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===[[The Girl at the Window Bunny by Rowan ColemanPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]===
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Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house You might have seen Bunny on the beach where her roots burrow back through the centuries he lived. Like many beaches it was full of sand and to a mother she hasnBunny didn't spoken to for sixteen years. Homelike sand, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself not least because it got between his toes and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband''scratched''. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is deadWhat he really liked was juicy green grass. Where better than All the house full other rabbits lived on the top of light and shadowthe cliff, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? where Bunny could see a lot of tasty-looking grass. But the cliff was very high. [[The Girl at the Window Bunny by Rowan ColemanPeter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]]
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===[[Why We Are The Dead Quilt by Mike ShackleThomas Knauer]]===
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Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead'I'; ve often wondered about the tag line story that patchwork quilting began as a way for the novel is 'No More Heroes' women (and myth would have it that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part it was always women) to survive, make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to fight back, and to find vengeance, in a world that has been utterly torn apartwaste. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many do, This undoubtedly ''did'' happen butwhen you think about it, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part you need an awful lot of material to make a much larger plot that is rich and complex quilt and keeps the reader glued time could have been better spent if all that was required was bedding. Like Thomas Knauer I've come to the storyconclusion that it began as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the years. [[Why We Are The Dead Quilt by Mike ShackleThomas Knauer|Full Review]]
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===[[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know The Lying Room by Vibrant PublishersNicci French]]===
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IWhen we meet Neve Connolly it'm capable of drawing up a profit and loss account (income statement in s pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the USA) washing machine and a balance sheet she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and I do so for my own business children Mabel, Connor and for another organisationRory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. The accounts give me ''broadly'' what I need: I know whether we're making He has a profit or a loss few hours to spare and I can look at the expenses and 't wait to see what looks as though it could be trimmed back in future yearsher. My problem was that Only, when she gets to the accounts didn't really give me any help in making decisionsflat she finds Saul Stevenson, which was why I turned to ''Cost Accounting her boss and Management''lover, part of Vibrant Publishers' Self-Learning and Management seriesdead on the floor. Cost accounting provides the information required by authorities external to the company ''and'' to those within it who need to make decisions, so don't worry The hammer that you're going to have to draw up two sets of accounts! s been used on his brain is at his side. [[Cost Accounting & Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know The Lying Room by Vibrant PublishersNicci French|Full Review]]
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===[[A Dance of Cranes Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Steve BurrowsPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]===
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DCI Domenic Jejeune Madeleine is no longer with Lindy Hey, a very lucky girl: in her room she has all a girl could ask for in the estrangement being way of his makingtoys, books, not hersgames and dollies. He hasnShe't explained to her that he is doing this - s a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and leaving for his native Canada - because he thinks that this will keep everything in her safe from his nemesis, Ray Hayes. Lauren Salter has been promoted room can be used to sergeant and now has take her first murder caseon adventures. It looks as though She spends all day there's an obvious suspect: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, but Salter isnMadeleine't so certains not alone on all the trips she takes. Sgt Danny Maik is (unofficially) keeping an eye on Lindy Hey, whilst Jejeune embarks on a treacherous journey We'll find out that yesterday she was told to rescue his brothertidy her room, Damian, who has gone missing in one but instead of Canada's largest national parksdoing that she went to the moon. [[A Dance of Cranes Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Steve BurrowsPeter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]]
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===[[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Dutch House by Joyce Carol OatesAnn Patchett]]===
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Bobby is an angryWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, damaged man - damage that came from being abandoned as they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. It's a baby in a bus station locker, strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and then being thrown from one foster home or detention centre the closest Danny seems to come to another, never far him is when he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from violence or abuseproperties the family owns. Eager to succeed as a musician Elna Conroy is loving, he arrives in Hollywood to find his dream - but it soon becomes clear absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that his paranoid delusions and seething rage she will enable a capacity for acts of extreme violencenot be returning. Unpublished for 40 years In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, this edition of but their primary relationship is with each other. It''The Triumph of the Spider Monkey'' comes combined with s a connected novella – ''Love, Careless Love''bond which only death will break. [[The Triumph of the Spider Monkey Dutch House by Joyce Carol OatesAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[The Last Spell Breather Very Rude Toytoise by Julie PikePeter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]===
