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}{{newreview<!-- remove 5/8 -->|authortitle=Chae Strathie and Anna ChernyshovaEye Spy II|titleauthor=Captain Firebeard's School for Pirates: The Sneaky Sweet StealerTessa Buckley

|summary=The ''Rusty Barnacle'' Fresh from the success of solving its first case, Eye Spy Investigations is set certainly up for another. So twins Alex and Donna jump at the chance to sail again, with a second term for investigate the wannabe pirates and their teachers and crew. Tommy, despite being late, is strange things happening at the keenest pupil there – after allPriory, home to school friend Jimmy Devlin. Alex doesn't believe in ghosts and he has great friends, enemies he can easily vanquish, and a is very good novice parrot for company. But everyone on board has reason for concern when keen to persuade Donna that they set sail – the prize sweets from the tuck shop are going missing in great quantitiesdon't exist. Who could possibly be behind this mystery?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140716340X1788032667</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 4/8 -->|author=Sarah HuttonGeoffrey Arnold|title=Cool PhysicsHunted|rating=4|genre=Popular ScienceFiction|summary=If you aren't entirely sure Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a phrase such as youth''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources'', don't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened, so you're not too far behind in physicss life during a hunt. Brownian motion, Adopted into a Bushman family and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the Victorian erayoung men and women, and all a mixture of these three things are on the introductory timeline in this bookawe, desire, which I think might well be proof enough that fear and hate. Living a primer in the world of physics is very much needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843653249</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Cathy Hopkins|title=The Valentinedifferent life, Qwelby, Tullia's Day Kitten|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Marcie twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is distraughtrescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. On Valentine's Day last year she'd didn't receive Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a single card violent attack from his own world as he and her parents could see that she was upset, so when she came home from school there was Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a box on connection with the kitchen table and in it was twins during the most gorgeous fluffy silver kitten. Misty and Marcie were soon inseparable until attack, the day that Misty went out without a collar on - girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and didn't come hometo prevent them. Marcie blamed herself: Misty's collar had broken Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and she'd never got round to buying a new oneobeying her orders. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of and rung Meanwhile, on the local vets planet Vertazia and animal rescue centresin secret, but thereQuelby's no sign of Mistyfamily and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. Then Marcie starts having dreams, about On a boyshort test run, a hotelthe village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, a painting - and Mistyhe flees from the village... Will there be a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112678X1785891855</amazonuk>

|author= Shane HegartyEd McDonald |title= DarkmouthBlackwing: Hero RisingThe Raven's Mark Book One

|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy |summary= Things seem as bad as they can get Perfect for Finn, trainee Hunter fans of all those nasty things that keep trying to get through to our world from the Infested Side. His dad has been sackedScott Lynch, leaving him practically alone to face the baddies, both monstrous Joe Abercrombie and human, he has no weapons or back-up apart from his friend EmmieMark Lawrence, this dark adventure is gripping and the family has even been kicked out bloody; it is a twisted story that spins a web of the house they've lived in for generationsdeceit. Of courseNothing is as it seems, in as ageless powers manipulate and control the way lives of the best storiescharacters. The world is a staging ground, you only have all leading to hint one dramatic confrontation that things couldn't get worse for them to do exactly that. And any beastie that's got all the monsters from has been a century in the other dimension scared is not going to be a doddle to fight. Far, far from itmaking. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007545622147322201X</amazonuk>

|author= Lucy DanielsJeff Brown and Rob Biddulph|title= Summer at Hope MeadowsFlat Stanley|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionEmerging Readers|summary=''Animal ArkStanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, and half an inch thick.'' Yes, there' was a popular series s proof that this is the original text of this classic children's books written between 1994 and 2008book – at least it's not been updated to metric. The stories focus on a young girl called Mandy HopeSo while the illustrations are new, we get the daughter of two vets who run a practicereal deal, Animal Ark, in with the Yorkshire town of Welford. Along with her best friend Jamesyoung Stanley squished one night, the children seek to help out creatures in need. The series consisted of 94 books in total and was written by a collection of authors writing such an extent he can limbo under the pseudonym Lucy Daniels. ''Summer at Hope Meadows'' is the first in shut doors, get airmailed to America to visit relatives, become a new series kite for adult readershis younger brother to play with, continuing grown-up Mandyand more. But then you don's story now that she is a fully qualified vett need to update perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14736538781405288108</amazonuk>

|author=Frederic Dard and Louise Rogers Lalaurie (translator)Kate Ellis|title=The King of FoolsMermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)

