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===[[A Perfect Explanation In The Shadow of Heroes by Eleanor AnstrutherNicholas 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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===[[55 I Know Who You Are by James DelargyAlice Feeney]]===
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Two men enter a police station, both tell Aimee Sinclair is just on the same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped edge of making it big time as an actor. Right now she's the clutches sort of a man who intended person whom you think you know but can't quite remember where from, but that's all about to kill themchange. As they escaped they ran through That's a graveyard little worrying for Aimee as life has changed for her before and they were she knows that she's not the first victim. The stories matchreally Aimee Sinclair, the evidence she's Ciara: Aimee is compelling and each man blames simply the othername she was forced to take when she was snatched as a child. Now That's not at the question isfront of her mind though when she comes home one day and finds that her husband, Ben Bailey, who is guilty? has disappeared. Disappeared completely. Along with considerable funds from their current account [[55 I Know Who You Are by James DelargyAlice Feeney|Full Review]]
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''Lord Of All the Dead'' In an alternate 1952, Soviet Troops control British Streets. After D-Day goes horribly wrong, Britain is a journey first occupied by Nazi Germany – only to uncover be rescued by Russian soldiers from the author's lost ancestor's life East, and deathAmericans from the west. Cercas is searching for Dividing the meaning behind his great uncle's death nation between them, London soon finds itself split in the Spanish Civil War. Manuel Menatwo, Cercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the booka wall running through it like a scar. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco FrancoWhen Jane Cawson's forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought husband is arrested for this dictator. The question at the centre murder of this book his former wife, Jane is whether it is possible for determined to clear his great uncle 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 be a hero whilst having fought for stay one step ahead of the wrong side. murderous secret police… [[Lord Of All the Dead Liberation Square by Javier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)Gareth Rubin|Full Review]]
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident ReadersNot My Fault by Cath Howe]]===
It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises[[image:5star. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, of course – first he was patching up the dams, but now he's mining the asteroid belt for a rare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can't possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to correct the climate, can it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can… jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Super Sons: The PolarShield Project by Ridley Pearson and Ile GonzalezCategory: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]]<!-- de Bois Lupo -->
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===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP We Are Blood And Thunder by Nick de BoisKesia Lupo]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
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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''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.''
Desperate cry into ''On the void overother 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. Sorry about thatBut now she won't hide who she is any longer.''
At least Nick de Bois made me laugh! So, Lena is a cryptling - a low caste individual living in the city of Duke's Forest.[[ Confessions of a Recovering MP We Are Blood And Thunder by Nick de Bois Kesia Lupo|Full Review]]
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===[[Mera: Tidebreaker Things in Jars by Danielle Paige and Stephen ByrneJess Kidd]]===
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Meet MeraA child has gone missing. She's The detective asked to take on the case is still struggling with the shame and frustration left by a previous case, where the latest child was not found in time. Hardly original themes for a line of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselvesprivate eye thriller. And yet . . . take another look. Her fatherThis detective is a woman, and the setting is Victorian London, with all the king rich and colourful paradoxes of Xebel, sees some cotton wool 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 hunky man couple of pages in, you realise just how much more unusual our heroine is than you expected. Bridie Devine may dress in an arranged marriage as her future – after allhalf-mourning, Merawith a widow's mothercap and stout, shiny boots, but the territorytobacco she smokes in her pipe (my dear, what an utterly ''fast's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all, and thing for a lady to do!) is in fact trying to get Xebel out from under the cosh mixed with a nugget of Atlantean powersomething, for Xebelwell, let's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masterssay recreational, created by her chemist friend Prudhoe. So when she overhears her father request The fact that her intended goes it's actually meant to cure bronchial problems is by the world by. Her housemaid, being seven foot tall, is also somewhat remarkable. And then, of us air-breathing humanscourse, and kill there's the Atlantis heirghost. Ruby Doyle, she rushes off to get the quest world famous tattooed boxer (and the promised thronedeceased) accompanies Bridie all for herself. But of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meetthrough her investigation, and how hard it will be to get 's clear he has a soft spot for the job done… determined young woman. If he really exists, that is. [[Mera: Tidebreaker Things in Jars by Danielle Paige and Stephen ByrneJess Kidd|Full Review]]
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===[[Poster Boy Beneath the World, A Sea by N J CrosskeyChris Beckett]]===
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I first read 1984 in schoolSouth America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long time in the future. It came limbs and went quickly enough. Some of us may black button eyes - have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had not (quite) come to pass. Others, I thinkstrange psychic effect on people, were out there already working on making sure that all he got wrong was unleashing the datesubconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Crosskey hasn't put a date on Ben becomes fascinated by the nightmare. If she hadDuendes, I suspect it would not be as far in but the future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. If she hadcloser he gets, I suspect it might hardly be in the future at all. A lot of what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happeningmore he begins to unravel, with terrifying results. Sadly. Frighteningly. In [[Beneath the blurbWorld, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late! [[Poster Boy A Sea by N J CrosskeyChris Beckett|Full Review]]
