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===[[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) by Kerry Watts]]===
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The story had begun some twenty years earlier when two boys raped and killed Sophie Nicholl. Jack Mackay was - on the face of it - from a decent family, but he was the ringleader. Daniel Simpson was a follower, but he still raped Sophie and he could have stopped what happened but didn't. Sophie's body was found in a shallow grave by an enthusiastic cocker spaniel a few days later and the boys were arrested, tried and sentenced to five years in a young offenders institution. There were those who thought that the sentence was too lenient, even for fifteen-year-old boys and Sophie's elder brother, Tom, was one of these. He wasn't going to let the matter rest[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) by Kerry Watts: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]]<!-- Hitchcock Bowling -->
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===[[In The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling]]===
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[[image:4Life as a slave in ancient Rome could be harsh and degrading, but Cadmus has it much easier than most.5starTaken 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:Confident ReadersIn The Shadow of Heroes by Nicholas Bowling|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
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Athan Wilde earns some money to supplement his family's meagre income | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Little Darlings by working for Mr Chen who is both mentor and friendMelanie Golding]]===[[image:4.5star. Mr Chen's wonderful imagination jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and sense her husband have just welcomed the arrival of the future has led him children – twin boys, who they decide to create some fantastic inventions for making life easier name Riley and work less back breakingMorgan. His latest endeavour is But something on an entirely different level, however - it'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''flying machine''! Imagine that! ll strike… [[The Boy Who Flew Little Darlings by Fleur HitchcockMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[The Savage Shore I Know Who You Are by David HewsonAlice Feeney]]===
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Reggio, in CalabriaAimee Sinclair is just on the edge of making it big time as an actor. ItRight now she's a strange placethe sort of person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, closer but that's all about to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himselfchange. He was an illegal immigrant and like most of his kind he was simply looking for a way to earn a decent living with That's a little dignity. Back in Nigeria he was an independent man worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and now he she knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, she's Ciara: Aimee is no better than simply the monkey who sits in name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a cage on the bar he tends. The area is ruled by the Mafiachild. Further afield there are the Camorra and the Cosa Nostra, but here itThat's not at the 'Ndrangheta front of her mind though when she comes home one day and the local boss is known as Lo Spettro - the ghost - as he's rarely seenfinds that her husband, but he's one of the Bergamotti clanBen Bailey, but even that's not has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their real name. current account [[The Savage Shore I Know Who You Are by David HewsonAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[No Way Out Liberation Square by Cara HunterGareth Rubin]]===
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It was the end of the Christmas holidays and Felix House in In an elite area of Oxford was on firealternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. Two children were dragged After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the inferno: oneEast, a toddler, was pronounced dead at and Americans from the scene and west. Dividing the othernation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, a boy on wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the cusp murder of his teensformer wife, died in hospital some days laterJane is determined to clear his name. But where were In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the parents? Were their bodies in what remained highest levels of the house state – and which was being steadily cleared, or had they left the children at home alone? For DI Adam Fawley it's soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of his most disturbing cases. He's still not got over the death of ''his'' son and there's every sign that his marriage is on the rocks. For his team it's just a heartbreaking, exhausting case. murderous secret police… [[No Way Out Liberation Square by Cara HunterGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves]]===
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''Women in Westminster have changed the culture of politics and the perception of what women can do'' ''Women of Westminster[[image: 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 victories5star. It 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 to date Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministers. 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 Westminsterjpg|link=Category: 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. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel ReevesCategory: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]]<!-- Erskine Lupo -->
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===[[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona Erskine]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]]  ''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.''
