|summary=That Mr Lazarus is an odd man. He works at the local cinema, which is owned by Kip's dad, and unknown to anyone but Kip he's actually set up home in the projection room. He claims to be about 120 years old, and he makes money by selling film memorabilia. But he doesn't acquire his loot by hanging round movie plots, or rummaging around on stalls at car boot sales. No, he does it by persuading (well, that's a polite way of putting it: blackmail's such an ugly word) Kip and Beth to go into films and steal it. Yup. Into actual films, while they're playing. Downside? If they don't get out by the closing credits, they're stuck there. No pressure, then.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849394172</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=EL James
|title=Fifty Shades Freed
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When the [[Fifty Shades Of Grey by EL James|first]] book in a trilogy is outstandingly awesome, and the [[Fifty Shades Darker by EL James|second]] is pretty darn excellent, to read the final instalment is a no-brainer really. And, I suspect that is why this book is selling so well, because while it’s a mildly interesting reading, in my mind it didn’t come close to the first two offerings in terms of intriguing characters, a suspense filled plot or general ''kinky-fuckery''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099579944</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Kathleen MacMahon
|title=This Is How It Ends
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=
This is an incredibly gentle (and gently funny) love story set in the winter of 2008 when the Irish economy was booming and the US were about to elect their first black president. Hugh (a deliciously grumpy surgeon) and his currently unemployed architect daughter Addie lived happily in an Irish seaside town. Ok, he'd broken both his wrists tripping over Addie's dog and Addie found it hard not to cry sometimes, but they were alright. Then one day, out of the blue, they receive a voicemail message from Bruno, a distant American relative who's just popped over the ocean to say 'Hi!' Remembering the last US relative who came to visit (it didn't go well), Addie and Hugh decide to ignore the phone... and the front door... and the occupant of the bench seat across the road... He's bound to go home eventually.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847445462</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Garth Nix
|title=A Confusion of Princes
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Khemri. One of the universe's chosen, he has been selected as a Prince, giving him biological enhancements, mental connection to priests to aid his psychic ability, and so much more. It has also probably led to the death of his parents, and meant he is alone except for a very close bodyguard, but - at least he is in the running to become Emperor, and thus almost godlike. But in a world where you can have everything - including more than one chance at living - it might still be wise to think more about what you wish for...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007298358</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Catherine Bruton
|title=Pop!
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elfie's mam has done her twelfth - or is it thirteenth? - bunk and things aren't so hot in the Baguley household. No mother, no money, and an ongoing strike plagued by immigrant workers and scabs. Elfie needs a plan. And since plans are what Elfie excels at - if you listen to Elfie and not to anybody else - she soon comes up with a stonker. If she can win TV talent show Pop to the Top, she'll net a cool £25k - enough to get her father out of debt and to fund her friend Jimmy's Olympic swimming dreams. All she needs is a voice, which she finds in Agnes, who sings like an angel.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405261331</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Paolo Bacigalupi
|title=The Drowned Cities
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=The best thing about Paolo Bacigalupi's latest young adult novel is that you almost certainly wouldn't realise it was intended for a younger audience unless someone pointed it out to you. ''The Drowned Cities'' may lack the sex, swearing and amoral protagonists of his award-winning adult novel '[[The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi|The Windup Girl]], but it has all the needle-sharp description, complex world-building and brilliant characters that have rapidly made a name for Bacigalupi as one of this centuries preeminent science-fiction writers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907411119</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Daniel Abraham
|title=The King's Blood: Book Two of The Dagger and the Coin
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=After unexpectedly managing to expose a conspiracy to murder Prince Aster, Geder Palliako has become the prince’s Protector and the hero of Antea. Dawson Kalliam is working with him as the Anteans pursue the roots of the plot, with the possibility of war breaking out. Elsewhere, Cithrin Bel Sarcour is frustrated by a new notary stopping her from running her bank as she wants to, while Marcus Wester tries to protect her. As if that wasn’t enough to keep things going, Master Kit has a goddess to kill…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498890</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Rob Scotton
|title=Secret Agent Splat!
