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|title=Eye Spy II
|author=Tessa Buckley
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fresh from the success of solving its first case, Eye Spy Investigations is certainly up for another. So twins Alex and Donna jump at the chance to investigate the strange things happening at the Priory, home to school friend Jimmy Devlin. Alex doesn't believe in ghosts and he is very keen to persuade Donna that they don't exist.
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|author= Geoffrey Arnold
|title= Hunted
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary=Tullia learns about survival in the bush when she is taken hostage and later saves a youth's life during a hunt. Adopted into a Bushman family and the tribe, her presence stirs disparate feelings amongst the young men and women, a mixture of awe, desire, fear and hate. Living a very different life, Qwelby, Tullia's twin, is deeply shocked by the violence on Earth. As he is rescued by his four best friends from the Pit of Despair, he experiences his first feelings for Tamina, a girl he has known for years. Feelings which become much stronger for another girl he tries to help during a violent attack from his own world as he and Tullia seek to restore their telepathic link. Forming a connection with the twins during the attack, the girl, Xaala, is charged by her master with monitoring their attempts to mentally reconnect – and to prevent them. Xaala is torn between her mixed feelings for the twins and obeying her orders. Meanwhile, on the planet Vertazia and in secret, Quelby's family and friends build what they hope will be the first ever inter-dimensional transport. On a short test run, the village where he is staying is discovered. When Quelby finds out he is being watched, he flees from the village...
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|author=Peter CottrillEd McDonald |title= Terrible true Tales from the Tower of LondonBlackwing: The Raven's Mark Book One|rating= 4.5|genre= Children's Non-FictionFantasy |summary=The history Perfect for fans of the infamous Tower of London Scott Lynch, Joe Abercrombie and Mark Lawrence, this dark adventure is gripping and bloody; it is full a twisted story that spins a web of gore and deathdeceit. Its rich history dates back to the eleventh century and since then Nothing is as it has played host to many famous figuresseems, many as ageless powers manipulate and control the lives of them ill-fated prisonersthe characters. The history of the Tower world is told within this book's pagesa staging ground, only this time it's told by the ravens that live there. They are the Tower's guardians who reside there permanently due all leading to an ancient legend one dramatic confrontation that all of London will fall should they be removed, and after centuries of watching over has been a century in the Tower they have their own version of history to tellmaking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406376884147322201X</amazonuk>
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|author= Cara BlackJeff Brown and Rob Biddulph|title= Murder in Saint-GermainFlat Stanley|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeEmerging Readers|summary=Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest ''Stanley was four feet tall, about a foot wide, and say half an inch thick.'' Yes, there's proof 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. And so, if Ioriginal text of this classic children'm honest, I wasns book – at least it't sure what s not been updated to expectmetric. How does a character So while the illustrations are new, we get the real deal, with so many investigations the young Stanley squished one night, to such an extent he can limbo under her belt retain the gusto we've come shut doors, get airmailed to America to expect from all good literary detectives? Moreovervisit relatives, how does an author with so well established become a character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough kite for those of us coming late his younger brother to the party? After reading play with, and more. But then you don''Murder in Saint-Germain'' I would suggest that Black manages it quite easilyt need to update perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>16169577001405288108</amazonuk>
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|author=Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne (translator)Kate Ellis|title=Three Days and a LifeThe Mermaid's Scream (Wesley Peterson)
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got In 1884 a wealthy young woman became infatuated with the best of situationsman who ran a travelling puppet show. Some We'll follow the story of John Lipton's courtship through excerpts from his friends have parted company with him because journal. In August 2016 Zac Wilkinson was writing the biography of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his time onreclusive novelist Wynn Staniland. HeIt's built a treehouse all by himself, not easy work as Staniland isn't inclined to give more away than he has to and decided it was solely is unwilling to woo discuss the one thing which the girl next door that he loves, but shepublic will want to know about: his wife's rejected itsuicide which seemed to follow a scene from his most famous book. And Wilkinson is doing his best company, to drum up interest in