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===[[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionTeens|General FictionTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
The Augustts are, like all families, ''I am a bit complicatedgirl trying to forget. A loving irish family, their love binds them together – but all express that in very different ways. However, when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together in order to understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as the Augustts it's not always what ' ''She is spoken that makes the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes charge. Full of stern words and common sense, she's a force of nature who must try her hardest woman trying to hold the family togetherremember. [[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly|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]]<!-- James Wallman Bowling -->
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===[[Time and How to Spend It: In The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days Shadow of Heroes by James WallmanNicholas 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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Most things you can replace, but one | 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 the things which you simply can't replace is time. Even though we know thischildren – twin boys, we fail who they decide to use what we have wiselyname Riley and Morgan. We have more leisure time, but thatBut something's not how it feels: a high value wrong. While everyone else is put on how we spend our working hourscelebrating, but Lauren starts to worry – that someone out there's a low value on leisure. Unfortunately we now know how is coming to work take her children away, and not how to ''live'if she looks away for even a second, they': we need to ''learn'' how to spend our leisure time wisely and James Wallman has taken on the onerous task of teaching us how to do this. ll strike… [[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days Little Darlings by James WallmanMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[Eiffel's Tower for Young People I Know Who You Are by Jill JonnesAlice Feeney]]===
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Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, Aimee Sinclair is just on the 1889 Worldedge of making it big time as an actor. Right now she's Fair in Paris encompassed the bestsort of person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from but that's all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts about to stun the senseschange. And towering above it all That's a little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the most popular and name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. That's not at the most hated monument to French accomplishment front of her mind though when she comes home one day and daring – the Eiffel Towerfinds that her husband, Ben Bailey, has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[Eiffel's Tower for Young People I Know Who You Are by Jill JonnesAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Liberation Square by Milly JohnsonGareth Rubin]]===
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I liked this bookIn an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. Whilst not necessarily a pageAfter D-turnerDay goes horribly wrong, Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. Dividing the nation between them, London soon finds itself split in two, this was a thoroughly enjoyable heart-warming read from wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for the Queen murder of chick lithis former wife, Milly JohnsonJane is determined to clear his name. In doing so, Jane follows a trail of corruption that leads her right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the murderous secret police… [[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Liberation Square by Milly JohnsonGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Kate Tough]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's FictionNot My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
Life has just hidden behind a corner and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came past[[image:5star. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to feel ''settled''. Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not. The ''not'' bit of the sentence was the way it worked out and Rhona was left on her own. Well, she wasn't completely on her ownjpg|link=Category: she had friends and family, but it's not the same as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part of a couple. So Rhona had to start again, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to the one she'd left nine years ago - and there's a lot of difference between being in the middle of your twenties and the middle of your thirties. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Keep Walking Rhona Beech by Kate Tough: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]]<!-- Kerry Watts Lupo -->
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===[[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) by Kerry Watts]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]]  ''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.''
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 familySo, but he was the ringleader. Daniel Simpson was Lena is a follower, but he still raped Sophie and he could have stopped what happened but didn't. Sophie's body was found in cryptling - a shallow grave by an enthusiastic cocker spaniel a few days later and the boys were arrested, tried and sentenced to five years low caste individual living in a young offenders institution. There were those who thought that the sentence was too lenient, even for fifteen-year-old boys and Sophiecity of Duke's elder brother, Tom, was one of these. He wasn't going to let the matter restForest. [[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) We Are Blood And Thunder by Kerry WattsKesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Things in Jars by Jess Kidd]]===
 
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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. 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 that era: technical and scientific progress jostling for space beside superstition and a fascination with the bizarre and the downright hideous. And before you're more than a couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in half-mourning, with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the tobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast'' thing for a lady to do!) is mixed with a nugget of something, well, let's say recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. The fact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of course, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, and it's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[Things in Jars by Jess Kidd|Full Review]]
 
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===[[The Boy Who Flew by Fleur Hitchcock]]===
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Athan Wilde earns some money South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to supplement his family's meagre income by working for Mr Chen who is both mentor and friendinvestigate a spate of killings of Duendes. Mr Chen's wonderful imagination These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and sense of black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the future has led him to create some fantastic inventions for making life easier subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and work less back breakingfears. His latest endeavour is something on an entirely different levelBen becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, however - it's a.with terrifying results... ''flying machine''! Imagine that! [[The Boy Who Flew Beneath the World, A Sea by Fleur HitchcockChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Savage Shore Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by David HewsonM J Lee]]===
