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|author= Michel DeonThomas Dolby|title= Your Father's RoomThe Speed of Sound

|genre= Literary FictionEntertainment|summary= I don't feel altogether qualified From struggling post-punk musician to review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's Room''pop star, translated here into English for the first time. I hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copy, let alone read any of his booksfrom Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, published over Thomas Dolby has had a 70 year period to much acclaim in his homeland. But it's part of the pleasure of book reviewing to read with no prior knowledge or prejudiceremarkable if not unique career, all often reinventing himself on the more so if you discover an absolute gemway. This memoir is based on his extensive notes and journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19104773461785781952</amazonuk>

|author=Andrew WilsonRon Butlin|title= A Talent for MurderSteve and Frandan Take on the World|rating=4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)Teens|summary= Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her dayLike many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, and as we are well into the twenty-first century here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to a plot not unlike one , of her ownthe cyber kind. ItBut this isn's all t some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Nope – these guys take the mysteryunusual (and, in the light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the sunset, to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his idiot Viking horde, and it really drives the story forwardinsanities in general of all adults. Agatha is ambushed by In their defence, it seems a strange man sensible move at the train station; she is given a proposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues hertime.. Indeed, for this man wants her to commit a murder. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711482111780274394</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Elaine Everest|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Butlins Girls|rating=4.5|genre=TeensHistorical Fiction|summary=It's not Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearance, she does die and hides a secret; she dies in has taken the first few pages of ''Contagion''job to escape escalating problems at home. Callie She soon finds good friends in her chalet- Calista - disappeared more than mates Bunty and Plum, and it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a year agofresh start. Her brother Kai Meanwhile, Molly is still looking for shocked to discover that her, hopeful that she will be found alive and well. But Callie isn't alive and wellmovie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the camp. She's been taken to a secretive medical facility Is he really as suave as his on -screen persona? And why is he working at the island of Shetland, experimented oncamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, Molly and her new friends face new threats and then burned to death. But Callie survived the burning in nondangers that may threaten their new-corporeal formfound freedom. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14083417271447295536</amazonuk>

|author=Delia EphronBenjamin Ludwig|title=SiracusaThe Original Ginny Moon|rating=45|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael and Lizzie are To Ginny, a writer–journalist couple child with autism, the word Forever means until the police come. Five years ago the police forcibly removed her from New York City; Finn and Taylor live with their ten-year-old daughterthe home of her abusive birth mother, SnowGloria. Now fourteen, and in Portlandher fourth Forever Home, Maine, where Finn (an old flame of LizzieGinny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to Gloria's apartment. She has no illusions about her mother's) owns a restaurantaddictions or lack of parenting skills. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill her. After meeting up by chance on a trip Still she plots, obsessed with returning to London last year, they decide Gloria's to go away together for a proper holiday in Italyfind something she insists she left behind, to the Sicilian island of Siracusa via Romesomething she hid under her bed. In alternating chaptersHer teachers, the narrative moves fluidly between the perspectives of the four adultstherapist, all of whom and new Forever Parents are reflecting – with in turn frustrated, infuriated, and perplexed. As Gloria returns to her life, the help of hindsight and therapy – reader follows Ginny on what ended up being a disastrous trip. Although we don't learn until very late on journey filled with danger and discovery, in the book exactly what went wrong, there's her quest to find a sense that it might be something to do with Snowplace she can truly call her Forever Home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860715411848456611</amazonuk>

|author=Nick CleggHolly Webb|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesThe Homeless Kitten

|genre=Politics and SocietyEmerging Readers|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at the momentLily loves their rescue dog, Hugo. However, Lily also really wants a cat – or better still a kitten. She, therefore, can't believe her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while out of his walk with Lily and her dad. A little more than two years ago we were facing the end Better still (from Lily's point of view at least) the UKanimal shelter is full so Lily's first coalition government since World War II mum and fully expecting that we would see another. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majority. Brexit saw dad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the end of one Prime Minister and another elected by a few members of parliamenttiny kittens until they're old enough to be rehomed. As I write weLily're facing another general elections in heaven looking after the kittens, with a Conservative landslide predictedespecially the little fluffy white one whom she names Stanley. In two years weThere is just one problem – it've seen the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part of s going to break her heart when the ruling coalition time comes to a party whose MPs could hold a meeting in a decent-sized carsay goodbye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847041641847157831</amazonuk>