|summary=Having sort of split up In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with his partner, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone on the southern French coast, when he chances to meet man who ran a married English woman, Marjorietravelling puppet show. They meet in We'll follow the story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked next to each other, she gets in biography of the wrong one by mistake, then leaves her beach bag behindreclusive novelist Wynn Staniland. Lo It's not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has to and behold they find each other at is unwilling to discuss the casino, and one thing which the following day, when she arrives at public will want to know about: his hotel wife's suicide which seemed to reclaim her bag, they meet heart to heartfollow a scene from his most famous book. Jean-Marie sees her Wilkinson is doing his best to be a very unhappily married woman, and not even drum up interest in the arrival of his partner forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and make-up sex can convince him he is not in love with Marjorie. But finding her again will take him was seemingly on his way to Edinburgh – and into no end one of trouble…these talks when he disappeared.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X0349413118</amazonuk>

|author=Tania HershmanNaoki Higashida and David Mitchell|title=Some Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Us Glow More Than OthersAutism|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories Reference|summary=Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I wonJump.''t be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkward. Going through The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from Athe unique perspective of a teenager with non-Zverbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, witnessing or by tracing letters on the palm of a bounty transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of ideas and characters writing, he has published several books in short order can be too muchhis native Japan, but do you have the right to pick and choose according manages to what appeals, and what time you have give public presentations to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surelyraise awareness of his condition. Such would appear ''Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8'' reintroduces us to be the case here. The last time I read one of this author's collections, with [[The White Road by Tania Hershman|The White Road]], the only real difficulty was holding back Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and rationing them, but here you not only get a whopping forty pieces of explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing, they are also spread into sectionshis first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19100614841444799088</amazonuk>

|author= John BudeCaz Frear|title= Death Makes A ProphetSweet Little Lies

|genre= CrimeThrillers|summary= Two pages into this ''Crime Classic'' I had to check the first publication dateIn 1998 a girl called Maryanne disappears in Ireland. Reading the first two pages, it could easily have been written in 1967, or '87, or even (possibly as In 2017 a pastiche) woman called Alice is found dead in 2017London. Given that Bude's witty caper originally came out in 1947In both cases, Detective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, itbut she's slightly criminal that it's taken this long to resurfacemore worried by the fact her father is too. And he cannot be trusted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123569161785763350</amazonuk>

|author= Michael Morpurgo and Shoo RaynerMayim Bialik|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien InvasionGirling Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=This collected edition contains two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''Alien InvasionGirling up'' if you will, and ''Mum's the Word''. When the bees swarm the animals panic over a new creature what it means to transition from school girl to grown up, via that appears in the farmhideous detour of teenage years. In the second story that greedy goat has vanished and when he returns something darned odd happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00072751370399548602</amazonuk>

|author=Tamsin CookePhilippa Pearce and Cate James|title=Stunt DoubleThe Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems)

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary= Finn wants to be actor but, when his first ever lines Emma is on a family holiday in a film are cut, hean older relative's happy seaside cottage, where she is to settle for stunt-doublesleep in the room in the attic. He Her brother has passed on what he says he has overheard – that it is haunted. But even with the mementos of the person that once lived there all around her, and with a strange feeling of being watched, even with the skills for this demanding role: hestormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through it all. But that's a natural dare devil with a karate black-belt not to say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126852</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (almosttranslators). |title=The only downside Unwomanly Face of War|rating=5|genre=History|summary=''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is the person Finn has to double for: Finn and teen-star Blake have history first of all murder, and a relationship of mutual hatredthen hard work. Pretty soonAnd then simply ordinary life: singing, howeverfalling in love, this putting your hair in curlers…''. This extraordinary book is a collection of first-hand accounts by Russian fighting women in the least Second World War. A million women joined Russian military forces as soldiers of Finn's worriesall ranks, medics, pilots, drivers, snipers, cryptographers. The eccentric film directorMost were very young, Novaklittle more than girls of 18 or 19. They were passionate about defending their homeland and often extremely keen to join up, pushes him returning again and again to recruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take them. Their ambition was to the limits with increasingly dangerous stuntshelp their brothers, fathers, manipulating Finn into doing husbands to fight the stunts without safety gearterrible invader. But that seems tame when They were trained and sent to the front, where they transfer to film on location in a remote part of Papua New Guinea were greeted at first with disappointment and Finn discovers what Novak really has planned disgust by fighting men, who had hoped for himreinforcements of able-bodied men. The women had to prove themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274982X0141983523</amazonuk>

