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|isbn=17847427751529428289|title=A Change Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Circumstance (Simon SerraillerPolice Novel)|author=Susan HillMartin Walker|rating=54
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|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much Because of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timebones. They still weredated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something crime had to be donebeen committed. Children as young as nine were being recruited As if this isn't enough to transport the drugs and the operation running worry about, the county lines was tightDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn It't be s not just the correct one) of local autumn rains that have caused the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the organisation. The police might catch possibility of a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher updevastating flood.
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|isbn=B09FS89KX9152919640X|title=Fall On MeThe Suspect|author=Penelope PottsRob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree murdered live on television and - three years later - was still working at BBit seems that there's dineronly one suspect. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he was a good bossmust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Hollie had moved Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in with her boyfrienda busy, Marcus: her mother thought he was great live television studio - and he was doing well in his careerBrooks served a ragout to Holby. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted Her EpiPen was nowhere to control her be found and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinershe was dead within minutes. Then there It was the fact soon clear that he would be violent, both to her and to other peoplethis was no accident.
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne0008385068|title=The Shadow Of The GodsMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when It's midsummer on the Gods have battled Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their bones lie scattered for opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all to seeheaded up by Francesca Meadows. This story is The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the ultimate in High Fantasy, wealthy and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genrefamous. Her husband, with mythical creaturesOwen, archaic language was the architect and battles galorework is still ongoing on parts of the site. This The heat is a thick book, with an intricate plot oppressive and fascinating characters that amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are woven together going to create be settled and it won't be long before a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlebody is found.|isbn=0356514218
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|isbnauthor=B09HTWX47XAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's some years since we last caught up with Andy Floodstory, formerly a DCI in the Met but now young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a well-respected private investigatormostly white school. HeThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's married safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to Laurasettle in a new town, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratorynew school, and keep himself out of trouble. Flood's daughtersHe listens to music constantly, Gemma and Pippahas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, have flown the nestin this new school, Pippa his teacher encourages him to Australiabe part of a poetry writing workshop group and, from where she has very little contact with the familyslowly, and Gemma Ronny begins to married life. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy see the connections between rap and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needs. Flood's business is going well poetry, and that was why he felt able to turn down the case power of Lisa Blackcreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441
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|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1635866847|title=The StoningLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=In a town sleazy enough to It's strange, the things that make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonyou ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and sheI visited the author's been taped to a tree [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and shethere's had rocks bowled at her as if she were a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the worldhomepage. I don's tallest cricket stumpst eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. When she (There's discovered by a recipe in the town gossip everyonebook, including which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home book and I was told tomake a mess of it. An arson attack on that shows Notes in the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants margins are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionssanctioned. Cue You get to fold down the arrival corners of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outpages. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome You suspect that smears of butter would not be a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the lawproblem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1529416973
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|isbnauthor=B08Z8BMZ7HRob Keeley|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrathChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century Around here, we're big fans of the common era and hechildren's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populaceauthor Rob Keeley. The remuneration isnHe't high but the work gives the doctor s a feeling ball of virtue happy positivity, he understands children, and hones his skills: Solon he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''wantsChildish Spirits'' the warriors to liveseries is one of his greatest achievements. It's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see themsequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals a stalwart young girl who are going to fight for their lives can cope with anything the wild animals. Todayspirit world throws at her, and Edward, it's a spoiled lordling and the crocodiles.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallJenny Valentine|title=The Beatryce ProphecyUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.