|rating=4
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=Splat the Cat has a collection of wooden ducks, made by his father, that he is very proud of. He keeps them in a display case in the garden shed and has named every one of them. Therefore, you can imagine his dismay when one day he discovers that the red duck is missing. The following day he discovers that the blue duck is missing although the red one has been returned. He would have been happy about this apart from the fact that its beak is missing. The day after, the blue one's back (minus its beak) but the green one is no longer there. It's certainly a mystery and Splat is determined to get to the bottom of it with a little help from his friend, Seymour.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007463383</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Carolyn Jess-Cooke
|title=The Boy Who Could See Demons
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Alex can see demons. He's been able to ever since his dad left when he was five years old. Some demons are hideous, some are frightening, and some just lurk in corners doing not much at all. One is called Ruen, and he's Alex's best friend.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749953136</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Ruth Saberton
|title=Amber Scott is Starting Over
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Amber Scott has been with her fiancé Ed for over ten years. Things may not be perfect in their relationship but they muddle along OK in their London home, both going off to their separate jobs. However, one day, just as Amber is about to celebrate a promotion of her own, Ed announces that he has been offered a partnership in a law firm. This should be fantastic news but the problem is that it is over two hundred miles away in Cornwall and would mean Amber having to give up everything that she has worked for in order to go with him. And, of course, as Ed points out many times, if she really loves him she wouldn't even have to think about it.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409135500</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Karen McCombie
|title=Life According to... Alice B. Lovely
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=
Thirteen-year-old Edie knows that she doesn't need a nanny. She's old enough to look after herself, and her six-year-old brother Stan. Between them, they've managed to scare off nearly everyone who their parents have hired to take care of them. So when a girl of just sixteen starts looking after them after school, Edie is less than impressed. But then the girl, Alice B. Lovely, with her captivating dress sense and strange way of looking at the world, starts to win over Stan... could she be the person to fix Edie's problems?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407131729</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Alice Peterson
|title=Ten Years On
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=The prologue of this book sees Becca with her student friends at a New Year's Eve party. Afterwards, she and her boyfriend Ollie and their flatmate Joe hang out for a while, talking about the future. They wonder what they might be doing in ten years' time...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857383256</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Anne Allen
|title=Dangerous Waters: Mystery, Loss and Love on the Island of Guernsey
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Jeanne Le Page suffered a panic attack as the ferry neared Guernsey. It was a decade and a half since she'd left the island following the deaths of her parents in a boating accident. She'd been in the boat with them but had no memory of what happened other than the occasional flashback. It was the death of her grandmother which brought her back to the island, but she never intended to stay for long - in fact just long enough to arrange for the sale of the cottage which her grandmother had left her. But somehow the island worked its magic on her and she found herself making friends and developing more of a social life than she'd had back on the mainland.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780882300</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Gwen Kirkwood
|title=Another Home, Another Love
|rating=3.5
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Rosemary Palmer-Farr is nowhere near as grand as her name might lead you to expect. In fact she's a down-to-earth girl, fresh out of horticultural college who's taken over the gardens attached to her mother's hotel. It's her mother who has the social pretensions. She's determined that Rosemary Lavender (it's OK - everyone else calls her Rosie) is going to make a good marriage and that certainly doesn't include any of the tenant farmers (or their offspring) she's been so friendly with. And when push comes to shove she'll do ''whatever'' is necessary to keep her away from one particular man of the soil whilst pushing the suit of the local landowning family.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709096305</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Stephanie Tillotson and Penny Thomas
|title=All Shall be Well
|rating=4.5