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===[[Critical Incidents Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Lucie WhitehouseM J Lee]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
When you reach a certain stage in life the phrase It really shouldn'going home' when it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and hopefully harmonious visitt have happened. The woman who used to be DCI Robin LyonsDI Ridpath, but was now just Robin Lyonsconscious that his relationship with his wife and child is hanging by a thread, went home with her thirteenis off to collect them at his mother-yearin-old daughter after she was dismissed from the Metlaw's house for an evening out. She Traffic was going home to heavy on the room which sheM60 (a match at Old Trafford wasn'd had as t helping) but it was moving steadily. Then a man wearing only a child: she would have pair of blue boxers dashed out into the bottom bunk and Elena - Lennie to those who knew her well - would have traffic, briefly put his hands on Ridpath's car then ran into the top bunkpath of an articulated lorry. The room was redolent driver had no chance of stopping and the time she'd shared naked man was killed instantly. Glancing to the room hard shoulder Ridpath glimpsed a man with her brother Luke a gun. This was now a crime scene and the resulting seventeen- and they werenmile tail back of traffic would be the least of Ridpath't good memoriess worries, although no one would let him forget about it in a hurry. [[Critical Incidents Where the Dead Fall (DI Ridpath, Book 2) by Lucie WhitehouseM J Lee|Full Review]]
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===[[A Memory Called Empire Perfect Explanation by Arkady MartineEleanor Anstruther]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Science Historical Fiction]]
The problem with MartineEnid 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 fiction debut is that she makes the two commonest errors in SF writing: she tries life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to be too clever and she wants her fictional languages . After losing custody of her children, Enid sells her son to be complex and rich and errs on the side her sister for £500 – but is this an act of making them unpronounceable by most readers. I can see why she does bothgreed, but it's a disappointment because they're or an act of desperation? Exploring the blocks against which the brilliance true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the book stumblesperfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[A Memory Called Empire Perfect Explanation by Arkady MartineEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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There is Two men enter a place on this earth thatpolice station, at both tell the time of writing, is resplendent with life. In same story; they were kidnapped and narrowly escaped the spring seals gambol in the river – not venturing too far, for fear clutches of being slashed open on the razor wire the humans have put in placea man who intended to kill them. In the autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well As they might, for escaped they will spawn ran through a graveyard and die, if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among were not the hills – if the landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing sofirst victim. This is a snapshot of life in the DMZThe stories match, the demilitarized zone between the two countries with Korea in their name, evidence is compelling and it's each man blames the world's least welcome wildlife sanctuaryother. Now the question is, who is guilty? [[When Spring Comes to the DMZ 55 by Uk-Bae LeeJames Delargy|Full Review]]
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionHistory|General FictionHistory]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]]
The Augustts are, like all families, ''Lord Of All the Dead'' is 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 journey to understand each other again, as with a family as complicated as uncover the Augustts itauthor's lost ancestor's not always what life and death. Cercas is spoken that makes searching for the most sense. Things are shaken up further when Granny Mae-Anne moves meaning behind his great uncle's death in and takes chargethe Spanish Civil War. Full of stern words and common senseManuel Mena, sheCercas' great uncle, is the figure who looms large over the book. He died relatively young whilst fighting for Francisco Franco's a force forces. Cercas ruminates on why his uncle fought for this dictator. The question at the centre of nature who must try her hardest this book is whether it is possible for his great uncle to hold be a hero whilst having fought for the family togetherwrong side. [[M for Mammy Lord Of All the Dead by Eleanor O'ReillyJavier Cercas and Anne McLean (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Time and How to Spend ItSuper Sons: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days PolarShield Project by James WallmanRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez]]===
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Most things you can replaceIt's the near future, but one and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of the things which you simply can't replace is time. Even though we know thisa huge flood barrier, we fail to use what we have wiselybuilt on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. We But the rising sea levels have more leisure timeput even those constructions under threat, but thatforcing many people to relocate in America's not how it feels: a high value biggest exodus for decades. Superman is put on how we spend our working hourshelping out, of course – first he was patching up the dams, but therenow he's mining the asteroid belt for a low value on leisurerare dust that's perfect for blocking the solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Unfortunately we now know how to work Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the coast are suffering bigotry and not how to intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the city. But it can''live'': we need t possibly have anything to ''learn'' how do with what looks like sabotage of the flood barriers and the efforts to spend our leisure time wisely and James Wallman has taken on correct the onerous task of teaching us how climate, can it? Four young children begin to do this. piece together clues that it can… [[Time and How to Spend ItSuper Sons: The 7 Rules for Richer, Happier Days PolarShield Project by James WallmanRidley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|Full Review]]
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===[[Eiffel's Tower for Young People by Jill Jonnes]]===
===[[Confessions of a Recovering MP by Nick de Bois]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Non-FictionPolitics and Society|Children's Non-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.
