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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettJenny Lecoat|title=Locked Out LilyBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she's been told to stay Jean lives on Jersey with her grandma for a few daysmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. The parents need During the relief as Lilywar, Jean's baby sibling is just about father was arrested for listening to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already banned radio and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra mother waiting for years for news of her parentshim. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the babe-in-armswar is finally over, already installedtheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get But will the family back intacttruth come as a relief, even if or will it's not raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake.occupation?|isbn=14711948331846976537
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1529428289|title=The Great Dream RobberyA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongBecause of various property transactions, and now he can't wake up. Or at leastpeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, that's what Maya has been toldit came with three sets of bones. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friendThey dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, and discovers that the only way Chief of Police for St Denis, to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams discover the identities of the bodies and reality collideestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels..really...and there It's everything from llamas not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to St Denis faces the possibility of a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xdevastating flood.
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|isbn=1800464495152919640X|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsThe Suspect|author=Emma SmithRob Rinder
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=The nation''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombs favourite daytime TV presenter, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months oldJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldit seems that there's only one suspect. He'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skillsJessica Holby. She'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in literacy case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - reading stories, teaching pen gripsas normal as they can be in a busy, singing rhymes live television studio - gives children and Brooks served a solid foundation when they start schoolragout to Holby. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows It was soon clear that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialthis was no accident.
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|isbn=15293793850008385068|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Midnight Feast|author=Louise PennyLucy Foley
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt're post-pandemic: s midsummer on the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normalDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. The villagers It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are beginning to return to the Bistro and the Aubergepromised. TheyIt're visiting each others all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's homes converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and having friends famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and relatives to staywork is still ongoing on parts of the site. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize The heat is one such visitor oppressive and she soon proves that not all saints amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are necessarily pleasant people going to be around - settled and it won't be long before a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintbody is found.
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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerWild East
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|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is story, a young American black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has signed up to move to Norwich and joined the 17 Aero Squadronstart at a mostly white school. This company was the first US Aero Squadron The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to be trained settle in Canadaa new town, a new school, the first and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to be attached to the RAF music constantly, and the first has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be sent into the skies part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to fight see the Germans in active combat. But before that can happenconnections between rap and poetry, Petrol has to master flying and the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelpower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|isbn=183885410X1635866847|title=The Dark RemainsLavender Companion|author=William McIlvanney Jessica Dunham and Ian RankinTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowbook for you. DC Jack Laidlaw is Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the CID team charged with the investigationhomepage. I say don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There'on s a recipe in the teambook, which I'' but Laidlaw never really seems m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to be make a part mess of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carterloved's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsthis book already.
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|isbnauthor=1942410255Rob Keeley|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'Zangyo: overtime works author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, often unpaid''not to lecture or hector.
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|isbnauthor=0241425425Jenny Valentine|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Elizabeth Best was Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a little surprised when she received the letteronce in a lifetime connection. It came from They meet as children one day on a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and who had never existed trip out but then this is unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basistime. When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - But then chance brings them back together, and who used to be her husbandthey are inseparable. He's made a bad mistake - Something has happened though, something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raidterrible and tragic, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threats. He's now in hiding with a young woman called Pollythey must work through their grief, and their friendship, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitresstogether.|isbn=1471196585
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|author=Andrew SharpKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his employer - isworld, in his mindit seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the head chef sport where a team of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and dedicated race to his task the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he puts all 's seen of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to become the head chef goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin starteam. He is thwarted in What chance does this ambition by his bossfriendless, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy waysmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the house.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=B09926MK8H1839945184
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|author=Alex FoulkesSaima Mir|title=Rules for VampiresVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a VampireMuslim woman. She drinks blood, she sleeps during The fact that it was the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, few series before (on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out page and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident screen) and burning down an orphanageit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt herthat wasn't a problem here. So, not only does Leo have to team Vengeance swiftly brings you up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulspeed, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familyand I never felt lost. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X0861541561
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|author=Tori BovalinoStuart Douglas|title=The Devil Makes ThreeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Working all summer in her boarding schoolDuring location filming for his 1970's library is sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets dead body of a request for over woman on the edge of a hundred books that she has reservoir. The police seem happy to deliver herself. What makes assign it worse is as an accidental death, but something about the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmasterwhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a man Tess hatesfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. As a petty act of revenge for making her find They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the booksseemingly, scribbled with a link to death during the ugliest insults she can think ofSecond World War. They're never meant But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to reach him, of course. Her plan uncover who is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off responsible before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.more people lose their lives?|isbn=17890981301803368209
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6B0CYV674G2|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! Swanton Morley (Everybody Potties!John Tanner)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the latest release in birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'Everybody Potties!and 'John Tanner' series from Justine Averywere made for each other. This series of fun picture books aims He's sleep-deprived to take the pain out point of potty training children and replace it with some fun. Itfalling asleep at work but he's a worthy aim, as determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any frustrated parent will tell you. sleep at home.
