|summary=Archie Coates has the most amazing talent for trouble, and whatever he does in all innocence, it's other people that suffer. On Monday he ends up with a teacher sitting on him, on Tuesday another one ends up half-naked. Both these and a lot more are shown with all the justification you need - and more humour than you could wish for - in this brilliant little book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560115</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver
|title=Mind If I Read Your Mind? (Ghost Buddy)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Every boy needs a mentor, and Billy Broccoli is no exception. His, however, is The Hoove - a ghost, who is able to impart a hundred years' worth of nous and savvy, and yet still able to use words like ''doofus'' as if he was a real, live fourteen year old. With nobody else knowing about this friendship, life is certainly lively for Billy, but also helped - when a show-and-tell-type competitive school demonstration leads to the magic the title suggests. But can Billy really rely on such an opinionated, moody helper, when the crunch comes?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407132296</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Lil Chase
|title=Secrets, Lies and Locker 62
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Ever since popular, bright, sporty Hillary Randle vanished from Mount Selwyn High 13 years ago her locker - locker 62 - hasn't been used. At least not in the normal sense. Instead, people have posted their deepest, darkest secrets into it, knowing that no-one will find them out. Until a new girl, Maya, comes to school and is given the combination to the locker - and to a generation of people's mysteries. Will she use them to become popular, or to help people?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085738483X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Michael Palin
|title=The Truth
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Keith Mabbutt was at one of those points in life when everything seemed to be changing. His marriage was on the rocks. His relationship with his children was not good. He knew that he was a writer - he had a British Gas Award to prove it - but the investigative journalist which he once was had been replaced by someone who did corporate vanity projects. He skated over the unpalatable and accentuated what there was that was positive and he was paid passably well for doing it. When he was offered the chance to write a biography of Hamish Melville, the influential humanitarian activist, he seized the chance and not just because the money on offer was beyond his wildest dreams.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297860216</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Elizabeth Miles
|title=Envy (Fury Trilogy)
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Spring is coming to Ascension and, despite everything that happened in [[Fury (Fury Trilogy) by Elizabeth Miles|Fury]], Em knows that the Furies will be back. With Drea's help, she fully intends to defeat them - only then will she be able to tell JD how she really feels about him. But the Furies are stronger than Em has realised. She's finding it hard to fit back in with Gabby and her old friends and she carries a dark feeling that she can't quite shake. JD isn't speaking to her and Crow, an Ascension high school dropout, seems to show up wherever she goes.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085707203X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Naomi Alderman
|title=The Liars' Gospel
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=In ''The Liars' Gospel'', Naomi Alderman gives the perspective of four people on the recent death of a Jewish man named Yehoshuah, who is more commonly known these days by the anglicized name of Jesus. These perspectives include Miryam (Mary), the teacher's mother, Iehuda of Qeriot (Judas Iscariot), a one time follower of the man, Caiaphas, the High Priest of the great Temple in Jerusalem and finally Bar-Avo, Barabbas, a rebel who is determined to bring down the occupying Roman presence. What makes this such a remarkable book is the sheer visceral nature of the story telling. Each story is vividly told, and Alderman evokes the time and place to such a level that you half expect to have developed a sun tan while reading the book.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067091990X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Binnie
|title=The Wedding Diaries
|rating=4
|genre=Women's Fiction
|summary=Kiki and Thom are getting married! The proposal might not have been quite as fabulous as Thom would have liked (bad Kiki!) but that’s all sorted now and with barely a year to plan the shindig, Kiki needs to get cracking. With dresses to try on, venues to find, wedding cakes to taste test, there’s lots to be done, and so the sensible option is to start a diary, to chronicle this magical time in her life but also for her to keep track off all those little To Dos which will lead up to I Do.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007477120</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Pat Barker
|title=Toby's Room
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Elinor Brooke and her brother Toby had always been close but one day their relationship became more intimate than is acceptable. The trick then, as Toby said, was to get back to how their relationship was before. Toby concentrated on calling her 'sis', whilst Elinor was never quite certain how they could turn the clock back to a time when they were more innocent. But looking back, the summer of 1912 would seem idyllic: in 1917 Toby was reported 'Missing, Believed Killed'. Elinor was determined to find out how Toby died and her one route to this knowledge was Kit Neville who was a fellow student of hers at the Slade School of Art and who was in the fox hole when Toby met his fate.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144574</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tom Grieves
|title=Sleepwalkers
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ben is the devoted proud father of two young children, the happily married husband of Carrie and a skilled car mechanic. He has all the makings of a wonderful life that would actually become one if he could just get a decent night's sleep. The problem is that he's haunted by vivid, violent nightmares. Meanwhile across town, 15 year old Toby also has nightmares and, on top of this, a body scarred with abuse, a fact his teacher, Anna, is determined to do something about. His parents have the appearance of people who love him but, where child abuse is concerned, that means nothing. Anna cares enough to get involved, not realising that it's an involvement that could cost her life. Indeed, as all three of them are about to find out, not all nightmares end on waking.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857389807</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Handler
