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}{{newreview<!-- remove 5/8 -->|authortitle=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)Eye Spy II|titleauthor=The King of FoolsTessa Buckley
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Having sort Fresh from the success of split up with his partnersolving its first case, Jean-Marie Eye Spy Investigations is on holiday alone on the southern French coast, when he chances to meet a married English woman, Marjoriecertainly up for another. They meet in So twins Alex and Donna jump at the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next chance to each other, she gets in investigate the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behind. Lo and behold they find each other strange things happening at the casinoPriory, and the following day, when she arrives at his hotel home to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to heartschool friend Jimmy Devlin. Jean-Marie sees her to be a very unhappily married woman, Alex doesn't believe in ghosts and not even the arrival of his partner and make-up sex can convince him he is not in love with Marjorievery keen to persuade Donna that they don't exist. But finding her again will take him to Edinburgh – and into no end of trouble…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X1788032667</amazonuk>
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{{newreview<!-- remove 4/8 -->|author=Tania HershmanGeoffrey Arnold|title=Some of Us Glow More Than OthersHunted|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories Science Fiction|summary=I wonTullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth't be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkwards life during a hunt. Going through from A-ZAdopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, witnessing a bounty mixture of ideas awe, desire, fear and characters in short order can be too muchhate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, but do you have is deeply shocked by the right violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the 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 pick help during a violent attack from his own world as he and choose according Tullia seek to what appealsrestore 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 what time you have to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surelyprevent them. Such would appear to be Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the case heretwins and obeying her orders. The last time I read one of this author's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]]Meanwhile, on the only real difficulty was holding back planet Vertazia and rationing themin secret, but here you not only get Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a whopping forty pieces of writingshort test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, they are also spread into sectionshe flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19100614841785891855</amazonuk>
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|author= John BudeEd McDonald |title= Death Makes A ProphetBlackwing: The Raven's Mark Book One
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|genre= CrimeFantasy |summary= Two pages into Perfect for fans of Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie and Mark Lawrence, this ''Crime Classic'' I had to check the first publication datedark adventure is gripping and bloody; it is a twisted story that spins a web of deceit. Reading the first two pages, Nothing is as it could easily have been written in 1967seems, or '87, or even (possibly as ageless powers manipulate and control the lives of the characters. The world is a pastiche) in 2017. Given staging ground, all leading to one dramatic confrontation that Bude's witty caper originally came out has been a century in 1947, it's slightly criminal that it's taken this long to resurfacethe making.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356916147322201X</amazonuk>
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|author= Michael Morpurgo Jeff Brown and Shoo RaynerRob Biddulph|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien InvasionFlat Stanley|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=This collected edition contains two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: ''Alien Invasion'' Stanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, and half an inch thick.''Mum Yes, there's proof that this is the Wordoriginal text of this classic children's book – at least it's not been updated to metric. When So while the bees swarm the animals panic over a illustrations are new creature that appears in , we get the farm. In real deal, with the second story that greedy goat has vanished 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 when he returns something darned odd happens…more. But then you don't need to update perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00072751371405288108</amazonuk>
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|author=Tamsin CookeKate Ellis|title=Stunt DoubleThe Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Finn wants to be actor but, when his first ever lines in In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the man who ran a film are cut, hetravelling puppet show. We'll follow the story of John Lipton's happy to settle for stunt-doublecourtship through excerpts from his journal. He has all  In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing the biography of the skills for this demanding role: hereclusive novelist Wynn Staniland. It's a natural dare devil with a karate black-belt (almost). The only downside is the person Finn not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has to double for: Finn and teen-star Blake have history and a relationship of mutual hatred. Pretty soon, however, this is unwilling to discuss the least of Finnone thing which the public will want to know about: his wife's worriessuicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous book. The eccentric film director, Novak, pushes him Wilkinson is doing his best to drum up interest in the limits with increasingly dangerous stunts, manipulating Finn into doing the stunts without safety gear. But that seems tame when they transfer forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he was seemingly on his way to film on location in a remote part one of Papua New Guinea and Finn discovers what Novak really has planned for himthese talks when he disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274982X0349413118</amazonuk>
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|author= Simon Puttock Naoki Higashida and Daniel EgneusDavid Mitchell|title= The ThingFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism
