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'''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon BerkeleyOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)Allow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=Adrian Mole is now 39¼ and livingAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, quite literallythanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, in a pigsty, sharing an all too thin party wall with his parents and working in a bookshop. Itwhere she posted every step of Anuri's not quite how life was supposed to turn outchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. As he spends his days wrestling his strong willed 5 year old Gracie into Now Anuri is in her school uniform, twenties and she is slowly trying to reassure glamorous wife Daisy that life in the provinces is not as bad as she would like to believe, regain her confidence and desperately attempting to talk his mother out of get her quest to appear on the vile ''Jeremy Kyle'' showlife back, worrying over his increasingly frequent visits suing her step-mother to take down the toilet content about her. Anuri is really the last thing he needs. And yetbattling alcoholism, the worst is still failing to comestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Think a crumbling economy Most importantly, redundancyshe is desperately worried about her little sister, affairs, death, a family member challenging him in who is the novel writing stakes and a query over the big C – itnew focus of Ophelia's going to be a tough year for the Molesonline empire. Can she save her sister, and there's little that ol' Adrian can do except sit back perhaps herself and watch his life spin out of control around him.her relationship with her father at the same time?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718153707</amazonuk>0861546873
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lauren KateDavid Chadwick|title=FallenHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=A 17 year old girl at It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a new school meets few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a mysterious significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and impossibly good-looking boya defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, who shethere's immediately drawn tonot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. He seems determined to either ignore her or be outright rude to herLife is quiet, until he saves her life, and the two of them end up drawn together. This isn't Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similarities...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>B0D321VJ76
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Gareth HindsTom Percival|title=King LearThe Wrong Shoes|rating=35|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=Hound me out of town Will's life is difficult, in a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Learmultitude of ways. For meHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even as a trained actorthe most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the language is too dense and richcollege, the setwas working a cash-in-up too archly unfeasible to create hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the great tragedy itfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's thought to belife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. To my mind He is good at art, and clings to the acclaim and esteem in which it's held moments of joy when he is only mirrored by its own over-drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, over-blown blusteringdark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul TherouxSylvie Cathrall|title=A Dead Hand: A Crime in CalcuttaLetter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Set in India, familiar territory for Theroux, ''A Dead Hand'' tells the story of There are few greater joys than a travel writer suffering from writer's block (also known as 'dead hand') until a chance letter from an American ex-pat, the mysterious Mrs Unger, relating book which lives up to a story of a mystery of a dead body in a hotel leads him to release his creativity in very unexpected wayscompelling premise. The story And this is more about obsession and infatuation than it is about the mystery itself as the narrator falls under Mrs Unger's Tantric charmsone of them. But does she have more to hide than she's letting on?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0241144639</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Lester0008517061|title=The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest Map|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=In 2003 a map was bought for $10 million, the highest price ever paid publicly for a historical document, by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public display. No ordinary map, this is sometimes described as America's birth certificate. It is the sole survivor of a thousand copies printed early in the 16th century, and was discovered by accident in some archives Death in a German castle in 1901. The sale and story behind it intrigued Toby Lester so much that he was inspired to discover more, and this book is the result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861978030</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewLonely Place|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur |title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Stanton|title=What's For Dinner, Mr Gum?|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=As soon as heroine Polly turns her back, and leaves the town of Lamonic Bibber for a day at the seaside, Mr Gum falls out with his best friend, causing carnivorous carnage all over the place. Meat is getting thrown around like it's going out of fashion, and we have to doubt whether Polly and her companions can ever utilise the power of love and put things to rights. Especially as this book does not contain a magic unicorn called Elizabeth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405248246</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Loose Women|title=Here Come the GirlsStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=This is the second volume by the panelists from that nice ITV seriesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, ''Loose Women''has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Just as promised on There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the coverfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, this book is an entertaining night with the girls. It turns out that they're just like us. The faces are already familiar Livia and even if you don't know them yether daughter Diana, with nine contributors, you'll soon find as moving in together would mean a like-minded woman behind one lot of the celebrity faces. The women are universally warmcompromise: does Jake give up his off-hearted grid and supportive: there will be many a lonely woman who reads relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this book and feels as if is the future she sat down with a group of friends wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the eveningpresent and putting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure1786482126|title=Fortune CookieThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Fudge Cassidy and Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the