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|author= Stewart O'NanThomas Dolby|title= Last Night at the LobsterThe Speed of Sound|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionEntertainment|summary=The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorlyFrom struggling post-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 punk musician to keep it all together for one last day. Short-handedpop star, with most of the staff who've bothered from Silicon Valley innovator to turn up facing unemploymentuniversity professor, he tries to make the best of Thomas Dolby has had a 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 with, particularly remarkable if not now he's about to be a dad. Ohunique career, and there's a blizzard often reinventing himself on the way. This memoir is based on his extensive notes and journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602938651785781952</amazonuk>

|author=Tom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)Ron Butlin|title=In Every Moment We Are Still AliveSteve and Frandan Take on the World|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=Tom Malmquist is a poet from Sweden. Originally published in Swedish in 2015Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, this is his as we are well into the twenty-first work century here, of prosethe cyber kind. While itBut this isn's being marketed as a novelt some worthy self-help, tell-an-adult book, nor is it reads more like a stylized memoirgloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. Similar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's booksNope – these guys take the unusual (and, it features in the author as light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the central character sunset, to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and narratorhis idiot Viking horde, and the story insanities in general of grief all adults. In their defence, it tells is seems a highly personal onesensible move at the time...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14736400081780274394</amazonuk>

|author= Michel DeonElaine Everest|title= Your Father's RoomThe Butlins Girls|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Historical Fiction|summary= I don't feel altogether qualified Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's Room''start her new job as a Butlins auntie. Behind the smiles and confident appearance, translated here into English for she hides a secret; she has taken the first timejob to escape escalating problems at home. I hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copyShe soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, let alone read any of his booksand it turns out that they each have their own reasons for wanting a fresh start. Meanwhile, published over a 70 year period Molly is shocked to much acclaim in discover that her movie-star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the camp. Is he really as suave as his homeland. But it's part of on-screen persona? And why is he working at the pleasure of book reviewing to read with no prior knowledge or prejudicecamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, all the more so if you discover an absolute gemMolly and her new friends face new threats and dangers that may threaten their new-found freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19104773461447295536</amazonuk>

|author=Andrew WilsonBenjamin Ludwig|title= A Talent for MurderThe Original Ginny Moon|rating=4.5|genre= Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary= Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back To Ginny, a child with autism, the word Forever means until the police come. Five years ago the police forcibly removed her from the home of her abusive birth mother, Gloria. Now fourteen, and in her dayfourth Forever Home, and here Andrew Wilson makes Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her a victim way back to a plot not unlike one Gloria's apartment. She has no illusions about her mother's addictions or lack of parenting skills. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill her own. ItStill she plots, obsessed with returning to Gloria's all about the mysteryto find something she insists she left behind, something she hid under her bed. Her teachers, therapist, and new Forever Parents are in turn frustrated, infuriated, and it really drives the story forwardperplexed. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at As Gloria returns to her life, the train station; she is given reader follows Ginny on a proposition that confuses her journey filled with danger and secretly intrigues her. Indeeddiscovery, for this man wants in her quest to commit find a murderplace she can truly call her Forever Home. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711482111848456611</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Holly Webb|authortitle=Teri TerryThe Homeless Kitten

|genre=TeensEmerging Readers|summary=ItLily 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. Better still (from Lily's point of view at least) the animal shelter is full so Lily's not a spoiler if I tell you that Callie dies because she does die mum and she dies in dad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the first few pages of tiny kittens until they're old enough to be rehomed. Lily'Contagion''. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than a year ago. Her brother Kai is still s in heaven looking for herafter the kittens, hopeful that especially the little fluffy white one whom she will be found alive and wellnames Stanley. But Callie isn't alive and well. SheThere is just one problem – it's been taken going to a secretive medical facility on break her heart when the island of Shetland, experimented on, and then burned time comes to death. But Callie survived the burning in non-corporeal formsay goodbye. How?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14083417271847157831</amazonuk>

