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|author= Naomi AldermanThomas Dolby|title= The PowerSpeed of Sound|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionEntertainment|summary=It started with the girls and spread. From younger woman struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to older womanuniversity professor, it was awoken and everything changed. Womankind now Thomas Dolby has the power of electricity in their fingertips and, slowly at first, the balance of power in the world starts shifting. We follow the stories of different people, in different walks of lifehad a remarkable if not unique career, who see this from the very beginning and hurtle towards 'often reinventing himself on the event'way. One thing in this startling new development This memoir is certain, patriarchal archetypes based on his extensive notes and chauvinist thinkers are in for the shock of their lives. Literallyjournals. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>06709199691785781952</amazonuk>

|author= Caro FraserRon Butlin|title= The Summer House PartySteve and Frandan Take on the World

|genre= General Fiction Teens|summary= In Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the gloriously hot summer of 1936, a group victims of people meet at a country house party. Within three years, England will cruel bullies – to be at warprecise, but for nowas we are well into the twenty-first century here, time stands stillof the cyber kind. Dan Ranscombe is clever and goodBut this isn't some worthy self-lookinghelp, but he resents the wealth and easy savoirtell-an-faire of fellow guestadult book, Paul Latimer. Surely nor is it a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldngloomy book about young people who can't she? And what about Dianasee the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asherin the light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the Jewish outsidersunset, Madeleineto take a break from civilisation, restless online Thor and dissatisfied with her role as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddonhis idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adults. In their hostdefence, no longer young, but secure in his power as it seems a practised seducersensible move at the time.. As these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war and beyond. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866914851780274394</amazonuk>

|author=Matt SewellElaine Everest|title=The Big Bird SpotButlins Girls|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Historical Fiction|summary=Recently I stood on Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearance, she hides a viewing platform at secret; she has taken the RSPB reserve job to escape escalating problems at Bempton Cliffs as home. She soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, and it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line fresh start. Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to one of discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the puffins who'd arrived camp. Is he really as suave as his on -screen persona? And why is he working at the cliffs in the last few dayscamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom. Finally|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447295536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Benjamin Ludwig|title= The Original Ginny Moon|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= To Ginny, I found onea child with autism, after visually sorting through all the other birds on word Forever means until the police come. Five years ago the police forcibly removed her from the precipitous cliff facehome of her abusive birth mother, Gloria. It was great fun Now fourteen, and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wildher fourth Forever Home, Ginny remains hell-life author and artist Matt Sewellbent on finding her way back to Gloria's apartment. She has no illusions about her mother's first book for childrenaddictions or lack of parenting skills. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill her. Still she plots, obsessed with returning to Gloria''The Big Bird Spot''s to find something she insists she left behind, something she hid under her bed. Her teachers, therapist, and new Forever Parents are in turn frustrated, shows some cliffs very like those at Bemptoninfuriated, but this time you're going and perplexed. As Gloria returns to be looking for twenty three Little Auksher life, the reader follows Ginny on a journey filled with danger and discovery, in amongst the guillemotsher quest to find a place she can truly call her Forever Home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848456611</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Holly Webb|title=The Homeless Kitten|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary= Lily loves their rescue dog, Hugo. However, Lily also really wants a cat – or better still a kitten. She, puffinstherefore, herring gulls can't believe her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while out of his walk with Lily and razorbillsher dad. Oh, Better still (from Lily's point of view at least) the animal shelter is full so Lily's mum and youdad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the tiny kittens until they're old enough to be rehomed. Lily's in heaven looking for a pair of binoculars too: our bird watcher after the kittens, especially the little fluffy white one whom she names Stanley. There is very careless, because youjust one problem – it're s going to have break her heart when the time comes to find them in every picturesay goodbye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18436532651847157831</amazonuk>

|author= Richard AskwithHarriet Cummings|title= Today We Die a Little: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War HeroAll Begin As Strangers

