Changes

From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to search

Book Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)

Revision as of 15:08, 20 April 2019

110 bytes added ,  15:08, 20 April 2019
no edit summary
{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->
<!-- Reeves Crossan -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17883122011408868121.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17883122011408868121/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and SocietyTeens|Politics and SocietyTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
''Women in Westminster have changed the culture of politics and the perception of what women can doI am a girl trying to forget.'' ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' chronicles the battles the 491 women who have been elected over the course of the past century have fought and highlights their victories. It She is remarkable that the history of female Members of Parliament began in 1918, the same year in which women were first given the right to vote but a decade before all women were given suffrage on equal terms with men. Although Constance de Markievicz was the first female elected to Parliament, it was only in 1919 that Nancy Astor became the first women to take her seat in the House of Commons and pave the way for women of the future. It was not long after in 1924 that the first female MP, Margaret Bondfield, was appointed into a cabinet position and since then women MPs have endeavoured to fight gender inequality and campaign for female rights. Within 100 years there has been a gradual revolution of change in politics and woman trying to date Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministersremember. However, such great landmarks have overshadowed the other female MPs whose early achievements, which have paved the way for subsequent women politicians, are consistently overlooked. In ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into the spotlight to document the history of British female political history from 1919 to 2019. [[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves|Full Review]]
Allison has finally had enough and has run away from home. The burning red weal on her face provides a clue to why. She's on her way to Bude to find Kelly-Anne, who was the first to run away from home, but Kelly-Anne isn't answering her phone. Night is closing in and so Allison takes refuge in a shed in the garden of what looks to be an empty house. But the house isn't empty. Marla lives in it and Marla doesn't remember things very well. She mistakes Allison for her friend, Toffee. And because Allison doesn't much want to be Allison any more and because Marla is so happy to see Toffee - why shouldn't Allison ''become'' Toffee? [[Toffee by Sarah Crossan|Full Review]]<!-- Erskine Bowling -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17860749231911077686.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17860749231911077686/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[In The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineShadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
 
Life 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. [[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|Full Review]]
 
