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|author= Justine Avery Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, 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 world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, 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 occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and Naday Meldovathe war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a 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=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=Everybody Toots! A Grave in the Woods (Everybody Potties!A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= TootsBecause of various property transactions, trumpspeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, fartsit came with three sets of bones. Whatever your word They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for themSt Denis, find us to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a child that doesncrime had been committed. As if this isn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny enough to talk about and joke worry about, that the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go flowing at the wrong timerecord levels. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery It's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and calmly, with St Denis faces the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normalpossibility of a devastating flood. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}

|isbn=1784165263152919640X|title=Invite Me InThe Suspect|author=Emma CurtisRob Rinder

|summary=Martin CurranThe nation's wifefavourite daytime TV presenter, Eliza knew Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that she had to be home to make his lunch for there's only one osuspect. He'clock on the dot, despite the fact s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that she was actually painting one of their properties prior he must not serve anything containing miso to it being letJessica Holby. If she didnShe't get home, there would be troubles seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. There was some excuse: Martin was Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a paraplegic busy, live television studio - and confined to Brooks served a wheelchair, but don't be too quick ragout to be understandingHolby. He Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''dead within minutes. All It was soon clear that this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableno accident.

|isbn=17847427750008385068|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)The Midnight Feast|author=Susan HillLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Drugs hadnIt'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 her ancestral home and she't really been that much of a problem in Lafferton s converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timefamous. They still were Her husband, to a great extentOwen, but Serrailler knew that something had to be donewas the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. Children The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as young well as nine were being recruited friends. Old scores are going to transport the drugs be settled and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnwon't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch long before a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upbody is found.

|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsWild East|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year of her veterinary degree old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and - three years later - was still working start at BBa mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's diner. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was safety after a good boss. Hollie had moved tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in with her boyfrienda new town, a new school, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his careerkeep himself out of trouble. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted He listens to control her music constantly, and most has always dreamed of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinerbeing a rapper. Then there was the fact that he would But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be violentpart of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, both Ronny begins to her see the connections between rap and poetry, and to other peoplethe power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=John Gwynne1635866847|title=The Shadow Of The GodsLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Sagabook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', set in I visited the era author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the Vikings homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the shadow of Ragnarokbook, when which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the Gods have battled book and their bones lie scattered for all I was told to seemake a mess of it. This story is Notes in the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galorecorners of pages. This is You suspect that smears of butter would not be a thick problem. I ''loved'' this book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlealready.|isbn=0356514218

|isbnauthor=B09HTWX47XRob Keeley|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=ItAround here, we're big fans of children's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigatorauthor Rob Keeley. He's married a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to Laura, formerly lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratorygreatest achievements. FloodIt's daughtersa sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the familyspirit world throws at her, and Gemma to married life. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy Edward, a spoiled lordling and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needs. Flood's business is going well and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Black.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Peter PapathanasiouJenny Valentine|title=The StoningUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=In Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous once in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a shopping trolley, and shetrip out but unfortunately they don's been taped to a tree and shet get each other's had rocks bowled contact details at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumpstime. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops But then chance brings them back together, and they are quite confident the culprit inseparable. Something has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – happened though, something terrible and it's only fairtragic, is the general opinionand now they must work through their grief, for the occupants are often setting and their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the cityfriendship, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..together.|isbn=15294169731471196585

|isbnauthor=B08Z8BMZ7HKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrathDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the second sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century of the common era -old, magical mazes, and he's race to the physician on duty at exit, perhaps bothering with the munus - treasure or the games put on for big bad and the amusement of points they grant you along the populaceway. The remuneration isnUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he't high but s seen of the work gives latest race on the doctor inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a feeling new trio of virtue and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to livequestors is needed. It's quite a spectacle: Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the magistri are goading from the charge hands token bully of his world and when we first see them, theystumbled into declaring he're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressivell enter as a team. The sagitarii are the archers What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going how could he possibly hope to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, it's the crocodiles.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallSaima Mir|title=The Beatryce ProphecyVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told here. And none more so than in I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this wondrous story, which feels novel – an instant classic with organised crime syndicate in the freshness and north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the agelessness it has second in equal proportion. We start with a group of monks, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on screen) and biting the poor Brothersit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. Things change drastically when the beast takes And that wasn't a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memoryproblem here. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate Vengeance swiftly brings you up to find the girlspeed, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changeI never felt lost. 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=15295008930861541561

|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSStuart Douglas|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery Lowe and Kate ZhoidikLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'For the big, grownup girls out there, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is dead body of a cry (woman on the big-girl kind!) edge of toilet triumph and persevering panty pridea reservoir.''  And so The police seem happy to assign 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 dogan accidental death, her catbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pantshe enlists the help of a fellow actor, while they cannotJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Neither can They travel across the flowerscountry during their days off filming, nor the fishuncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, nor a link to death during the birdsSecond World War. Boy's certainly can't. She's But is there really a big girl now and she wants everyone link between the deaths? And will they manage to know it!uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}

