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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith]]===
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Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Varg, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parameters. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolves. They're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal with, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victim[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith: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]]<!-- Lingane Bowling -->
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===[[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling]]===
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[[image:4starLife as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the household of the scholar Tullus when he was a baby, his keenness to learn and his excellent memory have made him invaluable to his master, who treats him more like a secretary and perhaps even a member of the family, rather than a despised, barely human creature.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionIn The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|Science FictionFull Review]]
Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma<!-- Golding -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008293678.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008293678/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-student statusalign: left;"|===[[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding]]===[[image:4.5star. They feel that jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and her husband have just welcomed the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that endarrival of children – twin boys, who they have managed decide to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politicianname Riley and Morgan. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectationBut something's wrong. Victor, the politician While everyone else is not at home. But Esis, his wifecelebrating, Lauren starts to worry – that someone out there is. A beautiful but isolated woman, Esis shows little interest in coming to take her children and not much more in Julian. She directs him towards his room, the library in which he will teach the childrenaway, and the kitchenif she looks away for even a second, whose chefbot will provide him with food. they'll strike… [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror Little Darlings by Mark LinganeMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[Into the River I Know Who You Are by Mark BrandiAlice Feeney]]===
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Two boys, Ben and Fab, are growing up in a small town in Northern Australia in Aimee Sinclair is just on the late 80edge of making it big time as an actor. Right now she's. They do all the normal things that boys sort of person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but that age do - go yabbying (fishing), play cricket, fight their battles at school and think 's all about girlsto change. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from That's a happy homelittle worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, whilst Fab she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the son of Italian immigrants who clearly have little money, and has name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a father who is very violentchild. Yet despite their differences, they are fiercely loyal to each other. So far, so normal. But with That's not at the arrival front of a new neighbour for her mind though when she comes home one day and finds that her husband, BenBailey, a man called Ronnie, things begin to changehas disappeared. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for him, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable about thisDisappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[Into the River I Know Who You Are by Mark BrandiAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Full Light of the Sun Liberation Square by Clare ClarkGareth Rubin]]===
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In 1930's Berlinan alternate 1952, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandalSoviet Troops control British Streets. EmmelineAfter D-Day goes horribly wrong, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expertBritain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in Americans from the west. Dividing the politically turbulent Weimar Berlinnation between them, and London soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-finds itself split in two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on , a true story and unfolding wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the subsequent rise murder of Hitler and the Nazishis former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the discovery highest levels of the art allows these characters state – and soon finds herself desperate to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[In The Full Light of the Sun Liberation Square by Clare ClarkGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland]]===
 
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''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 ''===[[Not My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
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[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland: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]]<!-- Arnold Lupo -->
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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 a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued in the following books. 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, 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 to reconnect... ===[[Betrayed We Are Blood And Thunder by Geoffrey Arnold|Full ReviewKesia Lupo]]===
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[[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:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]]Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.''