Cupcake kid are best friends. If site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the names remind you bones of a certain film then you'd be spot on as that's where Fudge's father got the idea fromchild beneath a doorway. They're actually chalk and cheese – Fudge is loud mouthed and opinionated and Cupcake is quiet and thoughtful – but the combination worksThere was no skull. They've just started at secondary school and Cupcake has rather Was this a lot on her plate. ritual killing or murder? Her brother Joey has muscular dystrophy and his problems are becoming more obviousInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Add to this that her father couldnIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't cope , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the problems and he now has another familyone night they spent together some three months ago. It's just CupcakeHer condition will be obvious before long, Joey and her mother – and not a lot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of moneysickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007224621</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenifer Roberts0008551324|title=The Madness of Queen Maria: The Remarkable Life of Maria I of PortugalDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Born in 1734 in Lisbon, at that time It's unusual for anyone from the richest and most opulent city in Europe, Maria was destined Hardie family to become approach the first female monarch in Portuguese historypolice. Married Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her uncle Infante Pedro, seventeen years her seniordeath. This person, she had six children (outliving all but one of them)he promises, is someone big and became Queen in 1777it will be worth the police doing what he wants. A conscientious woman, she had the misfortune And what he wants is to be born in during transferred to an open prison to serve the 'age remainder of reason', when church his sentence and state were vying for supremacyto get an early parole date. Instinctively a supporter of the old religion, with a humanitarian approach Not much to state affairsask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she was no Queen Elizabeth, no Catherine 's even prepared to do the Great, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and wore her crown rather reluctantlyanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095455891X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hughes0008405026|title=Thomas Wogan is DeadA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=Well, with a title like that, need I bother with a plot summary? A man has a day out in Morecambe, then the next thing he knows heIt's in sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the ultimate waiting room, with investigation ground to a strange array of animals (a bathalt. Now, a toadher mother, a sea urchin...)Helena, all waiting forand her father are dead in their bed... well Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's somethingabout the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Yup, What looked as you didnthough it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't need telling, hes disappearance: others (such as Derwent's deadboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Eggers0571379877|title=The Wild ThingsKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet MaxEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. When I say he sometimes gets the wrong end of the stick about adults, or dislikes his motherRobert's a theatre director. He's new boyfriendalso self-obsessed, demanding, or gets a bit feisty when he feels the need handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for revenge, I am certainly understating the factshim. He is a bit of a rascal Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to say the leastRobert. But all Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that might change when a relationship had begun between them but he finds himself travelling 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a strange land of roisterous animals, and ends up installed as their kingdark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144221</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jeremy StrongJo Callaghan|title=Christmas Chaos for the Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog Leave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Trevor's troublesome dogWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, StreakerDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, has had three puppiesthe AI detective Lock. They were fathered It's their first live case together, according to local bully Charlie Smugg, by one of his Alsatianshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. Trevor would ideally like to keep them, at least until ChristmasBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, but his parents have other ideas Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and put them up for salea very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Charlie Smugg declares that he's entitled to half of the money from the sale of the puppies, but before Will they can be sold able to solve the three puppies go missing case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the park case and it's up to Trevor and his best friend Tina to try and track them down before Charlie demands his cash!, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141327243</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Beth Durst1399613073|title=Ice|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Cassie lives on an Arctic research station in Alaska. She loves the ice and the wilderness of her remote home and she'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanks. However, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote and unloving and her grandmother left the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very young. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMoral Injuries|author=Iain Smyth and Michael Terry|title=The Wide-Mouthed FrogChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Do you know the joke about the wide-mouthed frog? You must have heard it. It's a classic. It's one that you really need to tell in person, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide open, but to hopefully spark your memoryOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a number quarter of animals until he finally comes across a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogscentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and the frog does his best to disguise who he which is whilst saying ''Ooh, a bonus when you don't see many of those round here, do you?'' I'm hardly doing it justice, but it's very cheesy and funnyaim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Anyway, this Laura is a book of that joke.