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|isbn=1737030942152919640X|title=Bag OThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It'Goodiess their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jolly Walker BittickAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre= AnthologiesConfident Readers|summary=SometimesAround here, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittickwe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The 'Bag O'GoodiesChildish Spirits''series is one of his greatest achievements. I first encountered his writing about It's a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a rollicking tale of what happens when five stalwart young men find a base for their partying. Right nowgirl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse spoiled lordling and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosJenny Valentine|title=SeedUs in the Before and After

|summary=Marty has two parental figures Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his lifeworld, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotmenthealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and manages race to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing big bad and hasn't left the building in years she has still managed to fill it to points they grant you along the brim with junkway. What Marty Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looksseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyand a new trio of questors is needed. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and as he celebrates his birthday with has taken to the gift goading from the token bully of his grandfather of world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a solitary plant seedteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15290776641839945184

|author=Sophie CameronSaima Mir|title=Our SisterVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Againbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-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 in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother 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 them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's 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 Napalm

|summary=After IslaWill's older sister Flora dieslife is difficult, her family struggle to find in a way forwardmultitude of ways. In particular, Isla He is bullied because he has 's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mumthe wrong shoes's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able to help. But actually, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer he has the family wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the chance to have Flora back againmost basic of things like food, in robot form. But this wonand his dad can't just be work because he lost his job at the college, was working a lookcash-in-hand job on a-likebuilding site and had an accident. They use all of Flora Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's online historylife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, and interviews with family and friendshe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean for clings to the familymoments of joy when he is drawing, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora that feel like a light at all?the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17889539161398527122

|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=13985075041786482126|title=Cold ReckoningThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Russ ThomasElly Griffiths

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the last sixteen years hesite was going to hold seventy-five 's been searching for evidence to prove that heluxury's right. When apartments - when they discovered the bones of a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to child beneath a cold case from 2002doorway. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DI Richard TylerDCI Harry Nelson. It's death difficult as Ruth knows, but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's child as a growing sense that the criminality result of Det Supt Stevens is going to be brought out into the openone night they spent together some three months ago. Perhaps Tyler Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going prone to get the answers he needs?sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=07278505470008551324|title=Blind Justice The Devil You Know (DS McAvoy 10D S Max Craigie)|author=David MarkNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time s unusual for breakfast when anyone from the call came throughHardie family to approach the police. A body had been found Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the roots police where the body of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. When This person, he gets to the scenepromises, he is someone big and it will find be worth the police doing what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedwants. A young man's corpse And what he wants is entangled with to be transferred to an open prison to serve the roots remainder of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – his sentence and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesto get an early parole date. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. Not much to ask, is it? McAvoy makes a promise The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at a cost other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and this time the cost might be to McAvoyanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's own familyhappening.

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire0008405026|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Early comments on this debut novel It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delighther bed one summer night. I will agree with She was never found and the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'investigation ground to a delight' is perhaps using the expression halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a way Istraightforward murder/suicide but there'm not familiar withs something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. I have What looked as though it was going to confess my ignorance of the Spanishbe an open-and-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereshut case is now a complex double murder. From Kerrigan is convinced that the little I have read explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (in translationsuch as Derwent's boss, I don't read SpanishUna Burt) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismare less convinced. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0571379877|title= Rebel SkiesThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Edward Jevons is a servant on the Midoriworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink Robert and make merry between their conquestsStanza. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – Robert's a power sought after all across the Empiretheatre director. He asks her 's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to come with run errands for him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she . Edward has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say been in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, love with Stanza since their university days - and she is forced he's drunkenly confided how he feels to flee out into the worldRobert. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a sky-ship whose express purpose relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to hunt down shikigami, and stumble upon the two of them kissing in a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590dark passageway.

