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'''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephanie TillotsonTom Percival|title=Cut on the BiasThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=If Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Cut on , he has the Biaswrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn' is in your local bookshopt have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, you will surely be won over by and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the feisty covercollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Stories about women Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and their clothes dad are about identityseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, so what better start and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a set light at the end of short stories than a fashion statement cover featuring the bags in which said clothes arrive home?long, dark tunnel.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784132</amazonuk>1398527122
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nick HornbySylvie Cathrall|title=Juliet, NakedA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=A clever, comic delight, pitch-perfect, astutely observed, particularly insightful, must-readThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. Crumbs. Whatever else And this is there to say about Nick Hornby's latest book that isn't already plastered on this newly-published paperback edition? I can only report that ''Juliet,'' ''Naked'' bowled me over with yet another Hornby strikeone of them.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141020644</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joanne Owen0008517061|title=The Alchemist and the AngelDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When Jan's parents die of the plagueFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, he is sent to has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the great city future of Vienna to live his life with his aunt and uncle. His uncle is a distinguished alchemistvet girlfriend, Livia andher daughter Diana, hoping to take the boy's mind off his grief, hires him as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his apprentice. Jan loves the work, learns quickly, off-grid and soon the two of them are on the verge of perfecting a serum said relaxing life to bring the dead back move in with Livia or does Livia move to life. But then his uncle Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is found dead, the future she wants for herself and Jan is being whisked off to Prague by his vain and calculating aunt. She has her own plans for daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the serum, present and she will stop at nothing to accomplish themputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444001507</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Connolly1786482126|title=The Spider TrucesJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The title Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this debut novel by Tom Connolly is enigmatica ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, mysteriousDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It draws the reader in - just like a fly to a spider's web. And in fairness 'The Spider Truces' does exactly what it say on the tin difficult as the main characterRuth knows, Ellisbut Nelson doesn't, that she is obsessed and terrified in equal measure, pregnant with his child as a result of spidersthe one night they spent together some three months ago. ... and when you live in an old houseHer condition will be obvious before long, as the O'Rourke family does, there are plenty not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of spiders and other creepy crawlies aboutsickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956251528</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Hussey0008551324|title=Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jake is a rather solitary person. He's bright but bored by school and he's obsessed with horror comics. He owns an amazing collection and he knows all the stories and myths and folklores off by heart. Little does he realise that everything he reads about is real, and the Demontide is almost upon him. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192731904</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Mary Yukari Waters|title=The FavoritesNeil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=This story is set in Kyoto, Japan, starting in June 1978. Fourteen year old Sarah Rexford and her Japanese mother, Yoko, have come back It's unusual for anyone from the US Hardie family to stay with family for a few weeksapproach the police. Sarah was born and brought up in Japan but Neither side likes or has lived in any respect for the US with her mother and white American father for five yearsother. She But Davie Hardie is very conscious of the differences between life struggling in Kyoto prison and in Fielderhe's Butte, California. Here in Kyoto, prepared to tell the police where the women, including Sarah body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her mumdeath. This person, go shopping every day for foodhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the food police doing what he wants. And what he wants is very different – in to be transferred to an opening scene, Sarah is trying open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to explain get an early parole date. Not much to her grandfather what she normally has for breakfast in the USask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and becoming aware of she's even prepared to do the gulf between her life in Japan other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and in Californiaanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847392334</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Laura Powell0008405026|title=The Master of MisruleA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=In It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Arcanum, fortunes could be won and lostinvestigation ground to a halt. The bizarre otherworldNow, just the slightest shift away from our ownher mother, had been home to a life-altering game of chanceHelena, power and intelligence, based on the tarother father are dead in their bed. Four teenaged Londoners had been witness to thisInitially, then players. But theyit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'd found it wanting, and