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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]]
When Ollie and NancySomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of the police officer tasked with guarding our young heroevents, are abducted in or at least the middle details of the nightthem, are not public knowledge, things take but whoever is behind this has a dangerous turnwealth of information and is using it to evil intent. Rescued by Dodge That might seem bad enough, Ollie is taken to but the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network brutal truth of underground tunnels the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on the London above ground knows nothing about. Herecase, children work together but who has better knowledge of what happened to battle great evils. And there is an immediate enemy her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to fightthe effect it's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out. Ollie would have been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the city. Or can she? [[The Haven: Book 1 Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Simon LelicAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]===
[[image:4star1997.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]  The final novel in Alan Kennedy Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''s WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotlandtrained up, providing trade craft spy trainingmission ready. And yet untested. It'' He's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like in a prison to Alex as anything the Germans would provide. And where is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting executes with John Cabot, instigator of all the disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missingimpeccable training that his youth belies. A failed mission Evan Smoak is one thing but no Justine is quite anotherOrphan X. Alex can't get Justine out [[Out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Things That are Lost Dark by Alan KennedyGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Watching You by Douglas LindsayLisa 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 walked into a police station in Estoniathe village and that he is following her. He told Meanwhile, a tale of having been held prisoneryoung woman has moved back home after some time abroad, used as and develops a donor for organ harvesting and sperm donationfascination with her new neighbour. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his storyThe man's wife, but this manmeanwhile, or engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the man he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years agohouse. His body was identified by his partnerOh, Emily King and by his parents - and then that teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the body was buriedgirl he's spying on. SoPlus, who is this the man? DI Ben Westphall she thinks is sent out to Estonia because of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with get her is the woman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on there's a plane. His last experience lot of flight was more than enough for one lifetimewatching going on in this book. [[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Watching You by Douglas LindsayLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic by Michelle Harrison]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Teens|TeensFish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]===
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''A Pinch of Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on This novel is set about a hundred years into the isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the neighbouring inescapable prison, for their entire livesfuture. The middle sister, Betty, world has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember been decimated by nuclear conflict and she what's left of the old United States is determined that nothing run from Center City. Women run this world and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that it is very proud of having defeated the world has to offerold patriarchy. But in setting out Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don't, are medicalised to do just that, she and her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted keep their family for generationsbaser instincts under control. From their ancestorsAnd if that doesn't work, as well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstonethey're sent to work camps, they have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bagaway from open society, a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets or even worse: expelled to the eye and could possibly be wilderness beyond the key to their problemCentral Authority's borders. [[A Pinch of Magic Fish Seeking Bicycle by Michelle HarrisonKate Cooch|Full Review]]
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===[[Never Tell Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Lisa GardnerJames Atkinson]]===
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Evie Carter's husband was shot dead James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in his own home a workout instructor and she was found with he looks the gun in her handspart. Was this He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a domestic dispute which had got out member of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. It might have been sixteen years ago, but thereHe has another qualification which means a lot to me: he's no mistaking been on the teenager who had accidentally shot other side. There was a time when he was overweight and killed her father: 'not particularly strong. As a tragic accident' everyone said, as there child he was no doubt about the love the two had for each otherslow to develop. D D had no worries at This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have twenty-something who was born super- or is Evie about to get away fit and with murder again? an attitude problem. [[Never Tell Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by Lisa GardnerJames Atkinson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderAdrian Cull]]===
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After a big blow-up fight with her mumFor many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that so far, Emily is left alone with her dadit was working out OK. Her mum Time has gone away on some strange job (even passed though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'and although I' m a job) great deal fitter and so she is not quite sure what is going onhealthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off It was time to find her mumlook for a new approach and as so often happens, and then doesn't come backthe reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. She heads out to investigate ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and discovers a strange, secret world called companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the Midnight Hour, which seems answer to be London during Victorian times, 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, my problems - only you get so her life can go back to normal? much more than just 101 tips. [[The Midnight Hour Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Benjamin Read and Laura TrinderAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
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===[[Gallowstree Lane The City In The Middle Of The Night by Kate LondonCharlie Jane Anders]]===
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Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into January is a London Street 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 asked ice, where a complete stranger for helpcreature can freeze to death in seconds, begging him not to let him dieand totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. The stranger was an offLife is a knife-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient edge, stray too close to save Spence. Just one of those things side you mightdie, think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on close to the streets of London all other, you die and yet the time. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called heat from the ambulance on sun and the paramedic's instruction, sobbing as he held water from the phoneice are necessary for life. But Ryan wasn't prepared to accept that it was just one Life for the inhabitants of those things. He wanted revenge. January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[Gallowstree Lane The City In The Middle Of The Night by Kate LondonCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
