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|author=Nick CleggThomas Dolby|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesThe Speed of Sound|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyEntertainment|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at the moment. A little more than two years ago we were facing the end of the UK's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting that we would see another. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majority. Brexit saw the end of one Prime Minister and another elected by a few members of parliament. As I write we're facing another general electionFrom struggling post-punk musician to pop star, with a Conservative landslide predicted. In two years we've seen the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part of the ruling coalition Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, Thomas Dolby has had a party whose MPs could hold a meeting in a decent-sized carremarkable if not unique career, often reinventing himself on the way. This memoir is based on his extensive notes and journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847041641785781952</amazonuk>

|author=Alan GibbonsRon Butlin|title=The Beautiful GameSteve and Frandan Take on the World|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyTeens|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the throne twenty-first century here, of English football, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wearcyber kind. But this isn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, nor is that flame red? Blood red? The red of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the unusual (and that it had been one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were in the people light of colour in football in later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the olden days? There are so many darker sides sunset, to football's history take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adults. In their defence, it's enough to make seems a young lad question sensible move at the whole game…time... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811269171780274394</amazonuk>

|author=Bernard AshleyElaine Everest|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.The Butlins Girls|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyHistorical Fiction|summary=Lena's mother seems very illFresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Scary noises are coming from Behind the bathroomsmiles and confident appearance, she's off food hides a secret; she has taken the job to escape escalating problems at home. She soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and completely listlessPlum, complaining of the effort involved in sewing a patch onto and it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a cub scout uniformfresh start. It might be a surprise Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the young reader of this book when we learn what the reason is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises to comecamp. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about her condition – leaving Lena with a lot Is he really as suave as his on -screen persona? And why is he working at the camp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her plate when fate sets in with a surprise of its own…new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811257161447295536</amazonuk>

|author= Naomi AldermanBenjamin Ludwig|title= The PowerOriginal Ginny Moon

|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary=It started To Ginny, a child with autism, the word Forever means until the police come. Five years ago the police forcibly removed her from the girls and spreadhome of her abusive birth mother, Gloria. From younger woman to older womanNow fourteen, it was awoken and everything changedin her fourth Forever Home, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to Gloria's apartment. Womankind now She has the power no illusions about her mother's addictions or lack of electricity in their fingertips andparenting skills. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill her. Still she plots, slowly at firstobsessed with returning to Gloria's to find something she insists she left behind, the balance of power in the world starts shiftingsomething she hid under her bed. We follow the stories of different peopleHer teachers, therapist, and new Forever Parents are in different walks of turn frustrated, infuriated, and perplexed. As Gloria returns to her life, who see this from the very beginning reader follows Ginny on a journey filled with danger and hurtle towards 'the event'. One thing in this startling new development is certaindiscovery, patriarchal archetypes and chauvinist thinkers are in for the shock of their lives. Literallyher quest to find a place she can truly call her Forever Home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>06709199691848456611</amazonuk>

|author= Caro FraserHolly Webb|title= The Summer House PartyHomeless Kitten|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction Emerging Readers|summary= In the gloriously hot summer of 1936Lily loves their rescue dog, a group of people meet at a country house partyHugo. Within three yearsHowever, England will be at war, but for now, time stands Lily also really wants a cat – or better stilla kitten. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-lookingShe, but he resents the wealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guesttherefore, Paul Latimer. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldncan't she? And what about Diana, Paulbelieve her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while out of his walk with Lily and her dad. Better still (from Lily's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, point of view at least) the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless animal shelter is full so Lily's mum and dissatisfied with her role as childrendad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the tiny kittens until they're old enough to be rehomed. Lily's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gather, none has any inkling heaven looking after the choices they make will have fateful consequenceskittens, lasting through especially the war and beyondlittle fluffy white one whom she names Stanley. Or that There is just one problem – it's going to break her heart when the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… time comes to say goodbye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866914851847157831</amazonuk>

