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===[[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days by James Wallman]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleTeens|LifestyleTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
Most things you can replace, but one of the things which you simply can't replace is time. Even though we know this, we fail to use what we have wisely. We have more leisure time, but that's not how it feels: I am a high value is put on how we spend our working hours, but there's a low value on leisuregirl trying to forget. Unfortunately we now know how to work and not how to ''live'': we need She is a woman trying to remember.''learn'' how to spend our leisure time wisely and James Wallman has taken on the onerous task of teaching us how to do this. [[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days by James Wallman|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]]<!-- Jonnes Bowling -->
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===[[Eiffel's Tower for Young People In The Shadow of Heroes by Jill JonnesNicholas 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]]
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Brash | 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 eleganther husband have just welcomed the arrival of children – twin boys, sophisticated, controversial who they decide to name Riley and vibrant, the 1889 WorldMorgan. But something's Fair in Paris encompassed the bestwrong. While everyone else is celebrating, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid Lauren starts to worry – that someone out model villages from all their coloniesthere is coming to take her children away, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it allif she looks away for even a second, the most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower. they'll strike… [[Eiffel's Tower for Young People Little Darlings by Jill JonnesMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew I Know Who You Are by Milly JohnsonAlice Feeney]]===
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I liked this bookAimee 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. Whilst That's a little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she's not necessarily a page-turnerreally Aimee Sinclair, this she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a thoroughly enjoyable heart-warming read from child. That's not at the Queen front of chick lither mind though when she comes home one day and finds that her husband, Milly JohnsonBen Bailey, has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew I Know Who You Are by Milly JohnsonAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Liberation Square by Kate ToughGareth Rubin]]===
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Life has just hidden behind a corner and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came pastIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in Canada be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or notAmericans from the west. The ''not'' bit of Dividing the sentence was the way it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. Wellnation between them, she wasn't completely on her own: she had friends and familyLondon soon finds itself split in two, but a wall running through itlike a scar. When Jane Cawson's not husband is arrested for the same as having that special someone in your lifemurder of his former wife, that someone who makes you part of a coupleJane is determined to clear his name. So Rhona had to start againIn doing so, rejoining Jane follows a world trail of corruption that bore little resemblance leads her right to the one she'd left nine years ago - and there's a lot highest levels of difference between being in the middle state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of your twenties and the middle of your thirties. murderous secret police… [[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Liberation Square by Kate ToughGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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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: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]]<!-- Hitchcock Lupo -->
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===[[The Boy Who Flew We Are Blood And Thunder by Fleur HitchcockKesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] 
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''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.''
Athan Wilde earns some money to supplement his family's meagre income by working for Mr Chen who So, Lena is both mentor and friend. Mr Chen's wonderful imagination and sense a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the city of the future has led him to create some fantastic inventions for making life easier and work less back breaking. His latest endeavour is something on an entirely different level, however - itDuke's a..Forest.. ''flying machine''! Imagine that! [[The Boy Who Flew We Are Blood And Thunder by Fleur HitchcockKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[The Savage Shore Things in Jars by David HewsonJess Kidd]]===
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ReggioA 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 Calabriatime. It's Hardly original themes for a private eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. This detective is a strange placewoman, closer to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himself. He was an illegal immigrant and like most the setting is Victorian London, with all the rich and colourful paradoxes of his kind he was simply looking that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a way to earn a decent living fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a little dignitycouple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Back Bridie Devine may dress in Nigeria he was an independent man half-mourning, with a widow's cap and now he is no better than stout, shiny boots, but the monkey who sits tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a cage on the bar he tendslady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The area fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is ruled by the Mafiaby. Further afield Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there are the Camorra and the Cosa Nostra, but here it's the 'Ndrangheta ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and the local boss is known as Lo Spettro - the ghost - as heit's rarely seen, but clear he's one of has a soft spot for the Bergamotti clandetermined young woman. If he really exists, but even that's not their real nameis. [[The Savage Shore Things in Jars by David HewsonJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[No Way Out Beneath the World, A Sea by Cara HunterChris Beckett]]===
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It was the end South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of the Christmas holidays and Felix House in an elite area killings of Oxford was on fireDuendes. Two children were dragged from the inferno: oneThese silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - have a toddlerstrange psychic effect on people, was pronounced dead at unleashing the scene subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the otherDuendes, a boy on but the cusp of his teenscloser he gets, died in hospital some days later. But where were the parents? Were their bodies in what remained of the house and which was being steadily clearedmore he begins to unravel, or had they left the children at home alone? For DI Adam Fawley it's one of his most disturbing caseswith terrifying results. 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. [[No Way Out Beneath the World, A Sea by Cara HunterChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Rachel ReevesM J Lee]]===
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It really shouldn''Women in Westminster t have changed the culture of politics and the perception of what women can do''happened. ''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 DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and highlights their victories. It child is remarkable that the history of female Members of Parliament began in 1918hanging by a thread, the same year is off to collect them at his mother-in which women were first given the right to vote but a decade before all women were given suffrage on equal terms with men-law's house for an evening out. Although Constance de Markievicz Traffic was heavy on the first female elected to Parliament, M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was moving steadily. Then a man wearing only in 1919 that Nancy Astor became a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the first women to take her seat in traffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the House path of an articulated lorry. The driver had no chance of Commons stopping and pave the way for women of the futurenaked man was killed instantly. It was not long after in 1924 that Glancing to the first female MP, Margaret Bondfield, was appointed into hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a cabinet position and since then women MPs have endeavoured to fight gender inequality and campaign for female rightsgun. Within 100 years there has been This was now a gradual revolution of change in politics crime scene 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 resulting seventeen-mile tail back of traffic would be the way for subsequent women politicians, are consistently overlooked. In ''Women least of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed PoliticsRidpath'' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into the spotlight to document the history of British female political history from 1919 to 2019s worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Rachel ReevesM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineA Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther]]===
