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|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1009473085|title=NeedleThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=35|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=BraveSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Charlene, If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what 'heroine' of really'' happened on certain occasions, then this piece is extremely hard isn't the book for some people to like, characters and readers bothyou. Kicked out of multiple homes and schoolsIf that's what you're looking for, sheI don't think Anthony Seldon's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorbook, Annie{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and has taken up residence in her son Blakeshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect''s old room while heis an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at unithe impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. Such This book follows the well-established format: a tempestuous personality may be series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in need 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=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 comfort blanketfort, you might perhaps thinkshe has one main intention, and the creation of one such item that is part of to log on to Voxminer, the plot hereworld-building, as Charlene critter-collecting game that is a wonder knitterhit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and is making then she finds something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no even morespooky. We see Charlene prove For the server she and her belligerence with a store detective, bestie and then force people nobody else should be able to give enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her two days off schoolphone screen, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, what exactly happens where is not 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 me listening to saya banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, only to remark how sharp leaving Jean and pointy those knitting needles can be.her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the 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=18009010111846976537

|isbn=14059409801529428289|title=The BirdcageA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Eve ChaseMartin Walker

|summary=It's midsummer on the 7th of January 2019 Dorset coast and we know that a body has been pulled out of the sea guests gather at Zennor in CornwallThe Manor. We donIt't know whose body it iss their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The girls are actually Manor was her ancestral home and she''half''-sisters s converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closefamous. Finch was known for his fecundityHer husband, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoOwen, at was the time architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the total eclipse, something happenedsite. Kat The heat is oppressive and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and itwon's left her very wary of her sisterst be long before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=1787634906Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideWild East

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=WeWritten in verse, this is Ronny're in Oldcastle s story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and Malcolm start at a mostly white school. 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 settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He's listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in an abandoned house this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and hecrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's being threatened by two young peoplestrange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. One is Allegra (weBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''ll soon learn that she, I visited the author's Allegra Dean-Edwards) [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Hugothere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. It seems I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm cake viscerally. (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but sheThere'd put s a tracking device recipe in it so that she the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Hugo could find out where he I was sleepingtold to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. It won't be long before You get to fold down the police realise corners of pages. You suspect that Malcolm was one smears of their own: butter would not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsbe a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Jennifer SaintRob Keeley|title=ElektraChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''ElektraChildish Spirits' by Jennifer Saint tells the story ' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of three women ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who live in can cope with anything the heavily male-dominated spirit world of Ancient Greece. Cassandrathrows at her, Clytemnestraand Edward, a spoiled lordling and Elektra the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are all bit players best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the story of the Trojan Wartime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and the most extreme furiestheir friendship, together.|isbn=14722739151471196585

|isbnauthor=1529149800Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Things You Can DoDungeon Runners: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsHero Trial

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=We begin with a telling storyMeet Kit. All Like most of the birds people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and animals fled when healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the forest fire took hold big bad and most the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of them stood the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and watcheda new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, unable he has taken to think the goading from the token bully of anything they could dohis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The tiny hummingbird flew What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the river and began taking tiny amounts premise of water and flying back to drop them into this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the firenorth of England run by a Muslim woman. The animals laughed: what good fact that it was that doing. the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I'm doing ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the best I canDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', said leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the hummingbirdhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And thatwill they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, reallycovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, is comes into the only way police station shouting that we will solve he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the problem birth of climate change – by his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of us doing what we falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can, however small that might be't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=17765743381787333175|title=LeilongYou Don's Too Long!t Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=For SharingPopular Science|summary=Every morning LeilongI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through workings of the cityNHS, picking up children as he goeshumour and autobiography. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don''You Don't even need Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to go downstairs – they simply climb out mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the window laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and slide down his neckunderstanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4. It5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's perfectincreasingly popular presence on social media, isnwhere she posted every step of Anuri't it? s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. What could be a more fun way of going Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to school? take down the content about her. There Anuri is a problembattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, thoughundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Leilong isnMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia't happy in s online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the city: hesame time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave 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 – because hea defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's longer not much of note other than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to dive bars and traffic regularly gets snarled upJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until... The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=303091657XTom Percival|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Boards must act Will's life is difficult, in the best interests a multitude of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureways. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have resulted in death or enough money for even the collapse most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a major company cash-in- have left interested parties asking what the board was doinghand job on a building site and had an accident. Where were they? Occasionally Throw into that mix the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eyefact that his mum and dad are separated, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. The 21st century And yet, he still has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened a tiny amount of hope. He is nothing new: Gerry Brown good at art, and Randall S Peterson give us clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway manialight at the end of a long, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littledark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1529337968Sylvie Cathrall|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS compelling premise. And this is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part one of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0008517061|title=GalaxyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkFormer Metropolitan Police detective, who is an elite pilot Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with the Space Academyhis vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, barely makes it through as moving in together would mean a battle alive. His colot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little grid and is relaxing life to move in no physical shape with Livia or does Livia move to resume his duties. But Earth Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is under threat the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and he mustputting the future on the back burner. Returned by his superiors }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the space stationbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, he Dr Ruth Galloway finds himself amid herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from result of the alien threats against itone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, but also from its own sins against itselfnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|authorisbn=Lissa Evans0008551324|title=WishedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When things contrive It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to force Ed approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) he's prepared to stay with tell the police where the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Miss Fileyhe promises, for a week is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of half-term, they're not looking forward his sentence and to itget an early parole date. For one thingNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she thinks Wi's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -Fi make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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 special brand of biscuithalt. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherNow, her mother, the new kid next doorHelena, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhereher father are dead in their bed. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and manage her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to work out be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that these candlesthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, for as long as their flames lastUna Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, make birthday wishes come trueRobert and Stanza. How will things change for Robert's a second time when they realise thattheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, having used up three of themdemanding, these should really be used handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. 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 like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the wishes two of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xkissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Justyn EdwardsJo Callaghan|title=The Great Fox IllusionLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a contest second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a differencepotential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. No singing5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, no dancingLaura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, this show which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is looking for magical 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's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workare involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and who he has a facility with numbers which most of us can attempt only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to win be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Great FoxAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's magical legacy - twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the secrets to all English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of his tricks! Flick a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is determined dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to winthe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but she has not because felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she wants worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to own the trickscome. She '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is interested what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in just my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what'ones advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' tricks all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, 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 trick latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that The Great Fox stole has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her father. And sheroom to try to capture what's hoping happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if she can find that trick then she they will be able to bring her missing father homerescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1529501946086154742X