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|authorisbn=Oliver Greeves1529428289|title=Nelson's FollyA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=2.54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=The story Because of Admiral Nelson – who never actually achieved that rankvarious property transactions, people were searching for the grave but only ascended when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to Vice Admiral – is one discover the identities of the best known in English historybodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. Despite our history teachers As if this isn' best efforts there are very few battles that most of us can name. Dunkirk, Battle of Britaint enough to worry about, Hastings…if we live in the north then Flodden, Bannockburn, Culloden…it probably takes an interest in maritime things to know of Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the Battle of local autumn rains that have caused the Nile problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the siege possibility of Malta…but just about every English person knows about Trafalgara devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4. They may not know where it is 5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and what it was about, but we know (if seems that there's only from the Square one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and the Column) his contract stated that it 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 a mighty victory nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that Nelson this was in commandno accident.|isbn=0645023701
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0008385068|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesnIt't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about s midsummer on the Dorset coast and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go guests gather at the wrong timeThe Manor. In class, say, when everyone will hear it It's their opening weekend and everyone will laughsplendid celebrations are promised. At you. Justine Avery It's latest entry in all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting s converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and gently and calmlyfamous. Her husband, Owen, with was the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting architect and work is perfectly normalstill ongoing on parts of the site. Everybody does The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it: won''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2Wt be long before a body is found.}}
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|isbnauthor=1784165263Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisWild East
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Martin CurranWritten in verse, this is Ronny's wifestory, Eliza knew that she had a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to be home move to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letNorwich and start at a mostly white school. If she didnThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny't get homes safety after a tragic event, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a wheelchairnew town, but don't be too quick to be understandinga new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a disappointment''rapper. All But now, in this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrivednew school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, unannouncedslowly, at Ronny begins to see the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted connections between rap and poetry, and the lease power of flat 2, 42 Linden Road creativity and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availablecrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=17847427751635866847|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)The Lavender Companion|author=Susan HillJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Drugs hadnIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately't really been ' feel that much of a problem in Lafferton this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as there's a bit picture of a waste slice of timechocolate cake on the homepage. They still were, to a great extent, I don't eat cakes and desserts - but Serrailler knew I wanted that something had to be donecake viscerally. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnThere't be s a recipe in the correct onebook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) of Then I started reading the person who book and I was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up told to make a mess of it. Notes in the organisationmargins are sanctioned. The police might catch You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a few of the runners but theyproblem. I ''loved''d never get anywhere near those higher upthis book already.
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Rob Keeley|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=3.54|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year Around here, we're big fans of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BBchildren's dinerauthor Rob Keeley. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was He's a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriendball of happy positivity, Marcus: her mother thought he was great understands children, and he was doing well in writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his careergreatest achievements. Hollie wasnIt't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control s a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her , and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violentEdward, both to her a spoiled lordling and to other people.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=John GwynneJenny Valentine|title=The Shadow Of The GodsUs in the Before and After
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|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnaroktime. But then chance brings them back together, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to seethey are inseparable. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy Something has happened though, something terrible and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genretragic, with mythical creaturesand now they must work through their grief, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick booktheir friendship, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=03565142181471196585
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|isbnauthor=B09HTWX47XKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigatorMeet Kit. He's married to LauraLike most of the people in his world, it seems, formerly his DS in he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the Murder Squad but now working in sport where a forensics laboratory. Flood's daughtersteam of warrior, Gemma mage and Pippahealer enter specially prepared, century-old, have flown the nestmagical mazes, Pippa and race to Australiathe exit, from where she has very little contact perhaps bothering with the family, treasure or the big bad and Gemma to married lifethe points they grant you along the way. SheUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needsa new trio of questors is needed. Flood's business is going well and that was why Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he felt able has taken to turn down the case goading from the token bully of Lisa Blackhis 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=1839945184
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|author=Peter PapathanasiouSaima Mir|title=The StoningVengeance
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|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in comparison, the north of England run by a teacher has been transported across town at night Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a shopping trolley, and sheseries I hadn't read didn't stop me – I's been taped to ve jumped midway into a tree few series before (on page and screen) and sheit needn's had rocks bowled at her as t be a hindrance if she were the worldit's tallest cricket stumpsgood enough. When sheAnd that wasn's discovered by the town gossip everyonet a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, including and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the local copsDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', are quite confident leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the culprit has come from dead body of a woman on the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and assign it's only fairas an accidental death, is but something about the general opinionwhole thing bothers Lowe, for and he enlists the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionshelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Cue They travel across the arrival of George Manoliscountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a higher rank from link to death during the city, to sort everything outSecond World War. Because such an aggrieved, insular community But is there really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down link between the law...deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15294169731803368209
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7HB0CYV674G2|title=The Mystery of HealingSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=A P McGrathDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in Pergamon in the second century of mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the common era and police station shouting that hehasn's t killed the physician on duty man. A body at the munus 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 games put on for the amusement birth of the populacehis daughter Samantha. The remuneration isnYou would think he't high d be grateful for an easy answer but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon words 'perverse'wantsand 'John Tanner' the warriors to livewere made for each other. ItHe's quite a spectacle: sleep-deprived to the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see them, theypoint of falling asleep at work but he're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes s determined to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are keep going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, it- probably because he can's the crocodilest get any sleep at home.
