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}{{newreview<!-- remove 5/8 -->|authortitle= John BudeEye Spy II|titleauthor= Death Makes A ProphetTessa Buckley|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeConfident Readers|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime Classic'' I had to check Fresh from the success of solving its first publication datecase, Eye Spy Investigations is certainly up for another. Reading So twins Alex and Donna jump at the chance to investigate the strange things happening at the first two pagesPriory, it could easily have been written in 1967, or '87, or even (possibly as a pastiche) in 2017home to school friend Jimmy Devlin. Given that BudeAlex doesn's witty caper originally came out t believe in 1947, it's slightly criminal ghosts and he is very keen to persuade Donna that itthey don's taken this long to resurfacet exist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123569161788032667</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 4/8 -->|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo RaynerGeoffrey Arnold|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien InvasionHunted

|genre= Emerging ReadersScience Fiction|summary=This collected edition contains two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: ''Alien Invasion'Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth' s life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and ''Mumhate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Word''Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. When Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the bees swarm twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the animals panic over a new creature that appears planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the farmfirst ever inter-dimensional transport. In On a short test run, the second story that greedy goat has vanished and when village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he returns something darned odd happens…flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00072751371785891855</amazonuk>

|author=Tamsin CookeEd McDonald |title=Stunt DoubleBlackwing: The Raven's Mark Book One|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy |summary= Finn wants to be actor butPerfect for fans of Scott Lynch, when his first ever lines in a film are cutJoe Abercrombie and Mark Lawrence, he's happy to settle for stunt-double. He has all the skills for this demanding role: he's a natural dare devil with a karate black-belt (almost). The only downside dark adventure is the person Finn has to double for: Finn and teen-star Blake have history gripping and bloody; it is a twisted story that spins a relationship web of mutual hatreddeceit. Pretty soonNothing is as it seems, however, this is as ageless powers manipulate and control the least lives of Finn's worriesthe characters. The eccentric film directorworld is a staging ground, Novak, pushes him all leading to the limits with increasingly dangerous stunts, manipulating Finn into doing the stunts without safety gear. But one dramatic confrontation that seems tame when they transfer to film on location has been a century in a remote part of Papua New Guinea and Finn discovers what Novak really has planned for himthe making.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274982X147322201X</amazonuk>

|author= Simon Puttock Jeff Brown and Daniel EgneusRob Biddulph|title= The ThingFlat Stanley|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingEmerging Readers|summary= One day ''the Thing'' falls from the sky Stanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, and four strangers stumble across ithalf an inch thick. At first they are confused. What is ''the Thing Yes, there''? What does it do? What s proof that this is it for? Then the four original text of them decide to work together to look after and care for 'this classic children's book – at least it's not been updated to metric. So while the illustrations are new, we get the Thing''. Soon word spreads about ''real deal, with the Thing'' young Stanley squished one night, to such an extent he can limbo under shut doors, get airmailed to America to visit relatives, become a kite for his younger brother to play with, and others come from far and wide to find out more. Gradually a media circus builds up around But then you don''the Thing''. Throughout all of this ''the Thing'' remains silent. Then just as suddenly and silently as it arrived ''the Thing'' departst need to update perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052837181405288108</amazonuk>

|author=Thomas FlinthamKate Ellis|title=Around the World Colouring BookThe Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=Colouring books are In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a useful way for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colour, but in travelling puppet show. We'll follow the dash to appeal to story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing the child so many miss biography of the opportunity to be gently educational reclusive novelist Wynn Staniland. It's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has to and'' is unwilling to still appeal discuss the one thing which the public will want to the young. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring bookknow about: ithis wife's got page upon page of pictures suicide which seemed to colour (with just follow a little narrative to set the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickersfrom his most famous book. You'll see grey shapes - Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest in the forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and that's the signal he was seemingly on his way to get stickering!one of these talks when he disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17880000050349413118</amazonuk>

|author=Various AuthorsNaoki Higashida and David Mitchell|title= Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Change Is Gonna ComeYoung Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism

|genre= TeensReference|summary= Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''A Change Is Gonna ComeThe Reason I Jump.'' is an anthology The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of stories and poems interpreting the theme autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of change a teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by twelve BAME writersusing an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. It's Stripes Publishing's response Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan, and manages to give public presentations to the under-representation raise awareness of BAME authors in the UKhis condition. And it's 'Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8'' reintroduces us to Naoki as a great responseyoung adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471583901444799088</amazonuk>

|author= Andrew ShvartsCaz Frear|title= Royal BastardsSweet Little Lies|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensThrillers|summary= A group of teens witness something that they shouldnIn 1998 a girl called Maryanne disappears in Ireland. In 2017 a woman called Alice is found dead in London. In both cases, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, but she't and find themselves hunted s more worried by half the kingdomfact her father is too. Royal plots, magic, adventure and a rich culture to immerse yourself inAnd he cannot be trusted. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14847676591785763350</amazonuk>

|author= Matt StantonMayim Bialik|title= Funny Kid for President|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Max Walburt has a real problem with his teacher and nothing seems to make it better. Running for class president seems like a good way out of his problems but inevitably it doesn't run smoothly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008220166</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Emily Clarkson|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?Girling Up

|genre= Politics and SocietyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?Girling up''if you will, blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is a fierce, witty and laugh-out-loud funny ode what it means to feminism. In a series of open letters, she addresses the issues faced by every modern woman, discussing everything transition from dealing with body hair to being made school girl to feel uncomfortable in the gym, as well as more personal issuesgrown up, like her experiences via that hideous detour of being 'catfished' and sent abuse online. This is a vital read for any girl born in the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorteenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711569070399548602</amazonuk>

|author= Riley SagerPhilippa Pearce and Cate James|title=Final GirlsThe Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems)|rating=4.5|genre= ThrillersDyslexia Friendly|summary=A 'final girl' Emma is the last girl alive at the end of on a horror movie, a gruesome description which has defined the life of Quincy Carpenterfamily holiday in an older relative's seaside cottage, as much as where she tries is to persuade you differentlysleep in the room in the attic. Quincy, the sole survivor of a teenage massacre, Her brother has passed on what he says he has spent her adult years trying to put the past behind heroverheard – that it is haunted. But when another 'final girl' dies, even with the media, who have always been obsessed with mementos of the girls' dark glamour, swarm upon person that once lived there all around her. And to make matters worse for Quincy, the other 'final girl' and with a survivor from another massacrestrange feeling of being watched, who has been in hiding for years, appears even with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on her doorstep. Suddenly, Quincy is not only able to move past her past, her past starts to intermingle with her present and she is drawn back inthe window – Emma can sleep through it all. Was the first 'final girl But that's death an accident? Why has the second 'final girl' come out of hiding? And what isn't Quincy telling us about her own massacre? not to say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850340221781126852</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=No FilterSvetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)|authortitle=Orlagh CollinsThe Unwomanly Face of War|rating=45|genre=TeensHistory|summary=Em - Emerald - has led a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents have sent her to a posh private school. She's friends with 'War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is first of all the right peoplemurder, as her social media accounts will attestand then hard work. Everything is sweetness and light And then simply ordinary life: singing, falling in love, putting your hair in Emcurlers…''s world. Or This extraordinary book is it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em a collection of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women in the crosshairs Second World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers of the school's cool girl pecking orderall ranks, medics, pilots, drivers, snipers, cryptographers. Friends are suddenly less friendlyMost were very young, little more than girls of 18 or 19. There are secrets at home They were passionate about defending their homeland and often extremely keen to turn from secret join up, returning again and again to open crisisrecruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take them. And when Em's mother overdosesTheir ambition was to help their brothers, fathers, husbands to fight the dominoes start terrible invader. They were trained and sent to the front, where they were greeted at first with disappointment and disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for reinforcements of able-bodied men. The women had to toppleprove themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845180141983523</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Kid NormalAlison Jay|authortitle=Greg James and Chris SmithAlison Jay's ABC|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Murph Cooper At first glance, this is fed up. He a beautiful but fairly standard alphabet book: one letter per page with a nice big picture of an apple or a panda front and his mum have moved house. Again. This means another new home to get used to. This means another new school to get used to. This means another set of friends left behind. And if that weren't enoughcentre - after all, this time he doesn't even have a new school to go to. Everywhere the ABC format is full. Eventuallypretty restrictive, a place is found - at ''The School'isn't it? And truth be told, a strange place hidden away in a back street. that''The School'' is a school unlike any other. It caters for children with superpowerss all most small people will see first time round. But Murph doesn't have any superpowers and is soon consigned to the socially undesirable super zeroes gang. The kids with superpowers are not kind to the super zeroeslook a little closer ...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845341787410196</amazonuk>