|author=Patrice LawrenceJo Callaghan|title=NeedleLeave No Trace|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Brave. Charlene, When a man is found crucified on the 'heroine' top of this piece is extremely hard for some people a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to likethe case alongside her sidekick, characters and readers boththe AI detective Lock. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheIt's fostering their first live case together, having previously been very successful with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uniseveral cold cases. Such But when there is a tempestuous personality may be in need of second body found crucified a comfort blanketfew days later, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene Kat is suddenly struggling with a wonder knitter, potential serial killer and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with very high profile case that draws a store detective, and then force people lot of unwanted attention to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignoranttheir AI Future Policing project. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me Will they be able to saysolve the case in time, only to remark how sharp or will Kat find herself taken off the case and pointy those knitting needles can be..., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1800901011139851120X

|isbn=14059409801399613073|title=The BirdcageMoral Injuries|author=Eve ChaseChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=It's Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the 7th first day of January 2019 medical school and we know that their friendship would keep them inseparable for a body has been pulled out quarter of the sea at Zennor in Cornwalla century. We don't know whose body it Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which isa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat Laura is a perfectionist and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at a trauma doctor. Anjali is the request free spirit of their father, Charlie Finch, the group and she becomes a famous artistGP. The girls are actually ''half'When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-sisters fuelled party and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeit's going to end in tragedy. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelityWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty Twenty-five years ago, at later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisterstheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17876349060241636604|title=No Less the DevilThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Stuart MacBrideGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=WeIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're in Oldcastle unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and Malcolm his background is in troublethe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. He's in an abandoned house and There was no posh public school on his CV - but he's being threatened by two young peoplehad been to the London School of Economics. One Stevenson is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Deanbright - extremely bright -Edwards) and Hugohe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. It seems He also realised that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat most rich people expect poor people to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplebe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1035021803|title=ElektraThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It'Elektras twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She' by Jennifer Saint tells s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the story of three women who live in circumstances seem suspicious, to say the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greeceleast. Cassandra Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, Clytemnestrashe feels, and Elektra are all bit players let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the story of man or pursue the Trojan Warprofession she loved. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the silent women have rebound from the most compelling stories love of her life, who was murdered) and the most extreme furiesFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=1529149800AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Things You Can DoAll Tomorrow's Futures: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteFictions that Disrupt|author=Eduardo Garcia Benjamin Greenaway and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Home and FamilyScience Fiction|summary=We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the forest fire took hold and most shape of them stood and watched, unable things to think of anything they could docome. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. The animals laughed: what good was Well, I must confess that doingthere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm doing left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the best probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I can'm reading someone who knows what they', said re talking about or the hummingbirdlatest conspiracy theorist. And that, really, is the only I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might beI could understand.

|isbnauthor=1776574338Sunny Singh|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city, picking up children as he goesthat has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Children Hiding from the terrorists who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfectare rampaging through, killing everyone on site, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There there is Sam, a problemwartime photographer and Abhi, thoughthe hotel manager. Leilong isn't happy As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the city: hotel, he's always having forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be careful about where he puts his feet cowed by events, and – because hekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bus anymoreterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=303091657X1529153298|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonJennie Godfrey

|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders It's 1979 and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which Women have resulted in death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingbeen disappearing. Where were Well, they? 've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Occasionally Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a blind eyefrightening, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityforeign place, best avoided. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniaFor Miv, the South Sea Bubble move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and even tulip maniashe'll do anything to prevent that. Over three centuries we seem She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to have learned very littleanyone.

|isbn=15293379681398524085|title=In Place of FearHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Catriona McPhersonNicci French

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's July 1948 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - on the day that the NHS her husband, Alec, is bornnot. SheShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser s father, Duncan Ackerley, in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healththe river. The hardest part of It was an easy assumption for the job will be police to persuade people make that the services she offers really are free Duncan had murdered Charlie and that they donthen committed suicide when he couldn't have to do anything to qualify for themstand the guilt. Some of the problems will require delicate handling The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1035906708|title=GalaxyDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=SparkWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academybut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, barely makes in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it through a battle alivemore manageable in the States. His co When she was back in Athens -pilot was not supposedly so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little and is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under threat and he must. Returned the Nazi occupation by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - mother who mercilessly exploited her and not just from the alien threats against itmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, but also from its own sins against itselfJackie. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|author=Lissa EvansChristopher Edge|title=WishedBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=When things contrive to force Ed Lucas and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanfriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, Miss Filey, for a week place that has the nickname of half-term'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're not looking forward to it. For one thinglots of exciting films, and many, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuit. many snacks! They don't particularly take to Willard eitherHowever, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new kid next doorfilm format is very different, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywherethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But things soon change when as they find some tiny old birthday candleslurch from one film genre to the next, and manage to work can they figure out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. what on earth is going on? How will things change for a second time when Will they realise thatever get back to the cinema, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than themand to their real lives?|isbn=178845202X1839942738