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|author= Richard AskwithThomas Dolby|title= Today We Die The Speed of Sound|rating= 4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary= From struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, Thomas Dolby has had a remarkable if not unique career, often reinventing himself on the way. This memoir is based on his extensive notes and journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781952</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ron Butlin|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the World|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kind. But this isn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, nor is it a Little: Emil Zatopekgloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, in the light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the sunset, Olympic Legend to Cold War Herotake a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adults. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at the time... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780274394</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Elaine Everest|title= The Butlins Girls

|genre= Sport Historical Fiction|summary= As Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a runner myself, I often look for sources of inspirationButlins auntie. Training is rewardingBehind the smiles and confident appearance, but every so often she hides a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or notsecret; she has taken the job to escape escalating problems at home. Zatopek proves that isShe soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, indeed, all worth and itturns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. He put copious amounts of effort into his trainingMeanwhile, and Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the number of races camp. Is he won over really as suave as his career as a professional athlete clearly shows on-screen persona? And why is he working at the results of itcamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02241003511447295536</amazonuk>

|author= David GrannBenjamin Ludwig|title= Killers of the Flower The Original Ginny Moon

|genre= True CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Killers of To Ginny, a child with autism, the Flower Moon tells word Forever means until the story of police come. Five years ago the Osage tribe, forced to settle in police forcibly removed her from the rockyhome of her abusive birth mother, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage CountyGloria. In an unexpected turn of fortuneNow fourteen, 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 the tribe start her fourth Forever Home, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent waysGloria's apartment. Investigation into the matter stalls and is beset by incompetence and a general She has no illusions about her mother's addictions or 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 Whiteparenting skills. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill her. As pressure on White increasesStill she plots, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osage, the race obsessed with returning to Gloria's to find the truth becomes increasingly difficultsomething she insists she left behind, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mysterysomething she hid under her bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209027</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tanya Landman|title=Passing for White|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=In 1847Her teachers, therapist, and new Forever Parents are in Maconturn frustrated, Georgiainfuriated, Benjamin was a slaveand perplexed. He was a talented carpenter tooAs Gloria returns to her life, but the reader follows Ginny on November the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at him, smiling journey filled with danger and being polite. What was going on? He wasn't just unnerveddiscovery, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at the white woman, looking ''in her'' in the eye and a slave could get himself killed for less than that. Only this wasn't quest to find a white woman: this was Rosa, who was mixed race. She could pass for white, but place she too was a slave. Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didn't stop Rosa's master from taking sexual advantage of can truly call her and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasForever Home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X1848456611</amazonuk>

|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)Holly Webb|title= Block 46 The Homeless Kitten

|genre=Thrillers Emerging Readers|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at Lily loves their rescue dog, Hugo. However, Lily also really wants a cat – or better still a Cartier event presenting some kitten. She, therefore, can't believe her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while out of his walk with Lily and her new creationsdad. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept the talented young artist Better still (from attending this prestigious function. When a young womanLily's mutilated body point of view at least) the animal shelter is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéafull so Lily's holiday home, Alexismum and dad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the tiny kittens until they' worst fears are confirmedre old enough to be rehomed. But LinnéaLily's death is not unique; in factheaven looking after the kittens, especially the little fluffy white one whom she names Stanley. There is only the latest in a string of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London and Falkenberg. Up until now, the bodies have all belonged just one problem – it's going to young boys, so what has caused break her heart when the killer time comes to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice for her friend, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?say goodbye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19106337041847157831</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Harder They FallHarriet Cummings|authortitle=Bali RaiWe All Begin As Strangers|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams In the summer of being 1984, a superhero Chilterns village was gripped with fear and saving the day while simultaneously winning suspicion as a mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into the heart homes of several residents in the girl (Freya being the girlarea. Despite an increased police presence, regular patrols and vigilante groups, hopefully)this slippery character still managed to evade detection. Batman is his favourite superheroA huge police ''Foxhunt'' followed, and finally, forensic evidence led to the eventual capture of the perpetrator. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superheroThis real-like. Because Cal is a bit life news story sparked the imagination of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuyoung Harriet Cummings, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells went on to lazy classmates. Stillcreate a fictional version of events, itwhich invites the reader to turn detective and try and unmask ''The Fox's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..from a range of possible suspects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811268281409169049</amazonuk>

