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The Blurb On The Back:

Grandmother said I will be a powerful witch doctor one day.

But I cannot wait that long.

Arrah’s fate was foretold in the bones.

Descended from a long line of powerful witch doctors, she is desperate for a taste of magic. No matter what the cost.

As strange premonitions and spirits descend upon the Kingdom, Arrah discovers she will do anything to save her people - even if it means sacrificing years of her own life.

Arrah must find a way to master this borrowed power. But how much time does she have left?

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The Verdict:

Rena Barron’s debut YA fantasy (the first in a trilogy) makes excellent use of its West African inspiration to build a vivid world populated by tricksy gods that’s a must for anyone bored with generic European worlds. However, the plot is messy with key events happening off page, a central character who is hamstrung for much of the book and predictable twists and pacing is not helped by too big of a cast such that I’m not sure I’d continue.

KINGDOM OF SOULS was released in the United Kingdom on 19th September 2019. Thanks to Harper Voyager for the review copy of this book.

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When toy robot, Boot, wakes up at a scrapyard it has no idea how it got there and why it isn’t with its owner, Beth. It only has two and a half glitchy memories but it knows it was loved, which seems important.

Boot is scared but tries to be brave, which is hard when your screen keeps showing a wobbly, worried face. Luckily Boot meets Noke and Red who have learned to survive in secret.

With its new friends by its side, Boot and the gang set off on a dangerous adventure to find their way home.

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The Verdict:

Shane Hegarty’s science fiction novel for children aged 7+ (the first in a series and illustrated by Ben Mantle) mashes up TOY STORY with WALL-E in a cute but slight tale of identity, loss and belonging. However while Boot is an intrepid robot battling against adversity, his story didn’t really spark for me, mainly because it hits so many familiar beats and the supporting cast feel by-the-numbers.

BOOT was released in the United Kingdom on 16th May 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Jaci Patterson was sixteen when she found the first locket on her porch.

Inside were a few strands of hair wrapped around a scrap of bloodstained ribbon. Though the ‘gifts’ kept arriving, no one believed her hunch that a serial killer was at work.

Now Jaci has finally returned home - only for bodies of strangled victims to start appearing years after the disappeared.

Her nightmare is beginning all over again. And this time it won’t end until the murderer makes Jaci his ... for ever.

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The Verdict:

To be honest, had I know this was a romantic thriller (with an emphasis on the romance), then I probably wouldn’t have picked it up. Although Alexandra Ivy hits the usual romance beats in a way that will please fans of the genre, I found Jaci too passive who’s there to be rescued and told what to do by alpha males who know better, the plot is a little silly at times and the antagonist two dimensional. Ultimately this just isn’t for me.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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What do we want from economic growth? What sort of a society are we aiming for? In everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world’s most developed countries, growth has already brought unrivalled prosperity: we have ‘Arrived’.

More than that, through debt, inequality, climate change and fractured politics, the fruits of growth may rot before everyone has a chance to enjoy them. It’s high time to ask where progress is taking us, and are we nearly there yet?

In fact, Trebeck and Williams claim in this ground-breaking book, the challenge is now to make ourselves at home with this wealth, and to ensure, in the interests of equality, that everyone is included. They explore the possibility of ‘Arrival’, urging us to move from enlarging the economy to improving it, and the benefits this would bring for all.

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The Verdict:

Katherine Trebeck is a senior researcher for Oxfam and Jeremy Williams a writer specialising in environmental and social issues. In this thought-provoking but in places flawed book, packed with figures and research, they use the notion of ever-rising GDP being a damaging fallacy as a starting point to consider what an ‘Arrived’ economy would look like and how it can be transformed to focus more on environmental and equality.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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There’s a hundred ways to start this story, a hundred ways to tell it.

Each one is impossible.

Each one, unbelievable.

But it did all happen and I promise it’s all true.

In Ethiopia, Ageze has unearthed an ancient device that can make predictions. It tells him there is a date, there is a place, there is a moment when it will happen. A disaster that will change everything.

Halo Moon loves stars, and the night sky is full of them in her remote Yorkshire village. It’s a place where nothing interesting ever happens, let alone a catastrophe.

So when a stranger appears at the end of a near-impossible journey and tells her lives are at risk, she can barely believe it. But if she doesn’t help Ageze, everything and everyone she knows might disappear for ever …

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The Verdict:

Sharon Cohen’s standalone fantasy novel for children aged 9+ does well at showing the tensions in young friendship through the jealousy Jade has for Halo due to her friendship with Pedro and features a largely positive depiction of a modern Ethiopian child (albeit at times it strays towards the “Magical Negro” trope) and I liked Halo’s interest in astronomy but the story itself is quite pedestrian and never caught fire for me.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Become an amazing conversationalist.

