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|author=Tori BovalinoJames Baldwin|title=The Devil Makes ThreeGiovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East
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|summary= Working all summer Written in her boarding schoolverse, this is Ronny's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets story, a request for over a hundred books that she young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to deliver herselfmove to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. What makes it worse The move is the man initiated by Ronny's mum who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding schoolis worried for Ronny's headmastersafety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a man Tess hates. As new town, a petty act of revenge for making her find new school, and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think keep himself out oftrouble. They're never meant He listens to reach himmusic constantly, and has always dreamed of coursebeing a rapper. Her plan is But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to get her anger out like thisbe part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would bepoetry, if someone hadn't delivered them for herand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=17890981300241645441
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61635866847|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)The Lavender Companion|author= Justine Avery Jessica Dunham and Seema AmjadTerry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary= It's strange, the things that make you 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'immediately'' feel that this is the latest release in the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'Everybody Potties!', I visited the author' series from Justine Averys [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. This series com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of fun picture books aims to take chocolate cake on the pain out of potty training children homepage. I don't eat cakes and replace it with some fundesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's a worthy aimrecipe in the book, as any frustrated parent will tell youwhich I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Jenny Valentine|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader Elk and she and her friend Mab are producing best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a competition entry to highlight the way once in which human beings exploit the animal worlda lifetime connection. She gets They meet as children one day on a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at Imperial Collegethe time. But then chance brings them back together, Londonand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, mother Kate something terrible and her twintragic, Nick. Kate runs the family businessand now they must work through their grief, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putneyand their friendship, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toystogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|authorisbn= Angharad Walker1787333175|title= The Ash HouseYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnI was tempted to read ''You Don't know his name, or why he Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is there but he is used Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the systemworkings of the NHS, used humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to different places and different facesbe Mad... He meets Dom who names him Sol '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and sets out to teach him the rules work of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmasterpsychiatrist. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever always delivered with empathy and The Ash House will never be the same againunderstanding.|isbn=1912626977
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|author=Yancey WilliamsOnyi Nwabineli|title=Crosshairs of the DevilAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=AwardAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is getting on in years her twenties and, despite his strenuous objections she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and thanks to his daughterget her life back, finds himself living suing her step- or imprisonedmother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from Eddiethem for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's point online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of view - Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's September 1973 in room 315 Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of the Garden a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of Eden nursing home, with only LA and Las Vegas both a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companysignificant drive away. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-Not much happens in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readersHicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, are his wanderings through his lifethere's worknot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn=0986031658B0D321VJ76}}
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|author=Philip ReeveTom Percival|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=In Will's life is difficult, in a word, richmultitude of ways. There He is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildseabullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', British but way west, beyond he has the Scillies. There are troll people on it, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch doesn't have enough money for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watchermost basic of things like food, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Hidden Landscollege, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science was working a cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsmum and dad are separated, and AndreweWill's foundling daughterlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, who washed up out he still has a tiny amount of the sea one day eleven years agohope. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself He is good at art, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into clings to the world moments of protecting their islandjoy when he is drawing, that feel like it or nota light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17884523721398527122
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|author=Erling KaggeSylvie Cathrall|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeLetter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre= LifestyleScience Fiction|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved There are few greater joys than a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology which lives up to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minea compelling premise. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of And this type is one of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you whyDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeErligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked |summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit bones of Everesta child beneath a doorway. He knows a thing or two about walking There was no skull. However, Was this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeysritual killing or murder? Inevitably, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walkDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I havens difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't counted. In small format paperback, each essay that she is only pregnant with his child as a few pages result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long. Perhaps then, better thought not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of as a meditation rather than an essaysickness.|isbn=0241357705
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|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultJoan Didion|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Year of Magical Thinking
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|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for heThis book is Joan Didion's a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out heartbreaking autobiographical account of his sight. Thatthe grief she endured following her husband's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and look what happened necessary resource to her – she diedhelp people feel less alone. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death, a dwarfish wizardlike self-type will make him an apprentice monster hunterpity, denial and he'll be given delusion and makes them utterly normal, lends them a book that tells him all he needs human face to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''..wear.|isbn=07555019420007216858
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|author=Keith GrayAlba de Cespedes |title=The ClimbersForbidden Notebook
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Sully is This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kidmoment our protagonist, called NottinghamValeria Cossati, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatenedpurchases her forbidden notebook, and not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree learns about herself in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his handsmost intimate and revealing ways. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=17811299911782278222
