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Monthly Online Book Review and Listings Magazine ~ July 2009
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Coming in June: TIM LEBBON: THE ISLAND (Allison and Busby HB) Kel Boon thinks he has managed to escape his past as an agent in the secret organization the Core, protecting the blissfully unaware Noreelans from the threat of the lizard-like Strangers - creatures from beyond the known world capable of untold destruction. In the sleepy fishing village of Pavmouth Breaks, Kel has become the woodcarver, leaving fighting behind and forming a tentative relationship with trainee witch Namior. But a storm is brewing and at its center the witches sense something dark, and deadly. What follows in the wake of the storm threatens the Noreelans' very way of life, forcing them to face the fact that life exists beyond the shores of Noreela, and not all of it is friendly. With the people and land he loves in terrible danger, Kel quickly realizes that he cannot escape his past, or his destiny.
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CELIA REES: SOVAY (Bloomsbury PB) Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution and its impact on British
politics, this action-driven novel shows once again that Celia Rees is one of
our very best writers for teenage readers. Wild and beautiful, spoilt and
wilful, Sovay finds that her cosseted life in rural England has not prepared her
for life as a highway robber, for defending the honor of her family or for
trying to save herself from corruption and evil. As Sovay becomes more and more
embroiled in adventures she could scarcely have imagined, a story of dark
intrigue, thwarted passions and sinister intentions is revealed to her. Will she
be able to survive, and if she does so, at what cost?
MARY BEARD: POMPEII - THE LIFE OF A ROMAN TOWN (Profile Books PB) The headings of Mary Beard’s notes give a taste of this astonishing book: Bad
Breath, Intestinal Parasites, Performing Monkeys, One-way Streets, Kosher Food,
Water Shortages. The Temple of Isis serves to bring in multiculturalism. The
House of the Menander tells how a house worked. At the Suburban Baths we go from
communal bathing to hygiene to erotica. 154 writing tablets from the House of
Caecilius Jucundus detail the accounts of its owner. A fast-food joint on the
Via dell’ Abbondanza introduces food and drink and diets and street life. These
are just a few of the strands that make up an extraordinary and involving
portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by
Britain’s leading classicist.
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