|author=Delia EphronHarriet Cummings|title=SiracusaWe All Begin As Strangers|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael In the summer of 1984, a Chilterns village was gripped with fear and Lizzie are suspicion as a writer–journalist couple from New York City; Finn and Taylor live with their ten-year-old daughter, Snow, mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into the homes of several residents in Portlandthe area. Despite an increased police presence, Maineregular patrols and vigilante groups, where Finn (an old flame of Lizziethis slippery character still managed to evade detection. A huge police ''Foxhunt''s) owns a restaurant. After meeting up by chance on a trip to London last yearfollowed, they decide to go away together for a proper holiday in Italyand finally, forensic evidence led to the Sicilian island eventual capture of Siracusa via Romethe perpetrator. In alternating chapters, This real-life news story sparked the narrative moves fluidly between the perspectives imagination of the four adultsa young Harriet Cummings, all who went on to create a fictional version of whom are reflecting – with events, which invites the help of hindsight reader to turn detective and try and therapy – on what ended up being a disastrous trip. Although we donunmask ''The Fox't learn until very late on in the book exactly what went wrong, there's from a sense that it might be something to do with Snowrange of possible suspects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860715411409169049</amazonuk>

|author=Nick CleggMalcolm Devlin|title=Politics: Between the ExtremesYou Will Grow Into Them|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyShort Stories|summary=The political landscape ''You Will Grow Into Them'' is changing rapidly at the moment. A little more than two years ago we were facing the end a thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred on 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 nature of one Prime Minister transition and another elected by a few members of parliamentchange. As I write we're facing another general electionThe often grisly, with a Conservative landslide predicted. In two years we've seen the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part macabre and ghoulish nature of the ruling coalition to a party whose MPs could hold a meeting stories included in a decent-sized carDevlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the darkness within each tale is deviously addictive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847041641907389431</amazonuk>

|author=Alan GibbonsTove Jansson|title=The Beautiful GameLetters From Klara|rating=45|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyLiterary Fiction|summary=Football is all about its colours. And even if I write Famed in the season when one team in blue knocks another team in blue from UK for her creation of the throne of English footballMoomin family, it's common knowledge that red Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather the more successful colour to wearrichly deserved esteem for her adult writings. But is For that flame red? Blood red? The red I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers ''Sort of the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – books'' and that it had Thomas Teal, who has been responsible for most of the translations. Receiving this one of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the people two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of colour in football in the olden days? There are so many darker sides to footballseries, and secondly there's history itll come a time sooner rather than later when there's enough ll be no more to make be had. The former will be rectified, the latter is a young lad question the whole game…sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811269171908745614</amazonuk>

|author=Bernard AshleyJane Menczer|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.An Unlikely Agent|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyCrime (Historical)|summary=LenaLondon, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's mother seems very illWood. Scary noises are coming The pair have fallen on hard times, 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 bathroomrecruitment page, sheMargaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'s off food and completely listless. After a gruelling interview, complaining of the effort involved she finds herself in sewing a patch onto new position as a secretary in a cub scout uniformdingy backstreet shop. It might be But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a surprise to the young reader highly secret branch of this book when we learn what the reason intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is – certainly it was obvious from page two for me – but there are definitely more surprises to cometrack down and neutralise a ruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions. Mother makes a slightly unusual decision about Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her condition – leaving Lena with a lot on for the reality of true criminality, and her plate when fate sets journey of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in with a surprise herself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of its own…love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811257161846973805</amazonuk>

|author= Naomi AldermanHenry Marsh|title= The PowerAdmissions: A Life in Brain Surgery|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=It started with the girls and spread. From younger woman to older woman's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of Life, it was awoken Death and everything changed. Womankind now has the power Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of electricity in their fingertips Life, Death and, slowly at first, Brain Surgery]] but the balance of power in the world starts shiftingmemories have stayed with me. We follow the stories of different peopleI had thought then that a book about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, in different walks of life, who see this from but the book was superb - and very beginning easy reading and hurtle towards when I heard about ''Admissions'the event'I decided to treat myself to an audio download, particularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. One thing in this startling new development is certain I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, patriarchal archetypes and chauvinist thinkers are in for but how did the shock of their lives. Literally. book do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>06709199691474603866</amazonuk>

