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|author= Catherine Steadman
|title= Mr Nobody
|rating= 4
|genre= Thrillers
|summary= Don't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the 'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost as if the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to do in the closing stages.
|isbn=1984890646
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|isbn=1473681847
|title=In Her Eyes
|author=Sarah Alderson
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why.
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|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton
|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...
|isbn=1401282555
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|isbn=1786075695
|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)
|author=Helen Sedgwick
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with the discovery of a body under the swings in the children's playground. It was Dr Alexis Crosse and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason to mistrust him. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsider. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you've only got to look at her skin to realise that, and her husband, Fergus, well, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''.
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|author=Alastair Chisholm
|title=Orion Lost
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for a new life on Eos Five. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy, but it ''is'' going to be a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts it, ''There's a future waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisions, create our own lives.''
|isbn=1788005929
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|isbn=0753553236
|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
|author=B J Fogg
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (to you) habits that seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the list.
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|author= B T Keaton
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= Life in In the near future, life's not all badpretty good. We've reversed global warming and fixed Climate change has been brought under control, the collapsing bee populationhas been brought back from near-extinction, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. We even created But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desiresimulated world that has the ability to mimic emotions as well as images. But almost anything isn't enough , as with every technology, there is the potential for someit to be abused. Every day, normal people are being takenkidnapped, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested - and lives traded - to create death-defying thrills for the rich richest and twistedsickest members of society. Now Theo’s mother And now Theo's mum has disappearedgone missing. And as As he follows the trail left by her breadcrumb trail of clues, he'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has to offer: police, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as uncovers a criminal empire vast conspiracy that will kill would use any means necessary to stop him from finding her out where his mum has gone. . .
|isbn=1409184641
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|genre=Crime
|summary=It's when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly to a teacher's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrong. Nowadays you ''might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the child. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit in the most horrific fashion. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found the man dead on the floor, the top of his skull missing. The school's initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet that had killed the Captain.
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