|author=Alan GibbonsHarriet Cummings|title=The Beautiful GameWe All Begin As Strangers|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write in the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from In the throne summer of English football1984, ita Chilterns village was gripped with fear and suspicion as a mysterious intruder known as ''s common knowledge that red is The Fox'' broke into the more successful colour homes of several residents in the area. Despite an increased police presence, regular patrols and vigilante groups, this slippery character still managed to wearevade detection. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red A huge police ''Foxhunt'' followed, and finally, forensic evidence led to the eventual capture of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in perpetrator. This real-life news story sparked the imagination of a young Harriet Cummings, who went on to create a tragedy – and that it had been one fictional version of their own making? And while we're on about colourevents, where were which invites the people of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides reader to footballturn detective and try and unmask ''The Fox's history it's enough to make from a young lad question the whole game…range of possible suspects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811269171409169049</amazonuk>

|author=Bernard AshleyMalcolm Devlin|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.You Will Grow Into Them|rating=45|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyShort Stories|summary=Lena's mother seems very ill'You Will Grow Into Them'' is a thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred on the nature of transition and change. Scary noises are coming from the bathroomThe often grisly, she's off food macabre and completely listless, complaining ghoulish nature of the effort involved stories included 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 Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the reason darkness within each tale is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises to comedeviously addictive. 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>17811257161907389431</amazonuk>

|author= Naomi AldermanTove Jansson|title= The PowerLetters From Klara

|summary=It started with Famed in the UK for her creation of the Moomin family, Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather the girls and spreadrichly deserved esteem for her adult writings. From younger woman For that I offer my heart-felt thanks to older womanpublishers ''Sort of books'' and Thomas Teal, it was awoken and everything changed. Womankind now who has been responsible for most of the power translations. Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of electricity in their fingertips the series, andsecondly there'll come a time sooner rather than later when there'll be no more to be had. The former will be rectified, slowly at firstthe latter is a sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745614</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jane Menczer|title= An Unlikely Agent|rating= 4|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary=London, the balance of power in the world starts shifting1905. We follow the stories of different peopleMargaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in different walks of lifeSt John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, who see this with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her a newspaper open at the very beginning and hurtle towards recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'the eventopen new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. One thing After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in this startling a new development position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop.But all is certainnot as it seems; she is in fact working for a highly secret branch of the intelligence service, Bureau 8, patriarchal archetypes whose mission is to track down and chauvinist thinkers are neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, and her journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in for herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the shock first stirrings of their lives. Literallylove. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>06709199691846973805</amazonuk>

|author= Caro FraserHenry Marsh|title= The Summer House PartyAdmissions: A Life in Brain Surgery|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction Autobiography|summary= In the gloriously hot summer It's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of 1936Life, a group Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of people meet at a country house party. Within three years, England will be at warLife, Death and Brain Surgery]] but for now, time stands stillthe memories have stayed with me. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-lookingI had thought then that a book about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but he resents the wealth book was superb - and very easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldnreading and when I heard about ''Admissions't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles AsherI decided to treat myself to an audio download, the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless and dissatisfied with her role particularly as children's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer youngMarsh was narrating. I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, but secure in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gather, none has any inkling how did 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… book do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866914851474603866</amazonuk>

|author=Matt SewellDK|title=The Big Bird SpotChildren's Illustrated Thesaurus|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. As a child every question which I began with ''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as it says in the dictionary''. This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was 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 ''How to...'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/5 -->|author=Val Harris|title=Hunting Ground