|author=Matt SewellHarriet Cummings|title=The Big Bird SpotWe All Begin As Strangers|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=Recently I stood on In the summer of 1984, a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs Chilterns village was gripped with fear and suspicion as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line to one of the puffins whomysterious intruder known as ''The Fox''d arrived on broke into the cliffs homes of several residents in the last few daysarea. FinallyDespite an increased police presence, I found oneregular patrols and vigilante groups, after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff facethis slippery character still managed to evade detection. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt SewellA huge police 's first book for children, ''The Big Bird SpotFoxhunt''followed, shows some cliffs very like those at Bemptonand finally, but this time you're going forensic evidence led to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst the guillemotseventual capture of the perpetrator. This real-life news story sparked the imagination of a young Harriet Cummings, puffinswho went on to create a fictional version of events, herring gulls which invites the reader to turn detective and razorbills. Oh, try and youunmask 're looking for 'The Fox'' from a pair range of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because you're going to have to find them in every picturepossible suspects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18436532651409169049</amazonuk>

|author= Richard AskwithMalcolm Devlin|title= Today We Die a Little: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War HeroYou Will Grow Into Them|rating= 45|genre= Sport Short Stories|summary= As ''You Will Grow Into Them'' is a runner myself, I often look for sources thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred on the nature of inspirationtransition and change. Training is rewarding, but every so The often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or not. Zatopek proves that isgrisly, indeed, all worth it. He put copious amounts macabre and ghoulish nature of effort into his training, the stories included in Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the results of itdarkness within each tale is deviously addictive. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02241003511907389431</amazonuk>

|author= David GrannTove Jansson|title= Killers of the Flower MoonLetters From Klara

|genre= True CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Killers of the Flower Moon tells Famed in the story UK for her creation of the Osage tribeMoomin family, forced Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to settle in gather the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage Countyrichly deserved esteem for her adult writings. In an unexpected turn For that I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers ''Sort of fortune, prospectors struck oilbooks'' and Thomas Teal, instantly catapulting the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some who has been responsible for most of the richest people in the worldtranslations. Then members Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of the tribe start to dieseries, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent ways. Investigation into the matter stalls and is beset by incompetence and secondly there'll come 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 time sooner rather than later when there'll be no more to be had. The former Texas Ranger Tom White. As pressure on White increaseswill be rectified, 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 mysterylatter is a sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08572090271908745614</amazonuk>

|author=Tanya LandmanJane Menczer|title=Passing for WhiteAn Unlikely Agent|rating=54|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrime (Historical)|summary=In 1847London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in MaconSt John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, Georgia, Benjamin was with only Margaret's meagre salary from a slaveramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat. He was When a talented carpenter too, but stranger on November the 19th he was unnerved: tram hands her a white woman was looking at him, smiling and being polite. What was going on? He wasn't just unnerved, but nervous: you see, Benjamin was looking newspaper open at the white womanrecruitment page, looking ''herMargaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!' . After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in the eye and a slave could get himself killed dingy backstreet shop.But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for less than that. Only this wasn't a white woman: this was Rosahighly secret branch of the intelligence service, who was mixed race. She could pass for whiteBureau 8, but she too was whose mission is to track down and neutralise a slaveruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions. Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didn't stop RosaMargaret's master from taking sexual advantage guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and when her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she found that she was pregnant she had no way discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of knowing who the father waslove.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X1846973805</amazonuk>

|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)Henry Marsh|title= Block 46 Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery

|genre=Thrillers Autobiography|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at a Cartier event presenting some It's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would Life, Death and Brain Surgery]] but the memories have kept the talented young artist from attending this prestigious functionstayed with me. When I had thought then that a young womanbook about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but the book was superb - and very easy reading and when I heard about 's mutilated body is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéa's holiday home, AlexisAdmissions' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéa's death is not unique; in factI decided to treat myself to an audio download, she is only the latest in a string of similar gruesome murders particularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. I knew that have occurred in both London and Falkenberg. Up until nowmy expectations were unreasonably high, but how did the bodies have all belonged to young boys, so what has caused the killer to change his or her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice for her friend, and stop a serial killer before he strikes againbook do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19106337041474603866</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Harder They FallDK|authortitle=Bali RaiChildren's Illustrated Thesaurus

