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|author=Delia EphronThomas Dolby|title=SiracusaThe Speed of Sound|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionEntertainment|summary= Michael and Lizzie are a writer–journalist couple from New York City; Finn and Taylor live with their tenFrom struggling post-year-old daughterpunk musician to pop star, Snow, in Portland, Maine, where Finn (an old flame of Lizzie's) owns a restaurant. After meeting up by chance on a trip from Silicon Valley innovator to London last yearuniversity professor, they decide to go away together for Thomas Dolby has had a proper holiday in Italyremarkable if not unique career, to often reinventing himself on the Sicilian island of Siracusa via Romeway. In alternating chapters, the narrative moves fluidly between the perspectives of the four adults, all of whom are reflecting – with the help of hindsight This memoir is based on his extensive notes and therapy – on what ended up being a disastrous trip. Although we don't learn until very late on in the book exactly what went wrong, there's a sense that it might be something to do with Snowjournals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860715411785781952</amazonuk>

|author=Nick CleggRon Butlin|title=Politics: Between Steve and Frandan Take on the ExtremesWorld|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the moment. A little more than two years ago victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we were facing are well into the end twenty-first century here, of the UKcyber kind. But this isn't some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting that we would t see another. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majoritythe point of going on. Brexit saw Nope – these guys take the end of one Prime Minister unusual (and another elected by a few members of parliament. As I write we're facing another general election, with a Conservative landslide predicted. In two years we've seen in the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the ruling coalition sunset, to take a party whose MPs could hold a meeting break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adults. In their defence, it seems a decent-sized carsensible move at the time...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847041641780274394</amazonuk>

|author=Alan GibbonsElaine Everest|title=The Beautiful GameButlins Girls|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyHistorical Fiction|summary=Football is all about its coloursFresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a Butlins auntie. And even if I write in Behind the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English footballsmiles and confident appearance, it's common knowledge that red is she hides a secret; she has taken the more successful colour job to wearescape escalating problems at home. But 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 She soon finds good friends in a tragedy – her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, and it turns out that it had been one of they each have their own makingreasons for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhile, Molly is shocked to discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the camp. Is he really as suave as his on-screen persona? And while we're on about colour, where were the people of colour in football in why is he working at the olden dayscamp anyway? There are so many darker sides to football's history it's enough to make a young lad question the whole game…As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811269171447295536</amazonuk>

|author=Bernard Ashley|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Lena's mother seems very ill. Scary noises are coming from the bathroom, she's off food and completely listless, complaining of the effort involved in sewing a patch onto a cub scout uniform. It might be a surprise to 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 come. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about her condition – leaving Lena with a lot on her plate when fate sets in with a surprise of its own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125716</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 dictionary''. This was fine, but the day while simultaneously winning family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the heart 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 <!-- remove 28/5 --like. Because Cal >|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 AnuJames and Alexia Sackville. The guests might sleep in tents, but it's still luxury accommodation in anybody's book. Chui Camp, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on the 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'' want and he won't listen to lazy classmatesany of his wife Tessa's suggestions for updating the tired venue. Still 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 not all bad. Calonly a small step from that reasoning to looking at ways of ensuring Nyara's parents are lovely failure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955599717</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Marian Veevers|title=Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and the gorgeous Freya Sensibility|rating= 4|genre= Biography|summary= The idea of a dual biography of two contemporaries who never met throughout their lives is making friendly overturesan 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 much more famous than the other, and both were born just four years apart, in the 1770s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811268281910985775</amazonuk>

|author= Matthew HarffyGeraint Jones|title= The Serpent SwordBlood Forest|rating= 4.5

|summary= ItFelix. The lucky one. He doesn's AD 633 and Albion is a divided island made up of petty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsters. Romans are a memory that have entered t feel especially lucky when he staggers out into myth the grove and the souls finds twelve of Albion are torn between the old Gods his comrades butchered and mutilated in the new Christworst possible ways. It is in this world that we follow He felt even less lucky when the adventures of Beobrand as soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. He might have run, but he knew he undertakes the classic hero’s journey'd never make it. 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 He stepped out to become a true warriorface whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924060718184815</amazonuk>

|author=Anna PitoniakDorling Kindersley|title=The FuturesFirst Science Encyclopedia|rating=45|genre=Literary Children's Non-Fiction|summary=When we first meet Evan PeckI wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone in this, he has just started at Yale College, where he plays ice hockeybut it really was too late. Like lots of the other players Thankfully, he is actually Canadiantimes have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from small-town British Columbia. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm and they go out for pizzavery young age. She technically has What's needed is a boyfriend from her Boston boarding school daysgood, but they soon break up basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and before long Julia give a good grounding. It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and Evan have become inseparable, as they will remain for the rest of their college yearscomfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718184564024118875X</amazonuk>