|author= Simon Puttock and Daniel EgneusAlison Jay|title= The ThingAlison Jay's ABC|rating= 4.5

|summary= One day ''the Thing'' falls from the sky and four strangers stumble across it. At first they are confused. What glance, this is ''a beautiful but fairly standard alphabet book: one letter per page with a nice big picture of an apple or a panda front and centre - after all, the ThingABC format is pretty restrictive, isn''? What does it do? What is t it for? Then the four of them decide to work together to look after and care for '''the Thing'And truth be told, that's all most small people will see first time round. Soon word spreads about ''the Thing'' and others come from far and wide to find out more. Gradually But look a media circus builds up around ''the Thing''little closer . Throughout all of this ''the Thing'' remains silent. Then just as suddenly and silently as it arrived ''the Thing'' departs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052837181787410196</amazonuk>

|author=Thomas FlinthamAnna Kovecses|title=Around the World Colouring BookOpposite Things|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Colouring books are Rearing a useful way for children to relax, develop manual dexterity and explore colourchild is not a competition, but in the dash to appeal to the child so many miss the opportunity to be gently educational ''have a conversation with a certain type of parent andthey won'' to still appeal to the youngt agree. The two are not mutually exclusive! Their child can speak four languages. Look for instance Their child wrote their first sonnet at this colouring book: it's got page upon page the age of pictures to colour (with three. Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the middle distance just a little narrative wanting to set play on the scene) with the added attraction of four pages of stickersbouncy castle. You'll see grey shapes For me, I am happy, if my child is happy; be that doing sums, or eating play- and thatdoh. However, even with a relaxed attitude to educating your kid, it can be fun to learn a little, especially when a book is as fun as Little Mouse's the signal to get stickering!''Opposite Things''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17880000051786030381</amazonuk>

|author=Various AuthorsMichael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|title= A Change Is Gonna ComeMudpuddle Farm: Hee-Haw Hooray|rating= 54|genre= TeensEmerging Readers|summary= Two collected stories from Mudpuddle Farm series – ''A Change Is Gonna ComeNowt to Worry About'' is an anthology of stories and poems interpreting the theme of change by twelve BAME writers. It's Stripes Publishing's response to Tickety-Boo''. How will the animals react when the sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the under-representation end of BAME authors in the UK. And Mudpuddle farm; or is it's just a great response.new beginning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471583900008241988</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 1/8 -->|author= Andrew ShvartsStephan Santiago|title= Royal BastardsReturning Home|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensSpirituality and Religion|summary= A group of teens witness something [[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that they shouldn't and find themselves hunted by half the kingdoms led him to believe we're all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. Royal plots, magic This book is a guide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, adventure those around us and a rich culture to immerse yourself inour children. Can the pack of bastards make it to safety before the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14847676591504305272</amazonuk>

|author= Matt StantonJulia Blackburn|title= Funny Kid for PresidentThreads: The Delicate Life of John Craske|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersBiography|summary=Max Walburt has John Craske was a fisherman, from a real problem with his teacher family of fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and nothing seems would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by ill health. There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to make it bettersink into a stupour, sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. Running for class president seems like But John had a good way out 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 problems but inevitably it doesn't run smoothlywonderful pictures of the sea. Then he moved on to embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082201660099582198</amazonuk>

|author= Emily ClarksonM J Tjia|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?She Be Damned|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime (Historical) |summary=''Can I Speak to Someone London, 1863: prostitutes in Charge?''the Waterloo area are turning up dead, blogger Emily Clarkson's debut booktheir sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, is fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a fierceloss and so it falls to courtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, witty and laugh-out-loud funny ode to feminisminvestigate. In a series With the assistance of open lettersher trusty Chinese maid, she addresses the issues faced by every modern womanAmah Li Leen, discussing everything from dealing with body hair Heloise inches closer to being made to feel uncomfortable in the gym, as well as more personal issues, like her experiences of being 'catfished' and sent abuse onlinetruth. This But when Amah is a vital read for any girl born implicated in the 1990sbrutal plot, Heloise must reconsider whom she can trust, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorbefore the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471156907178507931X</amazonuk>