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Cal loves comic One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. He also dreams of being As a superhero and saving child every question which I began with ''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as it says in the day while simultaneously winning dictionary''. This was fine, but the heart family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult to read. Fortunately those times have now changed and reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but it's worth studying the girl (Freya being the girl, hopefully)''How to.. Batman is his favourite superhero. But Cal's world outside his daydreams is ' section, not particularly superheroleast because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-like. Because Cal - remove 28/5 -->|author=Val Harris|title=Hunting Ground|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Nyara Camp is a bit one of a geek the newest camps in the Masai Mara and he is being bullied it's run by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on to lazy classmatesJames and Alexia Sackville. Still The guests might sleep in tents, but it's not all badstill luxury accommodation in anybody's book. Chui Camp, on the other hand, sticks with the traditional way that safaris were run, including bucket showers. Cal Owner Ralph Somerton is convinced that's parents are lovely what the guests ''should'' want and he won't listen to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions for updating the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures.tired venue. It'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>17811268280955599717</amazonuk>

|author= Matthew HarffyMarian Veevers|title= The Serpent SwordJane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionBiography|summary= It's AD 633 and Albion is The idea of a divided island made up dual biography of petty warlords two contemporaries who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangstersnever met throughout their lives is an intriguing one. Romans are a memory that have entered into myth However, there were several unifying factors, which makes it seem logical enough. Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were both renowned writers though one was much more famous than the souls of Albion are torn between the old Gods other, and the new Christ. It is both were born just four years apart, in this world that we follow the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother and seeks to become a true warrior1770s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924061910985775</amazonuk>

|author=Anna PitoniakGeraint Jones|title=The FuturesBlood Forest|rating=45|genre=Literary Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet Evan Peck, Felix. The lucky one. He doesn't feel especially lucky when he has just started at Yale Collegestaggers out into the grove and finds twelve of his comrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible ways. He felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, where he plays ice hockeyRoman cavalry. Like lots of the other playersHe might have run, but he knew he is actually Canadian, from small-town British Columbia'd never make it. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm and they go He stepped out for pizza. She technically has a boyfriend from her Boston boarding school days, but they soon break up and before long Julia and Evan have become inseparable, as they will remain for the rest of their college yearsto face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181845640718184815</amazonuk>

|author= Lee ChildDorling Kindersley|title= No Middle Name|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary= There is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grass. This is particularly true, some say, and I have been known to concur, of the crime and thriller genres. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and own up: I simply haven't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with ''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 OutFirst Science Encyclopedia

|genre=General Children's Non-Fiction|summary=CharltonI wasn's the sort of village where people aspire t introduced to live, despite its apparent ordinariness. There's the usual mix of commuters (it's not science'until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone in this, but it really was too'' far from London) and those who make their lives in the villagelate. Richard Hughes is a commuterThankfully, but his wife Jessica works times have changed and children at the local academyprimary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, where both their children - Alfie atoms and molecules and Hannah - are pupilseven outer space from a very young age. Pete Cole What's needed is a newly-promoted police superintendent good, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wife, Susiegive a good grounding. Actually, some of that voluptuousness might It needs to be better described as fat - Pete suspects that he might need longer arms to hug her before longsomething which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. Less popular is Gary Webber. HeThe ''First Science Encyclopedia''s the sort of man who causes people to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at the golf clubwould do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911079840024118875X</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title= The Silence Between BreathsSupertato Run Veggies Run|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeFor Sharing|summary= I'm always wary ve heard of these so called superfoods, they are reported to boost your immune system and flush out areas of author endorsementsyour body that have gone unnoticed for decades, even those but does this make them super? In my mind to be a superfood you need to do something spectacular; lift a car from people I rate as writersa trapped child, but the ''harrowing or leap over a building in one bound. The vegetable and humane'fruit in my house can' quote from Ian Rankin on the front cover t do any of this, but then they aren''The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate t Supertato; a spectacular spud that, more than once, has saved the case. This is an extremely powerful bookday with his powers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721180141471121038</amazonuk>

