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'''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lisa McMannTom Percival|title=WakeThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Janie is seventeen and studying hard for college. SheWill's also working lots of hours at a local nursing home to earn money for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother life is going to provide much difficult, in the way a multitude of resourcesways. College He is Janiebullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's only chance at a life better than , he has the one shewrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's lived so far t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and so you his dad can't blame her for being so singlework because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-minded in -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in her wayevery direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn Moriarty Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Spell Book of Listen TaylorA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Listen Taylor's father has just moved in with his girlfriend and they There are adopted into the Zing family, with all of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed to work on the 'Zing Family Secret'. Marbie Zing is terrified of doing something wrong and losing Nathaniel and Listen. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her home life, and her daughter's year two teacher is coming to terms with few greater joys than a break book which lives up. The stories of these people come together to create a tale compelling premise. And this is one of life, love, and ultimately, what being part of a family meansthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=F G Cottam0008517061|title=The Magdalena CurseDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=2.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Mark Hunter is Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the sort future of father who would do anything for his son. After losing life with his wife vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a tragic accident, his surviving son Adam has become lot of compromise: does Jake give up his whole world. And Adam is an exceptional child – beautiful, incredibly smart off-grid and mature beyond his ten years – only recently he's been channelling the voices of the dead. Plagued by horrific dreams, able relaxing life to speak Russian move in the hours after he wakes, drawing occult symbols when he doodles, Hunter believes Adam with Livia or does Livia move to be possessed. Doctor Elizabeth Bancroft Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is sceptical, until the future she meets Adam, wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and witnesses putting the horrors future on the poor boy endures for herselfback burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340980982</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Berkeley1786482126|title=The Lightning Key Janus Stone (Circus TrilogyDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=I shall start with a word of advice. When you're being hounded by a circus master, and a magician, for Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the soul of a tiger thatsite was going to hold seventy-five 's contained in a tigerluxury's egg that's contained in apartments - when they discovered the brain bones of your teddy bear, and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best to make sure the other angels do not turn on you in a big way - then you're probably living the third book in child beneath a fantasy trilogydoorway. Still - never mind, the angel's efforts will involve you entering a dream world of flight and cloud cities, the chase after your enemies will take you across the world to desert oases and back, and friends new and old will be on board to helpThere was no skull.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Sue Townsend|title=Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Adrian Mole is now 39¼ and living, quite literally, in Was this a pigstyritual killing or murder? Inevitably, sharing an all too thin party wall Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his parents and working in a bookshopDCI Harry Nelson. It's not quite how life was supposed to turn out. As he spends his days wrestling his strong willed 5 year old Gracie into her school uniformdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, trying to reassure glamorous wife Daisy that life in the provinces she is not pregnant with his child as bad as she would like to believe, and desperately attempting to talk his mother out a result of her quest to appear on the vile ''Jeremy Kyle'' show, worrying over his increasingly frequent visits to the toilet is really the last thing he needsone night they spent together some three months ago. And yet Her condition will be obvious before long, the worst not least because Ruth is still prone to come. Think a crumbling economy, redundancy, affairs, death, a family member challenging him in the novel writing stakes and a query over the big C – it's going to be a tough year for the Moles, and there's little that ol' Adrian can do except sit back and watch his life spin out sudden bouts of control around himsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153707</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lauren Kate0008551324|title=FallenThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=A 17 year old girl at a new school meets a mysterious and impossibly good-looking boy, who sheIt's immediately drawn unusual for anyone from the Hardie family toapproach the police. He seems determined to either ignore her Neither side likes or be outright rude has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for herdeath. This person, until he saves her lifepromises, is someone big and it will be worth the two police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of them end up drawn togetherhis sentence and to get an early parole date. This isn Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't Stephenie Meyerthink 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''Twilight'', but it certainly has striking similaritiess happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385738935</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Hinds0008405026|title=King LearA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=Hound me out of town in It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Learhalt. For meNow, her mother, even as a trained actorHelena, the language is too dense and richher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the set-up too archly unfeasible to create positioning of the great tragedy bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it's thought was going to bean open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. To my mind Kerrigan is convinced that the acclaim and esteem explanation lies in which itRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's held is only mirrored by its own over-longboss, over-blown blusteringUna Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Theroux0571379877|title=A Dead Hand: A Crime in CalcuttaThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Set in India, familiar territory for Theroux, ''A Dead Hand'' tells the story of Edward Jevons is a travel writer suffering from writer's block (also known as 'dead hand') until a chance letter from an American exworking-patclass