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===[[Critical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am,'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
When you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means I am a short and hopefully harmonious visit. The woman who used girl trying to be DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Metforget. '' ''She was going home to the room which she'd had as is a child: she would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie woman trying to those who knew her well - would have the top bunkremember. The room was redolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren't good memories. [[Critical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse|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]]<!-- Martine Bowling -->
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===[[A Memory Called Empire In The Shadow of Heroes by Arkady MartineNicholas 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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The problem with Martine| 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 fiction debut wrong. While everyone else is celebrating, Lauren starts to worry – that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries someone out there is coming to be too clever and she wants take her fictional languages to be complex children away, and rich and errs on the side of making them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why if she does bothlooks away for even a second, but it's a disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the book stumbles. ll strike… [[A Memory Called Empire Little Darlings by Arkady MartineMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[When Spring Comes to the DMZ I Know Who You Are by Uk-Bae LeeAlice Feeney]]===
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There Aimee Sinclair is a place just on this earth that, at the edge of making it big time as an actor. Right now she's the sort of writingperson whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, is resplendent with lifebut that's all about to change. In the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, That's a little worrying for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful Aimee as well they might, life has changed for they will spawn her before and dieshe knows that she's not really Aimee Sinclair, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This she's Ciara: Aimee is a snapshot of life in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between simply the two countries with Korea in their name, and itshe was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. That's not at the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuaryfront of her mind though when she comes home one day and finds that her husband, Ben Bailey, has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[When Spring Comes to the DMZ I Know Who You Are by Uk-Bae LeeAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy Liberation Square by Eleanor O'ReillyGareth Rubin]]===
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The Augustts areIn an alternate 1952, like all families, a bit complicatedSoviet Troops control British Streets. A loving irish familyAfter D-Day goes horribly wrong, their love binds them together Britain is first occupied by Nazi Germany – but all express that in very different waysonly to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the East, and Americans from the west. HoweverDividing the nation between them, when misfortune strikes the family they are forced to work together London soon finds itself split in order to understand each other againtwo, as with a family as complicated as the Augustts wall running through itlike a scar. When Jane Cawson's not always what husband is spoken that makes arrested for the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves in and takes chargemurder of his former wife, Jane is determined to clear his name. Full of stern words and common senseIn doing so, she's Jane follows a force trail of nature who must try corruption that leads her hardest right to the highest levels of the state – and soon finds herself desperate to hold stay one step ahead of the family together. murderous secret police… [[M for Mammy Liberation Square by Eleanor O'ReillyGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days by James Wallman]]===
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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[[image: a high value is put on how we spend our working hours, but there's a low value on leisure5star. Unfortunately we now know how to work and not how to ''live''jpg|link=Category: 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. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days by James WallmanCategory: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]]<!-- Jonnes Lupo -->
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===[[Eiffel's Tower for Young People by Jill Jonnes]]===
===[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-FictionTeens|Children's Non-FictionTeens]]
Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, the 1889 World's Fair in Paris encompassed the best, the worst and the beautiful from many countries and cultures. The French Republic laid out model villages from all their colonies, put on art shows, dance performances, food festivals and concerts to stun the senses. And towering above it all, the most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Tower. [[Eiffel's Tower for Young People by Jill Jonnes|Full Review]]
''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]]  <!-- Johnson Kidd -->
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===[[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Things in Jars by Milly JohnsonJess Kidd]]===
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I liked this bookA child has gone missing. Whilst 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 necessarily 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 pagefascination 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-turnermourning, this was 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 thoroughly enjoyable heart-warming read from 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 Queen by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of chick litcourse, there's the ghost. Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie all through her investigation, Milly Johnsonand it's clear he has a soft spot for the determined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Things in Jars by Milly JohnsonJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Beneath the World, A Sea by Kate ToughChris Beckett]]===
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Life has just hidden behind South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a corner and stuck British police officer, arrives in a foot out as Rhona Beech came past. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning mysterious forest to feel ''settled''investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. Then Mark announced that he'd got a job in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with him or not. The ''not'' bit of the sentence was the way it worked out long limbs and Rhona was left black button eyes - have a strange psychic effect on her own. Wellpeople, she wasn't completely on her own: she had friends unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and familyfears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but it's not the same as having that special someone in your lifecloser he gets, that someone who makes you part of a couple. So Rhona had the more he begins to start againunravel, 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 thirtieswith terrifying results... [[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Beneath the World, A Sea by Kate ToughChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Heartlands Where the Dead Fall (D I Jessie BlakeDI Ridpath, Book 2) by Kerry WattsM J Lee]]===