|author=Jill ArmitageThe British Museum|title= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen Origami, Poems and Pictures|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyCrafts|summary= Lady Arbella StuartSometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, cousin Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to both Elizabeth I Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of England paper folding, haiku poetry and James VI of Scotlandpainting. I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was one surprised by the extent to which the rest of the unfortunate figures of English history who might have been Queen – book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and whoin case you're worried, like all the even more tragic Lady Jane Grey, might entries have paid the ultimate price. This is a sad but engrossing story degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one whose only crime was to have royal blood coursing through her veinsis at the lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456501930857639382</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan TaltyWarner Brothers|title= Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Black HandBest of Harry Potter colouring

|genre=True CrimeCrafts|summary=History is a fascinating subject Imagine pages and pages of images from the Harry Potter books and films for you to study colour as there is so much you wish. You ''might'' have seen some of it, so why do we keep going back to the same places? images before - I feel like know I have walked - as they've appeared in the steps of Julius Caesar and married at least two of Henry VIII's wives'Harry Potter Colouring Book'', so often I have read about them. There are countless other tales out there to learn about that may be more obscure, but are just as exciting. I don't know much about New York around 1900'Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', but after reading and ''The Black HandHarry Potter Magical Places and Characters Colouring Book'' by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place to live, but an interesting one there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the collector of Harry Potter memorabilia. If you're in need of inspiration as to learn aboutcolours then you'll enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and concept art at the back of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850371291783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle= A P McGrathThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor= A Burning in the DarknessCatherine Rosevear|rating= 43.5|genre= CrimeConfident Readers|summary= At Hannah lives with her parents in a busy airport, Michael Kieh flat above the nursing home where her mother is matron. Hannah is a full time faith representative serving the needs of an only child and so she enjoys making friends with some of the 80 million passengershome'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 circumstance Hannah persists and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crimesoon they are the best of friends. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on a charged journey that pitches love against revengehelping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome and relates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. When a But she remains tight-lipped about the mysterious woman confides a dark secretwooden chest, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close the key to unmasking a past crimewhich she keeps around her neck. 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 truth.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL1788032535</amazonuk>

|author=Nosy CrowDominic Smith|title=British Museum: ABCThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos|rating=45|genre=For SharingHistorical Fiction|summary=Learning your ABCs is also seemingly learning If you find the same items appearing over techniques used by Rembrandt and over againVermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass in how to work up a canvas in stages. 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 even one fifth of the way through. A Sara is not only A – it one of the few women artists of the period and her painting is also Appleof children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. B The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is Ball, C the patent lawyer from whom it is Carstolen in 1950s Manhattan. It is almost as if there are only 26 objects Ellie Shipley forged a copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the world and they happen centre of a gathering storm which threatens to start with different letters destroy her reputation as one of the alphabetSydney's foremost fine art academics. In fact Satisfying though those first descriptions are, apart from Xylophone and X-Ray, there we then understand these are loads merely the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of things that you could choose the Dutch Golden Age to put in an ABC book, if only you had a vast repository of objects and art that you could choose from …mark out the composition which will follow. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638165192526680X</amazonuk>