Are your conversations so controlled they lack the ability to connect with other people? Do you find yourself holding back for fear of revealing too much or saying the wrong thing? What can you do to make your conversations more real?

Tap into your intuition and speak from the heart.

Drawing on the expertise of bestselling author and communication expert, Judy Apps, The Art of Communication shows how to develop the ability to become a nuanced conversationalist - one who connects with others and is more fearless, more genuine, more engaging and more creative. The author reveals how to communication in a meaningful way and:

- Build closer relationships and create intimacy
- Overcome the artificiality and awkwardness of your interactions
- Converse successfully with people of different backgrounds
- Get more rewarding results from your conversations
- Operate from your intuition rather than with self-consciousness and control

The Art of Communication builds your confidence so you can converse from a place where being counts more than conventional skills, and an open heart brings connection and rewards you could only dream of before.

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The Verdict:

Judy Apps is a communications expert and personal coach. In this book she sets out techniques and suggestions for improving your communications skills to form genuine connections with people by encouraging you to move away from controlled conversational norms and rely on your intuition. The spiritual and new age techniques won’t be for everyone (and some weren’t for me) but I did get some good ideas, which I’ve put into practice.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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”This is as close to a city without crime as mankind has ever seen.”

Ciudad de Cielo is the ‘city in the sky’, a space station where hundreds of scientists and engineers work in Earth’s orbit, building the colony shop that will one day take humanity to the stars. When a mutilated body is found on the CDC, the eyes of the world are watching.

Top-of-the-class investigator, Alice Blake, is sent from Earth to team up with CDC’s Freeman - a jaded cop with more reason that most to distrust such planet side interference. As the death toll climbs and factions aboard the station become more and more fractious, Freeman and Blake will discover clues to a conspiracy that threatens not only their own lives, but the future of humanity itself.

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The Verdict:

Chris Brookmyre’s standalone novel is a clever mix of SF and hard boiled noir with a setting akin to the Western frontier and strong pacing. The world building is great, bringing in tech, politics, economics and social commentary and I liked the different factions at play with their respective agendas but Freeman and Blake felt a bit stock at times and some of the emotional revelations in the final quarter weren’t earned.

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We have the chance to live better than ever. But, as humans become ever more powerful, can we avoid blundering into disaster?

Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what I most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does it all come down to population? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do?

Fortunately, Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is practical and even enjoyable.

There Is No Planet B maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. For the first time you’ll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think. This book will shock you, surprise you - and then make you laugh.

And you’ll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this - our only - planet.

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The Verdict:

Mike Berners-Lee is Professor at Lancaster University’s Institute for Social Futures and in this informative, thought-provoking but depressing book (that at times gets too caught up in the numbers and analogies), he sets out some of the facts and figures relating to climate change (which he expands to look at food supply, biodiversity and plastic use) to give the reader ideas for how to reduce the damage they do to the planet.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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I see a cluster of jelly-shaped islands, a castle rising out of the sea, and three dragons soaring through the sky. And written along the top of the map in my spiky handwriting is one word:
ROAR

When twins Arthur and Rose were little they were heroes in the Land of Roar, the imaginary world they created. Roar was filled with the things they loved - dragons, mermaids, ninja wizards and moonlight stallions - as well as the things that scared them the most.

Now the twins are eleven, Roar is almost forgotten. But when strange things start happening, Arthur begins to wonder if maybe, just maybe ...

ROAR IS REAL

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The Verdict:

Acclaimed YA author Jenny McLachlan’s debut middle grade fantasy novel (gorgeously illustrated by Ben Mantle and the first of a duology) is a stunningly good read - moving, funny and with a lot to say about facing your fears, embracing the power of imagination and the destructive need to be cool with the ‘in crowd’ it tips its hat at the Narnia and Peter Pan tradition, while updating it for a more tech savvy and less gender stereotyped readership.

THE LAND OF ROAR was released in the United Kingdom on 1st August 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Creativity is an elusive but essential component of innovation and success in competitive, changing markets. The old way of thinking had it that creativity was a kind of mystical property possessed only by certain innately talented people. If an organisation wasn’t innovative enough, its leaders simply needed to find and hire those rare creative people. The past few decades of constant disruption by newcomers has roundly proven this theory false, even if organisational leaders don’t recognise it yet. Years of trying to recruit and retain creative workforce’s just hasn’t helped the established players keep up.