|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line to Nyara Camp is one of the puffins who'd arrived on the cliffs newest camps in the last few daysMasai Mara and it's run by James and Alexia Sackville. FinallyThe guests might sleep in tents, I found onebut it's still luxury accommodation in anybody's book. Chui Camp, after visually sorting through all on the other birds on hand, sticks with the precipitous cliff facetraditional way that safaris were run, including bucket showers. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt SewellOwner Ralph Somerton is convinced that's first book for children, what the guests ''The Big Bird Spotshould'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time youwant and he won're going t listen to be looking any of his wife Tessa's suggestions for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst updating the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbillstired venue. OhIt'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 youit're s only a small step from that reasoning to looking for a pair at ways of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because youensuring Nyara're going to have to find them in every pictures failure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18436532650955599717</amazonuk>

|author= Richard AskwithMarian Veevers|title= Today We Die a LittleJane and Dorothy: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War HeroA True Tale of Sense and Sensibility

|genre= Sport Biography|summary= As The idea of a runner myself, I often look for sources dual biography of inspiration. Training two contemporaries who never met throughout their lives is rewarding, but every so often a day comes along when I question whether it is all worth it or notan intriguing one. Zatopek proves that isHowever, indeedthere were several unifying factors, all worth which makes itseem logical enough. He put copious amounts of effort into his trainingJane 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 number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows the results of it1770s. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02241003511910985775</amazonuk>

|author= David GrannGeraint Jones|title= Killers of the Flower MoonBlood Forest

|genre= True CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=Killers of the Flower Moon tells the story of the Osage tribe, forced to settle in the rocky, uninhabitable wilds of Oklahoma in what would become Osage CountyFelix. The lucky one. In an unexpected turn of fortune, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the Osage into unimaginable wealth grove and fortune making them some finds twelve of the richest people his comrades butchered and mutilated in the worldworst possible ways. Then members of He felt even less lucky when the tribe start to diesoldiers arrived, slowly at first of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent waysRoman cavalry. Investigation into the matter stalls and 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 scarredHe might have run, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom Whitebut he knew he'd never make it. As pressure on White increases, from both the FBI and the increasingly angry Osage, the race He stepped out to find the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mysteryface whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08572090270718184815</amazonuk>

|author=Tanya LandmanDorling Kindersley|title=Passing for WhiteFirst Science Encyclopedia

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was a slave. He was a talented carpenter too, but eleven and went on November the 19th he was unnervedto senior school: a white woman was looking at him, smiling and being polite. What was going on? He I wasn't just unnervedalone in this, but nervous: you seeit really was too late. Thankfully, Benjamin was looking times have changed and children at the white womanprimary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, looking ''her'' in the eye atoms and molecules and even outer space from a slave could get himself killed for less than thatvery young age. Only this wasnWhat't s needed is a white woman: this was Rosagood, who was mixed racebasic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and give a good grounding. She could pass for white, but she too was It needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a slavechild's bookshelf. Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didnThe ''First Science Encyclopedia'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 waswould do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X024118875X</amazonuk>

|author= Johana Gustawsson Sue Hendra and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)Paul Linnet|title= Block 46 Supertato Run Veggies Run

|genre=Thrillers For Sharing|summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails I've heard of these so called superfoods, they are reported to boost your immune system and flush out areas of your body that have gone unnoticed for decades, but does this make them super? In my mind to appear at be a Cartier event presenting some of her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows superfood you need to do something must be wrongspectacular; nothing would have kept the talented young artist lift a car from attending this prestigious functiona trapped child, or leap over a building in one bound. When a young woman's mutilated body is discovered The vegetable and fruit in a Swedish marina near Linnéamy house can's holiday homet do any of this, Alexis' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéabut then they aren's death is not uniquet Supertato; in fact, she is only the latest in a string of similar gruesome murders spectacular spud that have occurred in both London and Falkenberg. Up until now, the bodies have all belonged to young boysmore than once, so what has caused saved the killer to change day with his or her MO? How can Alexis help to find justice for her friend, and stop a serial killer before he strikes again?powers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19106337041471121038</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Harder They FallBritish Museum|authortitle=Bali RaiOrigami, Poems and Pictures|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrafts|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams Sometimes you find a delight of being a superhero book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girldecidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, hopefully). Batman is his favourite superhero. But CalPoems and Pictures''s world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-like. Because Cal is a bit of a geek and he is being bullied by mean girl Anu, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on I was transported to lazy classmatesJapan. Still, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and As the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126828</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Matthew Harffy|title= The Serpent Sword|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= Itsuggests we's AD 633 re looking at three celebrated arts and Albion is a divided island made up crafts: the ancient art of petty warlords who want to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsterspaper folding, haiku poetry and painting. Romans are a memory I'll confess that have entered into myth and it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the souls rest of Albion are torn between the old Gods book caught my imagination. We begin with something very simple: a boat and the new Christ. It is in this world that we follow case you're worried, all the adventures entries have a degree of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves difficulty (from wide-eyed teenager 'simple' through to hardened 'tricky') and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts this one is at the killer of his brother and seeks to become a true warriorlowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924060857639382</amazonuk>