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Dr Jaq Silver is a brilliant scientist with Enid Campbell was a healthy social life woman who loves her work and life. Whilst she is haunted by her past she won't let it define her. When she becomes entangled in a mystery, a mystery that could tie to some on the face of the most horrific weapons on Earthit, she doesn't hesitate and jumps straight inhad everything. We follow Jaq as she travels Leading the world digging deeper life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and deeper into a rabbit-hole of intrigue splendour, glamourous locales and betrayalhigh expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, never compromising untreated and threatening both Enid and always seeking the truththose close to her. From the ski slopes After losing custody of Eastern Europeher children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the sunny climes true story of Portugal her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and even making a visit to that most glamourous of locations… rainy Teeside… this is a true thrillerbeautifully well written debut. [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineA Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator 55 by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)James Delargy]]===
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well of Two men enter a police station, both tell the Wild West outside same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the walls clutches of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in intended to kill them. As they escaped they ran through a buffalo hunt, graveyard and who hates they were not the way man – and womanfirst victim. The stories match, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book evidence is about so much more than the 1870s USA, compelling and each man blames the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocideother. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely Now the Equator, where everything question is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… guilty? [[Equator 55 by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)James Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and death. Cercas is searching for the meaning behind his great uncle's death in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the wrong side. [[Lord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|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 Pearson -->
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===[[Super Sons: The Courier PolarShield Project by Kjell Ola Dahl Ridley Pearson and Don Bartlett (translator)Ile Gonzalez]]===
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Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, IIt've given s the game away. For near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a book that centres around a murderhuge flood barrier, I've told you who did it – built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the Nazis, surely? Wellrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, that certainly has forcing many people to remain to be seen relocate in this volumeAmerica's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, which splits its time between one of warcourse – first he was patching up the dams, when but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a young woman sees her father arrestedrare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, and their store condemned as Jewishin Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and rushes to her best friend to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960sintolerance for being newcomers, when great consternation but something else is being feltmuch worse. In this timeline, a maverick agent A major bout of food poisoning is back in town, one who might hitting the city. But it can't possibly have been fingered for murdering that female victimanything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, even though she and he lived together with their baby as a can it? Four young family, except he was thought by all children begin to have died in the War… piece together clues that it can… [[Super Sons: The Courier PolarShield Project by Kjell Ola Dahl Ridley Pearson and Don Bartlett (translator)Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionPolitics and Society|General 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: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the void over. Sorry about that.
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)At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! 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. [[The Department Confessions of Sensitive Crimes a Recovering MP by Alexander McCall SmithNick de Bois |Full Review]]
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===[[Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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[[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:Science FictionTidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|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 Crosskey -->
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===[[Into the River Poster Boy by Mark BrandiN J Crosskey]]===
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Two boys, Ben and FabI first read 1984 in school, are growing up in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a small town in Northern Australia long time in the late 80'sfuture. It came and went quickly enough. They do all the normal things that boys Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that age do - go yabbying Orwell's nightmare had not (fishingquite)come to pass. Others, play cricketI think, fight their battles at school and think about girlswere out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from Crosskey hasn't put a happy home, whilst Fab is date on the son of Italian immigrants who clearly have little money, and has a father who is very violentnightmare. Yet despite their differencesIf she had, they I suspect it would not be as far in the future are fiercely loyal to each other1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. So far, so normalA lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. But with Sadly. Frighteningly. In the arrival of a new neighbour for Benblurb, a man called Ronnie, things begin Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to changeturn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for him, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable about this. too late! [[Into the River Poster Boy by Mark BrandiN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Full Light of the Sun Critical Incidents by Clare ClarkLucie Whitehouse]]===
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In 1930When you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a scandalshort and hopefully harmonious visit. Emmeline The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, a wayward young studentbut was now just Robin Lyons, Julius, an anxious middlewent home with her thirteen-year-aged art expert, and Rachmann, old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to the room which she'd had as a mysterious art dealer, live in child: she would have the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, bottom bunk and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Goghtop bunk. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise The room was redolent of Hitler and the Nazis, time she'd shared the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity room with her brother Luke - and self-delusionthey weren't good memories. [[In The Full Light of the Sun Critical Incidents by Clare ClarkLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[Dread Nation A Memory Called Empire by Justina IrelandArkady 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]]
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''Two days after I was born … the dead rose up and started to walk on a battlefield in a small town in Pennsylvania called Gettysburg ''[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
Dread Nation narrates There is a place on this earth that, at the unconventional time of writing, is resplendent with life . In the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, for fear of Jane McKeene who was born days before being slashed open on the dead began to walk razor wire the streets. An event which humans have put in interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history foreverplace. In the changed worldautumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, minorities are forced into conscription for they will spawn and under die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy hills – if the dead once and for alllandmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. For Jane and other girls like her, there This is however the opportunity for a better snapshot of life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquettein the DMZ, attendants protect those higher the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in society their name, and are valued above all elseit's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[Dread Nation When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Justina IrelandUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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