If hiring creativity isn’t helping, it means that organisations have all the creativity they need but aren’t harnessing it properly. What’s going wrong? Some people point to the pressure to keep shareholders happy and to other external pressures, claiming that market forces prevent them from giving creativity the space to develop. But the supersonic rise of companies like Netflix and Amazon show that market forces aren’t stopping the people who really know how to innovate. In Unlocking Creativity Michael A. Roberto draws on years of investigation to reveal the true nature of the problem: enterprise-wide mindsets that stifle creativity on a daily basis.

Every organisation is full of creative minds just waiting for an opportunity to shine. Unfortunately, deeply entrenched organisational cultures and ways of thinking frustrate people when they try to present original ideas. Without knowing it, we may be falling victim to one of the six mindsets that prevent talented people from experimenting, discovering, innovating and helping the organisation flourish.

Unlocking Creativity presents the six mindsets that block creativity, bringing them to life through colourful examples and abundant research evidence, to help leaders recognise the habits that might be preventing creativity from taking flight. With illustrations taken from far and wide - academic research, corporate case studies, hit TV shows, and rock and roll legends all make eye-opening appearances in the pages of this book - Michael Roberto clears the fog around creativity and equips leaders with the insight they need to shift to supportive mindsets and cultures where creativity can thrive.

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The Verdict:

Michael A. Roberto is Director of the Center for Program Innovation at Bryant University. In this thought-provoking book that will appeal to anyone who has worked at a large organisation, he sets out the 6 organisational mindsets that can block creativity within the workplace and offers ways of countering them, drawing on numerous business, technological and creative case studies and social psychology experiments to help make his case.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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What doesn’t kill you makes you ... stronger?

Jake McCormack is the villain of Clanfedden. He’s just killed a boy - deliberately run him over with his truck, in front of everyone. And he knows he’ll get away with it.

Luca Spinelli, 14, is the new boy in town. He’s looking for a fresh start after what happened at his old school.

Allie Redmond has lived in Clanfedden all her life. Luca’s friendship is the bright spark she needs.

But more than anyone, Allie knows the danger of Jake McCormack. She needs to warn Luca. She needs to prevent disaster. At least, she needs to try ...

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The Verdict:

Sarah Moore Fitzgerald’s YA thriller is a peculiar, forced affair, more suitable for Tweens than older teens. I enjoyed the theme of the damage done by loan-sharking and the importance of standing up to bullies, but the twists in this are pretty predictable and I was left wondering why adults were so taken in given some of the absurdities of a big reveal and the McCormack narrated sections are pretty hammy in their villainy.

A STRANGE KIND OF BRAVE was released in the United Kingdom on 25th July 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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This book looks at how science investigates the natural world around us. It is an examination of the scientific method, the foundation of science and basis on which our scientific knowledge is built. Written in a clear, concise, and colloquial style, the book addresses all concepts pertaining to the scientific method. It includes discussions on objective reality, hypotheses and theory, and the fundamental and inalienable role of experimental evidence in scientific knowledge.

This collection of personal reflections on the scientific methodology shows the observations and daily uses of an experienced practitioner. Massimiliano Di Ventra also examines the limits of science and the errors we make when abusing its method in non scientific contexts. By reflecting on the general method, the reader can critically sort through other types of scientific claims, and judge their ability to apply it in study and in practice.

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The Verdict:

Massimiliano Di Ventra is Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. In this book (illustrated by Matteo Di Ventra) he aims to provide readers with an understanding of scientific methodology and its limitations so that readers can evaluate scientific claims. However, while it’s intended as an easy read, you need some scientific knowledge to follow everything and while I got the overall gist, at times I was left confused.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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There is about 10 times more dark matter (DM, also known here as Alice matter) than bright stuff in our Galaxy.

The DM is spread out in a roughly uniform sphere (a spherical distribution of Alice stars), with our flattened disk Galaxy embedded in it. The “Alice matter”, is a kind of mirror image shadow stuff; the term “looking glass matter” has been used by some scientists. Alice matter can be turned into ordinary matter (and vice versa) by sending it though a loop of Alice string, a naturally occurring cosmic phenomenon.

Aliens in the DM world, more advanced than we are, have discovered the trace of 10 per cent “normal” matter in “their” universe. And have come to investigate it.

Our disk is a perturbation that they are puzzled about.

