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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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===[[The RoseLife as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most. Taken into the Nighthousehold 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 Mirror family, rather than a despised, barely human creature. [[In The Shadow of Heroes by Mark LinganeNicholas Bowling|Full Review]]===
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Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma| 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]]===
===[[Not My Fault by Cath Howe]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyConfident Readers|FantasyConfident 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]]<!-- Lupo -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align:Categorycenter;"|[[image:Horror1408898055.jpg|Horrorlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1408898055/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
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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 We Are Blood And Thunder by Justina Ireland|Full ReviewKesia Lupo]]===
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[[image:3''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in.5starYears ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]But now she won't hide who she is any longer.''
In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped Apart''So, he continues to tell the story of the Quantum twins. Born on Lena is a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time to our earth cryptling - and a series of adventures ensued low caste individual living in the following books. When we rejoin them in city of Duke''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..s Forest. [[Betrayed We Are Blood And Thunder by Geoffrey ArnoldKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Things in Jars by Pamela BrookesJess Kidd]]===
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What do you do when your A child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them gone missing. The detective asked to achieve take on the wonder that case is reading? You can risk buying early readers, but the sounds in the book might not be still struggling with the ones you've been working on shame and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more of frustration left by a negative effect on previous case, where the young dyslexic than child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a child without that problemprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. You need to be able to buy books at This detective is a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been working onwoman, and the setting is Victorian London, without anything else being thrown into with all the mix. You need rich and colourful paradoxes of that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a story which engages fascination with the young mind bizarre and you need stages which progress steadily through the learning process without there being any large jumpsdownright hideous. Some online support and games wouldnAnd before you't go amissre more than a couple of pages in, eitheryou realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Reading 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 ''learningfast'' thing for a lady to read - should be do!) is mixed with a pleasurenugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. It should be 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'fun'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. [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Things in Jars by Pamela BrookesJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Beneath the World, A Sea by Philip KazanChris Beckett]]===
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Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century ItalySouth America, 1990. Ben Ronson, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone British police officer, arrives in the a mysterious forest, she meets to investigate a band spate of killings of soldiers whoDuendes. These silent, believing her to be vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a boy train strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and develop her – exposing their innermost thoughts and the determined Onoria fears. Ben becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along fascinated by the wayDuendes, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As but the closer he digs further and uncovers links to his own family historygets, Celavini must revisit the past more he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history begins to restunravel, before it's too latewith terrifying results... [[The Phoenix of Florence Beneath the World, A Sea by Philip KazanChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by M J Lee]]===
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[[image:4starIt really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in-law's house for an evening out. Traffic was heavy on the M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. Then a man wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, briefly 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. Glancing to the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. 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 hurry.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensWhere the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by M J Lee|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 Anstruther -->
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===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) A Perfect Explanation by Rachel LynchEleanor Anstruther]]===
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The girl Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had once everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been a promising athleteplagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, but injury untreated and threatening both Enid and then addiction those close to prescription painkillers changed her completely. Eventually she was driven After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to commit suicide in the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off a cliff in the Lake District. It worried DI Kelly Porter, her sister for £500 – but she had no reason to investigateis this an act of greed, although several or an act of her cases keep bringing her back to desperation? Exploring the girl's school and a darker true story emerged. One of the pupils goes missing at the local fair: her best friend is the girl who own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has accused a teacher of luring her to his flat and then sexually assaulting her. It seems that found the teacher also has paedophilia on his computerperfect subject for an explosive, but the downloading eerily coincides with the girl's visit to his flatmoving and beautifully well written debut. What is going on, but - most importantly - where is Faith? [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) A Perfect Explanation by Rachel LynchEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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Someone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's pastTwo men enter a police station, starting with both tell the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the events, or at least the details clutches of a man who intended to kill them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has . As they escaped they ran through a wealth of information graveyard and is using it to evil intentthey were not the first victim. That might seem bad enoughThe stories match, but the brutal truth of evidence is compelling and each man blames the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreatedother. Stone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't be on Now the casequestion is, but who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? If her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect it's having on her for long enough, she can sort it out... Or can sheis guilty? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) 55 by Angela MarsonsJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Out of Lord Of All the Dark Dead by Gregg HurwitzJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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1997''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Evan Smoak Cercas is 19 years old searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas'trained upgreat uncle, mission readyis the figure who looms large over the book. And yet untested.'' Hedied relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's in a foreign city forces. Cercas ruminates on an officially unofficial mission, which he executes with all why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the impeccable training that centre of this book is whether it is possible for his youth beliesgreat uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[Out of Lord Of All the Dark Dead by Gregg HurwitzJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Watching You Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Lisa JewellRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down It's the roadnear future, a woman and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is convinced she knows a man in the village and that he is following her. Meanwhile, need of a young woman has moved back home after some time abroadhuge flood barrier, and develops a fascination with her new neighbourbuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. The manBut the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's wife, meanwhilebiggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, engages the services of course – first he was patching up the young womandams, but now he's husband in some work around mining the house. Oh, and asteroid belt for a rare dust that teenage boy? He's her son. And perfect for blocking the woman with the conspiracy theories? She's the mother of the girl he's spying onsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. PlusInland, in Wyndermere, the man she thinks is out to get her is refugees from the woman's husband (coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is also hitting the new headteacher at her daughter's school)city. Whichever way you look at But it, therecan's a lot t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of watching going on in this book. the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[Watching You Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Lisa JewellRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle Confessions of a Recovering MP by Kate CoochNick de Bois]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics 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.
