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|isbnauthor=0008386137James Baldwin|title=Just My Luck|author=Adele ParksGiovanni's Room

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction |summary=sentence because ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a faulty gas boiler had caused gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deaths deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of 29his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year-old Reveka Albu boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and 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 her 2-year-old son Benkeso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. Toma AlbuBut now, in this new school, husband his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and father, had found them when he returned homeslowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Ema Tepic 1635866847|title=I Dreamed YouThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=It 's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is always a pleasure to review a new the book by Justine Avery and for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I Dreamed Youvisited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' carries s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the tradition beautifullyhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. This little (There's a recipe in the book is , which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the perfect exemplar corners of our category name, pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''For Sharingloved''. It is a mother's love letter to her child, told in rhyme formthis book already.|isbn=1948124505}}

|author=Sharon BlackieJenny Valentine|title=If Women Rose RootedUs in the Before and After

|genre= BiographyTeens|summary= I normally say Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that you can tell how much even, their friendship is a once in a book means to me by how many pages have corners turned downlifetime connection. Perhaps an even greater measure of impact is setting They meet as children one day on a trip out to buy my own copy before Ibut unfortunately they don't get each other've finished reading s contact details at the one I've borrowedtime. I want to avoid clichés like 'powerful' 'inspiring' 'life-changing' – although it is definitely the first two But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and only time will tell about the third – but clichés exist for a reason now they must work through their grief, and I'm not sure I can succinctly put it any bettertheir friendship, together.|isbn=19128360171471196585

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness1787333175|title=BurnYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=TeensPopular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very day, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office for the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon heYou Don'd hired t Have to help on the farm.be Mad to Work Here'' Itafter enjoying Adam Kay's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate US, there first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is still a Cold War with the RussiansGoing to Hurt}}, still a concomitant arms race. And glorious mixture of insight into the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed-race Sarah and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware workings of. As is the deeply unpleasant town deputyNHS, Kelbyhumour and autobiography. But one thing is ''veryYou Don'' differentt Have to be Mad.. In this alternate world, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and communication is minimalthe work of a psychiatrist. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour I did wonder whether it was acceptable to human be looking for humour in return for gold - they are dragons, after allthis setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 1406375500

|author= Angela WoolfeOnyi Nwabineli|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= After Anuri spent her father gets married for childhood on display to the umpteenth timeworld, Roxy Humperdinck is sent thanks to live with her halfstep-sister Gretel in Rexopolismother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, the capital city where she posted every step of the Kingdom of Illustria. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner Anuri's childhood for the Ministry of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soupsponsorships and influencer deals and, you ask? Wellbasically, after Roxy finds a secret passage monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her bathroom twenties and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jones, she soon finds out why. Turns out, fairy tales are real, and the Ministry’s official job is slowly trying to safeguard all knowledge of them regain her confidence and monitor to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the living fairy talescontent about her. And Anuri is battling alcoholism, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens failing to reinstate start her reign of terrorPhD, Roxy undergoing therapy and Jones hold secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the fate new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!same time?|isbn=14063913790861546873

|author=Kat DunnDavid Chadwick|title=Dangerous RemedyHeadload of Napalm

|genre=TeensThrillers|summary= It's ParisSeptember 1973 in Hicks, 1794California. The Revolution Hicks is five years old a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and the country Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the midst main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionaries, trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, note other than dive bars and the RoyalistsJoshua trees. Life is quiet, still loyal to monarchy intentuntil.... Caught in a no man|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's land between the two warring factions life is the Battalion difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the Dead. Led by a disillusioned revolutionarywrong shoes's daughter, he has the band of outcasts wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have made a name enough money for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from even the violent fallout. But they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescuemost basic of things like food, Olympeand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a girl with cash-in-hand job on a disturbing history building site and powers had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that might just make her his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the spark moments of joy when he is drawing, that blows up feel like a light at the powder-keg end of revolutionary Parisa long, dark tunnel. |isbn=17895436491398527122

|author=Joanne M HarrisSylvie Cathrall|title=A Pocketful of CrowsLetter to the Luminous Deep

|genre= Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above picture-There are few greater joys than a book level and before you get which lives up to graphic sex & violence, there is no difference between books for children and books for adultsa compelling premise. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' this is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use one of the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delightthem.|isbn=14732221840356522776

