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|author=Lisa ThompsonJenny Lecoat|title=The Small ThingsBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let Jean lives on Jersey with her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things mother where they are complicated because celebrating the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with end of the class by using a robotoccupation. Can Anna overcome During the challenge of making friends with someone through a robotwar, and is she even interesting enough Jean's father was arrested for listening to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics banned radio and Society|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirablesoldiers took him away one night, less hireable, less intelligent leaving Jean and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer her mother waiting for years for news of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanhim.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to As the British finally free the UK Channel islands from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven the Nazis, and nine. It was her mother who came firstthe war is finally over, with her father joining them latertheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have But will the best education possible. There was always truth come as a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: relief, or will it was simply carefully harvested. raise further questions around what else happened during the war? When Otegha Who was ten the family acquired a car. informer who told the Nazis about the radio? For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=17876318691529428289|title=The Rising TideA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Sam LloydMartin Walker
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but she'd built a good when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and decent life in it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the aftermathbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. SheAs if this isn's now married t enough to Danielworry about, who cothe Dordogne River -owns Lockenormally tranquil -Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live is flowing at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucyrecord levels. It's daughter and Fin, not just the child she had with Daniel. They local autumn rains that have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from St Denis faces the time they both spent in possibility of a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerneddevastating flood.
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|authorisbn=Hannah Peck152919640X|title=Kate on the CaseThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet KateThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, although I got the impression sheJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He'd rather be a Catherine – s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and one specific Catherine at his contract stated thathe must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. For Catherine Rodriguez is KateShe's idol, seriously allergic and the author carries an EpiPen in case of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''emergencies. Armed with Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a plucky father, that bookbusy, live television studio - and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage Brooks served a train ride ragout to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksHolby. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them styleshe was dead within minutes. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalistwas soon clear that this was no accident...|isbn=184812970X
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan0008385068|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=The second trilogy in ShanIt's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in midsummer on the world of the BornDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life their opening weekend and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestsplendid celebrations are promised.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben It's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571365884|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a childall headed up by Francesca Meadows. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it was into an impressive retreat for the sort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few wealthy and far betweenfamous. On a visit to a therapistHer husband, as an adultOwen, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down the architect and ''My Mess work is a Bit still ongoing on parts of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believesite.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Cotter|title= The House on the Edge|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Faith's family home heat is teetering on oppressive and amongst the edge of a cliff, literallyguests are enemies as well as friends. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems Old scores are going to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, settled and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesnwon't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how be long she can keep on keeping onbefore a body is found.|isbn=1788008626
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|isbnauthor=0008269041Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehouseWild East
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DCI Robin Lyons Written in verse, this is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from the Met. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a nasty taste in her mouthmostly white school. She was now working The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parentRonny's home into safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a rented house but there's still new town, a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone new school, and keep himself out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childtrouble. He's married listens to Nataliemusic constantly, now and has always dreamed of being a young child but he's still got it rapper. But now, in for Robinthis 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
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|isbn=17863323881635866847|title=The First Day of SpringLavender Companion|author=Nancy TuckerJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and It's strange, the things that make you ''The First Day of Springimmediately'' was one such occasion. The writing feel that this is superb and completely compellingthe book for you. Before I started reading ''The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and wonLavender Companion't let go. So, what's the problem? Well, I visited the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her sheauthor's just eight years old, small for her age [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and she readily tells us that shethere's just killed someone - a two-year-old boypicture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. SheI don's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upcake viscerally. (There's a clue that Chrissie isnrecipe in the book, which I't completely responsible for her actions m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a little later mess of it. Notes in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. HasnI 't he been dead for long enough?'loved'' this book already.