|author= Matthew HarffyMalcolm Devlin|title= The Serpent SwordYou Will Grow Into Them|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionShort Stories|summary= It's AD 633 and Albion 'You Will Grow Into Them'' is a divided island made up thrilling collection of petty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. Romans are a memory that have entered into myth and ten short stories all centred on the souls nature of Albion are torn between the old Gods transition and the new Christchange. It is in this world that we follow the adventures The often grisly, macabre and ghoulish nature of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened stories included in Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother and seeks to become a true warriordarkness within each tale is deviously addictive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924061907389431</amazonuk>

|author=Anna PitoniakTove Jansson|title=The FuturesLetters From Klara|rating=45|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Evan Peck, he has just started at Yale College, where he plays ice hockey. Like lots Famed in the UK for her creation of the other playersMoomin family, he Jansson is actually Canadian, from smallrather belatedly beginning to gather the richly deserved esteem for her adult writings. For that I offer my heart-town British Columbia. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm felt thanks to publishers ''Sort of books'' and they go out Thomas Teal, who has been responsible for pizzamost of the translations. She technically has a boyfriend from her Boston boarding school days Receiving this one, but they soon break up and before long Julia and Evan two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have become inseparablemissed one of the series, as they and secondly there'll come a time sooner rather than later when there'll be no more to be had. The former will remain for be rectified, the rest of their college yearslatter is a sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181845641908745614</amazonuk>

|author= Lee ChildJane Menczer|title= No Middle NameAn Unlikely Agent

|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= There is a theoryLondon, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, which says that the short storyirascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grassWood. This is particularly true, some say, and I The pair have been known to concurfallen on hard times, of the crime and thriller genres. Tosh! I can with only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply havenMargaret't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authorss meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : When a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by stranger on the name of ''Jack Reacher''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 21/5 -->|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|title=Fall Out|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Charlton's tram hands her a newspaper open at the sort of village where people aspire recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to live, despite its apparent ordinariness. There's the usual mix of commuters (it's not ''tooopen new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'' far from London) and those who make their lives in the village. Richard Hughes is After a commutergruelling interview, but his wife Jessica works at the local academy, where both their children - Alfie and Hannah - are pupilsshe finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop. Pete Cole But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a newly-promoted police superintendent and clearly still fond highly secret branch of his voluptuous wifethe intelligence service, Susie. ActuallyBureau 8, some whose mission is to track down and neutralise a ruthless band of that voluptuousness might be better described anarchists known as fat - Pete suspects that he might need longer arms to hug her before longthe Scorpions. Less popular is Gary Webber. HeMargaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the sort reality of man who causes people to heave a sigh true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the golf clubfirst stirrings of love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110798401846973805</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeHenry Marsh|title= The Silence Between BreathsAdmissions: A Life in Brain Surgery|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeAutobiography|summary= It's more than two years since I'm always wary read [[Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of author endorsementsLife, even those from people Death and Brain Surgery]] but the memories have stayed with me. I rate had thought then that a book about brain surgery might sound as writersthough I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but the ''harrowing book was superb - and very easy reading and humanewhen I heard about '' quote from Ian Rankin on the front cover of Admissions''The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate the caseI decided to treat myself to an audio download, particularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. This is an extremely powerful I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, but how did the book.do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721180141474603866</amazonuk>