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===[[How to Lose a CountryExit Day: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Ece TemelkuranDavid Laws]]===
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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 At the question time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'Discuss . Not just Brexit, but use of the factors which led to...word 'Brexit' . I agreed Yes, people hate the people that she was right instigated it then disappeared, and wasn't certain whether it was a good /or bad thing that we didnthe people who just can't know what all 'this' was leading seem toget their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the word. I think now that I do know. We are This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in danger of losing democracy high dudgeon and whilst 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 flawed system I can't think 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 better onelot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as henauthor's teethdelaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[How to Lose a CountryExit Day: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Ece TemelkuranDavid Laws|Full Review]]
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===[[A Danger to Herself and Others The Hidden by Alyssa SheinmelMary Chamberlain]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother''They needed someone to blames possessions, Dora and I was the only available scapegoatJoe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Their daughter was my best friend. Playing Revisiting their time on the scapegoat was the least I could do under the circumstances.'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed herJewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different. She has dined in fancy restaurantsIn this story of love, loss and betrayal, explored the most sophisticated corners it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the globe and lived a life darkest shadows of luxury. war… [[A Danger to Herself and Others The Hidden by Alyssa SheinmelMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
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===[[When You Read This Painting Snails by Mary AdkinsStephen John Hartley]]===
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Smith Simonyi It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and Iris Massey worked together where for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their wedding daybest results. The answer would be something along the lines of 'try it and see'. SmithThen I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, meanwhiledid an engineering apprenticeship, relied on Irisbecame a busker, but his attention was on making enough money to cover his motherfinally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's nursing home fees an awful lot more to what goes on in Wisconsina Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', running but that isn't really what the branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for himbook's about. He was devastated when Iris developed There's a terminal cancer and died at lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the age real passion of thirty threeHartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing Did we have a blog in category for 'doing the impossible the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is hard way'? Yep - that he gets 's the blog published as a bookone. It's autobiography. [[When You Read This Painting Snails by Mary AdkinsStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[The Day We Met by Roxie Cooper]]===
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This 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 an epic love story spanning ten years taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in a network of 'will theyunderground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. Here, won't they'children work together to battle great evils. Stephanie and Jamie are 'meant And there is an immediate enemy to be'fight. When they meet on an art course they Ollie would have an instant strong connection but both are with other people. However, what I loved was that it's been the hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he not a 'typical boy meets girl, falls in love and lives happily ever after' storybeen rescued. In fact far from it, without wanting And Maddy intends to give too much away, destroy the ending was both refreshingly unexpected and achingly poignantcity. [[The Day We Met Haven: Book 1 by Roxie CooperSimon Lelic|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]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:CookeryGeneral Fiction|CookeryGeneral Fiction]]
I thought I was getting The final novel in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotland, providing trade craft spy training. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a cookbook: I liked prison to Alex as anything the idea of a series of recipes which Germans would make me feel happyprovide. For once this isnAnd where is Justine? Alex hasn't a case seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of 'if it sounds too good the disinformation campaign, and returned to be true, it probably find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine isquite another. Alex can' - it's a case t get Justine out of getting something which could change your life for his head. Has she left the better - for good - rather than a quick fix. service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[Good Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well The Things That are Lost by Charlotte Watts and Natalie SavonaAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Hanna JamesonDouglas Lindsay]]===
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Jon Keller is in A man walked into a hotel police station in Switzerland in the remote countryside when the world endsEstonia. He has no idea if 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 family is alivestory, he has no idea what's going on in the nearest citybut this man, or if the nearest city has been obliteratedman he says he is - John Baden - died twelve years ago. Shocked His body was identified by his partner, amid Emily King and by his parents - and then the mass hysteria and exodusbody was buried. So, Jon decides who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to stay at the hotel rather than attempt to get to the airport and home. He's not aloneEstonia because of his background in MI6, twenty other people also stay and gradually form a small communitybut that brings some baggage with it too. One day Westphall cannot, when helping the hotel managerwill not, Jon finds the body of get on a girl deemed to have been killed before the world endedplane. The community descends into a deep mistrust as Jon becomes fixated on finding this girl's killer and finding the truth about what is possibly the His last community on earthexperience of flight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[The Last Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Hanna JamesonDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
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For those ''A Pinch of you Magic'' follows three sisters – Betty, Fliss and Charlie – who have read books lived on the isle of life in Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the Nazi camps – and of courseneighbouring inescapable prison, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next steptheir entire lives. It beginsThe middle sister, after allBetty, with someone escaping Dachau has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raid, she is determined that nothing and you'd not blame her no-one minute, as will prevent her career was deemed from seeing everything that the world has to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germansoffer. In MunichBut in setting out to do just that, she stumbles on help to get and her to what seems to be sisters discover a camp deadly curse which has haunted their family for non-native civilians to look for workgenerations. From their ancestors, or companyas well as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, or transport elsewherethey have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, either official or otherwise. But then a set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the next chapter sees her going back into eye and could possibly be the camp next key to Dachau once more, and by then eyebrows are being raisedtheir problem. [[Deviation A Pinch of Magic by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Michelle Harrison|Full Review]]
