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|author= David GrannThomas Dolby|title= Killers The Speed of the Flower MoonSound|rating= 4.5|genre= True CrimeEntertainment|summary=Killers of the Flower Moon tells the story of the Osage tribeFrom struggling post-punk musician to pop star, forced from Silicon Valley innovator to settle in the rockyuniversity professor, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County. In an unexpected turn of fortuneThomas Dolby has had a remarkable if not unique career, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some of the richest people in the world. Then members of often reinventing himself on the tribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent waysway. Investigation into the matter stalls and This memoir is beset by incompetence and a general lack of interest in the fate of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved and draws together a team of battle scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure based on White increases, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osage, the race to find the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists his extensive notes and double crosses than any murder mysteryjournals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08572090271785781952</amazonuk>

|author=Tanya LandmanRon Butlin|title=Passing for WhiteSteve and Frandan Take on the World|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=In 1847Like many books for confident readers and teens, in Maconour heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, Georgiaas we are well into the twenty-first century here, Benjamin was a slaveof the cyber kind. He was a talented carpenter tooBut this isn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, but on November the 19th he was unnerved: nor is it a white woman was looking at him, smiling and being polite. What was going on? He wasngloomy book about young people who can't just unnerved, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at the white womanpoint of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, looking ''her'' in the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than that. Only this wasn't a white woman: this was Rosalight of later events, who was mixed race. She could pass for whiteutterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the sunset, but she too was to take a slave. Rosa break from civilisation, online Thor and Benjamin eventually marriedhis idiot Viking horde, but it didn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way the insanities in general of knowing who all adults. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at the father wastime...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X1780274394</amazonuk>

|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)Elaine Everest|title= Block 46 The Butlins Girls|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers Historical Fiction|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to appear at a Cartier event presenting some of start her new creationsjob as a Butlins auntie. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrongBehind the smiles and confident appearance, she hides a secret; nothing would have kept she has taken the talented young artist from attending this prestigious function. When a young woman's mutilated body is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéa's holiday job to escape escalating problems at home, Alexis' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéa's death is not unique; She soon finds good friends in facther chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, she is only the latest in a string of similar gruesome murders and it turns out that they each have occurred in both London and Falkenbergtheir own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Up until nowMeanwhile, the bodies have all belonged Molly is shocked to young boys, so what has caused discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the killer to change camp. Is he really as suave as his or her MOon-screen persona? And why is he working at the camp anyway? How can Alexis help to find justice for As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her friend, new friends face new threats and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19106337041447295536</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Harder They FallBenjamin Ludwig|authortitle=Bali RaiThe Original Ginny Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being To Ginny, a superhero and saving child with autism, the day while simultaneously winning word Forever means until the heart of police come. Five years ago the girl (Freya being police forcibly removed her from the girlhome of her abusive birth mother, hopefully)Gloria. Batman is his favourite superheroNow fourteen, and in her fourth Forever Home, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to Gloria's apartment. But CalShe has no illusions about her mother's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-likeaddictions or lack of parenting skills. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmatesShe knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill her. Stillshe plots, itobsessed with returning to Gloria's not all badto find something she insists she left behind, something she hid under her bed. Cal's parents Her teachers, therapist, and new Forever Parents are lovely in turn frustrated, infuriated, and perplexed. As Gloria returns to her life, the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..reader follows Ginny on a journey filled with danger and discovery, in her quest to find a place she can truly call her Forever Home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811268281848456611</amazonuk>

|author= Matthew HarffyHolly Webb|title= The Serpent SwordHomeless Kitten|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionEmerging Readers|summary= ItLily loves their rescue dog, Hugo. However, Lily also really wants a cat – or better still a kitten. She, therefore, can's AD 633 t believe her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while out of his walk with Lily and Albion is a divided island made up of petty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangstersher dad. Romans are a memory that have entered into myth and the souls Better still (from Lily's point of Albion are torn between view at least) the old Gods animal shelter is full so Lily's mum and dad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the new Christtiny kittens until they're old enough to be rehomed. It is Lily's in this world that we follow heaven looking after the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes kittens, especially the classic hero’s journeylittle fluffy white one whom she names Stanley. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager There is just one problem – it's going to hardened and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts break her heart when the killer of his brother and seeks time comes to become a true warriorsay goodbye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924061847157831</amazonuk>

