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===[[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror Toffee by Mark LinganeSarah Crossan]]===
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Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that end, they have managed to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victor, the politician is 'I am not at home. But Esis, his wifewho I say I am, '' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]] ''
''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]]<!-- Brandi Bowling -->
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===[[Into the River In The Shadow of Heroes by Mark BrandiNicholas Bowling]]===
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Two boys, Ben Life as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and Fabdegrading, are growing up in a small town in Northern Australia in the late 80'sbut Cadmus has it much easier than most. They do all Taken into the normal things that boys household of that age do - go yabbying (fishing)the scholar Tullus when he was a baby, play cricket, fight their battles at school his keenness to learn and think about girls. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from a happy homehis excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, whilst Fab is the son of Italian immigrants who clearly have little money, treats him more like a secretary and has perhaps even a father who is very violent. Yet despite their differences, they are fiercely loyal to each other. So far, so normal. But with member of the arrival of a new neighbour for Benfamily, rather than a man called Ronniedespised, 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 thisbarely human creature. [[Into the River In The Shadow of Heroes by Mark BrandiNicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Full Light of the Sun Little Darlings by Clare ClarkMelanie 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]] In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. [[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark|Full Review]] <!-- Ireland Alice Feeney -->
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===[[Dread Nation I Know Who You Are by Justina IrelandAlice Feeney]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]]
''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 ''[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Dread Nation narrates Aimee Sinclair is just on the unconventional life edge of Jane McKeene who was born days before making it big time as an actor. Right now she's the dead began sort of person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but that's all about to walk the streetschange. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the That's a little worrying for Aimee as life has 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 her before and other girls like hershe knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, there she's Ciara: Aimee is however simply the opportunity for name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a better life by being employed as an attendantchild. With deadly capabilities That's not at the front of her mind though when she comes home one day and perfect etiquettefinds that her husband, Ben Bailey, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all elsehas disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[Dread Nation I Know Who You Are by Justina IrelandAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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In an extension of the story begun alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart'', he continues Nazi Germany – only to tell be rescued by Russian soldiers from the story of East, and Americans from the Quantum twinswest. Born on Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled wall running through space-time to our earth - and it like a series of adventures ensued in the following booksscar. When we rejoin them in Jane Cawson''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life in s husband is arrested for the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part murder of a tribe. Twin Qwelby howeverhis former wife, Jane is not determined to clear his name. In doing so well - shocked by the violence on the earth. Rescued by an old friend, he then tries to help Jane follows a girl called Xaala - but trail of corruption that leads her ulterior motives may well prove right to drive a wedge between the twins as they try highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to reconnect... stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[Betrayed Liberation Square by Geoffrey ArnoldGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 by Pamela Brookes]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging ReadersNot My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but 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 of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without that problem. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into the mix. You need a story which engages the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss, either. Reading - and ''learning'' to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 by Pamela BrookesCategory: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]]<!-- Kazan Lupo -->
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionTeens|Literary FictionTeens]]  ''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, [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]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.''
Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century ItalySo, Onoria survives Lena is a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be cryptling - 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, low caste individual living in the hope that they can lay the ghosts city of their shared history to rest, before itDuke's too late..Forest. [[The Phoenix of Florence We Are Blood And Thunder by Philip KazanKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Things in Jars by Jess Kidd]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)]]===
[[imageA 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 private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of that era:4startechnical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the 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. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensThings in Jars by Jess Kidd|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 Beckett -->
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Beneath the World, A Sea by Rachel LynchChris Beckett]]===
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The girl had once been South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a promising athleteBritish police officer, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completely. Eventually she was driven to commit suicide arrives in the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off a cliff in the Lake District. It worried DI Kelly Porter, but she had no reason mysterious forest to investigatea spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, although several of her cases keep bringing her back to the girl's school vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a darker story emerged. One of strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the pupils goes missing at the local fair: her best friend is the girl who has accused a teacher of luring her to his flat subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and then sexually assaulting herfears. It seems that Ben becomes fascinated by the teacher also has paedophilia on his computerDuendes, but the downloading eerily coincides with closer he gets, the girl's visit more he begins to his flatunravel, with terrifying results... What is going on, but - most importantly - where is Faith? [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Beneath the World, A Sea by Rachel LynchChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Where the Dead Memories Fall (D I Kim StoneDI Ridpath, Book 2) by Angela MarsonsM J Lee]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Someone It really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is recreating every traumatic event off to collect them at his mother-in Kim Stone-law's past, starting with house for an evening out. Traffic was heavy on the death of her twin when she M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was six years oldmoving steadily. Some Then a man wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the eventstraffic, or at least briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the details path of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of information stopping and is using it to evil intentthe naked man was killed instantly. That might seem bad enough, but Glancing to the brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreatedhard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. Stone probably This was now a crime scene and the resulting seventeen- well, certainly - shouldn't mile tail back of traffic would be on the case, but who has better knowledge least of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect itRidpath's having on her for long enoughworries, she can sort although no one would let him forget about it out..in a hurry. Or can she? [[Where the Dead Memories Fall (D I Kim StoneDI Ridpath, Book 2) by Angela MarsonsM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of the Dark A Perfect Explanation by Gregg HurwitzEleanor Anstruther]]===
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1997Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained upLeading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, mission ready. And yet untestedglamourous locales and high expectations.'' HeOnly Enid's in a foreign city on life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an officially unofficial missionact of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, which he executes with all Eleanor Anstruther has found the impeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan Xperfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[Out of the Dark A Perfect Explanation by Gregg HurwitzEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Watching You 55 by Lisa JewellJames Delargy]]===