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The story had begun some twenty years earlier when two boys raped It really shouldn't have happened. DI Ridpath, conscious that his relationship with his wife and killed Sophie Nichollchild is hanging by a thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in-law's house for an evening out. Jack Mackay Traffic was - heavy on the face of it - from M60 (a decent family, match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but he it was the ringleadermoving steadily. Daniel Simpson was Then a man wearing only a followerpair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, but he still raped Sophie and he could have stopped what happened but didnbriefly put his hands on Ridpath'ts car then ran into the path of an articulated lorry. Sophie's body was found in a shallow grave by an enthusiastic cocker spaniel a few days later The driver had no chance of stopping and the boys were arrested, tried and sentenced naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to five years in the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a young offenders institutiongun. There were those who thought that This was now a crime scene and the sentence was too lenient, even for fifteenresulting seventeen-year-old boys and Sophiemile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath's elder brother, Tomworries, was although no one of these. He wasn't going to would let the matter resthim forget about it in a hurry. [[Heartlands Where the Dead Fall (D I Jessie BlakeDI Ridpath, Book 2) by Kerry WattsM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther]]===
 
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Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
 
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===[[The Boy Who Flew by Fleur Hitchcock]]===
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Athan Wilde earns some money to supplement his family's meagre income by working for Mr Chen who is Two men enter a police station, both mentor tell the same story; they were kidnapped and friendnarrowly escaped the clutches of a man who intended to kill them. Mr Chen's wonderful imagination As they escaped they ran through a graveyard and sense of they were not the first victim. The stories match, the future has led him to create some fantastic inventions for making life easier evidence is compelling and work less back breakingeach man blames the other. His latest endeavour Now the question is something on an entirely different level, however - it's a.... ''flying machine''! Imagine that! who is guilty? [[The Boy Who Flew 55 by Fleur HitchcockJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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===[[The Savage Shore Lord Of All the Dead by David HewsonJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)]]===
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Reggio, in Calabria. It's 'Lord Of All the Dead'' is a strange place, closer journey to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himself. He was an illegal immigrant uncover the author's lost ancestor's life and like most of his kind he was simply looking for a way to earn a decent living with a little dignitydeath. Back in Nigeria he was an independent man and now he Cercas is no better than searching for the monkey who sits meaning behind his great uncle's death in a cage on the bar he tendsSpanish Civil War. The area Manuel Mena, Cercas' great uncle, is ruled by the Mafiafigure who looms large over the book. Further afield there are the Camorra and the Cosa Nostra, but here itHe died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the 'Ndrangheta and the local boss centre of this book is whether it is known as Lo Spettro - the ghost - as he's rarely seen, but he's one of possible for his great uncle to be a hero whilst having fought for the Bergamotti clan, but even that's not their real namewrong side. [[The Savage Shore Lord Of All the Dead by David HewsonJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[No Way Out Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Cara HunterRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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It was 's the end of the Christmas holidays near future, and Felix House every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in an elite area need of Oxford was a huge flood barrier, built on fireits coast by Wayne Enterprises. Two children were dragged from But the inferno: onerising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, a toddlerforcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first he was pronounced dead at patching up the scene and dams, but now he's mining the other, asteroid belt for a boy on rare dust that's perfect for blocking the cusp of his teenssolar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, died in hospital some days later. But where were Wyndermere, the parents? Were their bodies in what remained of refugees from the house coast are suffering bigotry and which was intolerance for being steadily clearednewcomers, or had they left but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the children at home alone? For DI Adam Fawley city. But itcan's one t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of his most disturbing cases. He's still not got over the death of ''his'' son flood barriers and there's every sign the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that his marriage is on the rocks. For his team it's just a heartbreaking, exhausting case. can… [[No Way Out Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Cara HunterRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|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 [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Politics and the perception of what women can do''Society|Politics and Society]]