|author=Anna PitoniakHarriet Cummings|title=The FuturesWe All Begin As Strangers|rating=4|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Evan PeckIn the summer of 1984, he has just started at Yale College, where he plays ice hockey. Like lots a Chilterns village was gripped with fear and suspicion as a mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into the homes of several residents in the other playersarea. Despite an increased police presence, he is actually Canadianregular patrols and vigilante groups, from small-town British Columbiathis slippery character still managed to evade detection. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm A huge police ''Foxhunt'' followed, and they go out for pizzafinally, forensic evidence led to the eventual capture of the perpetrator. She technically has This real-life news story sparked the imagination of a young Harriet Cummings, who went on to create a boyfriend from her Boston boarding school daysfictional version of events, but they soon break up which invites the reader to turn detective and before long Julia try and Evan have become inseparable, as they will remain for the rest unmask ''The Fox'' from a range of their college yearspossible suspects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181845641409169049</amazonuk>

|author= Lee ChildMalcolm Devlin|title= No Middle NameYou Will Grow Into Them|rating= 45|genre= Crime Short Stories|summary= There is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grass. This is particularly true, some say, and I have been known to concur, of the crime and thriller genres. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply haven't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with 'You Will Grow Into Them'No Middle Name'' : is a thrilling collection of ten short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by all centred on the name nature of ''Jack Reacher''transition and change.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 21/5 -->|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|title=Fall Out|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Charlton's the sort The often grisly, macabre and ghoulish nature of village where people aspire to live, despite its apparent ordinariness. There's the usual mix of commuters (itstories included in Devlin's not ''too'' far from London) debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and those who make their lives in the village. Richard Hughes darkness within each tale is a commuter, but his wife Jessica works at the local academy, where both their children - Alfie and Hannah - are pupils. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wife, Susie. Actually, some of that voluptuousness might be better described as fat - Pete suspects that he might need longer arms to hug her before long. Less popular is Gary Webber. He's the sort of man who causes people to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at the golf clubdeviously addictive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110798401907389431</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeTove Jansson|title= The Silence Between BreathsLetters From Klara

|genre= CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= I'm always wary Famed in the UK for her creation of author endorsementsthe Moomin family, even those from people Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather the richly deserved esteem for her adult writings. For that I rate as writers, but the offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers ''harrowing and humaneSort of books'' quote from Ian Rankin on and Thomas Teal, who has been responsible for most of the front cover translations. Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of the series, and secondly there'll come a time sooner rather than later when there'll be no more to be had. The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate former will be rectified, the case. This latter is an extremely powerful booka sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721180141908745614</amazonuk>

|author=Jill ArmitageJane Menczer|title= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen An Unlikely Agent|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyCrime (Historical)|summary= Lady Arbella StuartLondon, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, cousin Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to both Elizabeth I 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of England the intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is to track down and James VI neutralise a ruthless band of Scotlandanarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, was one and her journey of self-discovery forms the unfortunate figures heart of English history who might have been Queen – and whothis remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, like the even more tragic Lady Jane Greycourage, might have paid independence and the ultimate price. This is a sad but engrossing story first stirrings of one whose only crime was to have royal blood coursing through her veinslove.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456501931846973805</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan TaltyHenry Marsh|title= The Black HandAdmissions: A Life in Brain Surgery|rating=4.5|genre=True CrimeAutobiography|summary=History is a fascinating subject to study as there is so much It's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of itLife, so why do we keep going back to the same places? I feel like I have walked the steps of Julius Caesar Death and married at least two Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of Henry VIII's wivesLife, so often I Death and Brain Surgery]] but the memories have read about themstayed with me. There are countless other tales out there to learn I had thought then that a book about that may be more obscure, but are just brain surgery might sound as exciting. though I don't know much about New York around 1900was taking my pleasures too sadly, but after the book was superb - and very easy reading and when I heard about ''The Black HandAdmissions'' by Stephan Talty I now know it decided to treat myself to an audio download, particularly as Henry Marsh was a violent place to livenarrating. I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, but an interesting one to learn about.how did the book do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850371291474603866</amazonuk>