|author=Jill ArmitageDK|title= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen Children's Illustrated Thesaurus|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Lady Arbella Stuart, cousin One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to both Elizabeth use reference books. As a child every question which I of England and James VI of Scotlandbegan with ''how do you spell...?'' 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, not least because the font was one of the unfortunate figures of English history who might small and difficult to read. Fortunately those times have been Queen – now changed and who, like the even reference book for children are now much more tragic Lady Jane Grey, might have paid the ultimate priceinviting. This is Not every book comes with a sad set of instructions but engrossing story of one whose only crime was it's worth studying the ''How to have royal blood coursing through her veins...'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456501930241286972</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 28/5 -->|author= Stephan TaltyVal Harris|title= The Black HandHunting Ground

|genre=True CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=History Nyara Camp is a fascinating subject to study as there is so much one of it, so why do we keep going back to the same places? I feel like I have walked newest camps in the steps of Julius Caesar Masai Mara and married at least two of Henry VIIIit's wivesrun by James and Alexia Sackville. The guests might sleep in tents, so often I have read about thembut it's still luxury accommodation in anybody's book. There are countless Chui Camp, on the other tales out there to learn about hand, sticks with the traditional way that may be more obscuresafaris were run, but are just as excitingincluding bucket showers. I donOwner Ralph Somerton is convinced that's what the guests ''should't know much about New York around 1900, but after reading 'want and he won'The Black Handt listen to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions for updating the tired venue. It' by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place s beginning to livebe reflected in the profits Chui makes, but an interesting one instead of upping his own game Somerton would rather see Nyara as unfair competition and it's only a small step from that reasoning to learn aboutlooking at ways of ensuring Nyara's failure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850371290955599717</amazonuk>

|author= A P McGrathMarian Veevers|title= Jane and Dorothy: A Burning in the DarknessTrue Tale of Sense and Sensibility

|genre= CrimeBiography|summary= At The idea of a busy airportdual biography of two contemporaries who never met throughout their lives is an intriguing one. However, there were several unifying factors, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of which makes it seem logical enough. Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were both renowned writers though one was much more famous than the 80 million passengersother, but circumstance and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crime. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secretboth were born just four years apart, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michael's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything for the sake of love and truth1770s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL1910985775</amazonuk>

|author=Nosy CrowGeraint Jones|title=British Museum: ABCBlood Forest|rating=45|genre=For SharingHistorical Fiction|summary=Learning your ABCs is also seemingly learning the same items appearing over and over again. A is not only A – it is also AppleFelix. B is Ball, C is CarThe lucky one. It is almost as if there are only 26 objects in He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the world grove and they happen to start with different letters finds twelve of his comrades butchered and mutilated in the alphabetworst possible ways. In factHe felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, apart from Xylophone and X-RayRoman cavalry. He might have run, there are loads of things that you could choose but he knew he'd never make it. He stepped out to put in an ABC book, if only you had a vast repository of objects and art that you could choose from …face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08576381650718184815</amazonuk>

|author=Liz PichonDorling Kindersley|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)First Science Encyclopedia|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Tom Gates has got a problemI wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: his shoes are making a noiseI wasn't alone in this, but it really was too late. They sort of rasp when he walksThankfully, only he can't recreate the sound times have changed and children at homeprimary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young age. At school itWhat's a different matter: not only needed is the noise very loud, there are those of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little moregood, well, ''intimate''. All in basic reference book which will introduce all it's not the subjects and give a good start grounding. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the day for Tom, particularly when he realises that heclassroom library and comfortably on a child's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school projectbookshelf. Class 5F are building their family trees and theyThe ''First Science Encyclopedia''ve got to interview family members to get stories of their lives for the projectwould do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407168118024118875X</amazonuk>

|author= Clare FisherSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title= All the Good ThingsSupertato Run Veggies Run|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionFor Sharing|summary= NatureI've heard of these so called superfoods, nurture, chance they are reported to boost your immune system and circumstance; all combine to produce the story flush out areas of Bethany Mitchellyour body that have gone unnoticed for decades, but does this make them super? In my mind to be a superfood you need to do something spectacular; lift a young adult who writes car from her prison cella trapped child, or leap over a building in one bound. We know only that she has committed a The vegetable and fruit in my house can'bad thingt do any of this, but then they aren', t Supertato; a bad thing spectacular spud that she sees as the end of her story. Armed with a simple task, Erikamore than once, a psychologist, sets out to challenge this. She asks Beth simply to compile a list of all has saved the good things in her lifeday with his powers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X1471121038</amazonuk>

