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===[[Into the River by Mark Brandi]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|Crime]]. [[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersToffee by Sarah Crossan]]===
Two boys, Ben and Fab, are growing up in a small town in Northern Australia in the late 80's. They do all the normal things that boys of that age do - go yabbying (fishing), play cricket, fight their battles at school and think about girls. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from a happy home, whilst Fab is the son of Italian immigrants who clearly have little money, and has a father who is very violent. Yet despite their differences, they are fiercely loyal to each other. So far, so normal. But with the arrival of a new neighbour for Ben, a man called Ronnie, things begin to change. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for him, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable about this[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Into the River by Mark Brandi:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''  ''I am a girl trying to forget.'' ''She is a woman trying to remember.'' 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]]<!-- Clark Bowling -->
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===[[In The Full Light Shadow of the Sun Heroes by Clare ClarkNicholas Bowling]]===
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In 1930's BerlinLife as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the household of the scholar Tullus when he was a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expertbaby, his keenness to learn and Rachmannhis excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, who treats him more like a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, secretary and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on perhaps even a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise member of Hitler and the Nazisfamily, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticityrather than a despised, vanity and self-delusionbarely human creature. [[In The Full Light Shadow of the Sun Heroes by Clare ClarkNicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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===[[Dread Nation Little Darlings by Justina IrelandMelanie Golding]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyThrillers|FantasyThrillers]]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… [[:Category:HorrorLittle Darlings by Melanie Golding|HorrorFull Review]] ''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''
Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changed world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Review]] <!-- Arnold Alice Feeney -->
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In Aimee Sinclair is just on the edge of making it big time as an extension actor. Right now she's the sort of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but that'Ripped Aparts 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, he continues to tell the story of she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the Quantum twins. Born on a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time name she was forced to our earth - and take when she was snatched as a series of adventures ensued in the following bookschild. When we rejoin them in That''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in s not at the bush - adopted by a Bushman family front of her mind though when she comes home one day and made part of a tribe. Twin Qwelby howeverfinds that her husband, is not doing so well - shocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friendBen Bailey, 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 to reconnect.has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[Betrayed I Know Who You Are by Geoffrey ArnoldAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Liberation Square by Pamela BrookesGareth Rubin]]===
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What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to achieve be rescued by Russian soldiers from the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readersEast, but and Americans from the west. Dividing the sounds nation between them, London soon finds itself split in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of two, a negative effect on the young dyslexic than wall running through it like a child without that problemscar. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what youWhen Jane Cawson've been working ons husband is arrested for the murder of his former wife, without anything else being thrown into the mixJane is determined to clear his name. You need In doing so, Jane follows a story which engages trail of corruption that leads her right to the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through highest levels of the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - state – and ''learning'' soon finds herself desperate to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''. stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Liberation Square by Pamela BrookesGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionNot My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
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..[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan: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]]<!-- Watson and Hagan Lupo -->
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===[[Watch Us Rise We Are Blood And Thunder by Renee Watson and Ellen HaganKesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  ''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.''
[[image:4star''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.''
