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|author=Dr SeussThomas Dolby|title=Dr Seuss's ABCThe Speed of Sound|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingEntertainment|summary=No one who From struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, Thomas Dolby has read his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imaginationremarkable if not unique career, often reinventing himself on the way. He was able to pluck from This memoir is based on his brainpan not only interesting takes extensive notes and journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781952</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ron Butlin|title= Steve and Frandan Take on old ideas, but also new creatures and worlds that had never been seen beforethe World|rating= 4. His 5|genre= Teens|summary= Like many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are often madder than a box the victims of March harescruel bullies – to be precise, but even he must have had his limits? The humble ABC as we are well into the twenty-first century here, of the cyber kind. But this isn'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 unusual (dare I say and, in the dull ABC booklight of later events, utterly daft)decision to simply sail away into the sunset, surely he could not bring to take a break from civilisation, online Thor and his sense of anarchic fun to this staple idiot Viking horde, and the insanities in general of all adults. In their defence, it seems a sensible move at the children's education market?time... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>00074877541780274394</amazonuk>

|author= Stewart O'NanElaine Everest|title= Last Night at the LobsterThe Butlins Girls

|summary=The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some 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 its poorly-performing branches just before Christmasher abusive birth mother, Gloria. Amid the Christmas lightsNow fourteen, office parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeonin her fourth Forever Home, the manager Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to Gloria's apartment. She has no illusions about her mother's addictions or lack of one of these failing outlets, has to keep parenting skills. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it all together for one last daymight even kill her. Short-handedStill she plots, obsessed with most of the staff whoreturning to Gloria've bothered s to find something she insists she left behind, something she hid under her bed. Her teachers, therapist, and new Forever Parents are in turn up facing unemploymentfrustrated, he tries infuriated, and perplexed. As Gloria returns to make her life, the best of reader follows Ginny on a bad jobjourney filled with danger and discovery, 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 not now he's about her quest to be find a dad. Oh, and there's a blizzard on the wayplace she can truly call her Forever Home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602938651848456611</amazonuk>

|author=Tom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)Holly Webb|title=In Every Moment We Are Still AliveThe Homeless Kitten

|genre=Literary FictionEmerging Readers|summary=Tom Malmquist is Lily loves their rescue dog, Hugo. However, Lily also really wants a cat – or better still a poet from Swedenkitten. Originally published in Swedish in 2015She, therefore, this is can't believe her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while out of his first work walk with Lily and her dad. Better still (from Lily's point of proseview at least) the animal shelter is full so Lily's mum and dad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the tiny kittens until they're old enough to be rehomed. While itLily's being marketed as a novelin heaven looking after the kittens, especially the little fluffy white one whom she names Stanley. There is just one problem – it reads more like a stylized memoir. Similar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's books, it features going to break her heart when the time comes to say goodbye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847157831</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author = Harriet Cummings|title=We All Begin As Strangers|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary=In the summer of 1984, a Chilterns village was gripped with fear and suspicion as a mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into the central homes of several residents in the area. Despite an increased police presence, regular patrols and vigilante groups, this slippery character still managed to evade detection. A huge police ''Foxhunt'' followed, and narratorfinally, and forensic evidence led to the eventual capture of the perpetrator. This real-life news story sparked the imagination of a young Harriet Cummings, who went on to create a fictional version of events, which invites the reader to turn detective and try and unmask ''The Fox'' from a range of grief it tells possible suspects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409169049</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Malcolm Devlin|title= You Will Grow Into Them|rating= 5|genre= Short Stories|summary=''You Will Grow Into Them'' is a highly personal onethrilling collection of ten short stories all centred on the nature of transition and change. The often grisly, macabre and ghoulish nature of the stories included in Devlin's debut collection are intoxicatingly illicit and the darkness within each tale is deviously addictive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14736400081907389431</amazonuk>

|author= Michel DeonTove Jansson|title= Your Father's RoomLetters From Klara|rating= 4.5

|summary= Famed in the UK for her creation of the Moomin family, Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather the richly deserved esteem for her adult writings. For that I don't feel altogether qualified offer my heart-felt thanks to review Michel Déonpublishers 's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's RoomSort of books''and Thomas Teal, translated here into English who has been responsible for most of the first timetranslations. Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I hadn't heard somehow seem to have missed one of Déon before receiving my copythe series, let alone read any of his books, published over and secondly there'll come a 70 year period time sooner rather than later when there'll be no more to much acclaim in his homelandbe had. But it's part of the pleasure of book reviewing to read with no prior knowledge or prejudice The former will be rectified, all the more so if you discover an absolute gemlatter is a sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19104773461908745614</amazonuk>

