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|isbnauthor=1800464495Jenny Lecoat|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma SmithBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=''Babies seem to be born Jean lives on Jersey with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in her mother where they are celebrating the womb, being aware end of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months oldthe occupation. During the war, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.Jean'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry s father was arrested for listening to school is a strong predictor of later achievementbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, double that leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of literacy skillshim.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, teaching pen gripsand the war is finally over, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when their hopes rise that they start schoolwill finally learn what became of him. But do we think will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the same way informer who told the Nazis about maths, beyond countingthe radio? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.|isbn=1846976537
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|isbn=15293793851529428289|title=The Madness of Crowds A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief Inspector Gamacheof Police Novel)|author=Louise PennyMartin Walker|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the Canadian village Because of Three Pinesvarious property transactions, we're post-pandemic: people were searching for the scars are still there grave but life is starting to get when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to normal. The villagers are beginning World War II and it fell to return Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the Bistro bodies and the Aubergeestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. TheyAs if this isn're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives t enough to stayworry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for It's not just the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves local autumn rains that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to be around - release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintdevastating flood.
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|isbn= B09F4CTKJR152919640X|title= Flights for FreedomThe Suspect|author= Steven BurgauerRob Rinder
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|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=ItThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's the later stages of World War I celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and the United States has just entered the conflicthis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up She's seriously allergic and joined the 17 Aero Squadroncarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be trained in Canadaa busy, the first live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be attached to the RAF found and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combatshe was dead within minutes. But before It was soon clear that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelthis was no accident.
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|isbn=183885410X0008385068|title=The Dark RemainsMidnight Feast|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinLucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Bobby Carter It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was a lawyer her ancestral home and consigliere to one of she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowwealthy and famous. DC Jack Laidlaw Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the CID team charged with site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the investigationguests are enemies as well as friends. I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems Old scores are going to be a part of settled and it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and won''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's t be long before a body was is found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.
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|isbnauthor=1942410255Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoWild East
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|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workWritten in verse, often unpaid'' Itthis is Ronny's the culturestory, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to do: you'll work more hours move to get the job done Norwich and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukastart at a mostly white school. When he was found dead in front of Senden CentralThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's headquarters safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or griefa new town, even from his familya new school, but there was a mild curiosity as and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to whether he'd jumped from the roof music constantly, and has always dreamed of the building or been assisted in his descentbeing a rapper. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employeeBut now, Mayu Yamasein this new school, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka his teacher encourages him to be part of bullying her a poetry writing workshop group and forcing her , slowly, Ronny begins to work an unreasonable amount see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of overtimecreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=02414254251635866847|title=The Man Who Died TwiceLavender Companion|author=Richard OsmanJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from 's strange, the Thames and who had never existed but then things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basisbook for you. When she visits the sender of the letter (heBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''s moved into , I visited the Cooperauthor's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it[https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's someone with whom she has a long professional history picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - and who used to be her husbandbut I wanted that cake viscerally. He(There's made a bad mistake - something recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to do with make a mask being removed within mess of it. Notes in the range margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threatsproblem. HeI ''loved's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressthis book already.
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|author=Andrew SharpRob Keeley|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Around here, we're big fans of children'Leos author Rob Keeley. He' for short) is s a Vampire. She drinks bloodball of happy positivity, she sleeps during the dayhe understands children, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, although not all of them remember to come back)lecture or hector. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and hunt her first humanhis greatest achievements. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts It's a sequence of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Soghost stories centring on Ellie, not only does Leo have to team up a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulspirit world throws at her, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? YeahEdward, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=147119955X1783064617
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|author=Tori BovalinoJenny Valentine|title=The Devil Makes ThreeUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over once in a hundred books that she has to deliver herselflifetime connection. What makes it worse is They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the man who requested the books: Mr Birchtime. The boarding school's headmaster But then chance brings them back together, and a man Tess hatesthey are inseparable. As a petty act of revenge for making her find Something has happened though, something terrible and deliver such a large requesttragic, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like thisand now they must work through their grief, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would betheir friendship, if someone hadn't delivered them for hertogether.|isbn=17890981301471196585
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|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is Meet Kit. Like most of the latest release people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series sport where a team of fun picture books aims warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to take the pain out of potty training children exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and replace it with some funthe points they grant you along the way. It Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a worthy aimnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as any frustrated parent will tell youa team. .What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Saima Mir|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight I was instantly intrigued by the way premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal north of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, England run by a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, NickMuslim woman. Kate runs The fact that it was the family business, second in a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where weseries I hadn't read didn'll meet Rachelt stop me – I's main ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysit's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author= Angharad WalkerStuart Douglas|title= The Ash HouseLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The Ash House. He doesn't know his namepolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, or why he is there but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he is used to enlists the systemhelp of a fellow actor, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out John Le Breton to teach help him the rules of The Ash Houseinvestigate matters further. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by They travel across the absent Headmaster. All children must remember country during their Niceness days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and complete their chores, working as seemingly, a hive in link to death during the smouldering shadows of The Ash HouseSecond World War. But soon their easy peace is shattered by there really a link between the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.?|isbn=19126269771803368209