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 loudSo, "hysterical" roles (Jasmine is black and resents the angry black woman trope). And Chelsea Lena 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 cryptling - a Girllow caste individual living in the city of Duke's Forest. [[Watch Us Rise We Are Blood And Thunder by Renee Watson and Ellen HaganKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Things in Jars by Rachel LynchJess Kidd]]===
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A child has gone missing. The girl had once been detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a promising athleteprevious case, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completely. Eventually she where the child was driven to commit suicide not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a cliff in fascination with the bizarre and the Lake Districtdownright hideous. It worried DI Kelly PorterAnd before you're more than a couple of pages in, but she had no reason to investigateyou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, although several of her cases keep bringing her back to the girlwith a widow's school cap and a darker story emerged. One of stout, shiny boots, but the pupils goes missing at the local fair: tobacco she smokes in her best friend pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is the girl who has accused mixed with a teacher nugget of luring her to his flat and then sexually assaulting something, well, let's say recreational, created by herchemist friend Prudhoe. It seems The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the teacher by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also has paedophilia on his computersomewhat remarkable. And then, of course, but there's the downloading eerily coincides with the girlghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's visit to his flatclear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. What is going onIf he really exists, but - most importantly - where that is Faith? . [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Things in Jars by Rachel LynchJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Beneath the World, A Sea by Angela MarsonsChris Beckett]]===
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Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's pastSouth America, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old1990. Some of the eventsBen Ronson, or at least the details of thema British police officer, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a wealth spate of killings of information and is using it to evil intentDuendes. That might seem bad enoughThese silent, but the brutal truth of the matter is that people vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - innocent have a strange psychic effect on people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Stone probably - wellBen becomes fascinated by the Duendes, certainly - shouldn't be on but the casecloser he gets, but who has better knowledge of what happened the more he begins to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enoughunravel, she can sort it outwith terrifying results... Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Beneath the World, A Sea by Angela MarsonsChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersCrime|ThrillersCrime]]
1997It really shouldn't have happened. Evan Smoak DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is 19 years old off to collect them at his mother-in-law's house for an evening out. Traffic was heavy on the M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn'trained upt helping) but it was moving steadily. Then a man wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, mission readybriefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the path of an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of stopping and the naked man was killed instantly. And yet untested Glancing to the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun.'' He This was now a crime scene and the resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath's worries, although no one would let him forget about it 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 Xhurry. [[Out of Where the Dark Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Gregg HurwitzM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[Watching You A Perfect Explanation by Lisa JewellEleanor Anstruther]]===
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A teenage boy spies Enid Campbell was a woman who, on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the roadface of it, a woman is convinced she knows a man in had everything. Leading the village life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroadsplendour, glamourous locales and develops a fascination with her new neighbourhigh expectations. The manOnly Enid's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the house. Ohlife has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and that teenage boy? He's those close to her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother After losing custody of the girl he's spying on. Plusher children, the man she thinks is out Enid sells her son to get her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the woman's husband (and is also true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at itperfect subject for an explosive, there's a lot of watching going on in this bookmoving and beautifully well written debut. [[Watching You A Perfect Explanation by Lisa JewellEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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This novel is set about Two men enter a hundred years into police station, both tell the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict same story; they were kidnapped and what's left of narrowly escaped the old United States is run from Center City. Women run this world and it is very proud clutches of having defeated the old patriarchya man who intended to kill them. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times As they escaped they ran through a graveyard and, if they don't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under controlwere not the first victim. And if that doesn't work, they're sent to work campsThe stories match, away from open society, or even worse: expelled to the wilderness beyond evidence is compelling and each man blames the Central Authority's bordersother. Now the question is, who is guilty? [[Fish Seeking Bicycle 55 by Kate CoochJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Lord Of All the Dead by James AtkinsonJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleHistory|LifestyleHistory]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]]
James Atkinson has all ''Lord Of All the qualifications which you need in Dead'' is a workout instructor journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and he looks death. Cercas is searching for the part. Hemeaning behind his great uncle's been actively involved death in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute RegimentSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, Royal Engineersis the figure who looms large over the book. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: hedied relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's been forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the other side. There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong. As a child he was slow to develop. This means that he ''understands'' what centre of this book is whether it's like and he knows how is possible for his clients feel: it's much more helpful than great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problemwrong side. [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Lord Of All the Dead by James AtkinsonJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever ManualSuper Sons: Science, ethics The PolarShield Project by Ridley Pearson and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian CullIle Gonzalez]]===