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|isbn=B098FFFBH91787333175|title=SnowcubYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Graham FulbrightBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionPopular Science|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her schoolI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a competition entry to highlight glorious mixture of insight into the way in which human beings exploit workings of the animal worldNHS, humour and autobiography. She gets a great deal ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nickpsychiatrist. Kate runs I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the family business, laughter is directed at a situation rather than a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which person and it is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysalways delivered with empathy and understanding.
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|author= Angharad WalkerOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Ash HouseAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia't know his names increasingly popular presence on social media, or why he where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is there but he in her twenties and she is used slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the systemcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, used failing to different places start her PhD, undergoing therapy and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol secretly abusing people online and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash Housereceiving money from them for doing so. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace who is shattered by the arrival new focus of the DoctorOphelia's online empire. By the end of the story Can she save her sister, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same again.time?|isbn=19126269770861546873
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|author=Yancey WilliamsDavid Chadwick|title=Crosshairs Headload of the DevilNapalm
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|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from EddieIt's point of view - September 1973 in room 315 Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of the Garden a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of Eden nursing home, with only LA and Las Vegas both a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companysignificant drive away. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-Not much happens in-trade of writing thoughHicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his lifethere's worknot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn=0986031658B0D321VJ76}}
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|author=Philip ReeveTom Percival|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepThe Wrong Shoes
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|summary=In Will's life is difficult, in a word, richmultitude of ways. There He is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildseabullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', British but way west, beyond he has the Scillies. There are troll people on it, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch doesn't have enough money for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watchermost basic of things like food, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Hidden Landscollege, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science was working a cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsmum and dad are separated, and AndreweWill's foundling daughterlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, who washed up out he still has a tiny amount of the sea one day eleven years agohope. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself He is good at art, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into clings to the world moments of protecting their islandjoy when he is drawing, that feel like it or nota light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17884523721398527122
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|author=Erling KaggeSylvie Cathrall|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeLetter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre= LifestyleScience Fiction|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved There are few greater joys than 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 defence, 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 corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about lives up to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everestcompelling premise. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, And 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 one of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page 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 essaythem.|isbn=02413577050356522776
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|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault0008517061|title=Monster Hunting For Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, 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 AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, Death in a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942}}{{FrontpageLonely Place|author=Keith Gray|title=The ClimbersStig Abell
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. But what happens when There’s perhaps a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some little uncertainty about the future of the hardest trees his life with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatenedvet girlfriend, Livia and not only thather daughter Diana, that as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his chance off-grid and relaxing life to name move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the final, unnamed big tree moment they’re enjoying life in the park by being present and putting the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his handsfuture on the back burner. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll1786482126|title=The Week at World's EndJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=First, Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the title. Wesite was going to hold seventy-five 're in Worldluxury's End Close, apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a mediocre set of housesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) Dr Ruth Galloway finds fun only herself working with the family dog and with the boy over the roadDCI Harry Nelson. But we could also be at World It's Enddifficult as Ruth knows, because something taking but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a great chunk result of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offone night they spent together some three months ago. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore Her condition will be obvious before long, and not much else least because Ruth is able prone to make the news. That said, Vie has news sudden bouts of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedsickness. 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 risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438
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|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston0008551324|title=Julia and the SharkThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for a summer, the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the far NE police where the body of the Scottish islandsa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Here This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be Vikings, that kind of Scottish islandworth the police doing what he wants. Dad And what he wants is going to be automating transferred to an open prison to serve the lantern, which is remainder of his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind sentence and to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkget an early parole date. And Julia, wellNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she will be homesick 's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1510107789
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|authorisbn=Freya Sampson0008405026|title=The Last LibraryA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, It's sixteen years since I am a librariannine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. I always grit my teeth slightly at She was never found and the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in investigation ground to a bunhalt. Now, cat-owningher mother, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this storyHelena, the main character, June, does put and her hair father are dead in a buntheir bed. Initially, and she does own it looks like 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 I didnstraightforward murder/suicide but there't immediately throw s something about the book out positioning of the window, because I found I was interested in June, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and why she lived her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as she did. Her mum used though it was going to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University an open-and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on -shut case is now a job as library assistant at the local librarycomplex double murder. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she Kerrigan is still working there, still eating her mumconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mumdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's old books. June is stuckboss, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changeUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=183877369X
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|isbn=00083709820571379877|title=Rock Paper ScissorsThe Kellerby Code|author=Alice FeeneyJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Amelia Wright Edward Jevons is fortya working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-two class friends, Robert and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in Stanza. Robert's a converted chapel in Scotlandtheatre director. Her husbandHe's also self-obsessed, Adamdemanding, isn't so keen on the ideahandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage Edward has been under strain: he's a screenwriter in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that drunkenly confided how he'd prefer feels to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with herRobert. AmeliaMost men in Robert's annoyed position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - she's won not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her two of them kissing in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days laterdark passageway.