|author=Liz PichonDeirdre Osborne (Editor)|title=Family, Friends The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Furry Creatures Asian Literature (Tom Gates1945–2010)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersReference|summary=Tom Gates has got This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the contribution of black and Asian authors to the British literary canon since 1945. It covers not just fiction, but also poetry, plays and performance works. It sits as a problem: his shoes are making a noise. They sort kind of rasp when he walksjoyful cuckoo in the nest, only he can't recreate interrupting the usual narratives of literary waves and movements in Britain that take little notice of any perspective other than the sound at homedominant white - and posh! - direction of travel. At school itIt's a different matter: not only is the noise very louddisparate, there are those varied collection of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little moreessays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, wellLGBTQ writing, ''intimate''liberationist writing and much more. All in all itI was really happy to see children's not a good start to the day for Tomauthors such as Malorie Blackman, particularly when he realises that he's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school project. Class 5F are building their family trees Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and they've got to interview family members to get stories of their lives for the projectrespected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14071681181316504808</amazonuk>

|author= Clare FisherDr Seuss|title= All the Good ThingsDr Seuss's ABC|rating= 4|genre= General FictionFor Sharing|summary= Nature, nurture, chance and circumstance; all combine No one who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imagination. He was able to produce the story of Bethany Mitchell, a young adult who writes pluck from her prison cell. We know his brainpan not only that she has committed a 'bad thing'interesting takes on old ideas, a bad thing but also new creatures and worlds that she sees as the end of her storyhad never been seen before. Armed with His books are often madder than a simple taskbox of March hares, Erikabut even he must have had his limits? The humble ABC book (dare I say the dull ABC book), a psychologist, sets out surely he could not bring his sense of anarchic fun to challenge this. She asks Beth simply to compile a list staple of all the good things in her life.children's education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X0007487754</amazonuk>

|author= Robert HarrisStewart O'Nan|title= ConclaveLast Night at the Lobster

|summary= It The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is hard 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 to believe that Harris has managed keep it all together for one last day. Short-handed, with most of the staff who've bothered to bring such pace turn up facing unemployment, he tries to make the often lengthy and complex process best of a conclavebad job, all the while knowing this will be the last day he'll spend with the waitress he shouldn't still be in love with, but particularly not now he has wrung out every piece of mystery 's about to be a dad. Oh, and there's a blizzard on the result had me reading through long into the night. I simply could not put this downway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847518391760293865</amazonuk>

|author= Samantha KingTom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)|title= The ChoiceIn Every Moment We Are Still Alive|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= It's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one of your children more than the others at Tom Malmquist is a particular point poet from Sweden. Originally published in timeSwedish in 2015, this is his first work of prose. Maybe for While it's being marketed as a momentnovel, just it reads more like a moment, you prefer the sleeping 4 year old over his up all night baby sisterstylized memoir. Similar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's books, and then later when off to do it features the Big Shop you favour author as the littlest one for sheer portability central character and lower likelihood of running off in the carparknarrator, 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, but deep down there's no such thing. So imagine the worst thing that could come. Imagine story of grief it tells is a stranger arriving at your door with a gun and making you choose between your children. One can live, but highly personal one must die. Welcome to Madeline's world and her living nightmare.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03494146531473640008</amazonuk>

|author= Suzanne LealMichel Deon|title= The TeacherYour Father's SecretRoom

|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= Terry has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school I don't feel altogether qualified to review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's Room'', translated here into English for yearsthe first time. Everyone knows himI hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copy, heck half the kids let alone read any of his books, published over a 70 year period to much acclaim in his class have parents who were former pupils of hishomeland. HeBut it's an institution. You know part of the sort. And he does not take kindly pleasure of book reviewing to a new young upstart showing up and trying to meddle. He's not nasty about itread with no prior knowledge or prejudice, but it rubs him up all the wrong waymore so if you discover an absolute gem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790771910477346</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Andrew Wilson|authortitle=Mat WaughA Talent for Murder|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime (Historical)|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to a plot not unlike one book]] written of her own. It's all about him the mystery, and now he has anotherit really drives the story forward. His slapstick adventures are related once more Agatha is ambushed by his sister Harry. I love Harry. Harry a strange man at the train station; she is by turn infuriated given a proposition that confuses her and amused by secretly intrigues her brother Charlie. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasmIndeed, for this man wants her to commit a murder. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B072F586441471148211</amazonuk>