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dr Aaron Carroll perfectionist and Dr Rachel Vreeman|title=Don't Swallow Your Gum|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary='''BANG'''a trauma doctor. That's Anjali is the sound free spirit of copious urban myths being shot downthe group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it''BANG'''s going to end in tragedy. ThatWe don's the sound of t know who suffered the old wives slamming tragedy or the door, as their tales get revealed as baselessconsequences. '''CLICK'''Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. ThatThis time, it's the noise lots of ill-informed websites make as they get closed down. All noises come due to this brilliant booktheir teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie Taylor0241636604|title=VioletThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Violet is If you were to bring up an image of a very special hippocity banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is extremely small but that does not make her adoptive parents Albert and Mavis love her any the less. HoweverEast End, where he was familiar with violence, they are slightly worried that Violet has a very unusual habit of turning pink without warning poverty and for injustice. There was no explicable reasonposh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906847371</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hilary Dixon|title=When Rooks Speak of Love|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Arthur Transcombe Stevenson is a middlebright -aged, greyextremely bright -haired, self-effacing poetand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Unremarkable really - on the outsideHe also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. He hasIt was his ability at what was, howeveressentially, managed to achieve some success a card game which got him an internship with his poemsCitibank. (Being Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a guest speaker at the Cheltenham Literary Festival is no mean feat)trader. He is also a babe magnet!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A J Healy1035021803|title=Tommy Storm and the Galactic KnightsThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Tommy StormIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe's one back now because of five teenagers snapped up from around the universe to be a gang of heroic detectives charged with rescuing EVERYTHING request for help from destructionher beloved aunt, Carole. Not just the planetFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, or is dead and the solar systemcircumstances seem suspicious, or even to say the galaxy, but EVERYTHINGleast. Nobody seems Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to know what's going to cause this destructionthe village: Arthur, she feels, or whenlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but he and his friends and their ship seem she has not felt able to be near the only people proactively going about saving man or pursue the dayprofession she loved. So it's After the split, she worked in a pity that they start this book strung up by a nasty loony cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who's about to kill themwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847247555</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover
|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard Jay ParkerSunny Singh|title=Stop MeHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Spam E-Mails can be incredibly annoying, but most of us will have had to deal with themThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. FortunatelyHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, we can hit the delete button and forget about them as quickly as they camehotel manager. I certainly prefer not As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to torture my friends be cowed by sending such rubbish events, and keeps on, no matter how bad my luck is supposed venturing out of her room to try to become if I doncapture what'ts happened through her photography. But I wonder how many of us would react if a spam E-Mail actually was a matter of life Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and death, rather than just claiming they both wait to see if they will be?rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749007079</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeanette Winterson1529153298|title=The Battle List of the SunSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=London 1601It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Elizabeth (A woman? I is getting on in yearsmean, honestly. Her capital city is a busy, bustling place. Boats fill the river and people fill the streets. Jack is happy because it) She's not what's his birthday and his present is his heartworrying Miv's desire: an excitable black puppy named Maxfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, whobut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's a overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you'licking and re from Yorkshire, Down South is a running and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the air and a tail wagging and a barkingmove would mean leaving her best friend, racingSharon, braking, spinning energy dog of delightand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure1398524085|title=Love and Kisses|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tamsin and Katie were just thirteen and worried that they were boring. They'd been best friends since forever and were the good girls. Neither missed school, skipped her homework nor had boyfriends. Well, that is, not so far. Up until then Tamsin had been the boffin head – consistently strong academically and looking forward to going on to university. All that seemed to change when she met Alex. Well, when I say 'met' I should perhaps clarify and say that Alex pushed his wheelbarrow into her, from the building site where he worked. Oh, and did I mention that he was seventeen, Polish and spoke very little EnglishHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007281722</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Henry Mintzberg|title=ManagingNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support to a vulnerable gang-rape victimCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to the courthouse on the day she is due to testify against the notorious Harbourn brothers. But when Anya arrives at the house she finds Giverny close to death Paul and Ollie and faces a battle against time to save herdaughter, Etty. In the panicare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, Anya fails to take note of an important clue which might help tell whether it really was suicide or a cleverly staged murderis not. Worse still Shortly afterwards, in trying to save Etty and Greg, find the girlbody of Greg's lifefather, Anya has interfered with a crime scene and Duncan Ackerley, in the case falls apartriver. She blames herself It was an easy assumption for the Harbourn brothers being allowed police to walk free make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and only hours later then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there is news of another attack. A pair of sisters have been stabbed 's little else they can do but get on with their lives and raped resulting in the death of one, while the other clings to lifewonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah Fleming1035906708|title=Remembrance DayDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=In the year 2000 an old lady in a wheelchair watches the unveiling We tend to think of the new war memorial Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in the village square. There's pride in what has been achievedManhattan, New York, in the family who are gathered around her December 1923 and there are memories tooonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Some are good Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but many are not.