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|author=Catherine SteadmanRob Keeley|title=The Disappearing ActChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp Around here, we're big fans of successchildren's author Rob Keeley. Great success. If the rumours are trueHe's a ball of happy positivity, award season is going to treat her wellhe understands children, acknowledging her and he writes for her latesttheir pleasure and enjoyment, critically acclaimed productionnot to lecture or hector. She The ''Childish Spirits''s going places but so, unfortunately, series is her partnerone of his greatest achievements. And the places heIt's going take him towards liesa sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, deceit and a pretty stalwart young thing in girl who can cope with anything the form of his new co-star. It's spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a good time for Mia to escape, spoiled lordling and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=14711897831783064617
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|author= Christophe MedlerJenny Valentine|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil WarElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse once in the summer of 1642a lifetime connection. As They meet as children one day on a loyal servant of trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the Kingtime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and Head of the Secret Servicetragic, and now they must work through their grief, it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingtheir friendship, together.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ1471196585
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|author=Tasha SuriKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Jasmine ThroneDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= On Meet Kit. Like most of the night people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of her sacred burningDungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, Princess Malini defies her brother mage and refuses to step on healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the pyreexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on Unfortunately for Kit, the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community only thing he's seen of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now latest race on the temple inn TV equivalent is nothing more than an overgrownthat one team has been retired, decaying ruin. One dayeaten, Malini witnesses and a girl kill someone with magicnew trio of questors is needed. Instead Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of reporting her for such his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a gruesome crimeteam. What chance does this friendless, Malini claims muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that the girl saved her from an attacker , and begs for the girl how could he possibly hope to become her own personal maidservant.succeed?|isbn=03565156481839945184
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|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCSaima Mir|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Sarah Wallace said I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that she grew up it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on a council estate in Kent page and that she had two brothers screen) and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. When we first meet her, she canit needn't sleep because her son, Freddie, whobe a hindrance if it's nearly sixteen, hasngood enough. And that wasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in bya problem here. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going Vengeance swiftly brings you up to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, thoughspeed, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someoneI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Joseph KnoxStuart Douglas|title=True Crime StoryLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph Knox, known During location filming for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', has created leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows woman on the disappearance edge of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residencea reservoir. Split into four parts The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the reader is taken through the life whole thing bothers Lowe, and disappearance of Zoe through he enlists the eyes help of her twin sistera fellow actor, other familyJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, friends uncovering more possible murders and professionals, such as seemingly, a link to death during the policeSecond World War. The various accounts help But is there really a link between the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented deaths? And will they manage to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what uncover who is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trustresponsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=08575277031803368209
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaB0CYV674G2|title=No, No, No!Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=They say It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the best picture books are police station shouting that he hasn't killed the simplest onesman. And nothing could be truer A body at the bottom of this latest a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from Justine Averyhis honeymoon, a Bookbag favouritewhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'No, No, No!perverse'and ' is based around the simplest text imaginable. 'John Tanner'No, no, no! Okay, okaywere made for each other. Yes, you may.'' ThatHe's it! But, like all sleep-deprived to the best picture books, this tiny snippet point of text is a veritable tardis falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outsideprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1638820457
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|authorisbn=Monica Connell1787333175|title=Against a Peacock SkyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=TravelPopular Science|summary= Monica Connell went I was tempted to Nepal read ''You Don't Have to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is important Going to know that. She went on Hurt}}, a grant-supported tripglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, with a relatively specific objectivehumour and autobiography. She wasn ''You Don't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-laHave to be Mad. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with '' promised the academic discipline of how same elements but moved from physical problems to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in mental illness and the context work of her own paradigms, and how a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of be looking for humour in this setting but the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with laughter is directed at a sense of open-ness and curiosity and situation rather than a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules person and to truly connect it is always delivered with the people of the village where she hauled upempathy and understanding.|isbn=1780600429
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|isbnauthor=1409181669Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely Anuri spent her childhood on display to get away with them both. She needed the world, thanks to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything her step- or so mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she thought - had begun with the death posted every step of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. SheAnuri'd been brutally stabbed s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and Mariana's niece, Zoebasically, had telephoned her in distressmonetary gain. Tara had been Now Anuri is in her best friend twenties and she was struggling is slowly trying to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having regain her confidence and to go get her life back, suing her step-mother to Cambridge, but she caught take down the first fast train from King's Crosscontent about her. Mariana Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Zoe were close secretly abusing people online and had been made all the more receiving money from them for doing so by . Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the death new focus of MarianaOphelia's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlieronline empire. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's Can she save her sister, Eliza.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Maisie ChanDavid Chadwick|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=Thrillers
|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. 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 main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....
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|author=Tom Percival
|title=The Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Danny Will's life is eleven years olddifficult, and what he really, really loves to do is drawin a multitude of ways. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds is bullied because he has 'the words. Dannywrong shoes's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on he has the wrong shoes because his maths, dad can't work and forget about doesn't have enough money for even the drawingmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has lost his own roomjob at the college, where he can draw was working a cash-in secret -hand job on a building site and in peacehad an accident. But then one day Throw into that mix the fact that his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, mum and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themdad are separated, and who will not only be sharing DannyWill's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of his bunk bed! hope. Danny He is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishgood at art, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitterclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, and showing her around that feel like a light at the town. Poor Danny, stuck on end of a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationlong, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..dark tunnel.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X1398527122
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|author=Terry MilesSylvie Cathrall|title=RabbitsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this There are few greater joys than a book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and which lives up to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shortcompelling premise. However And this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..of them.|isbn=15290169320356522776
