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|isbn=84092901031529428289|title=If OnlyA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Matthew TreeMartin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his fatherBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantit came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, Mr Patrickthe Chief of Police for St Denis, to ensure that discover the young man got on board identities of the boat bodies and thereafter Patrick was to send him establish whether or not a monthly allowancecrime had been committed. Patrick sent As if this isn't enough to worry about, the money regularly and a correspondence Dordogne River - of sorts normally tranquil - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrickis flowing at record levels. It wasn't s not just the local autumn rains that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might be a danger caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to his wife release water and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get St Denis faces the young man on his waypossibility of a devastating flood.
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|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)152919640X|title=The Rabbit FactorSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on maths television and calculations than it is other human beings, heseems that there's only one suspect. He's perfect for celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his job in the insurance company – until they decide contract stated that he's must not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone serve anything containing miso to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingJessica Holby. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo She's radio channel, seriously allergic and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just carries an adventure park, and nothing elseEpiPen in case of emergencies. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in the finances – it runs at a steady moneybusy, live television studio -moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedBrooks served a ragout to Holby. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene Her EpiPen was nowhere to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, be found and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan.she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=191319387X
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|isbn=14711793110008385068|title=The UnheardMidnight Feast|author=Nicci FrenchLucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tess, a teacher It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and Jason, a headmaster, have split splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilyby Francesca Meadows. The separation Manor was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family ancestral home and another in the flat she shares with her mother. It ''seemed'' to be working well until s converted it into an impressive retreat for the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing of a woman falling from a tall building wealthy and she started swearingfamous. Her husband, Owen, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either homethe architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. Her behaviour deteriorated The heat is oppressive and there were problems at nursery schoolamongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Tess turns Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a therapist for help, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslybody is found.
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|isbnauthor=1471196615Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisWild East
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|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Miles Pussett used Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to be move to Norwich and start at a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourmostly white school. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - thatThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling keep himself out of the horsestrouble. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him He listens to music constantly, and he swore that he'd never go back to ithas always dreamed of being a rapper. But when he sees that something suspicious is going onnow, Miles can't help but look for answersin this new school, even when it puts his teacher encourages him in dangerto 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
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|isbn=147228612X1635866847|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillLavender Companion|author=Alan JohnsonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonIt's strange, although we probably haventhe things that make you 't taken much notice of them'immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. They live quietBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', uneventful lives and stay mostly under I visited the radar. In a city like London, thatauthor's quite easy - [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and even Garythere's three flatmates largely ignore him. The highlight a picture of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work slice of chocolate cake on the train each morning: hehomepage. I don'd love to ask her for a date t eat cakes and desserts - but he doesnI wanted that cake viscerally. (There't have s a recipe in the courage. book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks I started reading the book and I was told to him and asks for his helpmake a mess of it. Before long he finds himself on Notes in the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the Metropolitan policecorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Claire McGowanRob Keeley|title=I Know YouChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'Then:'s author Rob Keeley. He' Casey returns from s a walk with the babyball of happy positivity, Carsonhe understands children, and comes across three bodieshe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, almost a whole family taken downnot to lecture or hector.
The ''Now:Childish Spirits'' Rachel series is out for one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a walk stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her dog, Brandyand Edward, when she comes across a body in spoiled lordling and the woods.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=15420199741783064617
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|isbnauthor=1529148251Jenny Valentine|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelUs in the Before and After
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|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapeElk and Mab are best friends, malpractice and povertyor more than that even, yet still compartmentalise? their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. ItThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's as contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.''|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersBefore you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be |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 certain frame team of mind. You're not going warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to read a book of essays the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or a self-help bookthe big bad and the points they grant you along the way. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela CoelUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within seen of the television industry at latest race on the Edinburgh inn TV Festivalequivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the words as though you're in goading from the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away token bully of his world and youstumbled into declaring he'll be carried on enter as a cloud of exquisite writingteam. 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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|isbnauthor=0008433631Saima Mir|title=Next of Kin|author=Kia AbdullahVengeance|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It I was instantly intrigued by the sort premise of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a panicMuslim woman. He The fact that it was supposed to be taking Max to school but hethe second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I'd been called ve jumped midway into work a few series before (on page and the delay in getting there could lead to financial lossesscreen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. As the school was only five minutes out of LeilaAnd that wasn's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and t a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her carproblem here. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work tooVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskand I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaStuart Douglas|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word During location filming for themhis 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', find us leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funnyreservoir. Funny The police seem happy to talk assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and joke abouthe enlists the help of a fellow actor, that isJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at They travel across the wrong time. In classcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, sayseemingly, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugha link to death during the Second World War. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with But is there really a link between the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W1803368209}}
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|isbn=1784165263B0CYV674G2|title=Invite Me InSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Emma CurtisDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Martin Curran's wifeIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dotcovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, despite comes into the fact police station shouting that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didnhe hasn't get home, there would be troublekilled the man. There was some excuse: Martin was A body at the bottom of a paraplegic and confined freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to a wheelchairdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, but don't be too quick to be understandingwhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. He was also a very unpleasant person: You would think he once told Eliza 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'youperverse're good at being a disappointmentand 'John Tanner'were made for each other. All this was in ElizaHe's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about sleep-deprived to leave: he wanted the lease point of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and falling asleep at work but he was desperate 's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get in before it was advertised as being availableany sleep at home.
