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|author=John GwynneMax Boucherat|title=The Shadow Of The GodsLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is We meet Lori on the first installment of evening she's got the Bloodsworn Sagahouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, set mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the era of the Vikings world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in the shadow of RagnarokLori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, when and then she finds something even more spooky. For the Gods have battled server she and her bestie and their bones lie scattered for all nobody else should be able to seeenter shows signs of tampering. This story is When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the ultimate in High Fantasygame has been doctored – well, and John Gwynne certainly does justice where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the genreoccupation. During the war, with mythical creaturesJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, archaic language leaving Jean and battles galoreher mother waiting for years for news of him. This As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is a thick bookfinally over, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters their hopes rise that are woven together to create they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=03565142181846976537

|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529428289|title=Endless ObsessionA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Dai HenleyMartin Walker

|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy FloodBecause of various property transactions, formerly a DCI in people were searching for the Met grave but now a well-respected private investigatorwhen they found it, it came with three sets of bones. He's married They dated back to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, Gemma World War II and Pippait fell to Bruno, have flown the nestChief of Police for St Denis, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with discover the identities of the family, bodies and Gemma to married lifeestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. SheAs if this isn's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide t enough to worry about, the support she needsDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. FloodIt's business is going well and not just the local autumn rains that was why he felt able have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to turn down release water and St Denis faces the case possibility of Lisa Blacka devastating flood.

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou152919640X|title=The StoningSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleyJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and sheit seems that there's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumpsonly one suspect. When she He's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso toJessica Holby. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it She's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in protest at their conditionscase of emergencies. Cue the arrival of George Manolis Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a higher rank from the city, ragout to sort everything outHolby. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going Her EpiPen was nowhere to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law.be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0008385068|title=The Mystery of HealingMidnight Feast|author=A P McGrathLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heIt's midsummer on the physician on duty Dorset coast and guests gather at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populaceThe Manor. The remuneration isnIt't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue s their opening weekend and hones his skills: Solon splendid celebrations are promised. It''wants'' the warriors to lives all headed up by Francesca Meadows. ItThe Manor was her ancestral home and she's quite a spectacle: converted it into an impressive retreat for the magistri are wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the charge hands architect and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto work is still ongoing on parts of the lions' manes to make them look more impressivesite. The sagitarii are the archers heat is oppressive and amongst the beastiarii guests are the condemned criminals who enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, be settled and itwon's the crocodilest be long before a body is found.

|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Beatryce ProphecyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises Written in them''verse, we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous is Ronny's story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and the agelessness it has in equal proportionstart at a mostly white school. We start with The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a group of monkstragic event, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingand so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendinga new school, trampling on and biting the poor Brotherskeep himself out of trouble. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach He listens to a homeless girlmusic constantly, one who and has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memoryalways dreamed of being a rapper. Elsewhere sits a King But now, in this new school, his castleteacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, desperate slowly, Ronny begins to find see the girlconnections between rap and poetry, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat and the throne power of creativity and cause great changecrafting your words. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=15295008930241645441

|isbn=B09FFJF8YS1635866847|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)The Lavender Companion|author=Justine Avery Jessica Dunham and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out LilyTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Lily isIt's strange, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief shethe things that make you ''immediately''s been told to stay with her grandma feel that this is the book for a few daysyou. Before I started reading ''The parents need Lavender Companion'', I visited the relief as Lilyauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word picture of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra a slice of her parents, chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and the babedesserts -but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactbook, even if itwhich I's not m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the family Lily wants – book and all she has I was told to help her make a mess of it. Notes in the task margins are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakesanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1471194833

|author=Greg James and Chris SmithRob Keeley|title=The Great Dream RobberyChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54

|summary=MayaAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongball of happy positivity, he understands children, and now he canwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits''t wake upseries is one of his greatest achievements. Or at least, thatIt's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a new friend, and discovers that stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the only way to save spirit world throws at her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams , and reality collide...really...and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offsEdward, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=024147051X1783064617