the dog from the other house next door, forthcoming book: he does talks at local libraries which are well attended and he was injured in a hit and run, and shot seemingly on his way to be put out one of its miserythese talks when he disappeared. In |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349413118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|title=Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the process Silence of angrily demolishing Autism|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary=Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the treehouse, heinternational best-seller ''s visited by his very friendly and adorable neighbour, the dogThe Reason I Jump.'s six-year-old owner, and Antoine's swung some The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the wood at him – and killed him autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a teenager with one fell and very foul sweepnon-verbal autism. As Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the title suggests, there will be palm of a very tense few days transcriber. Despite this slow and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan, and/or manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition. ''Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8'' reintroduces us to Naoki as a lifetime of living young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085705662X1444799088</amazonuk>
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|author= Hendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)Caz Frear|title= The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ years OldSweet Little Lies
|rating= 4.5
|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary= As the old adage goes, to walk In 1998 a mile girl called Maryanne disappears in someone else's shoes Ireland. In 2017 a woman called Alice is to gain some understanding of what it is to be that personfound dead in London. AdmittedlyIn both cases, Hendrik Groen isn't much up for long walks any moreDetective Constable Cat Kinsella is coincidentally close by, but he does acquire a swish mobility scooter to zoom around in; one could say that we get to zoom a mile in Groenshe's shoes, and oh, what fun shoes more worried by the fact her father is too. And he wears!cannot be trusted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14059240041785763350</amazonuk>
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|author= Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian LevyMayim Bialik|title= The ExileGirling Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Politics and SocietyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= An account of the fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11Aimed at teenagers, this book focuses on growing up as a girl, or ''The ExileGirling up'' plunges into the murky waters of international terrorismif you will, espionage and politics. Detailed and meticulous, the book tackles the subject what it means to transition from all anglesschool girl to grown up, providing a panoramic view via that hideous detour of the subject and acting to enlighten and inform the readerteenage years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088587620399548602</amazonuk>
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|author=Jo CotterillPhilippa Pearce and Cate James|title=A Storm of StrawberriesThe Ghost in Annie's Room (Little Gems)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Darby lives Emma is on a strawberry farm family holiday in an older relative's seaside cottage, where she is to sleep in the room in the attic. 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 mum, big sisterand with a strange feeling of being watched, step dad and step brothereven with the stormy winds knocking tree limbs on to the window – Emma can sleep through it all. She loves musicBut that's not to say things will forever be that way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781126852</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Svetlana Alexievich, dancingRichard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators)|title=The Unwomanly Face of War|rating=5|genre=History|summary=''War'', says Svetlana Alexievich, ''is first of all murder, chocolate egg hunts and her big sister Kaydeethen hard work. And then simply ordinary life: singing, falling in love, putting your hair in curlers…''. She This extraordinary book is warm a 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 funnyoften extremely keen to join up, returning again and she has Down's syndromeagain to recruitment offices until someone could be persuaded to take them. The story looks at Their ambition was to help their brothers, fathers, husbands to fight the events of one weekend in Darby's life when terrible invader. They were trained and sent to the farm is threatened by a tornadofront, where they were greeted at first with disappointment and her family is threatened disgust by the revelation fighting men, who had hoped for reinforcements of a closelyable-guarded secretbodied men. The women had to prove themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18481261660141983523</amazonuk>