to level s something about the playing field, had thrown out positioning of the rulebook. With bodies that, however, the referee is no more, makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the Lord of Misrule is in chargeher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Free, too, What looked as though it was going to smother all of Britain with his unique brand of scratchbe an open-and-card lotteryshut case is now a complex double murder. Soon all humanity might be out of luckKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408302373</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick 0571379877|title=TimecatcherThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jessie Minahan Edward Jevons is a pretty average fictional twelve year old girl: she has a dog sideworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-kick named Duff class friends, Robert and she craves adventureStanza. One day, when her scatty mother has an urgent need for buttons Jessie discovers the abandoned Dublin Button Factory in an old mill, now inhabited by two detectives, who have Robert's a big, big secrettheatre director. She He's also meets G who is not your average fictional twelve year old boy self- for oneobsessed, demanding, he's dead. His worst enemy is Greenwood – a large ghost who lives in the mill handsome and is full of rules. Greenwood is also involved in this big secret which Jessie entitled and G soon discover is the Timecatcheruses Edward to run errands for him. It opens every seven years for three Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days and reveals the past - 'shadow days' and he'shadow peoples drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'. It is about to open again and there is s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a ghostly villain named Sullivan Ellzrelationship had begun between them but he'mede who would do anything s not like most men: Edward is left to have stumble upon the power source at its hearttwo of them kissing in a dark passageway... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556770</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Rose TremainJo Callaghan|title=TrespassLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Set in When a man is found crucified on the hills top of Southern France, Trespass is a novel about sibling love and rivalryhill in Nuneaton, disputed territory and ultimately revenge. In DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the French corner are Aramon Lunel, resident of the Mas Lunelcase alongside her sidekick, and his sister Audrun who lives in a cottage in the groundsAI detective Lock. In the English corner are Victoria Verey, a garden designer, and her partner, an untalented watercolourist It's their first live case together, Kittyhaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. The catalyst that brings these together But when there is the arrival in France of Anthony Vereya second body found crucified a few days later, Victoria's sister whose exclusive antiques business in London Kat is failing suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and who decides to follow his sister in finding a new life in France. Aramon is tempted to sell his family Mas by the lure very high profile case that draws a lot of 'foreign' money even if that means that his sister's house has unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be destroyed able to secure solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the deal.case and, potentially, out of a career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0701177942</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Philip Ardagh1399613073|title=The Wrong End of the Dog (Grubtown Tales)Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=If you haven't been to Grubtown beforeOlivia, then feel welcome. It's an auspicious Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for the town a quarter of grubby and inept people with names like Rambo Sanskrita century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and Mango Claptrap, as wella trauma doctor. For today Anjali is the day free spirit of film star Tawdrey Hipbonethe group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's gala charity premieregoing to end in tragedy. But thereWe don's to be no gala, and little charity either, when a pelican (and not t know who suffered the tragedy or the town mascot either, but a different one) comes and steals - yes, steals consequences. Twenty- five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the beloved dog Snooks - yesthree friends. This time, Snooks - from where he was living the fine life in Tawdreyit's hair - yes, hairtheir teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>057124792X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christi Phillips 0241636604|title=The Devlin Diary|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It is 1672 and Hannah Devlin, a young widow with a skill for (illegally) practicing medicine finds herself being all but kidnapped by King Charles II's advisors and forced to use her skills to treat his mistress, Louise de Keroualle.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847393489</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTrading Game: A Confession|author=Pauline Fisk|title=In the TreesGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=Since If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his mother diedbackground is the East End, Kid has been staying where he was familiar with Nadine violence, poverty and flipping burgers in a fast food joint after injustice. There was no posh public school. It's not an exciting life, on his CV - but he isn't unhappy. And then Nadine gets a boyfriend and had been to the flat gets rather cramped. And then a box London School of his mother's possessions arrivesEconomics. Inside, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he finds has a photo of the father he's never met and a copy facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his birth certificateability at what was, essentially, a card game which tells got him that his father comes from Belize. And suddenly, Kid makes a decisionan internship with Citibank. He's going nowhere fast in London Eventually, so he's going to head out to Belize and find the man in the photo. He's on this turned into permanent employment as a plane within daystrader. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571236200</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David Grimstone1035021803|title=Gladiator Boy vs The Living DeadAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=23.