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Reggio, in CalabriaIt really shouldn't have happened. It's DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a strange placethread, closer is off to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himselfcollect them at his mother-in-law's house for an evening out. He Traffic was an illegal immigrant and like most of his kind he heavy on the M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it was simply looking for a way to earn a decent living with a little dignitymoving steadily. Back in Nigeria he was an independent Then a man and now he is no better than wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the monkey who sits in a cage traffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the bar he tendspath of an articulated lorry. The area is ruled by driver had no chance of stopping and the Mafianaked man was killed instantly. Further afield there are Glancing to the Camorra and the Cosa Nostra, but here it's the 'Ndrangheta hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. This was now a crime scene and the local boss is known as Lo Spettro resulting seventeen- mile tail back of traffic would be the ghost - as heleast of Ridpath's rarely seenworries, but he's although no one of the Bergamotti clan, but even that's not their real namewould let him forget about it in a hurry. [[The Savage Shore Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by David HewsonM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[No Way Out A Perfect Explanation by Cara HunterEleanor Anstruther]]===
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It Enid Campbell was the end of the Christmas holidays and Felix House in an elite area of Oxford was on fire. Two children were dragged from the inferno: one, a toddler, was pronounced dead at the scene and the otherwoman who, a boy on the cusp face of his teensit, died in hospital some days laterhad everything. But where were Leading the parents? Were their bodies in what remained life of an aristocrat – full of the house inherited wealth and which was being steadily clearedsplendour, or had they left the children at home alone? For DI Adam Fawley itglamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's one of his most disturbing caseslife has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. He's still not got over the death After losing custody of ''his'' her children, Enid sells her son and there's every sign that his marriage to her sister for £500 – but is on this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the rocks. For his team it's just a heartbreakingperfect subject for an explosive, exhausting casemoving and beautifully well written debut. [[No Way Out A Perfect Explanation by Cara HunterEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics 55 by Rachel ReevesJames Delargy]]===
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''Women in Westminster have changed the culture of politics and the perception of what women can do'' ''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 is remarkable that the history of female Members of Parliament began in 1918Two men enter a police station, both tell the same year in which women were first given the right to vote but a decade before all women story; they 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 kidnapped and pave narrowly escaped the way for women clutches 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 man who intended to fight gender inequality and campaign for female rightskill them. Within 100 years there has been As they escaped they ran through a gradual revolution of change in politics graveyard and to date Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministers. However, such great landmarks have overshadowed they were not the other female MPs whose early achievements, which have paved the way for subsequent women politicians, are consistently overlookedfirst victim. In ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into match, the spotlight to document evidence is compelling and each man blames the history of British female political history from 1919 to 2019other. Now the question is, who is guilty? [[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics 55 by Rachel ReevesJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineLord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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Dr Jaq Silver ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is a brilliant scientist with a healthy social journey to uncover the author's lost ancestor's life who loves her work and lifedeath. Whilst she Cercas is haunted by her past she wonsearching for the meaning behind his great uncle't let it define her. When she becomes entangled s death in a mystery, a mystery that could tie to some of the most horrific weapons on EarthSpanish Civil War. Manuel Mena, she doesnCercas't hesitate and jumps straight in. We follow Jaq as she travels great uncle, is the world digging deeper and deeper into a rabbit-hole of intrigue and betrayal, never compromising and always seeking figure who looms large over the truthbook. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. From the ski slopes of Eastern Europe, to The question at the sunny climes centre of Portugal and even making a visit to that most glamourous of locations… rainy Teeside… this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to be a true thrillerhero whilst having fought for the wrong side. [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineLord Of All the Dead by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Antonin Varenne Ridley Pearson and Sam Taylor (translator)Ile Gonzalez]]===
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well of 's the Wild West outside the walls near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a theme parkhuge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. Our agent But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to see how bad it was here relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is Pete Fergusonhelping out, who bristles at of course – first he was patching up the indignity of white man against Native dams, but now he'Indians mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo huntWyndermere, and who hates the way man – refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and womanintolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of course – can turn against fellow man at food poisoning is hitting the bat of an eyelidcity. But this book is about so much more than it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the 1870s USA, flood barriers and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying efforts to find this book's version of Utopia, namely correct the Equatorclimate, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets can it? Four young children begin to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But piece together clues that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… it can… [[Equator Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Antonin Varenne Ridley Pearson and Sam Taylor (translator)Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[All the Invisible Things Confessions of a Recovering MP by Orlagh CollinsNick de Bois]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] I should warn you in advance: this may not be the best time for me to review the memoir of a Tory MP. Not only am I a left-of-centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of political agreement with Nick de Bois, but I, along with everyone else, am currently subject to the debacle of parliament, government and Brexit, a dog and pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of competent leadership among our political classes. And yes, opposition parties: I'm looking at you as well. You're just as useless. Sigh.
