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|author=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)
|title=Alpha
|rating=4
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=''It felt like there was boiling water inside my head. To cool it down, I had to leave…'' Those words aren't spoken by Alpha, the narrator of this graphic novel, but they might have been. Living in Abidjan, on the south coast of Cote d'Ivoire in Africa, he is determined to get out to go to Paris, and a relative's hair salon and a much better life. It's not just the boiling water that is causing him to jump out the frying pan into the unknown fire, but the fact that his wife and son went already, and he's trying to follow in their footsteps. ''Your feet become your head. Your body obeys them'' he observes at one point during the ordeal – but there are people smugglers galore, and blind chance to also obey along the way…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>
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|author=Alexander McCall Smith and Iain McIntosh
|summary=''Welcome to the Museum'' it says on the front cover and I'll admit that for the moment I was confused as I've never associated museums with living plants, but as soon as I stepped inside the covers, I knew where I was. One of the authors, Professor Kathy Willis is the Director of Science at Kew Gardens: she's undoubtedly based her thoughts on Kew, but for me I was back in the glasshouses at the [http://www.rbge.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh] - the glorious 'Botanics'. I'm not certain why we're supposed to be in a museum, unless it's that it allows us to refer to author Kathy Willis and illustrator Katie Scott as curators. Still it's a contrivance which doesn't affect the content.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783703946</amazonuk>
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