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|isbn=B09XZMCDVF152919640X|title=StoriesThe 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's 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=Ashley 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: 13 tantalising tales//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=Richard F WalkerRob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle s author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when happy positivity, he understands children, and he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler writes for correct grammar goes back in time their pleasure and enjoyment, not to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…''lecture or hector.

This collection The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of thirteen short his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories by Richard F Walker has centring on Ellie, a lot to offer stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable spirit world throws at her, and strangeEdward, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form a spoiled lordling and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure what's coming next.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1800901232Jenny Valentine|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeUs in the Before and After

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happyElk and Mab are best friends, if not prosperousor more than that even, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn their friendship is a job once in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be misseda lifetime connection. Some money changed hands and Hanh was They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the mini-bus to Hanoitime. OnlyBut then chance brings them back together, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryare inseparable. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery Something has happened though, something terrible and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips tragic, and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh now they must work through their grief, and her co-workers made themtheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Daisy HildyardKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=EmergencyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=The summary Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of this book doesnwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he't come close s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to explaining what is done with the premisegoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=19130978111839945184}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver Saima Mir|title=The Weight of Loss Vengeance|rating=4 3.5|genre=Literary Fiction Thrillers|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after I was instantly intrigued by the death premise of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the bones north of her spine which steadily increase in size and volumeEngland run by a Muslim woman. Her GP, diagnosing The fact that it was the odd phenomenon as second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne few series before (on page and screen) and the other patients at Nede: it needn't be a metamorphosis of hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a kindproblem here. As Marianne's memories threaten Vengeance swiftly brings you up to overwhelm herspeed, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselfI never felt lost.|isbn= 086154112X 0861541561

|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=Little DrummerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thriller. Beginning with leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the death dead body of a young woman in on the edge of a carparkreservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, that looks very much like an overdosebut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, it unravels into and he enlists the help of a far-reaching investigation of murderfellow actor, fraudJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led seemingly, a link to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of death during the investigationSecond World War. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down But is there really a link between the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard deaths? And will they manage to uncover the truth as they are sure that something much bigger, and much who is responsible before more dangerous, is going on.people lose their lives?|isbn=19145851271803368209

|isbn=0008541477B0CYV674G2|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Lauren ChildDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It was seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a hot summer day right knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the beginning bottom of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he''Nothing ever happens except for sometimess been stabbed to death... And only on rare-sh occasionsDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which is hardly evercoincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha.You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words ' There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because heperverse's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal CricketJohn Tanner' were made for each other. ThereHe's also Marcie, who's main claim to fame seems sleep-deprived to be that she steals the batteries from Claricepoint of falling asleep at work but he's torch, which means that she determined to keep going - probably because he can't read in the airing cupboard. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to her, rather than wanting to talk, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''get any sleep at home.

|isbn=07112662041787333175|title=The Secret Life of BirdsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Benji Waterhouse

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=I have recently discovered 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 great pleasure: I sit and watch glorious mixture of insight into the vast numbers workings of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisthe NHS, humour and autobiography. An hour can pass without my noticing''You Don't Have to be Mad... I've established which species feed ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the ground, which pop work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the feeders for laughter is directed at a situation rather than a quick snatch 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 some food Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and who settles 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 a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeabledoing so. It would have been wonderful ifMost importantly, as a childshe is desperately worried about her little sister, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life who is the new focus of Birds'Ophelia's online empire. So – what is itCan she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1737030942David Chadwick|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker BittickHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre= AnthologiesThrillers|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker BittickIt's ''Bag O'Goodies''September 1973 in Hicks, California. I first encountered his writing about Hicks is a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], Mojave desert town of a rollicking tale few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of what LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens when five young men find in Hicks. A silver mine and a base for their partying. Right nowdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, I didnthere't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology s not much of verse note other than dive bars and short storiesJoshua trees. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his charactersLife is quiet, until. Well... most of them!|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosTom Percival|title=SeedThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his Will's lifeis difficult, and they both might be thought in a multitude of as complete embarrassmentsways. His grandfather runs an allotment He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', and manages to stink he has the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise wrong shoes because his vegetables. His mother somehow combines dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the dual roles most basic of housebound failure things like food, and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasnhis dad can't left work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building in years she has still managed to fill it to site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the brim with junk. What Martyfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always lookslife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyhe still has a tiny amount of hope. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction He is good at art, and as clings to the moments of joy when he celebrates his birthday with is drawing, that feel like a light at the gift from his grandfather end of a solitary plant seedlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|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=15290776640356522776

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron0008517061|title=Our Sister, AgainDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora diesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, her family struggle to find has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a way forward. In particularlittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let Livia and her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum'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 the family the chance to have Flora back againDiana, as moving in robot form. But this won't just be together would mean a looklot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-a-like. They use all of Flora's online history, grid and interviews relaxing life to move in with family Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and friends, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean for putting the future on the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916burner.

|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

|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. One is Allegra (weFreya'll soon learn that shes former mentor and Carole's Allegra Dean-Edwards) close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Hugothe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to keep him warm (the village: Arthur, she often does this for homeless peoplefeels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingloved. It won't be long before After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the police realise that Malcolm love of her life, who was one of their own: not many other people are going to murdered) and Freya and James have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsnow divorced.

|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=ElektraAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story Opening up new ways of three women who live in thinking about the heavily male-dominated world shape of Ancient Greecethings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Cassandra Well, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players I must confess that there 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 left with the story feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of the Trojan Warit is - frankly - quite frightening. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often Of course, I could research the silent women have possibilities and the most compelling stories probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the most extreme furieslatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1472273915

|isbnauthor=1529149800Sunny Singh|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Home and FamilyThrillers |summary=We begin with The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a telling storyterrorist group. All Hiding from the birds terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and animals fled when Abhi, the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could dohotel manager. The tiny hummingbird flew As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the river residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and began taking tiny amounts keeps on venturing out of water and flying back her room to try to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: capture what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbirds happened through her photography. And that, really, is the Although they only way that we will solve ever talk over the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we canphone, however small that might their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will berescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17765743381529153298|title=Leilong's Too Long!The List of Suspicious Things|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Every morning LeilongIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, the brontosaurus school bushonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesthough. Women have been disappearing. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his necksound quite so frightening. ItMiv's perfect, isnupset because she't it? What could be a more fun way of going s overheard that her father wants to school? move the family 'Down South'. There When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a problemfrightening, thoughforeign place, best avoided. Leilong isn't happy in For Miv, the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and – because heshe's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending ll do anything to and traffic regularly gets snarled upprevent that. The school decides She's not worried about the dangers or that he canher Mum't be the bus anymores stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=303091657X1398524085|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonNicci French

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and ensure that they her daughter, Etty. are wellall worried but - strangely -managed and financially secureher husband, Alec, is not. This might seem obvious but a series Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of disasters - some of which have resulted Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingriver. Where were they? Occasionally It was an easy assumption for the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred police to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalitymake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what has really happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles .}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as railway maniaGreek, the South Sea Bubble but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and even tulip maniaonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Over three centuries we seem Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to have learned very little'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1529337968Christopher Edge|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=It's July 1948 Lucas and Helen Crowther is due to start work as his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day place that has the NHS is bornnickname of 'The Black Hole'. SheAll big movie fans, they'll be working for Dr Deuchar re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. many, many snacks! The hardest part of However, as the job will be to persuade people movie starts, they very quickly realise that the services she offers really something about this new film format is very different, and they are free and that swept up into an adventure they doncouldn't have to do anything to qualify for themeven imagine. Some of But as they lurch from one film genre to the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Her marriage has never been consummated.Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738