|author= A P McGrathDK|title= A Burning in the DarknessChildren's Illustrated Thesaurus|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some One of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance and evidence point most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to his guilt in use reference books. As a terrible crimechild every question which I began with ''how do you spell. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret.?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as it says in the dictionary''. This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, he is motivated not least because the font was small and difficult to redress a heart-breaking injusticeread. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime Fortunately those times have now changed and reference book for children are now much more inviting. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect Not every book comes with a young witness, sparking memories set of Michaelinstructions but it's past in Liberiaworth studying the ''How to... As he fights to prove his innocence'' section, Michael has to risk anything for the sake of love and truthnot least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL0241286972</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 28/5 -->|author=Nosy CrowVal Harris|title=British Museum: ABCHunting Ground

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Learning your ABCs Nyara Camp is also seemingly learning one of the newest camps in the same items appearing over Masai Mara and it's run by James and over againAlexia Sackville. A is not only A – The guests might sleep in tents, but it is also Apple's still luxury accommodation in anybody's book. B is BallChui Camp, on the other hand, sticks with the traditional way that safaris were run, C is Carincluding bucket showers. It Owner Ralph Somerton is almost as if there are only 26 objects in convinced that's what the world guests ''should'' want and they happen he won't listen to start with different letters any of his wife Tessa's suggestions for updating the alphabettired venue. In fact, apart from Xylophone and X-Ray, there are loads of things that you could choose It's beginning to put be reflected in an ABC bookthe profits Chui makes, if but instead of upping his own game Somerton would rather see Nyara as unfair competition and it's only you had a vast repository small step from that reasoning to looking at ways of objects and art that you could choose from …ensuring Nyara's failure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08576381650955599717</amazonuk>

|author=Liz PichonMarian Veevers|title=Family, Friends Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Sensibility|rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=Tom Gates has got a problem: his shoes are making The idea of a noise. They sort dual biography of rasp when he walks, only he can't recreate the sound at hometwo contemporaries who never met throughout their lives is an intriguing one. At school it's a different matter: not only is the noise very loudHowever, there are those of his classmates who suggest that were several unifying factors, which makes it has originated from somewhere a little seem logical enough. Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were both renowned writers though one was much morefamous than the other, welland both were born just four years apart, ''intimate''. All in all it's not a good start to the day for Tom, particularly when he realises that he's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school project. Class 5F are building their family trees and they've got to interview family members to get stories of their lives for the project1770s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14071681181910985775</amazonuk>

|author= Clare FisherGeraint Jones|title= All the Good ThingsBlood Forest|rating= 45|genre= General Historical Fiction|summary= Nature, nurture, chance and circumstance; all combine to produce the story of Bethany Mitchell, a young adult who writes from her prison cellFelix. The lucky one. We know only that she has committed a He doesn'bad thing', a bad thing that she sees as t feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the end grove and finds twelve of her storyhis comrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible ways. Armed with a simple task He felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, ErikaRoman cavalry. He might have run, a psychologist, sets but he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out to challenge this. She asks Beth simply to compile a list of all the good things in her lifeface whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X0718184815</amazonuk>

|author= Robert HarrisDorling Kindersley|title= ConclaveFirst Science Encyclopedia|rating= 45|genre= General Children's Non-Fiction|summary= It is hard I wasn't introduced to believe that Harris has managed 'science' until I was eleven and went on to bring such pace senior school: I wasn't alone in this, but it really was too late. Thankfully, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to the often lengthy grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and complex process of even outer space from a very young age. What's needed is a conclavegood, but he has wrung out every piece of mystery basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and give a good grounding. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the result had me reading through long into the nightclassroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. I simply could not put this down The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784751839024118875X</amazonuk>

