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|isbn=17841652631009473085|title=Invite Me InThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Emma Curtis|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Martin Curran's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being let. If she didn't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Eliza's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road Anthony Seldon and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being available.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784742775|title=A Change of Circumstance Tom Egerton (Simon SerraillerEditors)|author=Susan Hill

|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Drugs hadnSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't '' 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 been '' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still were's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, to a great extent{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, but Serrailler knew that something had to can be donebettered for those tumultuous years. Children as young as nine were being recruited It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to transport politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the drugs impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the operation running the county lines was tightmost important. A mule might know This book follows the name (although it probably wouldn't be well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the correct one) state of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the organisation. The police might catch a few of changes that occurred and the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upsituation in 2024.

|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Max Boucherat|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into We meet Lori on the final year of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BBfirst evening she's diner. Bob - got the owner house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- regarded breaking eleven year old, on her fondly: he was a good bosslonesome. Hollie had moved What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in with her boyfrienda blanket fort, she has one main intention, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in his careerLori's world. Hollie wasnBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control find herself entirely on her own, and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinerthen she finds something even more spooky. Then there was For the fact that he would server she and her bestie and nobody else should be violent, both able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to other people.turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=John GwynneJenny Lecoat|title=The Shadow Of The GodsBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the first installment end of the Bloodsworn Sagaoccupation. During the war, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of RagnarokJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, when the Gods have battled leaving Jean and their bones lie scattered her mother waiting for years for all to seenews of him. This story is As the British finally free the Channel islands from the ultimate in High FantasyNazis, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genrewar is finally over, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galoretheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. This is But will the truth come as a thick bookrelief, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=03565142181846976537

|isbn=B09HTWX47X1529428289|title=Endless ObsessionA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Dai HenleyMartin Walker

|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy FloodBecause of various property transactions, formerly a DCI in people were searching for the Met grave but now a well-respected private investigatorwhen they found it, it came with three sets of bones. He's married They dated back to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratory. Flood's daughters, Gemma World War II and Pippait fell to Bruno, have flown the nestChief of Police for St Denis, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with discover the identities of the family, bodies and Gemma to married lifeestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. SheAs if this isn's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married life will provide t enough to worry about, the support she needsDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. FloodIt's business is going well and not just the local autumn rains that was why he felt able have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to turn down release water and St Denis faces the case possibility of Lisa Blacka devastating flood.

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou152919640X|title=The StoningSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleyJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and sheit seems that there's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumpsonly one suspect. When she He's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso toJessica Holby. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it She's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in protest at their conditionscase of emergencies. Cue the arrival of George Manolis Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a higher rank from the city, ragout to sort everything outHolby. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going Her EpiPen was nowhere to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law.be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0008385068|title=The Mystery of HealingMidnight Feast|author=A P McGrathLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heIt's midsummer on the physician on duty Dorset coast and guests gather at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populaceThe Manor. The remuneration isnIt't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue s their opening weekend and hones his skills: Solon splendid celebrations are promised. It''wants'' the warriors to lives all headed up by Francesca Meadows. ItThe Manor was her ancestral home and she's quite a spectacle: converted it into an impressive retreat for the magistri are wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the charge hands architect and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto work is still ongoing on parts of the lions' manes to make them look more impressivesite. The sagitarii are the archers heat is oppressive and amongst the beastiarii guests are the condemned criminals who enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to fight for their lives with the wild animals. Today, be settled and itwon's the crocodilest be long before a body is found.

|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Beatryce ProphecyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises Written in them''verse, we are told here. And none more so than in this wondrous is Ronny's story, which feels an instant classic with the freshness a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and the agelessness it has in equal proportionstart at a mostly white school. We start with The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a group of monkstragic event, the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingand so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upendinga new school, trampling on and biting the poor Brotherskeep himself out of trouble. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach He listens to a homeless girlmusic constantly, one who and has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memoryalways dreamed of being a rapper. Elsewhere sits a King But now, in this new school, his castleteacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, desperate slowly, Ronny begins to find see the girlconnections between rap and poetry, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat and the throne power of creativity and cause great changecrafting your words. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=15295008930241645441

|isbn=B09FFJF8YS1635866847|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)The Lavender Companion|author=Justine Avery Jessica Dunham and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out LilyTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Lily isIt's strange, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief shethe things that make you ''immediately''s been told to stay with her grandma feel that this is the book for a few daysyou. Before I started reading ''The parents need Lavender Companion'', I visited the relief as Lilyauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word picture of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra a slice of her parents, chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and the babedesserts -but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactbook, even if itwhich I's not m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the family Lily wants – book and all she has I was told to help her make a mess of it. Notes in the task margins are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakesanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1471194833

|author=Greg James and Chris SmithRob Keeley|title=The Great Dream RobberyChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54

|summary=MayaAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongball of happy positivity, he understands children, and now he canwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits''t wake upseries is one of his greatest achievements. Or at least, thatIt's what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a new friend, and discovers that stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the only way to save spirit world throws at her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams , and reality collide...really...and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offsEdward, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=024147051X1783064617

