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===[[Poster Boy by N J Crosskey]]===
===[[Toffee by Sarah Crossan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian FictionTeens|Dystopian FictionTeens]] ''I am not who I say I am, [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]'' ''and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. ''
''I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a long time in the future. It came and went quickly enough. Some of us may have breathed am a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come girl trying to pass. Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was the date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on the nightmare. If she had, I suspect it would not be as far in the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she had, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at allforget. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' She is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the blurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted a woman trying to turn its fiction into reality"remember. My only response to that is: too late! [[Poster Boy by N J Crosskey|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]]<!-- Lucie Whitehouse Bowling -->
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===[[Critical Incidents In The Shadow of Heroes by Lucie WhitehouseNicholas 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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When 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| style="vertical-yearalign: top; text-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Metalign: left;"|===[[Little Darlings by Melanie Golding]]===[[image:4.5star. She was going home to the room which she'd had as a childjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: she would have the bottom bunk Thrillers|Thrillers]]Lauren Tranter and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would husband have just welcomed the top bunkarrival of children – twin boys, who they decide to name Riley and Morgan. The room was redolent of the time sheBut something'd shared the room with s wrong. While everyone else is celebrating, Lauren starts to worry – that someone out there is coming to take her brother Luke - children away, and if she looks away for even a second, they weren't good memories. ll strike… [[Critical Incidents Little Darlings by Lucie WhitehouseMelanie Golding|Full Review]]
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===[[A Memory Called Empire I Know Who You Are by Arkady MartineAlice Feeney]]===
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The problem with Martine's fiction debut Aimee Sinclair 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 just on the side edge of making them unpronounceable by most readersit big time as an actor. I Right now she's the sort of person whom you think you know but can see why she does both't quite remember where from, but itthat's all about to change. That's a disappointment because theylittle worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and she knows that she're s not really Aimee Sinclair, she's Ciara: Aimee is simply the blocks against which name she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. That's not at the brilliance front of the book stumblesher 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 [[A Memory Called Empire I Know Who You Are by Arkady MartineAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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===[[When Spring Comes to the DMZ Liberation Square by Uk-Bae LeeGareth Rubin]]===
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There is a place on this earth thatIn an alternate 1952, at the time of writingSoviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is resplendent with life. In the spring seals gambol in first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to be rescued by Russian soldiers from the river – not venturing too farEast, for fear of being slashed open on and Americans from the razor wire the humans have put in placewest. In Dividing the autumnnation between them, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they mightLondon soon finds itself split in two, a wall running through it like a scar. When Jane Cawson's husband is arrested for they will spawn and diethe murder of his former wife, if they reach their birthing groundsJane is determined to clear his name. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from In doing so. This is , Jane follows a snapshot trail of life in corruption that leads her right to the DMZ, highest levels of the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, state – and it's soon finds herself desperate to stay one step ahead of the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. murderous secret police… [[When Spring Comes to the DMZ Liberation Square by Uk-Bae LeeGareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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===[[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionNot My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
The Augustts are, like all families, a bit complicated. 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 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 to hold the family together[[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[M for Mammy by Eleanor O'Reilly: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]]<!-- James Wallman Lupo -->
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===[[Time and How to Spend It: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days by James Wallman]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Lifestyle|LifestyleWe Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo]]===
Most things you can replace, but one of the things which you simply can't replace is time[[image:4. Even though we know this, we fail to use what we have wisely5star. We have more leisure time, but that's not how it feels: a high value is put on how we spend our working hours, but there's a low value on leisure. 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:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]
 ''In a sealed-off city, a young woman, Lena, is running for her life. She has been sentenced to death and her only way to survive is to trust those she has been brought up to fear - those with magic.'' ''On the other side of the locked gates is a masked lady, Constance, determined to find a way back in. Years ago she escaped before her own powers were discovered. But now she won't hide who she is any longer.'' So, Lena is a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the city of Duke's Forest.[[We Are Blood And Thunder by Kesia Lupo|Full Review]]  <!-- Jonnes Kidd -->
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===[[Eiffel's Tower for Young People Things in Jars by Jill JonnesJess Kidd]]===