young man, the mysterious Mrs Ungerobsessed with his upper-class friends, relating a story of a mystery of a dead body in a hotel leads him to release his creativity in very unexpected ways. The story is more about obsession Robert and infatuation than it is about the mystery itself as the narrator falls under Mrs Unger's Tantric charmsStanza. But does she have more to hide than she's letting on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144639</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Toby Lester|title=The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History Robert's Greatest Map|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=In 2003 a map was bought for $10 million, the highest price ever paid publicly for a historical document, by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public displaytheatre director. No ordinary map, this is sometimes described as AmericaHe's birth certificate. It is the sole survivor of a thousand copies printed early in the 16th centuryalso self-obsessed, and was discovered by accident in some archives in a German castle in 1901. The sale and story behind it intrigued Toby Lester so much that he was inspired to discover moredemanding, handsome and this book is the result.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861978030</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steven Lowe entitled and Alan McArthur |title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide uses Edward to Unremitting Global Misery|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floorrun errands for him.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and all it has done for the worldhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. You wonMost men in Robert't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses s position would stay away from these authors, instead with quite Stanza or tell Edward that a potty mouth on relationship had begun between them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all those who failed but he's not like most men: Edward is left to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on stumble upon the expenses train, and back up the rich liststwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>
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|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=This When a man is found crucified on the second volume by the panelists from that nice ITV seriestop of a hill in Nuneaton, ''Loose Women''. Just as promised on DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the covercase alongside her sidekick, this book is an entertaining night with the girlsAI detective Lock. It turns out that they're just like uss their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The faces are already familiar and even if you don't know them yet But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with nine contributors, you'll soon find a like-minded woman behind one potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of the celebrity facesunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The women are universally warm-hearted and supportive: there Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will be many a lonely woman who reads this book Kat find herself taken off the case and feels as if she sat down with , potentially, out of a group of friends for the evening.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Ure1399613073|title=Fortune CookieMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Fudge Cassidy Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the Cupcake kid are best friendsfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. If the names remind you of Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a certain film then bonus when you'd aim to be spot on as that's where Fudge's father got the idea froma cardiothoracic surgeon. They're actually chalk and cheese – Fudge Laura is loud mouthed a perfectionist and opinionated and Cupcake a trauma doctor. Anjali is quiet the free spirit of the group and thoughtful – but the combination worksshe becomes a GP. TheyWhen we first meet them they've just started re at secondary school a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and Cupcake has rather a lot on her plateit's going to end in tragedy. Her brother Joey has muscular dystrophy and his problems are becoming more obviousWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Add to this Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that her father couldn't cope with will impact the problems and he now has another familythree friends. ItThis time, it's just Cupcake, Joey and her mother – and not a lot of moneytheir teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007224621</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jenifer Roberts0241636604|title=The Madness of Queen MariaTrading Game: The Remarkable Life of Maria I of PortugalA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=BiographyAutobiography|summary=Born in 1734 in Lisbon, at that time the richest and most opulent If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Europeyour mind, Maria was destined you're unlikely to become the first female monarch in Portuguese historythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Married to her uncle Infante PedroA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, seventeen years her senior, she had six children (outliving all but one of them)where he was familiar with violence, poverty and became Queen in 1777injustice. A conscientious woman, she There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had the misfortune been to be born in during the 'age London School of reason', when church and state were vying for supremacyEconomics. Instinctively Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a supporter facility with numbers which most of the old religion, with a humanitarian approach us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to state affairsbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, she was no Queen Elizabethessentially, no Catherine the Greata card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and wore her crown rather reluctantlythis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095455891X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Hughes1035021803|title=Thomas Wogan is DeadThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=Well, with It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a title like thatrequest for help from her beloved aunt, need I bother with a plot summary? Carole. A man has a day out in Morecambe, then the next thing he knows heFreya's former mentor and Carole's in the ultimate waiting roomclose friend, with a strange array of animals (a batArthur Crockleford, a toadis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, a sea urchinto say the least...) Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, all waiting forlet her down badly... well Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, somethingshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. YupAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, as you didn't need tellingmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, he's deadwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>095580888X</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover
|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Beth DurstSunny Singh|title=IceHotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=TeensThrillers |summary=Cassie lives on The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an Arctic research station in Alaskaunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She loves Hiding from the ice terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the wilderness hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her remote home and sheroom to try to capture what'd definitely prefer to spend her time on tracking polar bears and fending off frostbite rather than on mixing with s happened through her peers and enjoying college and home comforts back in Fairbanksphotography. However Although they only ever talk over the phone, things aren't all rosy. Cassie's mother died when she was just a baby and she can't their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help feeling a huge hole in her heart. Her scientist father is remote keep safe and unloving and her grandmother left they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the station after an argument with him when Cassie was still very youngterrorists. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847386571</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Iain Smyth and Michael Terry1529153298|title=The Wide-Mouthed FrogList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Do you know the joke about the wide-mouthed frogIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? You must have heard it I mean, honestly... It) She's not what's a classic. Itworrying Miv's one that you really need to tell in personfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, with your fingers pulling your mouth wide openthey've been murdered, but to hopefully spark your memory, the wide-mouthed frog introduces himself to a number of animals until he finally comes across a crocodile who eats wide-mouthed frogs, and the frog does his best to disguise who he is whilst saying have 'disappeared'Ooh, you dondoesn't see many of those round here, do you?sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' Is overheard that her father wants to move the family 'm hardly doing it justice, but itDown South's very cheesy and funny. Anyway When you're from Yorkshire, this Down South is a book of frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that jokeher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408804964</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Aaron Carroll and Dr Rachel Vreeman1398524085|title=Don't Swallow Your GumHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'''BANG'''s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. That's the sound of copious urban myths being shot downHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. '''BANG'''are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. ThatShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the sound of the old wives slamming the door, as their tales get revealed as baselessriver. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'''CLICK'''t stand the guilt. ThatThe Salter children are not convinced but there's the noise lots of ill-informed websites make as little else they can do but get closed down. All noises come due to this brilliant bookon with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141043369</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Annie Taylor1035906708|title=VioletDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Violet is a very special hippo. She is extremely small We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but that does not make her adoptive she was born to Greek parents Albert in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and Mavis love only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her any father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the lessStates. However, they are slightly worried When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that Violet has she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a very unusual habit mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of turning pink without warning and her preference for no explicable reasonher elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906847371</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hilary DixonChristopher Edge|title=When Rooks Speak of LoveBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Arthur Transcombe is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a middle-agedmovie marathon at their local cinema, grey-haired, self-effacing poet. Unremarkable really - on a place that has the outsidenickname of 'The Black Hole'. He hasAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, howeverand many, managed to achieve some success with his poems. many snacks! (Being a guest speaker at However, as the Cheltenham Literary Festival movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is no mean feat)very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. He But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is also a babe magnet!going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904529429</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graham McCannJames Sherwood Metts|title=Bounder!: The Biography of Terry-ThomasPlanet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=London 1601. Elizabeth I is getting on in years. Her capital city is Things have been a busy, bustling place. Boats fill the river and people fill bit sticky for the streetsEarthlings. Jack is happy because it's his birthday AI and his present is his heart's desire: an excitable black puppy named Maxautomation have been proceeding apace, whooften replacing jobs they's a ''licking re paid to do and a running other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and a leaping and a jumping and a tummy in the air and a tail wagging starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and a barking, racingalong with it, braking, spinning energy dog of delight''all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140880042X</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreMatthew Tree|title=Love and KissesWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Tamsin Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and Katie were just thirteen and worried that they were boring. They'd been best friends since forever chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and were the good girls. Neither missed school, skipped her homework nor had boyfriends. Well, that is, not so far. Up until then Tamsin who had been the boffin head – consistently strong academically and looking forward to going on to universityendless crises of self confidence. All that seemed So Tim applied himself to change when she met Alex. Wellhis studies, when I say 'met' I should perhaps clarify cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and say that Alex pushed his wheelbarrow into her, from the building site where he workedset himself high but achievable ambitions. Oh, and did I mention that he was seventeen, Polish and spoke very little English?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007281722</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{Frontpage
|author=A G Slatter