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|isbn=17847427751787333175|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Susan HillBenji Waterhouse
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|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Drugs hadnI 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 really been that much Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a problem psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as this setting but the laughter is directed at a bit of situation rather than a waste 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 timeAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. They still were, Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to a great extentget her life back, but Serrailler knew that something had suing her step-mother to be donetake down the content about her. Children as young as nine were being recruited Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to transport the drugs start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the operation running the county lines was tightreceiving money from them for doing so. A mule might know Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the name (although it probably wouldnnew focus of Ophelia't be s online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the correct one) same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldnNapalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It't know anything about those higher up s September 1973 in the organisationHicks, California. The police might catch Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the runners main local employers but theyotherwise, there'd never get anywhere near those higher ups not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Tom Percival|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsThe Wrong Shoes|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BBWill's dinerlife is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Bob - He is bullied because he has 'the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriendwrong shoes', Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in has the wrong shoes because his career. Hollie wasndad can't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of all things like food, and his dad can't work because he wanted her to leave her lost his job at the dinercollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Then there was Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he would be violentstill has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, both to her and clings to other peoplethe moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|author=John GwynneSylvie Cathrall|title=The Shadow Of The GodsA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is There are few greater joys than a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together which lives up to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlecompelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn=03565142180356522776
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X0008517061|title=Endless ObsessionDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Dai HenleyStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy FloodFormer Metropolitan Police detective, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigator. He's married to LauraJake Johnson, formerly has settled into his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryrustic life at Little Sky. Flood's daughtersThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Gemma Livia and Pippaher daughter Diana, have flown the nest, Pippa as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to Australia, from where she has very little contact move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the family, future she wants for herself and Gemma to married life. her daughter? She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married For the moment they’re enjoying life will provide in the support she needs. Flood's business is going well present and that was why he felt able to turn down putting the future on the case of Lisa Blackback burner.
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1786482126|title=The StoningJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous Builders were demolishing an old house in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped Norwich - the site was going to a tree and shehold seventy-five 's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the worldluxury's tallest cricket stumps. When she's apartments - when they discovered by the town gossip everyonebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home toDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it It's only fairdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival pregnant with his child as a result of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outone night they spent together some three months ago. Because such an aggrieved Her condition will be obvious before long, insular community not least because Ruth is really going prone to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1529416973
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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0008551324|title=The Mystery of HealingDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=A P McGrathNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the second century of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the common era other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the physician on duty at police where the munus - the games put on body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the amusement of the populacepolice doing what he wants. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the doctor a feeling remainder of virtue his sentence and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to liveget an early parole date. ItNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands t think so and when we first see them, theyshe're sprinkling gold dust onto s even prepared to do the lions' manes to other thing that Hardie demanded - make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers certain that DS Max Craigie and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals anyone who are going to fight for their lives works with the wild animals. Today, ithim is kept well away from what's the crocodileshappening.