|author= Riley SagerSarah Powell|title=Final GirlsSearch and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find Book|rating=4|genre= ThrillersEmerging Readers|summary=A 'final girl' is the last girl alive Search and find books are usually aimed at the end children. They are a good bit of a horror moviefun, but they are also a gruesome description which has defined the life of Quincy Carpenter, as much as she tries to persuade you differentlygood study tool for adult readers alike. Quincy, the sole survivor of Jane Austen is a teenage massacrefantastic novelist, has spent but her adult years trying style of writing can be daunting for those not used to put the past behind hersuch heavy prose. But when another 'final girl' dies, It is very easy to become lost in the mediamyriad of dialogue, who have always been obsessed with the girls' dark glamour, swarm upon hercharacters and events. And to make matters worse for Quincy, the other 'final girl' I find a survivor from another massacre, who has been in hiding for years, appears on her doorstep. Suddenly, Quincy is not only able to move past good plot summary helps when approaching her pastworks, her past starts to intermingle with her present and she is drawn back this was especially so in. Was the first 'final girl's death an accident? Why has case of the second 'final girl' come out of hiding? And what isn't Quincy telling us about her own massacre? perplexing and long-winded Emma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850340221783708271</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=No FilterPatrice Lawrence|authortitle=Orlagh CollinsIndigo Donut|rating=45

|summary=Em - Emerald - has led ''In Bailey's opinion, Indigo didn't look like she needed a pretty privileged lifehero. 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.. Her wealthy parents have sent her to a posh private school. Shewas...'' That's friends with all the right people, as Indigo for you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her social media accounts will attestumpteenth school. Everything Pitt Academy is sweetness a last chance for Indigo and light in Em's worldher foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. Or is But it? Equivocation over covering up bullying has put Em in the crosshairs of the school's cool girl pecking order. Friends are suddenly less friendly. There are secrets at home about to turn from secret to open crisisnot easy for Indigo - her reputation for kicking off always precedes her. And when Emthat'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 body after her father killed her mother overdoses, the dominoes start to topple.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845181444927183</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Kid NormalBethan Woollvin|authortitle=Greg James and Chris SmithRapunzel

|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Murph Cooper is fed up. He Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair and his mum have moved house. Again. This means another new home her difficult-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 enough-escape tower! Here, however, this time he doesn't even have a new school to go to. Everywhere the story is full. Eventually, told with a place is found - at ''The School''twist, a strange place hidden away in a back street. ''The School'' because there is a school unlike any otherno handsome Prince who comes riding by to save Rapunzel from her incarceration. It caters for children with superpowers. But Murph doesn't have any superpowers and No, instead we see Rapunzel is soon consigned smart enough to figure her own way out, defeating the socially undesirable super zeroes gang. The kids with superpowers are not kind witch, and going on to the super zeroes..a successful witch-hunting career.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845341509842675</amazonuk>

|author= Max BrooksCatherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|title= Minecraft: The Island10 Reasons to Love an Elephant|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Max Brooks perfectly captures Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? Well, personally, I've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, the experience gentle giants of playing Minecraft without instructions or assistance from Africa and India, but it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the random punching stage through to building towers most surprising fact which I discovered was that touch they live in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''. Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the sky. Just one in charge as schools around the world are using Minecraft she knows where to teach computer science find food and water - and other skills Brooks uses his novel to demonstrate how valuable life lessons can be learned from this online phenomenashe knows her herd. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089774X184780943X</amazonuk>

|author= Hayley LongAndrew Lacey|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceEnglish Civil War in 100 Facts

|genre= TeensHistory|summary= On GriffThe 's thirteenth birthday, he and his brother100 Facts's lives change forever when their entire family series is caught up in now sufficiently well-established as a road accidentguarantee of useful introductory histories. ''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from This latest addition, recounting the point of view of his brotherstruggle between King and Parliament, Dylan, as they both try to come to terms with the end of their world as they know itis no exception. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062611445649950</amazonuk>

|author= Charles HarrisPeter Cottrill|title= The Breaking Terrible True Tales from the Tower of Liam GlassLondon|rating= 35|genre=CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediaThe history of the infamous Tower of London is full of gore and death. There's plenty here Its rich history dates back to like, the eleventh century and plenty not since then it has played host tomany famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. But good structure and scramjet pace keep The history of the Tower is told within this book's pages, only this one flying time it's told by the ravens that live there. They are the Tower's guardians who reside there permanently due to an ancient legend that all of London will fall should they be removed, and after centuries of watching over the final pageTower they have their own version of history to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19089438231406376884</amazonuk>

|author=Michael Bond and R W AlleyCara Black|title=BestMurder in Saint-loved Paddington StoriesGermain|rating=4|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=With Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the sad passing of Michael Bond there best-selling Cara Black, it is no time like in fact my first outing with the present deft Parisienne detective. And so, if I'm honest, I wasn't sure what to revisit some of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonexpect. As How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character has proved so timeless regular re-issues as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of us coming late to the books have appeared and party? After reading ''BestMurder in Saint-loved Paddington StoriesGermain'' brings three of these stories togetherI would suggest that Black manages it quite easily. 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>00082450371616957700</amazonuk>