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=Twenty five years - a quarter of a century - is a long time. It's an incredible length of time as an independent publisher, particularly one which specialises in publishing the best in Welsh women's writing, but that's exactly what Honno have achieved. To celebrate the occasion they've published this anthology of twenty five short stories and non-fiction pieces. They've previously been seen in the numerous anthologies published by Honno but when combined they give an interesting and enlightening insight into the work of these great writers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784337</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=David McKee
|title=Elmer and Butterfly
|rating=4.5
|genre=For Sharing
|summary=One day, Elmer, the patchwork elephant, is out walking when he hears a cry for help. It's his cousin, Wilbur, playing tricks and because of this, when Elmer hears a second cry for help he is tempted to ignore it. Luckily, he doesn't though, as this time the plea is for real as Butterfly is trapped behind a fallen branch. It does not take Elmer long to set his small friend free and, of course, Butterfly is enormously grateful. Anxious to return the favour, Butterfly promises to repay Elmer one day and tells him just to call if help is needed. Elmer thinks that is highly unlikely and, as he goes on his way, he chuckles:
''A butterfly saving and elephant, that's a good one!''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709380</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jason Webster
|title=A Death in Valencia
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Chief Inspector Max Camara of the Cuerpo Nacional de Policia has rather a lot on his plate. A renowned local paella chef and restaurant owner went missing and then his body turned up in the sea. It's the eve of the Pope's visit to Valencia and there are threats against a local abortion clinic. The mayor and the town hall are set on demolishing El Cabanyal, the colourful fisherman's quarter on the seafront, to make way for modern development. To cap it all some ominous cracks have suddenly appeared in the walls of his flat. Well, he thinks they've suddenly appeared, but he's not quite certain. It's not exactly what you might call a ''home''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701185082</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jean-Paul Kauffmann
|title=A Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of Courland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Travel
|summary=When I turn to travel writing, it is a healthy balance of that about places I have been to, and places I've not. But without sounding too big-headed it is seldom places I have never heard of in any context - especially those I have passed through, what's more. The 'nowhere' in focus here is Courland, which was more-or-less the coastal slither of the top of Latvia, and was once an independent Duchy. In one fell swoop Kauffmann seems to become the only travel writer to have written a book about the place, at least for many a generation, and, it's pleasant to say, probably the best one could have hoped for.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857050362</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Maggie Shipstead
|title=Seating Arrangements
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Weddings are always a potential source for intrigue and drama. In Maggie Shipstead's debut novel, ''Seating Arrangements'', there's plenty of that going on. Set in a New England island called Waskeke, Winn Van Meter's eldest daughter, Daphne, who is already heavily pregnant is about to marry Greyson Duff. The problems start when Daphne's retinue of bridesmaids, who include her sister, Livia, who has had her heart broken by her first love to the son of Winn's social arch rival, and the flirtatious Agatha mix with Greyson's brothers. Add in the fact that Winn has always had a yearning for Agatha and things get decidedly messy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000742521X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Louane K Beyer
|title=Six Days Inside A Mountain
|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=On the day after his thirteenth birthday Peter and his younger brother, ten-year-old Andy, set off on an adventure. Peter's parents had given him a pellet rifle for his birthday and he and Andy were heading out in search of game. They lived near the Rocky Mountains in an area where game was plentiful and they set off early because they'd promised to be home by 4.30. There's something about the mixture of boys, a rifle, targets and a forest which ''isn't'' conducive to getting home on time and before Andy thought to look at his watch they were late - and they were lost.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1469166488</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Kendare Blake
|title=Anna Dressed in Blood
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Cas Lowood is no ordinary high school boy. He lives a peripatetic existence, hunting malevolent ghosts and "killing" them with his father's knife. A tip-off from a trusted informant lets Cas know that Thunder Bay's Anna Dressed In Blood is no urban myth and so he and his white witch mother set off for the Canadian town. Something tells Cas that Anna is no ordinary ghost and he feels sure that once she is despatched - to wherever ghosts go - he will be ready at last to deal with the voodoo spirit that killed and ate his father...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140832072X</amazonuk>
}}