Brash and elegant, sophisticated, controversial and vibrant, Desperate cry into 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 sensesvoid over. And towering above it all, the most popular and the most hated monument to French accomplishment and daring – the Eiffel TowerSorry about that. [[Eiffel's Tower for Young People by Jill Jonnes|Full Review]]
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===[[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Mera: Tidebreaker by Milly JohnsonDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne]]===
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I liked this bookMeet Mera. Whilst not necessarily She's the latest in a page-turnerline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the king of Xebel, this was sees some cotton wool and a thoroughly enjoyable heart-warming read 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 Queen cosh of chick litAtlantean power, Milly Johnsonfor 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. 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… [[The Magnificent Mrs Mayhew Mera: Tidebreaker by Milly JohnsonDanielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|Full Review]]
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===[[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Poster Boy by Kate ToughN J Crosskey]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Dystopian Fiction|General Dystopian Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's FictionThrillers|Women's FictionThrillers]]
Life has just hidden behind I first read 1984 in school, in the late seventies when 1984 still seemed like a corner long time in the future. It came and stuck a foot out as Rhona Beech came pastwent quickly enough. She and Mark Some of us may have breathed a sigh of relief that Orwell's nightmare had been together for nine years and it was beginning not (quite) come to feel ''settled''pass. Then Mark announced Others, I think, were out there already working on making sure that all he'd got a job in Canada and he wrong was going whether Rhona wanted to come with him or notthe date. The Crosskey hasn''not'' bit of the sentence was t put a date on the way it worked out and Rhona was left on her ownnightmare. Well, she wasn't completely on her own: If she had friends and family, but I suspect it's would not the same be as having that special someone far in your life, that someone who makes you part of a couplethe future are 1984 was when I first read Orwell. So Rhona If she had to start again, rejoining a world that bore little resemblance to I suspect it might hardly be in the one she'd left nine years ago - and there's a future at all. A lot of difference between being what happens in ''Poster Boy'' is already happening. Sadly. Frighteningly. In the middle of your twenties and the middle of your thirtiesblurb, Christina Racher says "…but keep it far from anyone who might be tempted to turn its fiction into reality". My only response to that is: too late! [[Keep Walking Rhona Beech Poster Boy by Kate ToughN J Crosskey|Full Review]]
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===[[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) Critical Incidents by Kerry WattsLucie Whitehouse]]===
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The story had begun some twenty years earlier When you reach a certain stage in life the phrase 'going home' when two boys raped it refers to your childhood home is best if it means a short and killed Sophie Nichollhopefully harmonious visit. Jack Mackay The woman who used to be DCI Robin Lyons, but was now just Robin Lyons, went home with her thirteen- on the face of it year- old daughter after she was dismissed from a decent family, but he was the ringleaderMet. Daniel Simpson She was going home to the room which she'd had as a follower, but he still raped Sophie and he could child: she would 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 bottom bunk and sentenced Elena - Lennie to five years in a young offenders institution. There were those who thought that knew her well - would have the sentence top bunk. The room was too lenient, even for fifteen-yearredolent of the time she'd shared the room with her brother Luke -old boys and Sophie's elder brother, Tom, was one of these. He wasnthey weren't going to let the matter restgood memories. [[Heartlands (D I Jessie Blake) Critical Incidents by Kerry WattsLucie Whitehouse|Full Review]]
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===[[A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine]]===
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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]] <!-- David Hewson Lee -->
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===[[The Savage Shore When Spring Comes to the DMZ by David HewsonUk-Bae Lee]]===
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Reggio, in Calabria. It's There is a strange placeon this earth that, closer to Africa than Rome as Emmanuel kept reminding himself. He was an illegal immigrant and like most at the time of his kind he was simply looking for a way to earn a decent living writing, is resplendent with a little dignitylife. Back In the spring seals gambol in Nigeria he was an independent man and now he is no better than the monkey who sits in a cage river – not venturing too far, for fear of being slashed open on the bar he tends. The area is ruled by razor wire the Mafiahumans have put in place. Further afield there are In the Camorra autumn, salmon come upstream, looking doleful as well they might, for they will spawn and the Cosa Nostradie, but here it's if they reach their birthing grounds. Mountain goats gambol prettily among the 'Ndrangheta and hills – if the local boss landmines men left behind do not prevent them from doing so. This is known as Lo Spettro - a snapshot of life in the DMZ, the demilitarized zone between the ghost - as he's rarely seentwo countries with Korea in their name, but heand it's one of the Bergamotti clan, but even thatworld's not their real nameleast welcome wildlife sanctuary. [[The Savage Shore When Spring Comes to the DMZ by David HewsonUk-Bae Lee|Full Review]]
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