''Women of WestminsterI should warn you in advance: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' chronicles this may not be the battles the 491 women who have been elected over best time for me to review the course memoir of the past century have fought and highlights their victoriesa Tory MP. It is remarkable that the history Not only am I a left-of female Members -centre - to put it mildly - voter and so probably have next to no points of Parliament began in 1918political agreement with Nick de Bois, 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 I, along with men. Although Constance de Markievicz was the first female elected to Parliamenteveryone else, it was only in 1919 that Nancy Astor became the first women am currently subject to take her seat in the House debacle of Commons parliament, government and pave the way for women of the future. It was not long after in 1924 that the first female MP, Margaret BondfieldBrexit, was appointed into a cabinet position dog 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 pony show currently revealing in hideous technicolour the absolute dearth of change in politics and to date Britain has been led by two female Prime Ministerscompetent leadership among our political classes. However, such great landmarks have overshadowed the other female MPs whose early achievements, which have paved the way for subsequent women politiciansAnd yes, are consistently overlooked. In ''Women of Westminsteropposition parties: The MPs Who Changed PoliticsI'm looking at you as well. You' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories re just as useless. Sigh. Desperate cry into the spotlight to document the history of British female political history from 1919 to 2019void over. Sorry about that. [[Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineMera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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Dr Jaq Silver is a brilliant scientist with a healthy social life who loves her work and lifeMeet Mera. Whilst she is haunted by her past she won She't let it define her. When she becomes entangled s the latest in a mysteryline 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 mystery that could tie to some of hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the most horrific weapons on Earthterritory's warrior queen, she is long dead. Mera doesn't hesitate fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and jumps straight is infact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. We follow Jaq as So when she travels overhears her father request that her intended goes to the world digging deeper and deeper into a rabbitof us air-hole of intrigue breathing humans, and betrayalkill the Atlantis heir, never compromising she rushes off to get the quest (and always seeking the truthpromised throne) all for herself. From the ski slopes But of Eastern Europecourse, to the sunny climes she has no idea what kind of Portugal person she will meet, and even making a visit how hard it will be to that most glamourous of locations… rainy Teeside… this is a true thriller. get the job done… [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskineMera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator Poster Boy by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)N J Crosskey]]===
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well of I first read 1984 in school, in the Wild West outside late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the walls future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed a theme parksigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Our agent to see how bad it Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indiandate. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, who spends days being physically sick while indulging I suspect it would not be as far in a buffalo huntthe future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, and who hates I suspect it might hardly be in the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man future at the bat of an eyelidall. But this book A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocidealready happening. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely Sadly. Frighteningly. In the Equatorblurb, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to Christina Racher says "…but keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, it far from anyone who knows, things might actually be bettertempted to turn its fiction into reality". But My only response to that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… : too late! [[Equator Poster Boy by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)N J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Critical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse]]===
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[[imageWhen you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visit. The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to the room which she'd had as a child:4starshe would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have the top bunk. The room was redolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke - and they weren't good memories.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCritical Incidents by Lucie Whitehouse|TeensFull 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 Martine -->
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===[[The Courier A Memory Called Empire by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Arkady Martine]]===
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Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, IThe problem with Martine've given s fiction debut is that she makes the game away. For two commonest errors in a book that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – the Nazis, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain SF writing: she tries to be seen in this volume, which splits its time between one of war, when a young woman sees her father arrested, too clever and their store condemned as Jewish, and rushes to she wants her best friend fictional languages to help – not knowing she will never see her alive again, be complex and rich and errs on the late 1960s, when great consternation is being feltside of making them unpronounceable by most readers. In this timeline I can see why she does both, but it's 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 disappointment because they're the blocks against which the brilliance of the War… book stumbles. [[The Courier A Memory Called Empire by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Arkady Martine|Full Review]]
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===[[The Department of Sensitive Crimes When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Alexander McCall SmithUk-Bae Lee]]===
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Long-There is a place on this earth that, at the time followers of The Bookbag will know I'm a die-hard fan of AMSwriting, is resplendent with life. So you can imagine my excitement at reading a brand new book In the spring seals gambol in a brand new seriesthe river – not venturing too far, described by for fear of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the author himself as Scandi Blanc (autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as opposed to Scandi Noir)! Here we meet a new detective named Ulf Vargwell they might, who works in the Department for Sensitive Crimesthey will spawn and die, solving those crimes that perhaps fall outside if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the usual police parameterslandmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This particular book deals with crimes including someone who is stabbed a snapshot of life in the kneeDMZ, the disappearance of an imaginary boyfriend, and a case of potential werewolves. They're demilitarized zone between the crimes that perhaps nobody else would bother to deal two countries withKorea in their name, and I rather enjoyed them, especially it's the stabbing where you find that actually, you identify with the person who committed the crime, rather than the victimworld's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[The Department of Sensitive Crimes When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Alexander McCall SmithUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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