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|author=Matt SewellThomas Dolby|title=The Big Bird SpotSpeed of Sound|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionEntertainment|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line From struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to one of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs in the last few days. Finallyuniversity professor, I found oneThomas Dolby has had a remarkable if not unique career, after visually sorting through all the other birds often reinventing himself on the precipitous cliff faceway. It was great fun This memoir is based on his extensive notes and very rewardingjournals. The third double-page spread in wild-life |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781952</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author = Ron Butlin|title= Steve and artist Matt Sewell's 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 book for childrencentury here, of the cyber kind. But this isn''The Big Bird Spot''t some worthy self-help, shows some cliffs very like those at Bemptontell-an-adult book, but this time younor is it a gloomy book about young people who can're t see the point of going to be looking for twenty three Little Aukson. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, in amongst the guillemotslight of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the sunset, puffinsto take a break from civilisation, herring gulls online Thor and razorbills. Ohhis idiot Viking horde, and you're looking for a pair the insanities in general of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very carelessall adults. In their defence, because you're going to have to find them in every pictureit seems a sensible move at the time...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18436532651780274394</amazonuk>

|author= Richard AskwithElaine Everest|title= Today We Die a Little: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War HeroThe 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 London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a theorydreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribewith 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, which says Margaret spots an advertisement that the short storypromises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'s heyday has passed and . 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 has now put itself out to grass. This seems; she is particularly truein fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, some sayBureau 8, whose mission is to track down and I have been neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known to concur, of as the crime and thriller genresScorpions. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply havenMargaret't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child s guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection her journey of short stories about my favourite latterself-daydiscovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, American-styleas she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, Robin Hood by independence and the name first stirrings of ''Jack Reacher''love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05930790191846973805</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 21/5 -->|author=Lizzy MumfreyHenry Marsh|title=Fall OutAdmissions: A Life in Brain Surgery|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=CharltonIt's the sort more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of village where people aspire to liveLife, despite its apparent ordinariness. There's the usual mix Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of commuters (it's not ''too'' far from London) Life, Death and those who make their lives in Brain Surgery]] but the villagememories have stayed with me. Richard Hughes is I had thought then that a commuterbook about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but his wife Jessica works at the local academy, where both their children book was superb - Alfie and Hannah - are pupils. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent very easy reading and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wifewhen I heard about ''Admissions'' I decided to treat myself to an audio download, Susieparticularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. ActuallyI knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, 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 but how did the sort of man who causes people to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at the golf club.book do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110798401474603866</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeDK|title= The Silence Between BreathsChildren's Illustrated Thesaurus|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. As a child every question which Ibegan with ''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''m always wary of author endorsements, even those from people I rate EXACTLY as writersit says in the dictionary''. This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn'harrowing t encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult to read. Fortunately those times have now changed and humanereference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but it's worth studying the ' quote from Ian Rankin 'How to...'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/5 -->|author=Val Harris|title=Hunting Ground|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Nyara Camp is one of the newest camps in the Masai Mara and it's run by James and Alexia Sackville. The guests might sleep in tents, but it's still luxury accommodation in anybody's book. Chui Camp, on the front cover of other hand, sticks with the traditional way that safaris were run, including bucket showers. Owner Ralph Somerton is convinced that's what the guests ''should'The Silence Between Breaths'want and he won' does not overstate t listen to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions for updating the casetired venue. This is an extremely powerful bookIt's beginning to be reflected in the profits Chui makes, but 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 looking at ways of ensuring Nyara's failure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721180140955599717</amazonuk>

|author=Jill ArmitageMarian Veevers|title= Arbella StuartJane and Dorothy: The Uncrowned Queen A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility|rating= 4.5

|summary= Lady Arbella Stuart, cousin to both Elizabeth I The idea of England and James VI a dual biography of Scotlandtwo contemporaries who never met throughout their lives is an intriguing one. However, there were several unifying factors, which makes it seem logical enough. Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were both renowned writers though one was one of much more famous than the unfortunate figures of English history who might have been Queen – other, and who, like the even more tragic Lady Jane Greyboth were born just four years apart, might have paid in the ultimate price. This is a sad but engrossing story of one whose only crime was to have royal blood coursing through her veins1770s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456501931910985775</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan TaltyGeraint Jones|title= The Black HandBlood Forest|rating=45|genre=True CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=History is a fascinating subject to study as there is so much of it, so why do we keep going back to the same places? Felix. The lucky one. I He doesn't feel like I have walked especially lucky when he staggers out into the steps grove and finds twelve of Julius Caesar his comrades butchered and married at least two of Henry VIII's wives, so often I have read about themmutilated in the worst possible ways. There are countless other tales out there to learn about that may be more obscureHe felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, but are just as excitingRoman cavalry. I don't know much about New York around 1900He might have run, but after reading 'he knew he'The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know d never make it was a violent place to live, but an interesting one . He stepped out to learn aboutface whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850371290718184815</amazonuk>