|isbnauthor=1800464495Jenny Valentine|title= 100 Ways Us in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smiththe Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombElk and Mab are best friends, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months oldor more than that even, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school their friendship is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skillsonce in a lifetime connection.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives They meet as children one day on a solid foundation when trip out but unfortunately they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we doget each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, in part because so many of us and they are afraid of mathsinseparable. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialtheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=1529379385Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In Meet Kit. Like most of the Canadian village people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Three PinesDungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, we're postmage and healer enter specially prepared, century-pandemic: old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the scars are still there but life is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return to treasure or the Bistro big bad and the Aubergepoints they grant you along the way. They're visiting each otherUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's homes seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and having friends and relatives to staya new trio of questors is needed. A young Sudanese woman who Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has been nominated for taken to the goading from the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor token bully of his world and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a bit like Vincent Gilbertteam. What chance does this friendless, known muscle-free-zone have in the village as the Asshole Saint.actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRSaima Mir|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=It's I was instantly intrigued by the later stages premise of World War I and this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is north of England run by a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero SquadronMuslim woman. This company The fact that it was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained second in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and the first to it needn't be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combata hindrance if it's good enough. But before And that can happenwasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Cameland I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=183885410XStuart Douglas|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney Lowe and Ian RankinLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and consigliere to one Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowedge of a reservoir. DC Jack Laidlaw is on The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the CID team charged with whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the investigationhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. I say ''on They travel across the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to be a part of itdeath during the Second World War. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers But is there really a link between the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1942410255B0CYV674G2|title=Tokyo Zangyo Swanton Morley (Detective HiroshiJohn Tanner)|author=Michael PronkoDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the cultureseemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just covered in mud and blood - and carrying a statement of knife, comes into the minimum youpolice station shouting that he hasn'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get t killed the job done and done to man. A body at the satisfaction bottom of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his familyhoneymoon, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from which coincided with the roof birth of the building or been assisted in his descentdaughter Samantha. Gossip revolves around the fact that You would think he left 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierwords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. SheHe'd accused Onizuka s sleep-deprived to the point of bullying her and forcing her falling asleep at work but he's determined to work an unreasonable amount of overtimekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=02414254251787333175|title=The Man Who Died TwiceYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Richard OsmanBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Elizabeth Best I was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have Going to deal with on Hurt}}, a regular basis. When she visits glorious mixture of insight into the sender workings of the letter (heNHS, humour and autobiography. 's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that itYou Don's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used t Have to be her husbandMad... He's made a bad mistake - something ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to do with a mask being removed within mental illness and the range work of a CCTV camera on psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a raid, situation rather than a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds person and a few death threats. He's now in hiding it is always delivered with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressempathy and understanding.

|author=Andrew SharpOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to his employer her step- ismother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, in his mindbasically, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countrymonetary gain. Mozzy Now Anuri is earnest in her twenties and dedicated she is slowly trying to his task regain her confidence and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODto get her life back, suing her step-W safaris but his dream is mother to become take down the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American citycontent about her. Even Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to win a Michelin starstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. He Most importantly, she is thwarted in this ambition by his bossdesperately worried about her little sister, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzyis the new focus of Ophelia's disapproval for his scruffy waysonline empire. Can she save her sister, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the house.same time?|isbn=B09926MK8H0861546873

|author=Alex FoulkesDavid Chadwick|title=Rules for VampiresHeadload of Napalm

|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Will'Leo' for short) s life is difficult, in a Vampiremultitude of ways. She drinks blood He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', she sleeps during he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the daymost basic of things like food, and she his dad can Grimwalk (turning into 't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)building site and had an accident. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on Throw into that mix the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out fact that his mum and hunt her first human. Howeverdad are separated, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanageWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Oops! And to make things worseyet, the ghosts he still has a tiny amount of one of the orphans hope. He is good at art, and clings to the evil master moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the orphanage come back to haunt herend of a long, dark tunnel. So, not only does Leo have |isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to team the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost a compelling premise. And this is one of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familythem. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X0356522776

|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino0008517061|title=The Devil Makes ThreeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has to deliver herselfsettled into his rustic life at Little Sky. What makes it worse is There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmasterfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a man Tess hates. As a petty act lot of revenge for making her find compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled relaxing life to move in with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is Livia or does Livia move to get Little Sky despite her anger out like reservations about whether or not this, is the future she wants for herself and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for herdaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1789098130

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61786482126|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! The Janus Stone (Everybody Potties!Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadElly Griffiths

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take apartments - when they discovered the pain out bones of potty training children and replace it a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with some funDCI Harry Nelson. It's a worthy aimdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as any frustrated parent will tell youa result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=B098FFFBH90008551324|title=SnowcubThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Graham FulbrightNeil Lancaster