|author= Max BrooksAnna Kovecses|title= Minecraft: The IslandOpposite Things|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary= Max Brooks perfectly captures Rearing a child is not a competition, but have a conversation with a certain type of parent and they won't agree. Their child can speak four languages. Their child wrote their first sonnet at the experience age of playing Minecraft without instructions or assistance from three. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the random punching stage through middle distance just wanting to building towers play on the bouncy castle. For me, I am happy, if my child is happy; be that touch the skydoing sums, or eating play-doh. Just as schools around the world are using Minecraft However, even with a relaxed attitude to teach computer science and other skills Brooks uses his novel to demonstrate how valuable life lessons educating your kid, it can be learned from this online phenomenafun to learn a little, especially when a book is as fun as Little Mouse's ''Opposite Things''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089774X1786030381</amazonuk>

|author= Hayley LongMichael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceMudpuddle Farm: Hee-Haw Hooray|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensEmerging Readers|summary= On GriffTwo collected stories from Mudpuddle Farm series – ''Nowt to Worry About''s thirteenth birthday, he and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family is caught up in a road accident. 'Tickety-Boo'The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from . How will the animals react when the point of view of his brother, Dylan, as they both try to come to terms with sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the end of their world as they know Mudpuddle farm; or is it. just a new beginning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062610008241988</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 1/8 -->|author= Charles HarrisStephan Santiago|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassReturning Home|rating= 3.5|genre=CrimeSpirituality and Religion|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. There[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's plenty here led him to likebelieve we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and plenty not to. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final pageour children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19089438231504305272</amazonuk>

|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyJulia Blackburn|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesThreads: The Delicate Life of John Craske|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingBiography|summary=With the sad passing John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of Michael Bond there is no time like the present fishermen, who became too ill to go to revisit some of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonsea. As He was born in Sheringham on the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in the books Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have appeared been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into a stupour, sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'Best-loved Paddington Stories'' brings three . But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the available surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of these stories togetherthe sea. Does this collection really reflect Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the best that Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082450370099582198</amazonuk>

|author= Jane JohnsonM J Tjia|title= Court of LionsShe Be Damned|rating= 54|genre= Crime (Historical Fiction ) |summary= Kate Fordham arrived London, 1863: prostitutes in the sunlit city of Granada a year agoWaterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. In the shadow of the AlhambraWhen another girl goes missing, one of fears grow that the most beautiful places on earth, she works as killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid loss and hiding under a false name. And fate is about so it falls to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries agocourtesan and professional detective, a messageHeloise Chancey, in a hand few could read, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap of paperto investigate. The paper was folded and pressed into one With the assistance of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lainher trusty Chinese maid, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of GranadaAmah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers ittruth. Born of loveBut when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, in a time of danger and desperationHeloise must reconsider whom she can trust, before the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life foreverkiller strikes again. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336178507931X</amazonuk>

|author=Lauren ElkinSarah Powell|title=FlaneuseSearch and Find: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and LondonFind Book|rating=4|genre=History Emerging Readers|summary=Lauren Elkin Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a good bit of fun, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. Jane Austen is down on suburbs: they're places where you a fantastic novelist, but her style of writing can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' daunting for those not used to ''Revolutionary Road'')such heavy prose. When she imagines It is very easy to herself what become lost in the female version myriad of that well-known historical figuredialogue, the carefree ''flâneur''characters and events. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered this was especially so in the world's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation case of the word 'streetwalker' applied to themperplexing and long-winded Emma.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995933781783708271</amazonuk>