|genre= Sport General Fiction|summary= As a runner myself, I often look for sources In the summer of inspiration. Training is rewarding1984, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or notChilterns village was gripped with fear and suspicion as a mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into the homes of several residents in the area. Zatopek proves that isDespite an increased police presence, indeedregular patrols and vigilante groups, all worth itthis slippery character still managed to evade detection. He put copious amounts of effort into his trainingA huge police ''Foxhunt'' followed, and finally, forensic evidence led to the number eventual capture of races he won over his career as the perpetrator. This real-life news story sparked the imagination of a young Harriet Cummings, who went on to create a professional athlete clearly shows fictional version of events, which invites the results reader to turn detective and try and unmask ''The Fox'' from a range of itpossible suspects. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02241003511409169049</amazonuk>

|author= David GrannMalcolm Devlin|title= Killers of the Flower MoonYou Will Grow Into Them

|genre= True CrimeShort Stories|summary=Killers ''You Will Grow Into Them'' is a thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred on the Flower Moon tells the story nature of the Osage tribe, forced to settle in the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage Countytransition and change. In an unexpected turn of fortuneThe often grisly, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth macabre and fortune making them some ghoulish nature of the richest people stories included in Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the world. Then members of the tribe start to die, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent ways. Investigation into the matter stalls and darkness within each tale 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 on White increases, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osage, the race to find the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mysterydeviously addictive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08572090271907389431</amazonuk>

|author=Tanya LandmanTove Jansson|title=Passing for WhiteLetters From Klara|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyLiterary Fiction|summary=In 1847, Famed in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was a slave. He was a talented carpenter toothe UK for her creation of the Moomin family, but on November Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at him, smiling and being politerichly deserved esteem for her adult writings. What was going on? He wasnFor that I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers 't just unnerved, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking at the white woman, looking ''herSort of books'' in the eye and a slave could get himself killed Thomas Teal, who has been responsible for less than thatmost of the translations. Only Receiving this wasn't a white womanone, two things strike: this was Rosafirstly I somehow seem to have missed one of the series, who was mixed race. She could pass for white, but she too was and secondly there'll come a slavetime sooner rather than later when there'll be no more to be had. Rosa and Benjamin eventually marriedThe former will be rectified, 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 of knowing who the father waslatter is a sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X1908745614</amazonuk>

|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)Jane Menczer|title= Block 46 An Unlikely Agent|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers Crime (Historical)|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a Cartier event presenting some of her new creationsdreary boarding house in St John's Wood. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would The pair have kept the talented young artist fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from attending this prestigious functiona ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat. When a young womanstranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 's mutilated body is discovered open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a Swedish marina near Linnéa's holiday home, Alexis' worst fears are confirmeddingy backstreet shop. But Linnéa's death all is not uniqueas it seems; in fact, she is only the latest in fact working for a string highly secret branch of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London and Falkenberg. Up until nowthe intelligence service, Bureau 8, the bodies have all belonged whose mission is to young boys, so what has caused track down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the killer to change his or Scorpions.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice for the reality of true criminality, and her friendjourney of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?the first stirrings of love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19106337041846973805</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Harder They FallHenry Marsh|authortitle=Bali RaiAdmissions: A Life in Brain Surgery

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyAutobiography|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams It's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of being a superhero Life, Death and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery]] but the girl (Freya being memories have stayed with me. I had thought then that a book about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but the girl, hopefully). Batman is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superherobook was superb -like. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuvery easy reading and when I heard about ''Admissions'' I decided to treat myself to an audio download, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmatesparticularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. Still I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and but how did the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures...book do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811268281474603866</amazonuk>

|author= Matthew HarffyDK|title= The Serpent SwordChildren's Illustrated Thesaurus|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Children's Non-Fiction|summary= It's AD 633 and Albion One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is a divided island made up of petty warlords who want how to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangstersuse reference books. Romans are As a memory that have entered into myth and child every question which I began with ''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as it says in the souls of Albion are torn between the old Gods and the new Christdictionary''. It is in this world that we follow This was fine, but the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the classic hero’s journeyfont was small and difficult to read. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened Fortunately those times have now changed and honourable warrior through reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a brutal rite set of passage as he hunts instructions but it's worth studying the killer of his brother and seeks ''How to become a true warrior...'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924060241286972</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 28/5 -->|author=Anna PitoniakVal Harris|title=The FuturesHunting Ground