|authorisbn=Nick Lake and Emily GravettB0CYV674G2|title=Locked Out LilySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Lily isIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, or wascovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief shecomes 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's been told stabbed to stay with her grandma for a few daysdeath. The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling DCI John Tanner is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do back from his honeymoon, which coincided withthe birth of his daughter Samantha. But on tracking back home You would think he'd be grateful for word of her parents (an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and her plush toy so she can 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted deprived to get the family back intact, even if itpoint of falling asleep at work but he's not the family Lily wants – and all she has determined to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1471194833

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1787333175|title=The Great Dream RobberyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=MayaI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's father first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and now he canautobiography. ''You Don't wake upHave to be Mad. Or at least, that..''s what Maya has been toldpromised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. In I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather strange dream one night Maya makes than a new friend, person and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams it is always delivered with empathy and reality collide...reallyunderstanding...and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051X

|isbnauthor=1800464495Onyi Nwabineli|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days Allow Me to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma SmithIntroduce Myself

|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=''Babies seem Anuri spent her childhood on display to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, being aware where she posted every step of quantities at seven hours oldAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, assessing probability at six months oldbasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and comprehending addition she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievementget her life back, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy suing her step- reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think mother to take down the same way content about mathsher. Anuri is battling alcoholism, beyond counting? I don't think we dofailing to start her PhD, in part because undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of us use maths in daily life without realising Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

{{Frontpage |author=Robert Peston David Chadwick|title=The Whistleblower Headload of Napalm|rating=3 4.5

|summary=IIt'm not the first to point out how fitting it s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is for Robert Peston to write a political thrillerMojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, so I'll move on quickly – but this won't be winning any awards for originality. Itthere's an interesting plot with a good pace, but it does very little to differentiate itself and I suspect before not much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of itnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until.... |isbn=1838775242 B0D321VJ76}}

|isbnauthor=1529379385Tom Percival|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weWill're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but s life is starting to get back to normaldifficult, in a multitude of ways. The villagers are beginning to return to He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the Bistro most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Aubergecollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. They're visiting each otherThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's homes and having friends and relatives to staylife seems bleak in every direction. A young Sudanese woman who And yet, he still has been nominated for a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the Nobel Peace Prize moments of joy when he is one such visitor and she soon proves drawing, that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - feel like a light at the end of a bit like Vincent Gilbertlong, known in the village as the Asshole Saintdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRSylvie Cathrall|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is There are few greater joys than a young American who has signed book which lives up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combata compelling premise. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith CamelAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=183885410X0008517061|title=The Dark RemainsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinStig Abell|rating=3.54

|summary=Bobby Carter was Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a lawyer little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and consigliere her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to one of the major crime families move in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is on the CID team charged with future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the investigation. I say ''on moment they’re enjoying life in the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way present and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers putting the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsfuture on the back burner.

|isbn=19424102551786482126|title=Tokyo Zangyo The Janus Stone (Detective HiroshiDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Michael PronkoElly Griffiths

|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the culture, isnsite was going to hold seventy-five 't it? The hours for which youluxury're paid are really just a statement of apartments - when they discovered the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction bones of bullies like Shigeru Onizukaa child beneath a doorway. When he There was found dead in front of Senden Centralno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or griefdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, even from that she is pregnant with his family, but there was child as a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof result of the building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide one night they spent together some three years earliermonths ago. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to work an unreasonable amount sudden bouts of overtimesickness.

|isbn=02414254250008551324|title=The Man Who Died TwiceDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Richard OsmanNeil Lancaster

|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came 's unusual for anyone from a man whose body she had helped the Hardie family to pull from approach the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basispolice. When she visits Neither side likes or has any respect for the sender of the letter (other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's moved into prepared to tell the police where the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has body of a long professional history - missing person is buried and who used was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be her husbandtransferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. HeNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's made a bad mistake - something even prepared to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twentyother thing that Hardie demanded -million pounds in diamonds make certain that DS Max Craigie and a few death threats. He's now in hiding anyone who works with a young woman called Polly, whohim is kept well away from what's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitresshappening.