|author=Andrew WilsonJane Menczer|title= A Talent for MurderAn Unlikely Agent|rating=4.5

|summary= Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back London, 1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, irascible mother in her daya dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, and here Andrew Wilson makes with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a stranger on the tram hands her a victim newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that promises to 'open new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a plot not unlike one of her owngruelling interview, she finds herself in a new position as a secretary in a dingy backstreet shop. It's But all about the mystery, and is not as it really drives the story forward. Agatha seems; she is ambushed by in fact working for a strange man at highly secret branch of the train station; she intelligence service, Bureau 8, whose mission is given to track down and neutralise a proposition that confuses 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 secretly intrigues her. Indeedjourney of self-discovery forms the heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in herself resourcefulness, courage, for this man wants her to commit a murderindependence and the first stirrings of love. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711482111846973805</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Contagion: Book 1 (Dark Matter)Henry Marsh|authortitle=Teri TerryAdmissions: A Life in Brain Surgery

|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=It's not a spoiler if more than two years since I tell you that Callie dies because she does die read [[Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and she dies in Brain Surgery]] but the first few pages of ''Contagion''memories have stayed with me. Callie - Calista - disappeared more than I had thought then that a year ago. Her brother Kai is still looking for herbook about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, hopeful that she will be found alive but the book was superb - and very easy reading and well. But Callie isnwhen I heard about ''Admissions't alive and well. She's been taken I decided to treat myself to a secretive medical facility on the island of Shetlandan audio download, experimented onparticularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. I knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, and then burned to death. But Callie survived but how did the burning in non-corporeal form. Howbook do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14083417271474603866</amazonuk>

|author=Delia EphronDK|title=SiracusaChildren'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

|summary= Michael Nyara Camp is one of the newest camps in the Masai Mara and Lizzie are a writer–journalist couple from New York City; Finn it's run by James and Taylor live with their ten-year-old daughter, SnowAlexia Sackville. The guests might sleep in tents, but it's still luxury accommodation in Portland, Maine, where Finn (an old flame of Lizzieanybody's) owns a restaurantbook. After meeting up by chance Chui Camp, on a trip to London last yearthe other hand, they decide to go away together for a proper holiday in Italysticks with the traditional way that safaris were run, to the Sicilian island of Siracusa via Romeincluding bucket showers. In alternating chapters, Owner Ralph Somerton is convinced that's what the narrative moves fluidly between the perspectives guests ''should'' want and he won't listen to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions for updating the four adults, all of whom are reflecting – with the help of hindsight and therapy – on what ended up being a disastrous triptired venue. Although we don It't learn until very late on s beginning to be reflected in the book exactly what went wrongprofits Chui makes, therebut instead of upping his own game Somerton would rather see Nyara as unfair competition and it's only a sense small step from that it might be something reasoning to do with Snowlooking at ways of ensuring Nyara's failure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860715410955599717</amazonuk>

|author=Nick CleggMarian Veevers|title=PoliticsJane and Dorothy: Between the ExtremesA True Tale of Sense and Sensibility|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyBiography|summary=The political landscape is changing rapidly at the moment. A little more than two years ago we were facing the end idea of the UK's first coalition government since World War II and fully expecting that we would see another. Instead we saw a Conservative government elected with a workable majority. Brexit saw the end dual biography of two contemporaries who never met throughout their lives is an intriguing one Prime Minister and another elected by a few members of parliament. As I write we're facing another general electionHowever, there were several unifying factors, with a Conservative landslide predictedwhich makes it seem logical enough. In two 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 we've seen the Liberal Democrats collapse from being part of apart, in the ruling coalition to a party whose MPs could hold a meeting in a decent-sized car1770s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847041641910985775</amazonuk>

|author=Alan GibbonsGeraint Jones|title=The Beautiful GameBlood Forest|rating=45|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyHistorical Fiction|summary=Football is all about its coloursFelix. And even if I write in the season when The lucky one team in blue knocks another team in blue from the throne of English football, it's common knowledge that red is the more successful colour to wear. But is that flame red? Blood red? The red of He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the Sun cover banner when it falsely declared 96 Liverpool FC fans were fatally caught up in a tragedy – grove and that it had been one finds twelve of their own making? And while we're on about colour, where were the people of colour in football his comrades butchered and mutilated in the olden days? worst possible ways. There are so many darker sides to footballHe felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. He might have run, but he knew he's history d never make it's enough . He stepped out to make a young lad question the whole game…face whatever came next.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811269170718184815</amazonuk>

