've got one morehad''a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. But boy loves him just as he is Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and wonthen doesn't hear of him being mendedcome back. His placeShe heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, after allsecret world called the Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, and is in Boy's bed. full of magical beings (and monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be able to find them and rescue them, so her life can go back to normal? [[Loved to Bits The Midnight Hour by Teresa Heapy Benjamin Read and Katie CleminsonLaura Trinder|Full Review]]
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===[[Louis and Louise Gallowstree Lane by Julie CohenKate London]]===
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What would you be like, right now, if you'd been born Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a different gender? Would it simply be London Street and asked a matter of geneticscomplete stranger for help, and your life would still have unfolded in the same way? begging him not to let him die. Or would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. This latest novel by Julie Cohen looks at all Just one of the abovethose things you might, covering the stories of Louis and Louisethink. Tragic, born but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the same day, to streets of London all the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the other a girltime. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. Does it really make a differenceIt was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic's instruction, sobbing as he held the gender box that is ticked when we arrive in this world? phone. We all know But Ryan wasn't prepared to accept that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how it was just one of those things have been in the past, how they still are, and prompts you to think about how they could be.. He wanted revenge. [[Louis and Louise Gallowstree Lane by Julie CohenKate London|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a Country: The Closest Thing 7 Steps from Democracy to Flying Dictatorship by Gill LewisEce Temelkuran]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, 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 UK with her mum and Robel, a man who controls their money, their food, and their every move in question ''Discuss the UKfactors which led to. ..'' He threatens them I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it was a good or bad thing that if they donwe didn't do know what he says, theyall 'this'll be sent homewas leading to. One day, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stall, strangely drawn to the bird I think now that decorates the hatI do know. When she takes We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside the hat box, written by 's a young girl called Hen over 100 years ago. Semira finds herself caught up in Henflawed system I can's story, finding in it an escape from her own life that is full t think of hunger and loss. She finds that she is challenged by the girl in the diarya better one, to speak up in her own life and fight for her place in particularly as the world'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[How to Lose a Country: The Closest Thing 7 Steps from Democracy to Flying Dictatorship by Gill LewisEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) A Danger to Herself and Others by Elly GriffithsAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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DCI Harry Nelson's life is complicated'They needed someone to blame, and I was the only available scapegoat. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should beTheir daughter was my best friend. His youngest daughter Playing the scapegoat was conceived in a (very) brief affair (letthe least I could do under the circumstances.'s not call it a one-night stand: there's more emotion in their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth GallowaySeventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. Michelle, Nelson's wife, knows about Kate and She has been very understandingdined in fancy restaurants, but then there's explored the matter most sophisticated corners of her affair with a black policeman which she'd rather not have to discuss with her daughters. Nelson knows about it the globe and knows that the baby which Michelle is about to deliver, could be Tim's. That's lived a lot to cope with - and that's before he gets to worklife of luxury. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) A Danger to Herself and Others by Elly GriffithsAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[The Wedding Guest When You Read This by Jonathan KellermanMary Adkins]]===
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It Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, relied on Iris, but his attention was a bridesmaid who found the victimon making enough money to cover his mother's body nursing home fees in a rather disreputable toilet at Wisconsin, running the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the wedding venuepressures got too much for him. She didn't know who she He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and neither did died at the bride or groomage of thirty three. The bride wasn't particularly worried about the dead girl, but she He was furious surprised too when he discovered that someone Iris had set out to disrupt her wedding. Baby (yes, that was what people called Brearley) didn't come across as being particularly likeable, despite been writing a blog in the fact that she said that everyone liked last six months of her, life and her groom, Garrett didn't inspire confidence either. Lt Milo Sturgis was the senior investigating officer and final request of Smith is that he called on gets the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delawareblog published as a book. [[The Wedding Guest When You Read This by Jonathan KellermanMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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