|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0008405026|title=The Chef, A Stranger in the Bird and the BlessingFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Chef Mlantushi It's sixteen years since nine- Mozzy year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to his employer - isa halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in his mindtheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the head chef positioning of a safari business catering the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to VIP guests in be an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest open-and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream shut case is to become the head chef of now a restaurant in London or a big American citycomplex double murder. Even to win a Michelin star. He Kerrigan is thwarted convinced that the explanation lies in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin Rosalie's disappearance: others (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzysuch as Derwent's disapproval for his scruffy waysboss, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the houseUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes0571379877|title=Rules for VampiresThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Edward Jevons is a Vampire. She drinks bloodworking-class young man, she sleeps during the dayobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and she can Grimwalk (turning into Stanza. Robert's a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)theatre director. Pretty cool stuff. Now He's also self-obsessed, on the night of her hundredth birthnightdemanding, she has to go out handsome and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident entitled and burning down an orphanageuses Edward to run errands for him. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and the evil master of the orphanage come back he's drunkenly confided how he feels to haunt herRobert. So, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna like most men: Edward is left to stop stumble upon the ghost two of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familythem kissing in a dark passageway. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X

|author=Tori BovalinoJo Callaghan|title=The Devil Makes ThreeLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library When a man is found crucified on the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets top of a request for over a hundred books that she has hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested case alongside her sidekick, the books: Mr BirchAI detective Lock. The boarding school It's headmastertheir first live case together, and a man Tess hateshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. As But when there is a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such second body found crucified a large requestfew days later, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled Kat is suddenly struggling with the ugliest insults she can think a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of. They're never meant unwanted attention to reach him, of coursetheir AI Future Policing project. Her plan is Will they be able to get her anger out like thissolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1789098130139851120X

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61399613073|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)Moral Injuries|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadChristie Watson

|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. This series of fun picture books aims Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to take be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the pain out free spirit of potty training children the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and replace it with some fun's going to end in tragedy. It We don's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will tell youimpact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B098FFFBH90241636604|title=SnowcubThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Graham FulbrightGary Stevenson

|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=FourteenIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-year-old Rachel stripe suit and his background is her the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry on his CV - but he had been to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldLondon School of Economics. She gets Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a great deal facility with numbers which most of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at Imperial Collegewhat was, Londonessentially, mother Kate and her twin, Nicka card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Kate runs the family businessEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toystrader.

|authorisbn= Angharad Walker1035021803|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnAntique Hunter't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used s Guide 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 a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}}{{FrontpageMurder|author=Yancey Williams|title=Crosshairs of the DevilC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in It's twenty years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks since Freya Lockwood has been back to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddiethe English country village where she grew up. She's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden back now because of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, request for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie help from his stock-in-trade of writing thoughher beloved aunt, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his lifeCarole. Freya's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark former mentor and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a wordCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildseadead and the circumstances seem suspicious, British but way west, beyond to say the Scilliesleast. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of Arthur was the Dark family that has reason why Freya had not been back to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further westthe village: Arthur, she feels, where no ship dare saillet her down badly. The current Darks are the Watcher Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Andrewe, who she has not felt able to keep notes of activity from be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the Hidden Landssplit, his brother Will who lives she worked in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsa cafe, met and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of married James (on the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into rebound from the world love of protecting their islandher life, like it or notwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1788452372

|authorisbn=Erling KaggeAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=WalkingAll Tomorrow's Futures: One Step At A TimeFictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre= LifestyleScience Fiction|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the number shape of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology things to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minecome. 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 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 Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isnI't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, ve heard it said that 'technology' is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walkhappens after you're eighteen. It is Well, I must confess that there have been more than a plenitude few decades of unnumbered essays about walkingtechnology in my lifetime. There is no I'contentsve kept up reasonably well with what' page and s advantageous to me but I haven't countedm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. In small format paperback, each essay Some of it is only a few pages long- frankly - quite frightening. Perhaps then Of course, better thought of as I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a meditation rather than an essayway I could understand.|isbn=0241357705

|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultSunny Singh|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Meet JackThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and nimble and quickAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he's forms a slight boybond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him keeps on venturing out of his sight. Thather room to try to capture what's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to through her – she diedphotography. 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 Although they only ever talk over the ogre's deathphone, a dwarfish wizard-type their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about rescued before they are discovered by the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''..terrorists.|isbn=0755501942086154742X

|authorisbn=Keith Gray1529153298|title=The ClimbersList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has whatIt's known amongst the kids as 'reach'1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? (A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with easewoman? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened I mean, and honestly...) She's not only thatwhat's worrying Miv's family, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his handsthough. Women have been disappearing. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend Well, or maybe even all of his friendsthey've been murdered, but to do have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so?|isbn=1781129991}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll|title=The Week at Worldfrightening. Miv's End|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First, the title. We're in Worldupset because she's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie overheard that her father wants to her friends) finds fun only with move the family dog and with the boy over the road'Down South'. But we could also be at World When you's Endre from Yorkshire, because something taking Down South is a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore For Miv, and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of move would mean leaving her own – Annabest friend, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna hasSharon, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said and 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 ll do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438}}{{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England anything to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, prevent that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating She's not worried about the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving dangers or that her career in algae behind Mum's stopped talking - to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkanyone. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789