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Evan PeckNyara 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, he has just started at Yale Collegebut it's still luxury accommodation in anybody's book. Chui Camp, where he plays ice hockey. Like lots of on the other playershand, he is actually Canadiansticks with the traditional way that safaris were run, from small-town British Columbiaincluding bucket showers. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm Owner Ralph Somerton is convinced that's what the guests ''should'' want and they go out he won't listen to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions for pizzaupdating the tired venue. She technically has a boyfriend from her Boston boarding school days It's beginning to be reflected in the profits Chui makes, but they soon break up instead of upping his own game Somerton would rather see Nyara as unfair competition and before long Julia and Evan have become inseparable, as they will remain for the rest it's only a small step from that reasoning to looking at ways of their college yearsensuring Nyara's failure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181845640955599717</amazonuk>

|author= Lee ChildMarian Veevers|title= No Middle NameJane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility

|genre= Crime Biography|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, The idea 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 ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood by 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 the sort of village where people aspire to live, despite its apparent ordinariness. There's the usual mix dual biography of commuters (it's not ''too'' far from London) and those two contemporaries who make never met throughout their lives in the villageis an intriguing one. Richard Hughes is a commuterHowever, but his wife Jessica works at the local academythere were several unifying factors, where both their children - Alfie and Hannah - are pupilswhich makes it seem logical enough. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent Jane Austen and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wifeDorothy Wordsworth were both renowned writers though one was much more famous than the other, Susie. Actuallyand both were born just four years apart, 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 in the golf club1770s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110798401910985775</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeGeraint Jones|title= The Silence Between BreathsBlood Forest

|genre= CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary= IFelix. The lucky one. He doesn'm always wary t feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the grove and finds twelve of author endorsementshis comrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible ways. He felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, even those from people I rate as writersRoman cavalry. He might have run, but the ''harrowing and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin on the front cover of ''The Silence Between Breathshe knew he'' does not overstate the cased never make it. This is an extremely powerful bookHe stepped out to face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721180140718184815</amazonuk>

|author=Jill ArmitageDorling Kindersley|title= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen First Science Encyclopedia|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Lady Arbella Stuart, cousin I wasn't introduced to both Elizabeth 'science' until I of England was eleven and James VI of Scotlandwent on to senior school: I wasn't alone in this, but it really was one of the unfortunate figures of English history who might too late. Thankfully, times have been Queen – changed and whochildren at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, like the atoms and molecules and even more tragic Lady Jane Greyouter space from a very young age. What's needed is a good, might have paid basic reference book which will introduce all the ultimate pricesubjects and give a good grounding. This is It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a sad but engrossing story of one whose only crime was to have royal blood coursing through her veinschild's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445650193024118875X</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan TaltySue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title= The Black HandSupertato Run Veggies Run|rating=4.5|genre=True CrimeFor Sharing|summary=History is a fascinating subject to study as there is I've heard of these so much of itcalled superfoods, so why do we keep going back they are reported to the same places? I feel like I have walked the steps of Julius Caesar boost your immune system and married at least two flush out areas of Henry VIII's wivesyour body that have gone unnoticed for decades, so often I have read about but does this make them. super? There are countless other tales out there In my mind to learn about that may be more obscurea superfood you need to do something spectacular; lift a car from a trapped child, but are just as excitingor leap over a building in one bound. I donThe vegetable and fruit in my house can't know much about New York around 1900do any of this, but after reading then they aren''The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know it was t Supertato; a violent place to livespectacular spud that, more than once, but an interesting one to learn abouthas saved the day with his powers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850371291471121038</amazonuk>