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|genre= For SharingReference|summary= One day ''Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the Thinginternational best-seller '' falls from the sky and four strangers stumble across it. At first they are confusedThe Reason I Jump. What is ''the Thing''? What does The book was popular because it do? What is it for? Then gave a rare glimpse into the four workings of them decide to work together to look after and care for '''the Thing''autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autism. Soon word spreads about ''Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the Thing'' palm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and others come from far laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan, and wide manages to give public presentations to find out moreraise awareness of his condition. Gradually a media circus builds up around ''the ThingFall Down 7 Times Get up 8''. Throughout all of this ''the Thing'' remains silent. Then just reintroduces us to Naoki as suddenly a young adult in his 20s and silently as it arrived ''the Thing'' departsexplains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052837181444799088</amazonuk>
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|author=Thomas FlinthamCaz Frear|title=Around the World Colouring BookSweet Little Lies|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=Colouring books are In 1998 a girl called Maryanne disappears in Ireland. In 2017 a useful way for children to relaxwoman called Alice is found dead in London. In both cases, develop manual dexterity and explore colourDetective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational she''and'' to still appeal to s more worried by the youngfact her father is too. The two are not mutually exclusive! Look for instance at this colouring book: it's got page upon page of pictures to colour (with just a little narrative to set the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickersAnd he cannot be trusted. You'll see grey shapes - and that's the signal to get stickering!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17880000051785763350</amazonuk>
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|author=Various AuthorsMayim Bialik|title= A Change Is Gonna ComeGirling Up|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''A Change Is Gonna ComeGirling up'' is an anthology of stories if you will, and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response what it means to transition from school girl to the under-representation grown up, via that hideous detour of BAME authors in the UK. And it's a great responseteenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471583900399548602</amazonuk>
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|author= Andrew ShvartsPhilippa Pearce and Cate James|title= Royal BastardsThe Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems)|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= A group of teens witness something that they shouldnEmma is on a family holiday in an older relative't and find themselves hunted by half s seaside cottage, where she is to sleep in the room in the kingdomattic. Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it is haunted. Royal plots, magic But even with the mementos of the person that once lived there all around her, adventure and with a rich culture strange feeling of being watched, even with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on to immerse yourself in. Can the pack of bastards make window – Emma can sleep through it all. But that's not to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14847676591781126852</amazonuk>
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|author= Matt StantonSvetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)|title= Funny Kid for PresidentThe Unwomanly Face of War|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersHistory|summary=Max Walburt has ''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is first of all murder, and then hard work. And then simply ordinary life: singing, falling in love, putting your hair in curlers…''. This extraordinary book is a real problem with his teacher collection of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women in the Second World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers of all ranks, medics, pilots, drivers, snipers, cryptographers. Most were very young, little more than girls of 18 or 19. They were passionate about defending their homeland and often extremely keen to join up, returning again and nothing seems again to recruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take them. Their ambition was to help their brothers, fathers, husbands to make it betterfight the terrible invader. Running 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 class president seems like a good way out reinforcements of his problems but inevitably it doesn't run smoothlyable-bodied men. The women had to prove themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082201660141983523</amazonuk>
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|author= Emily ClarksonAlison Jay|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?Alison Jay's ABC
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|genre= Politics and SocietyFor Sharing|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?''At first glance, blogger Emily Clarkson's debut this is a beautiful but fairly standard alphabet book, is : one letter per page with a nice big picture of an apple or a fierce, witty panda front and laugh-outcentre -loud funny ode to feminism. In a series of open lettersafter all, she addresses the issues faced by every modern womanABC format is pretty restrictive, discussing everything from dealing with body hair to being made to feel uncomfortable in the gym, as well as more personal issuesisn't it? And truth be told, like her experiences of being that'catfished' and sent abuse onlines all most small people will see first time round. This is But look a vital read for any girl born in the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorlittle closer . . .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711569071787410196</amazonuk>