|author=Bernard AshleyDorling Kindersley|title=Lena Lenik S.O.S.First Science Encyclopedia|rating=45|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=LenaI wasn't introduced to 's mother seems very illscience' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone in this, but it really was too late. Scary noises Thankfully, times have changed and children at primary school are coming getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from the bathroom, shea very young age. What's off food and completely listlessneeded is a good, complaining of basic reference book which will introduce all the effort involved in sewing a patch onto subjects and give a cub scout uniformgood grounding. It might needs to be something which would sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on 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 comechild's bookshelf. 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…The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125716024118875X</amazonuk>

|author= Naomi AldermanSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title= The PowerSupertato Run Veggies Run|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionFor Sharing|summary=It started with the girls and spread. From younger woman I've heard of these so called superfoods, they are reported to older woman, it was awoken boost your immune system and everything changed. Womankind now has the power flush out areas of electricity in their fingertips andyour body that have gone unnoticed for decades, slowly at firstbut does this make them super? In my mind to be a superfood you need to do something spectacular; lift a car from a trapped child, the balance of power or leap over a building in the world starts shiftingone bound. We follow the stories of different people, The vegetable and fruit in different walks my house can't do any of lifethis, who see this from the very beginning and hurtle towards but then they aren'the event'. One thing in this startling new development is certaint Supertato; a spectacular spud that, more than once, patriarchal archetypes and chauvinist thinkers are in for has saved the shock of their lives. Literallyday with his powers. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>06709199691471121038</amazonuk>

|author= Caro FraserThe British Museum|title= The Summer House PartyOrigami, Poems and Pictures|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction Crafts|summary= In the gloriously hot summer of 1936, Sometimes you find a group delight of people meet at a country house partybook. Within three years On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, England will be Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to Japan. As the title suggests we're looking at warthree celebrated arts and crafts: the ancient art of paper folding, but for now, time stands stillhaiku poetry and painting. Dan Ranscombe is clever and good-looking I'll confess that it was the origami which caught my attention, but he resents I was surprised by the extent to which the wealth and easy savoir-faire rest of fellow guest, Paul Latimerthe book caught my imagination. Surely We begin with something very simple: a shrewd girl like Meg Slater would see through that, wouldn't she? And what about Diana, Paul's beautiful sister, Charles Asher, the Jewish outsider, Madeleine, restless boat and dissatisfied with her role as childrenin case you's nanny? And artist Henry Haddon, their host, no longer young, but secure in his power as a practised seducer. As these guests gatherre worried, none has any inkling all the choices they make will entries have fateful consequences, lasting a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky') and this one is at the war and beyondlowest level. Or that the first unforeseen event will be a shocking death… |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866914850857639382</amazonuk>

|author=Matt SewellWarner Brothers|title=Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Big Bird SpotBest of Harry Potter colouring

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrafts|summary=Recently I stood on a viewing platform at Imagine pages and pages of images from the RSPB reserve at Bempton Cliffs Harry Potter books and films for you to colour as a very helpful volunteer guided my sight line to one you wish. You ''might'' have seen some of the puffins whoimages before - I know I have - as they'd arrived on the cliffs ve appeared in the last few days. Finally''Harry Potter Colouring Book'', I found one''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', after visually sorting through all the other birds on the precipitous cliff face. It was great fun and very rewarding. The third double-page spread in wild-life author and artist Matt Sewell's first book for children, ''The Big Bird SpotHarry Potter Magical Places and Characters Colouring Book'', shows some cliffs very like those at Bempton, but this time you're going to be looking for twenty three Little Auks, in amongst there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the guillemots, puffins, herring gulls and razorbillscollector of Harry Potter memorabilia. Oh, and If you're looking for a pair in need of binoculars too: our bird watcher is very careless, because inspiration as to colours then you're going to have to find them in every picturell enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and concept art at the back of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18436532651783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle= Richard AskwithThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor= Today We Die a Little: Emil Zatopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War HeroCatherine Rosevear|rating= 43.5|genre= Sport Confident Readers|summary= As Hannah lives with her parents in a runner myself, I often look for sources of inspirationflat above the nursing home where her mother is matron. Training Hannah is rewarding, but every an only child and so often a day comes along she enjoys making friends with some of the home's residents. So when I question whether it Mrs Oberto moves in, Hannah is all worth it or notkeen to make her acquaintance - Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. Zatopek proves that Mrs Oberto is, indeed, all worth itquite standoffish at first but Hannah persists and soon they are the best of friends. He put copious amounts of effort into his training, Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on helping Hannah with her school project about ancient Rome and relates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. But she remains tight-lipped about the number of races he won over his career as a professional athlete clearly shows mysterious wooden chest, the results of itkey to which she keeps around her neck... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02241003511788032535</amazonuk>