|author=Julie CohenPatrice Lawrence|title=TogetherIndigo Donut

|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=This is ''In Bailey's opinion, Indigo didn't look like she needed a love story told backwardshero. One by one, she looked Mona, Saskia, Betti and Kay in the most beautiful manner, so that we know from eye. Then she gave them the very beginning that Emily and Robert love each other enormouslyfinger: slow motion. Headphones on again, and that he is about to break her heart in she sauntered off towards the most dreadful way in order to protect a secret that theyscience wing. Hell. That was... She was...'' That've lived with s Indigo for decadesyou! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth school. Seeing their love unfold in reverse Pitt Academy is beautiful. We get to know them once they have already gotten to know each other, a last chance for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it makes for an unusual and interesting structurethere. The secret they hold is referred to throughout, but But it isn't revealed until very late in the books not easy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes her. IAnd that'm guessing very few readers will figure s the least of it - because someone always finds out. Even once you know, you want to go back and read about her past: that ''she'' is the whole story again in tiny little girl who was found by the light of the information you now holdbody after her father killed her mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14091717441444927183</amazonuk>

|author= Heather Pindar and Sarah JenningsBethan Woollvin|title=WishkerRapunzel

|genre= For Sharing|summary= Mirabel Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair and her difficult-to-escape tower! Here, however, the story is told with a small girl who wants rather a lot from life and twist, because there is sadly frustrated when everyone says no handsome Prince who comes riding by to save Rapunzel from herincarceration. Then a stray cat appears in No, instead we see Rapunzel is smart enough to figure her garden. He's own way out, defeating the witch, and going on to a rather special cat with wishsuccessful witch-granting whiskers. All Mirabel's problems will be instantly solvedhunting career. Or so she thinks…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886244X1509842675</amazonuk>

|author=Guy Griffith Catherine Barr and Michael OakeshottHanako Clulow|title=A Guide 10 Reasons to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby WinnerLove an Elephant

|genre=SportChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=ItTen reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they's not often that you get a glimpse into the personalve always been my favourite large animal, youthful interests of one of the greatest Conservative philosophers gentle giants of the twentieth centuryAfrica and India, but it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in herds headed by their ''A Guide to the Classicsgrandmothers'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott . Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is a lightthe one in charge as she knows where to find food and water -hearted look at how to pick the Derby winnerand she knows her herd. Originally written She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184780943X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Andrew Lacey|title= The English Civil War in 1936 it 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= The '100 Facts' series is, amazingly, now sufficiently well-established as relevant today as it was thena guarantee of useful introductory histories. In factThis latest addition, recounting the techniques struggle between King and analysis employed by the authors were way ahead of their time and have only come into general use relatively recentlyParliament, is no exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184540937X1445649950</amazonuk>

|author=Stuart NevillePeter Cottrill|title=So Say Terrible True Tales from the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)Tower of London|rating=45|genre=CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Harry Garrick had been a successful businessman until The history of the car accident which cost him both legs infamous Tower of London is full of gore and left him bedridden death. Its rich history dates back to the eleventh century and beholden since then it has played host to his wife for even the most intimate functionsmany famous figures, so there was not a ''lot'' many of surprise when, six months later, he seemed to have taken his own lifethem ill-fated prisoners. One sachet The history of morphine granulesthe Tower is told within this book's pages, mixed in a pot of yoghurt had given him a good nightonly this time it's sleeptold by the ravens that live there. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets of granules, if They are the empty packets were anything Tower's guardians who reside there permanently due to go by. It seemed obvious an ancient legend that the case all of London will fall should they be closed quickly: who would dispute a finding of suicide? Even DCI Serena Flanagan was just about convinced: it was just that the widow, Roberta Garrickremoved, and after centuries of watching over the local clergyman, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously closeTower they have their own version of history to tell. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847030361406376884</amazonuk>

|author= Fred Van LenteCara Black|title= Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mysteryin Saint-Germain

|genre= HumourCrime|summary= Nine comedians are invited Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a new standbest-up special coming soon; Danteselling Cara Black, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic it is in fact my first outing with the business; Oliverdeft Parisienne detective. And so, if I'm honest, the child-like prop comic who canI wasn't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with sure what to expect. How does a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger character with a chip on so many investigations under her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy belt retain the Contractorgusto we'' is a far cry ve come to expect from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of courseall good literary detectives? Moreover, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on how does an author with so well established a beam character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of light and asks for your help, what us coming late to the hell else are you going to sayparty? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15947497441616957700</amazonuk>