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|author= Riley SagerAnna Kovecses|title=Final GirlsOpposite Things|rating=4.5|genre= ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=A 'final girl' Rearing a child is the last girl alive at the end of not a horror moviecompetition, but have a gruesome description which has defined 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 life age of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries to persuade you differentlythree. Quincy, Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the sole survivor of a teenage massacre, has spent her adult years trying middle distance just wanting to put play on the past behind herbouncy castle. But when another 'final girl' dies For me, the mediaI am happy, who have always been obsessed with the girls' dark glamourif my child is happy; be that doing sums, swarm upon heror eating play-doh. And to make matters worse for Quincy However, the other 'final girl' even with a survivor from another massacrerelaxed attitude to educating your kid, who has been in hiding for years, appears on her doorstep. Suddenly, Quincy is not only able it can be fun to move past her pastlearn a little, her past starts to intermingle with her present and she especially when a book is drawn back in. Was the first as fun as Little Mouse'final girls 's death an accident? Why has the second 'final girlOpposite Things' come out of hiding? And what isn't Quincy telling us about her own massacre? .|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850340221786030381</amazonuk>
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|titleauthor=No FilterMichael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|authortitle=Orlagh CollinsMudpuddle Farm: Hee-Haw Hooray|rating=4|genre=TeensEmerging Readers|summary=Em - Emerald - has led a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents have sent her Two collected stories from Mudpuddle Farm series – ''Nowt to a posh private school. SheWorry About''s friends with all the right people, as her social media accounts will attest. Everything is sweetness and light in Em's world'Tickety-Boo''. Or How will the animals react when the sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the end of Mudpuddle farm; or is itjust a new beginning? Equivocation over covering up bullying |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 1/8 -->|author=Stephan Santiago|title=Returning Home|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has put Em experienced life in the crosshairs of the schoola way that's cool girl pecking orderled him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets at home about This book is a guide as to turn from secret to open crisis. And when Em's mother overdoseshow we can optimise this journey for ourselves, the dominoes start to topplethose around us and our children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845181504305272</amazonuk>
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|titleauthor=Kid NormalJulia Blackburn|authortitle=Greg James and Chris SmithThreads: The Delicate Life of John Craske|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=Murph Cooper is fed up. He 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 John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of friends left behind. And if that weren't enoughfishermen, this time he doesn't even have a new school who became too ill to go tosea. Everywhere is full He was born in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. Eventually There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into a place is found - stupour, sometimes for years at ''The School'', a strange place hidden away in a back street. time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'The School'' is a school unlike any other. It caters for children with superpowers. But Murph doesn't have any superpowers and is soon consigned John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the socially undesirable super zeroes gangavailable surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, the backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the sea. The kids with superpowers are not kind Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the super zeroes..evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845340099582198</amazonuk>
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|author= Max BrooksM J Tjia|title= Minecraft: The IslandShe Be Damned|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersCrime (Historical) |summary= Max Brooks perfectly captures London, 1863: prostitutes in the experience of playing Minecraft without instructions or assistance from the random punching stage through to building towers Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that touch the skykiller may have claimed their latest victim. Just as schools around the world The police are using Minecraft at a loss and so it falls to teach computer science courtesan and other skills Brooks uses his novel professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to demonstrate how valuable life lessons investigate. With the assistance of her trusty Chinese maid, Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the truth. But when Amah is implicated in the brutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can be learned from this online phenomenatrust, before the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089774X178507931X</amazonuk>
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|author= Hayley LongSarah Powell|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceSearch and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find Book|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensEmerging Readers|summary= On Griff's thirteenth birthdaySearch and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a good bit of fun, he and his brother's lives change forever when their entire family but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. Jane Austen is caught up in a road accidentfantastic novelist, but her style of writing can be daunting for those not used to such heavy prose. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' It is told from very easy to become lost in the point of view myriad of his brotherdialogue, Dylancharacters and events. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, as they both try to come to terms with this was especially so in the end case of their world as they know itthe perplexing and long-winded Emma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062611783708271</amazonuk>
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|author= Charles HarrisPatrice Lawrence|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassIndigo Donut|rating= 35|genre=CrimeTeens|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. There''In Bailey's plenty here to opinion, Indigo didn't look likeshe needed a hero. One by one, she looked Mona, Saskia, Betti and Kay in the eye. Then she gave them the finger: slow motion. Headphones on again, she sauntered off towards the science wing. Hell. That was... She was...'' That's Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her umpteenth school. Pitt Academy is a last chance for Indigo and plenty her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not toeasy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes her. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to And that's the least of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the final pagebody after her father killed her mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19089438231444927183</amazonuk>