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|author=Doug JohnstoneJo Callaghan|title=The Great SilenceLeave No Trace
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|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across When a man is found crucified on the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis top of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory hill in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creatureNuneaton, though it sounds as though it ought DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to bethe case alongside her sidekick, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakersAI detective Lock. Undertakers and private investigators It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Dorothy But when there is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instincta second body found crucified a few days later, she married Kat is suddenly struggling with a scot potential serial killer and ended up helping a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to run solve the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the family for generations. Recently widowed case and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46potentially, is haunted by her still-living husband – out of a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.career?|isbn=1913193837139851120X
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|isbn=19015149781399613073|title=There's a Problem With DadMoral Injuries|author=Carlos AlbaChristie Watson
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|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Life is different Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for George Lovelace and he can't really understand whya quarter of a century. He's always done everything he ought Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to: steady worker, husband and father - and be a father who was always there for school plays and sports dayscardiothoracic surgeon. So why Laura is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Why Anjali is someone with such the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'goods going to end in tragedy. We don'' mind unable to progress at work t know who suffered the tragedy or to relate to his colleagues? the consequences. Why does he make so many breathTwenty-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest five years later there will be an eerily similar event that someone who is a little different is 'on will impact the spectrum'three friends. This time, but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Aspergerit's Syndrome: high-functioning autismtheir teenage children who are involved.
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|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0241636604|title=The HeightsTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Ellen doesnIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you't expect re unlikely to see Kieran that daythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. She's on site A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the waypoverty and injustice. There are lots was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of things, lots 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 peopleto be stupid. It was his ability at what was, you might see when you look out across Londonessentially, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other daya card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years Eventually, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had turned into permanent employment as a hand in his murdertrader.|isbn=1471183483
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|isbn=00084217141035021803|title=Mrs MarchThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Virginia FeitoC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George MarchIt's most successful novel twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to datethe English country village where she grew up. Everyone but Mrs March (we know She's back now because of a request for help from her first name only on beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the last page) seemed circumstances seem suspicious, to either be reading it or had already done sosay the least. Every day Mrs March went Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningvillage: Arthur, Patricia askedshe feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she was wrapping has not felt able to be near the bread, ''but isn't this man or pursue the first time he's based a character on you?'' profession she loved. She mentioned that JohannaAfter the split, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have matteredshe worked in a cafe, except for met and married James (on the fact that Johanna is rebound from the whore love of Nantes - ''a weakher life, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.''
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|authorisbn=John BoyneAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Echo ChamberAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the few television personalities over the age shape of fifty without a criminal record"things to come. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife ' I've heard it said that 'technology' is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withwhat happens after you're eighteen. They Well, I must confess that there have three children, who are been more than a sad-sack few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around what's advantageous to me but I'm left with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the worldfeeling that it's homeless with outall getting away from me. Some of it is -offrankly -date foodquite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and a fit young lad doing end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the gay hustle thinglatest conspiracy theorist. Add I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information 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 worldway I could understand. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219
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|isbnauthor=0241989094Sunny Singh|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In August 2018 we meet The Hotel Arcadia is a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a house in Goring-terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three childrensite, Lavenderthere is Sam, Freddie a wartime photographer and Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her ownAbhi, the hotel manager. The house would be perfect As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for them. It's the same month but now we're residents who are still alive in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young womanhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, only this time she's job hunting and living in keeps on venturing out of her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where sheto try to capture what's been since she broke up with happened through her boyfriendphotography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, Connortheir 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 terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529153298|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides The List of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=SoIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt (A woman? I mean, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has honestly...) She's not what'grops worrying Miv'' to think abouts family, though. Women have been disappearing. But before that Well, soirees. Soirees! Archiethey've been murdered, much but to Inezhave 'disappeared's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South isa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. But he manages to come through For Miv, the fancy party unscathedmove would mean leaving her best friend, even after an uncomfortable encounter with KurtisSharon, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the first volume of this seriesdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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|isbn=B07GZ81J7C1398524085|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Peter CottonNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Meet FredCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. WellHer children, actuallysons Niall, you're going to be meeting FredPaul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred her husband, Alec, is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himnot. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe Shortly afterwards, Etty and immediately became part Greg, find the body of the familyGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, to in the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkriver. And that It was where an easy assumption for the problem started. Fred didnpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't have any road sensestand the guilt. Or brakesThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.
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