|author=Anna PitoniakWarner Brothers|title=Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The FuturesBest of Harry Potter colouring

|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=When we first meet Evan Peck, he has just started at Yale College, where he plays ice hockeyImagine pages and pages of images from the Harry Potter books and films for you to colour as you wish. Like lots You ''might'' have seen some of the other playersimages before - I know I have - as they've appeared in the ''Harry Potter Colouring Book'', he is actually Canadian''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', from small-town British Columbia. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm and they go out for pizza. She technically has a boyfriend from her Boston boarding school days''Harry Potter Magical Places and Characters Colouring Book'', but they soon break up and there are several exclusive never-before long Julia -seen images which will please the collector of Harry Potter memorabilia. If you're in need of inspiration as to colours then you'll enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and Evan have become inseparable, as they will remain for concept art at the rest back of their college yearsthe book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181845641783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle= Lee ChildThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor= No Middle NameCatherine Rosevear|rating= 43.5|genre= Crime Confident Readers|summary= There is Hannah lives with her parents in a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that flat above the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grassnursing home where her mother is matron. This Hannah is particularly true, an only child and so she enjoys making friends with 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 havenhome't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authorss residents. 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-daywhen Mrs Oberto moves in, 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 Hannah is keen to live, despite its apparent ordinariness. There's the usual mix of commuters (it's not ''too'' far from London) and those who make their lives in the villageher acquaintance - Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. Richard Hughes Mrs Oberto is a commuter, quite standoffish at first but his wife Jessica works at the local academy, where both their children - Alfie Hannah persists and Hannah - soon they are pupilsthe best of friends. Pete Cole Mrs Oberto is a newly-promoted police superintendent particularly keen on helping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wife, Susierelates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. ActuallyBut she remains tight-lipped about the mysterious wooden chest, some of that voluptuousness might be better described as fat - Pete suspects that he might need longer arms the key to hug which she keeps around her before longneck. 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 the golf club.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110798401788032535</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeDominic Smith|title= The Silence Between BreathsLast Painting of Sara de Vos

|genre= CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary= IIf you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, 'm always wary 'The Last Painting of author endorsementsSara 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 those from people I rate as writersone 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 frozen canal, but the 'her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Groot'harrowing s family since before Isaac Newton was born and humane'' quote he is the patent lawyer from Ian Rankin on whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a copy of the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the front cover centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely the author'The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate s equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to mark out the case. This is an extremely powerful bookcomposition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472118014192526680X</amazonuk>

|author=Jill ArmitageDeirdre Osborne (Editor)|title= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyReference|summary= Lady Arbella StuartThis 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, cousin to both Elizabeth I of England but also poetry, plays and James VI performance works. It sits as a kind of Scotlandjoyful cuckoo in the nest, was one of interrupting the unfortunate figures usual narratives of English history who might have been Queen – literary waves and who, like movements in Britain that take little notice of any perspective other than the even more tragic Lady Jane Grey, might have paid the ultimate pricedominant white - and posh! - direction of travel. This is It's a sad but engrossing story disparate, varied collection of one whose only crime essays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, liberationist writing and much more. I was really happy to have royal blood coursing through her veinssee children's authors such as Malorie Blackman, Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and respected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456501931316504808</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan TaltyDr Seuss|title= The Black HandDr Seuss's ABC