|author= David GrannDominic Smith|title= Killers The Last Painting of the Flower MoonSara de Vos

|genre= True CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=Killers If you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass in how to work up a canvas in stages. Framing the Flower Moon tells novel as the story of the Osage tribea seventeenth century Dutch painting, forced to settle in Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the rocky, uninhabitable wilds main contours of Oklahoma in what would become Osage County. In an unexpected turn of fortune, prospectors struck oil, instantly catapulting his characters and the Osage into unimaginable wealth and fortune making them some three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the richest people in the worldway through. Then members Sara is one of the tribe start to die, slowly at first few women artists of apparently natural causes then in increasingly violent ways. Investigation into the matter stalls period and her painting is beset by incompetence of children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. The painting has been in Marty de Groot's family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a general lack copy of interest the painting in her postgraduate student years and in 2000 finds herself at the fate centre of the Osage until the FBI becomes involved and draws together a team gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one of battle scarred, unorthodox agents led by former Texas Ranger Tom WhiteSydney's foremost fine art academics. As pressure on White increases Satisfying though those first descriptions are, from both we then understand these are merely the FBI and author's equivalent of the increasingly angry Osage, delicate chalk lines used by painters of the race Dutch Golden Age to find mark out the truth becomes increasingly difficult, with more twists and double crosses than any murder mysterycomposition which will follow.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857209027192526680X</amazonuk>

|author=Tanya LandmanDeirdre Osborne (Editor)|title=Passing for WhiteThe Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyReference|summary=In 1847, in Macon, Georgia, Benjamin was a slave. He was a talented carpenter too, but on November This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the 19th he was unnerved: a white woman was looking at him, smiling contribution of black and being politeAsian authors to the British literary canon since 1945. What was going on? He wasn't It covers not just unnervedfiction, but nervous: you seealso poetry, Benjamin was looking at plays and performance works. It sits as a kind of joyful cuckoo in the white womannest, looking ''her'' interrupting the usual narratives of literary waves and movements in Britain that take little notice of any perspective other than the eye dominant white - and a slave could get himself killed for less than thatposh! - direction of travel. Only this wasnIt't s a white woman: this was Rosadisparate, varied collection of essays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, who was mixed raceliberationist writing and much more. She could pass for white, but she too I was a slave. Rosa and Benjamin eventually married, but it didn't stop Rosareally happy to see children's master from taking sexual advantage of her authors such as Malorie Blackman, Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and when she found that she was pregnant she had no way of knowing who the father wasrespected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112681X1316504808</amazonuk>

|author= Johana Gustawsson and Maxim Jakubowski (Translator)Dr Seuss|title= Block 46 |rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers |summary= Jewellery designer Linnéa Blix fails to appear at a Cartier event presenting some of her new creations. Her friend Alexis Castells knows something must be wrong; nothing would have kept the talented young artist from attending this prestigious function. When a young woman's mutilated body is discovered in a Swedish marina near Linnéa's holiday home, Alexis' worst fears are confirmed. But Linnéa's death is not unique; in fact, she is only the latest in a string of similar gruesome murders that have occurred in both London and Falkenberg. Up until now, 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 again?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910633704</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Harder They Fall|author=Bali Rai|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Cal loves comic books. He also dreams of being a superhero and saving the day while simultaneously winning the heart of the girl (Freya being the girl, hopefully). Batman is his favourite superhero. But Cal'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 to lazy classmates. Still, it's not all bad. Cal's parents are lovely and 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= ItDr Seuss'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 into myth and the souls of Albion are torn between the old Gods and the new Christ. It is in this world that we follow the adventures of Beobrand as he undertakes the classic hero’s journey. Beobrand moves from wide-eyed teenager to hardened and honourable warrior through a brutal rite of passage as he hunts the killer of his brother and seeks to become a true warrior.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786692406</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Anna Pitoniak|title=The FuturesABC