|isbnauthor=1800464495Jenny Valentine|title= 100 Ways Us in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smiththe Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombElk and Mab are best friends, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months oldor more than that even, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school their friendship is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skillsonce in a lifetime connection.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives They meet as children one day on a solid foundation when trip out but unfortunately they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we doget each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, in part because so many of us and they are afraid of mathsinseparable. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialtheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=1529379385Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In Meet Kit. Like most of the Canadian village people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Three PinesDungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, we're postmage and healer enter specially prepared, century-pandemic: old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return to treasure or the Bistro big bad and the Aubergepoints they grant you along the way. They're visiting each otherUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's homes seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and having friends and relatives to staya new trio of questors is needed. A young Sudanese woman who Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has been nominated for taken to the goading from the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor token bully of his world and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a bit like Vincent Gilbertteam. What chance does this friendless, known muscle-free-zone have in the village as the Asshole Saint.actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRSaima Mir|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=It's I was instantly intrigued by the later stages premise of World War I and this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is north of England run by a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero SquadronMuslim woman. This company The fact that it was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained second in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and the first to it needn't be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combata hindrance if it's good enough. But before And that can happenwasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Cameland I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=183885410XStuart Douglas|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney Lowe and Ian RankinLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and consigliere to one Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowedge of a reservoir. DC Jack Laidlaw is on The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the CID team charged with whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the investigationhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. I say ''on They travel across the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to be a part of itdeath during the Second World War. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers But is there really a link between the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1942410255B0CYV674G2|title=Tokyo Zangyo Swanton Morley (Detective HiroshiJohn Tanner)|author=Michael PronkoDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the cultureseemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just covered in mud and blood - and carrying a statement of knife, comes into the minimum youpolice station shouting that he hasn'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get t killed the job done and done to man. A body at the satisfaction bottom of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his familyhoneymoon, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from which coincided with the roof birth of the building or been assisted in his descentdaughter Samantha. Gossip revolves around the fact that You would think he left 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierwords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. SheHe'd accused Onizuka s sleep-deprived to the point of bullying her and forcing her falling asleep at work but he's determined to work an unreasonable amount of overtimekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=02414254251787333175|title=The Man Who Died TwiceYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Richard OsmanBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Elizabeth Best I was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have Going to deal with on Hurt}}, a regular basis. When she visits glorious mixture of insight into the sender workings of the letter (heNHS, humour and autobiography. 's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that itYou Don's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used t Have to be her husbandMad... He's made a bad mistake - something ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to do with a mask being removed within mental illness and the range work of a CCTV camera on psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a raid, situation rather than a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds person and a few death threats. He's now in hiding it is always delivered with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressempathy and understanding.

|author=Andrew SharpOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to his employer her step- ismother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, in his mindbasically, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countrymonetary gain. Mozzy Now Anuri is earnest in her twenties and dedicated she is slowly trying to his task regain her confidence and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODto get her life back, suing her step-W safaris but his dream is mother to become take down the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American citycontent about her. Even Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to win a Michelin starstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. He Most importantly, she is thwarted in this ambition by his bossdesperately worried about her little sister, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzyis the new focus of Ophelia's disapproval for his scruffy waysonline empire. Can she save her sister, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the house.same time?|isbn=B09926MK8H0861546873

|author=Alex FoulkesDavid Chadwick|title=Rules for VampiresHeadload of Napalm

|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Will'Leo' for short) s life is difficult, in a Vampiremultitude of ways. She drinks blood He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', she sleeps during he has the daywrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and she his dad can Grimwalk (turning into 't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)building site and had an accident. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on Throw into that mix the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out fact that his mum and hunt her first human. Howeverdad are separated, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanageWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Oops! And to make things worseyet, the ghosts he still has a tiny amount of one of the orphans hope. He is good at art, and clings to the evil master moments of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Sojoy when he is drawing, not only does Leo have to team up with that feel like a light at the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost end of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfula long, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familydark tunnel. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1398527122

|author=Tori BovalinoSylvie Cathrall|title=The Devil Makes ThreeA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfcompelling premise. What makes it worse And this is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, 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, one of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=17890981300356522776

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q60008517061|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)Death in a Lonely Place|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the latest release future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series together would mean a lot of fun picture books aims compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to take Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the pain out of potty training children future she wants for herself and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=B098FFFBH91786482126|title=SnowcubThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Graham FulbrightElly Griffiths

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=FourteenBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -yearthe site was going to hold seventy-old Rachel is her schoolfive 'luxury's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worlddoorway. There was no skull. She gets Was this a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonritual killing or murder? Inevitably, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, NickDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. 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 toys.}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't know his name, or why he that she is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on pregnant with his child as a variety result of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmasterone night they spent together some three months ago. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores Her condition will be obvious before long, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace not least because Ruth is shattered by the arrival prone to sudden bouts of the Doctorsickness. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977

|authorisbn=Yancey Williams0008551324|title=Crosshairs of the The DevilYou Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|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 - in room 315 of unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, police. Neither side likes or has any respect for palatable companythe other. Nothing But Davie Hardie is going to keep Eddie from his stock-struggling in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his lifeprison and he's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and prepared to tell the police where the Face body of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. There missing person is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scilliesburied and who was responsible for her death. There are troll people on it This person, and sea-witcheshe promises, is someone big and legends of it will be worth the Dark family that has police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are serve the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes remainder of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and Andreweshe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of even prepared to do the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or notanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1788452372

|authorisbn=Erling Kagge0008405026|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved It's 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 book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turnedhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mineand her father are dead in their bed. In my defence Initially, I will say that as it looks like a reader of this type of book straightforward murder/suicide but there is 's something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to positioning of the South Pole, the North Pole bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the summit of Everesther boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, What looked as though it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means was going to walk. It be an open-and-shut case is now a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walkingcomplex double murder. There Kerrigan is no convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie'contents' page and I havens disappearance: others (such as Derwent't counted. In small format paperbacks boss, each essay is only a few pages longUna Burt) are less convinced. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705