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|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyBethan Woollvin|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesRapunzel
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|summary=With Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair and her difficult-to-escape tower! Here, however, the sad passing of Michael Bond story is told with a twist, because there is no time like the present handsome Prince who comes riding by to revisit some of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonsave Rapunzel from her incarceration. As No, instead we see Rapunzel is smart enough to figure her own way out, defeating the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues of the books have appeared witch, and ''Bestgoing on to a successful witch-loved Paddington Stories'' brings three of these stories togetherhunting career. Does this collection really reflect the best that the bear has to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082450371509842675</amazonuk>
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|author= Jane JohnsonCatherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|title= Court of Lions10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|rating= 54|genre= Historical Children's Non-Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the AlhambraTen reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, one of the most beautiful places on earthpersonally, she works I've never needed ten reasons as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends shethey's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's aloneve always been my favourite large animal, afraid the gentle giants of Africa and hiding under a false name. And fate is India, but it was good to find out more about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fearthem. Five centuries ago, a message, in a hand few could read, Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was inscribed that they live in blood on a stolen scrap of paperherds headed by their ''grandmothers''. The paper was folded Female elephants and their calves stay together and pressed into one of the Alhambra's walls. There it has lain, undisturbed by oldest female elephant is the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, one in a time of danger charge as she knows where to find food and water - and desperation, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forevershe knows her herd. She remembers about people too. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336184780943X</amazonuk>
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|author=Lauren ElkinAndrew Lacey|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City The English Civil War in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London100 Facts|rating=4.5|genre=History |summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: theyThe 're places where you can100 Facts't or shouldn't be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking series is now sufficiently well-established as a guarantee of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road'')useful introductory histories. When she imagines to herself what the female version of that well-known historical figureThis latest addition, recounting the carefree ''flâneur''struggle between King and Parliament, might be, she thinks about women who freely wandered the world's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied to themis no exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995933781445649950</amazonuk>
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|author=Julie CohenPeter Cottrill|title=TogetherTerrible True Tales from the Tower of London|rating=5|genre=General Children's Non-Fiction|summary=This The history of the infamous Tower of London is a love story told backwards, in the most beautiful manner, so that we know from the very beginning that Emily full of gore and Robert love each other enormously, and that he is about death. Its rich history dates back to break her heart in the most dreadful way in order eleventh century and since then it has played host to protect a secret that they've lived with for decades. Seeing their love unfold in reverse is beautiful. We get to know many famous figures, many of them once they have already gotten to know each other, and it makes for an unusual and interesting structureill-fated prisoners. The secret they hold history of the Tower is referred to throughouttold within this book's pages, but only this time it isn't revealed until very late in s told by the bookravens that live there. IThey are the Tower'm guessing very few readers s guardians who reside there permanently due to an ancient legend that all of London will figure it out. Even once you knowfall should they be removed, you want to go back and read after centuries of watching over the whole story again in the light Tower they have their own version of the information you now holdhistory to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14091717441406376884</amazonuk>
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|author= Heather Pindar and Sarah JenningsCara Black|title=WishkerMurder in Saint-Germain|rating=4|genre= For SharingCrime|summary= Mirabel Who is a small girl who wants rather a lot Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from life and the best-selling Cara Black, it is sadly frustrated when everyone says no in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detective. And so, if I'm honest, I wasn't sure what to herexpect. Then How does a stray cat appears in character with so many investigations under her garden. Hebelt retain the gusto we's ve come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a rather special cat with wishcharacter as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of us coming late to the party? After reading ''Murder in Saint-granting whiskers. All MirabelGermain''s problems will be instantly solvedI would suggest that Black manages it quite easily. Or so she thinks…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886244X1616957700</amazonuk>
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|author=Guy Griffith Pierre Lemaitre and Michael OakeshottFrank Wynne (translator)|title=A Guide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby WinnerThree Days and a Life
