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|isbn=14549555461635866847|title=SugarlessThe Lavender Companion|author=Nicole M AvenaJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5

|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'This isn't a diet feel that this is the bookfor you. Before I started reading ''The last thing anyone needs is another diet bookLavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'' There was s a picture of a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat contentslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol I don't eat cakes and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so gooddesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a problemrecipe in the book, thoughwhich I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain Notes in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocainemargins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. Does You suspect that sound over the top? smears of butter would not be a problem. Well, it isnI ''loved''tthis book already.

|isbnauthor=1521129886Jenny Valentine|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith RedfernUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargesElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. It's They meet as children one day on a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and trip out but unfortunately theydon't get each other're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about s contact details at the baby when she gets past the morning sicknesstime. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himselfBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Stuart's concerned about his sister Something has happened though, Lucysomething terrible and tragic, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. Lucynow they must work through their grief, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicidetheir friendship, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil diedtogether.|isbn=1471196585

|isbn=B0CK3MYJ561787333175|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Ann MacarthurBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read 's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used You Don't Have to be Mad to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasnWork Here''t satisfying so heafter enjoying Adam Kay's now set himself up as first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a private investigatorglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might You Don't Have to be thinkingMad... Nice bloke, but where's ' promised the life experience that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked same elements but moved from physical problems to look into something. Joyce mental illness and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as the work of a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossingpsychiatrist. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she I did wonder whether it was doing there - or how she could come acceptable to fall be looking for humour in front of this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a train. Greg's been asked to investigateperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|author=Katherine HoweOnyi Nwabineli|title=A True AccountAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=Hannah Masury is living in BostonAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, having been sent thanks to live with a family who run an innher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and being made to work there from a young age, basically, monetary gain. When she hears there Now Anuri is to be a hanging of some pirates in the town, her twenties and she decides is slowly trying to go regain her confidence and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measureto get her life back, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at suing her step-mother to take down the hands of two vicious piratescontent about her. She hides awayAnuri is battling alcoholism, so that they don't find and kill failing to start her tooPhD, undergoing therapy and then to escape secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them completely for doing so. Most importantly, she runs away to seais desperately worried about her little sister, dressing as a boy and joining who is the notorious Ned Lownew focus of Ophelia's pirate ship as a cabin boyonline empire. She soon finds Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on relationship with her father at the ocean waves.same time?|isbn=08615474380861546873

|author=Tananarive DueDavid Chadwick|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help Headload of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny ParkesNapalm

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Jamie Matson works It's September 1973 in an upper-class grocery storeHicks, for California. Hicks is a man who's Mojave desert town of a control freak few thousand people with all the subtlety its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a half bricksignificant drive away. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'Not much happens in Hicks. He's asthmatic A silver mine and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in defence contractor are the main local A&E and sometimes Boemployers but otherwise, there's not fit enough to go to schoolmuch of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until.. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Harry AllenTom Percival|title=Children of the SunThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives Will's life is difficult, in a North Korean town and she is a talented singermultitude of ways. Life He is hard 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 most basic of things like food is difficult to come by, so Seo and her friends Nari his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Min go foraging Will's life seems bleak in every eveningdirection. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, looking for tree bark and edible grasses clings to supplement the meagre rations moments of rice and kimchi joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at homethe end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=18051404931398527122

|author=Edel RodriguezSylvie Cathrall|title=Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey|rating=4|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party Letter to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=K P O'Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Luminous Deep|rating=3.5

|summary=VL-15, There are few greater joys than a prototype robot, is desperate book which lives up to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuildcompelling premise. Dr Amelia Wong And this is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader one of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfthem. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM0356522776

|isbn=18389544811786482126|title=The MisperJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Kate LondonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was the fifteengoing to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old holding when they discovered the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawbones of a child beneath a doorway. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he There was found not guilty of both the no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder and the manslaughter of the officer. ? And so lives must go onInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. For DI Sarah Collins It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that means leaving the capital and hoping for she is pregnant with his child as a quieter life in result of the countryside but when a missing teenager one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit prone to sudden bouts of Ryan Kennedysickness.

|isbnauthor=1035025299Joan Didion|title=Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeThe Year of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5

|summary=Nina Stibbe This book is returning to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. SheJoan Didion's been at Victoriaheartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief she endured following her husband's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all sudden death. Books that conducive shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and necessary resource to writinghelp people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, as there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The other side of the decision was sealed when lends them a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable renthuman face to wear.|isbn=0007216858

|isbnauthor=B0CKD1L5JLAlba de Cespedes |title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey DunnForbidden Notebook

