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|author=Alex FoulkesJenny Lecoat|title=Rules for VampiresBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock end of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuffthe occupation. Now, on During the night of her hundredth birthnightwar, she has Jean's father was arrested for listening to go out a banned radio and hunt her first human. Howeversoldiers took him away one night, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident leaving Jean and burning down an orphanageher mother waiting for years for news of him. Oops! And to make things worse, As the British finally free the ghosts of one of Channel islands from the orphans Nazis, and the evil master war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the orphanage truth come back to haunt her. Soas a relief, not only does Leo have to team up with or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the friendly ghost Minna to stop informer who told the ghost of Nazis about the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each radio? And what othersecrets have been kept throughout the occupation? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1846976537
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|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino1529428289|title=The Devil Makes ThreeA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially grave but when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes they found it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hatesit came with three sets of bones. As a petty act of revenge for making her find They dated back to World War II and deliver such a large requestit fell to Bruno, Tess sticks post-it notes on each the Chief of the booksPolice for St Denis, scribbled with to discover the ugliest insults she can think identities ofthe bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. They As if this isn're never meant t enough to reach himworry about, of coursethe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Her plan is It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to get her anger out like this, release water and then take them all off before delivering themSt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6152919640X|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)The Suspect|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadRob Rinder
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!s only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She' is the latest release s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series case of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some funemergencies. It's Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a worthy aimbusy, as any frustrated parent will tell youlive television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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|isbn=B098FFFBH90008385068|title=SnowcubThe Midnight Feast|author=Graham FulbrightLucy Foley
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|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her schoolIt's animal rights project leader midsummer on the Dorset coast and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldguests gather at The Manor. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate It's their opening weekend and her twin, Nicksplendid celebrations are promised. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet RachelIt's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysall headed up by Francesca Meadows.}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnManor was her ancestral home and she't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to s converted it into an impressive retreat for the system, used to different places wealthy and different facesfamous. He meets Dom who names him Sol Her husband, Owen, was the architect and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre work is still ongoing on a variety parts of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmastersite. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace heat is shattered by oppressive and amongst the arrival of the Doctorguests are enemies as well as friends. By the end of the story, lives will Old scores are going to be changed forever settled and The Ash House will never it won't be the same againlong before a body is found.|isbn=1912626977
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|author=Yancey WilliamsAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Crosshairs of the DevilWild East
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|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on Written in years andverse, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddiethis is Ronny's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing homestory, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companyyoung black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. Nothing The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, worried for his readers, are his wanderings through his lifeRonny's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In safety after a wordtragic event, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildseanew town, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on ita new school, and sea-witches, and legends keep himself out of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sailtrouble. 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 He listens to worry about such local yokel superstitionsmusic constantly, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out has always dreamed of the sea one day eleven years agobeing a rapper. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himselfnow, in this new school, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world teacher encourages him to be part of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Erling Kagge|title=Walking: One Step At A Time|rating=5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defencepoetry writing workshop group and, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased cornersslowly, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked Ronny begins to see the South Poleconnections between rap and poetry, the North Pole and the summit power of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page creativity and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essaycrafting 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 beforebottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Iwas tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'll risk a quick synopsis of who' after enjoying Adam Kay's who – although Johnstone does first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a good job glorious mixture of bringing insight into the backstory in without being heavy handed about itworkings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. Skelf isn ''You Don't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought Have to be, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakersMad.. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is '' promised the matriarch – Californian by birth same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and instinct, she married the work of a scot and ended up helping psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been be looking for humour in this setting but the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with laughter is directed at a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – situation rather than a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter person and it is about to graduate always delivered with a first-class physics degree empathy and join the academic staff next termunderstanding.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbnauthor=1901514978Onyi Nwabineli|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=General Fiction
|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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|genre=Thrillers
|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 think, seeing on the map that we're set in AkranesOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author which is clutching at the few final straws lefta bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. 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 Laura is a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, perfectionist and was never seen againa trauma doctor. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with Anjali is the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for free spirit of the girl back, group and she becomes a couple of delighted adoptersGP. But it left our three detectives When we first meet them they're at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away going to end in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placetragedy. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother We don't know who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodysuffered the tragedy or the consequences. Is the assumption Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that is so easy for will impact the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B0925KS87N0241636604|title=Dead ManThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and 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 stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tam Hardie had It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been determined back to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemeteryEnglish country village where she grew up. It was She's back now because of a strange thing request for Scotlandhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's premier criminal former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to do, but Tam say the least. Arthur was getting old and there were things he wanted the reason why Freya had not been back to dothe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. OnlyEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found she has not felt able to be near the grave - man or pursue the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worryprofession she loved. Tam JuniorAfter the split, Frankie she worked in a cafe, met and Dave wouldn't normally go to married James (on the rebound from the police but they weren't certain where their father had been love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and they were worriedJames have now divorced.
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|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=35|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures ''Opening up new ways of Small Flowers had all thinking about the hallmarks shape of something goodthings to come. '' I was intrigued by the plot've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, liked I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the design feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the book, possibilities and thought the authorprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's work sounded interestingre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}}
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|author=Sarah LanganSunny Singh|title=Good NeighboursHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of The Hotel Arcadia is a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''terrorist group. Maple Street Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is no Ramsay StreetSam, thougha wartime photographer and Abhi, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbshotel manager. They're one of 18 households on As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved residents who are still alive in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (hotel, he's an ex rocker, she's forms a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and itkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's all going okhappened through her photography. Until it isn't. One hot Although they only ever talk over the phone, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and chaos, but for they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to cometerrorists.|isbn=1789098211086154742X
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|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1529153298|title=The Small List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, she feels like she never really fits inhonestly... Her ) She's not what's worrying Miv's family don, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she feels like 's overheard that her life at home is boring in comparison father wants to theirsmove the family 'Down South'. When a new girl joins her classyou're from Yorkshire, Anna Down South is asked to partner hera frightening, but things are complicated because the new girlforeign place, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in personbest avoided. Instead For Miv, she joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robotmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and is she even interesting enough 'll do anything to be a good friend prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649anyone.
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|isbn=00083503881398524085|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Otegha UwagbaNicci French
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|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirables fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, less hireablesons Niall, less intelligent Paul 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 of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven Ollie and nineher daughter, Etty. It was are all worried but - strangely - her mother who came firsthusband, with her father joining them laterAlec, is not. The family was hard-workingShortly afterwards, principled Etty and determined that their children would have Greg, find the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness body of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. When Otegha It was ten an easy assumption for the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship police to a private school in London make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then a place at New College, Oxford.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787631869|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadncommitted suicide when he couldn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in stand the aftermathguilt. SheThe Salter children are not convinced but there's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and little else they live at Wild Ridge can do but get on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick their lives and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in 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 concernedwonder about what really happened.
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