|author=Judith KerrPierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title=My First Mog ABCThree Days and a Life|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= There are few childrenChristmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got the best of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time on. He's series built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that have been as long lasting as Judith Kerrhe loves, but she's ''Mog'' books and even though rejected it. And his best company, the dog from the cat may no longer be with usother house next door, there is was injured in a huge back catalogue of old stories hit and run, and images that could shot to be repurposedput out of its misery. In the wrong hands reusing old Mog images would seem like a crass cash inprocess of angrily demolishing the treehouse, but done righthe's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, they could still hold the same sentimental appeal that dog's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of the daft old cat has for so many peoplewood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweep. Which way does ''My First Mog ABC'' fall?As the title suggests, there will be a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245509085705662X</amazonuk>

|author= Quentin Mouron Hendrik Groen and W Donald Wilson Hester Velmans (translator)|title= Three Drops The Secret Diary of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineHendrik Groen, 83¼ years Old|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small townAs the old adage goes, to walk a good husband father and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by his faith, mile in both God and justice. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple mansomeone else's tenuously ordered life and drags him shoes is to the edge gain some understanding of the abyss. McCarthy what it is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and the nature of existenceto be that person. Into this quagmire steps FranckAdmittedly, a private detective with a shadowy agendaHendrik Groen isn't much up for long walks any more, but he does acquire a raging cocaine habit and a twisted sense of morality. As McCarthy tries swish mobility scooter to zoom around in; one could say that we get to solve this apparently motiveless crime, Franck acts as zoom a perverse Jiminy Cricketmile in Groen's shoes, dripping immorality and depravity into his ear with a kiss and a wink.oh, what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19085248391405924004</amazonuk>

|author= Kate MildenhallCathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy|title= SkylarkingThe Exile

|genre= General Fiction Politics and Society|summary= Kate An account of the fate of Al Qaeda and Harriet are best friends growing up together on an isolated Australian cape. As the daughters Bin Laden family since the events of the lighthouse keepers9/11, ''The Exile'' plunges into the two girls share everythingmurky waters of international terrorism, until a fishermanespionage and politics. Detailed and meticulous, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him and Harrietbook tackles the subject from all angles, she is torn by her feelings providing a panoramic view of envy the subject and longing. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens acting to tear their peaceful community apartenlighten and inform the reader. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850792391408858762</amazonuk>

|author= Sarah StovellJo Cotterill|title= ExquisiteA Storm of Strawberries|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= I was looking forward to reading ''Exquisite'' ever since I first heard about itDarby lives on a strawberry farm with her mum, big sister, step dad and it didn't disappointstep brother. It's a murky She loves music, suggestive thriller about two very different women who find themselves fascinatingly connected; it's a compulsivedancing, attention-grabbing read that had me hunched up in bed till 1amchocolate egg hunts and her big sister Kaydee. She is warm and funny, desperate to finish it as soon as I could. Itand she has Down's clever, excellently-paced, and uncannily realisticsyndrome.It The story looks at the events of one weekend in Darby's just life when the farm is threatened by a pity that I managed to figure out tornado, and her family is threatened by the ending about revelation of a quarter of the way inclosely-guarded secret.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19106337471848126166</amazonuk>

|author= Jeffrey JamesSarah Franklin|title= Ireland: The Struggle for Power: From the Dark Ages to the JacobitesShelter|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryHistorical Fiction|summary= The Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women'Irish troubles' go back over many centuriess Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose. When I and doubtless many others <br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of my generation studied History at schoolwar, is haunted by his memories. In the Emerald Isle barely intruded on our consciousnessforest camp, apart from brief references to the Battle he finds a strange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the Boyne and maybe the Easter Risingworld outside their forest haven is being torn apart. This book therefore does usOld certainties are crumbling, and the country, both must now make a service in helping life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to fill a very large gap.protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456624691785762990</amazonuk>