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|authorisbn=Yancey WilliamsB0CYV674G2|title=Crosshairs of the DevilSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=AwardIt seemed like an open-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and-shut case. A man, despite his strenuous objections covered in mud and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living blood - or imprisonedand carrying a knife, from Eddiecomes into the police station shouting that he hasn's point of view - in room 315 of t killed the man. A body at the Garden bottom of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companyfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Nothing DCI John Tanner is going to keep Eddie just back from his stock-in-trade honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of writing though, so here, his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for his readers, are his wanderings through his lifeeach other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at workbut he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=0986031658}}
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|authorisbn=Philip Reeve1787333175|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
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|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=In 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 word, rich. There is certainly an abundance glorious mixture of insight into the workings of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on itNHS, humour and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has autobiography. ''You Don't Have to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sailbe Mad... The current Darks are '' promised the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity same elements but moved from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head physical problems to worry about such local yokel superstitions, mental illness and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or notis always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1788452372
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|author=Erling KaggeOnyi Nwabineli|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre= LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by Anuri spent her childhood on display to the number of pages with corners turnedworld, so let me start this one with an apology thanks to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defenceher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, I will say that as a reader where she posted every step of this type of book there Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it in her twenties and she is subtle – I'll allow creased cornersslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, but not scribbles – for suing her step-mother to take down the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am content about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why)her. Erligg Kagge Anuri is a Norwegian explorer who has walked battling alcoholism, failing to the South Polestart her PhD, the North Pole undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walkingreceiving money from them for doing so. However Most importantly, this isn't a travelogue she is desperately worried about any of those epic journeysher little sister, it who is instead a thoughtful exploration the new focus of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no Ophelia'contents' page and I haven't counteds online empire. In small format paperback Can she save her sister, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=02413577050861546873
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|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultDavid Chadwick|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersHeadload of Napalm
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for heIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a slight boy, few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, A silver mine and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, Jack will fluke the ogrethere's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunternot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact withuntil. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942B0D321VJ76
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|author=Keith GrayTom Percival|title=The ClimbersWrong Shoes|rating=45
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|summary=Sully Will's life is the best tree climber difficult, in the villagea multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has what's known amongst the kids as 'reachwrong shoes'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of he has the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that wrong shoes because his status is being threateneddad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and not only that, that his chance to name dad can't work because he lost his job at the finalcollege, unnamed big tree was working a cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the park by being the first to conquer itfact that his mum and dad are separated, might be snatched from his handsand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friendyet, or maybe even all he still has a tiny amount of his friendshope. He is good at art, and clings to do so?the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17811299911398527122
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|author=Emma CarrollSylvie Cathrall|title=The Week at World's EndA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=First, the title. We're in World's End Close, There are few greater joys than a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie book which lives up to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offcompelling premise. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else And this is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news one of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at riskthem. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=05713644380356522776
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|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston0008517061|title=Julia and the SharkDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=JuliaFormer Metropolitan Police detective, our pre-teen heroineJake Johnson, has been packed off settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her parents daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and their cat from the family home relaxing life to move in SW England with Livia or does Livia move to be lighthousekeepers Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. herself and her daughter? Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating For the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career moment they’re enjoying life in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick present and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightputting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1510107789
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson1786482126|title=The Last LibraryJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always a little nervous Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the thought bones of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on child beneath a chain stereotypes! In doorway. There was no skull. Was this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bunritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett)Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didnbut Nelson doesn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why that she lived is pregnant with his child as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care result of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died one night they spent together some years three months ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck Her condition will be obvious before long, but little does she know, everything in her life not least because Ruth is about the changeprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=183877369X
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|isbn=00083709820008551324|title=Rock Paper ScissorsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Alice FeeneyNeil Lancaster
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|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Amelia Wright It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is forty-two struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and it who was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave responsible for her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotlanddeath. Her husbandThis person, Adamhe promises, isn't so keen on is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the idearemainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Like AmeliaNot much to ask, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: heis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a screenwriter t think so and heshe's never shy of making it clear even prepared to Amelia do the other thing that heHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what'd prefer to spend time with s happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the novels heFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's hoping to adapt than with sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from herbed one summer night. Amelia's annoyed that he She was never enquires about how her day has been - found and working with the dogsinvestigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, many of whom have been abusedHelena, is never easyand her father are dead in their bed. Still - sheInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's won something about the positioning of the weekend away, even if bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat was going to be an open- and then doing -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the same thing to come back a couple of days laterexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.