|author= Samantha KingSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title= The ChoiceSupertato Run Veggies Run|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersFor Sharing|summary= ItI's perfectly possible ve heard of these so called superfoods, they are reported to be drawn towards one boost your immune system and flush out areas of your children more than the others at a particular point in time. Maybe body that have gone unnoticed for a momentdecades, just but does this make them super? In my mind to be a moment, superfood you prefer the sleeping 4 year old over his up all night baby sister, and then later when off need to do the Big Shop you favour the littlest something spectacular; lift a car from a trapped child, or leap over a building in one for sheer portability bound. The vegetable and lower likelihood fruit in my house can't do any of running off in the carparkthis, but if you ask most parents then they will say they love their children equally. End of. In different ways and for different thingsaren't Supertato; a spectacular spud that, but equally. You might jokingly pick a favouritemore than once, but deep down there's no such thing. So imagine has saved the worst thing that could come. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door day with a gun and making you choose between your children. One can live, but one must die. Welcome to Madeline's world and her living nightmarehis powers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03494146531471121038</amazonuk>

|author= Suzanne LealThe British Museum|title= The Teacher's SecretOrigami, Poems and Pictures|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrafts|summary= Terry has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school for yearsSometimes you find a delight of a book. Everyone knows him On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, heck half Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the kids in his class have parents who were former pupils ancient art of hispaper folding, haiku poetry and painting. He I's an institution. You know ll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the sortbook caught my imagination. And he does not take kindly to We begin with something very simple: a new young upstart showing up boat and trying in case you're worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to meddle. He's not nasty about it, but it rubs him up tricky') and this one is at the wrong waylowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790770857639382</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Warner Brothers|authortitle=Mat WaughHarry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Best of Harry Potter colouring

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about him Imagine pages and now he has another. His slapstick adventures are related once more by his sister pages of images from the HarryPotter books and films for you to colour as you wish. You ''might'' have seen some of the images before - I love know I have - as they've appeared in the ''Harry Potter Colouring Book'', ''Harry. Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', and ''Harry is by turn infuriated Potter Magical Places and amused by her brother CharlieCharacters Colouring Book'', but there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the collector of Harry Potter memorabilia. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasm If you're in need of inspiration as to colours then you'll enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and concept art at the back of the book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B072F586441783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Patrick NessThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor= ReleaseCatherine Rosevear|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Adam Hannah lives in small-town America with her parents in a deeply religious householdflat above the nursing home where her mother is matron. His father Hannah is an evangelical preacheronly child and so she enjoys making friends with some of the home's residents. His brother So when Mrs Oberto moves in, Hannah is at a Christian college training keen to be an evangelical preachermake her acquaintance - Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. Adam Mrs Oberto is used to a restricted life quite standoffish at first but Hannah persists and he is also used to an atmosphere soon they are the best of suspicionfriends. Because Adam Mrs Oberto is gayparticularly keen on helping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome and relates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead But she remains tight-lipped about the mysterious wooden chest, the key towhich she keeps around her neck...... well, best not to think about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14063311711788032535</amazonuk>

|author= Claire FayersDominic Smith|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Last Painting of Sara de Vos

|genre= Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary= Two quests. Can If you find the crew techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of the good ship Onion (donSara de Vos''t ask) help their young friend Brine provides a masterclass in how to find her home? And does work up a canvas in stages. Framing the novel as the legendary island story of dragons really exist or – a rather important pointseventeenth century Dutch painting, this – if Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the ship keeps sailing west, will it just topple off way through. Sara is one of the edge few women artists of the world? Of courseperiod and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, if you think her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a little thing like terrible peril and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her shipmates from going wherever they fancyreputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then youunderstand these are merely the author're reading s equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the wrong seriesDutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will follow. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290623192526680X</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 17/5 -->|titleauthor=Go To Sleep!Deirdre Osborne (Editor)|authortitle=Marion AdamsThe Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)|rating=45|genre=For SharingReference|summary=''It was midnight on This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the contribution of black and Asian authors to the wild moorsBritish literary canon since 1945. The round white moon peeped over the cloudsIt covers not just fiction, but also poetry, plays and performance works. The barn owl flew from tree to tree without making It sits as a sound. The cool night breeze rustled through kind of joyful cuckoo in the nest, interrupting the usual narratives of literary waves and movements in Britain that take little notice of any perspective other than the gorse bushesdominant white - and posh! - direction of travel.It'' Parents - isn't this just s a lovely way disparate, varied collection of essays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, liberationist writing and much more. I was really happy to start a bedtime story? Itsee children's an oft-forgotten truth about picture books that they need to engage the parents authors such as well as the children. How else can they read it aloud successfully? So I loved this opening paragraph of ''Go To Sleep!'' - it not only set the scene beautifully but it also made me want to rush off Malorie Blackman, Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and find a child to read it torespected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09930794741316504808</amazonuk>