Dr Jaq Silver So, Lena is a brilliant scientist with cryptling - a healthy social life who loves her work and life. Whilst she is haunted by her past she won't let it define her. When she becomes entangled low caste individual living in a mystery, a mystery that could tie to some the city of the most horrific weapons on Earth, she doesnDuke't hesitate and jumps straight in. We follow Jaq as she travels the world digging deeper and deeper into a rabbit-hole of intrigue and betrayal, never compromising and always seeking the truth. From the ski slopes of Eastern Europe, to the sunny climes of Portugal and even making a visit to that most glamourous of locations… rainy Teeside… this is a true thrillers Forest. [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineWe Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator Things in Jars by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Jess Kidd]]===
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well of A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the Wild West outside case is still struggling with the walls of shame and frustration left by a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Fergusonprevious case, who bristles at where the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a buffalo huntwoman, and who hates the way man – setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and woman, colourful paradoxes of course – can turn against fellow man at that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the bat downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of an eyelid. But this book is about so pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than the 1870s USAyou expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the attendant problems tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with gold rushesa nugget of something, pioneer spirits and racial genocidewell, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. He finds himself trying to find this bookThe fact that it's version of Utopiaactually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, namely the Equatorbeing seven foot tall, where everything is upside downalso somewhat remarkable. And then, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on of course, there's the ground to counter the anti-gravityghost. Ruby Doyle, and whereworld famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and thereit's clear he has a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[Equator Things in Jars by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Jess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett]]===
===[[All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins]]=== [[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensScience Fiction|TeensScience Fiction]]
South 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... [[Beneath the World, A Sea by Chris Beckett|Full Review]]
Vetty, her dad, and her little sister are about to move back to London and Vetty can't wait. The family has been staying with Aunt Wendy since the death of Vetty's mother several years ago. With the girls older and Aunt Wendy getting married, it's time to get back to their lives. Vetty, mostly, is looking forward to reconnecting with Pez. She and he were inseparable - spending all 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 stronger... [[All the Invisible Things by Orlagh Collins|Full Review]]<!-- Dahl M J Lee -->
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===[[The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett Where the Dead Fall (translatorDI Ridpath, Book 2)by M J Lee]]===
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Nazi-occupied OsloIt really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, 1942. Thereconscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, Iis off to collect them at his mother-in-law've given s house for an evening out. Traffic was heavy on the game awayM60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. For in Then a book that centres around man wearing only a murderpair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, Ibriefly put his hands on Ridpath've told you who did it – s car then ran into the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one path of an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, stopping and their store condemned as Jewish, and rushes the naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation is being felthard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. In this timeline, This was now a maverick agent is crime scene and the resulting seventeen-mile tail back in townof traffic would be the least of Ridpath's worries, although no one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together with their baby as would let him forget about it in a young family, except he was thought by all to have died in the War… hurry. [[The Courier by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett Where the Dead Fall (translatorDI Ridpath, Book 2)by M J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes A Perfect Explanation by Alexander McCall SmithEleanor Anstruther]]===
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Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm Enid Campbell was a die-hard fan of AMS. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book in a brand new serieswoman who, described by on the author himself as Scandi Blanc (as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Vargface of it, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimes, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside the usual police parametershad everything. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed in the knee, Leading the disappearance life of an imaginary boyfriendaristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and a case of potential werewolveshigh expectations. TheyOnly Enid're the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother s life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to deal withher. After losing custody of her children, and I rather enjoyed themEnid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, especially or an act of desperation? Exploring the stabbing where you find that actuallytrue story of her own grandmother, you identify with Eleanor Anstruther has found the person who committed the crimeperfect subject for an explosive, rather than the victimmoving and beautifully well written debut. [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes A Perfect Explanation by Alexander McCall SmithEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[55 by James Delargy]]===
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[[image:4starTwo men enter a police station, both tell the same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the clutches of a man who intended to kill them. As they escaped they ran through a graveyard and they were not the first victim. The stories match, the evidence is compelling and each man blames the other.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] Now the question is, who is guilty? [[:Category:Science Fiction55 by James Delargy|Science FictionFull Review]]
Julian's family are getting pretty fed up with his perma-student status. They feel that the maths PHD candidate should start earning some money. To that end, they have managed to find him a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little in the way of expectation. Victor, the politician is not at home. But Esis, 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 he will teach the children, and the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with food. [[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane|Full Review]]  <!-- Brandi Cercas -->
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===[[Into Lord Of All the River Dead by Mark BrandiJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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Two boys, Ben and Fab, are growing up in ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a small town in Northern Australia in journey to uncover the late 80author's lost ancestor'slife and death. They do all Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the normal things that boys of that age do - go yabbying (fishing)Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, play cricket, fight their battles at school and think about girls. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from a happy homeCercas' great uncle, whilst Fab is the son of Italian immigrants figure who clearly have little money, and has a father who is very violentlooms large over the book. Yet despite their differences, they are fiercely loyal to each otherHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. So far, so normalCercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. But with The question at the arrival centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a new neighbour hero whilst having fought for Ben, a man called Ronnie, things begin to changethe wrong side. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for him, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable about this. [[Into Lord Of All the River Dead by Mark BrandiJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[In Super Sons: The Full Light of the Sun PolarShield Project by Clare ClarkRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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In 1930It's Berlinthe near future, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a scandalhuge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. EmmelineBut the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, a wayward young studentforcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmannof course – first he was patching up the dams, but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a mysterious art dealerrare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, live in the politically turbulent Weimar BerlinWyndermere, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on a true story and unfolding through refugees from the subsequent rise of Hitler coast are suffering bigotry and the Nazisintolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the discovery city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the art allows these characters flood barriers and the efforts to explore authenticitycorrect the climate, vanity and self-delusion. can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… [[In Super Sons: The Full Light of the Sun PolarShield Project by Clare ClarkRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyPolitics and Society|FantasyPolitics 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:Horror|Horror]]I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless.