|title=Why We Broke Up
|rating=2.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Minerva and Ed were in a relationship. For various reasons, that relationship has come to an end. Minerva decides to help herself to move on from her ex-boyfriend by packing up everything she connects with him into a box and leaving it on his doorstep, along with a long letter explaining why they broke up. A long, long letter.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405261358</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Susie Day
|title=The Twice-Lived Summer of Bluebell Jones
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Bluebell Jones is worried about turning thirteen. How is she meant to become a cool, glamorous teenager without some help? When a wish summons Red, her confident, vibrant fourteen-year-old future self to join her on holiday, she thinks that she’s found the answer to her prayers. But Red has secrets of her own – and there’s some things that Blue needs to find out for herself.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407120840</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Allan Stratton
|title=The Grave Robber's Apprentice
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Families separated and reunited, wandering actors, lovers pretending to be dead so they can be together — is this really a book for confident readers, or a Shakespeare play? Don't worry. The author Allan Stratton may have a deep affection for the Bard, and delight in borrowing some of his most famous ploys, but they are set here in a story which is fresh, funny and more than a little gruesome. After all, one of the two main characters does dig up dead bodies for a living!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571284078</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bali Rai
|title=Fire City
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Martha lives with other Unwanted in Fire City, a factory zone which supplies the Wanted and their demon masters. Nobody knows how the Wanted - a shadowy group of the rich and powerful from the world as it used to be - managed to summon the Demons, but all the Unwanted know what it's like to live under their rule - nasty, brutish and short. But Martha isn't the type to give up and she has joined the Resistance, fighting to save the old and infirm from the demons' regular cullings. It's a hopeless task though, and Resistance numbers are shrinking by the day...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552556025</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Steven Amsterdam
|title=What the Family Needed
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Steven Amsterdam's first novel [[Things We Didn't See Coming by Steven Amsterdam|Things We Didn't See Coming]] won several awards including The Guardian First Boom Award. His second book, 'What the Family Needed', is similar in that it too contains a large dose of the strange, yet it doesn't quite work as well. The book is centred around the families of two sisters, with each member having their own chapter told at different stages of their lives. In each one the various family members are facing problems of some sort or other and each mysteriously achieves some sort of super-power that they 'need' to partly overcome these, although not always with the desired results. From early on, the reader suspects that Alek, elder sister Natalie's younger son who appears as an imaginative kid when we first meet him, is at the heart of the weirdness and sure enough he has the final chapter in the book. Just don't expect everything to be explained.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846555809</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Andrey Kurkov
|title=The Milkman in the Night
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=If you're going to go sleepwalking, there are better places to do so than in Kiev in the grip of its usual snowy, cold and bleak winter - even if there is a lovely blonde at the end of your journey. Semyon is living this reality, unaware of the strange consequences, just as others around him are unaware of the strange consequences of their actions - such as the airport security men who purloin some impounded drugs and test them on the cat. We also have a young single mother selling herself - just not in that way - commuting into a capital where some are rich enough to try and stave of ageing, and to cheat death in various ways...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548860</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jeanette Winterson
|title=The Daylight Gate
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=1610s Lancashire, and Alice Nutter is the best landowner you could wish for. Single, rich and connected, she takes no sides in the religious schisms James I has inherited, and takes no bull from those trying to oppress the poor, putting them up and feeding them when no-one else will. But those poor are seen as sinful by others - amoral, dirty in mind, body and spirit, and in league with the devil. And people are beginning to question Alice's attitudes, choice of company - and ageless beauty. This, then, is the based-on-truth story of how Alice Nutter got to be one of the accused in the Pendle Witch trials.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099561859</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sarah Silverwood
|title=The London Stone: The Nowhere Chronicles Book Three
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Looking back at ''The Double-Edged Sword'', when Fin set out on an adventure with his friends Christopher and Joe, everything seemed so much simpler and optimistic. Mysteries represented exciting revelations to be discovered rather than powerful secrets with dangerous implications, and the words of the Prophecy were just a warning for future times. Now the Prophecy, and the chaos it promises, has come to pass and Arnold Mather has seized control of power in Nowhere, becoming its dark king.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780620675</amazonuk>
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