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|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton
|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises Meet Kit. Like most of the people in them''his world, we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous storyit seems, which feels he is an instant classic avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the freshness treasure or the big bad and the agelessness it has in equal proportionpoints they grant you along the way. We start with a group of monks Unfortunately for Kit, the Order only thing he's seen of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and latest race on the demonic goat inn TV equivalent is that loves nothing more than upendingone team has been retired, eaten, trampling on and biting the poor Brothersa new trio of questors is needed. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, one who has survived some trauma that he has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate taken to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat goading from the throne token bully of his world and cause great changestumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Who foretold What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But , and how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat could he possibly hope to anyonesucceed?|isbn=15295008931839945184
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|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSSaima Mir|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=''For I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the big, grownup girls out there, north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the potty masters second in training, "You Cana series I hadn't read didn't Wear Panties!" is stop me – I've jumped midway into a cry few series before (the big-girl kind!on page and screen) of toilet triumph and persevering panty prideit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough.And that wasn''t a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettStuart Douglas|title=Locked Out LilyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very ill, During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and to give her parents relief sheLeggit's been told to stay with her grandma for , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a few daysreservoir. The parents need the relief police seem happy to assign it as Lily's baby sibling is just an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to be born – help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing link to do withdeath during the Second World War. But on tracking back home for word of her parents is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (and her plush toy so she can sleepJohn Tanner) she finds stony|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-shut case. A man, covered inmud and blood -armsand carrying a knife, already installedcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. These devilish interlopers need A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to be ousted to get the family death. DCI John Tanner is just back intactfrom his honeymoon, even if itwhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he's not d be grateful for an easy answer but the family Lily wants – words 'perverse' and all she has 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakepoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1471194833
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|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1787333175|title=The Great Dream RobberyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=MayaI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's father first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and now he canautobiography. ''You Don't wake upHave to be Mad. Or at least, that..''s what Maya has been toldpromised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. In I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather strange dream one night Maya makes than a new friend, person and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams it is always delivered with empathy and reality collide...reallyunderstanding...and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051X
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|isbnauthor=1800464495Onyi Nwabineli|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days Allow Me to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma SmithIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=''Babies seem Anuri spent her childhood on display to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, being aware where she posted every step of quantities at seven hours oldAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, assessing probability at six months oldbasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and comprehending addition she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievementget her life back, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy suing her step- reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think mother to take down the same way content about mathsher. Anuri is battling alcoholism, beyond counting? I don't think we dofailing to start her PhD, in part because undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of us use maths in daily life without realising Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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{{Frontpage |author=Robert Peston David Chadwick|title=The Whistleblower Headload of Napalm|rating=3 4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=IIt'm not the first to point out how fitting it s September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is for Robert Peston to write a political thrillerMojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, so I'll move on quickly – but this won't be winning any awards for originality. Itthere's an interesting plot with a good pace, but it does very little to differentiate itself and I suspect before not much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of itnote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until.... |isbn=1838775242 B0D321VJ76}}
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|isbnauthor=1529379385Tom Percival|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weWill're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but s life is starting to get back to normaldifficult, in a multitude of ways. The villagers are beginning to return to He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the Bistro most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Aubergecollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. They're visiting each otherThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's homes and having friends and relatives to staylife seems bleak in every direction. A young Sudanese woman who And yet, he still has been nominated for a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the Nobel Peace Prize moments of joy when he is one such visitor and she soon proves drawing, that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - feel like a light at the end of a bit like Vincent Gilbertlong, known in the village as the Asshole Saintdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRSylvie Cathrall|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=It's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is There are few greater joys than a young American who has signed book which lives up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combata compelling premise. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith CamelAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=183885410X0008517061|title=The Dark RemainsDeath in a Lonely Place|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinStig Abell|rating=3.54
|genre=Crime
|summary=Bobby Carter was Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a lawyer little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and consigliere her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to one of the major crime families move in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is on the CID team charged with future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the investigation. I say ''on moment they’re enjoying life in the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way present and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers putting the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsfuture on the back burner.
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|isbn=19424102551786482126|title=Tokyo Zangyo The Janus Stone (Detective HiroshiDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Michael PronkoElly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the culture, isnsite was going to hold seventy-five 't it? The hours for which youluxury're paid are really just a statement of apartments - when they discovered the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction bones of bullies like Shigeru Onizukaa child beneath a doorway. When he There was found dead in front of Senden Centralno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or griefdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, even from that she is pregnant with his family, but there was child as a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof result of the building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide one night they spent together some three years earliermonths ago. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to work an unreasonable amount sudden bouts of overtimesickness.
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|isbn=02414254250008551324|title=The Man Who Died TwiceDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Richard OsmanNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came 's unusual for anyone from a man whose body she had helped the Hardie family to pull from approach the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basispolice. When she visits Neither side likes or has any respect for the sender of the letter (other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's moved into prepared to tell the police where the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has body of a long professional history - missing person is buried and who used was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be her husbandtransferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. HeNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's made a bad mistake - something even prepared to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twentyother thing that Hardie demanded -million pounds in diamonds make certain that DS Max Craigie and a few death threats. He's now in hiding anyone who works with a young woman called Polly, whohim is kept well away from what's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitresshappening.