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561039</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neal Layton|title=Surfher father changed it to 'Callas's Up (Mammoth Academy)|rating=3to make it more manageable in the States.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Having successfully seen off the rather unpleasant humans When she was back in earlier volumes, our favourite junior mammoths Oscar and Arabella have nothing much else to do apart from return to Mammoth Academy Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for lots more double periods of Difficult Sums. They're supposed to be making presentations about what they did during her voice - she was raised under the holidays too, but Oscar hasn't done any preparation Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her andmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, frankly, he can't really remember what he actually did do with all that free time other than no Difficult SumsJackie. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>034098967X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Ursula Jones and Sarah GibbChristopher Edge|title=The Princess Who Had No KingdomBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The princess who has no kingdom wanders around Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a cart pulled by her horse Prettyplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. She All big movie fans, they's very politere looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, friendlymany snacks! However, and kind-heartedas the movie starts, but she feels like they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is lacking because she doesnvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't have a kingdom of her owneven imagine. The other royals she meets treat her nicely enough But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, but there's always a feeling that she's not quite as good as them because she isn't can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the princess of anywhere.cinema, and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick BlandJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Very Cranky BearPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Moose, Lion, Zebra and Sheep head into Things have been a cave to get out of bit sticky for the rainEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, but little often replacing jobs they're paid to do they know and other tasks that Bear is fast asleep in theretook time to accomplish. When Just as they wake him upwere beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, he roars at them, chasing them outsidenew ways to spend time, so they decide to cheer him up somehowalong came an awful pandemic. Zebra paints stripes on him, Moose fashions antlers for him Life was pretty much shut down and Lion sticks a mane of straw on him. Unsurprisingly, this makes Bear even crankieralong with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so it's down to Sheep to save the day..heavily.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340989424</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kes Gray and Lee WildishMatthew Tree|title=Mum and Dad GlueWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=A young boy's parents are splitting up. He's going through the usual emotions that children Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of divorce go through: worry, feeling unsure, blaming himself, anger, denial, his artistic passions all failed miserably and then trying to get them to stay togetherwho had endless crises of self confidence. His method for this isn't the usual response though: he looks for glue So Tim applied himself to stick his mum and dad together. Thankfullystudies, he finds some wise cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and kindly advice in the processset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340957107</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Clara VulliamyA G Slatter|title=The Bear With Sticky Paws Won't Go To Bed|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's Pearl's bedtime, but she says she's really busy and isn't going to sleep. She just wants to play and play and play. When the bear with sticky paws rings Briar Book of the doorbell, he whisks her away on an amazing adventure - although as you might expect, the bear has a little more energy than Pearl and eventually she does get a little sleepy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408300648</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stephen Mackey|title=Miki|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It's cold, dark and icy, and Miki and Penguin are trudging through the snow. But it's Midwinter Eve, when wishes come true. They wish for a tree, lights, someone strong to power the lights, and finally a star that will shine brightly forever. Miki is taken deep below the ice to find the star, whilst up top Penguin and new friend Polar Bear start to worry about her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034095065X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Kristin Cashore|title=FireDead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Possessed '' There's a part of great beauty, the kind me that drives men mad, Fire is used wants to people trying keep this just to kill hermyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. She isn't used I just want to them doing enjoy it by accident. When for a poacher in the woods outside her home accidentally shoots her, Fire is hard pressed to keep the temperamental Lord Archer from killing himwhile. But as sure as Fire is the man did not mean to cause her harm, she is made unsure by the strange fog that exists in the man's mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905200129</amazonuk>}}'
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jose Saramago 1529900360|title=Small MemoriesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
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|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Having It hadn't been born in 1922 and lived through so much of the twentieth century, with an authorLt Milo Sturgis's view of change fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and peopleeven after Alex recovered, Jose Saramago has certainly experienced a lotSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Civil Wars in the neighbouring Spain; His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the growth help of his country - which still left a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it as western Europewas Robin, Delaware's poorestpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Here he allows us witness to his mind drifting through his childhoodShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the country and swimming pool of a remote property in Lisbon, Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and provides a subtle she is married to an extremely rich man and gentle memoirit's not the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184655148X</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eoin Colfer1529395224|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to Letting the Cat Out of the GalaxyBag: Part Six The Secret Life of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Of