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|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Jenny Lecoat|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary= Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is s father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the latest release in British finally free the ''Everybody Potties!'' series Channel islands from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of potty training children and replace it with some funhim. It's But will the truth come as a worthy aimrelief, as any frustrated parent or will tell you. it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? .And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=B098FFFBH91529428289|title=SnowcubA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Graham FulbrightMartin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and she and her friend are producing a competition entry it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to highlight discover the way in which human beings exploit identities of the animal worldbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip HarrisonAs if this isn't enough to worry about, a lecturer the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nickrecord levels. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet RachelIt's main (if unsuspected) source not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of information: five soft toysa devastating flood.
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|authorisbn= Angharad Walker152919640X|title= The Ash HouseSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash Housenation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He doesn't know s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his name, or why contract stated that he is there but he is used must not serve anything containing miso to the system, used to different places and different facesJessica Holby. He meets Dom who names him Sol She's seriously allergic and sets out to teach him the rules carries an EpiPen in case of The Ash Houseemergencies. These rules centre on Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness busy, live television studio - and complete their chores, working as Brooks served a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash Houseragout to Holby. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will Her EpiPen was nowhere to be changed forever found and The Ash House will never be the same againshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1912626977
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|authorisbn=Yancey Williams0008385068|title=Crosshairs of the DevilThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley
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|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting It's midsummer on in years the Dorset coast and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddieguests gather at The Manor. It's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companytheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life It's workall headed up by Francesca Meadows.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, richwealthy and famous. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea Her husband, British but way westOwen, beyond was the Scillies. There are troll people architect and work is still ongoing on it, and sea-witches, and legends parts of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sailsite. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, heat is oppressive and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of amongst the sea one day eleven years agoguests are enemies as well as friends. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother Old scores are going to be settled and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or notwon't be long before a body is found.|isbn=1788452372
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|author=Erling KaggeAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeWild East|rating=4.5|genre= LifestyleTeens|summary= Those Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a book mostly white school. The move is evidenced initiated by the number of pages with corners turnedRonny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so let me start this one with an apology Ronny finds himself trying to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defencesettle in a new town, I will say that as a reader of this type new school, and keep himself out 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)trouble. Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked He listens to the South Polemusic constantly, the North Pole and the summit has always dreamed of Everest. He knows being a thing or two about walkingrapper. However But now, in this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeysnew school, it is instead a thoughtful exploration his teacher encourages him to be part of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page poetry writing workshop group and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps thenslowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, better thought and the power of as a meditation rather than an essaycreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=02413577050241645441
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|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1635866847|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for heIt's a slight boystrange, and although he wants the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightyou. That Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's because Jack[https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point a picture of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jackslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogret eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunterrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and he'll be given I was told to make a book that tells him all he needs mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to know about fold down the perils he always wanted closer contact withcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. The book's name? I ''Monster Hunting for Beginnersloved''this book already...|isbn=0755501942
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|author=Keith GrayRob Keeley|title=The ClimbersChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the villageAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He has what's known amongst the kids as a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''Childish Spirits'reach'series is one of his greatest achievements. But what happens when It's a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottinghamsequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who clambers up some of can cope with anything the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatenedspirit world throws at her, and not only thatEdward, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being a spoiled lordling and the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=17811299911783064617
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|author=Emma CarrollJenny Valentine|title=The Week at World's EndUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=FirstElk and Mab are best friends, the titleor more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. We They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don're in Worldt get each other's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with contact details at the family dog and with the boy over the roadtime. But we could also be at World's Endthen chance brings them back together, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats and they are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the newsinseparable. That said, Vie Something has news of her own – Annahappened though, 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 Close, said she'd locate something she wanted terrible and leavetragic, failed to leaveand now they must work through their grief, and implied her life was at risktheir friendship, together. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=05713644381471196585