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|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall1787333175|title=The Beatryce ProphecyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'Stories have joy and surprises in them'after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with a group glorious mixture of monks, insight into the Order workings of the Chronicles of SorrowingNHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and biting the poor Brotherswork of a psychiatrist. Things change drastically when I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the beast takes laughter is directed at a totally maternal approach to situation rather than a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for person and it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne always delivered with empathy and cause great changeunderstanding. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893
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|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSOnyi Nwabineli|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingGeneral 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'For the bigs childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, grownup girls out therebasically, the potty masters monetary gain. Now Anuri is in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph her twenties and persevering panty pride.'' And so it she is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye slowly trying to nappies regain her confidence and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following get her life back, suing her around as she proudly explains step-mother to take down the content about her dog. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her catPhD, her stuffed rabbit undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannotreceiving money from them for doing so. Neither can the flowers Most importantly, nor the fishshe is desperately worried about her little sister, nor who is the birds. Boynew focus of Ophelia's certainly can'tonline empire. She's a big girl now Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and she wants everyone to know it!her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettDavid Chadwick|title=Locked Out LilyHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief sheIt's been told to stay with her grandma for a few daysSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling Hicks is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with. But on tracking back home for word its nearest neighbours of her parents (LA and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in-arms, already installedHicks. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get A silver mine and a defence contractor are the family back intactmain local employers but otherwise, even if itthere's not the family Lily wants – much of note other than dive bars and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – CrowJoshua trees. Life is quiet, Mole, Mouse and Snakeuntil....|isbn=1471194833B0D321VJ76
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithTom Percival|title=The Great Dream RobberyWrong Shoes
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|summary=MayaWill's father life is difficult, in a professor who invented an amazing dream machinemultitude of ways. But something went He is bullied because he has 'the wrongshoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and now he doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't wake up. Or work because he lost his job at leastthe college, that's what Maya has been told. In was working a rather strange dream one night Maya makes cash-in-hand job on a new friend, building site and discovers had an accident. Throw into that mix the only way to save her fact that his mum and dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really...are separated, and thereWill's everything from llamas and bananaslife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offshe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a talking cat called Bin Bag!light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=024147051X1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1800464495Sylvie Cathrall|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days A Letter to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smiththe Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=''Babies seem There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months olda compelling premise.'' Did you know And this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor one of later achievement, double that of literacy skillsthem.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=15293793850008517061|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Louise PennyStig Abell|rating=4.5
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|summary=In Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Canadian village future of Three Pineshis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, we're postas moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-pandemic: the scars are still there but grid and relaxing life is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the Bistro future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the Auberge. They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for moment they’re enjoying life in the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor present and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in putting the village as future on the Asshole Saintback burner.
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJR1786482126|title= Flights for FreedomThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= Steven BurgauerElly Griffiths
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=ItBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's apartments - when they discovered the later stages bones of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflicta child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Petrol Petronus It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a young American who has signed up and joined result of the 17 Aero Squadronone night they spent together some three months ago. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to Her condition will be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But obvious before that can happenlong, Petrol has not least because Ruth is prone to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelsudden bouts of sickness.
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|isbn=183885410X0008551324|title=The Dark RemainsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5
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|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to one of approach the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowpolice. DC Jack Laidlaw Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is on struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the CID team charged with police where the investigationbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. I say ''on This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be a part transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of ithis sentence and to get an early parole date. He does his own thingNot much to ask, goes his own way and ''is it? The Dark Remainsnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' uncovers s even prepared to do the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgowother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's seedier pubshappening.