all the big books announced for this year, this one must have raised more eyebrows than manySiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Why try His father was a GP and write a new HitchhikerRowlands didn's Guide t want to the Galaxy bookfollow in his footsteps, particularly when way before he considered the endstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, its creator Douglas Adams he was proving quite hopeless at such a task? Liverpool University. And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when the originals It hadn't - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchett, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident so many students - Colfer is been his dream since he was a world-beater when it comes child. If anything, he'd wanted to knocking up be a storyprofessional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harlan Coben0861541774|title=Tell No OneA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I've been meaning to get around to reading some or all of Harlan CobenDCI Domenic Jejeune's workclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, because if the reviews are has taken a short holiday in Singapore to be believed and you are meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a fan of the 'Bloody Knife /Blunt Instrument' thriller, the man is quite simply not capable of turning out armed with a knife - and he killed a duff novelGhurka. But you know how it isInitially, what with one thing and another and he faced a bulging pile charge of books manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be read facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and reviewed, I just somehow hadnwouldn't managed to give him my full attention. Until nowhelp Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409117022</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John Peel and Sheila RavenscroftAlexander McCall Smith|title=Margrave of the MarshesThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=EntertainmentGeneral Fiction|summary=John Peel was without doubt one of the most important disc jockeys of all time. Born in Merseyside The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in 1939Edinburgh, he began his career in mid-60s America before returning home run by Ness and operating as an alternative to join Radio London and then become one of all the original Radio 1 teamonline apps in providing a more personal, where he stayed until his death 37 years latertailored service. I admired Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the man business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for his passion for playing the music nobody else would give the time a while. Katie is coming out of day (even if I didn't always enjoy it myself) a break up with a bad boyfriend, and his readiness so jumps at the chance to come home to say exactly what he thoughtEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, even if it was not what his employers at the BBC wanted bringing us to hearan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and I always enjoyed reading his columns in the music weeklies and later Radio TimesIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Nevertheless I found much of his show unlistenable towards the endKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, recall some of his rather curmudgeonly remarks on air (guest slots on Radio 1and there's Round Table review programme come to mindalways her very helpful (and rather handsome)neighbour, and thought his build-'em-upWilliam, knock-'em-down stance rather irritating after to lend a while. So I approached this book with an open mind as a fan, but not an uncritical one.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552551198</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez 0811771741|title=Perfumes: The A - Z GuideInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrafts|summary=Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. The only thing that could be conceivably better than reading Melissa Leapman's ''PerfumesInstaKnits for Baby'' would gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be to read it while sampling quick knits - others are of the scents it reviews'long, but even without cosy afternoons in front of the olfactory component, fire'variety. The projects are divided by the time they'Perfumesll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' is a delight: Turin (a lyrical scientist) and Sanchez (an analytically enthusiastic collector) not only treat perfume creation as high art, but turn perfume criticism into an art form (or at least a sophisticated genre of writing) toothat's me being picky. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681278</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=David Malouf Dean Koontz|title=RansomThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=Taking Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his theme from house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a small part of Homerreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's Iliad, Malouf tells possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the story of the king of Troything that has trashed his house! The thing is, Priam's grief-stricken voyage into Benny is the Greek camp very last person to ransom Troy's wealth deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the body of delivery to his fallen sonhouse is a new friend, Hector, killed by the equally grief-stricken Achilles whose great a bad weather friend Hector had killed in battle before Achilles took his cruel revenge. Malouf tells the story in sparsecalled Spike, yet lyrical and poetic fashion suggesting the personal stories behind the epic themes that Homer relatedwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. It Spike is an exquisitely written piece managing going to be both deeply moving as well as take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a great piece of story tellingwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701184159</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven M GillonAdam Stower|title=The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours AfterMurray and Bun
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|genre=HistoryConfident Readers |summary=The assassination of President Kennedy came at Murray is supposed to be a pivotal moment in my life humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and for more than forty years I've read most sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of what has been written about the eventtwo. ItBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been of variable qualityturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, but and the books fed catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the curiosity regular back garden, but into a world of people entranced by the charismatic young President who died so publiclyfrightening adventure and whiffs. I'd come to the point of wondering if there This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was anything new , to be saidhonest, but Stephen Gillom has looked at what happened from an unusual he's turned up and largely overlooked angle – the first twenty four hours of Lyndon Johnsonhe's Presidency.ll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>046501870X</amazonuk>0008561249
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