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Brash A child has gone missing. The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and elegantfrustration left by a previous case, sophisticatedwhere 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, controversial and vibrantthe 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 1889 Worlddownright hideous. And before you's Fair 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 Paris encompassed the besthalf-mourning, the worst with a widow's cap and stout, shiny boots, but the beautiful from many countries and culturestobacco 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 French Republic laid out model villages from all their coloniesfact that it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, put on art showsis also somewhat remarkable. And then, dance performancesof course, food festivals and concerts to stun there's the sensesghost. And towering above it Ruby Doyle, world famous tattooed boxer (deceased) accompanies Bridie allthrough her investigation, the most popular and it's clear he has a soft spot for the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel Towerdetermined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[Eiffel's Tower for Young People Things in Jars by Jill JonnesJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Beneath the World, A Sea by Milly JohnsonChris Beckett]]===
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I liked this bookSouth America, 1990. Whilst not necessarily Ben Ronson, a page-turnerBritish police officer, this was arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a thoroughly enjoyable heartspate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes -warming read from have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the Queen of chick litsubconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, Milly Johnsonwith terrifying results... [[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Beneath the World, A Sea by Milly JohnsonChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Kate ToughM J Lee]]===
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Life has just hidden behind a corner and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came past. She and Mark had been together for nine years and it was beginning to feel ''settled'It really shouldn't have happened. Then Mark announced DI Ridpath, conscious that he'd got his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a job thread, is off to collect them at his mother-in Canada and he was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or not-law's house for an evening out. The ''not'' bit of the sentence Traffic was heavy on the way M60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn't helping) but it worked out and Rhona was left on her ownmoving steadily. WellThen a man wearing only a pair of blue boxers dashed out into the traffic, she wasn't completely briefly put his hands on her own: she had friends and family, but itRidpath's not car then ran into the same as having that special someone in your life, that someone who makes you part path of a couplean articulated lorry. So Rhona The driver had no chance of stopping and the naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to start again, rejoining the hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with a gun. This was now a world that bore little resemblance to crime scene and the one she'd left nine years ago resulting seventeen- and theremile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath's worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a lot of difference between being in the middle of your twenties and the middle of your thirtieshurry. [[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Kate ToughM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) A Perfect Explanation by Kerry WattsEleanor Anstruther]]===
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The story had begun some twenty years earlier when two boys raped and killed Sophie Nicholl. Jack Mackay Enid Campbell was - a woman who, on the face of it - from a decent family, but he was had everything. Leading the ringleader. Daniel Simpson was a followerlife of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, but he still raped Sophie glamourous locales and he could have stopped what happened but didn'thigh expectations. SophieOnly Enid's body was found in a shallow grave life has been plagued by an enthusiastic cocker spaniel a few days later mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and the boys were arrested, tried threatening both Enid and sentenced those close to five years in a young offenders institutionher. There were those who thought that the sentence was too lenientAfter losing custody of her children, even Enid sells her son to her sister for fifteen-year-old boys and Sophie's elder brother£500 – but is this an act of greed, Tomor an act of desperation? Exploring the true story of her own grandmother, was one of these. He wasn't going to let Eleanor Anstruther has found the matter restperfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) A Perfect Explanation by Kerry WattsEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[55 by James Delargy]]===
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[[image:4Two 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.5starThe 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:Confident Readers55 by James Delargy|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
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Athan Wilde earns some money to supplement his family's meagre income by working for Mr Chen who is both mentor and friend. Mr Chen's wonderful imagination and sense 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 - it's a.... ''flying machine''! Imagine that! [[The Boy Who Flew by Fleur Hitchcock|Full Review]]
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===[[Super Sons: The Savage Shore PolarShield Project by David HewsonRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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Reggio, in Calabria. It's a strange placethe near future, closer to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himself. He was an illegal immigrant and like most every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of his kind he was simply looking for a way huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to earn a decent living with a little dignityrelocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Back in Nigeria Superman is helping out, of course – first he was an independent man and patching up the dams, but now he is no better than 's mining the monkey who sits in asteroid belt for a cage on rare dust that's perfect for blocking the bar he tendssolar energy from making further polar ice melt. The area is ruled by Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the Mafia. Further afield there coast are the Camorra suffering bigotry and the Cosa Nostraintolerance for being newcomers, but here something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But itcan's t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the 'Ndrangheta flood barriers and the local boss is known as Lo Spettro - efforts to correct the ghost - as he's rarely seenclimate, but he's one of the Bergamotti clan, but even can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that's not their real name. it can… [[Super Sons: The Savage Shore PolarShield Project by David HewsonRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[No Way Out by Cara Hunter]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimePolitics and Society|CrimePolitics 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.