''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 ''Sigh.
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 Desperate cry 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 attendantvoid over. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all elseSorry about that. [[Dread Nation by Justina Ireland|Full Review]]
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In an extension Meet 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 story begun by Geoffrey Arnold 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'Ripped Apart's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, he continues and is in fact trying to tell get Xebel out from under the story cosh of the Quantum twins. Born on a parallel worldAtlantean power, these genetically identical twins interfered with an experiment and were hurtled through space-time to our earth - and a series for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of adventures ensued in the following booksAtlantean masters. When we rejoin them in ''Betrayed'' we find Tullia struggling So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to adapt to life in the bush world of us air- adopted by a Bushman family breathing humans, and made part of a tribe. Twin Qwelby howeverkill the Atlantis heir, is not doing so well - shocked by she rushes off to get the violence on quest (and the earthpromised throne) all for herself. Rescued by an old friend But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, he then tries and how hard it will be to help a girl called Xaala - but her ulterior motives may well prove to drive a wedge between get the twins as they try to reconnect... job done… [[Betrayed Mera: Tidebreaker by Geoffrey ArnoldDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Poster Boy by Pamela BrookesN J Crosskey]]===
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What do you do when your child has dyslexia and you need books which will help them to achieve the wonder that is reading? You can risk buying early readersI first read 1984 in school, but in the sounds late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the book might not be the ones you've been working on future. It came and encountering words which are just too challenging can went quickly enough. Some of us may have more breathed a sigh of a negative effect on the young dyslexic than a child without relief that problemOrwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. You need to be able to buy books at a reasonable price which concentrate on what you've been Others, I think, were out there already working on, without anything else being thrown into making sure that all he got wrong was the mixdate. You need Crosskey hasn't put a story which engages date on the young mind and you need stages which progress steadily through nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the learning process without there being any large jumpsfuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. Some online support and games wouldn't go amiss If she had, eitherI suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. Reading - and A lot of what happens in ''learningPoster Boy'' to read - should be a pleasureis already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. It should In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be ''fun''tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late! [[Dog on a Log Chapter Books: Step 1 Poster Boy by Pamela BrookesN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Critical Incidents by Philip KazanLucie Whitehouse]]===
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Deep When you reach a certain stage in life the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a massacre that destroys her family short and homehopefully harmonious visit. Alone in the forest, she meets a band of soldiers The woman who, believing her used to be a boy train and develop DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her – and thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate Met. She was going home to avoid any situation in the room which she may feel vulnerable again. Along 'd had as a child: she would have the way, she meets exbottom bunk and Elena -soldier Celavini, whose journey Lennie to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murdersthose who knew her well - would have the top bunk. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit The room was redolent of the time she'd shared the past he shares room with Onoria, in the hope that her brother Luke - and they can lay the ghosts of their shared history to rest, before itweren's too late..t good memories. [[The Phoenix of Florence Critical Incidents by Philip KazanLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] 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]] <!-- Lee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0874869722.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0874869722/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Watch Us Rise When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Renee Watson and Ellen HaganUk-Bae Lee]]===
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Jasmine and Chelsea go to There is a high school place on this earth that, at the time of writing, is resplendent with an excellent reputationlife. It places strong emphasis In the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on extra curricular activities and all pupils are encouraged to join clubs and associationsthe razor wire the humans have put in place. But Jasmine is fed up with her drama group because she's always typecast in In the loudautumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, "hysterical" roles (Jasmine is black for they will spawn and resents die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the angry black woman trope)landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. And Chelsea This is fed with poetry club because a snapshot of life in the only poetry it ever covers was written by men who lived and died years ago. SoDMZ, along the demilitarized zone between the two countries with friends Isaac Korea in their name, and Nadine, they start a new group called Write Like a Girlit's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Watch Us Rise When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Renee Watson and Ellen HaganUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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