|author= Caro FraserDK|title= The Summer House PartyChildren's Illustrated Thesaurus|rating= 4.5|genre= General Children's Non-Fiction |summary= In One of the gloriously hot summer of 1936, most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. As a group of people meet at a country house partychild every question which I began with ''how do you spell... Within three years, England will ?'' would be at war, but for now, time stands stillanswered with ''EXACTLY as it says in the dictionary''. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-looking This was fine, but he resents the wealth and easy savoir-faire of fellow guest, Paul Latimer. Surely a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldnfamily's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asherencourage exploration, not least because the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless font was small and difficult to read. Fortunately those times have now changed and dissatisfied reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with her role as childrena set of instructions but it's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer youngworth studying the ''How to...'' section, but secure not least because similar systems are used in his power as a practised seducerother reference books. As these guests gather, none has any inkling the choices they make will have fateful consequences, lasting through the war and beyond. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866914850241286972</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 28/5 -->|author=Matt SewellVal Harris|title=The Big Bird SpotHunting 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 decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and saving Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the day while simultaneously winning title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the heart ancient art of the girl (Freya being the girlpaper folding, hopefully). Batman is his favourite superherohaiku poetry and painting. But Cal I's world outside his daydreams is not particularly superhero-likell confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of the book caught my imagination. Because Cal is a bit of We begin with something very simple: a geek boat and he is being bullied by mean girl Anuin case you're worried, who makes him complete homework assignments which she then sells on all the entries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to lazy classmates. Still, it's not all bad. Caltricky's parents are lovely ) and this one is at the gorgeous Freya is making friendly overtures..lowest level.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811268280857639382</amazonuk>

|author= Matthew HarffyWarner Brothers|title= Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Serpent SwordBest of Harry Potter colouring|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionCrafts|summary= It's AD 633 Imagine pages and Albion is a divided island made up pages of petty warlords who want images from the Harry Potter books and films for you to be treated like honourable royalty but act like gangsterscolour as you wish. Romans are a memory that You ''might'' have entered into myth and seen some of the souls of Albion are torn between images before - I know I have - as they've appeared in the old Gods ''Harry Potter Colouring Book'', ''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', and ''Harry Potter Magical Places and Characters Colouring Book'', but there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the new Christcollector of Harry Potter memorabilia. It is If you're in this world that we follow the adventures need of Beobrand inspiration as he undertakes to colours then you'll enjoy the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and honourable warrior through a brutal rite concept art at the back of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother and seeks to become a true warriorbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866924061783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Anna PitoniakThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor=The FuturesCatherine Rosevear|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Evan Peck, he has just started at Yale College, Hannah lives with her parents in a flat above the nursing home where he plays ice hockeyher mother is matron. Like lots Hannah is an only child and so she enjoys making friends with some of the other playershome's residents. So when Mrs Oberto moves in, he Hannah is actually Canadian, from smallkeen to make her acquaintance -town British ColumbiaHannah has never met anyone Italian before. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at their dorm first but Hannah persists and soon they go out for pizzaare the best of friends. She technically has a boyfriend from Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on helping Hannah with her Boston boarding school days, but they soon break up project about ancient Rome and before long Julia and Evan have become inseparablerelates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. But she remains tight-lipped about the mysterious wooden chest, as they will remain for the rest of their college yearskey to which she keeps around her neck...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181845641788032535</amazonuk>

|author= Lee ChildDominic Smith|title= No Middle NameThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos|rating= 45|genre= Crime Historical Fiction|summary= There is If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a theory, masterclass in how to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribework up a canvas in stages. Framing the novel as the story of a seventeenth century Dutch painting, which says that Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the short story's heyday has passed main contours of his characters and it has now put itself out to grassthe three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way through. This Sara is particularly true, some say, and I have been known to concur, one of the few women artists of the crime period and thriller genresher painting is of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and own up: I simply haven't been paying attentionhe is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Not even 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 shorter offerings my by favourite authorsdestroy her reputation as one of Sydney's foremost fine art academics. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press for putting me straight with Satisfying though those first descriptions are, we then understand these are merely the author''No Middle Name'' : a collection s equivalent of short stories about my favourite latter-day, American-style, Robin Hood the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the name of ''Jack Reacher''Dutch Golden Age to mark out the composition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019192526680X</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 21/5 -->|author=Lizzy MumfreyDeirdre Osborne (Editor)|title=Fall OutThe Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)

