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|author=Keren David
|title=When I Was Joe
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=We meet 14 year old Tyler and his young mother Nicki at the police
station as he gives a statement about a stabbing he witnessed.
Unfortunately for them, some of the people involved would rather not
allow him to testify against them and he's forced to flee for his
life, moving into the Witness Protection scheme and starting afresh in
a new school. Despite the vicious thugs on his trail, there are
certain compensations to life at his new school. Formerly just a face
in the crowd at St Saviour's, the mysterious newcomer quickly becomes
popular, especially when he gets involved in athletics and is coached
by older teen Ellie. Not everyone's happy with the impact he makes,
though, and he needs to worry about rivals in school nearly as much as
he does about the gangsters who are still trying to silence him. And
then he meets a girl with a dark secret of her own…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847801005</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=K S Turner
|summary=One group of people that were convinced the Chilean miners, Los 33, would be relieved of their ordeal, were numerologists. For hundreds of years, it seems, they have held the number thirty-three in good stead. It represents a lot of expression of the ego, or the soul, or the transformation of the spirit from one world to another. It doesn't boil down to just the 33 years Christ was supposed to have held His human incarnation, but refers to many ethereal, magical, alchemical transformations from state to state. And who can deny the Chilean mine was 2010's most vivid embodiment of hell - and that the 33 were reborn in coming back to life on earth?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905570260</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Anna Godbersen
|title=Bright Young Things
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Right from the fantastic prologue, which tells us this is the story of ''the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams'', this is a book which had me completely and utterly hooked straight away. Cordelia Gray and her friend Letty Haubstadt run away from their small hometown in Ohio just after Cordelia's wedding, Letty determined to become a star in New York while Cordelia seeks the infamous bootlegger Darius Grey, convinced he's her father. Meanwhile, in the Big Apple itself, flapper Astrid Donal wants to get her boyfriend Charlie to commit to her but isn't sure if she can trust him. This first book in the Bright Young Things series follows the three girls over a few weeks which will change all of their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141335343</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Adrian Johns
|title=Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age
|rating=4
|genre=History
|summary=If you are inclined to take your cues from the weekly reviews, as the witty poet Gavin Ewart once expressed the matter, you will doubtless find currently articles as varied as; Russell Brand predicting the imminent decline of the BBC, various interpretations of liberalism and how these struggle for expression in Coalition Government policy. There are concerns too about the legislation governing the internet and references back to the Sixties battles between, on the one hand, the unbridled self-expression of the free market and, on the other, the virtues of self-restraint in such matters as the re-examination of the Lady Chatterley trial, now fifty years ago. An unusual and quite intriguing book, Death of a Pirate, about the development of intellectual property and piracy in radio touches on all these contemporary concerns in a dramatic way. It combines the history of modern broadcasting with a crime story and consequent trial.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393068609</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=N K Jemisin
|title=The Inheritance Trilogy: The Broken Kingdoms
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Ten years after the events of [[The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy) by N K Jemisin|The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms]], godlings are able to roam free and there are once again three gods – or are there? While people still worship bright Itempas, he was cast down by the Nightlord at the end of book one to wander the Earth, unable to die permanently but with no other powers unless he was protecting a mortal. Oree, an artist who can see magic but is otherwise blind, has known godlings for years and has even been the lover of one of them, but has never met anyone quite like her new lodger Shiny. With godlings dying, something which hasn't happened for many years, can narrator Oree and Shiny find out what's going on before Nahadoth destroys the entire city of Shadow in revenge for his murdered children?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498181</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Stefanie Pintoff
|title=In the Shadow of Gotham
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary='Never Judge… ' Every time I look into the Bookbag to see if there's anything I fancy, I should remind myself: 'Never judge a book by its cover'. Pintoff's first novel in the Simon Ziele series, indeed her first published novel, 'In The Shadow of Gotham' is yet another of those ill-served by both its title and its cover.
In fairness Americans are probably more familiar with Gotham as a nickname for New York City than we Brits – to whom it simply conjures up variations on a theme of Batman.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141399708</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Francois Lelord
|title=Hector and the Secrets of Love
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Professor Cormorant has gone AWOL. Tasked with developing drugs to cure a lot of ills, by making us fall in love, he has fled with his secrets, his prototypes, and a few samples that may or may not be dangerous. It is down to Hector, a psychiatrist, to chase him down, work out where Cormorant is in his researches, and if possible help bring the trade secrets back to the company his girlfriend, and now himself, works for. With the exotic far East his destination, a partner left behind, and time on his hand to muse on the subject of love, will Hector find more than just a bunch of chemicals in a syringe?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906040338</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Danny Miller
|title=Kiss Me Quick
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=The jacket cover is certainly eye-catching, a nice sepia-tinged photograph of Brighton seafront. The Prologue opens in the year 1939, also in the Brighton area. A young Jack Regent is enjoying the start of what appears to be a new life. He's apparently paid the price for previous 'events' and is now a reformed character. Or is he? The next couple of pages would suggest otherwise. But then again, Jack's smart, very smart. He makes sure that he doesn't get his hands dirty. He leaves that for others. For the mugs.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015163</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Sonya Hartnett
|title=The Midnight Zoo
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=It's Eastern Europe during World War II and orphaned Roma brothers Andrej and Tomas are journeying through war-ravaged countryside carrying a precious and secret bundle. It's an odd kind of journey because they really don't have anywhere to go. They have a great deal to avoid, however, such as soldiers with rifles, bombs, and villagers who would decry them on sight. As Andrej trudges on, worrying about Tomas, he is thinking it's just another night, just another village in ruins. But he's wrong. The boys stumble across a zoo. The cages are still standing, intact and locked. And the animals have no food and water. But they are alive. And they can talk.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140633149X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Bryan Talbot
|title=Grandville Mon Amour
|rating=4.5
|genre=Graphic Novels
|summary=The [[Grandville by Bryan Talbot|first book]] in this series didn't end particularly well for DI LeBrock, the badger who works for Scotland Yard. At least the main problem, 'Mad Dog' Mastock, was sentenced to the guillotine. But in the prologue here he bursts out of his quandary, and once more causes problems for LeBrock - this time by slaughtering some Parisian prostitutes. Are they linked? What might their story be? And is there a darker part of the past yet to come out of some secretive hiding place, and cause even more danger and peril?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224090003</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Helen Bailey and Kirsten Richards
|title=Willow of the Woods: Litter to Glitter
|rating=5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Willow is a wood sprite who lives with her friends in Windybottom. Unfortunately one day, they notice a really terrible smell that is so bad that no one can concentrate in their lessons and the school concert has to be cancelled. The rank smells of rotten eggs, smelly cabbage and pongy feet have turned the usually idyllic Windybottom into 'Stinkybottom'. My daughter found this description very funny!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989955</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Carrie Jones
|title=Entice
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=When I got this book I didn't realise it was the third book in a series, and to start with this put me off; I thought I'd be the one stood outside the window watching everyone else at the party and not understand what was going on. However, as I started to read I started to feel more included than I thought I would (there is a nice little reminder paragraph at the start that filled me on what I had missed). So, although I recommend you start with the first book in the series, Entice does have its own legs and is very capable of standing on them.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408810441</amazonuk>
}}