|genre=True CrimeFor Sharing|summary=History is No one who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a fascinating subject powerful imagination. He was able to study as there is so much of itpluck from his brainpan not only interesting takes on old ideas, so why do we keep going back to the same places? I feel like I have walked the steps of Julius Caesar but also new creatures and married at least two of Henry VIII's wives, so often I have read about themworlds that had never been seen before. There His books are countless other tales out there to learn about that may be more obscureoften madder than a box of March hares, but are just as exciting. even he must have had his limits? I don't know much about New York around 1900, but after reading ''The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty humble ABC book (dare I now know it was a violent place to livesay the dull ABC book), but an interesting one surely he could not bring his sense of anarchic fun to learn about.this staple of the children's education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850371290007487754</amazonuk>

|author= A P McGrathStewart O'Nan|title= A Burning in Last Night at the DarknessLobster

|genre= CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is a full time faith representative serving the needs of closing some of its poorly-performing branches just before Christmas. Amid the 80 million passengersChristmas lights, but circumstance office parties and evidence point forced jollity Manny DeLeon, the manager of one of these failing outlets, has to his guilt in a terrible crimekeep it all together for one last day. His struggle Short-handed, with most of the staff who've bothered to turn up facing unemployment, he tries to prove his innocence leads him on make the best of a charged journey that pitches bad job, all the while knowing this will be the last day he'll spend with the waitress he shouldn't still be in love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secretwith, particularly not now he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close 's about to unmasking be a past crimedad. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witnessOh, sparking memories of Michaeland there's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything for a blizzard on the sake of love and truthway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL1760293865</amazonuk>

|author=Nosy CrowTom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)|title=British Museum: ABCIn Every Moment We Are Still Alive|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Learning your ABCs Tom Malmquist is also seemingly learning the same items appearing over and over againa poet from Sweden. A Originally published in Swedish in 2015, this is not only A – his first work of prose. While it's being marketed as a novel, it is also Applereads more like a stylized memoir. B is BallSimilar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's books, C is Car. It is almost it features the author as if there are only 26 objects in the world central character and they happen to start with different letters of the alphabet. In factnarrator, apart from Xylophone and X-Ray, there are loads the story of things that you could choose to put in an ABC book, if only you had grief it tells is a vast repository of objects and art that you could choose from …highly personal one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08576381651473640008</amazonuk>

|author=Liz PichonMichel Deon|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Your Father's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Tom Gates has got a problem: his shoes are making a noise. They sort of rasp when he walks, only he canI don't recreate the sound at home. At school itfeel altogether qualified to review Michel Déon's a different matter: not only is the noise very loud, there are those of his classmates who suggest that it has originated from somewhere a little more, well, 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father'intimates Room'', translated here into English for the first time. All in all itI hadn's not t heard of Déon before receiving my copy, let alone read any of his books, published over a good start 70 year period to the day for Tom, particularly when he realises that hemuch acclaim in his homeland. But it's also forgotten his baby photo for part of the latest school project. Class 5F are building their family trees and they've got pleasure of book reviewing to interview family members to get stories of their lives for read with no prior knowledge or prejudice, all the projectmore so if you discover an absolute gem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14071681181910477346</amazonuk>

|author= Clare FisherAndrew Wilson|title= All the Good ThingsA Talent for Murder|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionCrime (Historical)|summary= NatureAgatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, nurture, chance and circumstance; all combine here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to produce the story a plot not unlike one of Bethany Mitchell, a young adult who writes from her prison cellown. We know only that she has committed a 'bad thingIt's all about the mystery, a bad thing that she sees as and it really drives the end of her storyforward. Armed with Agatha is ambushed by a simple task, Erika, strange man at the train station; she is given a psychologistproposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues her. Indeed, sets out to challenge for this. She asks Beth simply man wants her to compile commit a list of all the good things in her lifemurder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X1471148211</amazonuk>