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|isbnauthor=1838887334James Baldwin|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''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 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 deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Angela MarsonsAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DI Kim Stone Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingstart at a mostly white school. The need move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been Ronny's safety after a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to everyone. It was settle in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching new town, a teddy bear in the absence new school, and keep himself out of her mothertrouble. Stone He listens to music constantly, and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body has always dreamed of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterbeing a rapper. Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a quickpoetry writing workshop group and, functional killslowly, but who would do that Ronny begins to a young mother out shopping with her child?see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Roxanne Bouchard1635866847|title=The Coral BrideLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Angel Roberts It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is an oddity - a female fisherwomanthe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', making her living in a manI visited the author's world[https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come I don't eat cakes and head the investigationdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Although (There's a recipe in the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going onbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feudsI was told to make a mess of it. At Notes in the same time as trying margins are sanctioned. You get to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed fold down with personal problems the corners of pages. You suspect that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiessmears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1913193322

|isbnauthor=1472134710Jenny Valentine|title=Agatha Raisin Us in the Before and the Quiche of Death|author=M C BeatonAfter|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Agatha Raisin has taken early retirement Elk and she's left South Moulton Street for Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a cottage once in the Cotswold village of Carsleya lifetime connection. She'd have preferred They meet as children one of the more romantic names day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at least Carsley is off the tourist trail with all the problems that bringstime. Now the problem is settling into a different way of life - But then chance brings them back together, and Agatha they are inseparable. Something has never done small talk or even being pleasant to people. The first move is to enter the village quiche-baking competition happened though, something terrible and the beginning of the campaign is taking the judgetragic, Reginald Cummings-Browneand now they must work through their grief, and his wife Vera out to dinner. She knows she's being ripped off at the pub in the next village but this is necessary and it's a good investment as she knows that she's going to win. How? Welltheir friendship, ''her'' quiche is coming from a Chelsea Bakery..together.|isbn=1471196585

|authorisbn= Claire McGowan1787333175|title=The PushYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating= 5|genre= General FictionPopular Science|summary= Six mums-I was tempted to-be meet at a prenatal class. Itread ''s NCT You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'style'after enjoying Adam Kay', but not the proper NCT. s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This bit is important, but you have Going to wait a little to see why. This being LondonHurt}}, such a class attracts a wide variety glorious mixture of insight into the workings of peoplethe NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from all sorts physical problems to mental illness and the work of backgrounds, a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it's their first babyis always delivered with empathy and understanding. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990

|isbnauthor=1472255917Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardineAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=On New YearAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's Eveincreasingly popular presence on social media, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wifewhere she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Professor Sarah Gracebasically, daughter Alex Skinner monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and the man with whom she shares a houseis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, Dominic Jackson. Jackson would be bettersuing her step-known mother to take down the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new mancontent about her. The Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and are dropped home not long into the new yearreceiving money from them for doing so. Skinner's tempted to let Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the phone ring but knows that he cannot: itnew focus of Ophelia's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburghonline empire. Skinner's not technically Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experience.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQDavid Chadwick|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaIt's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate BridgeSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. There was Hicks is a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer Mojave desert town of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offLas Vegas both a significant drive away. There has been no sign of her - or her body - Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the two years since. Georgia is back is Ferngatemain local employers but otherwise, determined to find out what happened and shethere's not going to be stopped.}} {{Frontpage|author= Katharine Orton|title= Glassheart|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Nona and her Uncle Antoni have lived together ever since the Blitz claimed the lives much of her family. Now, in the aftermath of the war, they travel all over the country, replacing stained-glass windows in buildings destroyed by bombs. Their latest job takes them out to the wilds of Dartmoor, where Nona discovers that her world is full of ancient note other than dive bars and powerful magicJoshua trees. She also discovers that a mysterious entity, known only as The Soldier, Life is hell-bent on using Nona's innate magic for his own endsquiet, and will not stop until he has her…....|isbn=1406385239B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=B08KKQ85FNTom Percival|title=But Never For Lunch|author=Sandra AragonaThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=Will''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler s life is difficult, in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the company multitude of carrion crows or, more to ways. He is bullied because he has 'the pointwrong shoes', about to discover he has the real world of bus timetables and paying wrong shoes because his own gas bills.dad can'' You dont work and doesn't get many better opening sentences than thathave enough money for even the most basic of things like food, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassadorhis dad can's Wife in [[Sorting t work because he lost his job at the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it college, was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador..had an accident. They have left The Career Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and settled Will's life seems bleak in Romeevery direction. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dog, BeagleAnd yet, he still has no intention a tiny amount of slowing down any time soonhope. He is good at art, despite being sixteen and deafclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author= Susi Holliday Sylvie Cathrall|title= The Last Resort A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes There are few greater joys than a games designer, social media influencer, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems book which lives up to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the island, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddencompelling premise. As the clock ticks down, these well-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear that And this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against time, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest one of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall them. |isbn=15420200180356522776