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|author= Sarah FranklinAlison Jay|title= ShelterAlison Jay's ABC|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=Connie Granger has escaped her bombed-out city home, finding refuge in the Women's Timber Corps. For herAt first glance, this remote community must now serve is a beautiful but fairly standard alphabet book: one letter per page with a secret purpose.<br>Seppe, nice big picture of an Italian prisoner of warapple or a panda front and centre - after all, the ABC format is haunted by his memoriespretty restrictive, isn't it? And truth be told, that's all most small people will see first time round. In the forest camp, he finds But look a strange kind of freedomlittle closer .Their meeting signals new beginnings. But as they are drawn together, the world outside their forest haven is being torn apart. Old certainties are crumbling, and both must now make a life-defining choice.<br>What price will they pay for freedom? What will they fight to protect?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857629901787410196</amazonuk>
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|author=Jennifer McVeighAnna Kovecses|title=Leopard at the DoorOpposite Things|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary=18 year old Rachel Fullsmith returns home to Kenya after being away at school in England Rearing a child is not a competition, but have a conversation with a certain type of parent and finds a lot can change in 6 yearsthey won't agree. Of course she realises her mother's death would alter things but she's not prepared for her father's live-in 'companion' Sara nor Sara's son Harold sleeping in Rachel's old roomTheir child can speak four languages. Michael Their child wrote their first sonnet at the Kikuyu servant boy she grew up with is still there though and now a man with his own ideasage of three. Meanwhile Their child can be seen wistfully looking into the unrest between middle distance just wanting to play on the British rulers and the local Mau Mau fighters bouncy castle. For me, I am happy, if my child is increasing and about happy; be that doing sums, or eating play-doh. However, even with a relaxed attitude to educating your kid, it can be fun to blowlearn a little, especially when a book is as fun as Little Mouse's ''Opposite Things''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412476161786030381</amazonuk>
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|author=Anthony RyanMichael Morpurgo and Shoo Rayner|title=The Legion of FlameMudpuddle Farm: Book Hee-Haw Hooray|rating= 4|genre= Emerging Readers|summary=Two collected stories from Mudpuddle Farm series – ''Nowt to Worry About'' and ''Tickety-Boo''. How will the animals react when the sky goes strange and horrifying noises abound? Changes are afoot that could mark the end of the Draconis MemoriaMudpuddle farm; or is it just a new beginning?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008241988</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 1/8 -->|author=Stephan Santiago|title=Returning Home|rating=3.5|genre=FantasySpirituality and Religion|summary=WARNING: There are spoilers for [[The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria by Anthony RyanCategory:Stephan Santiago|Book 1Stephan Santiago]] from the beginning.Lizanne Lethridge, Blood-Blessed and secret agent of the Exceptional Initiatives Division has survived another mission, only to be forced to go out again. This time it entails a man-hunt experienced life in a place from which no one has emerged alive. Talking about alive, Claydon Torcreek, having escaped several types of death in the jungles now goes to the southern ice with Hilemore in their current attempt to defeat the dragons and put the world on a safe footing. What if all way that waits for them is more dragons and more inventive ways 's led him to die? Thatbelieve we's re all on a thought soul journey back home – that's soon banished from his mindplace we inhabited before we were born. 'This book is where a guide as to how we save the world' says Clay… but he's been wrong before!can optimise this journey for ourselves, those around us and our children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565064011504305272</amazonuk>
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{{newreview <!-- remove 26/7 -->|author=Ritchie Valentine SmithJulia Blackburn|title=Words of FuryThreads: Volume 2 (Words The Delicate Life of Power)John Craske|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyBiography|summary=Warning: Spoilers ahead…Emmanuel (Man) KinrossJohn Craske was a fisherman, Yoshi, Joahfrom a family of fishermen, who became too ill to go to sea. He was born in Sheringham on the Voice north Norfolk coast in 1881 and Dirk Faslane are all fleeing the Lord of would eventually die in the North Norwich hospital in 1943 after a giant floating bubblelife which could have been defined by ill health. This is There were various explanations for what ailed him, what caused him to sink into a delicate conveyance when you consider stupour, sometimes for years at a time and he was on occasions described as 'an imbecile'. But John had a natural artistic talent, albeit that his work had to be done on the stakes are high andavailable surfaces in his home. Chair seats, window sills, if caught by the evil Lord backs of doors all carried his wonderful pictures of the North, the world as they know it will endsea. They just need Then he moved on to get to the Waning embroidery, producing wonderful pictures of the MoonNorfolk coast - and, most famously, a psychic fortress that spells safety but there's still a long way to go and the odds are very much against them. The Lord of the North has more power than they've seen yet and more devastating ways to use itevacuation at Dunkirk.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15442148390099582198</amazonuk>