|author= A P McGrathThe British Museum|title= A Burning in the DarknessOrigami, Poems and Pictures|rating= 45|genre= CrimeCrafts|summary= At Sometimes you find a busy airportdelight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the needs of some ancient art of the 80 million passengerspaper folding, but circumstance haiku poetry and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crimepainting. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey I'll confess that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secretit was the origami which caught my attention, he is motivated but I was surprised by the extent to redress a heart-breaking injusticewhich the rest of the book caught my imagination. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking We begin with something very simple: a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect boat and in case you're worried, all the entries have a young witness, sparking memories degree of Michaeldifficulty (from 'simple's past in Liberia. As he fights through to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything for 'tricky') and this one is at the sake of love and truthlowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL0857639382</amazonuk>

|author=Nosy CrowWarner Brothers|title=British MuseumHarry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: ABCThe Best of Harry Potter colouring

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Learning your ABCs is also seemingly learning Imagine pages and pages of images from the same items appearing over Harry Potter books and over againfilms for you to colour as you wish. A is not only A – it is also Apple. B is Ball, C is Car. It is almost You ''might'' have seen some of the images before - I know I have - as if there are only 26 objects they've appeared in the world ''Harry Potter Colouring Book'', ''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', and they happen to start with different letters of the alphabet. In fact, apart from Xylophone ''Harry Potter Magical Places and X-RayCharacters Colouring Book'', but there are loads several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the collector of things that Harry Potter memorabilia. If you could choose 're in need of inspiration as to put in an ABC book, if only colours then you had a vast repository 'll enjoy the sixteen pages of objects film stills, unit photography and concept art that you could choose from …at the back of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08576381651783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Liz PichonThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Catherine Rosevear|rating=43.5

|summary=Tom Gates has got Hannah lives with her parents in a problem: his shoes are flat above the nursing home where her mother is matron. Hannah is an only child and so she enjoys making a noise. They sort friends with some of rasp when he walks, only he can't recreate the sound at home. At school it's a different matter: not only 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 Hannah persists and soon they are the noise very loud, there are those best of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little more, well, ''intimate''friends. All in all it's not a good start to the day for Tom, Mrs Oberto is particularly when he realises that he's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest keen on helping Hannah with her school project. Class 5F are building their family trees about ancient Rome and they've got to interview family members to get relates many interesting stories of their lives for about her Sicilian childhood. But she remains tight-lipped about the mysterious wooden chest, the projectkey to which she keeps around her neck...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14071681181788032535</amazonuk>

|author= Clare FisherDominic Smith|title= All the Good ThingsThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos|rating= 45|genre= General Historical Fiction|summary= NatureIf you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, nurture, chance and circumstance; all combine ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass in how to produce work up a canvas in stages. Framing the novel as the story of Bethany Mitchella 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 even one fifth of the way through. Sara is one of the few women artists of the period and her painting is of children skating on a young adult who writes from frozen canal, her prison cellnow dead daughter its central figure. We know only that she The painting has committed a been in Marty de Groot'bad thing', 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 bad thing that she sees as copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the end centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her storyreputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Armed with a simple task Satisfying though those first descriptions are, Erika, a psychologist, sets 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 to challenge this. She asks Beth simply to compile a list of all the good things in her lifecomposition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X192526680X</amazonuk>

|author= Robert HarrisDeirdre Osborne (Editor)|title= ConclaveThe Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)|rating= 45|genre= General FictionReference|summary= This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the contribution of black and Asian authors to the British literary canon since 1945. It is hard to believe covers not just fiction, but also poetry, plays and performance works. It sits as a kind of joyful cuckoo in the nest, interrupting the usual narratives of literary waves and movements in Britain that Harris has managed to bring such pace to take little notice of any perspective other than the often lengthy dominant white - and complex process posh! - direction of travel. It's a conclavedisparate, but he has wrung out every piece varied collection of mystery essays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, liberationist writing and the result had me reading through long into the nightmuch more. I simply could not put this downwas really happy to see children's authors such as Malorie Blackman, Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and respected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847518391316504808</amazonuk>