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A teenage boy spies on Two men enter a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down police station, both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the road, a woman is convinced she knows clutches of a man in the village and that he is following herwho intended to kill them. Meanwhile, As they escaped they ran through a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, graveyard and develops a fascination with her new neighbourthey were not the first victim. The man's wifestories match, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman's husband in some work around the house. Oh, evidence is compelling and that teenage boy? He's her son. And the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of each man blames the girl he's spying onother. Plus, Now the man she thinks question is out to get her , who is the woman's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughter's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this book. guilty? [[Watching You 55 by Lisa JewellJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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[[image:4star''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyLord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|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 Pearson -->
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===[[Home Workout for BeginnersSuper Sons: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss The PolarShield Project by James AtkinsonRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleGraphic Novels|LifestyleGraphic Novels]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
James Atkinson has all It's the qualifications which you near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – 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 relocate in a workout instructor and America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first he looks was patching up the part. Hedams, but now he's been actively involved in mining the health and fitness arena asteroid belt for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: herare dust that's been on perfect for blocking the other sidesolar energy from making further polar ice melt. There was a time when he was overweight Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and not particularly strongintolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. As a child he was slow to developA major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. This means that he ''understands'But it can' t possibly have anything to do with what it's looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and he knows how his clients feel: the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. can… [[Home Workout for BeginnersSuper Sons: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss The PolarShield Project by James AtkinsonRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]], [[:Category:Popular Science|Popular ScienceConfessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]===
For many years now [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I've (half) joked that I intended should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to live forever and that so far, it was working out OKreview the memoir of a Tory MP. Time has passed though and although Not only am I'm a great deal fitter and healthier than most people left-of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balance. It was time -centre - to look for a new approach put it mildly - voter and as so often happensprobably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the reviewing gods brought me debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the book I neededabsolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. ''Live Forever ManualAnd yes, opposition parties: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatmentsI'm looking at you as well. You' seemed like the answer to my problems - only you get so much more than re just 101 tipsas useless. [[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian Cull|Full Review]]
Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that. At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois |Full Review]]  <!-- Anders Paige -->
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Mera: Tidebreaker by Charlie Jane AndersDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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January is a dying planetMeet Mera. It wasn She't exactly pleasant to begin withs the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. One half is scorching sunlight Her father, purethe king of Xebel, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness sees some cotton wool and ice, where a creature can freeze to death hunky man in secondsan arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle territory's warrior queen, is a brief twilight that is barely survivablelong dead. Life Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is a knife-edge, stray too close in fact trying to one side you dieget Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, to close for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the otherworld of us air-breathing humans, you die and yet kill the heat from Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the sun quest (and the water from the ice are necessary promised throne) all for lifeherself. Life for the inhabitants But of course, she has no idea what kind of January is longperson she will meet, and how hard, and arduous, it will anything ever change? be to get the job done… [[The City In The Middle Of The Night Mera: Tidebreaker by Charlie Jane AndersDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister Poster Boy by David LawsN J Crosskey]]===
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At I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, in the future. It came and this is hatred of 'Brexit'went quickly enough. Not just Brexit, but use Some of us may have breathed a sigh of the word 'Brexitrelief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. YesOthers, people hate the people I think, were out there already working on making sure that instigated it then disappeared, and/or all he got wrong was the people who just candate. Crosskey hasn't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate put a date on the use of the wordnightmare. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much If she had, I suspect it would not be as tutted far in their life slam down their tea-cups the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's safe to return, when future at all mention of it has subsided. I mention this A lot of what happens in relation to this book because it ''Poster Boy'' is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manneralready happening. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhereSadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it seems, so the reader of this book has far from anyone who might be tempted to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arisesturn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: Here, at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. too late! [[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister Poster Boy by David LawsN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden Critical Incidents by Mary ChamberlainLucie Whitehouse]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionCrime|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical FictionCrime]]
When Barbara Hummel arrivesyou reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visit. The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, determined but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph room which she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora d had as a child: she would have the bottom bunk and Joe find their worlds upended – and are swiftly forced Elena - Lennie to confront their paststhose who knew her well - would have the top bunk. Revisiting their time on The room was redolent of the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when she concealed 'd shared the room with her Jewish identity, brother Luke - and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very differentthey weren't good memories. In this story of love, loss and betrayal, it remains to be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[The Hidden Critical Incidents by Mary ChamberlainLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails A Memory Called Empire by Stephen John HartleyArkady Martine]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyScience Fiction|Autobiography]], [[:Category:Lifestyle|LifestyleScience Fiction]]
ItThe problem with Martine's very difficult fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries 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 too clever and she wants her fictional languages to get advice be complex and rich and errs on what to plant when and where for the best results. The answer would be something along the lines side of 'try it and see'making them unpronounceable by most readers. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levelscan see why she does both, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is now an A&E consultant (part time). I found out that therebut it's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than youdisappointment because they'll ever glean from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what re the book's about. There's a lot about rock & roll, blocks against which seems to be the real passion brilliance 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 autobiographybook stumbles. [[Painting Snails A Memory Called Empire by Stephen John HartleyArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Uk-Bae Lee]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
When Ollie and NancyThere is a place on this earth that, at the police officer tasked time of writing, is resplendent with guarding our young hero, are abducted life. In the spring seals gambol in the middle river – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the nightautumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and die, things take a dangerous turnif they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. Rescued by Dodge, Ollie This is taken to the Haven, a secret underground community based snapshot of life in a network of underground tunnels that the London above ground knows nothing about. HereDMZ, 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 demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, and it's the cityworld's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[The Haven: Book 1 When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Simon LelicUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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