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|author= Elena Varvello and Alex Valente (translator)M J Tjia|title= Can You Hear Me?She Be Damned|rating= 54|genre= Crime(Historical) |summary= In 1978London, 1863: prostitutes in a small town in Northern Italy Elia Furenti is sixteen the Waterloo area are turning up dead, their sexual organs mutilated and troubledremoved. His mundanely stableWhen another girl goes missing, loving and ordered life is rocked by fears grow that the murder of killer may have claimed their latest victim. The police are at a young boy loss and the disappearance of a young woman, who vanishes into the woods. As Elia struggles so it falls to make sense of his shifting relationship with his increasingly erratic courtesan and unpredictable fatherprofessional detective, Heloise Chancey, he begins to question what role this volatile man may play in these acts of senseless violenceinvestigate. Into this steps Anna, With the mother assistance of Elia's friendher trusty Chinese maid, a woman bowed under Amah Li Leen, Heloise inches closer to the strain of life and haunted by her choicestruth. As the heat of summer intensifies, so does Elia's certainty that something But when Amah is desperately wrong implicated in his home. Drawn, seemingly inevitably, to the mysteriously sensual and sad Annabrutal plot, Elia feels the ground start to shift under his feetHeloise must reconsider whom she can trust, to feel the wind whipping his face from the cliff edge of adolescence and before the unavoidable pull of adulthoodkiller strikes again.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473654874178507931X</amazonuk>
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|author= Gavin Herbertson Sarah Powell|title= William Search and Dorothy WordsworthFind: Pride & Prejudice: A MiscellanyJane Austen Search and Find Book|rating= 54|genre= AnthologiesEmerging Readers|summary= William Wordsworth was Search and find books are usually aimed at children. They are a defining member good bit of the romantic literary erafun, but they are also a good study tool for adult readers alike. He was part Jane Austen is a fantastic novelist, but her style of the first wave, and his poetry helped writing can be daunting for those not used to shape a large part of itsuch heavy prose. Nature It is very easy to become lost in the key: existing in naturemyriad of dialogue, finding one's own true nature characters and becoming natural events. I find a good plot summary helps when approaching her works, this was especially so in the process were case of the driving forces behind itperplexing and long-winded Emma. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19033855981783708271</amazonuk>
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|author=Chae Strathie and Anna ChernyshovaPatrice Lawrence|title=Captain Firebeard's School for Pirates: The Sneaky Sweet StealerIndigo Donut|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=The ''Rusty BarnacleIn Bailey's opinion, Indigo didn' is set to sail again, with t look like she needed a second term for the wannabe pirates and their teachers and crewhero. TommyOne by one, she looked Mona, despite being lateSaskia, is Betti and Kay in the eye. Then she gave them the keenest pupil there – after allfinger: slow motion. Headphones on again, he has great friends, enemies he can easily vanquish, and 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 very good novice parrot last chance for companyIndigo and her foster mother Keeley is anxious that she makes it there. But everyone on board has reason it's not easy for Indigo - her reputation for concern when they set sail – kicking off always precedes her. And that's the prize sweets from least of it - because someone always finds out about her past: that ''she'' is the tiny little girl who was found by the tuck shop are going missing in great quantitiesbody after her father killed her mother. Who could possibly be behind this mystery?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140716340X1444927183</amazonuk>
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|author=Sarah HuttonBethan Woollvin|title=Cool PhysicsRapunzel
|rating=4
|genre=Popular ScienceFor Sharing|summary=If you aren't entirely sure Ah Rapunzel, how well we all know about her long golden hair and her difficult-to-escape tower! Here, however, the story is told with a phrase such as ''Christiaan Huygens states his principle of wavefront sources''twist, don't worry – it was only in 1678 that it happened, so you're not too far behind in physicsbecause there is no handsome Prince who comes riding by to save Rapunzel from her incarceration. Brownian motionNo, and the gravitational constant being measured both date from before instead we see Rapunzel is smart enough to figure her own way out, defeating the Victorian erawitch, and all of these three things are going on the introductory timeline in this book, which I think might well be proof enough that to a primer in the world of physics is very much neededsuccessful witch-hunting career.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18436532491509842675</amazonuk>