|author= A P McGrathDorling Kindersley|title= A Burning in the DarknessFirst Science Encyclopedia|rating= 45|genre= CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven and evidence point went on to his guilt senior school: I wasn't alone in a terrible crimethis, but it really was too late. His struggle Thankfully, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to prove his innocence leads him on grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a charged journey that pitches love against revengevery young age. When a mysterious woman confides What's needed is a dark secretgood, he is motivated to redress basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and give a heart-breaking injusticegood grounding. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close It needs to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a young witness, sparking memories of Michaelchild's past in Liberiabookshelf. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything for the sake of love and truth The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL024118875X</amazonuk>

|author=Nosy CrowSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title=British Museum: ABCSupertato Run Veggies Run|rating=4.5

|summary=Learning I've heard of these so called superfoods, they are reported to boost your ABCs is also seemingly learning the same items appearing over immune system and over again. flush out areas of your body that have gone unnoticed for decades, but does this make them super? A is not only A – it is also Apple. B is BallIn my mind to be a superfood you need to do something spectacular; lift a car from a trapped child, C is Car. It is almost as if there are only 26 objects or leap over a building in the world and they happen to start with different letters of the alphabetone bound. In fact, apart from Xylophone The vegetable and X-Ray, there are loads fruit in my house can't do any of things that you could choose to put in an ABC bookthis, if only you had but then they aren't Supertato; a vast repository of objects and art spectacular spud that you could choose from …, more than once, has saved the day with his powers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08576381651471121038</amazonuk>

|author=Liz PichonThe British Museum|title=FamilyOrigami, Friends Poems and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Pictures|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Tom Gates has got Sometimes you find a problem: his shoes are making delight of a noisebook. They sort of rasp On an afternoon when he walksit was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, only he canPoems and Pictures't recreate the sound at home' and I was transported to Japan. At school itAs the title suggests we's a different matterre looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: not only is the noise very loud, there are those ancient art of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little morepaper folding, well, ''intimate''haiku poetry and painting. All in all I'll confess that it's not a good start was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the day for Tom, particularly when he realises that he's also forgotten his baby photo for rest of the latest school projectbook caught my imagination. Class 5F are building their family trees We begin with something very simple: a boat and theyin case you've got re worried, all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to interview family members to get stories of their lives for 'tricky') and this one is at the projectlowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14071681180857639382</amazonuk>

|author= Clare FisherWarner Brothers|title= All the Good ThingsHarry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Best of Harry Potter colouring|rating= 4|genre= General FictionCrafts|summary= Nature, nurture, chance Imagine pages and circumstance; all combine to produce the story pages of Bethany Mitchell, a young adult who writes images from her prison cellthe Harry Potter books and films for you to colour as you wish. We know only that she has committed a You ''might'bad thing', a bad thing that she sees have seen some of the images before - I know I have - as they've appeared in the end of her story. Armed with a simple task''Harry Potter Colouring Book'', Erika''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', a psychologistand ''Harry Potter Magical Places and Characters Colouring Book'', sets out to challenge thisbut there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the collector of Harry Potter memorabilia. She asks Beth simply If you're in need of inspiration as to compile a list colours then you'll enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and concept art at the back of all the good things in her lifebook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X1783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle= Robert HarrisThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor= ConclaveCatherine Rosevear|rating= 43.5|genre= General FictionConfident Readers|summary= It Hannah lives with her parents in a flat above the nursing home where her mother is hard to believe that Harris has managed to bring such pace to the often lengthy matron. Hannah is an only child and complex process so she enjoys making friends with some of a conclavethe home's residents. So when Mrs Oberto moves in, Hannah is keen to make her acquaintance - Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at first but he has wrung out every piece Hannah persists and soon they are the best of mystery friends. Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on helping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome and relates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. But she remains tight-lipped about the result had me reading through long into mysterious wooden chest, the nightkey to which she keeps around her neck.. I simply could not put this down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847518391788032535</amazonuk>

|author= Samantha KingDominic Smith|title= The ChoiceLast Painting of Sara de Vos|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= ItIf you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos''s perfectly possible provides a masterclass in how to be drawn towards one of your children more than the others at work up a particular point canvas in timestages. Maybe for a moment, just Framing the novel as the story of a momentseventeenth century Dutch painting, you prefer Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the sleeping 4 year old over main contours of his up all night baby sister, characters and then later when off to do the Big Shop you favour three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the littlest way through. Sara is one for sheer portability and lower likelihood of running off in the carpark, but if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equally. End few women artists of. In different ways the period and for different thingsher painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, but equallyher now dead daughter its central figure. You might jokingly pick a favourite, but deep down thereThe painting has been in Marty de Groot's no such thing. So imagine family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the worst thing that could comepatent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Imagine Ellie Shipley forged a stranger arriving copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at your door with the centre of a gun and making you choose between your childrengathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. One can live Satisfying though those first descriptions are, but one must die. Welcome to Madelinewe then understand these are merely the author's world and her living nightmareequivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349414653192526680X</amazonuk>