|genre=General FictionReference|summary=Charlton's This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the sort contribution of village where people aspire black and Asian authors to livethe British literary canon since 1945. It covers not just fiction, but also poetry, despite its apparent ordinarinessplays and performance works. There's It sits as a kind of joyful cuckoo in the nest, interrupting the usual mix narratives of commuters (it's not ''too'' far from London) literary waves and those who make their lives movements in Britain that take little notice of any perspective other than the village. Richard Hughes is a commuter, but his wife Jessica works at the local academy, where both their children dominant white - Alfie and Hannah posh! - are pupilsdirection of travel. Pete Cole is It's a newly-promoted police superintendent and clearly still fond disparate, varied collection of his voluptuous wifeessays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, Susieliberationist writing and much more. Actually, some of that voluptuousness might be better described as fat - Pete suspects that he might need longer arms I was really happy to hug her before long. Less popular is Gary Webber. Hesee children'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 clubauthors such as Malorie Blackman, Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and respected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110798401316504808</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeDr Seuss|title= The Silence Between BreathsDr Seuss's ABC|rating= 54|genre= CrimeFor Sharing|summary= I'm always wary of author endorsements, even those No one who has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imagination. He was able to pluck from people I rate as writershis brainpan not only interesting takes on old ideas, but the ''harrowing also new creatures and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin on the front cover worlds that had never been seen before. His books are often madder than a box of ''March hares, but even he must have had his limits? The Silence Between Breaths'' does humble ABC book (dare I say the dull ABC book), surely he could not overstate bring his sense of anarchic fun to this staple of the case. This is an extremely powerful book.children's education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721180140007487754</amazonuk>

|author=Jill ArmitageStewart O'Nan|title= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen Last Night at the Lobster|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= Lady Arbella StuartThe Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorly-performing branches just before Christmas. Amid the Christmas lights, office parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeon, cousin to both Elizabeth I the manager of England and James VI one of Scotlandthese failing outlets, was has to keep it all together for one last day. Short-handed, with most of the unfortunate figures of English history who might have been Queen – and staff who've bothered to turn up facing unemployment, like he tries to make the even more tragic Lady Jane Greybest of a bad job, might have paid all the while knowing this will be the last day he'll spend with the ultimate pricewaitress he shouldn't still be in love with, particularly not now he's about to be a dad. This is Oh, and there's a sad but engrossing story of one whose only crime was to have royal blood coursing through her veinsblizzard on the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456501931760293865</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan TaltyTom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)|title= The Black HandIn Every Moment We Are Still Alive|rating=4.5|genre=True CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=History Tom Malmquist is a fascinating subject to study as there poet from Sweden. Originally published in Swedish in 2015, this is so much his first work of prose. While it, so why do we keep going back to the same places? I feel like I have walked the steps of Julius Caesar and married at least two of Henry VIII's wivesbeing marketed as a novel, so often I have read about themit reads more like a stylized memoir. There are countless other tales out there Similar to learn about that may be more obscureKarl Ove Knausgaard's books, but are just it features the author as exciting. I don't know much about New York around 1900the central character and narrator, but after reading ''The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know and the story of grief it was tells is a violent place to live, but an interesting highly personal one to learn about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850371291473640008</amazonuk>

|author= A P McGrathMichel Deon|title= A Burning in the DarknessYour Father's Room|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= At a busy airportI don't feel altogether qualified to review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's Room'', Michael Kieh is a full translated here into English for the first time faith representative serving the needs . I hadn't heard of some Déon before receiving my copy, let alone read any of the 80 million passengershis books, but circumstance and evidence point published over a 70 year period to his guilt much acclaim in a terrible crime. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revenge. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secret, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crimehomeland. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michaelit's past in Liberia. As he fights part of the pleasure of book reviewing to prove his innocenceread with no prior knowledge or prejudice, Michael has to risk anything for all the sake of love and truthmore so if you discover an absolute gem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL1910477346</amazonuk>

|author=Nosy CrowAndrew Wilson|title=British Museum: ABCA Talent for Murder|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime (Historical)|summary=Learning your ABCs is also seemingly learning the same items appearing over Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, and over again. A is here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to a plot not only A – it is also Appleunlike one of her own. B is BallIt's all about the mystery, C is Carand it really drives the story forward. It Agatha is almost as if there are only 26 objects in ambushed by a strange man at the world train station; she is given a proposition that confuses her and they happen to start with different letters of the alphabetsecretly intrigues her. In factIndeed, apart from Xylophone and X-Ray, there are loads of things that you could choose for this man wants her to put in an ABC book, if only you had commit a vast repository of objects and art that you could choose from …murder. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>08576381651471148211</amazonuk>