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For many years now IIt've (half) joked that I intended to live forever s the near future, and that so farevery coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, it was working out OKbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. Time has passed though and although IBut the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life s biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out , of balance. It course – first he was time to look patching up the dams, but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a new approach rare 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 as so often happensintolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the reviewing gods brought me the book I neededcity. But it can''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like efforts to correct the answer climate, can it? Four young children begin to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. piece together clues that it can… [[Live Forever ManualSuper Sons: Science, ethics The PolarShield Project by Ridley Pearson and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian CullIle Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night by Charlie Jane Anders]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionPolitics and Society|Science FictionPolitics 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: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the other, you die and yet the heat from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for life. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[The City In The Middle Of The Night Confessions of a Recovering MP by Charlie Jane AndersNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[Exit DayMera: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister Tidebreaker by David LawsDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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At Meet Mera. She's the time latest in a line of my writing thisyoung women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, there is one thing uniting Britainthe king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and this is hatred of a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera'Brexit'. Not just Brexits mother, but use of the word 'Brexitterritory's warrior queen, is long dead. Yes, people hate Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the people that instigated it then disappearedfella involved at all, and/or the people who just can't seem is in fact trying to get their fingers Xebel out and complete it, but they also hate from under the use cosh of the word. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until itAtlantean power, for Xebel's safe to return, when all mention royalty are merely puppets of it has subsidedAtlantean masters. I mention this in relation So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to this book because it is partly about Brexitthe world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, but because it too seems she rushes off to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted mannerquest (and the promised throne) all for herself. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhereBut of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it seems, so the reader of this book has will be to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. job done… [[Exit DayMera: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister Tidebreaker by David LawsDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden Poster Boy by Mary ChamberlainN J Crosskey]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrivesI first read 1984 in school, determined to identify in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her motherfuture. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced nightmare had not (quite) come to confront their pastspass. Revisiting their time Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers date. Crosskey hasn't put a time when date on the nightmare. If she concealed her Jewish identityhad, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when he hid something very differentI first read Orwell. In this story of love, loss and betrayal If she had, I suspect it remains to might hardly be seen whether a speck in the future at all. A lot of light can diffuse what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the darkest shadows of war… blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late! [[The Hidden Poster Boy by Mary ChamberlainN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails Critical Incidents by Stephen John HartleyLucie Whitehouse]]===
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ItWhen you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 's very difficult to classify going home''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as when it's loosely based around a year on an allotment refers to your childhood home is best if it would be means a lifestyle book, but you're not going to get advice on what to plant when short and where for the best resultshopefully harmonious visit. The answer would woman who used to be something along DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the lines of 'try it and see'Met. Then I considered popular science She was going home to the room which she'd had as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school child: she would have the bottom bunk and is now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that there's an awful lot more Elena - Lennie to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what those who knew her well - would have the book's abouttop bunk. There's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion The room was redolent of Hartley's life, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for time she'doing d shared the impossible the hard way'? Yep room with her brother Luke - thatand they weren's the one. It's autobiographyt good memories. [[Painting Snails Critical Incidents by Stephen John HartleyLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersScience Fiction|Confident ReadersScience Fiction]]
When Ollie and Nancy, The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on the middle side of the night, things take a dangerous turnmaking them unpronounceable by most readers. Rescued by Dodge I can see why she does both, Ollie is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based in but it's a network of underground tunnels that disappointment because they're 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 blocks against which the hundredth victim brilliance of Maddy Sikes had he not been rescued. And Maddy intends to destroy the citybook stumbles. [[The Haven: Book 1 A Memory Called Empire by Simon LelicArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionFor Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|General FictionConfident Readers]]
The final novel There is a place on this earth that, at the time of writing, is resplendent with life. In the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in Alan Kennedy's WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty place. In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and banished to Scotlanddie, providing trade craft spy trainingif they reach their birthing grounds. It's stifling and suffocating and feels as much like a prison to Alex as anything Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the Germans would providelandmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. And where This is Justine? Alex hasn't seen her since he went to ''that'' disastrous meeting with John Cabota snapshot of life in the DMZ, instigator of the disinformation campaigndemilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but no Justine is quite another. Alex canit's the world't get Justine out of his heads least welcome wildlife sanctuary. Has she left the service? Does she know too much? Is she even still alive? [[The Things That are Lost When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Alan KennedyUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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