<!-- 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-align: left;"|
===[[Little Darlings by Melanie 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]]
Dr Jaq Silver <!-- Alice Feeney -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008236070.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008236070/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Aimee Sinclair is just on the edge of making it big time as an actor. Right now she's the sort of person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but that's all about to change. That's a brilliant scientist with a healthy social little worrying for Aimee as life who loves has changed for her work before and life. Whilst she is haunted by her past knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, she won't let it define her. When s Ciara: Aimee is simply the name she becomes entangled in a mystery, a mystery that could tie was forced to some of the most horrific weapons on Earth, take when she doesn't hesitate and jumps straight in. We follow Jaq was snatched as she travels the world digging deeper and deeper into a rabbit-hole of intrigue and betrayal, never compromising and always seeking the truthchild. From That's not at the ski slopes front of Eastern Europe, to the sunny climes of Portugal her mind though when she comes home one day and even making a visit to finds that most glamourous of locations… rainy Teeside… this is a true thrillerher husband, Ben Bailey, has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineI Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney|Full Review]]
<!-- Varenne Rubin -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:08570587380718187091.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/08570587380718187091/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Equator Liberation Square by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Gareth Rubin]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionThrillers|Historical FictionThrillers]], [[:Category:Literary Historical Fiction|Literary Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme parkIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. Our agent After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at be rescued by Russian soldiers from the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian'East, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at Americans from the bat of an eyelidwest. But this book is about so much more than Dividing the 1870s USAnation between them, and the attendant problems with gold rushesLondon soon finds itself split in two, pioneer spirits and racial genocidea wall running through it like a scar. He finds himself trying to find this bookWhen Jane Cawson's version husband is arrested for the murder of Utopia, namely the Equatorhis former wife, where everything Jane is upside downdetermined to clear his name. In doing so, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to keep them on the ground to counter highest levels of the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away state – and there's a whole adventure full soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… the murderous secret police… [[Equator Liberation Square by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Gareth Rubin|Full Review]]
<!-- Collins Howe -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:14088883351788002865.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/14088883351788002865/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[All the Invisible Things Not My Fault by Orlagh CollinsCath Howe]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|TeensConfident Readers]]
 Vetty, her dad, ''Maya and her little sister are about to move back to London and Vetty canRose won't waittalk to each other. Even though they are sisters. The family has been staying with Aunt Wendy Not since the death of Vetty's mother several years agoaccident. With the girls older Maya is turning wild and Aunt Wendy getting married, itRose doesn's time t know what to get back to their livesdo. Vetty, mostly, is looking forward And now Maya and Rose have to reconnecting with Pezgo away together on a week-long school trip. She and he were inseparable - spending all Will the trip fix their time together and knowing each other inside out, without the need for words. Vetty could do with a friend like that right now, as her inner feelings of difference get ever strongersibling bond... or break it for good?'' [[All the Invisible Things Not My Fault by Orlagh CollinsCath Howe|Full Review]]<!-- Dahl Lupo -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:19123744391408898055.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/19123744391408898055/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)]]===
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime (Historical)|Crime (Historical)We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]===
Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942[[image:4. There, I've given the game away5star. For in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, and their store condemned as Jewish, and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felt. In this timeline, a maverick agent is back in town, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the War… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator):Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
 ''In a sealed-off city, a young woman, Lena, is running for her life. She has been sentenced to death and her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear - those with magic.'' ''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.'' So, Lena is a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the city of Duke's Forest.[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo|Full Review]]  <!-- AMS Kidd -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:14087112651786893762.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/14087112651786893762/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes Things in Jars by Alexander McCall SmithJess Kidd]]===
[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime (Historical)|General FictionCrime (Historical)]]
Long-A 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 followers . 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 The Bookbag will know Ithat era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you'm re more than a die-hard fan couple of AMSpages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a brand new serieswidow's cap and stout, shiny boots, described by but the author himself as Scandi Blanc tobacco she smokes in her pipe (as opposed my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to Scandi Noirdo!)! Here we meet is mixed with a new detective named Ulf Vargnugget of something, well, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimeslet's say recreational, solving those crimes created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that perhaps fall outside it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the usual police parametersby. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is stabbed in the kneealso somewhat remarkable. And then, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriendcourse, and a case of potential werewolves. Theythere're s the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal withghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and I rather enjoyed themit's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victimis. [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes Things in Jars by Alexander McCall SmithJess Kidd|Full Review]]
<!-- Lingane Beckett -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:B07NV8NY4Y1786491559.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07NV8NY4Y1786491559/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]===
===[[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]=== [[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]
Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student statusSouth America, 1990. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that endBen Ronson, a British police officer, they have managed arrives in a mysterious forest to find him investigate a job tutoring the children spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strangepsychic effect on people, austere mansion with little in unleashing the way of expectationsubconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Victor, Ben becomes fascinated by the politician is not at home. But EsisDuendes, his wife, 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 closer he will teach the childrengets, and the kitchenmore he begins to unravel, whose chefbot will provide him with foodterrifying results... [[The Rose, Beneath the NightWorld, and the Mirror A Sea by Mark LinganeChris Beckett|Full Review]]
<!-- Brandi M J Lee -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1789550122B07P6P4S7H.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789550122B07P6P4S7H/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Into Where the River Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Mark BrandiM J Lee]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
Two boysIt really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, Ben conscious that his relationship with his wife and Fabchild is hanging by a thread, are growing up is off to collect them at his mother-in a small town in Northern Australia in the late 80-law'shouse for an evening out. They do all Traffic was heavy on the normal things that boys of that age do - go yabbying M60 (fishinga match at Old Trafford wasn't helping), play cricket, fight their battles at school and think about girlsbut it was moving steadily. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from Then a happy homeman wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, whilst Fab is briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the son path of Italian immigrants who clearly have little money, an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of stopping and has a father who is very violentthe naked man was killed instantly. Yet despite their differences, they are fiercely loyal Glancing to each otherthe hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. So far, so normal. But with This was now a crime scene and the resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the arrival least of a new neighbour for Ben, a man called RonnieRidpath's worries, things begin to change. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for although no one would let him, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable forget about thisit in a hurry. [[Into Where the River Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Mark BrandiM J Lee|Full Review]]
<!-- Clark Anstruther -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:034901082X1784631647.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/034901082X1784631647/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[In The Full Light of the Sun A Perfect Explanation by Clare ClarkEleanor Anstruther]]===
[[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 Enid Campbell was a scandal. Emmelinewoman who, a wayward young student, Juliuson the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an anxious middle-aged art expertaristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and Rachmannhigh expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, a mysterious art dealeruntreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, live in the politically turbulent Weimar BerlinEnid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over or an act of desperation? Exploring 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 Nazisher own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticityperfect subject for an explosive, vanity moving and self-delusionbeautifully well written debut. [[In The Full Light of the Sun A Perfect Explanation by Clare ClarkEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
<!-- Ireland Delargy -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17890908731471177521.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17890908731471177521/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Dread Nation 55 by Justina IrelandJames Delargy]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyCrime|FantasyCrime]], [[:Category:HorrorThrillers|HorrorThrillers]]
''Two days after I was born … men enter a police station, both tell the dead rose up same story; they were kidnapped and started narrowly escaped the clutches of a man who intended to walk on kill them. As they escaped they ran through a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''graveyard and they were not the first victim. The stories match, the evidence is compelling and each man blames the other. Now the question is, who is guilty? [[55 by James Delargy|Full Review]]
Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changed world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Review]] <!-- Arnold Cercas -->
|-
| style=''"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''"|[[image:17890165250857058320.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17890165250857058320/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style=''"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''"|===[[Betrayed Lord Of All the Dead by Geoffrey ArnoldJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
[[image:3.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionHistory|History]], [[:Category:Biography|Science FictionBiography]]
In an extension of the story begun by Geoffrey Arnold in ''Ripped ApartLord Of All the Dead'', he continues to tell the story of the Quantum twins. Born on is a parallel world, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time journey to our earth - and a series of adventures ensued in uncover the following books. When we rejoin them in author's lost ancestor'Betrayeds life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle'' we find Tullia struggling to adapt to life s death in the bush - adopted by a Bushman family and made part of a tribeSpanish Civil War. Twin Qwelby howeverManuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is not doing so well - shocked by the violence 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 earth. Rescued by an old friend, he then tries to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to drive be a wedge between hero whilst having fought for the twins as they try to reconnect..wrong side. [[Betrayed Lord Of All the Dead by Geoffrey ArnoldJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
<!-- Pamela Brookes Pearson -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:19494710041401286399.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/19494710041401286399/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Dog on a Log Chapter BooksSuper Sons: Step 1 The PolarShield Project by Pamela BrookesRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia FriendlyGraphic Novels|Dyslexia FriendlyGraphic Novels]], [[:Category:Emerging Confident Readers|Emerging Confident Readers]]
What do you do when your child has dyslexia It's the near future, and you every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need books which will help them 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 achieve relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first he was patching up the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readersdams, but now he's mining the sounds asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the book might not be refugees from the ones you've been working on coast are suffering bigotry and encountering words which are just too challenging can have more intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of a negative effect on food poisoning is hitting the young dyslexic than a child without that problemcity. You need But it can't possibly have anything to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on do with what you've been working on, without anything else being thrown into looks like sabotage of the mix. You need a story which engages flood barriers and the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through efforts to correct the learning process without there being any large jumps. Some online support and games wouldn't go amissclimate, either. Reading - and ''learning'' can it? Four young children begin to read - should be a pleasure. It should be ''fun''. piece together clues that it can… [[Dog on a Log Chapter BooksSuper Sons: Step 1 The PolarShield Project by Pamela BrookesRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