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|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0008405026|title=The Chef, A Stranger in the Bird and the BlessingFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Chef Mlantushi It's sixteen years since nine- Mozzy year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to his employer - isa halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in his mindtheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the head chef positioning of a safari business catering the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to VIP guests in be an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest open-and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream shut case is to become the head chef of now a restaurant in London or a big American citycomplex double murder. Even to win a Michelin star. He Kerrigan is thwarted convinced that the explanation lies in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin Rosalie's disappearance: others (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzysuch as Derwent's disapproval for his scruffy waysboss, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the houseUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=B09926MK8H
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes0571379877|title=Rules for VampiresThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Edward Jevons is a Vampire. She drinks bloodworking-class young man, she sleeps during the dayobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and she can Grimwalk (turning into Stanza. Robert's a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)theatre director. Pretty cool stuff. Now He's also self-obsessed, on the night of her hundredth birthnightdemanding, she has to go out handsome and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident entitled and burning down an orphanageuses Edward to run errands for him. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and the evil master of the orphanage come back he's drunkenly confided how he feels to haunt herRobert. So, Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna like most men: Edward is left to stop stumble upon the ghost two of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familythem kissing in a dark passageway. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X
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|author=Tori BovalinoJo Callaghan|title=The Devil Makes ThreeLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library When a man is found crucified on the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets top of a request for over a hundred books that she has hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested case alongside her sidekick, the books: Mr BirchAI detective Lock. The boarding school It's headmastertheir first live case together, and a man Tess hateshaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. As But when there is a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such second body found crucified a large requestfew days later, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled Kat is suddenly struggling with the ugliest insults she can think a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of. They're never meant unwanted attention to reach him, of coursetheir AI Future Policing project. Her plan is Will they be able to get her anger out like thissolve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1789098130139851120X
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61399613073|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)Moral Injuries|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the latest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. This series of fun picture books aims Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to take be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the pain out free spirit of potty training children the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and replace it with some fun's going to end in tragedy. It We don's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will tell youimpact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B098FFFBH90241636604|title=SnowcubThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Graham FulbrightGary Stevenson
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|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=FourteenIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-year-old Rachel stripe suit and his background is her the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry on his CV - but he had been to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldLondon School of Economics. She gets Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a great deal facility with numbers which most of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at Imperial Collegewhat was, Londonessentially, mother Kate and her twin, Nicka card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Kate runs the family businessEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toystrader.
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|authorisbn= Angharad Walker1035021803|title= The Ash HouseAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash HouseIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He doesn She't know his names back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, or why he is there but he is used to dead and the systemcircumstances seem suspicious, used to different places and different facessay the least. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to teach him the rules of The Ash Housevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the absent Headmasterprofession she loved. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores After the split, working as she worked in a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by cafe, met and married James (on the arrival of rebound from the Doctor. By the end love of the storyher life, lives will be changed forever who was murdered) and Freya and The Ash House will never be the same againJames have now divorced.|isbn=1912626977
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|authorisbn=Yancey WilliamsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Crosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from EddieAll Tomorrow's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{FrontpageFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark Benjamin Greenaway and the Face of the DeepStephen Oram (Editors)
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|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed 'Opening up out new ways of thinking about the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world shape of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Erling Kagge|title=Walking: One Step At A Time|rating=5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology things to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minecome. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why).'
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|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultSunny Singh|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Meet JackThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and nimble and quickAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he's forms a slight boybond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him keeps on venturing out of his sight. Thather room to try to capture what's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to through her – she diedphotography. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke Although they only ever talk over the ogre's deathphone, a dwarfish wizard-type their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about rescued before they are discovered by the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''..terrorists.|isbn=0755501942086154742X
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|authorisbn=Keith Gray1529153298|title=The ClimbersList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sully It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the best tree climber in the villagePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... He has ) She's not what's known amongst worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the kids as family 'reachDown South'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid When you're from Yorkshire, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully Down South is worried that his status is being threateneda frightening, and not only thatforeign place, that his chance to name the finalbest avoided. For Miv, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or maybe even all of his friends, that her Mum's stopped talking - to do so?|isbn=1781129991anyone.
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|authorisbn=Emma Carroll1398524085|title=The Week at World's EndHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=First, the title. We're in WorldCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's End Closefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, a mediocre set of housessons Niall, where Stevie (Vie to Paul and Ollie and her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the roaddaughter, Etty. But we could also be at World's Endare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offnot. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore Shortly afterwards, Etty and not much else is able to make Greg, find the news. That said, Vie has news body of her own – AnnaGreg's father, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short timeDuncan Ackerley, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind river. It was an easy assumption for the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed police to leave, make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and implied her life was at riskthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438really happened.
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|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston1035906708|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{FrontpageDiva|author=Freya Sampson|title=The Last LibraryDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5
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|summary=I am always a little nervous We tend to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought think of the incoming cardigan-wearingMaria Callas as Greek, hair but she was born to Greek parents in a bunManhattan, cat-owningNew York, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), December 1923 and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used only moved to be a librarian at the village library, but Athens when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008370982|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotlandthirteen. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels heCallas's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with make it more manageable in the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easyStates. Still When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving could get appropriate training for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat voice - and then doing she was raised under the same thing to come back Nazi occupation by a couple mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of days laterher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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