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|author=Cathy HopkinsCatherine Barr and Hanako Clulow|title=The Valentine's Day Kitten10 Reasons to Love an Elephant
|rating=4
|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Marcie is distraught. Ten reasons to love an elephant, eh? On ValentineWell, personally, I's Day last year sheve never needed ten reasons as they'd didn't receive a single card and her parents could see that she was upsetve always been my favourite large animal, so when she came home from school there was a box on the kitchen table gentle giants of Africa and in India, but it was the most gorgeous fluffy silver kittengood to find out more about them. Misty and Marcie were soon inseparable until Perhaps the day most surprising fact which I discovered was that Misty went out without a collar on - and didnthey live in herds headed by their ''grandmothers''t come home. Marcie blamed herself: Misty's collar had broken Female elephants and their calves stay together and the oldest female elephant is the one in charge as she'd never got round knows where to buying a new one. Mum has put notices up everywhere she can think of find food and rung the local vets water - and animal rescue centres, but there's no sign of Mistyshe knows her herd. Then Marcie starts having dreams, She remembers about a boy, a hotel, a painting - and Mistypeople too. Will there be a happy ending?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112678X184780943X</amazonuk>
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|author= Shane HegartyAndrew Lacey|title= Darkmouth: Hero RisingThe English Civil War in 100 Facts
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Confident ReadersHistory|summary= Things seem The '100 Facts' series is now sufficiently well-established as bad as they can get for Finn, trainee Hunter a guarantee of all those nasty things that keep trying to get through to our world from the Infested Sideuseful introductory histories. His dad has been sackedThis latest addition, leaving him practically alone to face recounting the baddies, both monstrous struggle between King and humanParliament, he has is no weapons or backexception.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445649950</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Cottrill|title= Terrible True Tales from the Tower of London|rating= 5|genre= Children's Non-up apart from his friend Emmie, Fiction|summary=The history of the infamous Tower of London is full of gore and death. Its rich history dates back to the family eleventh century and since then it has even been kicked out played host to many famous figures, many of the house they've lived in for generationsthem ill-fated prisoners. Of course, in the way The history of the best storiesTower is told within this book's pages, you only have to hint that things couldnthis time it't get worse for them to do exactly s told by the ravens thatlive there. And any beastie thatThey are the Tower's got 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 monsters from the other dimension scared is not going Tower they have their own version of history to be a doddle to fight. Far, far from ittell. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>00075456221406376884</amazonuk>
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|author= Lucy DanielsCara Black|title= Summer at Hope MeadowsMurder in Saint-Germain
|rating= 4
|genre= General FictionCrime|summary=''Animal Ark'' was a popular Who is Aimee Leduc? I have to be honest and say that though this novel may be seventeenth in series of children's books written between 1994 and 2008. The stories focus on a young girl called Mandy Hopefrom the best-selling Cara Black, it is in fact my first outing with the daughter of two vets who run a practicedeft Parisienne detective. And so, Animal Arkif I'm honest, in the Yorkshire town of WelfordI wasn't sure what to expect. Along How does a character with so many investigations under her best friend James, belt retain the children seek gusto we've come to help out creatures in need. The series consisted of 94 books in total and was written by expect from all good literary detectives? Moreover, how does an author with so well established a collection character as Aimee Leduc keep her interesting enough for those of authors writing under us coming late to the pseudonym Lucy Daniels. ''Summer at Hope Meadowsparty? After reading '' is the first Murder in a new series for adult readers, continuing grownSaint-up MandyGermain's story now ' I would suggest that she is a fully qualified vetBlack manages it quite easily.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14736538781616957700</amazonuk>
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|author=Frederic Dard Pierre Lemaitre and Louise Rogers Lalaurie Frank Wynne (translator)|title=The King of FoolsThree Days and a Life