|author=Noah HawleyDr Seuss|title=Before the FallDr Seuss's ABC

|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did No one who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imagination. He was able to accept the offer pluck from the wife of a media mogul for a short plane ridehis brainpan not only interesting takes on old ideas, not realising it will shape the rest of his lifebut also new creatures and worlds that had never been seen before. The private jet falls out His books are often madder than a box of the skyMarch hares, making him a hero in the way but even he saved the only other survivor, the mogul's small son and heir JJ. must have had his limits? The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many wayshumble ABC book (dare I say the dull ABC book), especially when he realises that for some surely hecould not bring his sense of anarchic fun to this staple of the children's not so much the hero as the murderer. Are they righteducation market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X0007487754</amazonuk>

|author=Antonia SeniorStewart O'Nan|title=The Tyrant's ShadowLast Night at the Lobster|rating=4|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorly-performing branches just before Christmas.Patience lives with her widowed brotherAmid the Christmas lights, office parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeon, Williamthe manager of one of these failing outlets, helping has to care keep it all together for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry)one last day. Despite the Civil war endingShort-handed, the times are still uncertain. Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with a parliament most of rebels refusing the staff who've bothered to go turn up facing unemployment, he tries to make the best of a bad job, all the electorate for ratification. William sees while knowing this problem at close quarters once will be the last day he's effectively forced to become Cromwellll spend with the waitress he shouldn's legal advisor t still be in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and religious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpsonlove with, particularly not now he's about to be a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for her at leastdad. Meanwhile Sam ChallonerOh, Williamand there's brother in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that a blizzard on the fight at sea is better than peace at home. At least when you're privateering you know who your enemy isway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823966161760293865</amazonuk>

|author=Leonardo PaduraTom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)|title=HereticsIn Every Moment We Are Still Alive

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Daniel Kaminsky Tom Malmquist is a child émigré to Cuba in 1939, looking forward to being joined poet from Germany by his parentsSweden. They're on board the St Louis Originally published in Havana docks but Swedish in a country and a time rife with politics and corruption2015, the ship this is turned back without permitting any his first work of their passengers to disembarkprose. Now, nearly 80 years later, DanielWhile it's son wants to know how an auction house obtained being marketed as a family heirloom: novel, it reads more like a Rembrandt painting that stylized memoir. Similar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's books, it features the Kaminskys had with them on author as the ill-fated ship. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers to something that may seem straightforward but they soon realise central character and narrator, and the story of grief it will prove to be anything buttells is a highly personal one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19085247821473640008</amazonuk>

|author= David BarbareeMichel Deon|title= DeposedYour Father's Room

|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary= AI don't feel altogether qualified to review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's Room'', translated here into English for the first time.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in I hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copy, let alone read any of his books, published over a prison cell, betrayed and newly blinded by those who were sworn 70 year period to protect himmuch acclaim in his homeland. He is now crippled and deprived But it's part of power, left completely on the edge pleasure of despair book reviewing to read with no prior knowledge or prejudice, all the more so if you discover an absolute gem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910477346</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Andrew Wilson|title= A Talent for Murder|rating=4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, and here Andrew Wilson makes her a frightened young slave named Marcus as his only companionvictim to a plot not unlike one of her own. Ten years later It's all about the mystery, and it is Emperor Vespasian who wears really drives the purplestory forward. Things may have settled since the civil war but Vespasian's son Titus Agatha is plagued ambushed by worry about plots to murder his father. Gruesome atrocities and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Romea strange man at the train station; it she is given a city full of falsehoods proposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues with the fear of rebellion lurking beneath the surfaceher. FurthermoreIndeed, a for this man who used wants her to be emperor still lives – commit a blind man who everyone believes to be dead. His name is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged himmurder. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857626721471148211</amazonuk>