|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ1786482126|title=The Karma TrapJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Lisette BoydElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=George Jackson is thirtyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -three years old, absolutely gorgeous the site was going to look at hold seventy- and single. Shefive 's not had sex for eight months and sheluxury's stuck in apartments - when they discovered the karma trap: an awful lot bones of bad luck is being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting dramachild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Her lifeIt's chaotic: difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she dealt is pregnant with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom his child as a result of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postmanone night they spent together some three months ago. She only has Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the officesudden bouts of sickness.

|isbnauthor=0008333173Joan Didion|title=Hungry: A Memoir The Year of Wanting More|author=Grace DentMagical Thinking|rating=4.5

|summary=IThis book is Joan Didion'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one s heartbreaking autobiographical account of the judges on ''Masterchef'grief she endured following her husband's sudden death. You know Books that you're going shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and necessary resource to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the timehelp people feel less alone. You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of her. I've often wondered about the woman behind the media image Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion and ''Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' is makes them utterly normal, lends them a stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in equal measureshuman face to wear.|isbn=0007216858

|isbnauthor=1838773169Alba de Cespedes |title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettForbidden Notebook|rating=54|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It's early 2016 and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for the Easter Court. She's having a dine and sleep at the request This Italian work of Prince Charles, who's attempting to raise money from some rich Russians for one feminist fiction holds an air of his pet projects. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to the evening suspense and one of tension from the performers brought in to play the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstances. The immediate reaction is that one of the guests is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscowforbidden notebook, and learns about herself in the Archbishop of Canterbury most intimate and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roadsrevealing ways.|isbn=1782278222

|author=Matt HaigOttessa Moshfegh|title=The Midnight LibraryMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=53|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Between life and death there At best, this novel is a library. And so, 38 minutes after Nora decided to die, she finds herself in scathing critique of modern society and reveals the Midnight Library. Everything that could've gone wrong in Nora's life has. Her cat died, she lost her job, her brother won't speak to her, her parents are deadfragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the boy she teaches piano to no longer cares about piano, she called off her weddingcynical, predictable and old Mr Banerjee next door no longer needs her helpslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. She gave up on all the things that would've let her escape the wetThis unlikely heroine, a slim, cold town of Bedford attractive and given newly orphaned girl in her life some purposeful direction. So at 23:22, she realises that she isn't made for life and decides to die. But instead of death, she finds the library. Each infinite shelf twenties is filled disillusioned with booksthe world, each book providing a chance but resolves not to try another life she could have livedlose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in a parallel time. And so, just after midnight on Tuesday the 18th of April, Nora Seed begins to live every life she could'veher hibernation.|isbn=17868927311784707422

|isbn=03494230830008551324|title=Death and the Brewery Queen The Devil You Know (Kate Shackleton MysteriesD S Max Craigie)|author=Frances BrodyNeil Lancaster

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency It's unusual for anyone from Batswing Cottage, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives in Woodhouse and her housekeeper, Mrs Sugdenthe Hardie family to approach the police. She's been approached by William Lofthouse of Neither side likes or has any respect for the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamother. Something But Davie Hardie is going wrong with his business struggling in prison and he'd like Kate s prepared to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and right-hand manwho was responsible for her death. This person, James Lofthousehe promises, is someone big and it will be back from a trip to Germany before longworth the police doing what he wants. James went And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to see what serve the continental brewers were doing remainder of his sentence and what changes Barleycorn might need to makeget an early parole date. William Not much to ask, is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'too'' much or is going s even prepared to bring back a German bride but he'd like do the business to be shipother thing that Hardie demanded -shape before his nephew returnsmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Caroline Scott1739526910|title=When Where I Come Home Again've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=1918 and ''One year after a young man is arrested suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in Durham Cathedral. He refuses an unfamiliar Devon town to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he isrecover. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinanceLiving with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time and being frightened, and some dreams of the faces from the road, but other than that – reconnecting with everything that came before he has gonelost. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam andBut as those tentative plans falter, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man swept up in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he islocal world of unlikely friendships, where he is or how he got theremobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.|isbn=1471192172''