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Having sort Christmas week, 1999, and Antoine hasn't got the best of split up situations. Some of his friends have parted company with him because of the new-fangled Playstation, which his mother refuses to let him waste his partnertime on. He's built a treehouse all by himself, Jean-Marie is on holiday alone on and decided it was solely to woo the southern French coast, when girl next door that he chances to meet a married English womanloves, Marjoriebut she's rejected it. They meet in And his best company, the dog from the most unusual ways – with two identical cars parked other house next to each otherdoor, she gets was injured in the wrong one by mistakea hit and run, then leaves her beach bag behindand shot to be put out of its misery. Lo and behold they find each other at In the casino, and process of angrily demolishing the following daytreehouse, when she arrives at he's visited by his hotel to reclaim her bagvery friendly and adorable neighbour, they meet heart to heart. Jeanthe dog's six-year-Marie sees her to be a very unhappily married womanold owner, and not even Antoine's swung some of the arrival of his partner wood at him – and make-up sex can convince killed him he is not in love with Marjorieone fell and very foul sweep. But finding her again As the title suggests, there will take him to Edinburgh be a very tense few days and nights while the guilt amasses with the lad – and into no end /or a lifetime of trouble…living on a knife-edge, where any false move could lead to him being found out…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178227197X085705662X</amazonuk>
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|author=Tania HershmanHendrik Groen and Hester Velmans (translator)|title=Some of Us Glow More Than Others|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories |summary=I won't be alone in stating that reading short story collections can be slightly awkward. Going through from A-Z, witnessing a bounty of ideas and characters in short order can be too much, but do you have the right to pick and choose according to what appeals, and what time you have to fill? The sequence has carefully been considered, surely. Such would appear 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 and rationing them, but here you not only get a whopping forty pieces Secret Diary of writingHendrik Groen, they are also spread into sections.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910061484</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Bude|title= Death Makes A Prophet83¼ years Old
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|genre= CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Two pages into this As the old adage goes, to walk a mile in someone else''Crime Classic'' I had s shoes is to gain some understanding of what it is to check the first publication datebe that person. Reading the first two pagesAdmittedly, it could easily have been written in 1967, or Hendrik Groen isn'87t much up for long walks any more, or even (possibly as but he does acquire a pastiche) swish mobility scooter to zoom around in 2017. Given ; one could say that Budewe get to zoom a mile in Groen's witty caper originally came out in 1947shoes, and oh, it's slightly criminal that it's taken this long to resurface.what fun shoes he wears!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123569161405924004</amazonuk>
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|author= Michael Morpurgo Cathy Scott-Clark and Shoo RaynerAdrian Levy|title= Mudpuddle Farm: Alien InvasionThe Exile
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|genre= Emerging ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=This collected edition contains two stories from Mudpuddle Farm: An account of the fate of Al Qaeda and the Bin Laden family since the events of 9/11, ''Alien InvasionThe Exile'' plunges into the murky waters of international terrorism, espionage and ''Mum's the Word''politics. When Detailed and meticulous, the bees swarm book tackles the animals panic over subject from all angles, providing a new creature that appears in panoramic view of the farmsubject and acting to enlighten and inform the reader. In the second story that greedy goat has vanished and when he returns something darned odd happens…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00072751371408858762</amazonuk>
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|author=Tamsin CookeJo Cotterill|title=Stunt DoubleA Storm of Strawberries
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Finn wants to be actor butDarby lives on a strawberry farm with her mum, big sister, step dad and step brother. She loves music, when his first ever lines in a film are cutdancing, he's happy to settle for stunt-doublechocolate egg hunts and her big sister Kaydee. He She is warm and funny, and she has all the skills for this demanding role: heDown's a natural dare devil with a karate black-belt (almost)syndrome. The only downside is story looks at the person Finn has to double for: Finn and teen-star Blake have history and a relationship events of mutual hatred. Pretty soon, however, this is the least of Finnone weekend in Darby's worries. The eccentric film director, Novak, pushes him to life when the limits with increasingly dangerous stuntsfarm is threatened by a tornado, manipulating Finn into doing and her family is threatened by the stunts without safety gear. But that seems tame when they transfer to film on location in revelation of a remote part of Papua New Guinea and Finn discovers what Novak really has planned for himclosely-guarded secret.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>019274982X1848126166</amazonuk>
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|author= Simon Puttock and Daniel EgneusSarah Franklin|title= The ThingShelter
|rating= 5
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