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Petr is This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an orphan. Rescued by air of suspense and tension from the strangemoment our protagonist, reclusive BearValeria Cossati, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human societypurchases her forbidden notebook, in the forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn learns about herself in human company, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild most intimate and rarely heard voices he encountersrevealing ways.|isbn=1782278222

|isbnauthor=1635866243Ottessa Moshfegh|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath My Year of Rest and Sarah Walworth Relaxation|rating=4.53|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was correctAt best, clear, concise, and consistent required this novel is a great deal scathing critique of trial modern society and errorreveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, patienceit is the cynical, predictable and perseveranceslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me This unlikely heroine, a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - slim, attractive and (finally) PayPal obliged newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The pattern looked prettyworld, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills resolves not to enable lose sleep over it: in fact, her to connect with solution lies in her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''hibernation.|isbn=1784707422

|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies0008551324|title=Oscar's LionThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to have his mother – approach the police. Neither side likes or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready any respect for schoolthe other. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees Davie Hardie is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, struggling in prison and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat s prepared to tell the police where the bully that ruined body of a birthday party missing person is buried and who was responsible for Oscar the other monthher death. And it can shapeshiftThis person, so he can take it to school promises, is someone big and it can get him out of a problemwill be worth the police doing what he wants. And it's wonderful what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to have around serve the house – not limiting remainder of his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, sentence and so onto get an early parole date. OKNot much to ask, is it can? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timethink so and she's 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 happening.|isbn=0008596751

|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR1739526910|title=Good Girls DieWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Ayura AyiraGlen Sibley

|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, One year after a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case itsuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought life, he would notice herarrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did Living with an unexpected housemate at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he raped herhas lost. In shockBut as those tentative plans falter, she even allowed him to give her he becomes swept up in a lift homelocal world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''

|authorisbn=V Castro0008405026|title=The Haunting of AlejandraA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=It''This was a part of her past that had to stop with s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from herbed one summer night. She would be was never found and the one investigation ground to confront thisa halt.'' At some point during her life Now, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if she is playing parts for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desiresmother, her own futureHelena, and her own identityfather are dead in their bed. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there is 's something fundamentally wrongabout the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. For invisible What looked as though it was going to all but Alejandra, there be an open-and-shut case is now a darkness threatening to consume hercomplex double murder. More and more she Kerrigan is visited by a ghost, a weeping woman convinced that the explanation lies in a fraying white gown dripping with waterRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, who leaves distress in her wakeUna Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1803365617

|author=Richard KadreyJo Callaghan|title=The Pale House DevilLeave No Trace

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Ford and Neuland are When a couple man is found crucified on the top ofa hill in Nuneaton, wellDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, guys for hire I guessthe AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! having previously been very successful with several cold cases. One of them But when there is livinga second body found crucified a few days later, you see, and the other Kat is undead, suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and so one a very high profile case that draws a lot of them kills unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the livingcase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and the other kills the undead. , potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (Only not each other, obviouslyD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4. They're on 5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a job man in New York that goes badlythe park near Rosebank, and so they head out to a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the West coast care workers who was due to try to lay low for work a while and find some other work to keep them goingshift the night before but who had never turned up. But when a young woman D I Vera Stanhope is called Tilda hires them in to kill investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl'something' s diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that appears she has to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|authorisbn=Helen Cooper1399613073|title=The Taming of the CatMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Once againOlivia, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie Laura and Anjali met on the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – first day of medical school and in case you're seeing their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a connectioncentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, they live in which is a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem bonus when you aim to be the names of cheesesa cardiothoracic surgeon. Anyway, Brie Laura is shunned, scorned a perfectionist and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives witha trauma doctor. They nibble up paper wrapping from Anjali is the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art free spirit of the group and makes stories based on the visuals on itshe becomes a GP. And that storyWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone fuelled party and cast out. Itit's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had going to tell stories to keep themselves aliveend in tragedy. This makes Brie We don't know who suffered the top dog in tragedy or the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to halfconsequences. Twenty-inch some cheese while five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the cat was distractedthree friends. But will the story have the successful sequel This time, it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M0241636604|title=Super Short StoriesThe Trading Game: Flash FictionA Confession|author=Mark C WallfischGary Stevenson

|genre=Short StoriesAutobiography|summary=''Got If you were to bring up an image of a minute to be amusedcity banker in your mind, entertained, or challenged?you''''These 100 stories are super shortre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. None A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is more than 300 wordsthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You can read one in a flash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book London School of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a fixed definition facility with numbers which most of flash fiction but us can only envy. He also realised that for this collectionmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limitcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. That's about Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a single page in your average paperbacktrader.

|isbn=1732898766B0DB64PYV5|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonWhite Rose|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Dave Baines

|genre=For SharingDystopian Fiction|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in In 2033, a superstorm known as the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: White Rose devastates the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing themNorthern Hemisphere. HeAnd it's right behind themnot a storm that gathers, spewing hotwreaks havoc, sour milk from his nostrilsthen dissipates. (Please don't try this at home: Instead, it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly hovers across half the Earth with its octopus- and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for themlike tentacles, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high not giving up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Crannynever going away.