|genre=Literary FictionFor Sharing|summary=When we first meet Evan Peck, he No one who has just started at Yale College, where he plays ice hockeyread his work can deny that Dr Seuss had a powerful imagination. Like lots of the other players He was able to pluck from his brainpan not only interesting takes on old ideas, he is actually Canadian, from small-town British Columbia. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm but also new creatures and they go out for pizzaworlds that had never been seen before. She technically has His books are often madder than a boyfriend from her Boston boarding school daysbox of March hares, but they soon break up and before long Julia and Evan even he must have become inseparablehad his limits? The humble ABC book (dare I say the dull ABC book), as they will remain for surely he could not bring his sense of anarchic fun to this staple of the rest of their college years.children's education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181845640007487754</amazonuk>

|author= Lee ChildStewart O'Nan|title= No Middle NameLast Night at the Lobster

|genre= Crime General Fiction|summary= There The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that closing some of its poorly-performing branches just before Christmas. Amid the short story's heyday has passed and it has now put itself out to grass. This is particularly true, some sayChristmas lights, office parties and I have been known to concurforced jollity Manny DeLeon, the manager of the crime and thriller genres. Tosh! I can only apologise one of these failing outlets, has to keep it all authors involved and own up: I simply haven't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press together for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-one last day, American. Short-stylehanded, Robin Hood by with most of the name of 'staff who'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 ve bothered to liveturn up facing unemployment, despite its apparent ordinariness. There's he tries to make the usual mix best of commuters (it's not ''too'' far from London) and those who make their lives in the village. Richard Hughes is a commuterbad job, but his wife Jessica works at all the local academy, where both their children - Alfie and Hannah - are pupils. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent and clearly while knowing this will be the last day he'll spend with the waitress he shouldn't still fond of his voluptuous wifebe in love with, Susie. Actually, some of that voluptuousness might be better described as fat - Pete suspects that particularly not now he might need longer arms 's about to hug her before longbe a dad. Less popular is Gary Webber. HeOh, and there's the sort of man who causes people to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at blizzard on the golf clubway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110798401760293865</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeTom Malmquist and Henning Koch (translator)|title= The Silence Between BreathsIn Every Moment We Are Still Alive|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= ITom Malmquist is 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'm always wary of s books, it features the author endorsements, even those from people I rate as writersthe central character and narrator, but the ''harrowing and humane'' quote from Ian Rankin on the front cover story of ''The Silence Between Breaths'' does not overstate the case. This grief it tells is an extremely powerful booka highly personal one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721180141473640008</amazonuk>

|author=Jill ArmitageMichel Deon|title= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen Your Father's Room

|genre= BiographyLiterary Fiction|summary= Lady Arbella StuartI don't feel altogether qualified to review Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's Room'', cousin to both Elizabeth translated here into English for the first time. I hadn't heard of England and James VI Déon before receiving my copy, let alone read any of Scotlandhis books, was one published over a 70 year period to much acclaim in his homeland. But it's part of the unfortunate figures pleasure of English history who might have been Queen – and whobook reviewing to read with no prior knowledge or prejudice, like all the even more tragic Lady Jane Grey, might have paid the ultimate price. This is a sad but engrossing story of one whose only crime was to have royal blood coursing through her veinsso if you discover an absolute gem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456501931910477346</amazonuk>

|author= Stephan TaltyAndrew Wilson|title= The Black HandA Talent for Murder|rating=4.5|genre=True Crime(Historical)|summary=History is Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in her day, and here Andrew Wilson makes her a fascinating subject victim to study as there is so much a plot not unlike one of 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 VIIIher own. It's wives, so often I have read all about them. There are countless other tales out there to learn about that may be more obscurethe mystery, but are just as excitingand it really drives the story forward. I don't know much about New York around 1900, but after reading ''The Black Hand'' Agatha is ambushed by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place to live, but an interesting one to learn about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785037129</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= A P McGrath|title= A Burning in strange man at the Darkness|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= At a busy airport, Michael Kieh train station; she is given a full time faith representative serving the needs of some of the 80 million passengers, but circumstance proposition that confuses her and evidence point to his guilt in a terrible crime. His struggle to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revengesecretly intrigues her. When a mysterious woman confides a dark secretIndeed, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close for this man wants her to unmasking commit a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses to protect a young witness, sparking memories of Michael's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocence, Michael has to risk anything for the sake of love and truthmurder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL1471148211</amazonuk>