It was the end At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! [[ Confessions 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 other, a boy on the cusp of his teens, died in hospital some days later. Recovering MP by Nick de Bois But where were the parents? Were their bodies in what remained of the house and which was being steadily cleared, or had they left the children at home alone? For DI Adam Fawley it's one 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. [[No Way Out by Cara Hunter|Full Review]]
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===[[Women of WestminsterMera: The MPs Who Changed Politics Tidebreaker by Rachel ReevesDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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Meet Mera. She''Women s the latest in Westminster have changed the culture of politics and the perception a line of what young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can do''see for themselves. ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' chronicles the battles the 491 women who have been elected over Her father, the course king of the past century have fought Xebel, sees some cotton wool and highlights their victories. It is remarkable that a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the history of female Members of Parliament began in 1918territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the same year in which women were first given cosseting or the right to vote but a decade before fella involved at all women were given suffrage on equal terms with men. Although Constance de Markievicz was the first female elected to Parliament, it was only and is in 1919 that Nancy Astor became the first women fact trying to take her seat in get Xebel out from under the House cosh of Commons and pave the way Atlantean power, for women Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of the futureAtlantean masters. It was not long after in 1924 So when she overhears her father request that her intended goes to the first female MPworld of us air-breathing humans, Margaret Bondfieldand kill the Atlantis heir, was appointed into a cabinet position and since then women MPs have endeavoured she rushes off to fight gender inequality get the quest (and campaign the promised throne) all for female rightsherself. Within 100 years there But of course, she has been a gradual revolution no idea what kind of change in politics person she will meet, and how hard it will be 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 get the way for subsequent women politicians, are consistently overlooked. In ''Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics'' Rachel Reeves brings the forgotten stories into the spotlight to document the history of British female political history from 1919 to 2019. job done… [[Women of WestminsterMera: The MPs Who Changed Politics Tidebreaker by Rachel ReevesDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskinePoster Boy by N J Crosskey]]===
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Dr Jaq Silver is I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a brilliant scientist with a healthy social life who loves her work long time in the future. It came and lifewent quickly enough. Whilst she is haunted by her past she won Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell't let it define hers nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. When she becomes entangled in a mystery Others, I think, a mystery were out there already working on making sure that could tie to some of all he got wrong was the most horrific weapons date. Crosskey hasn't put a date on Earththe nightmare. If she had, she doesn't hesitate and jumps straight I suspect it would not be as far inthe future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. We follow Jaq as If she travels had, I suspect it might hardly be in the world digging deeper and deeper into a rabbit-hole future at all. A lot of intrigue and betrayal, never compromising and always seeking the truthwhat happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. From In the ski slopes of Eastern Europeblurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to the sunny climes of Portugal and even making a visit turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that most glamourous of locations… rainy Teeside… this is a true thriller. : too late! [[The Chemical Detectiveby Fiona ErskinePoster Boy by N J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator Critical Incidents by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Lucie Whitehouse]]===
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well of When you reach a certain stage in life the Wild West outside the walls of phrase 'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a theme parkshort and hopefully harmonious visit. Our agent The woman who used to see how bad it be DCI Robin Lyons, but was here is Pete Fergusonnow just Robin Lyons, who bristles at went home with her thirteen-year-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Met. She was going home to the indignity of white man against Native room which she'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in d had as a buffalo hunt, child: she would have the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at knew her well - would have the bat of an eyelidtop bunk. But this book is about so much more than The room was redolent of the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this booktime she's version of Utopia, namely d shared the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads room with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the antiher brother Luke -gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be betterthey weren't good memories. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Equator Critical Incidents by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Lucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]===
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 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 Lee -->
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===[[The Courier When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Uk-Bae Lee]]===
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Nazi-occupied Oslo, 1942. There, I've given the game away. For in is a book place on this earth that centres around a murder, I've told you who did it – at the Nazistime of writing, surely? Well, that certainly has to remain to be seen is resplendent with life. In the spring seals gambol in this volumethe river – not venturing too far, which splits its time between one for fear of warbeing slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in place. In the autumn, when a young woman sees her father arrestedsalmon come upstream, and their store condemned looking doleful as Jewishwell they might, for they will spawn and rushes to her best friend to help die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not knowing she will never see her alive again, and the late 1960s, when great consternation prevent them from doing so. This is being felt. In this timeline, a maverick agent is back snapshot of life in townthe DMZ, one who might have been fingered for murdering that female victim, even though she and he lived together the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their baby as a young familyname, except he was thought by all to have died in and it's the War… world's least welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[The Courier When Spring Comes to the DMZ by Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Uk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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