What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that So, Lena is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the book might not be the ones you've been working on and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more city 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'Duke's Forest. [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 We Are Blood And Thunder by Pamela BrookesKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Things in Jars by Philip KazanJess Kidd]]===
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Deep in A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italyshame and frustration left by a previous case, Onoria survives 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 massacre that destroys her family woman, and home. Alone in the forestsetting is Victorian London, she meets a band with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of soldiers who, believing her to be that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a boy train and develop her – fascination with the bizarre and the determined Onoria becomes downright hideous. And before you're more than a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation couple of pages in which she , you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets exdress in half-soldier Celavinimourning, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further with a widow's cap and uncovers links to his own family historystout, shiny boots, Celavini must revisit but the past he shares tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with Onoriaa nugget of something, well, in the hope let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that they can lay it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the ghosts by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of their shared history to restcourse, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, before and it's too late.clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman.If he really exists, that is. [[The Phoenix of Florence Things in Jars by Philip KazanJess 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:TeensBeneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett|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 M J Lee -->
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===[[Bitter Edge Where the Dead Fall (D I Kelly PorterDI Ridpath, Book 2) by Rachel LynchM J Lee]]===
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The girl had once been It really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a promising athletethread, but injury and then addiction is off to prescription painkillers changed her completelycollect them at his mother-in-law's house for an evening out. Eventually she Traffic was driven to commit suicide in heavy on the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off M60 (a cliff in the Lake Districtmatch at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. It worried DI Kelly Porter, but she had no reason to investigate, although several Then a man wearing only a pair of her cases keep bringing her back to blue boxers dashed out into the girltraffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's school and a darker story emergedcar then ran into the path of an articulated lorry. One The driver had no chance of stopping and the pupils goes missing at naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to the local fair: her best friend is the girl who has accused hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a teacher of luring her to his flat and then sexually assaulting hergun. It seems that This was now a crime scene and the teacher also has paedophilia on his computer, but resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the downloading eerily coincides with the girlleast of Ridpath's visit to his flatworries, although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. What is going on, but - most importantly - where is Faith? [[Bitter Edge Where the Dead Fall (D I Kelly PorterDI Ridpath, Book 2) by Rachel LynchM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) A Perfect Explanation by Angela MarsonsEleanor Anstruther]]===
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Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's pastEnid Campbell was a woman who, starting with on the death face of her twin when she was six years oldit, had everything. Some Leading the life of the events, or at least the details an aristocrat – full of theminherited wealth and splendour, are not public knowledgeglamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information untreated and threatening both Enid and is using it those close to evil intenther. That might seem bad enoughAfter losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but the brutal truth is this an act of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. Stone probably - wellgreed, certainly - shouldn't be on or an act of desperation? Exploring the casetrue story of her own grandmother, but who Eleanor Anstruther has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to found the effect it's having on her perfect subject for long enoughan explosive, she can sort it out..moving and beautifully well written debut. Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) A Perfect Explanation by Angela MarsonsEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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1997. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained upTwo men enter a police station, mission readyboth tell the same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the clutches of a man who intended to kill them. And yet untestedAs they escaped they ran through a graveyard and they were not the first victim.'' He's in a foreign city on an officially unofficial missionThe stories match, which he executes with all the impeccable training that his youth beliesevidence is compelling and each man blames the other. Evan Smoak Now the question is Orphan X. , who is guilty? [[Out of the Dark 55 by Gregg HurwitzJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down ''Lord Of All the road, a woman Dead'' is convinced she knows a man in journey to uncover the village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a fascination with her new neighbour. The manauthor's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young womanlost ancestor's husband in some work around the house. Oh, life and that teenage boy? He's her sondeath. And Cercas is searching for the woman with the conspiracy theories? Shemeaning behind his great uncle's death in the mother of the girl heSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas's spying on. Plusgreat uncle, the man she thinks is out to get her is the woman's husband (and is also figure who looms large over the new headteacher at her daughterbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's school)forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. Whichever way you look The question at it, there's a lot the centre of watching going on in this bookis whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. [[Watching You Lord Of All the Dead by Lisa JewellJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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This novel It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is set about in need of a hundred years into huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and whatrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's left of the old United States is run from Center Citybiggest exodus for decades. Women run this world and it Superman is very proud helping out, of having defeated course – first he was patching up the old patriarchy. Men must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times anddams, if they donbut now he't, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if s mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that doesn't works perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, they're sent to work campsin Wyndermere, away the refugees from open societythe coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, or even but something else is much worse: expelled . A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the wilderness beyond flood barriers and the Central Authority's borders. efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Fish Seeking Bicycle Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Kate CoochRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestylePolitics and Society|LifestylePolitics 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.
James Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to At least Nick de Bois made me: he's been on 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 it's like and he knows how his clients feel: it's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. laugh! [[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Confessions of a Recovering MP by James AtkinsonNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever ManualMera: Science, ethics Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian CullStephen Byrne]]===
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For many years now IMeet Mera. She've (half) joked that I s the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended to live forever destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and that so fara hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, it was working out OKis long dead. Time has passed though and although IMera doesn'm a great deal fitter t fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and healthier than most people is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of balanceAtlantean masters. It was time So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to look for a new approach the world of us air-breathing humans, and as so often happenskill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the reviewing gods brought me quest (and the book I neededpromised throne) all for herself. ''Live Forever Manual: ScienceBut of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' seemed like the answer how hard it will be to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. the job done… [[Live Forever ManualMera: Science, ethics Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by Adrian CullStephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Poster Boy by Charlie Jane AndersN J Crosskey]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Dystopian Fiction|Science Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
January is I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a dying planetlong time in the future. It wasncame and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell't exactly pleasant s nightmare had not (quite) come to begin withpass. One half is scorching sunlight Others, pureI think, blazing heatwere out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, and totally uninhabitableI suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. The other half is pure darkness and ice If she had, where a creature can freeze to death I suspect it might hardly be in seconds, and totally uninhabitablethe future at all. In the middle A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is a brief twilight that is barely survivablealready happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. Life is a knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to In the otherblurb, you die and yet the heat Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from the sun and the water from the ice are necessary for lifeanyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". Life for the inhabitants of January My only response to that is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? : too late! [[The City In The Middle Of The Night Poster Boy by Charlie Jane AndersN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister Critical Incidents by David LawsLucie Whitehouse]]===
[[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersCrime|ThrillersCrime]]
At When you reach a certain stage in life the time of my writing this, there phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is one thing uniting Britain, best if it means a short and this is hatred of 'Brexit'hopefully harmonious visit. Not just BrexitThe woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but use of the word 'Brexit'. Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who was now just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete itRobin Lyons, but they also hate the use of the word. This biggest turnwent home with her thirteen-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their teayear-cups in high dudgeon and leave old daughter after she was dismissed from the room until it's safe to return, when all mention of it has subsidedMet. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get She was going home to the actual Brexiting in room which she'd had as a very protracted manner. Just as we child: she would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so those who knew her well - would have the reader top bunk. The room was redolent of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the titletime she's theme really arises. Here, at least though, d shared the authorroom with her brother Luke - and they weren's delaying tactics are much more forgiveablet good memories. [[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister Critical Incidents by David LawsLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[The Hidden A Memory Called Empire by Mary ChamberlainArkady Martine]]===
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When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph be too clever and she has found among wants her mother's possessions, Dora fictional languages to be complex and Joe find their worlds upended – rich and are swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Revisiting their time errs on the Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a time when side of making them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why she concealed her Jewish identity, and Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a time when he hid something very different. In this story of love, loss and betrayaldoes both, but it remains to be seen whether 's a speck disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… book stumbles. [[The Hidden A Memory Called Empire by Mary ChamberlainArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[Painting Snails When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Stephen John HartleyUk-Bae Lee]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyFor Sharing|AutobiographyFor Sharing]], [[:Category:LifestyleConfident Readers|LifestyleConfident Readers]]
It's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails'': originally I thought that as it's loosely based around There is a year place on an allotment it would be a lifestyle bookthis earth that, at the time of writing, but you're is resplendent with life. In the spring seals gambol in the river – not going to get advice venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on what to plant when and where for the best resultsrazor wire the humans have put in place. The answer would be something along In the lines of 'try it and see'. Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levelsautumn, did an engineering apprenticeshipsalmon come upstream, became a buskerlooking doleful as well they might, finally got into medical school for they will spawn and is now an A&E consultant (part time)die, if they reach their birthing grounds. I found out that there's an awful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you'll ever glean Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from ''Casualty'', but that isn't really what the book's aboutdoing so. There's This is a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the real passion snapshot of Hartley's lifein the DMZ, but it didn't actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'doing the impossible demilitarized zone between the hard way'? Yep - thattwo countries with Korea in their name, and it's the one. Itworld's autobiographyleast welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Painting Snails When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Stephen John HartleyUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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