|authorisbn= Maggie Tokuda-Hall1786482126|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= On Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the pirate ship Dove, Flora site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the girl has assumed the identity bones of Florian the man in an attempt to fit in a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the crewDCI Harry Nelson. Life is hard It's difficult as a pirate, trust and empathy are the first things to be discardedRuth knows, but anything has to be better than starving on the streets. MeanwhileNelson doesn't, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married to that she is pregnant with his child as a military man she's never met on some far-flung colony result of the Nipran Empireone night they spent together some three months ago. Neither of them expects to Her condition will be thrown together by fateobvious before long, never mind fall in love…|isbn=1536204315not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|author=Frederic Beigbeder Joan Didion|title=The Year of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This book is Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief she endured following her husband's sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and necessary resource to help people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion and Frank Wynne (translator)makes them utterly normal, lends them a human face to wear.|isbn=0007216858}}{{Frontpage|author=Alba de Cespedes |title=A Life Without EndForbidden Notebook

|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one This Italian work of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few feminist fiction holds an air of the big 0-numbers, suspense and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's tension from the extent of my mid-life crisismoment our protagonist, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phraseValeria Cossati, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviewspurchases her forbidden notebook, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing learns about herself in the life of his genes, most intimate and a motive to keep ongoingrevealing ways. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=16428606701782278222

|author=Holly JacksonOttessa Moshfegh|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=A month on from the explosive conclusion to the Andie Bell mysteryAt best, this novel is a new normal has settled over Little Kilton. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey scathing critique of discovering modern society and reveals the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attentionfragility of human relationships; at worst, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from it is the realisation that their fathercynical, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh predictable and kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out slightly trite tale of his housean unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, bleedinga slim, attractive and disappeared into the night. As the town tries to heal again, six years on from newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the events of that night, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynoldsworld, older brother but resolves not to one of Pippa's best friends has gone missing. And solose sleep over it: in fact, alongside her difficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-old, she is once again taken down a dark, twisted path to discover the truthsolution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=14052977511784707422

|isbn=B084H8F2CF0008551324|title=The Body Under the BridgeDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Nick LouthNeil Lancaster

|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be pulled away from approach the funeral service police. Neither side likes or has any respect for a serving police officer, particularly when the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he discovered that he was 's prepared to take charge tell the police where the body of the enquiry into a missing womanperson is buried and who was responsible for her death. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old This person, he promises, is someone big and a student of music at it will be worth the Royal College of Musicpolice doing what he wants. She had been due And what he wants is to be transferred to play with an open prison to serve the other members remainder of the Lysander String Quartet at the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadn't turned uphis sentence and to get an early parole date. Gillard didnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatricethink so and she's father was Karleven prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -Otto Ulbricht, Germanymake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's Minister of Justicehappening.

|isbn=1739526910|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author= Linda ScottGlen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title= The Double X EconomyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It''Women 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 halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are economically disadvantaged in every country dead in the world''their bed. It's Initially, it looks like a bold statement for an opening chapter, straightforward murder/suicide but itthere's far from hyperbole as something about the following pages explain. This book shines a light on what is happening in different places, and positioning of the impact on the local bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and world economyher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What can looked as though it was going to be learnt from an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the great strides explanation lies in gender-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about the selling of young women into marriageRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|isbn=0571353606Una Burt) are less convinced.

|author=J Paul HendersonJo Callaghan|title=DaisyLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This When a man is found crucified on the story top of Herod S. Pinkney, a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is hill in search of a woman called DaisyNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, whom he the AI detective Lock. It's their first sees in an episode of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls in love live case together, having previously been very successful with her! several cold cases. Rod But when there is writing the novel of his questa second body found crucified a few days later, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who Kat is now clearing glasses in suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a pub for very high profile case that draws a livinglot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Determined Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and meet Daisy, the book takes us through Rod's life, introduces us to his friendspotentially, and tells us out of what happens in his quest for love.a career?|isbn=0857303309139851120X

|isbn=15446419231529077745|title=Ambassadors Do It After DinnerThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Sandra AragonaAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=It's tempting to think that A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the diplomatic life is privileged and luxuriouspark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. It might be privileged, The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but family connections tell me that it is far from luxuriouswho had never turned up. Now you're not going D I Vera Stanhope is called in to get many ambassadors telling you what it's really like (it's not ''diplomatic'' to do so, you know), investigate the murder - but her only clue is the diplomatic spouse, disappearance of one of the accompanying baggage, wellresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe thatChloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's an entirely different matterdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She (and it still usually is a 'knows that she') can tell us exactly has to find Chloe to discover what goes onhappened to Josh.