|author= Jane JohnsonPierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)|title= Court of LionsThree Days and a Life|rating= 54|genre= Historical Fiction Crime|summary= Kate Fordham arrived in Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got the sunlit city best of Granada a year agosituations. In the shadow Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the Alhambranew-fangled Playstation, one of the most beautiful places which his mother refuses to let him waste his time on earth, she works as a waitress serving tourists in a busy bar. She pretends she He's happy with her new life – built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under a false namerejected it. And fate is about to bring her face-to-face with her greatest fear. Five centuries agohis best company, a messagethe dog from the other house next door, was injured in a hand few could readhit and run, was inscribed in blood on a stolen scrap and shot to be put out of paperits misery. The paper was folded and pressed into one In the process of angrily demolishing the Alhambratreehouse, he's walls. There it has lainvisited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, undisturbed by the tides dog's six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some of history the wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweep. As the Fall of Granadatitle suggests, there will be a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the expulsion of its last Sultan lad – until Kate discovers it. Born and/or a lifetime of love, in living on a time of danger and desperationknife-edge, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever. where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786694336085705662X</amazonuk>

|author=Lauren ElkinHendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, TokyoThe Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, Venice and London83¼ years Old|rating=4.5|genre=History General Fiction|summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places whereAs the old adage goes, to walk a mile in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking of everything from ''Madame Bovary'someone else' s shoes is to ''Revolutionary Road''). When she imagines gain some understanding of what it is to herself what the female version of be that well-known historical figureperson. Admittedly, the carefree ''flâneurHendrik Groen isn't much up for long walks any more, but he does acquire a swish mobility scooter to zoom around in; one could say that we get to zoom a mile in Groen's shoes, might beand oh, she thinks about women who freely wandered the world's great cities without having the more insalubrious connotation of the word 'streetwalker' applied to them.what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995933781405924004</amazonuk>

|author=Julie CohenCathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy|title=TogetherThe Exile|rating=54|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary=This is a love story told backwards, in An account of the fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the most beautiful mannerevents of 9/11, so that we know from ''The Exile'' plunges into the very beginning that Emily and Robert love each other enormouslymurky waters of international terrorism, espionage and that he is about to break her heart in the most dreadful way in order to protect a secret that they've lived with for decadespolitics. Seeing their love unfold in reverse is beautiful. We get to know them once they have already gotten to know each other, Detailed and it makes for an unusual and interesting structure. The secret they hold is referred to throughoutmeticulous, but it isn't revealed until very late in the book. I'm guessing very few readers will figure it out. Even once you knowtackles the subject from all angles, you want providing a panoramic view of the subject and acting to go back enlighten and read the whole story again in the light of inform the information you now holdreader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14091717441408858762</amazonuk>

|author= Heather Pindar and Sarah JenningsJo Cotterill|title=WishkerA Storm of Strawberries|rating=4.5|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Mirabel is Darby lives on a small girl who wants rather a lot from life strawberry farm with her mum, big sister, step dad and is sadly frustrated when everyone says no to herstep brother. Then a stray cat appears in She loves music, dancing, chocolate egg hunts and her gardenbig sister Kaydee. He She is warm and funny, and she has Down's a rather special cat with wish-granting whiskerssyndrome. All Mirabel The story looks at the events of one weekend in Darby's problems will be instantly solvedlife when the farm is threatened by a tornado, and her family is threatened by the revelation of a closely-guarded secret. Or so she thinks…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886244X1848126166</amazonuk>

|author=Guy Griffith and Michael OakeshottSarah Franklin|title=A Guide to the Classics: Or How to Pick the Derby WinnerShelter|rating=45|genre=SportHistorical Fiction|summary=ItConnie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's not often that you get Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a glimpse into the personalsecret purpose.<br>Seppe, youthful interests of one of the greatest Conservative philosophers an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. In the twentieth centuryforest camp, but ''A Guide to the Classics'' co-authored by Michael Oakeshott is he finds a light-hearted look at how to pick the Derby winnerstrange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. Originally written in 1936 it is, amazingly, But as relevant today as it was then. In factthey are drawn together, the techniques and analysis employed by the authors were way ahead of world outside their time forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and have only come into general use relatively recentlyboth must now make a life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184540937X1785762990</amazonuk>