|title=The Briar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathryn Fox1529900360|title=Blood BornThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=To give support It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a vulnerable gang-rape victimwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, forensic pathologist Anya Crichton offers to drive Giverny Hart to who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the courthouse on involvement was something that the day man she is due to testify against loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the notorious Harbourn brothersswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. But when Anya arrives at He was the house heir to an Italian shoe empire and she finds Giverny close is married to death an extremely rich man and faces a battle against time to save herit's not the Italian. In But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the panic, Anya fails to take note Bag: The Secret Life of an important clue which might help tell whether it really a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was suicide or a cleverly staged murder. Worse stillGP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, in trying to save particularly when he considered the girlstrain that being on-call put on his father's life, Anya has interfered . When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a crime scene family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the case falls apartjob for him. She blames herself for the Harbourn brothers being allowed to walk free and only hours later there is news of another attack Before long, he was at Liverpool University. A pair of sisters have It hadn't - as with so many students - been stabbed and raped resulting in the death of onehis dream since he was a child. If anything, while the other clings he'd wanted to lifebe a professional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340933097</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Leah Fleming0861541774|title=Remembrance DayA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=In the year 2000 DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old lady ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a wheelchair watches the unveiling street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the new war memorial in the village squareman. There's pride in what has been achieved, in Now he could be facing the family who are gathered around her and there are memories toodeath penalty. Some are good but many are notDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847561039</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Neal LaytonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Surf's Up (Mammoth Academy)The Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Having successfully seen off The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the rather unpleasant humans online apps in earlier volumesproviding a more personal, our favourite junior mammoths Oscar tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Arabella have nothing much else look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to do apart from return Canada to Mammoth Academy get away for lots more double periods a while. Katie is coming out of Difficult Sumsa break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. They're supposed And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making presentations about what they did during the holidays too, but Oscar hasnNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there't done any preparation s always her very helpful (andrather handsome) neighbour, franklyWilliam, he can't really remember what he actually did do with all that free time other than no Difficult Sums. to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>034098967X</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ursula Jones and Sarah Gibb0811771741|title=The Princess Who Had No KingdomInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The princess who has no kingdom wanders around in a cart pulled projects are divided by her horse Prettythe time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. She I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's very politeme being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, friendlyand his house gets trashed. Oh, and kindsomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-heartedsized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, but she feels like something Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is lacking because she doesn't have clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a kingdom good person. Spike is going to take care of her own. The other royals she meets treat her nicely enoughBenny, but thereand will certainly take care of Benny's always enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a feeling that shewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's not quite as good as them because she isn't the princess of anywherewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846160421</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mij Kelly and Louise NisbetAdam Stower|title=The Happiest Man in the World or the Mouse Who Made ChristmasMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Mouse doesn't like anyone and keeps herself Murray is supposed to herself. Her things are her things be a humble, tidy and she friendly cat, one who is too selfish able to share them with anyone else. One daysleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, an old man moves in to Mouse's housewhatever takes his fancy next of the two. He used to be the happiest man in the world, but now But he's sad. Hea bad magician's fed up of having givencat, givenso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, given all his life and never got anything the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back. He just sits quietly garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and mopeswhiffs. This makes Mouse miserabletime round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, so one day she decides much bigger than Murray was, to cheer him be honest, but he's turned up by giving him a clementine...and he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340931558</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nick BlandB0C47LV1PC|title=The Very Cranky BearFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=MooseCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, Lion, Zebra and Sheep head into a cave to get out of is the question should you make it? Or is the rainquestion if you did, but little do they know would it land? The catch is that Bear is fast asleep in there. When they wake him up, he roars at them, chasing them outside, so they decide to cheer him up somehowthe answer for both could well be. Zebra paints stripes on him, Moose fashions antlers for him and Lion sticks a mane of straw on him. Unsurprisingly, this makes Bear even crankier, so it's down to Sheep to save the day..no.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989424</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clara Vulliamy1529431735|title=The Bear With Sticky Paws Won't Go To BedWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It's PearlFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's bedtimehad a letter from his ex-wife, but she says saying that she's really busy ill and isnhasn't going long to sleeplive. She just wants It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to play his underwear and play and playsent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. When the bear with sticky paws rings the doorbell, he whisks her away on an amazing adventure - although as you might expect, the bear has Is it a warning from a little more energy than Pearl and eventually she does get Spanish gang or a little sleepy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408300648</amazonuk>}}problem closer to home?