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[A HeroIt's Quest (Gladiator Boy) by David Grimstone|A Herotwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's Quest]] introduced us to Decimus Rexback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. This seventh book in the overall Freya's former mentor and Carole'Gladiator Boy'' series (s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and start of a new sub-series of 6) begins with our herothe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, Decimus Rexshe feels, and his friends all having received messages from their former ally Teolet her down badly. I say former because Even though they all thought Teo was deadwere in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. They're all hoping against hope that Teo is really alive After the split, but there's she worked in a nagging doubt that their nemesis Slavious Doom is setting a trap for themcafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340989270</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=Gene KempSunny Singh|title=No Way OutHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Alex and Adam The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are twins, and they're telepathic to boot. They're very closerampaging through, but are also like chalk and cheese: Adam's looking forward to their holiday killing everyone on Uncle Ben and Aunt Sadie's farmsite, but Alex can't think of anything worse. Adam there is always happy to read to their little sister EmmySam, but Alex resents the attention she gets (she's disabled, y'see). By a wartime photographer and largeAbhi, they're just ordinary kids, with ordinary grumblesthe hotel manager. When As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the car they're residents who are still alive in goes through thick fog and crashesthe hotel, they find themselves in he forms a town from times past, bond with inhabitants Sam who don't want refuses to let them leavebe cowed by events, and who have an eye keeps on Emmyventuring out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571244556</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Allan Manham and Penny Dann1529153298|title=The Giant CarrotList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Jack It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is quite the gardenerPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. All his hard work means his vegetable patch is awash with lucious veggies Women have been disappearing. One day Well, he decides to pull up some carrots and make soupthey've been murdered, but the biggest carrot just wouldnto have 'disappeared' doesn't budgesound quite so frightening. He Miv's upset because she's going overheard that her father wants to have move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to get some chums prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to help himanyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843625911</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Castle Freeman1398524085|title=All That I HaveHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Castle Freeman may sound like two thirds of a firm of provincial solicitors Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but thankfully this Castle Freeman is a man very skilled in writing about the law rather than practicing itnever turned up. In his latest novel Freeman tells an intriguing tale involving local Sheriff Lucian Wing Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and his practical yet lowher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -key approach to maintaining order in rural Vermonther husband, Alec, is not. Not for Wing the gung ho approach to fighting crime. He doesn't wear a uniform Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, he drives a battered old car rather than find the standard issue sheriffbody of Greg's wagon and his gunfather, so ubiquitous in US law enforcementDuncan Ackerley, is safely tucked away in his bottom drawerthe river. Everyone in It was an easy assumption for the area knows police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the sheriff and by and large guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they respect him can do but get on with their lives and his slightly unorthodox way of doing businesswonder about what really happened.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715639021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Rhodes1035906708|title=Little Hands ClappingDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The first character We tend to mention in this book is a moth. It's a human moththink of Maria Callas as Greek, drawn but she was born to the flame that is a museum of suicide - a supposedly cautionary, life-affirmingGreek parents in Manhattan, memento moriNew York, somewhere in GermanyDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Its curator is an old hand at lonely, unloved museums, fresh from an art gallery in an airport - Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it didnto 'Callas't take off - who notices the noise of the latest suicide to happen make it more manageable in the museum, and goes right back to sleepStates. A spider crawls into his mouth When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and gets eatenmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847675298</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lindsey LeavittChristopher Edge|title=Princess for HireBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=3.54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Desi is not the happiest of teenagers, although when are teenage girls ever actually happy? Anyway, her ex-best friend Celeste is doing everything possible to humiliate Lucas and alienate her from their his friends, and to top it are all off Celeste is also dating the boy Desi has booked in for a huge crush onmovie marathon at their local cinema, Hayden. (He is perhaps a dubious prospect for Desi since he canplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole't even get her name right). StillAll big movie fans, she has landed herself summer job working for a pet store and although it involves being dressed in a furry groundhog costume at least no-one can tell itthey's her in there. Wellre looking forward to lots of exciting films, not until Celeste comes along and unmasks her. many, many snacks! In front of Hayden. Desi finds herself feeling more and