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===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]===
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In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', he continues to tell the story of the Quantum twins. Born on I am a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time girl trying to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued in the following booksforget. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of a tribe. Twin Qwelby however, She is not doing so well - shocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friend, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between the twins as they try woman trying to reconnectremember... [[Betrayed by Geoffrey Arnold|Full Review]]''
Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home. The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to find Kelly-Anne, who was the first to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the garden of what looks to be an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, Toffee. And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more and because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Toffee by Sarah Crossan|Full Review]]<!-- Pamela Brookes Bowling -->
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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 In The Shadow of Heroes by Pamela BrookesNicholas Bowling]]===
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What do you do when your child has dyslexia Life as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readersdegrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the sounds in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more household of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than scholar Tullus when he was a child without that problem. You need baby, his keenness to be able learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working onhis master, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need who treats him more like a story which engages the young mind secretary and you need stages which progress steadily through perhaps even a member of the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amissfamily, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be rather than a pleasure. It should be ''fun''despised, barely human creature. [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 In The Shadow of Heroes by Pamela BrookesNicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Little Darlings by Philip KazanMelanie Golding]]===[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and her husband have just welcomed the arrival of children – twin boys, who they decide to name Riley and Morgan. But something's wrong. While everyone else is celebrating, Lauren starts to worry – that someone out there is coming to take her children away, and if she looks away for even a second, they'll strike… [[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding|Full Review]]
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late... [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan|Full Review]] <!-- Watson and Hagan Alice Feeney -->
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===[[I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney]]===
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[[imageAimee Sinclair is just on the edge of making it big time as an actor. Right now she's the sort of person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but that's all about to change. That's a little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, she's Ciara:4starAimee is simply the name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. That's not at the front of her mind though when she comes home one day and finds that her husband, Ben Bailey, has disappeared. Disappeared completely.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Along with considerable funds from their current account [[:Category:TeensI Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney|TeensFull Review]]
Jasmine and Chelsea go to a high school with an excellent reputation. It places strong emphasis on extra curricular activities and all pupils are encouraged to join clubs and associations. But Jasmine is fed up with her drama group because she's always typecast in the loud, "hysterical" roles (Jasmine is black and resents the angry black woman trope). And Chelsea is fed with poetry club because the only poetry it ever covers was written by men who lived and died years ago. So, along with friends Isaac and Nadine, they start a new group called Write Like a Girl. [[Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan|Full Review]] <!-- Rachel Lynch Rubin -->
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Liberation Square by Rachel LynchGareth Rubin]]===
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The girl had once been a promising athleteIn an alternate 1952, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completelySoviet Troops control British Streets. Eventually she was driven After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to commit suicide in be rescued by Russian soldiers from the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off a cliff in East, and Americans from the Lake Districtwest. It worried DI Kelly PorterDividing the nation between them, but she had no reason to investigateLondon soon finds itself split in two, although several of her cases keep bringing her back to the girla wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's school and a darker story emerged. One of the pupils goes missing at the local fair: her best friend husband is arrested for the girl who has accused a teacher murder of luring her his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his flat and then sexually assaulting hername. It seems In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the teacher also has paedophilia on his computer, but highest levels of the downloading eerily coincides with state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the girl's visit to his flat. What is going on, but - most importantly - where is Faith? murderous secret police… [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Liberation Square by Rachel LynchGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]===
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Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old[[image:5star. Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and is using it to evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but the brutal truth of 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 case, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out... Or can she? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons:Category:Confident Readers|Full ReviewConfident Readers]]
''Maya and Rose won't talk to each other. Even though they are sisters. Not since the accident. Maya is turning wild and Rose doesn't know what to do. And now Maya and Rose have to go away together on a week-long school trip. Will the trip fix their sibling bond... or break it for good?'' [[Not My Fault by Cath Howe|Full Review]]<!-- Hurwitz Lupo -->
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===[[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz]]===
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1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained up, mission ready. And yet untested.'' He's in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all the impeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[Out of the Dark by Gregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
''In a sealed-off city, a young woman, Lena, is running for her life. She has been sentenced to death and her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear - those with magic.'' ''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.'' So, Lena is a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the city of Duke's Forest.[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo|Full Review]]  <!-- Jewell Kidd -->
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===[[Watching You Things in Jars by Lisa JewellJess Kidd]]===
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A teenage boy spies child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a teenage girl from his bedroom windowprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. Down the road, This detective is a woman , and the setting is convinced she knows a man in Victorian London, with all the village rich and colourful paradoxes of that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and develops a fascination with her new neighbourthe bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. The manBridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's wifecap and stout, meanwhileshiny boots, engages but the services tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of the young womansomething, well, let's husband in some work around the housesay recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. Oh, and The fact that teenage boy? Heit's her sonactually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? Shethen, of course, there's the mother of the girl he's spying onghost. PlusRuby Doyle, the man she thinks is out to get world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her is the womaninvestigation, and it's husband (and is also clear he has a soft spot for the new headteacher at her daughter's school)determined young woman. Whichever way you look at itIf he really exists, there's a lot of watching going on in this bookthat is. [[Watching You Things in Jars by Lisa JewellJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]===
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[[image:4starSouth America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results...jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyBeneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett|FantasyFull Review]]
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]] <!-- James Atkinson M J Lee -->
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by James AtkinsonM J Lee]]===
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James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the partIt really shouldn't have happened. HeDI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in-law's been actively involved in house for an evening out. Traffic was heavy on the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as M60 (a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineersmatch at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. He has another qualification which means Then a lot to me: heman wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's been on car then ran into the other sidepath of an articulated lorry. There was a time when he The driver had no chance of stopping and the naked man was overweight and not particularly strongkilled instantly. As Glancing to the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a child he was slow to developgun. This means that he ''understands'' what itwas now a crime scene and the resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath's like and he knows how his clients feel: worries, although no one would let him forget about it's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problemin a hurry. [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by James AtkinsonM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments A Perfect Explanation by Adrian CullEleanor Anstruther]]===