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|isbn=19424102550008405026|title=Tokyo Zangyo A Stranger in the Family (Detective HiroshiMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Michael PronkoJane Casey|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it? sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of She was never found and the minimum you'll be required investigation ground to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukaa halt. When he was found Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from his familytheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from s something about the roof positioning of the building or been assisted in his descentbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that What looked as though it was going to be an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlieropen-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. SheKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimes boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=02414254250571379877|title=The Man Who Died TwiceKellerby Code|author=Richard OsmanJonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from Edward Jevons is a working-class young man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames , obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basisStanza. When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the CooperRobert's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husbandtheatre director. He's made a bad mistake also self- something obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to do run errands for him. Edward has been in love with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twentyStanza since their university days -million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatshe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. HeMost men in Robert's now in hiding with position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a young woman called Polly, whorelationship had begun between them but he's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressnot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Andrew SharpJo Callaghan|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingLeave No Trace
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - When a man is, in his mind, found crucified on the head chef top of a safari business catering hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to VIP guests in an unnamed African countrythe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Mozzy But when there is earnest a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and dedicated to his task and he puts all a very high profile case that draws a lot of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is unwanted attention to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American citytheir AI Future Policing project. Even Will they be able to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted solve the case in this ambition by his bosstime, Mr Bin (Ben to you or will Kat find herself taken off the case and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shockpotentially, horror - his allowing out of bush animals into the house.a career?|isbn=B09926MK8H139851120X
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1399613073|title=Rules for VampiresMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks bloodOlivia, she sleeps during Laura and Anjali met on the first day, of medical school and she can Grimwalk (turning into their friendship would keep them inseparable for a flock quarter of bats to travel arounda century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, although not all of them remember which is a bonus when you aim to come back)be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Pretty cool stuff Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Now, on Anjali is the night free spirit of her hundredth birthnight, the group and she has to go out and hunt her becomes a GP. When we first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident meet them they're at a drug and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans alcohol-fuelled party and the evil master of the orphanage come back it's going to haunt herend in tragedy. So, not only does Leo have to team up with We don't know who suffered the friendly ghost Minna to stop tragedy or the ghost of consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulthree friends. This time, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there their teenage children who are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955Xinvolved.
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|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino0241636604|title=The Devil Makes ThreeTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary= Working all summer If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in her boarding schoolyour mind, you's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants re unlikely to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. What makes it worse A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmasterEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and a man Tess hatesinjustice. As a petty act There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of revenge for making her find Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and deliver such he has a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each facility with numbers which most of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she us can think ofonly envy. They're never meant He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to reach himbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like thisessentially, and then take them all off before delivering thema card game which got him an internship with Citibank. No harm done… Or it would be Eventually, if someone hadn't delivered them for herthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1789098130
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61035021803|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!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 latest release in circumstances seem suspicious, to say the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyleast. This series of fun picture books aims Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some funvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. It's a worthy aim Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, as any frustrated parent will tell youshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=B098FFFBH9AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=SnowcubAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Graham FulbrightBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is her schoolwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, 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 animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry advantageous to highlight me but I'm left with the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip HarrisonOf course, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate I could research the possibilities and her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where weprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'll meet Rachelm reading someone who knows what they's main (if unsuspected) source of re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information: five soft toysin a way I could understand.
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|author= Angharad WalkerSunny Singh|title= The Ash HouseHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash HouseHotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He doesn't know his name Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, or why he is there but he is used to the systemSam, used to different places a wartime photographer and different facesAbhi, the hotel manager. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out As Abhi continues to try to teach him care remotely for the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by residents who are still alive in the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their choreshotel, working as he forms a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by the arrival events, and keeps on venturing out of the Doctorher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. By the end of Although they only ever talk over the storyphone, lives will be changed forever their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and The Ash House they both wait to see if they will never be rescued before they are discovered by the same againterrorists.|isbn=1912626977086154742X
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|authorisbn=Yancey Williams1529153298|title=Crosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade The List of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{FrontpageSuspicious Things|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepJennie Godfrey
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a wordIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, richhonestly. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea..) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, British but way west, beyond the Scilliesthough. Women have been disappearing. There are troll people on it Well, and sea-witchesthey've been murdered, and legends of but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching 'Down South'. When you're from even further westYorkshire, where no ship dare sailDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. The current Darks are the Watcher For Miv, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Landsmove would mean leaving her best friend, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsSharon, and Andreweshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's foundling daughter, who washed up out of not worried about the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it dangers or notthat her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1788452372
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|authorisbn=Erling Kagge1398524085|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turnedup. Her children, sons Niall, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minePaul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. In my defenceare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole Shortly afterwards, the North Pole Etty and Greg, find the summit body of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. HoweverGreg's father, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeysDuncan Ackerley, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walkin the river. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and I haventhen committed suicide when he couldn't countedstand the guilt. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705
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|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1035906708|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses We tend to let him out think of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monstersMaria Callas as Greek, and look what happened to her – but she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs was born to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray|title=The Climbers|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Sully is the best tree climber Greek parents in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kidManhattan, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatenedNew York, in December 1923 and not only that, that his chance moved to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his handsAthens when she was thirteen. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll|title=The Week at World's End|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First, Callas' to make it more manageable in the titleStates. We're When she was back in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her friends) finds fun only with voice - she was raised under the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking Nazi occupation by a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, mother who mercilessly exploited her and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news made no secret of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Closepreference for her elder sister, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at riskJackie. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438
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