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|author=Emma CarrollOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Week at World's EndMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=43|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=First, the title. We're in World's End CloseAt best, this novel is a mediocre set scathing critique of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog modern society and with reveals the boy over the road. But we could also be fragility of human relationships; at World's Endworst, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis it is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshorecynical, predictable and not much else is able to make the newsslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. That said, Vie has news of her own – AnnaThis unlikely heroine, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna hasslim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind her twenties is disillusioned with the Closeworld, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed but resolves not to leavelose sleep over it: in fact, and implied her life was at risksolution lies in her hibernation. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=05713644381784707422
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|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston0008551324|title=Julia and the SharkThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for a summer, the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the far NE police where the body of the Scottish islandsa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Here This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be Vikings, that kind of Scottish islandworth the police doing what he wants. Dad And what he wants is going to be automating transferred to an open prison to serve the lantern, which is remainder of his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind sentence and to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkget an early parole date. And Julia, wellNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she will be homesick 's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1510107789
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson1739526910|title=The Last LibraryWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5
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|summary=I am always ''One year after a little nervous suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to start a story about a library, since I am a librarianrecover. I always grit my teeth slightly Living with an unexpected housemate at the thought his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she reconnecting with everything he has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! lost. But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the windowas those tentative plans falter, because I found I was interested he becomes swept up in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sicklocal world of unlikely friendships, June gave up on going to University mobile discos and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local librarysurprising romantic possibilities. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X
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|isbn=00083709820008405026|title=Rock Paper ScissorsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Alice FeeneyJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Amelia Wright is fortyIt's sixteen years since nine-year-two old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her investigation ground to a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotlandhalt. Her husbandNow, Adamher mother, isn't so keen on the ideaHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. Like AmeliaInitially, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's it looks like a screenwriter and hestraightforward murder/suicide but there's never shy something about the positioning of making it clear to Amelia the bodies that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and herboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been What looked as though it was going to be an open- and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, -shut case is never easynow a complex double murder. Still - sheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's won the weekend awayboss, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days laterUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|author=Doug JohnstoneJo Callaghan|title=The Great SilenceLeave No Trace
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|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across When a man is found crucified on the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis top of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory hill in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creatureNuneaton, though it sounds as though it ought DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to bethe case alongside her sidekick, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakersAI detective Lock. Undertakers and private investigators It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Dorothy But when there is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instincta second body found crucified a few days later, she married Kat is suddenly struggling with a scot potential serial killer and ended up helping a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to run solve the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the family for generations. Recently widowed case and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46potentially, is haunted by her still-living husband – out of a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.career?|isbn=1913193837139851120X
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|isbn=19015149781529077745|title=There's a Problem With DadThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Carlos AlbaAnn Cleeves
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Life is different A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for George Lovelace and he can't really understand whytroubled teens. He's always done everything he ought The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to: steady worker, husband and father - and work a father shift the night before but who was always there for school plays and sports dayshad never turned up. So why D I Vera Stanhope is he never quite called in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why to investigate the murder - but her only clue is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breaththe disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-taking gaffes? old Chloe Spencer. It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest Some people believe that someone who is a little different is 'on Chloe was responsible for the spectrum', death but George Lovelace has all Vera thinks this is unlikely as the symptoms of Aspergergirl's Syndrome: high-functioning autismdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.
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|authorisbn=Louise Candlish1399613073|title=The HeightsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first dayof medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She's on site Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, visiting which is a bonus when you aim to be a client for cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a lighting consultation when trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she spies him becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in a building across the waytragedy. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn We don't one Ellen expected that day know who suffered the tragedy or in fact any other daythe consequences. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two Twenty-five yearslater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1471183483
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|isbn=00084217140241636604|title=Mrs MarchThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Virginia FeitoGary Stevenson
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|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=The problem began just after the publication If you were to bring up an image of George Marcha city banker in your mind, you's most successful novel re unlikely to datethink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on A hoodie and jeans replaces the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to pin-stripe suit and his background is the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningEast End, Patricia askedwhere he was familiar with violence, as she poverty and injustice. There was wrapping the bread, ''no posh public school on his CV - but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is been to the whore London School of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchEconomics.''}}{{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He Stevenson is selfbright -defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sadextremely bright -sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, and he has a girl who hangs around facility with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-numbers which most of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingus can only envy. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – He also realised that all have two very different connections most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his lifeability at what was, and you have something that suggests essentially, a card game which got him an almost farcical approach to the modern worldinternship with Citibank. What suggests the farcical approach even more Eventually, however, is the fact this is bloody funnyturned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=0857526219
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|isbn=0241989094B0DB64PYV5|title=The Perfect LifeWhite Rose|author=Nuala EllwoodDave Baines
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children2033, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them. It's superstorm known as the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter White Rose devastates the same young woman, only this time sheNorthern Hemisphere. And it's job hunting and living in her sisternot a storm that gathers, Georgie'swreaks havoc, spare roomthen dissipates. Instead, where she's been since she broke up it hovers across half the Earth with her boyfriendits octopus-like tentacles, Connornot giving up and never going away.