|author= Lee ChildSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title= No Middle NameSupertato Run Veggies Run|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime For Sharing|summary= There is a theoryI've heard of these so called superfoods, they are reported to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that the short story's heyday has passed boost your immune system and it has now put itself flush out to grass. This is particularly true, some say, and I areas of your body that have been known to concurgone unnoticed for decades, of the crime and thriller genres. but does this make them super? Tosh! I can only apologise In my mind to all authors involved and own up: I simply haven't been paying attention. Not even be a superfood you need to shorter offerings my by favourite authorsdo something spectacular; lift a car from a trapped child, or leap over a building in one bound. So: big thanks to Lee Child The vegetable and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with fruit in my house can't do any of this, but then they aren'No Middle Name'' : t Supertato; a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-dayspectacular spud that, American-stylemore than once, Robin Hood by has saved the name of ''Jack Reacher''day with his powers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05930790191471121038</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 21/5 -->|author=Lizzy MumfreyThe British Museum|title=Fall OutOrigami, Poems and Pictures

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Charlton's the sort Sometimes you find a delight of village where people aspire to live, despite its apparent ordinarinessa book. There's the usual mix of commuters (On an afternoon when itwas unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered 's not ''tooOrigami, Poems and Pictures'' far from London) and those who make their lives in the villageI was transported to Japan. Richard Hughes is a commuter, but his wife Jessica works As the title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the local academyancient art of paper folding, where both their children - Alfie haiku poetry and Hannah - are pupilspainting. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wifeI'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, Susie. Actually, some but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of that voluptuousness might be better described as fat - Pete suspects that he might need longer arms to hug her before longthe book caught my imagination. Less popular is Gary Webber. HeWe begin with something very simple: a boat and in case you's re worried, all the sort entries have a degree of man who causes people difficulty (from 'simple' through to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink 'tricky') and this one is at the golf clublowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110798400857639382</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeWarner Brothers|title= Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Silence Between BreathsBest of Harry Potter colouring|rating= 54|genre= CrimeCrafts|summary= IImagine pages and pages of images from the Harry Potter books and films for you to colour as you wish. You ''might''m always wary have seen some of author endorsements, even those from people the images before - I know I rate have - as writersthey've appeared in the ''Harry Potter Colouring Book'', but the ''harrowing and humaneHarry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'' quote from Ian Rankin on the front cover of , and ''The Silence Between BreathsHarry Potter Magical Places and Characters Colouring Book'' does not overstate , but there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the casecollector of Harry Potter memorabilia. This is an extremely powerful If you're in need of inspiration as to colours then you'll enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and concept art at the back of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721180141783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Jill ArmitageThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen Catherine Rosevear|rating= 43.5|genre= BiographyConfident Readers|summary= Lady Arbella StuartHannah lives with her parents in a flat above the nursing home where her mother is matron. Hannah is an only child and so she enjoys making friends with some of the home's residents. So when Mrs Oberto moves in, cousin Hannah is keen to both Elizabeth I of England make her acquaintance - Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at first but Hannah persists and James VI of Scotland, was one of soon they are the unfortunate figures best of English history who might have been Queen – friends. Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on helping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome and who, like relates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. But she remains tight-lipped about the even more tragic Lady Jane Greymysterious wooden chest, might have paid the ultimate price. This is a sad but engrossing story of one whose only crime was key to have royal blood coursing through which she keeps around her veinsneck...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456501931788032535</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan TaltyDominic Smith|title= The Black HandLast Painting of Sara de Vos|rating=45|genre=True CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=History is If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a fascinating subject masterclass in how to study work up a canvas in stages. Framing the novel as there is so much the story of ita seventeenth century Dutch painting, so why do Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and the three time periods they inhabit before we keep going back to are even one fifth of the same places? way through. I feel like I have walked Sara is one of the steps few women artists of Julius Caesar the period and married at least two her painting is of Henry VIIIchildren skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Groot's wives, so often I have read about themfamily since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. There are countless other tales out there Ellie Shipley forged a copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the centre of a gathering storm which threatens to learn about that may be more obscure, but are just destroy her reputation as excitingone of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. I don't know much about New York around 1900 Satisfying though those first descriptions are, but after reading ''The Black Hand'we then understand these are merely the author' s equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place painters of the Dutch Golden Age to live, but an interesting one to learn aboutmark out the composition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785037129192526680X</amazonuk>