|author= Robert HarrisThe British Museum|title= ConclaveOrigami, Poems and Pictures|rating= 45|genre= General FictionCrafts|summary= It is hard to believe that Harris has managed to bring such pace Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the often lengthy title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and complex process crafts: the ancient art of a conclavepaper folding, haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but he has wrung out every piece I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of mystery the book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you're worried, all the result had me reading entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through long into to 'tricky') and this one is at the night. I simply could not put this downlowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847518390857639382</amazonuk>

|author= Samantha KingWarner Brothers|title= Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The ChoiceBest of Harry Potter colouring|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersCrafts|summary= It's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one Imagine pages and pages of your children more than images from the others at a particular point in time. Maybe Harry Potter books and films for a moment, just a moment, you prefer the sleeping 4 year old over his up all night baby sister, and then later when off to do the Big Shop colour as you favour wish. You ''might'' have seen some of the littlest one for sheer portability and lower likelihood of running off images before - I know I have - as they've appeared in the carpark''Harry Potter Colouring Book'', ''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', but if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equally. End of. In different ways and for different things, but equally. You might jokingly pick a favourite''Harry Potter Magical Places and Characters Colouring Book'', but deep down there's no such thing. So imagine are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the worst thing that could comecollector of Harry Potter memorabilia. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door with a gun and making If you choose between your children. One can live, but one must die. Welcome 're in need of inspiration as to Madelinecolours then you's world ll enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and her living nightmareconcept art at the back of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03494146531783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle= Suzanne LealThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor= The Teacher's SecretCatherine Rosevear|rating= 43.5|genre= General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Terry has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school for yearsHannah lives with her parents in a flat above the nursing home where her mother is matron. Everyone knows him, heck half Hannah is an only child and so she enjoys making friends with some of the kids in his class have parents who were former pupils of his. Hehome's an institutionresidents. So when Mrs Oberto moves in, Hannah is keen to make her acquaintance - Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. You know Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at first but Hannah persists and soon they are the sortbest of friends. And he does not take kindly to a new young upstart showing up Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on helping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome and trying to meddlerelates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. He's not nasty But she remains tight-lipped about itthe mysterious wooden chest, but it rubs him up the wrong waykey to which she keeps around her neck...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790771788032535</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Dominic Smith|authortitle=Mat WaughThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie If you find the techniques used by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about him Rembrandt and now he has anotherVermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass in how to work up a canvas in stages. His slapstick adventures Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch painting, Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we are related once more by his sister Harryeven one fifth of the way through. I love Harry Sara is one of the few women artists of the period and her painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. Harry 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 by turn infuriated stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and amused by in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her brother Charliereputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasm Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will follow. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B072F58644192526680X</amazonuk>

|author=Patrick NessDeirdre Osborne (Editor)|title= ReleaseThe Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersReference|summary= Adam lives in small-town America in a deeply religious householdThis literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the contribution of black and Asian authors to the British literary canon since 1945. His father is an evangelical preacherIt covers not just fiction, but also poetry, plays and performance works. His brother is at It sits as a Christian college training to be an evangelical preacherkind 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 dominant white - and posh! - direction of travel. Adam is used to It's a restricted life disparate, varied collection of essays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, liberationist writing and he is also used to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gaymuch more. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it would lead I was really happy to...... wellsee children's authors such as Malorie Blackman, best not to think about thatJamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and respected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14063311711316504808</amazonuk>