<!-- Kazan de Bois -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:07490248011785903357.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/07490221321785903357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionPolitics and Society|Literary FictionPolitics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, [[opposition parties:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
Deep in the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoria, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before it's too late... At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[The Phoenix Confessions of Florence a Recovering MP by Philip KazanNick de Bois |Full Review]]
<!-- Watson and Hagan Paige -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1526600862140128339X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526600862140128339X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]===
[[image:4starMeet Mera. She's the latest in a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, she rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for herself.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to get the job done… [[Mera:Category:TeensTidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|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 Crosskey -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:B07KTQTW1L1789550149.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07KTQTW1L1789550149/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Poster Boy by Rachel LynchN J Crosskey]]===
[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeDystopian Fiction|CrimeDystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
The girl had once been a promising athleteI first read 1984 in school, but injury and then addiction to prescription painkillers changed her completely. Eventually she was driven to commit suicide in the most gruesome way - by throwing herself off late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a cliff long time in the Lake Districtfuture. It worried DI Kelly Porter, but she had no reason to investigate, although several of her cases keep bringing her back to the girl's school came and a darker story emergedwent quickly enough. One Some of the pupils goes missing at the local fair: her best friend is the girl who has accused us may have breathed a teacher sigh of luring her relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to his flat and then sexually assaulting herpass. It seems Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the teacher also has paedophilia date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on his computerthe nightmare. If she had, but I suspect it would not be as far in the downloading eerily coincides with future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the girlfuture at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy''s visit to his flatis already happening. What is going onSadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, but - most importantly - where Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is Faith? : too late! [[Bitter Edge (D I Kelly Porter) Poster Boy by Rachel LynchN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
<!-- Angela Marsons Lucie Whitehouse -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17868177210008268991.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17868177210008268991/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Critical Incidents by Angela MarsonsLucie Whitehouse]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
Someone is recreating every traumatic event When you reach a certain stage in Kim Stonelife the phrase 'going home's past, starting with the death of her twin when she was six years old. Some of the events, or at least the details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever it refers to your childhood home is behind this has best if it means a wealth of information short and is using it to evil intenthopefully harmonious visit. That might seem bad enoughThe woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but the brutal truth of the matter is that people was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen- innocent people year- are dying so that these dramas can be recreatedold daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. Stone probably She was going home to the room which she'd had as a child: she would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well, certainly - shouldn't be on would have the case, but who has better knowledge top bunk. The room was redolent of what happened to her than the time she does? If 'd shared the room with her boss can just turn a blind eye to the effect itbrother Luke - and they weren's having on her for long enough, she can sort it outt good memories... Or can she? [[Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) Critical Incidents by Angela MarsonsLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
<!-- Hurwitz Martine -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:071818548X1529001579.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/071818548X1529001579/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Out of the Dark A Memory Called Empire by Gregg HurwitzArkady Martine]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersScience Fiction|ThrillersScience Fiction]]
1997The 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. Evan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained upI can see why she does both, mission ready. And yet untested.'' Hebut it's in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, disappointment because they're the blocks against which he executes with all the impeccable training that his youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan Xbrilliance of the book stumbles. [[Out of the Dark A Memory Called Empire by Gregg HurwitzArkady Martine|Full Review]]
<!-- Jewell Lee -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:178475627X0874869722.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475627X0874869722/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Watching You When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Lisa JewellUk-Bae Lee]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersFor Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|ThrillersConfident Readers]]
A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a woman There is convinced she knows a man in the village and place on this earth that he is following her. Meanwhile, a young woman has moved back home after some at the time abroadof writing, and develops a fascination is resplendent with her new neighbourlife. The man's wifeIn the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, meanwhile, engages for fear of being slashed open on the services of razor wire the young woman's husband humans have put in some work around place. In the house. Ohautumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and that teenage boy? He's her sondie, if they reach their birthing grounds. And Mountain goats gambol prettily among the woman with hills – if the conspiracy theories? She's the mother landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This is a snapshot of life in the girl he's spying on. PlusDMZ, the man she thinks is out to get her is demilitarized zone between the womantwo countries with Korea in their name, and it's husband (and is also the new headteacher at her daughterworld's school). Whichever way you look at it, there's a lot of watching going on in this bookleast welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Watching You When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Lisa JewellUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->
|}
Retrieved from "http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/Special:MobileDiff/151551...151800"

Navigation menu