|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault0571379877|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, for he's a slight boyobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightStanza. That Robert's because Jacka theatre director. He's mother knew all about monstersalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and look what happened entitled and uses Edward to her – she diedrun errands for him. 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, a dwarfish wizard Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all s drunkenly confided how he needs feels to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact withRobert. The book Most men in Robert's name? position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he''Monster Hunting for Beginners''..s not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=0755501942

|author=Keith GrayJo Callaghan|title=The ClimbersLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Sully When a man is found crucified on the best tree climber top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the villagecase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He has what It's known amongst the kids as 'reach'their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But what happens when there is a second body found crucified a new kid shows up in town? A new kidfew days later, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees Kat is suddenly struggling with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, a potential serial killer and not only a very high profile case that, that his chance draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to name solve the finalcase in time, unnamed big tree in or will Kat find herself taken off the park by being the first to conquer itcase and, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friendpotentially, or maybe even all out of his friends, to do soa career?|isbn=1781129991139851120X

|authorisbn=Emma Carroll1399613073|title=The Week at World's EndMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=FirstOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the titlefirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. We're in World's End Close Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie bonus when you aim to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and with a trauma doctor. Anjali is the boy over free spirit of the roadgroup and she becomes a GP. But When we could also be first meet them they're at Worlda drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's End, because something taking a great chunk of going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the fun away is tragedy or the fact consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedthree friends. Anna has, in no short This time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said sheit'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risks their teenage children who are involved. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438

|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston0241636604|title=Julia and the SharkThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=JuliaIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, our preyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-teen heroinestripe suit and his background is the East End, has been packed off where he was familiar with her parents violence, poverty and their cat from the family home in SW England injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE London School of the Scottish islandsEconomics. Here be Vikings, that kind Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of Scottish islandus can only envy. Dad is going He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be automating the lanternstupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkgot him an internship with Citibank. And JuliaEventually, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1510107789

|authorisbn=Freya Sampson1035021803|title=The Last LibraryAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always a little nervous It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to start a story about a library, since I am a librarianthe English country village where she grew up. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought She's back now because of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put request for help from her hair in a bunbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett)Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead 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 didn't immediately throw circumstances seem suspicious, to say the book out of least. Arthur was the window, because I found I was interested in June, and reason why she lived as she did. Her mum used Freya had not been back to be a librarian at the village library: Arthur, but when she got sickfeels, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of let her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local librarydown badly. And even Even though her mum sadly died some years agothey were in business together as antique hunters, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old bookshas not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. June is stuck After the split, but little does she knowworked in a cafe, everything in met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life is about the change, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=183877369X

|isbn=0008370982AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Rock Paper ScissorsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Alice FeeneyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home said that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the ideatechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Like AmeliaWell, he knows I must confess that their marriage has there have been under strain: hemore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I's a screenwriter and heve kept up reasonably well with what's never shy of making it clear advantageous to Amelia that heme but I'd prefer to spend time m left with the novels hefeeling that it's hoping to adapt than with herall getting away from me. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many Some of whom have been abused, it is never easy- frankly - quite frightening. Still - she's won Of course, I could research the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in possibilities and the passenger seat - probabilities and then doing end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the same thing to come back latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a couple of days laterway I could understand.

|author=Doug JohnstoneSunny Singh|title=The Great SilenceHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk The Hotel Arcadia is a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a good job of bringing terrorist group. Hiding from the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creatureterrorists who are rampaging through, though it sounds as though it ought to bekilling everyone on site, it there is merely the surname of Sam, a family of undertakers. Undertakers wartime photographer and private investigatorsAbhi, the hotel manager. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping As Abhi continues to try to run care remotely for the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been residents who are still alive in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved hotel, he forms a bond with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish Sam who refuses to be cowed by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jennyevents, 46, is haunted by and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisonerphotography. And grand-daughter is about Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to graduate with a first-class physics degree help her keep safe and join they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the academic staff next termterrorists.|isbn=1913193837086154742X

|isbn=19015149781529153298|title=There's a Problem With DadThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Carlos AlbaJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=Life It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand whyPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) HeShe's not what's always done everything he ought to: steady workerworrying Miv's family, husband and father - and a father who was always there for school plays and sports daysthough. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Women have been disappearing. Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'gooddisappeared'doesn' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make t sound quite so many breath-taking gaffes? frightening. ItMiv's upset because she's almost become a cliche these days overheard that her father wants to suggest that someone who move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a little different is frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'on the spectrumll do anything to prevent that. She', but George Lovelace has all s not worried about the symptoms of Aspergerdangers or that her Mum's Syndrome: highstopped talking -functioning autismto anyone.