|author= Claire FayersDr Seuss|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two quests. Can the crew of the good ship Onion (donDr Seuss't ask) help their young friend Brine to find her home? And does the legendary island of dragons really exist or – a rather important point, this – if the ship keeps sailing west, will it just topple off the edge of the world? Of course, if you think a little thing like terrible peril and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie and her shipmates from going wherever they fancy, then you're reading the wrong series. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 17/5 -->|title=Go To Sleep!|author=Marion Adamss ABC

|summary=''It No one who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imagination. He was midnight able to pluck from his brainpan not only interesting takes on the wild moorsold ideas, but also new creatures and worlds that had never been seen before. His books are often madder than a box of March hares, but even he must have had his limits? The round white moon peeped over humble ABC book (dare I say the clouds. The barn owl flew from tree dull ABC book), surely he could not bring his sense of anarchic fun to tree without making a sound. The cool night breeze rustled through this staple of the gorse bushes.children's education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007487754</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stewart O'Nan|title= Last Night at the LobsterParents |rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorly- isn't this performing branches just a lovely way before Christmas. Amid the Christmas lights, office parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeon, the manager of one of these failing outlets, has to start a bedtime story? Itkeep it all together for one last day. Short-handed, with most of the staff who's an oft-forgotten truth about picture books that they need ve bothered to turn up facing unemployment, he tries to engage make the parents as well as best of a bad job, all the children. How else can they read it aloud successfully? So I loved while knowing this opening paragraph of will be the last day he'll spend with the waitress he shouldn'Go To Sleep!t still be in love with, particularly not now he'' - it not only set the scene beautifully but it also made me want s about to rush off be a dad. Oh, and find there's a child to read it toblizzard on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09930794741760293865</amazonuk>

|author=Noah HawleyTom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)|title=Before the FallIn Every Moment We Are Still Alive|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was to accept the offer Tom Malmquist is a poet from the wife Sweden. Originally published in Swedish in 2015, this is his first work of prose. While it's being marketed as a media mogul for a short plane ridenovel, not realising it will shape the rest of his lifereads more like a stylized memoir. The private jet falls out of the skySimilar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's books, making him a hero in it features the way he saved author as the only other survivorcentral character and narrator, the mogul's small son and heir JJ. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises that for some he's not so much the hero as the murdererstory of grief it tells is a highly personal one. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X1473640008</amazonuk>

|author=Antonia SeniorMichel Deon|title=The TyrantYour Father's ShadowRoom|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for I don't feel altogether qualified to review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''TreasonYour Father's DaughterRoom'', translated here into English for the first time.Patience lives with her widowed brotherI hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copy, William, helping to care for let alone read any of his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite the Civil war endingbooks, the times are still uncertain. Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with published over a parliament of rebels refusing 70 year period to go to the electorate for ratificationmuch acclaim in his homeland. William sees this problem at close quarters once heBut it's effectively forced part of the pleasure of book reviewing to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage and religious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a charismatic preacherread with no prior knowledge or prejudice, all becomes clearer for her at least. Meanwhile Sam Challoner, William's brother in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that the fight at sea is better than peace at home. At least when more so if you're privateering you know who your enemy isdiscover an absolute gem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823966161910477346</amazonuk>

|author=Leonardo PaduraAndrew Wilson|title=HereticsA Talent for Murder

|genre=Crime(Historical)|summary=Daniel Kaminsky is a child émigré to Cuba Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in 1939her day, looking forward and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to being joined from Germany by his parentsa plot not unlike one of her own. TheyIt're on board s all about the St Louis in Havana docks but in a country mystery, and it really drives the story forward. Agatha is ambushed by a time rife with politics and corruption, strange man at the ship train station; she is turned back without permitting any of their passengers to disembarkgiven a proposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues her. NowIndeed, nearly 80 years later, Daniel's son for this man wants her to know how an auction house obtained commit a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that the Kaminskys had with them on the ill-fated ship. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers to something that may seem straightforward but they soon realise it will prove to be anything butmurder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19085247821471148211</amazonuk>