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|authorisbn=C J Carey0008517061|title=WidowlandDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's April 1953Former Metropolitan Police detective, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to LondonJake Johnson, parading around has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to little uncertainty about the throne future of Edward VIII his life with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know itvet girlfriend, Livia and we are now a protectorate – wellher daughter Diana, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly moving in together would mean a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas lot of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from highcompromise: does Jake give up his off-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, grid and beyond those, right on down relaxing life to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement future she wants for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, herself and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and so they just get a hefty tweak towards putting the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until future on the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitback burner.|isbn=152941198X
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|authorisbn=Louise Beech1786482126|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to her son, Sebastian hold seventy- but she canfive 'luxury't give him everything he wantsapartments - when they discovered the bones of a 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. Sebastian has decided that it It's time for him to have sex. But difficult as an autistic 20 year-oldRuth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that's easier said than doneshe is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And it's starting Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cause them both problemssudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=1913193713
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|isbn=B093VPBL5L0008551324|title=Cape Henry HouseThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jolly Walker BittickNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Bosner, or, It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerapproach the police. We never really find out if Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he has a first name: there's merely prepared to tell the police where the body of a hint that missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he had promises, is someone big and it will be worth the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointpolice doing what he wants. He's simply Bosner And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to one serve the remainder of his sentence and allto get an early parole date. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosNot much to ask, as they were called) at a naval establishment. is it? The hours could be long new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and he was often working nights but at she's even prepared to do the age of twentyother thing that Hardie demanded -one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking make certain that DS Max Craigie and eating) into his dayanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten0008405026|title=For A Stranger in the WolfFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=In RedIt's family, the first daughter becomes queen, sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the second daughter becomes investigation ground to a sacrificehalt. To Red's misfortune Now, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her backmother, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolfHelena, and he is the one who will decide the fate of her father are dead in their kingdombed. If she is not Initially, it looks like a worthy sacrifice, straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the monsters he keeps contained to positioning of the woods will be released, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories goher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than What looked as though it was going to be killed within the hour, she finds an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the legends are explanation lies. The wolf is not a monster—hein Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's a manboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0356516369
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|authorisbn=M G Leonard0571379877|title=TwitchThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Twitch Edward Jevons is a boy who loves birdsworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He keeps pigeons at home's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and chickens, entitled and even uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has swallows nesting been in his bedroom! His time spent watching love with Stanza since their university days - and helping birds is easy compared he's drunkenly confided how he feels to that of his time in schoolRobert. But things are about to change for Twitch Most men in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run, and itRobert's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he knows 's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the back two of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=1838853804Jo Callaghan|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?
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|isbn=1399613073
|title=Moral Injuries
|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pondruthlessly ambitious, only which is a bonus when you aim to find that he'd hanged himselfbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Twenty years later she's back home again Laura is a perfectionist and this time the occasion is no less sada trauma doctor. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who Anjali is dying the free spirit of anorexiathe group and she becomes a GP. As she dies, Melissa whispers When we first meet them they'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor re at a drug and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry alcohol- or was fuelled party and it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? going to end in tragedy. The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the County and money was never in short supply consequences. Twenty- but five years later there did seem to will be a cursean eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. In addition to MelissaThis time, it's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeteenage children who are involved. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?
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|isbn=02414001200241636604|title=The Girl Who DiedTrading Game: A Confession|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Una was not thriving If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then sheyour mind, you'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacherre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was thirty years old familiar with violence, poverty and money was tightinjustice. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Langanes PeninsulaLondon School of Economics. There were Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only ten envy. He also realised that most rich people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would expect poor people to be paid and accommodation providedstupid. Una It was his ability at what was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefullyessentially, save some money over the winter a card game which her contract coveredgot him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=18469757191035021803|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Denzil MeyrickC L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to awkward placesthe English country village where she grew up. But thatShe's Londonback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, isnCarole. Freya't it? s former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. WhatArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's happening in Kinloch?Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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|author=Richard BrookSunny Singh|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers |summary= I am The Hotel Arcadia is a firm believer luxury hotel in an unnamed city that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose ushas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. In my caseHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, this there is one of Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the latterhotel manager. Not so very long ago As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed ithe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, found some and keeps on venturing out of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came her room to me not just because I was likely try to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbagcapture what's uhappened through her photography.s.p. is that people chose Although they only ever talk over the phone, their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to like see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowterrorists.|isbn=1800461682086154742X
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|isbn=B095CY7NBN1529153298|title=Autumn CampThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Barry FowlerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was to be Brian's last camp1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elses not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. The obvious person was GaryWell, whothey'd always ve been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campmurdered, Gary should act as the leader and hebut to have 'disappeared' doesn'd just be there to observet sound quite so frightening. The problem with this was Miv's upset because she's overheard that Gary wasnher father wants to move the family 'Down South't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainerWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingbest avoided. He handed For Miv, the camp over - move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and then took it back. And Gary determined she'll do anything to have his revengeprevent that. This should have been She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'his'' camps stopped talking - to anyone.
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|isbn=194812467X1398524085|title=The Farm ShopHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicNicci French|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walkdaughter, Etty. Kirelle is dressed for are all weathers in worried but - strangely - her bright yellow wellies and Sam husband, Alec, is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatnot. As they walk to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the top body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outsideriver. Itwas an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all t stand the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsguilt. There The Salter children are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and Sam go shoppingwonder about what really happened. What will they buy?
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