|author= Suzanne LealDeirdre Osborne (Editor)|title= The Teacher's SecretCambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionReference|summary= Terry has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school for yearsThis literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the contribution of black and Asian authors to the British literary canon since 1945. Everyone knows himIt covers not just fiction, heck half but also poetry, plays and performance works. It sits as a kind of joyful cuckoo in the kids nest, interrupting the usual narratives of literary waves and movements in his class have parents who were former pupils Britain that take little notice of hisany perspective other than the dominant white - and posh! - direction of travel. HeIt's an institution. You know the sort. And he does not take kindly to a new young upstart showing up disparate, varied collection of essays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, liberationist writing and trying much more. I was really happy to meddle. Hesee children's not nasty about itauthors such as Malorie Blackman, but it rubs him up the wrong wayJamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and respected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790771316504808</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Dr Seuss|authortitle=Mat WaughDr Seuss's ABC

|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Cheeky Charlie No one who has already read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about him a powerful imagination. He was able to pluck from his brainpan not only interesting takes on old ideas, but also new creatures and now he has anotherworlds that had never been seen before. His slapstick adventures books are related once more by often madder than a box of March hares, but even he must have had his sister Harry. limits? The humble ABC book (dare I love Harry. Harry is by turn infuriated and amused by her brother Charlie. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasm. say the dull ABC book), surely he could not bring his sense of anarchic fun to this staple of the children's education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B072F586440007487754</amazonuk>

|author=Patrick NessStewart O'Nan|title= ReleaseLast Night at the Lobster|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Adam lives in smallThe Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorly-town America in a deeply religious householdperforming branches just before Christmas. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is at a Christian college training Amid the Christmas lights, office parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeon, the manager of one of these failing outlets, has to be an evangelical preacherkeep it all together for one last day. Adam is used Short-handed, with most of the staff who've bothered to a restricted life and turn up facing unemployment, he is also used tries to an atmosphere make the best of suspicion. Because Adam is gay. And a bad job, all the while knowing this must will be the last day he'll spend with the waitress he shouldn't still be unspoken because in love with, particularly not now he's about to acknowledge it would lead to.....be a dad. wellOh, best not to think about thatand there's a blizzard on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14063311711760293865</amazonuk>

|author= Claire FayersTom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)In Every Moment We Are Still Alive|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Two questsTom Malmquist is a poet from Sweden. Can the crew Originally published in Swedish in 2015, this is his first work of the good ship Onion (donprose. While it't ask) help their young friend Brine to find her home? And does the legendary island of dragons really exist or – s being marketed as a rather important pointnovel, 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 reads more 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 Adams|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=''It was midnight on the wild moors. The round white moon peeped over the clouds. The barn owl flew from tree to tree without making a sound. The cool night breeze rustled through the gorse bushesstylized memoir.'' Parents - isn't this just a lovely way Similar to start a bedtime story? ItKarl Ove Knausgaard's an oft-forgotten truth about picture books that they need to engage , it features the parents as well author as the children. How else can they read it aloud successfully? So I loved this opening paragraph central character and narrator, and the story of ''Go To Sleep!'' - it not only set the scene beautifully but grief it also made me want to rush off and find tells is a child to read it tohighly personal one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09930794741473640008</amazonuk>

|author=Noah HawleyMichel Deon|title=Before the FallYour Father's Room|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did was I don't feel altogether qualified to accept review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's Room'', translated here into English for the offer from the wife first time. I hadn't heard of a media mogul for a short plane rideDéon before receiving my copy, not realising it will shape the rest let alone read any of his life. The private jet falls out of the skybooks, making him published over a hero 70 year period to much acclaim in the way he saved the only other survivor, the mogul's small son and heir JJhis homeland. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises that for some heBut it's not so much part of the hero as pleasure of book reviewing to read with no prior knowledge or prejudice, all the murderermore so if you discover an absolute gem. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X1910477346</amazonuk>

|author=Antonia SeniorAndrew Wilson|title=The Tyrant's ShadowA Talent for Murder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical Fiction)|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead for ''Treason's Daughter''.Patience lives with Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her widowed brotherday, William, helping and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry)a plot not unlike one of her own. Despite It's all about the Civil war endingmystery, and it really drives the times are still uncertainstory forward. Cromwell Agatha is increasingly annoyed with ambushed by a parliament of rebels refusing to go to strange man at the electorate for ratification. William sees this problem at close quarters once he's effectively forced to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage train station; she is given a proposition that confuses her and religious factionssecretly intrigues her. However when Patience comes across Shadrick SimpsonIndeed, a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for this man wants 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 you're privateering you know who your enemy isto commit a murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823966161471148211</amazonuk>