|isbn=18388510111399613073|title=The SidemanMoral Injuries|author=Caro RamsayChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=No one thought that it could happen Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and can't ''quite'' believe that it has: Costello has resigned from Police Scotlandtheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It's all down to her pursuit of George Haggerty whom she believes Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be responsible for a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the murder free spirit of Abigail Haggerty (his wife) the group and Malcolm (her son)she becomes a GP. Haggerty has When we first meet them they're at a waterdrug and alcohol-tight alibi (caught speeding by Police Scotland, no less) fuelled party and the powers that be have told Costello to lay off: sheit's decided going to go her own way rather than be hampered by the badgeend in tragedy. She didnWe don't even bother telling her longknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-time partner, DCI Colin Anderson, five years later there will be an eerily similar event that she was goingwill impact the three friends. Since then there might have been the occasional text from herThis time, but thatit's ittheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B08774SJYN0241636604|title=The Greenbecker GambitTrading Game: A Confession|author=Ben GraffGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=''I suppose the odd fleeting sense If you were to bring up an image of loneliness is a price all truly successful people must pay for our gifts. I tell myself that I do so willingly.city banker in your mind, you'' Tennessee Greenbeckerre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Isn't that a name to conjure with? There are hints that it might not have been A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the name East End, where he was given at birthfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but many he had been to the London School of us have moved on, so far as names go, from the one we were originally saddled withEconomics. Greenbecker's life Stevenson is one of constant reinvention. He tells us that he's the foremost chess player never to have been world champion, bright - extremely bright - and it does seem that he has some considerable talent as far as chess goesa facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He's determined also realised that he's going most rich people expect poor people to fulfil what he sees as be stupid. It was his destiny. He just needs to do some study to be able to beat the current players ranked ability at numbers one and two in the worldwhat was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will not stand in his way Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=0008390169B0DB64PYV5|title=Silent Cry (Gaby Darin Book 1)The White Rose|author=Jenny O'BrienDave Baines|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary=Alys Grant was only In 2033, a few days old when her father took her out for superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the first timeNorthern Hemisphere. Her motherAnd it's not a storm that gathers, Izzywreaks havoc, was tired and fell asleepthen dissipates. Instead, but when she woke a couple of hours later there was no sign of Charlie Dawson or Alys. There was a handit hovers across half the Earth with its octopus-delivered postcard which simply said: ''I've got Alyslike tentacles, not giving up and never going away. Don't try to find us, Charlie''

|author=Holly JacksonLeanne Egan|title=A Good Girl's Guide to MurderLover Birds|rating=4.5

|summary=5 years agoWhen new girl, the tiny town Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Little Kilton was rocked when beautifulLiverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, popular Andie Bell disappeared without a tracebut Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, presumed murdered. Her boyfriend Salil Singh was everyoneand that's number 1 suspect – especially after Sal sent a definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn'confessiont it? Because Lou is straight, isn' text to his dad and died in an apparent suicide just days after t she? Even though none of her disappearance. His guilt was sealed and the case was closedrelationships with boys have gone very well so far, so the town and its families tried to move on. Now Pippa is determined to prove that Sal was innocent, she's never had a good kiss with the help any of his brother Ravi. What started out as an innocent school project quickly turns into something much more sinisterthem? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and Pippa begins wanting to unearth the dark truth about the beautifulhang out with her because fighting with her is fun, innocent queen bee of Kilton Grammar School and what really happened all those years ago. But the closer she getsdefinitely just hates Isabel, the more dangerous it becomes.doesn't she?|isbn=1405293187000862657X

|isbn=17811293121009473085|title=Sequin and StitchThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Laura Dockrill Anthony Seldon and Sara Ogilvie Tom Egerton (illustratorEditors)