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|author=Darren ShanLeanne Egan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Lover Birds
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptWhen new girl, from which the Departed communicate with the MergeIsabel, Archie now has moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel'grop'' to think abouts disdain for everything around her. But before that A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, soirees. Soirees! Archiebut Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, much to Inezand that's amusementdefinitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, doesnisn't even know what one of those it? Because Lou is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathedstraight, even after an uncomfortable encounter isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with Kurtisboys have gone very well so far, whose fledgling romance and she's never had a good kiss with Inez was crushed in the first volume any of this series. them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=B093J9TF73000862657X
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|isbn=B07GZ81J7C1009473085|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Peter CottonAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingPolitics and Society|summary=Meet FredSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Well, actually, If you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred looking for reasons an easy read which will become all too obvious very quickly. But Ideliver the inside story about what ''really'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the familyhappened on certain occasions, to then this isn't the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out book for a walkyou. And If that was where the problem started. Fred didn's what you're looking for, I don't have any road sense. Or brakes.}}think Anthony Seldon's book, {{Frontpageamazonurl|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaB0BH7SKG2S|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Can potty training ever Johnson at 10}}, can be joyous? bettered for those tumultuous years. It often isn't, as any parent will tell yous a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. But really, why shouldn ''The Conservative Effect''t it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are smallis an entirely different beast. Why shouldn It't potty training be as much fun s the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this asthe most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, say, learning about why the sun changes that occurred and the moon take turns situation in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHH2024.
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|isbnauthor=1787634493Max Boucherat|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the opportunity would arise for her sonhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Milobabysitter poorly, to go on a play date. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends mother at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in work, just an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob avidly rule- and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could be betterpossibly go wrong? OnlySnuggled in a blanket fort, when Marissa arrived at the houseshe has one main intention, expecting and that is to log on to meet Jacob's mother, JennyVoxminer, the door was answered by Estherworld-building, who didncritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori't know Jenny or Jacobs world. The phone number But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she'd been given for Jenny was not recognisedfinds something even more spooky. Milo had disappearedFor the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. And so had Jenny's nanny.When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482
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|author=Claire NorthJenny Lecoat|title=Notes from the Burning AgeBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the Burning Agewar, Jean'' by Claire North is s father was arrested for listening to a spy thriller, with as many double crossesbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, interrogations leaving Jean and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingher mother waiting for years for news of him. However, as with As the British finally free the Channel islands from the best novelsNazis, it wears many masks and its most affecting one the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a new and timely genre, cli-firelief, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, informer who told the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter Nazis about the cost to radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the Earth.occupation?|isbn=03565147571846976537
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|authorisbn=1529428289|title=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb A Grave in the Woods (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=Girls Who LieMartin Walker|rating=34|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You might be forgiven Because of various property transactions, people were searching for thinking that all the dark corners grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowbones. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, They dated back to World War II and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityfell to Bruno, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims Chief of Police for the usual small-town feelSt Denis, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with discover the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for identities of the girl back, bodies and establish whether or not a couple of delighted adopterscrime had been committed. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanAs if this isn's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six monthst enough to worry about, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyflowing at record levels. Is It's not just the assumption local autumn rains that is so easy for have caused the reader problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to make release water and St Denis faces the right one?|isbn=191319373Xpossibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=B0925KS87N152919640X|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)The Suspect|author=Neil LancasterRob Rinder|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemeteryseems that there's only one suspect. It was a strange thing for ScotlandHe's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and there were things his contract stated that he wanted must not serve anything containing miso to doJessica Holby. Only, his family didnShe't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - the one which said that it shouldn't as normal as they can be opened in a busy, live television studio - and his three sons began Brooks served a ragout to worryHolby. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go Her EpiPen was nowhere to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been be found and they were worriedshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley0008385068|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General FictionMidnight Feast|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, itIt's hard to read midsummer on the words Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It'Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''thats all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street Her husband, thoughOwen, Arlo was the architect and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one work is still ongoing on parts of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earliersite. They're not quite like all The heat is oppressive and amongst the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some guests are enemies as well as friends and their kids have . Old scores are going to be settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isnwon't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, be long before a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst body is yet to comefound.|isbn=1789098211
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|author=Lisa ThompsonRob Keeley|title=The Small ThingsChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolAround here, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family donwe're big fans of children't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirss author Rob Keeley. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so canHe't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using s a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge ball of making friends with someone through a robothappy positivity, he understands children, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics he writes for their pleasure and Society|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is enjoyment, not to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterpartslecture or hector...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
The ''Childish Spirits''0series is one of his greatest achievements.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study It's a book by a writer sequence of colour while only 7% study a book by ghost stories centring on Ellie, a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother stalwart young girl who came first, can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For OteghaEdward, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London spoiled lordling and then a place at New College, Oxford.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|isbnauthor=1787631869Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet KateKit. Like most of the people in his world, although I got it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the impression she'd rather be sport where a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolteam of warrior, mage and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionhealer enter specially prepared, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky fathercentury-old, that bookmagical mazes, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride race to the Arcticexit, to see her scientist mother for perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the first time in yonksway. HoweverUnfortunately for Kit, this the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is a train ride with a differencethat one team has been retired, eaten, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyesnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, shining he has taken to the goading from the darkness in a blink-token bully of his world and-youstumbled into declaring he'llenter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-missfree-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=184812970X1839945184
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