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}{{newreview|author= Gavin Herbertson |title= William and Dorothy Wordsworth: A Miscellany|rating= <!-- remove 5|genre= Anthologies|summary= William Wordsworth was a defining member of the romantic literary era. He was part of the first wave, and his poetry helped to shape a large part of it. Nature is the key: existing in nature, finding one's own true nature and becoming natural in the process were the driving forces behind it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1903385598</amazonuk8 -->}}{{newreview|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'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 hate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia'Christiaan Huygens states s twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his principle four best friends from the Pit of wavefront sources''Despair, don't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happenedhe experiences his first feelings for Tamina, so you're not too far behind in physicsa girl he has known for years. Brownian motion, 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 gravitational constant being measured both date from before twins during the attack, the Victorian eragirl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and all of these three things are to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the introductory timeline planet Vertazia and in this booksecret, which I think might well Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be proof enough that the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a primer in short test run, the world of physics village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is very much neededbeing watched, he flees from the village...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18436532491785891855</amazonuk>

|author=Cathy HopkinsEd McDonald |title=Blackwing: The Valentine's Day Kitten|rating=4|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Marcie is distraught. On Valentine's Day last year she'd didn't receive a single card and her parents could see that she was upset, so when she came home from school there was a box on the kitchen table and in it was the most gorgeous fluffy silver kitten. Misty and Marcie were soon inseparable until the day that Misty went out without a collar on - and didn't come home. Marcie blamed herself: MistyRaven's collar had broken and she'd never got round to buying a new one. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of and rung the local vets and animal rescue centres, but there's no sign of Misty. Then Marcie starts having dreams, about a boy, a hotel, a painting - and Misty. Will there be a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112678X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Shane Hegarty|title= Darkmouth: Hero RisingMark 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 – ''Nowt to Worry About'' and ''A Change Is Gonna ComeTickety-Boo'' is an anthology of stories . How will the animals react when the sky goes strange and poems interpreting horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the theme end of change by twelve BAME writersMudpuddle farm; or is it just a new beginning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 1/8 -->|author=Stephan Santiago|title=Returning Home|rating=3. It5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=[[:Category:Stephan Santiago|Stephan Santiago]] has experienced life in a way that's Stripes Publishingled him to believe we's response to the under-representation of BAME authors in the UKre all on a soul journey back home – that place we inhabited before we were born. And it's This book is a great responseguide as to how we can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and our children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471583901504305272</amazonuk>

|author= Andrew ShvartsJulia Blackburn|title= Royal BastardsThreads: The Delicate Life of John Craske|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensBiography|summary= A group John Craske was a fisherman, from a family of teens witness something that they shouldn't fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on the north Norfolk coast in 1881 and find themselves hunted would eventually die in the Norwich hospital in 1943 after a life which could have been defined by half the kingdomill health. Royal plots There were various explanations for what ailed him, magicwhat caused him to sink into a stupour, adventure sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a rich culture natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to immerse yourself be done on the available surfaces inhis home. Can Chair seats, window sills, the pack backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of bastards make it the sea. Then he moved on to safety before embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the Norfolk coast - and, most famously, of the vicious warriors chasing them catch them?evacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14847676590099582198</amazonuk>

|author= Matt StantonM J Tjia|title= Funny Kid for PresidentShe Be Damned|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersCrime (Historical) |summary=Max Walburt has London, 1863: prostitutes in the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and removed. When another girl goes missing, fears grow that the killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a real problem with his teacher loss and nothing seems so it falls to make it bettercourtesan and professional detective, Heloise Chancey, to investigate. Running for class president seems like a good way out With the assistance of his problems but inevitably it doesn't run smoothlyher 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 trust, before the killer strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008220166178507931X</amazonuk>

|author= Emily ClarksonSarah Powell|title= Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?Search and Find: Pride & Prejudice: A Jane Austen Search and Find Book|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyEmerging Readers|summary=''Can I Speak to Someone in Charge?'', blogger Emily Clarkson's debut book, is a fierce, witty Search and laugh-out-loud funny ode to feminismfind books are usually aimed at children. In They are a series good bit of open lettersfun, she addresses the issues faced by every modern womanbut they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. Jane Austen is a fantastic novelist, discussing everything from dealing with body hair but her style of writing can be daunting for those not used to being made such heavy prose. It is very easy to feel uncomfortable become lost in the gym, as well as more personal issuesmyriad of dialogue, like her experiences of being 'catfished' characters and sent abuse onlineevents. This is I find a vital read for any girl born good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this was especially so in the 1990s, tackling some very serious social injustices beneath its fun exteriorcase of the perplexing and long-winded Emma.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711569071783708271</amazonuk>