more like vapour every dayHowever, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that she doesnsomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't matter or almost doesn't existeven imagine. Cue But as they lurch from one film genre to the fairy-godmother style entrance of Meredithnext, an agent for Facade which can they figure out what on earth is a magical company that offer jobs going on? Will they ever get back to teens with magical potential the cinema, and to work as substitute princesses...their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140524612X</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=Delphine de ViganJames Sherwood Metts|title=No and MePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Lou is Things have been a clever, clever child with an IQ approaching 160bit sticky for the Earthlings. She's thirteen, but she's AI and automation have been moved up two years at school and she compares her flat chested, nervous self somewhat unfavourably with her fifteen-year-old peer group. Funnily enough, her only real friend at school is Lucasproceeding apace, whooften replacing jobs they's seventeen re paid to do and such a rebel other tasks that he's been moved down two yearstook time to accomplish. Things at home aren't great for Lou. Her baby sister died a few years ago Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and her mother has been severely depressed ever since. She barely talksstarting to think of other, new ways to spend time, seldom gets dressedalong came an awful pandemic. Her father is worn Life was pretty much shut down to the bone and, along with worry and Lou doesn't get a great deal of attention from him eitherit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so distracted is heheavily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408807513</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul MagrsMatthew Tree|title=The Diary of a Dr Who AddictWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Davey, in Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his first term at secondary schoolfather, is horrified. Not only is his best friend trying to grow up through the use of a home gym, drunk and standing him up on the first morning chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of term, he also seems to be becoming dismissive his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of The Showself confidence. Still, he is trying So Tim applied himself to be esoteric - just like his sisterstudies, painting her face to look like Bowie album sleeves of all things - and Davey knows better. He knows everyone should be enthralled with the spectacle of Tom Baker falling off a building cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and becoming Peter Davisonset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384129</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joshua Ferris A G Slatter|title=The UnnamedBriar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=Tim Farnsworth seemed to have it all. He loved his wife Jane and daughter Becka and his job as '' There's a partner in prestigious law firm was enjoyable, fulfilling and financially rewarding. The fly in the ointment was part of me that sometimes he was overtaken by a compulsion wants to keep this just to walkmyself for however long I can. The time This secret magic of daymy own, all mine, the weather or the occasion did not matter – when the compulsion came he had to walk until he was physically exhausted and fell asleep immediately after calling his wife to come and collect himat last. There seemed I just want to be no medical explanation enjoy it for what was happening – and Tim and Jane had tried every source they could find – but Tim was still reluctant to accept that this was a mental rather than a physical illnesswhile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0670917702</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James A Owen1529900360|title=Shadow Dragons (Imaginarium Geographica) The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=If you want to know where Tolkein, C S Lewis It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and their ilk got their ideas fromeven after Alex recovered, you might consider their jobsSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. No His assertions that there were only open- not their work in Oxbridge universitiesand-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. In this bookFinally, it was Robin, at leastDelaware's partner, Johnwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Charles and Jack are guardians though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a very important book, remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Imaginarium Geographica, within Italian. But which lives a lot of secret, vital information, and almost them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the soul Cat Out of the landBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. They might not get His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a surname so we know immediately family friend who is whomwas a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. They might be from a different world - there is certainly enough talk of those in these pagesBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. But weIt hadn'll see them meet t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a vanishing Cheshire catchild. If anything, a certain Spanish knight we might have thought fictional, and more, en route he'd wanted to be a quest of Arthurian proportionsprofessional footballer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847386512</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Robin Cook0861541774|title=InterventionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a 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 man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic 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.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Alexander McCall Smith
