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• Mudpuddle Farm: Pigs Might Fly! by Michael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner
  |reviewer= James Donald ...provides a stern intellectual foundation to the tale but she doesn't take centre-stage as she does in the other tales I've read.
  2 KB (294 words) - 10:09, 18 April 2018
• The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon
  |reviewer=Jill Murphy Subhi is ten years old. He has lived his whole life in a detention centre for refugees in Australia. He is Rohingya and his mother and sister fled pe
  4 KB (706 words) - 09:40, 26 August 2020
• At Sea by Laurie Graham
  |reviewer=Louise Laurie Although there is a credible plot here, it isn't centre stage. The rich, comic language is the star. It's excellent. There's so
  4 KB (647 words) - 09:39, 15 March 2018
• Goodhouse by Peyton Marshall
  |reviewer=Sam Tyler This intriguing concept it is at the very centre of ‘Goodhouse’ and is by far the strongest element of the book. The in
  4 KB (753 words) - 19:49, 29 August 2020
• The Second Plane by Martin Amis
  |reviewer=Sue Magee ...mary=Reportage, short stories and essays on the attacks on the World Trade Centre and what has happened since. The stance is less centrist than is currently
  4 KB (718 words) - 10:21, 2 April 2018
• Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
  |reviewer=Iain Wear ...e strange, but the range of ideas is incredible and, as a slightly left of centre person myself, I loved every moment of this collection.
  4 KB (734 words) - 18:03, 24 February 2018
• The Birds, the Bees, and Other Secrets by Frances Garrood
  |reviewer=Katherine Stanton ...fe of Cassandra Fitzpatrick. Ironically as the main character Cassandra is centre of attention but rarely in her life does the spotlight fall solely on her.
  2 KB (320 words) - 08:51, 4 April 2018
• Bang Goes a Troll! (An Awfully Beastly Business) by The Beastly Boys
  |reviewer= Sue Mongredien ...he RSPCB's headquarters, with a one-word message: 'Help!' Dr Fielding, the centre's vet, discovers that the bat has come all the way from Honeycomb Mountain
  4 KB (675 words) - 09:43, 19 April 2018
• The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner) by Quintin Jardine
  |reviewer=Sue Magee ...cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of Edinburgh. Skinner's not technically with the police now - he's chairma
  4 KB (677 words) - 10:33, 29 March 2024
• Ready, Steady, Jump by Jeanne Willis and Adrian Reynolds
  |reviewer=Sam Tyler ...y bouncing around, poor elephant just can’t jump at all. However, his low centre of gravity just may come in helpful in this colourful, if slightly daft, ch
  4 KB (778 words) - 14:39, 24 September 2020
• Guess How Much I Love You by Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram
  |reviewer=Rachael Spencer Another book with a similarly wonderful relationship at its centre is [[Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? by Martin Waddell and Barbara Firth]].
  2 KB (367 words) - 09:38, 2 March 2018
• Blue Slipper Bay by Wendy K Harris
  |reviewer=Sue Fairhead ...ry=Jill is concerned about her husband Ash, and the future of their health centre. Sophie is not sure what to do when her husband leaves her. Nick is trying
  5 KB (780 words) - 08:54, 14 May 2018
• Let's Look on the Farm by Andrea Pinnington and Caz Buckingham
  |reviewer=Sue Magee ...for you to spot and tick off and then a some harder items to find. In the centre of the book is a sheet of thirty stickers which will detach without causing
  2 KB (363 words) - 15:08, 22 March 2018
• The Secret History of Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
  |reviewer=Robin Leggett ...n Miguel's work, but also ultimately in Conrad's treatment of José. At the centre of Conrad's book was a dispute over a silver mine, although Vasquez suggest
  4 KB (708 words) - 10:00, 31 March 2018
• The Long Call (Two Rivers) by Ann Cleeves
  |reviewer=Sue Magee ...o the Woodyard, a centre for the arts, a community hub and the home of the centre for people with learning difficulties. Jonathan runs the Woodyard and DS J
  4 KB (706 words) - 13:09, 1 September 2023
• Animal Lives: Lions by Sally Morgan
  |reviewer=Louise Jones ...animal from the African savannah. This time, the king of the beasts takes centre stage, in a book that mixes stunning photography with plenty of fascinating
  2 KB (336 words) - 12:52, 6 April 2018
• How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050 by Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)
  |reviewer=Trish Simpson-Davis |summary=This important reference book from the Copenhagen Consensus Centre attempts to evaluate the relative economic impact of ten key issues in worl
  5 KB (738 words) - 12:01, 14 April 2018
• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
  |reviewer=Ani Johnson Rather than continuing to look evenly at all four, Jude takes centre stage and the others' literary value is in how they react to him rather tha
  5 KB (772 words) - 09:34, 4 March 2018
• The Fifth Heart by Dan Simmons
  |reviewer=Ani Johnson ...nd becomes a very reluctant US Dr Watson but it's his antagonist who takes centre stage throughout.
  4 KB (747 words) - 09:36, 12 March 2018
• Benny Allen Was A Star: A New York Music Story by Alan Lorber
  |reviewer=Maurizio Valeri ...crisis and the Beatles playing the Ed Sullivan show. Benny Allen is at the centre of the cultural and musical revolution and in the process he comes across a
  4 KB (757 words) - 10:35, 15 March 2018

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