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Rayne lives It was one of those blissful days in the small, hidden village of Penderin where forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she is wanted to make a somewhat unwilling apprentice to her mother, the spell breathercake. Not everyone can spell breathe, you have Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to born with build a magic spark and Rayne wishes she hadn't been born with onenest. She's Mrs Spider was busily spinning a terrible spell breather, her attempts are always followed by disaster and she positively hates Mam's spell book with it's sharp teeth that suck your bloodweb to catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. When And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a stranger finds their village one daychair, Mam must set off on a journey to the great library, leaving Rayne in the village as their chief spell breather, but an unfortunate mistake sees Rayne breaking her mother's book and turning everyone in to monstersfishing for lunch. What could be better? And then.. She must face her fear travel across the monster-ridden country to find Mam and restore the book to save their village. [[The Last Spell Breather Very Rude Toytoise by Julie PikePeter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]]
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===[[I, Cosmo Recipe for Making a Snowman by Carlie SorosiakPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]===
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CosmoWho knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and there's family is in crisis. Mom no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and Dad argue all the time. Emmaline doesntwo children are absolutely meticulous though: they're going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the coal for the eyes, searching through the bits 't quite understand it because shen bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's too little but she feels it. And Max, who is bigger, does understand it coat and is terrified by itpicking out the perfect piece of headgear. Long ago There's quite a choice available, when Max was just a babybut the family decide on the bobble hat, Cosmo made a promise presumably to protect Max forever keep the snowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family a pair with everything he's got..purple and pink stripes are chosen. [[I, Cosmo Recipe for Making a Snowman by Carlie SorosiakPeter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]]
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===[[War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Melanie Martin]]===
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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in his workshopoccupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, creating crazy potions, and he always has a smile on his face. Madelineparticularly in ''s dad thinks heThe Diary of Ann Frank's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because hethen realised that her own family's oldstories were equally fascinating. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during the war years, but only five thousand survived and allows her Martin could not understand how this could be allowed to choose one as happen in a giftcountry with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. And he always says Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the same thingorganisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale, but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies.. [[DonWar and Love: A family't Drink the Pink s testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by B C R FeganMelanie Martin|Full Review]]
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===[[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick]]===
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[[image:4starThis is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's not a sickness you've heard of. Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in the town away from the real world. Though it's about a real place, the people in it are fictional. It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasySnowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick|FantasyFull Review]]
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Jessica Turner was one of the more radical teens to come out of Eastfield. A youth spent hanging out with a close crowd of friends was characterised by Jessica's role as trendsetter, as influencer, as leader. Strangely charismatic, Jessica invited fascination and obsession. Nobody who met her, forgot her. Or the days they spent in the Enclosure, a clearing in Eastfield woods that Jessica felt gave her power. But the group went its separate ways, as adolescent groups do, and her influence faded...[[The Years of Fading Magic by Kenelm Averill|Full Review]]
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===[[Clear My Name The Nightjar by Paula DalyDeborah Hewitt]]===
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Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, a charity investigating the cases of prisoners who can convince them that they've been wrongly convicted and they're just moving on to their next case. SheThe Nightjar's somewhat surprised when Clive, the head of the charity, announces that she'll have someone shadowing heris an unusual and exciting story. Avril's Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her mid twenties doorstep one morning and rather gauche as well as prone her life begins to putting unravel, fast. From that very moment, her foot in itlife is flooded with magic, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal. One of the reasons they're now going to look at the case of Carrie Kamara is As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she's female and Innocence have never yet taken up the case of a woman: such impressions matterthinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[Clear My Name The Nightjar by Paula DalyDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step American Royals by Step Guide by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Katharine McGee]]===