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is her schoolstruggling in prison and he's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry prepared to highlight tell the way in which human beings exploit police where the animal worldbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip HarrisonThis person, a lecturer at Imperial Collegehe promises, London, mother Kate is someone big and her twin, Nickit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Kate runs And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the family businessremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where weit? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'll meet Rachels even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toyshappening.

|authorisbn= Angharad Walker0008405026|title= The Ash HouseA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnIt't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different facess sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. He meets Dom who names him Sol She was never found and sets out the investigation ground to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmasterhalt. All children must remember their Niceness Now, her mother, Helena, and complete her father are dead in their choresbed. Initially, working as it looks like a hive in straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the smouldering shadows positioning of The Ash Housethe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But soon their easy peace What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is shattered by the arrival of the Doctornow a complex double murder. By Kerrigan is convinced that the end of the storyexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1912626977

|authorisbn=Yancey Williams0571379877|title=Crosshairs of the DevilThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=AwardEdward Jevons is a working-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years andclass young man, despite obsessed with his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living upper- or imprisonedclass friends, from EddieRobert and Stanza. Robert's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companytheatre director. 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 He's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a wordalso self-obsessed, 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 itdemanding, handsome and sea-witches, entitled and legends of the Dark family that has uses Edward to keep watch run errands for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sailhim. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who Edward has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives been in London love with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, Stanza since their university days - and Andrewehe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years agodrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into 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 like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the world two of protecting their island, like it or notthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1788452372

|author=Erling KaggeJo Callaghan|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved When a book man is evidenced by found crucified on the number top of pages with corners turneda hill in Nuneaton, so let me start this one with an apology DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minecase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. In my defence It's their first live case together, I will say that as a reader of this type of book having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased cornersa second body found crucified a few days later, 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). Erligg Kagge Kat is suddenly struggling with a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole potential serial killer and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead very high profile case that draws a thoughtful exploration lot of what it means unwanted attention to walktheir AI Future Policing project. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps thenpotentially, better thought out of as a meditation rather than an essay.career?|isbn=0241357705139851120X

|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1399613073|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless Olivia, Laura and nimble Anjali met on the first day of medical school and quick, their friendship would keep them inseparable for he's a slight boyquarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and although he wants for danger a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightshe becomes a GP. That When we first meet them they's because Jackre at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened going to her – she diedend in tragedy. Luckily We don't know who suffered the tragedy 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 the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizardconsequences. Twenty-type five years later there will make him be an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book eerily similar event that tells him all he needs to know about will impact the perils he always wanted closer contact withthree friends. The book This time, it's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''their teenage children who are involved...|isbn=0755501942

|authorisbn=Keith Gray0241636604|title=The ClimbersTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Sully is the best tree climber If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reachyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of hoodie and jeans replaces the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that pin-stripe suit and his status background is being threatenedthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and not only that, that injustice. There was no posh public school on his chance CV - but he had been to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to conquer it, might be snatched from his handsstupid. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him It was his best friendability at what was, or maybe even all of his friendsessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, to do so?|isbn=1781129991this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Emma Carroll1035021803|title=The Week at WorldAntique Hunter's EndGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=First, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the titleEnglish country village where she grew up. We're in World She's End Close, back now because of a mediocre set of housesrequest for help from her beloved aunt, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog Carole. Freya's former mentor and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at WorldCarole's Endclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is dead and the fact that circumstances seem suspicious, to say the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offleast. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce Arthur was the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and reason why Freya had not much else is able been back to make the news. That saidvillage: Arthur, she feels, Vie has news of let her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal sheddown badly. Anna has, Even though they were in no short timebusiness together as antique hunters, taken a strong interest in she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the American airforce base behind profession she loved. After the Closesplit, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leaveworked in a cafe, met and implied married James (on the rebound from the love of her life , who was at riskmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438

|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Julia All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the SharkStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the family home in SW England shape of things to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islandscome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Here be VikingsWell, I must confess that kind there have been more than a few decades of Scottish islandtechnology in my lifetime. Dad is going I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to be automating me but I'm left with the lantern, which feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is his specialist thing- frankly - quite frightening. Of course, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the elusive Greenland sharklatest conspiracy theorist. And Julia, well, she will be homesick I needed people I knew I could trust and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1510107789

|author=Freya SampsonSunny Singh|title=The Last LibraryHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=I am always The Hotel Arcadia is a little nervous to start luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a story about a library, since I am a librarianterrorist group. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of Hiding from the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bunterrorists who are rampaging through, cat-owning, glasses killing everyone on a chain stereotypes! In this storysite, the main characterthere is Sam, June, does put her hair in a bun, wartime photographer and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett)Abhi, 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 hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the book out of residents who are still alive in the windowhotel, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be a librarian at the village librarycowed by events, but when she got sick, June gave up and keeps on going venturing out of her room to University and stayed at home try 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 mumcapture what's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading happened through her mum's old booksphotography. June is stuck Although they only ever talk over the phone, but little does she know, everything in their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her life is about keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the changeterrorists.|isbn=183877369X086154742X