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|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall0008405026|title=The Beatryce ProphecyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It''Stories have joy s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and surprises in them''the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, we and her father are told heredead in their bed. And none more so than in this wondrous story Initially, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with looks like a group of monks, straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the Order positioning of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and the demonic goat bodies that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memoryboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate What looked as though it was going to find the girl, for it be an open-and-shut case is prophesied that now a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changecomplex double murder. Who foretold Kerrigan is convinced that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simpleexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=B09FFJF8YS0571379877|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)The Kellerby Code|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikJonny Sweet
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" Edward Jevons is a cry (the bigworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-girl kind!) of toilet triumph class friends, Robert and persevering panty prideStanza. Robert'' And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates s a little girltheatre director. He's final goodbye to nappies and pullalso self-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dogobsessed, her catdemanding, her stuffed rabbit handsome and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now entitled and she wants everyone uses Edward to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out Lily|rating=4run errands for him.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lily is, or was, or Edward has been, very ill, in love with Stanza since their university days - and to give her parents relief shehe's been told drunkenly confided how he feels to stay with her grandma for a few daysRobert. The parents need the relief as Lily Most men in Robert's baby sibling is just about to be born – position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intact, even if itrelationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her two of them kissing in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakea dark passageway.|isbn=1471194833
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithJo Callaghan|title=The Great Dream RobberyLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Maya's father When a man is found crucified on the top of a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wronghill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, and now he can't wake upthe AI detective Lock. Or at least, that It's what Maya has their first live case together, having previously been toldvery successful with several cold cases. In But when there is a rather strange dream one night Maya makes second body found crucified a new friendfew days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and discovers a very high profile case that the only way draws a lot of unwanted attention to save her dad may their AI Future Policing project. Will they be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and reality collide...really...and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offspotentially, to out of a talking cat called Bin Bag!career?|isbn=024147051X139851120X
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|isbn=18004644951399613073|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsMoral Injuries|author=Emma SmithChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=I'm not Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first to point out how fitting it is day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for Robert Peston to write a political thrillerquarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, so I'll move on quickly – but this won't which is a bonus when you aim to be winning any awards for originalitya cardiothoracic surgeon. It's an interesting plot with Laura is a good pace, but it does very little to differentiate itself perfectionist and I suspect before much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of ittrauma doctor. |isbn=1838775242 }} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529379385|title=The Madness Anjali is the free spirit of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise Penny|rating=4the group and she becomes a GP.5|genre=Crime|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, When wefirst meet them they're postat a drug and alcohol-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting fuelled party and it's going to get back to normalend in tragedy. The villagers are beginning to return to We don't know who suffered the Bistro and tragedy or the Aubergeconsequences. They're visiting each other's homes and having Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends and relatives to stay. A young Sudanese woman This time, it's their teenage children who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintinvolved.
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJR0241636604|title= Flights for FreedomThe Trading Game: A Confession|author= Steven BurgauerGary Stevenson
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|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's the later stages re unlikely to think of World War I someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the United States has just entered pin-stripe suit and his background is the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and joined the 17 Aero Squadroninjustice. This company There was the first US Aero Squadron no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and the first he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combatstupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. But before that can happen Eventually, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=183885410X1035021803|title=The Dark RemainsAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinC L Miller
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a lawyer request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and consigliere Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to one of say the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowleast. DC Jack Laidlaw is on Arthur was the CID team charged with reason why Freya had not been back to the investigationvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be a part of itnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. He does his own thingAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, goes his own way met and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers married James (on the rebound from the truth love of why Bobby Carter's body her life, who was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=1942410255AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Michael PronkoBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaidOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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|isbnauthor=0241425425Sunny Singh|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Elizabeth Best was The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a little surprised when she received the letterterrorist group. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull Hiding from the Thames and terrorists who had never existed but then this are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basishotel manager. When she visits As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the sender of residents who are still alive in the letter (hotel, he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone forms a bond with whom she has a long professional history - and Sam who used refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her husband. Heroom to try to capture what's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatshappened through her photography. He's now in hiding with a young woman called PollyAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, who's his MI5 handler their friendship grows as well as being an incompetent waitressAbhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp1529153298|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45
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|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher isPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, in his mindhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, the head chef of a safari business catering though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to VIP guests in an unnamed African countryhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for move the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American cityfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Even For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to win a Michelin starprevent that. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and stopped talking - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the houseto anyone.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1398524085|title=Rules for VampiresHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'Leo' for short) is a Vampires fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She drinks blood Her children, she sleeps during the daysons Niall, Paul and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundOllie and her daughter, although not Etty. are all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Nowworried but - strangely - her husband, on the night of her hundredth birthnightAlec, she has to go out and hunt her first humanis not. However Shortly afterwards, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident Etty and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worseGreg, find the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the orphanage come back to haunt herriver. So, not only does Leo have to team up with It was an easy assumption for the friendly ghost Minna police to stop make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familyguilt. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, The Salter children are not convinced but there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955Xlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino1035906708|title=The Devil Makes ThreeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants We tend to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she has was born to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmasterGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults only moved to Athens when she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of coursewas thirteen. Her plan is to get original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or father changed it would be, if someone hadnto 't delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary= Callas''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release to make it more manageable in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine AveryStates. This series of fun picture books aims to take When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the pain out Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aimher preference for her elder sister, as any frustrated parent will tell you. Jackie.
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