[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Business and Finance|Business and Finance]], [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Self-PublishingGeneral Fiction|Self PublishingGeneral Fiction]]
I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional housesTwo and a half centuries ago, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have America won the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the answer is inevitably that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with thatcrown. Despite having used a computer for about thirty yearsToday, running most the House of my life ''and'' a website Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the first time. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk. Author Georgianne Landy-Kordis doesn't profess to be a computer expert: sheBeatrice's simply someone who whole life has done this many times been building up to her ruling the United States and she's giving us the benefit of time for her experience and without any added chitchatreign is imminent. [[The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide American Royals by Georgianne Landy-Kordis Katharine McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[Just Another Girl on the Road Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by S KensingtonNicola Monaghan]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionCrime|Historical FictionCrime]]
When Sergeant Farr and Corporal Valentine first encountered Katrinka Badeau she It was just eighteen years old and fleeing from more than a little bit of a farmhouse surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a group former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of German deserters who had raped herNottingham. Despite being outnumbered Then it was a shock when she was giving just about as good as found two bodies in the cellar before she 'd even got when Farr settled in - and Valentine intervened and finished managed to break a bone in her foot in the group off. It was 1944 and Farr and Valentine were part course of making the Jedburgh unit, EDMOND, lead by Major Willoughby Nyediscovery. Nye recognised Katrinka immediately - heThey'd worked on her fatherbeen there for some time, but who - exactly - were the man and the woman, wrapped in each other's merchant ship and Katrinka had once had a crush arms? Having spent ten years on Nye. When he offered her the Murder Squad, ending up as a job with his unitDCI she knows what's going to happen next, but she accepted's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to get. [[Just Another Girl on the Road Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by S KensingtonNicola Monaghan|Full Review]]
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===[[Rose, Interrupted Some Places More Than Others by Patrice LawrenceRenee Watson]]===
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Rose Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, father's side of the Pilgrims, along with their motherfamily. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying But her father hasn't spoken to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and Rudder both her parents are trying resistant to navigate the worldly worldidea. It's But Amara is nothing if not easy when everything is new persistent and a school family history project provides her with the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missingperfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Rose, Interrupted Some Places More Than Others by Patrice LawrenceRenee Watson|Full Review]]
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===[[Something to Tell You Lakes of Mars by David EdwardsMerritt Graves]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] Aaron Sheridan doesn't want to live anymore. His entire family is dead by his own hand, killed in a shuttle crash. Unable to deal with the guilt, he signs up for the Fleet expecting a fatal deployment to the Rim War, but instead ends up at their most prestigious command school, Corinth Station... [[Lakes of Mars by Merritt Graves|Full Review]]
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dystopian Fiction|Dystopian Fiction]] Sam Murray and Bert Leinster had been friends for a long time. Bert was Sam's boss at CERN, but this never seemed to affect the way that the families got on. Bert's wife, Natalia, was Russian and seriously rich. Their twins, fifteen-year-olds Allie and Josh, went to a private boarding school, but at weekends they were great friends with Sam's two children, Liam and Hannah. Sam's wife, Briony, was head of product research at Nestlé. Life was good for all eight of them, until Sam - a particle physicist - spotted that the rate at which Higgs Boson particles were hitting the earth had risen exponentially. It's enough of a problem for Sam and Bert to drag the head of CERN, Prof Ralph Moyeur, out of a family lunch. Then Bert started having conversations with a plant called Lily. [[Something to Tell You by David Edwards|Full Review]] <!-- Behrend Ryan -->
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===[[You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present Coming of Age by Don BehrendDanny Ryan]]===
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''You're He began writing novels and poetry at the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino'' begins with ''A Modern Love Storyage of twelve, but it was to take him a further forty-eight years to realise that he wasn’t very good at either. Consistently unpublished for all that time, he remains a shining example of hope over experience...'':
''You’re the froth on my soy cappuccino''<br>
''You’re the spread on my paleo toast''<br>
''You’re the nose of my GM-free Pinot''<br>
''You’re organic, my love. You’re the most!''<br>
Ha! How can ''This a memoir from someone you have never heard of - but will feel like you not laugh at this gently mocking take on love in the hipster world? have.'' [[You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present Coming of Age by Don BehrendDanny Ryan|Full Review]]