|isbn=15294103470008405026|title=Death Awaits A Stranger in Durham the Family (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Helen CoxJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=Kitt HartleyIt's assistant, Grace Edwards, has left sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her library job bed one summer night. She was never found and taken the investigation ground to a place on the Venerable Bede Academy's vocational library studies course in Durhamhalt. It's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not acceptedNow, so most of the people attending are scions of the seriously richher mother, scholarship students - or they've managedHelena, somehow, to scrape together the moneyand her father are dead in their bed. GraceInitially, whoit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's 22, comes into something about the positioning of the last categorybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Her parents agreed to fund the course but told her that if that What looked as though it was what she chose going to do then they were finished with herbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Not long after she started Kerrigan is convinced that the courseexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Kitt Hartley came for a visit - and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance of a student from a year agoUna Burt) are less convinced.

|author=Vincent PanettiereJo Callaghan|title=These Thy GiftsLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''2006 When a man is a tumultuous year for found crucified on the Catholic Church. Reports top of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the future of case alongside her sidekick, the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer to home than he ever imaginedAI detective Lock. It'' As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal that is rocking his beloved Catholic churchs their first live case together, he discovers that one child in his own parish has having previously been abused by a priest sent by his bishopvery successful with several cold cases. And this isn't just any boy: this But when there is Steve's grandson whose mother a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is the offspring of suddenly struggling with a long past relationship between Steve potential serial killer and a gangster's widowvery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Steve is determined Will they be able to seek justice for this boy solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and all children victimised by priests who have been protected by his church. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking potentially, out of the celibacy vows.a career?|isbn=1503199886139851120X}}

|isbn=18003211041529077745|title=The Body on the IslandDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Nick LouthAnn Cleeves

|summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefieldman walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, heading a care home for HMP Spring Hilltroubled teens. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was 67 years old and had served six years for due to work a shift the manslaughter of his wife. Only that wasn't night before but who he washad never turned up. SixtyD I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder -threebut her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-yearsyear-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for the murder of five boys between the ages of ten and seventeenChloe Spencer. He Some people believe that Chloe was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged responsible for the whereabouts of death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the body of one of his victimsgirl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. The Bogeyman was going She knows that she has to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared find Chloe to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished discover what happened to exact revengeJosh.

|isbn=14736924071399613073|title=The Book of Two WaysMoral Injuries|author=Jodi PicoultChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Dawn Edelstein Olivia, Laura 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, which is a death doula: that's someone who bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is there for the person who is dying, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible free spirit of the group and to support their carersshe becomes a GP. ItWhen we first meet them they's re at a rewarding, caring occupation drug and Dawn puts her heart alcohol-fuelled party and soul into it but this wasn's going to end in tragedy. We don't always her lifeknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Some fifteen Twenty-five years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctoratelater there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: as A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an Egyptologistimage 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, she where he was working familiar with her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphriesviolence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir elLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Then she It was Dawn McDowell: that his ability at what was her maiden name, the name she published underessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Delia OwensB0DB64PYV5|title=Where The Crawdads SingWhite Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating=54|genre=General Dystopian Fiction|summary= In 19522033, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track to town, wearing her alligator heels, and never came home. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on a superstorm known as the North Carolina marsh that served as home and White Rose devastates the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken fatherNorthern Hemisphere. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed And it'Marsh-Girl' – still yearns for s not a mother storm that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone to survive on the marsh. Eventually, as the years drift painfully bygathers, the time comes when Kyawreaks havoc, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be heldthen dissipates. SoInstead, when 2 boys from it hovers across half the town of Barkley Cove find their way to herEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, she finds a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback not giving up and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girlnever going away. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|author=David C MasonLeanne Egan|title=Pandora's GardenerLover Birds|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary= John Cranston is a gardenerWhen new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, although what he did before he became a gardenerbut Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, he claimsand that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is classified. straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any of them? That is So she just as well finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because he fighting with her is about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotfun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, where only he can save the day. doesn't she?|isbn=0956180523000862657X

|isbn=03565124791009473085|authortitle= Alix E HarrowThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|titleauthor= The Once Anthony Seldon and Future WitchesTom Egerton (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= FantasyPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'There' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's no such thing as witchesbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, but there used can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to bepolitics. ''The Conservative Effect'' In 1893, after is an entirely different beast. It's the purges and seventh book in a series which looks at the burnings, witching impact a government has been reduced to little more than weak charms made and simple spellsco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. If women want to hold power This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in their hands2010, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffragethe changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.