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===[[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Never Tell by Alok Ranjan TripathyLisa Gardner]]===
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So, what brought me to Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found with the gun in her hands. Was this booka domestic dispute which had got out of hand? As the owner of a small business and a buyer of IT services I should be the senior partner in the relationship with my suppliersWas it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen years ago, but Ithere've frequently found myself s no mistaking the junior partner teenager who had accidentally shot and Ikilled her father: 've regularly been let down by them. I needed to know where I could improve that relationship anda tragic accident' everyone said, by looking at as there was no doubt about the situation from love the supplier's point of view, what steps I needed to taketwo had for each other. Alok Tripathy's book looked as though it might provide help and possibly some of D D had no worries at the answers as time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to how my suppliers could better help me. get away with murder again? [[Fast-track the I.T Journey - How to move from Supplier to Partner Never Tell by Alok Ranjan TripathyLisa Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[The Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
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[[image:4starAfter a big blow-up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on some strange job (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''had'' a job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. Things turn even stranger still when her dad goes off to find her mum, and then doesn't come back.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] She heads out to investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, 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? [[:Category:TeensThe Midnight Hour by Benjamin Read and Laura Trinder|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 Kate London -->
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===[[Loved to Bits Gallowstree Lane by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonKate London]]===
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''Loved to Bits'' is the heartwarming story of Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London Street and asked a boy's love complete stranger for his bear. Bear's adventures with boy take help, begging him not to all kinds of places and together they fight and defeat every obstacle put in their way, from the jungle to the sealet him die. Inevitably mishaps occur on the way The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his skills were insufficient to save Spence. The loss Just one of an armthose things you might, a legthink. Tragic, an ear or an eye are nothing but teenage boys seem to Stripy Ted who shrugs off be getting stabbed on the streets of London all injuries the time. His friend Ryan was with a cheery Spence when he was stabbed. It was Ryan who called the ambulance on the paramedic''don't worrys instruction, I've got one more''sobbing as he held the phone. But boy loves him just as he is and wonRyan wasn't hear prepared to accept that it was just one of him being mendedthose things. His place, after all, is in Boy's bedHe wanted revenge. [[Loved to Bits Gallowstree Lane by Teresa Heapy and Katie CleminsonKate London|Full Review]]
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What would you be like, right now, A little while ago a friend asked me if you'd been born a different gender? Would it simply be a matter of genetics, and your life would still have unfolded I thought that we were living through what in the same way? Or years to come would the way you had been raised affect who you became in life? This latest novel be discussed by Julie Cohen looks at all of A level history students when faced with the above, covering question ''Discuss the stories of Louis and Louise, born on the same day, factors which led to the same parents, but in one storyline Lou is a boy, and in the other a girl. ..'' Does I agreed that she was right and wasn't certain whether it really make was a difference, the gender box good or bad thing that is ticked when we arrive in didn't know what all 'this world? ' was leading to. I think now that I do know. We all know that men and women are treated differently, but this story really highlights how things have been in the past, how they still are, danger of losing democracy and prompts you to whilst it's a flawed system I can't think about how they could be..of a better one, particularly as the 'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's teeth. [[Louis and Louise How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Julie CohenEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
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===[[The Closest Thing A Danger to Flying Herself and Others by Gill LewisAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
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Semira is an Eritraen refugee, living in the UK with her mum and Robel, a man who controls their money, their food''They needed someone to blame, and their every move in I was the UKonly available scapegoat. He threatens them that if they don't do what he says, they'll be sent homeTheir daughter was my best friend. One day, Semira finds herself buying an old hat on a market stall, strangely drawn to Playing the bird that decorates scapegoat was the hat. When she takes it home she discovers there is an old diary hidden inside least I could do under the hat box, written by a young girl called Hen over 100 years agocircumstances. Semira finds herself caught up in Hen's story, finding in it an escape from ' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her own life that is full of hunger and loss. She finds that she is challenged by has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the girl in most sophisticated corners of the diary, to speak up in her own globe and lived a life and fight for her place in the worldof luxury. [[The Closest Thing A Danger to Flying Herself and Others by Gill LewisAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
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===[[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) When You Read This by Elly GriffithsMary Adkins]]===
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DCI Harry Nelson's life is complicated. His two oldest daughters are either living away from home or really should be. His youngest daughter was conceived in a (very) brief affair (let's not call it a one-night stand: there's more emotion in Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the altar on their relationship) with archaeologist Dr Ruth Gallowaywedding day. MichelleSmith, Nelson's wifemeanwhile, knows about Kate and has been very understandingrelied on Iris, but then therehis attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's nursing home fees in Wisconsin, running the matter of her affair with a black policeman which she'd rather not have to discuss with her daughtersbranding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the pressures got too much for him. Nelson knows about it He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and knows that died at the baby which Michelle is about to deliver, could be Tim'sage of thirty three. That's He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a lot to cope with - blog in the last six months of her life and her final request of Smith is that's before he gets to workthe blog published as a book. [[The Stone Circle (Dr Ruth Galloway) When You Read This by Elly GriffithsMary Adkins|Full Review]]
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