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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. At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[Fish Seeking Bicycle Confessions of a Recovering MP by Kate CoochNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[Home Workout for BeginnersMera: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Tidebreaker by James AtkinsonDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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James Atkinson has all Meet Mera. She's the qualifications which you need latest in a workout instructor line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and he looks a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the partterritory's warrior queen, is long dead. HeMera doesn's been actively t fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member cosh of 9 Parachute RegimentAtlantean power, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me: hefor Xebel's been on the other sideroyalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. There was a time So when he was overweight she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and not particularly strong. As a child he was slow kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to developget the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself. This means that he ''understands'' But of course, she has no idea what it's like kind of person she will meet, and he knows how his clients feel: hard it's much more helpful than will be to get the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. job done… [[Home Workout for BeginnersMera: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss Tidebreaker by James AtkinsonDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments Poster Boy by Adrian CullN J Crosskey]]===
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For many years now Ifirst read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell've s nightmare had not (halfquite) joked that come to pass. Others, I intended to live forever and think, were out there already working on making sure that so far, it all he got wrong was working out OKthe date. Time has passed though and although ICrosskey hasn'm t put a great deal fitter and healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life out of balancedate on the nightmare. It If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was time to look for a new approach and as so often happenswhen I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the reviewing gods brought me the book I neededfuture at all. A lot of what happens in ''Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatmentsPoster Boy'' seemed like is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the answer blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to my problems - turn its fiction into reality". My only you get so much more than just 101 tips. response to that is: too late! [[Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments Poster Boy by Adrian CullN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[The City In The Middle Of The Night Critical Incidents by Charlie Jane AndersLucie Whitehouse]]===
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January is When you reach a dying planet. It wasncertain stage in life the phrase 'going home't exactly pleasant when it refers to begin with. One half your childhood home is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, best if it means a short and totally uninhabitablehopefully harmonious visit. The other half is pure darkness and icewoman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, where a creature can freeze to death in secondsbut was now just Robin Lyons, and totally uninhabitablewent home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. In She was going home to the middle is room which she'd had as a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a knifechild: she would have the bottom bunk and Elena -edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the other, you die and yet top bunk. The room was redolent of the heat from time she'd shared the sun room with her brother Luke - and the water from the ice are necessary for lifethey weren't good memories. Life for the inhabitants of January is long, and hard, and arduous, will anything ever change? [[The City In The Middle Of The Night Critical Incidents by Charlie Jane AndersLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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The problem with Martine's fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on the side of making them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why she does both, but it's a disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the book stumbles. [[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine|Full Review]]
 
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===[[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks When Spring Comes to the Prime Minister DMZ by David LawsUk-Bae Lee]]===
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At There is a place on this earth that, at the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'resplendent with life. Not just BrexitIn the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, but use for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the word 'Brexit'humans have put in place. YesIn the autumn, salmon come upstream, people hate the people that instigated it then disappearedlooking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and/or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete itdie, but if they also hate reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the use of hills – if the wordlandmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their is a snapshot of life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's safe to returnDMZ, when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywheretheir name, and it seems, so the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises. Here, at least though, the authorworld's delaying tactics are much more forgiveableleast welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks When Spring Comes to the Prime Minister DMZ by David LawsUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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