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The phrase about never trusting a book by its cover is something I love mittens - theyput on a par with comments about Marmite. You're so convenient supposed to love it or hate it and much easier to get onto (I'm halfway between, and off) cold hands than a pair of fiddly gloveslikewise the old adage is halfway true. They're not something you regularly see in shopsFrom the cover of this I had a child-friendly fantasy, so I knew what with that name and that if I wanted new pairs I would have to knit them myselfattractive artwork of an attractive girl reaching for an attractive water plant. WellThat was only built on by the initial fictionalised quotes, actuallywith their non-standard spelling, thatas if texts of scripture in this book's my rationalisation of the situation: in truth I love knitting mittensworld predated our standardised literacy. They have But why was I two chapters in and just enough technique to make them satisfyingfinding more and more characters, both human and animal, and more and more flashbacks, plenty of quick work and a pair of warm mittens no proof that this was what I'd bought in a few days. Patterns, though - where do you get them fromfor? [[The Mitten Handbook: Knitting Recipes to Make Your Own Lighthouse of the Netherworlds by Mary Scott HuffMaxwell N Andrews|Full Review]]
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Every so oftenBerlin, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfection1989. This book Miriam is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in the fantasy land middle of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into wara city freshly united, a battle for survival for with the Omehi Wall newly broken down and people. Fleeing their homeland, they have able to fight to remain on cross at liberty for the only scrap of land they can reachfirst time in decades. The culture She is in the middle of the Omehi people is rich and deep such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not perfectleft her father's apartment in weeks, not sanctimoniousnursing him as he lies dying. They have villains One standard bed-bath, however, they have faultsis very different, they are when he gasps the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and honest portrayal of she sees for the first time ever a people desperate to survivetattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, to save themselves and their culture for future generationstwo inside... [[The Rage of Dragons Rabbit Girls by Evan WinterAnna Ellory|Full Review]]
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[[image:4Tove Jansson's worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, simple stories, simple goodness.5starWhat is often forgotten outside of her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a feeling for the natural world and the simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the world might be.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersA Winter Book by Tove Jansson|Confident ReadersFull Review]]
Cosmo's family is in crisis. Mom and Dad argue all the time. Emmaline doesn't quite understand it because she's too little but she feels it. And Max, who is bigger, does understand it and is terrified by it. Long ago, when Max was just a baby, Cosmo made a promise to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything he's got... [[I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak|Full Review]]<!-- Linda Jones Whitlock -->
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In late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their way to spend the week before Christmas property is at their grandfather's housetimes of austerity. It was snowing heavily Others are called Foresters, for they live and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering work in trees. When the back of small area the car. Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviourForesters live in is placed under compulsory purchase, but then that's your prerogative when you're the residents are given a grown-up eleven year oldpitiful amount to clear out before they get manfully cleared out. The snow was getting heavier and Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the journey longer when Emily opened trees for the car window Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – he's just a couple of inches. There was a dreadful smell age to decide things for himself, and Dylan saw a horrible, snake-like figure clawing at he has decided to see how the car windowother half lives... [[Deadwood Hall The Collective by Linda JonesLindsey Whitlock|Full Review]]
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Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is berthed in Kinloch harbour and on board are high-powered international delegates. It's hard to avoid the suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, golfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, but it's not long before one of the crew members and a local bird watcher go missing. [[A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Denzil Meyrick|Full Review]]
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This Germany is a dyslexia-friendlysplit. Some of her is in favour of Hitler and the Nazis, but much isn't. Some of her is stuck to the east fighting the Soviets, but some will soon have to be on the other front, science fiction novella for young adultsagainst the Americans coming into the continent to put things right as they see it. It tells Finding out that the war to the tale of Hugoeast isn't working, an unwanted due to Hitler's tactical ineptitude and rather lonely androidinability to heed advice, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watchessome people reckon Stalin is five seasons away from being in Berlin. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended The only way to shore things up, and repair the splits, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solvedkill Hitler, and luckily the Baron Nicholas is only too ready the man to helpdo it. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds He's aristocratic enough, he knows enough people in industry, which takes Hugo out society and other circles of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friendspower, exploring regions of the planet never before known so once he's succeeded he might be able to existkeep a German presence in Europe. But will he still be able to keep the capitalists and communists from meeting in the middle? [[The Starlight Watchmaker Man Who Killed Hitler by Lauren JamesAndre Pronovost|Full Review]]
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