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|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone0571379877|title=The Great SilenceKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those whoEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, like meobsessed with his upper-class friends, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of whoRobert and Stanza. Robert's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about ittheatre director. Skelf isn He't some fantastic creatures also self-obsessed, though it sounds as though it ought to bedemanding, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers handsome and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth entitled and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping uses Edward to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had errands for him. Edward has been in the family for generations. Recently widowed love with Stanza since their university days - and now involved with a black Swedish police officerhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is about left to graduate with stumble upon the two of them kissing in a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next termdark passageway.|isbn=1913193837
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|isbnauthor=1901514978Jo Callaghan|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Life When a man is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand whyfound 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. HeIt's always done everything he ought to: steady workertheir first live case together, husband and father - and a father who was always there for school plays and sports dayshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. So why But when there is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is someone suddenly struggling with such a ''good'' mind unable potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? their AI Future Policing project. It's almost become a cliche these days Will they be able to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on solve the spectrum'case in time, but George Lovelace has all or will Kat find herself taken off the symptoms case and, potentially, out of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autism.a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Louise Candlish1399613073|title=The HeightsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
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|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first dayof medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. She's on site Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, visiting which is a bonus when you aim to be a client for cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a lighting consultation when trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she spies him becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in a building across the waytragedy. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn We don't one Ellen expected that day know who suffered the tragedy or in fact any other daythe consequences. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two Twenty-five yearslater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1471183483
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|isbn=00084217140241636604|title=Mrs MarchThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Virginia FeitoGary Stevenson
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|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=The problem began just after the publication If you were to bring up an image of George Marcha city banker in your mind, you's most successful novel re unlikely to datethink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on A hoodie and jeans replaces the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to pin-stripe suit and his background is the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningEast End, Patricia askedwhere he was familiar with violence, as she poverty and injustice. There was wrapping the bread, ''no posh public school on his CV - but isn't this he had been to the first time London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he's based has a character on you?'' facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. She mentioned He also realised that Johannamost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Perhaps Eventually, this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''turned into permanent employment as a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchtrader.''
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|authorisbn=John Boyne1035021803|title=The Echo ChamberAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet George CleverleyIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He is self-defined as "one She's back now because of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she Freya's former mentor and Carole's carrying his childclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withleast. They have three children Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoevershe feels, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallinglet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants she has not felt able to save be near the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing man or pursue the gay hustle thingprofession she loved. Add After the split, she worked in a few other characters – therapistscafe, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and you Freya and James have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldnow divorced. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219
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|isbn=0241989094AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Perfect LifeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nuala EllwoodBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclayshape of things to come. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them.'
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|author=Darren ShanSunny Singh|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=SoThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Having done Hiding from the impossible terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and unpicked Abhi, the lock hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the Forgotten Crypthotel, from which the Departed communicate he forms a bond with the MergeSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Archie now has ''grop'' and keeps on venturing out of her room to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much try to Inezcapture what's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those ishappened through her photography. But he manages to come through Although they only ever talk over the fancy party unscathedphone, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the first volume of this seriesterrorists. |isbn=B093J9TF73086154742X
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|isbn=B07GZ81J7C1529153298|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Peter CottonJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet FredIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, actuallythey've been murdered, youbut to have 'disappeared' doesn're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklyt sound quite so frightening. But IMiv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'm getting ahead of myself: IDown South'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of For Miv, the familymove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to the extent prevent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And She's not worried about the dangers or that was where the problem started. Fred didnher Mum't have any road sense. Or brakess stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1398524085|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Can potty training ever be joyousHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHH}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787634493|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her sonhusband, MiloAlec, to go on a play dateis not. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - Shortly afterwards, Etty and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? OnlyGreg, when Marissa arrived at find the house, expecting to meet Jacobbody of Greg's motherfather, JennyDuncan Ackerley, in the door river. It was answered by Esther, who didnan easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't know Jenny or Jacobstand the guilt. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was Salter children are not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jennyconvinced but there's nannylittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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