|author=Onjali Q RaufMax Boucherat|title=The Night Bus HeroLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Hector is a bully. Egged We meet Lori on by his two 'friends', he takes other childrenthe first evening she's sweetsgot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, harasses and threatensbabysitter poorly, plays pranks mother at schoolwork, 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 gets into trouble at every turnthat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isnBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't his faultfind herself entirely on her own, but and then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling liesshe finds something even more spooky. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely home, For the server she and her bestie and seem nobody else should be able to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causeenter shows signs of tampering. So what happens whenWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believedgame has been doctored – well, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying where is a girl to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local parkturn?|isbn=15101067740008666482

|isbnauthor=1849767343Jenny Lecoat|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel TancoBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=The title and format Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journeyoccupation. It isn't: itDuring the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a hymn banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of praise to mathshim. It's about why maths As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is so wonderful and how you meet 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 in everyday life.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

|isbn=18497669201529428289|title=Everything is MINEA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Andrea D'AquinoMartin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with a name like that? three sets of bones. He knows that you'll realise that he's kindThey dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, clever to discover the identities of the bodies and loyalestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. YouAs if this isn'll also need t enough to know that everything worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything''flowing at record levels. It begins with the slipper: mum still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing not just the local autumn rains that. Then it was have caused the pork chop. Well, did you see anyone's name problem: various dams upstream on it? ''And'' he left the carrots for Leo. That's another example of Marcello's generosity. There was river have had to release water and St Denis faces the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownership. And talking possibility of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chewa devastating flood. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?

|isbn=1849767009152919640X|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeThe Suspect|author=Rosie HaineRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This could have been one of those books which The nation'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it are the people who know seems that nudity is OK and the ones who there''know'' that its only one suspect. He's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about not wearing clothesJessica Holby. ItShe's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of every possible hueemergencies. Bodies with disabilities Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and markingsBrooks served a ragout to Holby. They're fineHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. In fact, they're wonderfulIt was soon clear that this was no accident.

|isbn=02412959550008385068|title=TrioThe Midnight Feast|author=William BoydLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=It was 1968: 's midsummer on the year when Bobby Kennedy Dorset coast and Martin Luther King were assassinatedguests gather at The Manor. It's also the year when YSK Films their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are making a movie in Brightonpromised. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdleall headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's Extremely Useful Ladder to converted it into an impressive retreat for the Moon''wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, or ''Ladder was the Moon'' as it's known architect and work is still ongoing on setparts of the site. Anny Viklund The heat is oppressive and amongst the female star in a production which is proving to be just a little bit racketyguests are enemies as well as friends. There Old scores are odd pressures on the producer, Talbot Kydd, going to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star to use his catchphrase, or include be settled and it won't be long before a song from the leading man, whose musical star body is fadingfound.

|isbnauthor=B08B39QNRHRob Keeley|title=The Curious History of Writer's CrampChildish Spirits: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael Pritchard10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Popular ScienceConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children'Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word'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.

I came to Michael PritchardThe ''s Childish Spirits''The Curious History series is one of Writerhis greatest achievements. It's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest in the way that hands work. An exploration of the history sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a problem which has defeated some of stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading spirit world throws at her, and so it provedEdward, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers a spoiled lordling and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Blake Nuto Kieran Larwood and Charlotte AgerJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Child of GalaxiesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=What does it mean to be alive? Meet Kit. What are we made Like most ofthe people in his world, it seems, and he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where are we going? ''Child a team of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book that deals warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with all the treasure or the big questionsbad and the points they grant you along the way. Written as a poemUnfortunately for Kit, the lyrical words dononly thing he't shy away from darknesss seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, nor talk down he has taken to the children you are reading to, but rather than work beautifully together with goading from the illustrations to create token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a powerfulteam. What chance does this friendless, uplifting reading experience.muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=19124974251839945184