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyPolitics and Society|summary=Sequin loved her mum Sometimes it's simpler to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasnexplain a book by describing what it ''isn't '' and that mum wouldnapplies to ''t go outside their flat The Conservative Effect: 2010- Sequin coped with that 2024 - it was because she never pushed to get credit 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what she did''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes If that 's what you see on red carpets or 're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at important weddings10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. SheIt's not the designer - they're the people a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who make a lot of money from the clothesthinks Johnson should return to politics. Mum is the person who actually ''makesThe Conservative Effect''is an entirely different beast. It' s the garments seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and she's really talented, but co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when people talk about the dress or coalition took over in 2010, the suit, they talk about changes that occurred and the designer. The seamstress is never mentionedsituation in 2024.

|author=AkalaMax Boucherat|title=The Dark LadyLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''For a street kid from We meet Lori on the Devilfirst evening she's Gapgot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, London's most notorious slumbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, life is short and toughon her lonesome. For Henry What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, a boy thief with brown skin inherited from a mother who abandoned himshe has one main intention, life and that is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems to represent a pastlog on to Voxminer, the world-building, and possibly critter-collecting game that is a future..hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn''Henry t find herself entirely on her own, and his friends, brother then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and sister Matthew her bestie and Mary, have various ways nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of getting bytampering. Sometimes 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 pickpockets. Sometimes they rob are celebrating the houses end of the richoccupation. It During the war, Jean's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures toosoldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for Henry, years for news of him. As the British finally free the chief pleasure is Channel islands from the Globe Theatre Nazis, and the plays war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of William Shakespearehim. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets 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 he sees around him and how he feels. other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn= 14449436931846976537

|authorisbn=Danny Dorling1529428289|title=SlowdownA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= We are living in a time Because of rapid changevarious property transactions, and we're worried about people were searching for the grave but when they found it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for usit came with three sets of bones. We are designed They dated back to worry World War II and with it fell to Bruno, the current state Chief of what we're doing in the worldPolice for St Denis, we have much to be worried aboutdiscover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. HoweverAs if this isn't enough to worry about, over the next threeDordogne River -hundrednormally tranquil -is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and-some pagesSt Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, if you can follow the argumentsJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldnseems that there's only one suspect. He't be as worried as we are, or in some cases s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that we're worrying about the wrong thingshe must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. MostlyShe's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Because mostly, things are not changing Everything seemed as rapidly normal - as normal as we think they arecan be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverseshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=0300243405

|authorisbn= M R Carey0008385068|title= The Book of KoliMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|summary= It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Book of KoliManor was her ancestral home and she'' is s converted it into an impressive retreat for the first in a post-apocalyptic trilogywealthy and famous. Her husband, titled ''The Rampart Trilogy''Owen, by M.R. Careywas the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The novel heat is set in a world where nature has turned against humans. Trees move oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as fast well as animals to crush their prey and then soak up their bloodfriends. Humans have eked out a small existence in isolated villages. They Old scores are primitive except for their reverence of 'old tech'. This is technology from the old world that seems going to only work for certain chosen people. However, Koli, a young woodsmith, uncovers a secret about this technology that will upend his life be settled and take him on it won't be long before a perilous journeybody is found.|isbn=0316477532

|isbnauthor=178112938XRob Keeley|title=Survival in SpaceChildish Spirits: The Apollo 13 Mission|author=David Long and Stefano Tambellini (illustrator)10th anniversary special edition|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=ItAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's fifty years since the Apollo 13 mission was launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Floridaa ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, but the story of that journey remains one of the greatest survival stories of all timenot to lecture or hector.  The ''Survival in Space: The Apollo 13 MissionChildish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a brilliant retelling sequence of what happened.ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author= Grady HendrixKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying VampiresDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= HorrorConfident Readers|summary= Meet Kit. WomenLike most of the people in his world, it seems, by he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and largehealer enter specially prepared, have always been century-old, magical mazes, and race to the subjugated sex. Throughout historyexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up grant you along the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their duetrio of questors is needed. It is an ode Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the strong selfless housewifegoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Hendrix illustrates What chance does this by having them go toe friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.succeed?|isbn=16836914311839945184