|author= Riley SagerPatrice Lawrence|title=Final GirlsIndigo Donut|rating=45|genre= ThrillersTeens|summary=A ''final girlIn Bailey' is the last girl alive at the end of a horror movies opinion, Indigo didn't look like she needed a gruesome description which has defined the life of Quincy Carpenterhero. One by one, as much as she tries to persuade you differently. Quincylooked Mona, the sole survivor of a teenage massacreSaskia, has spent her adult years trying to put Betti and Kay in the past behind hereye. But when another 'final girl' dies, Then she gave them the mediafinger: slow motion. Headphones on again, who have always been obsessed with she sauntered off towards the girlsscience wing. Hell. That was... She was...' dark glamour, swarm upon her. And to make matters worse for Quincy, the other 'final girl That' a survivor from another massacre, who has been in hiding s Indigo for years, appears you! Indigo is seventeen. And on her doorstepumpteenth school. Suddenly, Quincy Pitt Academy is a last chance for Indigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. But it's not only able to move past easy for Indigo - her past, reputation for kicking off always precedes her past starts to intermingle with her present and she is drawn back in. Was the first 'final girlAnd that's death an accident? Why has the second least of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''final girlshe' come out of hiding? And what isn't Quincy telling us about is the tiny little girl who was found by the body after her father killed her own massacre? mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850340221444927183</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=No FilterBethan Woollvin|authortitle=Orlagh CollinsRapunzel

|genre=TeensFor Sharing|summary=Em Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair and her difficult- Emerald to- has led escape tower! Here, however, the story is told with a pretty privileged life. Her wealthy parents have sent twist, because there is no handsome Prince who comes riding by to save Rapunzel from her to a posh private schoolincarceration. She's friends with all the right people No, as her social media accounts will attest. Everything is sweetness and light in Em's world. Or instead we see Rapunzel is 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 smart enough to turn from secret to open crisis. And when Em's mother overdosesfigure her own way out, defeating the dominoes start witch, and going on to topplea successful witch-hunting career.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088845181509842675</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Kid NormalCatherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|authortitle=Greg James and Chris Smith10 Reasons to Love an Elephant

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Murph Cooper is fed up. He and his mum have moved house. Again. This means another new home Ten reasons 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 enoughlove an elephant, eh? Well, this time he doesn't even have a new school to go to. Everywhere is full. Eventuallypersonally, a place is found - at ''The SchoolI've never needed ten reasons as they've always been my favourite large animal, the gentle giants of Africa and India, a strange place hidden away but it was good to find out more about them. Perhaps the most surprising fact which I discovered was that they live in a back street. herds headed by their ''The Schoolgrandmothers'' is a school unlike any other. It caters for children with superpowers. But Murph doesn't have any superpowers Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is soon consigned to the socially undesirable super zeroes gang. The kids with superpowers are not kind one in charge as she knows where to the super zeroes.find food and water - and she knows her herd. She remembers about people too.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408884534184780943X</amazonuk>

|author= Max BrooksAndrew Lacey|title= Minecraft: The IslandEnglish Civil War in 100 Facts|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersHistory|summary= Max Brooks perfectly captures the experience The '100 Facts' series is now sufficiently well-established as a guarantee of playing Minecraft without instructions or assistance from the random punching stage through to building towers that touch the skyuseful introductory histories. Just as schools around This latest addition, recounting the world are using Minecraft to teach computer science struggle between King and other skills Brooks uses his novel to demonstrate how valuable life lessons can be learned from this online phenomenaParliament, is no exception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178089774X1445649950</amazonuk>

|author= Hayley LongPeter Cottrill|title= The Nearest Faraway PlaceTerrible True Tales from the Tower of London|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= On GriffThe history of the infamous Tower of London is full of gore and death. Its rich history dates back to the eleventh century and since then it has played host to many famous figures, many of them ill-fated prisoners. The history of the Tower is told within this book's thirteenth birthdaypages, he and his brotheronly this time it's lives change forever when their entire family is caught up in a road accidenttold by the ravens that live there. They are the Tower''The Nearest Faraway Place'' is told from the point s guardians who reside there permanently due to an ancient legend that all of view London will fall should they be removed, and after centuries of his brother, Dylan, as watching over the Tower they both try to come have their own version of history to terms with the end of their world as they know ittell. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062611406376884</amazonuk>

|author= Charles HarrisCara Black|title= The Breaking of Liam GlassMurder in Saint-Germain|rating= 34|genre=Crime|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediaWho is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series from the best-selling Cara Black, it is in fact my first outing with the deft Parisienne detective. ThereAnd so, if I's plenty here to likem honest, and plenty not I wasn't sure what toexpect. But How does a character with so many investigations under her belt retain the gusto we've come to expect from all good structure and scramjet pace literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a character as Aimee Leduc keep this one flying her interesting enough for those of us coming late to the final pageparty? After reading ''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19089438231616957700</amazonuk>

|author=Michael Bond Pierre Lemaitre and R W AlleyFrank Wynne (translator)|title=Best-loved Paddington StoriesThree Days and a Life