|author= A P McGrathDeirdre Osborne (Editor)|title= A Burning in the DarknessThe Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)|rating= 45|genre= CrimeReference|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh is a full time faith representative serving This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the needs of some contribution of black and Asian authors to the 80 million passengersBritish literary canon since 1945. It covers not just fiction, but circumstance also poetry, plays and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crimeperformance works. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on It sits as a charged journey kind of joyful cuckoo in the nest, interrupting the usual narratives of literary waves and movements in Britain that pitches love against revengetake little notice of any perspective other than the dominant white - and posh! - direction of travel. When It's a mysterious woman confides a dark secretdisparate, varied collection of essays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injusticeliberationist writing and much more. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close I was really happy to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michaelsee children's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocenceauthors such as Malorie Blackman, Michael has to risk anything for the sake of love Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and truthrespected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL1316504808</amazonuk>

|author=Nosy CrowDr Seuss|title=British Museum: Dr Seuss's ABC

|summary=Learning your ABCs is also seemingly learning the same items appearing over and over againNo one who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imagination. A is He was able to pluck from his brainpan not only A – it is interesting takes on old ideas, but also Apple. B is Ball, C is Carnew creatures and worlds that had never been seen before. It is almost as if there His books are only 26 objects in the world and they happen to start with different letters often madder than a box of the alphabet. March hares, but even he must have had his limits? In fact, apart from Xylophone and X-Ray, there are loads of things that you could choose to put in an The humble ABC book, if only you had a vast repository of objects and art that you could choose from …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857638165</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Liz Pichon|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gatesdare I say the dull ABC book)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Tom Gates has got a problem: his shoes are making a noise. They sort of rasp when he walks, only surely he can't recreate the sound at home. At school it's a different matter: could not only is the noise very loud, there are those bring his sense of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little more, well, ''intimate''. All in all it's not a good start anarchic fun to this staple of the day for Tom, particularly when he realises that hechildren's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school project. Class 5F are building their family trees and they've got to interview family members to get stories of their lives for the project.education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14071681180007487754</amazonuk>

|author= Clare FisherStewart O'Nan|title= All Last Night at the Good ThingsLobster

|summary= NatureThe Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorly-performing branches just before Christmas. Amid the Christmas lights, nurtureoffice parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeon, chance and circumstance; all combine to produce the story manager of Bethany Mitchellone of these failing outlets, has to keep it all together for one last day. Short-handed, a young adult with most of the staff who writes from her prison cell. We know only that she has committed a 'bad thing've bothered to turn up facing unemployment, he tries to make the best of a bad thing that she sees as job, all the while knowing this will be the end of her story. Armed last day he'll spend with the waitress he shouldn't still be in love with a simple task, Erika, particularly not now he's about to be a psychologistdad. Oh, sets out to challenge this. She asks Beth simply to compile and there's a list of all blizzard on the good things in her lifeway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X1760293865</amazonuk>

|author= Robert HarrisTom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)|title= ConclaveIn Every Moment We Are Still Alive|rating= 4.5|genre= General Literary Fiction|summary= It Tom Malmquist is hard to believe that Harris has managed to bring such pace a poet from Sweden. Originally published in Swedish in 2015, this is his first work of prose. While it's being marketed as a novel, it reads more like a stylized memoir. Similar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's books, it features the author as the often lengthy central character and complex process of a conclavenarrator, but he has wrung out every piece of mystery and the result had me reading through long into the night. I simply could not put this downstory of grief it tells is a highly personal one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847518391473640008</amazonuk>

|author= Samantha KingMichel Deon|title= The ChoiceYour Father's Room|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= ItI don't feel altogether qualified to review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one of your children more than Room'', translated here into English for the others at a particular point in first time. Maybe for a momentI hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copy, let alone read any of his books, just published over a moment, you prefer the sleeping 4 70 year old over his up all night baby sister, and then later when off period to do the Big Shop you favour the littlest one for sheer portability and lower likelihood of running off much acclaim in the carpark, but if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equally. End ofhis homeland. In different ways and for different things, but equally. You might jokingly pick a favourite, but deep down thereBut it's part of the pleasure of book reviewing to read with no such thing. So imagine prior knowledge or prejudice, all the worst thing that could come. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door with a gun and making more so if you choose between your children. One can live, but one must die. Welcome to Madeline's world and her living nightmarediscover an absolute gem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03494146531910477346</amazonuk>

|author= Suzanne LealAndrew Wilson|title= The Teacher's SecretA Talent for Murder|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrime (Historical)|summary= Terry has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school for years. Everyone knows himAgatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, heck half the kids in his class have parents who were former pupils and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to a plot not unlike one of hisher own. HeIt's an institutionall about the mystery, and it really drives the story forward. You know Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at the sort. And he does not take kindly to train station; she is given a new young upstart showing up proposition that confuses her and trying to meddlesecretly intrigues her. He's not nasty about itIndeed, but it rubs him up the wrong wayfor this man wants her to commit a murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790771471148211</amazonuk>