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|genre=SportCrime|summary=ItChristmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn's not often that you get a glimpse into t got the personal, youthful interests best of one situations. Some of the greatest Conservative philosophers his friends have parted company with him because of the twentieth centurynew-fangled Playstation, but ''A Guide which his mother refuses to the Classicslet him waste his time on. He'' co-authored s built a treehouse all by Michael Oakeshott is a light-hearted look at how himself, and decided it was solely to pick woo the Derby winnergirl next door that he loves, but she's rejected it. Originally written in 1936 it isAnd his best company, amazinglythe dog from the other house next door, as relevant today as it was theninjured in a hit and run, and shot to be put out of its misery. In factthe process of angrily demolishing the treehouse, he's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the techniques dog's six-year-old owner, and analysis employed by Antoine's swung some of the authors were way ahead of their time wood at him – and killed him with one fell and have only come into general use relatively recentlyvery foul sweep. 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>184540937X085705662X</amazonuk>
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|author=Stuart NevilleHendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)|title=So Say the Fallen (DCI Serena Flanagan)The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years Old|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Harry Garrick had been a successful businessman until As the car accident which cost him both legs and left him bedridden and beholden old adage goes, to his wife for even the most intimate functions, so there was not walk a mile in someone else''lot'' s shoes is to gain some understanding of surprise whenwhat it is to be that person. Admittedly, six months laterHendrik Groen isn't much up for long walks any more, but he seemed does acquire a swish mobility scooter to have taken his own life. One sachet of morphine granules, mixed zoom around in ; one could say that we get to zoom a pot of yoghurt had given him a good nightmile in Groen's sleep. Garrick appeared to have crunched ten sachets of granules, if the empty packets were anything to go by. It seemed obvious that the case should 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 Garrickshoes, and the local clergymanoh, Peter McKay seemed suspiciously close. Perhaps a few loose ends needed tidying up before the case was closed?what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847030361405924004</amazonuk>
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|author= Fred Van LenteCathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy|title= Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder MysteryThe Exile
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|genre= HumourPolitics and Society|summary= Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under An account of the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one fate of Al Qaeda and the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, Bin Laden family since the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoeevents of 9/11, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, 'The Exile'' plunges into the insult comic who is past her prime; TJmurky waters of international terrorism, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues espionage and politics. Detailed and guest acts; Rubymeticulous, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy book tackles the Contractor'' is a far cry subject from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of courseall angles, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on providing a beam panoramic view of light the subject and acting to enlighten and asks for your help, what inform the hell else are you going to say?''reader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15947497441408858762</amazonuk>
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|author=Judith KerrJo Cotterill|title=My First Mog ABCA Storm of Strawberries
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= There are few childrenDarby lives on a strawberry farm with her mum, big sister, step dad and step brother. She loves music, dancing, chocolate egg hunts and her big sister Kaydee. She is warm and funny, and she has Down's series that have been as long lasting as Judith Kerrsyndrome. The story looks at the events of one weekend in Darby's ''Mog'' books and even though life when the cat may no longer be with us, there farm is threatened by a huge back catalogue of old stories tornado, and images that could be repurposed. In her family is threatened by the wrong hands reusing old Mog images would seem like revelation of a crass cash in, but done right, they could still hold the same sentimental appeal that the daft old cat has for so many peopleclosely-guarded secret. Which way does ''My First Mog ABC'' fall?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082455091848126166</amazonuk>
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|author= Quentin Mouron and W Donald Wilson (translator)Sarah Franklin|title= Three Drops of Blood and a Cloud of CocaineShelter
|rating= 5
|genre= CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=Paul McCarthy is a man of simple pleasures; Sheriff in a small town, a good husband father and neighbour, he moves through life buoyed by his faithConnie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in both God and justice. The brutal murder of old Jimmy Henderson rocks this simple manthe Women's tenuously ordered life and drags him to the edge of the abyssTimber Corps. McCarthy is tasked with leading a fractured investigation whilst managing his own soul-searching questions about morality and the nature of existence. Into this quagmire steps Franck, a private detective with a shadowy agendaFor her, a raging cocaine habit and a twisted sense of morality. As McCarthy tries to solve this apparently motiveless crime, Franck acts as a perverse Jiminy Cricket, dripping immorality and depravity into his ear with a kiss and remote community must now serve a winksecret purpose.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524839</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author= Kate Mildenhall|title= Skylarking|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction |summary= Kate and Harriet are best friends growing up together on Seppe, an isolated Australian cape. As the daughters Italian prisoner of the lighthouse keeperswar, is haunted by his memories. In the two girls share everythingforest camp, until he finds a fishermanstrange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, McPhail, arrives in the world outside their small communityforest haven is being torn apart. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him and HarrietOld certainties are crumbling, she is torn by her feelings of envy and longingboth must now make a life-defining choice. An innocent moment in McPhail's hut then occurs that threatens <br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to tear their peaceful community apart. protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850792391785762990</amazonuk>
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