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=With Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got the sad passing best of situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of Michael Bond there is no the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time like on. He's built a treehouse all by himself, and decided it was solely to woo the girl next door that he loves, but she's rejected it. And his best company, the dog from the present other house next door, was injured in a hit and run, and shot to revisit some be put out of the adventures of his most iconic creation; Paddingtonits misery. As In the character has proved so timeless regular re-issues process of angrily demolishing the books have appeared treehouse, he's visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dog''Bests six-year-loved Paddington Storiesold owner, and Antoine'' brings three s swung some of these stories togetherthe wood at him – and killed him with one fell and very foul sweep. Does this collection really reflect As the title suggests, there will be a very tense few days and nights while the best that guilt amasses with the bear has lad – and/or a lifetime of living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to offer or are they just three random tales stuck together with marmalade?him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008245037085705662X</amazonuk>

|author= Jane JohnsonHendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)|title= Court The Secret Diary of LionsHendrik Groen, 83¼ years Old|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical General Fiction |summary= Kate Fordham arrived in As the sunlit city of Granada a year ago. In the shadow of the Alhambraold adage goes, one of the most beautiful places on earth, she works as to walk a waitress serving tourists mile in a busy bar. She pretends shesomeone else's happy with her new life – but how could she be? Kate's alone, afraid and hiding under a false name. And fate shoes is about to bring her face-gain some understanding of what it is to-face with her greatest fearbe that person. Five centuries agoAdmittedly, Hendrik Groen isn't much up for long walks any more, but he does acquire a message, swish mobility scooter to zoom around in ; one could say that we get to zoom a hand few could read, was inscribed mile in blood on a stolen scrap of paper. The paper was folded and pressed into one of the AlhambraGroen's walls. There it has lainshoes, undisturbed by the tides of history – the Fall of Granada, the expulsion of its last Sultan – until Kate discovers it. Born of love, in a time of danger and desperationoh, the fragment will be the catalyst that changes Kate's life forever. what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866943361405924004</amazonuk>

|author=Lauren ElkinCathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy|title=Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonThe Exile|rating=4|genre=History Politics and Society|summary=Lauren Elkin is down on suburbs: they're places where you can't or shouldn't be seen walking; places where, in fiction, women who transgress boundaries are punished (thinking An account of the fate of everything from ''Madame Bovary'' to ''Revolutionary Road''). When she imagines to herself what Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the female version events of that well-known historical figure9/11, the carefree ''flâneurThe Exile''plunges into the murky waters of international terrorism, might beespionage and politics. Detailed and meticulous, she thinks about women who freely wandered the world's great cities without having book tackles the more insalubrious connotation subject from all angles, providing a panoramic view of the word 'streetwalker' applied subject and acting to themenlighten and inform the reader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995933781408858762</amazonuk>

|author=Julie CohenJo Cotterill|title=TogetherA Storm of Strawberries|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=This is Darby lives on a love story told backwardsstrawberry farm with her mum, in the most beautiful mannerbig sister, so that we know from the very beginning that Emily step dad and Robert love each other enormouslystep brother. She loves music, dancing, chocolate egg hunts 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 decadesbig sister Kaydee. Seeing their love unfold in reverse She is beautiful. We get to know them once they have already gotten to know each otherwarm and funny, and it makes for an unusual and interesting structureshe has Down's syndrome. The secret they hold is referred to throughout, but it isnstory looks at the events of one weekend in Darby't revealed until very late in s life when the book. I'm guessing very few readers will figure it out. Even once you knowfarm is threatened by a tornado, you want to go back and read the whole story again in her family is threatened by the light revelation of the information you now holda closely-guarded secret.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14091717441848126166</amazonuk>

|author= Heather Pindar and Sarah JenningsFranklin|title=WishkerShelter|rating=45|genre= For SharingHistorical Fiction|summary= Mirabel is Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's Timber Corps. For her, this remote community must now serve a small girl who wants rather a lot from life and secret purpose.<br>Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is sadly frustrated when everyone says no to herhaunted by his memories. Then In the forest camp, he finds a stray cat appears in her gardenstrange kind of freedom.Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. He's Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a rather special cat with wishlife-granting whiskersdefining choice. All Mirabel's problems <br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will be instantly solved. Or so she thinks…they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184886244X1785762990</amazonuk>