|author= Samantha KingDr Seuss|title= The ChoiceDr Seuss's ABC|rating= 4|genre= ThrillersFor Sharing|summary= It's perfectly possible to be drawn towards No one of your children more than the others at who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a particular point in timepowerful imagination. Maybe for a moment, just a moment, you prefer the sleeping 4 year He was able to pluck from his brainpan not only interesting takes on old over his up all night baby sister, and then later when off to do the Big Shop you favour the littlest one for sheer portability and lower likelihood of running off in the carparkideas, but if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equally. End of. In different ways also new creatures and for different things, but equallyworlds that had never been seen before. You might jokingly pick His books are often madder than a favouritebox of March hares, but deep down there's no such thing. So imagine even he must have had his limits? The humble ABC book (dare I say the worst thing that dull ABC book), surely he could come. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door with a gun and making you choose between your not bring his sense of anarchic fun to this staple of the children. One can live, but one must die. Welcome to Madeline's world and her living nightmare.education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03494146530007487754</amazonuk>

|author= Suzanne LealStewart O'Nan|title= The Teacher's SecretLast Night at the Lobster|rating= 4.5

|summary= Terry The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorly-performing branches just before Christmas. Amid the Christmas lights, office parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeon, the manager of one of these failing outlets, has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school to keep it all together for yearsone last day. Everyone knows himShort-handed, heck half with most of the kids in his class have parents staff who were former pupils 've bothered to turn up facing unemployment, he tries to make the best of his. Hea bad job, all the while knowing this will be the last day he's an institution. You know ll spend with the sort. And waitress he does shouldn't still be in love with, particularly not take kindly now he's about to be a new young upstart showing up dad. Oh, and trying to meddle. Hethere's not nasty about it, but it rubs him up a blizzard on the wrong way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790771760293865</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs Tom Malmquist and Bananas Henning Koch (My Crazy Brother Book 2translator)|authortitle=Mat WaughIn Every Moment We Are Still Alive|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|one book]] written about him and now he has anotherTom Malmquist is a poet from Sweden. His slapstick adventures are related once more by Originally published in Swedish in 2015, this is his sister Harryfirst work of prose. I love HarryWhile it's being marketed as a novel, it reads more like a stylized memoir. Harry Similar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's books, it features the author as the central character and narrator, and the story of grief it tells is by turn infuriated and amused by her brother Charlie. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasma highly personal one. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B072F586441473640008</amazonuk>

|author=Patrick NessMichel Deon|title= ReleaseYour Father's Room

|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Adam lives in small-town America in a deeply religious household. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is at a Christian college training I don't feel altogether qualified to be an evangelical preacherreview Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's Room'', translated here into English for the first time. Adam is used to I hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copy, let alone read any of his books, published over a restricted life and he is also used 70 year period to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gaymuch acclaim in his homeland. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge But it would lead 's part of the pleasure of book reviewing to...... wellread with no prior knowledge or prejudice, best not to think about thatall the more so if you discover an absolute gem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14063311711910477346</amazonuk>

|author= Claire FayersAndrew Wilson|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)A Talent for Murder|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersCrime (Historical)|summary= Two quests. Can the crew of the good ship Onion (don't ask) help their young friend Brine Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim 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 plot not unlike one 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 seriesown. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 17/5 -->|title=Go To Sleep!|author=Marion Adams|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It''It was midnight on s all about the wild moors. The round white moon peeped over mystery, and it really drives the cloudsstory forward. The barn owl flew from tree to tree without making Agatha is ambushed by a sound. The cool night breeze rustled through strange man at the gorse bushes.'' Parents - isn't this just a lovely way to start train station; she is given a bedtime story? It's an oft-forgotten truth about picture books proposition that they need to engage the parents as well as the childrenconfuses her and secretly intrigues her. How else can they read it aloud successfully? So I loved Indeed, for this opening paragraph of ''Go To Sleep!'' - it not only set the scene beautifully but it also made me want man wants her to rush off and find commit a child to read it tomurder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09930794741471148211</amazonuk>