|isbnauthor=1472263936Leanne Egan|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopLover Birds|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her motherWhen new girl, Greek by birthIsabel, had left the family home and refused moves to return, but Mary and Hamish (HelenaLou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing disdain for everything around her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her grandmother , and the familythat's maiddefinitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, Dinaisn't it? Because Lou is straight, but was wary - and frightened - isn't she? Even though none of her grandfatherrelationships with boys have gone very well so far, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud and she's never had a good kiss with any of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. ? His prejudices included Helena's red hair So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and green eyes - inherited from wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her fatheris fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn's Scottish ancestors.t she?|isbn=000862657X

|authorisbn=Cody Goodfellow1009473085|title=VerticalThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary= ThereSometimes it's something about tall buildings simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that just captures my imaginationapplies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Who doesn If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't love a good view from up highthe book for you. If that's what you're looking for, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere Idon't think Anthony Seldon'm intrigued s book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to get inside if itpolitics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's 40 stories tallthe seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. So This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedthe coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.|isbn= 1803363991

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, April had been on Bear Islandher lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, a lot further north than many people would ventureshe has one main intention, and finding that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a polar bear – tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she called Bearfinds something even more spooky. Back home, things on For the domestic server she and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, bestie and so can easily nobody else should be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left onable to enter shows signs of tampering. For a bear doing very Bear-y things When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been shot and woundeddoctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Desperate to make sure heDuring the war, Jean's OKfather was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, she leaving Jean and her father return to mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Arctic Nazis, and hope the war is finally over, their hopes rise that in they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a world of very white and very dangerous thingsrelief, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that 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 friendship can continue.occupation?|isbn=00085820171846976537

|isbn=18041832101529428289|title=No ReserveA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Felix FrancisMartin Walker

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the rostrum grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the colt - as yet unnamed - came up Chief of Police for auction, but Peter RadwaySt Denis, to discover the identities of the chairman, hadnbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't arrivedenough to worry about, so he continued his sessionthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. To say It's not just the local autumn rains that he was shocked when have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatementpossibility of a devastating flood. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4. Brian Kitman 5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and Elliot it seems that there'Mitchs only one suspect. He' Mitchell were well-known s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and respected in the racing industryhis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Jennings was She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in one case of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up Brooks served a ragout to that figureHolby. Both were happy that they had insurance in placeHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. The following morning, the horse It was soon clear that this was dead in its stallno accident.

|authorisbn=Sarah Wilson0008385068|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre= LifestyleThrillers|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is It's midsummer on the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild Dorset coast and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely thisguests gather at The Manor.'' IIt'm lucky enough to be living my one wild s their opening weekend and precious life the way I want tosplendid celebrations are promised. Sarah Wilson is equally luckyIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. In The Manor was her book that takes Oliverancestral home and she's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges converted it into an impressive retreat for the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the life we want – architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the best life that we could be livingsite. Her answer The heat is an unequivocal ''no, we oppressive and amongst the guests are not''enemies as well as friends. DonOld scores are going to be settled and it won't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are notlong before a body is found.|isbn=1785633848

|isbnauthor=1839948493Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=In the interests of full disclosureWritten in verse, I must tell you that Ithis is Ronny'm s story, a sucker for dogsyoung black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. In nearly eight decades, IThe move is initiated by Ronny've never met one I didns mum who is worried for Ronny't trust s safety after a tragic event, and I've loved most so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of themtrouble. I wish I felt the same about human beingsHe listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. SoBut now, any book about dogsin this new school, I'm going his teacher encourages him to sit down be part of a poetry writing workshop group and devour. Then I'm going , slowly, Ronny begins to go back see the connections between rap and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs''poetry, with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself and the accidental owner power of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since thencreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|isbnauthor=1405951680Rob Keeley|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron WardChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKAround here, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friendwe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, Rupert) not to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of monthshis greatest achievements. After the problems sheIt'd had at works a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, it seemed like just the break she needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess stalwart young girl who was returning to can cope with anything the country of spirit world throws at her birth , and Edward, a spoiled lordling and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Rachel HarrisonKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Bad DollsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horrorMeet Kit. I had a couple Like most of misspent teen years reading Stephen Kingthe people in his world, it seems, borrowing he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the books from sport where a boy I fancied at school team of warrior, mage and scaring myself half silly healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the vampires outside! way. Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scaresUnfortunately for Kit, and I didnthe only thing he't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most s seen of that feeling came from the fact latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that these are stories about womenone team has been retired, living normal liveseaten, and that at least in parta new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the horrors arises goading from very normal situations such the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a breakupteam. What chance does this friendless, trying a new dieting appmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, going and how could he possibly hope to a hen party and a coping with grief.succeed?|isbn=18033639321839945184

|isbn=13941595440008517061|title=Recycling for DummiesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Sarah WinklerStig Abell|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky.3 barrels There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfillhis life with his vet girlfriend, it will take between 6 months Livia and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII babyher daughter Diana, I faced as moving in together would mean a dilemmalot of compromise: reducing, reusing does Jake give up his off-grid and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come relaxing life to move in handy now with Livia or in does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time she wants for herself and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essentialher daughter?' On For the moment they’re enjoying life in the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) present and dropping it in putting the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching future on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bibleback burner.s