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For many years now I've (half) joked that I intended to live forever Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and that so farsplendour, it was working out OKglamourous locales and high expectations. Time Only Enid's life has passed though been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and although I'm a great deal fitter threatening both Enid and healthier than most people those close to her. After losing custody of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time her children, Enid sells her son to look her sister for a new approach and as so often happens£500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the reviewing gods brought me true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the book I needed. ''Live Forever Manual: Scienceperfect subject for an explosive, ethics moving and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tipsbeautifully well written debut. [[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments A Perfect Explanation by Adrian CullEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night 55 by Charlie Jane AndersJames Delargy]]===
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January is Two men enter a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heatpolice station, both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and totally uninhabitablenarrowly escaped the clutches of a man who intended to kill them. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where As they escaped they ran through a creature can freeze to death in seconds, graveyard and totally uninhabitable. In they were not the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivablefirst victim. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you dieThe stories match, to close to the other, you die evidence is compelling and yet each man blames the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for lifeother. Life for Now the inhabitants of January question is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever changewho is guilty? [[The City In The Middle Of The Night 55 by Charlie Jane AndersJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks Lord Of All the Prime Minister Dead by David LawsJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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At ''Lord Of All the time of my writing this, there Dead'' is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of a journey to uncover the author'Brexits lost ancestor's life and death. Not just Brexit, but use of Cercas is searching for the word 'Brexitmeaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. YesManuel Mena, people hate the people that instigated it then disappearedCercas' great uncle, and/or is the people figure who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate looms large over the use of the wordbook. 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 itHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's safe to return, when all mention of it has subsidedforces. I mention this in relation to Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted mannerdictator. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so The question at the reader centre of this book has is whether it is possible for his great uncle to get through be a lot from Europe before hero whilst having fought for the title's theme really ariseswrong side. Here, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks Lord Of All the Prime Minister Dead by David LawsJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Super Sons: The Hidden PolarShield Project by Mary ChamberlainRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her motherIt's possessionsthe near future, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended every coastal city – including Metropolis – and are swiftly forced is in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to confront their pastsrelocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Revisiting their time on Superman is helping out, of course – first he was patching up the Channel Islands during World War IIdams, Dora remembers but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a time when she concealed her Jewish identityrare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and Joe, a Catholic Priestintolerance for being newcomers, remembers a time when he hid but something very differentelse is much worse. In this story A major bout of love, loss food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and betrayalthe efforts to correct the climate, can it remains ? Four young children begin to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… piece together clues that it can… [[Super Sons: The Hidden PolarShield Project by Mary ChamberlainRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyPolitics and Society|AutobiographyPolitics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, [[along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around a year on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). Recovering MP by Nick de Bois I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be 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 hard way'? Yep - that's the one. It's autobiography. [[Painting Snails by Stephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
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===[[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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[[image:4starMeet Mera. She's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done… [[Mera:Category:Confident ReadersTidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
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]] <!-- Kennedy Crosskey -->
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The final novel I first read 1984 in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to Scotlandschool, providing trade craft spy trainingin the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. Itcame and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison nightmare had not (quite) come to Alex as anything pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the Germans would providedate. And where is Justine? Alex Crosskey hasn't seen her since he went to put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''thatPoster Boy'' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the disinformation campaignblurb, and returned Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to find her missingturn its fiction into reality". A failed mission is one thing but no Justine My only response to that is quite another. Alex can't get Justine out of his head. Has she left the service? Does she know : too much? Is she even still alive? late! [[The Things That are Lost Poster Boy by Alan KennedyN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Critical Incidents by Douglas LindsayLucie Whitehouse]]===
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A man walked into When you reach a police station certain stage in Estonia. He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as life the phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a donor for organ harvesting short and sperm donationhopefully harmonious visit. X-rays and medical examination bear out this part of his storyThe woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but this manwas now just Robin Lyons, or the man he says he is went home with her thirteen- John Baden year- died twelve years agoold daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. His body She was identified by his partner, Emily King going home to the room which she'd had as a child: she would have the bottom bunk and by his parents Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - and then would have the body was buriedtop bunk. So, who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to Estonia because The room was redolent of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage the time she'd shared the room with it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a plane. His last experience of flight was more than enough for one lifetimeher brother Luke - and they weren't good memories. [[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) Critical Incidents by Douglas LindsayLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[A Pinch of Magic Memory Called Empire by Michelle HarrisonArkady Martine]]===
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The problem with Martine''No Widdershins girl has ever been able s fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to leave Crowstonebe complex and rich and errs on the side of making them unpronounceable by most readers. If we do I can see why she does both, webut it's a disappointment because they'll die by re the blocks against which the brilliance of the next sunsetbook stumbles. ''[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine|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 Lee -->
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===[[Never Tell When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Lisa GardnerUk-Bae Lee]]===
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Evie Carter's husband was shot dead in his own home and she was found There is a place on this earth that, at the time of writing, is resplendent with life. In the gun spring seals gambol in her hands. Was this a domestic dispute which had got out the river – not venturing too far, for fear of hand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediatelybeing slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. It In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might have been sixteen years ago, but there's no mistaking the teenager who had accidentally shot for they will spawn and killed her father: 'a tragic accident' everyone saiddie, as there was no doubt about if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the love hills – if the two had for each otherlandmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. D D had no worries at This is a snapshot of life in the timeDMZ, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away the demilitarized zone between the two countries with murder again? Korea in their name, and it's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Never Tell When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Lisa GardnerUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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