|title=The Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Although Robin Cook The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has written many booksasked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, ''Intervention'' as Ness is the first one that I have read - I'm planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a Robin Cook 'virginwhile.' This Katie is coming out of a big book in many respectsbreak up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. It's a classicAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, glossy 'coffee table' edition; it's a bigbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, satisfying read thanks to 44 Scotland Street and it's the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a multi-layered book business, or in that it covers many currentmatch-day topics which have their roots making, but Ness has full confidence in history. In facther abilities, this book is so multi-dimensional thatand there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, you could argueWilliam, there are several books within this book.to lend a hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0230743633</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Victoria Forester0811771741|title=The Girl Who Could FlyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could fly? Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. It would Some will be such a wonderful sensation, soaring through quick knits - others are of the air'long, looping cosy afternoons in front of the loop, swooping down over your house and gardenfire' variety. But have you also stopped to think what other people might think if The projects are divided by the time they saw that you could fly whilst no one else could? Would children still want 'll take to be your friend? What would your family think? The little girl in this storycomplete - less than five hours, Piper McCloud, can fly. She lives on her parents farm and was always a little, well, unusualfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and after her mum found her floating in the air one day when she was a baby she decided to home school Piper, rather more than expose her to the gossips in the villagetwenty hours. But one day, at the village picnic, Piper flies during the baseball match as she tries to catch All the ballprojects are attractive, modern and suddenly her whole life is turned upside down.useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330512536</amazonuk>
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|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=AbyssiniaBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, 1820he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Three Englishment search for the Amarant Oh, a mythical flower with the power over life and death, in someone has delivered a strange desert oasis. On finding the flower surrounded by decaying facesreally weird, they realize that it is curseddisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and take a blood oath never to remove it. London, 1854. 13 year old knife thrower Josie performs with her guardian 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Great Cardamomthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, an especially gifted magician who we quickly learn Benny is Chrimes, the coward of the original three Englishmenvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Their relatively peaceful existence He is shattered when three macabre Aunts (note a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the capital letterdelivery to his house is a new friend, never a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good sign…) descend on themperson. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and Cardamom instructs Josiewill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, with his dying breathBenny, to find the twin brother heand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny'd never told her about and destroy the Amarants wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803925</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carole White and Sian WilliamsAdam Stower|title=Struggle or StarveMurray and Bun
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|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers |summary=Struggle or Starve Murray is supposed to be a collection humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of autobiographical writings about girlsthe two. But he' and womens a bad magician's lives in South Wales between cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the warsregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This is time round it drops them into a new edition of Viking land, where a book first published in 1998 by Honnotroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, an independent publisher set up to encourage Welsh women writers. Most of the contributors in this book came from minersbe honest, but he' families and grew s turned up in real poverty and economic insecurity.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1906784094</amazonuk>0008561249
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|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sarah Dessen1529431735|title=Along for the Ride|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Auden has always felt like the odd one out amongst her peers. Her parents - now divorced - are both academics and high achievers, and they, especially her mother, want the same for Auden. Auden's older brother is the rebel and so Auden feels as though she needs to be the one who satisfies her mother's ambition. So she works hard and never lets her diligence or conscientiousness slip for even a moment. But she's socially awkward and lacking in experience. She's never had a boyfriend, hates the colour pink and can't even ride a bike. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141327480</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Winter Visitor|author=Caroline Moorehead |title=Dancing to the Precipice : Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French RevolutionJames Henry
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|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Two hundred years agoIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, with which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the fall of more surprising. He'd been exiled on the monarchy Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and the Napoleonic wars, France underwent one cataclysmic change after anotherhasn't long to live. There were many who witnessed It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and experienced the volatile age at first hand, but few left sent to a more detailed record than watery grave in the subject boot of this biography, Lucie-Henriette Dillon, Marquise Marchioness de La Tour du Pina stolen Ford Sierra.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099490528</amazonuk>}} Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?