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At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois |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 Paige -->
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===[[The Courier Mera: Tidebreaker by Kjell Ola Dahl Danielle Paige and Don Bartlett (translator)Stephen Byrne]]===
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Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942Meet Mera. There, I She've given s the game away. For latest in a book that centres around a murderline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, 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 king of warXebel, when a young woman sees her father arrested, some cotton wool and their store condemned a hunky man in an arranged marriage as Jewish, and rushes to her best friend to help future – not knowing she will never see her alive againafter all, Mera's mother, and the late 1960sterritory's warrior queen, when great consternation is being feltlong dead. In this timeline Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, a maverick agent and is back in townfact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, one who might have been fingered for murdering Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So when she overhears her father request that female victimher intended goes to the world of us air-breathing humans, and kill the Atlantis heir, even though she rushes off to get the quest (and he lived together with their baby as a young familythe promised throne) all for herself. But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, except he was thought by all and how hard it will be to have died in get the War… job done… [[The Courier Mera: Tidebreaker by Kjell Ola Dahl Danielle Paige and Don Bartlett (translator)Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes Poster Boy by Alexander McCall SmithN J Crosskey]]===
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Long-time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a die-hard fan of AMSlong time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. So you can imagine my excitement at reading Some of us may have breathed a brand new book in a brand new series, described by the author himself as Scandi Blanc sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (as opposed quite) come to Scandi Noir)! pass. Here we meet a new detective named Ulf VargOthers, who works in the Department for Sensitive CrimesI think, solving those crimes were out there already working on making sure that perhaps fall outside all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the usual police parametersnightmare. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the kneefuture are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the disappearance future at all. A lot of an imaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolveswhat happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. They're Sadly. Frighteningly. In the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal withblurb, and I rather enjoyed them, especially the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who committed the crime, rather than the victimmight be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late! [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes Poster Boy by Alexander McCall SmithN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[The Rose, the Night, and the Mirror by Mark Lingane]]=== [[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionCrime|Science FictionCrime]]
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 When you reach a job tutoring the children of a highly regarded politician. Julian bowls up at their strange, austere mansion with little certain stage in life the way of expectation. Victor, the politician phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is not at homebest if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visit. But Esis The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, his wife, is. A beautiful but isolated womanwas now just Robin Lyons, Esis shows little interest in went home with her children and not much more in Julianthirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She directs him towards his was going home to the room, the library in which he will teach she'd had as a child: she would have the children, bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the kitchen, whose chefbot will provide him with foodtop bunk. [[The Rose, room was redolent of the time she'd shared the Night, room with her brother Luke - and the Mirror they weren't good memories. [[Critical Incidents by Mark LinganeLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[Into the River A Memory Called Empire by Mark BrandiArkady Martine]]===
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Two boys, Ben and Fab, are growing up in a small town in Northern Australia in the late 80The problem with Martine's. fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: They do all she tries to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages to be complex and rich and errs on the normal things that boys side of that age do - go yabbying (fishing), play cricket, fight their battles at school and think about girlsmaking them unpronounceable by most readers. Their family lives are different; Ben comes from a happy homeI can see why she does both, whilst Fab is the son of Italian immigrants who clearly have little money, and has but it's a father who is very violent. Yet despite their differences, disappointment because they are fiercely loyal to each other. So far, so normal. But with 're the blocks against which the arrival brilliance of a new neighbour for Ben, a man called Ronnie, things begin to change. Ronnie wants Ben to come over to do some odd jobs for him, and both Ben and Fab are increasingly uncomfortable about thisthe book stumbles. [[Into the River A Memory Called Empire by Mark BrandiArkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Full Light of When Spring Comes to the Sun DMZ by Clare ClarkUk-Bae Lee]]===
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In 1930's BerlinThere is a place on this earth that, at the time of writing, three people obsessed is resplendent with art find themselves swept up into a scandallife. EmmelineIn the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, a wayward young studentfor fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the autumn, Juliussalmon come upstream, an anxious middle-aged art expertlooking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and Rachmanndie, a mysterious art dealer, live in if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over hills – if the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Goghlandmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. Based on This is a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise snapshot of Hitler and life in the NazisDMZ, the discovery of demilitarized zone between the art allows these characters to explore authenticitytwo countries with Korea in their name, vanity and self-delusionit's the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[In The Full Light of When Spring Comes to the Sun DMZ by Clare ClarkUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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