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The Verdict:

John Gribbin’s science fiction novella is a sequel to DOUBLE PLANET and REUNION but while I hadn’t read those books, he gives enough information to be able to follow the plot. I found the writing a little workmanlike and the science was, for me, quite difficult to follow, but the ideas are interesting, as are the situations that the characters find themselves in - especially the terraforming of Mars - such that it’s definitely worth a look.

Thanks to PS Publishing for the review copy of this book.

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There is no blurb on the back and no quotes.

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The Verdict:

Jonathan Portes is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at King’s College London and in this book he looks at the economics of immigration, from its causes and impact to how the economic facts could influence policy in a post-Brexit world. Unfortunately, the Brexit section is the weakest - mainly because events have moved since it was written - but it’s a must-read for the economic facts if you’re looking to inform yourself on this subject.

WHAT DO WE KNOW AND WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT IMMIGRATION was released in the United Kingdom on 1st July 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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At eighteen, Somlata married into the Mitras: a once noble Bengali household whose descendants have taken to pawning off the family gold to keep up appearances.

When Pishima, the embittered matriarch, dies, Somlata is the first to discover her aunt-in-law’s body - and her sharp-tongued ghost.

First demanding that Somlata hide her gold from the family’s prying hands, Pishima’s ghost continues to wreak havoc on the Mithras. With secrets spilt and cooking spoilt, Somlata finds herself at the centre of the chaos. And as the family teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, it looks as though it’s up to her to fix it.

The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die is a frenetic, funny and fresh novel about three generations of Mitra women, a jewellery box and the rickety family they hold together.

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The Verdict:

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s literary horror novel (published in India in 1993 but translated into English from Bengali for the first time by Arunava Sinha) is a domestic drama pitting the genuinely malevolent Pishima against the virtuous, obedient Somlata and I liked the alternating sections following her daughter, Boshon, a restless teenager who has forsaken love but the open ending is very frustrating and may alienate some readers.

THE AUNT WHO WOULDN’T DIE was released in the United Kingdom on 11th July 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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There is no blurb on the back, but there are the following quotes:

”A compelling history of the 1986 disaster and its aftermath ... plunges the reader into the sweaty, nervous tension of the Chernobyl control room on that fateful night when human frailty and design flaws combined to such devastating effect.”
Daniel Beer, Guardian.

“Extraordinary, vividly written, powerful storytelling ... the first full-scale history of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, one of the defining moments in the Cold War, told minute by minute.”
Victor Sebastian, Sunday Times

“An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics”
Yoval Noah Harari

“Haunting ... near-Tolstoyan. His voice is humane and inflected with nostalgia”
Roland Elliott Brown, Spectator

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The Verdict:

Serhii Plokhy is Professor of History at Harvard University and a specialist in Eastern Europe. In this by turns horrifying, moving and meticulously researched book (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize in 2018 for non-fiction), he depicts the events surrounding the explosion of the No 4 reactor at Chernobyl on 26 April 1986 and the cover up and clear up that followed and explains how it contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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7 straightforward steps to solving any problem with creativity and rigor

Complex problem solving is the core skill for twenty-first century teams. It’s the only way to keep up with rapid change. Winning organisations now rely on nimble, iterative problem solving, rather than traditional planning processes. In this book you’ll learn the seven-step systematic approach to creative problem solving that will work in any field or industry. It employs a highly visual, logic-tree method that can be applied to any problem, from strategic business decisions to global social challenges. Charles and Rob, with decades of experience at McKinsey & Company and other institutions, provide a toolkit with 30 detailed real-world examples, so you can see exactly how the technique works in action.

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The Verdict:

Charles Conn is a former partner of McKinsey & Company and former CEO of the Rhodes Trust. Rob McLean is Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and a former Dean of the Australian Graduate School of Management. This book aims to set out a 7-step programme for complex problem solving but while there’s some useful information here it presupposes a familiarity with some of the logic tree techniques, which makes it difficult to use for beginners.

Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Then

One night, my little sister went missing. There were searches, appeals. Everyone thought the worst. And then, miraculously, she came back. She couldn’t, or wouldn’t, say what had happened. But she wasn’t the same afterwards. She wasn’t my Annie. Sometimes my own little sister scared me to death.

Now

The email arrives in my inbox:

I know what happened to your sister. It’s happening again ...