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Kieran Larwood and Tom de FrestonJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Julia and the SharkDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|summary=JuliaMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, our premage and healer enter specially prepared, century-teen heroineold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, has been packed off perhaps bothering with her parents the treasure or the big bad and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for a summerKit, in the far NE only thing he's seen of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingslatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, that kind and a new trio of Scottish islandquestors is needed. Dad is going Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to be automating the lantern, which is goading from the token bully of his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. And JuliaWhat chance does this friendless, wellmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15101077891839945184
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|author=Freya SampsonSaima Mir|title=The Last LibraryVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at was instantly intrigued by the thought premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in north of England run by a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, Muslim woman. The fact that it was the main character, June, does put her hair second in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But series I hadn't read didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because stop me – I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be 've jumped midway into a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up few series before (on going to University page and screen) and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on it needn't be a job as library assistant at the local libraryhindrance if it's good enough. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mumthat wasn's favourite takeaway mealt a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changeI never felt lost.|isbn=183877369X0861541561
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|isbnauthor=0008370982Stuart Douglas|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice FeeneyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and it was Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her dead body of a weekend away in woman on the edge of a converted chapel in Scotlandreservoir. Her husbandThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Adam, isn't so keen on but something about the idea. Like Ameliawhole thing bothers Lowe, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy enlists the help of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping a fellow actor, John Le Breton to adapt than with herhelp him investigate matters further. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abusedseemingly, is never easya link to death during the Second World War. Still - she's won But is there really a link between the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing deaths? And will they manage to come back a couple of days later.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Doug JohnstoneB0CYV674G2|title=The Great SilenceSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5
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|summary=For those whoIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, like mecovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, havencomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't come across killed the man. A body at the Skelfs before, I'll risk bottom of a quick synopsis of whofreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about itbeen stabbed to death. Skelf isn't some fantastic creatureDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely which coincided with the surname birth of a family of undertakershis daughter Samantha. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the matriarch – Californian by birth words 'perverse' and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family 'John Tanner' were made for generationseach other. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her stillHe's sleep-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to graduate with a firstkeep going -class physics degree and join the academic staff next termprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbn=19015149781787333175|title=ThereYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a Problem With Dadglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Carlos AlbaOnyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself
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|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he canAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia't really understand why. Hes increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband childhood for sponsorships and father - influencer deals and a father who was always there for school plays and sports days, basically, monetary gain. So why Now Anuri is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why her twenties and she is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable slowly trying to progress at work or regain her confidence and to relate get her life back, suing her step-mother to his colleagues? take down the content about her. Why does he make Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so many breath-taking gaffes? . It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest that someone who Most importantly, she is a desperately worried about her little different sister, who is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms new focus of AspergerOphelia's Syndrome: high-functioning autismonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|author=Louise CandlishDavid Chadwick|title=The HeightsHeadload of Napalm
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|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. SheIt's on siteSeptember 1973 in Hicks, visiting California. Hicks is a client for Mojave desert town of a lighting consultation when she spies him 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 building across defence contractor are the way. There are lots of thingsmain local employers but otherwise, lots there's not much of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any note other daythan dive bars and Joshua trees. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsLife is quiet, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderuntil....|isbn=1471183483B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=0008421714Tom Percival|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchWill's most successful novel to datelife is difficult, in a multitude of ways. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on He is bullied because he has 'the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningwrong shoes', Patricia asked, as she was wrapping he has the bread, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'but isnt have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't this work because he lost his job at the first time he's based college, was working a character cash-in-hand job on you?'' a building site and had an accident. She mentioned Throw into that mix the fact that Johannahis mum and dad are separated, the principal character had 'her mannerisms'and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Perhaps this would not have matteredHe is good at art, except for and clings to the fact moments of joy when he is drawing, that Johanna is feel like a light at the whore end of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, patheticlong, unloved, unloveable wretchdark tunnel.''|isbn=1398527122
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|author=John BoyneSylvie Cathrall|title=The Echo ChamberA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the There are few television personalities over the age of fifty without greater joys than a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants which lives up to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldcompelling premise. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact And this is bloody funnyone of them.|isbn=08575262190356522776
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|isbn=02419890940008517061|title=The Perfect LifeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Nuala EllwoodStig Abell
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three childrenFormer Metropolitan Police detective, LavenderJake Johnson, Freddie and Barclayhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The boys are There’s perhaps a bit little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a handful which lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is why the future she's making this trip on wants for herself and her own. daughter? The house would be perfect for them. It's For the same month but now we're moment they’re enjoying life in Wimbledon the present and we encounter putting the future on the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorback burner.
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1786482126|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the impossible and unpicked the lock site was going to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has hold seventy-five 'luxury'grop'' to think aboutapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But before that Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, soireesDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez It's amusementdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't even know what , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one of those night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is. But he manages prone to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume sudden bouts of this seriessickness. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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|isbn=B07GZ81J7C0008551324|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Peter CottonNeil Lancaster
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Meet FredIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred Neither side likes or has any respect for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklythe other. But IDavie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'm getting ahead s prepared to tell the police where the body of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred missing person is a snake buried and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himwas responsible for her death. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that This person, he could breathe promises, is someone big and immediately became part of it will be worth the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkpolice doing what he wants. And that was where what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the problem startedremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Fred didnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't have any road sense. Or brakesthink so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0008405026|title= Everybody Pees! A Stranger in the Family (Everybody Potties!Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'ts sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, as any parent will tell youand her father are dead in their bed. But really Initially, why shouldnit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't it be? We all have to learn s something about our bodily functions just the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as we have though it was going to learn about everything else when we are smallbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Why shouldn Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't potty training be as much fun s disappearance: others (such asDerwent's boss, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=17876344930571379877|title=All Her FaultThe Kellerby Code|author=Andrea MaraJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on Robert's a play datetheatre director. She was concerned that he didnHe't have any friends at his new schools also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School Edward has been in an affluent Dublin suburb love with his classmate Jacob Stanza since their university days - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet JacobMost men in Robert's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny position would stay away from Stanza or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo tell Edward that a relationship had disappeared. And so had Jennybegun between them but he's nannynot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Claire NorthJo Callaghan|title=Notes from the Burning AgeLeave No Trace
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|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North When a man is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with found crucified on the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that top of a new and timely genrehill in Nuneaton, cli-fiDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, or climate change fictionthe AI detective Lock. North It's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and their first live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelscase together, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)having previously been very successful with several cold cases. There But when there is a growing unhappiness second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with this limiting worlda 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 one group, the Brotherhoodpotentially, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.out of a career?|isbn=0356514757139851120X
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|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1399613073|title=Girls Who LieMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5
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|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the dark corners first day of Iceland have featured in medical school and their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowfriendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. You thinkOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author which is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed bonus when you aim to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen againbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. This left Laura is a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, perfectionist and a couple of delighted adopterstrauma doctor. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all Anjali is the free spirit of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, group and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in she becomes a third, even more remote placeGP. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from When we first meet them they're at a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, drug and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0925KS87N|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave alcohol- fuelled party and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal going to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to doend in tragedy. Only, his family didnWe don't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found know who suffered the tragedy or the grave consequences. Twenty- five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worryfriends. Tam JuniorThis time, Frankie and Dave wouldnit't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where s their father had been and they were worriedteenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Emily Critchley0241636604|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General FictionTrading Game: A Confession|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursGary Stevenson
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|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= If you're were to bring up an image of a certain vintagecity banker in your mind, ityou's hard re unlikely to read think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a singpin-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street stripe suit and his background is no Ramsay Streetthe East End, thoughwhere he was familiar with violence, Arlo poverty and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbsinjustice. They're one of 18 households There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierLondon School of Economics. They're not quite like all the other families ( Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he's an ex rocker, she's has a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going okfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Until it isn't He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. One hot, clammy, sticky It was his ability at what was, sweaty summeressentially, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the waycard game which got him an internship with Citibank. It's Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to cometrader.|isbn=1789098211
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|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1035021803|title=The Small ThingsAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Although Anna It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has friends at school, been back to the English country village where she feels like she never really fits ingrew up. Her family don She't have enough money to let s back now because of a request for help from her do after school activitiesbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and so she feels like her life at home Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is boring in comparison dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to theirssay the least. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girlvillage: Arthur, Ellieshe feels, is unwell and so can't attend school let her down badly. Even though they were in personbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Instead After the split, she joins worked in with a cafe, met and married James (on the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome rebound from the challenge love of making friends with someone through a robother life, who was murdered) and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=0008350388AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Otegha UwagbaBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterpartscome...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba
I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you'0re eighteen.7% Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of English Literature GCSE students technology in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanmy lifetime.'' I've kept up reasonably well with what'The Booksellers advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK s all getting away from Kenya when she was five years oldme. Her sisters were seven and nineSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. It was her mother who came firstOf course, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled I could research the possibilities and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the family acquired a carlatest conspiracy theorist. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in London and then a place at New College, Oxfordway I could understand.
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|isbnauthor=1787631869Sunny Singh|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been easy but she'd built violently taken over by a good and decent life in the aftermathterrorist group. She's now married to DanielHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine killing everyone on Penleith Beachsite, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billiethere is Sam, Lucy's daughter a wartime photographer and FinAbhi, the child she had with Danielhotel manager. They have financial difficultiesAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, some caused he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by Nick Poveyevents, Danieland keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's partner and so-called best friendhappened through her photography. Nick Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult wait to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernedsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1529153298|title=Kate on the CaseThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression sheIt'd rather be a Catherine – s 1979 and one specific Catherine at thatMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) For Catherine Rodriguez is KateShe's not what's idol, and the author of our heroineworrying Miv's favourite possessionfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'The Special Correspondent Manualdisappeared'doesn't sound quite so frightening. Armed with a plucky father, Miv's upset because she's overheard that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride father wants to move the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksfamily 'Down South'. HoweverWhen you're from Yorkshire, this Down South is a train ride with a differencefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and the move would mean leaving her catbest friend, a thief – and two glowing eyesSharon, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-youshe'll-miss-them styledo anything to prevent that. ItShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's definitely a case for a new young investigative journaliststopped talking - to anyone...|isbn=184812970X
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1398524085|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg''Merge'' saga opens with our heros father, ArchieDuncan Ackerley, back in London in the world of the Bornriver. It's not been was an easy, explaining assumption for the police to his foster parents where make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in t stand the Merge, guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benthere's clock tower little else they can do but get on with their lives and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaywonder about what really happened.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ
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