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The Verdict:

C. J. Tudor’s second novel is a tightly plotted horror tale that gives more than a nod to Stephen King’s PET SEMETARY but which nevertheless has a distinctly British feel. The amoral and desperate Joe makes for an interesting protagonist and I liked Tudor’s depiction of a broken pit village while the supernatural elements are generally creepy. All in all, this is a great Halloween chiller and I will definitely check out THE CHALK MAN.

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”Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Cape Verdean favelas, Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too.”

Afropean is an on-the-ground documentary of the places where Europeans of African descent live their lives. Setting off from his hometown of Sheffield, Johny Pitts makes his way through Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Rome, Marseille and Lisbon, through council estates, political spaces, train stations, tour groups, and underground arts scenes.

Here is an alternative map of the continent, revealing plural identities and liminal landscapes, from a Cape Verdean shantytown on the outskirts of Lisbon to RInkeby, the eighty per cent Muslim area of Stockholm, from West African students at university in Moscow to the notorious Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois. A Europe populated by Egyptian nomads, Sudanese restaurateurs, Belgo-Congolese painters. Their voices speak to Afropean experiences that demand to be heard.

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The Verdict:

Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer and broadcaster who founded the online journal Afropean.com. In this insightful, compassionate and thought-provoking book that’s part anthropology, part memoir, part travelogue and part rumination on the black experience within Europe, he seeks to “honestly reveal the secret pleasures and prejudices of others as well as myself” and make sense of what it means to be a black citizen in Europe.

AFROPEAN: NOTES FROM BLACK EUROPE was released in the United Kingdom on 6th June 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Our land is sinking. It’s disappearing into the water. And no one knows how to save it

Twelve-year-old Eliza and her younger sister Avery have lived their entire lives in a small fishing village on the coast of Louisiana, growing up alongside turtles, pelicans and porpoises. But now, with sea levels rising, their home is at risk of being swept away.

Determined to save the land, Eliza and Avery secretly go searching in the swamp for the dangerous, wolf-life loup-garou. If they can prove this legendary creature exists, they’re sure that the government will have to protect its habitat - and their community.

But there’s one problem: the loup-garou has never been seen before. And with a tropical storm approaching and the sisters deep, deep in the swampland, soon it’s not just their home at risk, but their lives as well ...

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The Verdict:

Jess Butterworth’s contemporary ecological thriller for children aged 9+ does a great job of evoking the strange beauty of the Louisiana bayou and how it’s at risk from climate change while Eliza and Avery’s relationship captures the frustrations and rivalry of having a sibling. However the plot relies on a series of foolish decisions that I didn’t believe of two swamp kids while I thought the corporate skulduggery plot was resolved too neatly.

SWIMMING AGAINST THE STORM was released in the United Kingdom on 4th April 2019. Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.

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Kingdom Of Souls by Rena Barron
Boot by Shane Hegarty
Pretend You’re Safe by Alexandra Ivy
The Economics Of Arrival: Ideas For A Grown Up Economy by Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams
Halo Moon by Sharon Cohen
The Art Of Communication by Judy Apps
Places In The Darkness by Chris Brookmyre
There Is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee
The Land Of Roar by Jenny McLachlan
Unlocking Creativity by Michael A. Roberto
A Strange Kind Of Brave by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
The Scientific Method by Massimiliano Di Ventra
The Alice Encounter by John Gribbin
What Do We Know And What Should We Do About Immigration? by Jonathan Portes
The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
Chernobyl: History Of A Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything by Charles Conn and Robert McLean
The Taking Of Annie Thorne by C. J. Tudor
Afropean: Notes From Black Europe by Johny Pitts
Swimming Against The Storm by Jess Butterworth

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Kingdom Of Souls by Rena Barron

Boot by Shane Hegarty

Pretend You’re Safe by Alexandra Ivy

The Economics Of Arrival: Ideas For A Grown Up Economy by Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams

Halo Moon by Sharon Cohen

The Art Of Communication by Judy Apps

Places In The Darkness by Chris Brookmyre

There Is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee

The Land Of Roar by Jenny McLachlan

Unlocking Creativity by Michael A. Roberto

A Strange Kind Of Brave by Sarah Moore Fitzgerald

The Scientific Method by Massimiliano Di Ventra

The Alice Encounter by John Gribbin

What Do We Know And What Should We Do About Immigration? by Jonathan Portes

The Aunt Who Wouldn’t Die by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

Chernobyl: History Of A Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy

Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything by Charles Conn and Robert McLean

The Taking Of Annie Thorne by C. J. Tudor

Afropean: Notes From Black Europe by Johny Pitts

Swimming Against The Storm by Jess Butterworth