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|titleauthor=I am TraitorDK|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir My Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals

|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above LondonThe animal kingdom is a diverse one, full of creatures that do all sorts of things. The Prime Minister appeared on TV number of animals out there is so vast that even vets need to announce this ominous visitation and order do a curfewquick google when something strange appears in their practice. After that, he went AWOL For budding vet-to-be animals are a constant source of fascination and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army to patrol the streetsthey will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. Not that the army has any answer It is not practical to visit the long pipes that snake down from the ships zoo every day, but getting an educational and gobble up teenagers. To where, nobody knowsentertaining animal encylopedia is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449344730241276357</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysDK|authortitle=Alex BellDK Children's Encyclopedia

|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a major purchase for them as they didn't really 'Charlotte says... don't open the door.do'' Jemimabooks, but it was a treasure trove for me and I still have it today. It didn's mother died in an awful fire not long ago t just teach me facts - it taught me how to find out information for myself and that is why Jemima decides how to leave London and take up a job as a teacher on the Isle of Skyeuse an index. But leaving the place doesn It opened my eyes to subjects I't mean escaping the memories d never considered and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened widened my knowledge on that terrible nightthose I already loved. It doesnIn format, in size and content it was very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia''t help that Miss Grayson, the mistress at the school, is and I can imagine a strange, forbidding sort, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingyounger me hunched over it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471584040241283868</amazonuk>

|author= J Jefferson FarjeonKelly Barnhill|title= Seven DeadThe Girl Who Drank the Moon

|genre= Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminalEvery year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest, but not usually in the housebreaking typehope that this sacrifice will keep their town safe. He lacked Little do they know that the courage. Howeverwitch, needs mustXan, is a kind soul who rescues the children and whilst feeling down finds them new homes with families on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered windowthe other side of the forest. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind She feeds the shuttersbabies on starlight to keep them nourished throughout their journey, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In one year she accidently feeds a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and baby moonlight which fills the child with a womanpowerful magic. Fleeing Xan names the house in horror, he is pursued baby Luna and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldeanrealises she must raise this magical child as her own, who also happens to be a journalistlocking away her magical abilities until her thirteenth birthday. Fascinated by TedBut as the day approaches where Luna's story (and a possible scoop)magic will emerge, Hazeldean decides she will have to learn to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through protect the heart, an old cricket ball safe and a mysterious note written by one of the victimsloving world she has always known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123568861848126476</amazonuk>

|author= Chris ColferRobin Jarvis|title= The Land Time of Stories: Worlds CollideBlood|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Finally, after much anticipation, the grand finale to the best-selling ''Land of Stories'' is here. The previous book [[The Land of Stories: An AuthorTravel back over a hundred years into Whitby's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling on past to see two witches battle an almighty cliffhanger, ancient evil. Follow young Lil as well as leaving many plot threads unresolved. We have been with the Bailey twins from the very beginning; seen them grow she tries to avoid spoilers and mature from awkward pre-teens to confident young adultsfind her best friend. Orson Welles famously said: ''If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.'' Is the fact that the book begins with this quote an ominous warning that the Bailey twins may not get their 'happily ever after' after all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03163558951405280255</amazonuk>

|author= Brian MastersJ M Barrie and Robert Ingpen|title= Killing for CompanyPeter Pan and Wendy|rating= 54|genre= True CrimeFor Sharing|summary= Killing for Company is It's a detailed criminal study childhood staple - the story of Dennis NilsenWendy, unique in that it was produced with NilsenJohn and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each day. It's full cooperation George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the yard and the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and includes material from Nilsen's prison diariesTinkerbell. Covering Nilsen There's early lifea wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to grow up, his career and subsequent murdersTinkerbell, this is a detailed analysis of the man behind rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the murder lost boys and an attempt- of course - Wendy, on Mastersbut then it wouldn' part, to understand what shaped Nilsen t have been a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and what could have caused such apparently senseless violencethe novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847594221786750856</amazonuk>

|author= E V HarteEmily Winslow|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneLook For Her|rating= 54

|summary= I love reading full stop so I In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades the town of Lilling tried to solve the mystery of Annalise's disappearance until, almost twenty years later, her body was discovered. Annalise's body was badly decomposed and there was excited to have lack of DNA available, the only trace on the body was found in her skirt and does not match anyone on record. The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the chance to read murder soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the first crime novel most famous Lilling has ever seen. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749022663</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= Paperbacks from establishedHell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s|rating= 4.5|genre= Horror|summary= Demonic possession, wellmurderous babies, man-regarded eating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Daisy WaughGrady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the reader's!) to relate the true, writing under untold story of a pseudonymfascinating and often forgotten era in publishing. But Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the true-life tales of the writers, as a self-confessed chicklit fanartists, and publishers who's gleefully violated every literary law but one – never read a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it..be boring..turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721242431594749817</amazonuk>

|author=Vicky HaywardLuke Dittrich|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of CookeryPatient H.M.: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookStory of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets|rating= 4.5|genre= Popular Science|summary= Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on the man behind the initials, and in doing so, uncovered quite a bit more than he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571862</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|title=Worry Angels

|genre=CookeryDyslexia Friendly|summary=In 1745 Amy-May was devastated when her parents split up: she and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the waves had sung her to sleep and moved into a 'garden flat'. That didn't mean that it had a Spanish friary cookgarden, Juan Altamiras, published just that it was on the first edition of ground floor. his They didn''New Art t have a lot of Cookery, Drawn From possessions as the School bailiffs had taken most of Economic Experience''them. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted Her father was living in another old cottage now and fresh fishhopefully he'd be able to set up his kiln, vegetables and dessertsbut he wouldn't be able to home-school Amy-May. The style alternative was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it Sandcastles Secondary School but the rather nervous Amy was aimed, not at those who could afford considered to be too ''anxious'' to cook on a grand scale, but start at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbersthe school full time. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is As a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamirasgentle introduction to schooling she went to Grace' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New Worlds art school instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419178112695X</amazonuk>

|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileCassandra Parkin|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneThe Winter's Child

|genre= Literary FictionParanormal|summary= It's a cliché that the Irish have a picturesque turn 'A modern Gothic tale of phrasetwisted love, but clichés only exist because theysecrets and hauntings''re trueit says on the cover. Roddy Doyle put it differently in a recent interview I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn''Writing'' magazinet believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the future, when he said but that hasn''With Irish, there's another language bubbling under t stopped her spending a fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the English''desperate hunt for her son. However you express it, that art of expression is woven into every other line of Clár's proseJoel has been missing for five years. Pick a page He skipped out of school one day after an argument at random and you'll find something like ''the sickness that had come to roost in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was God, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbing, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes bothhas not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790181785079034</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Salt CreekClare Foges and Al Murphy|authortitle=Lucy TreloarBathroom Boogie|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens Every day I leave the house with the feeling that I left it in Chichestera pretty tidy state, England, in 1874but on my return some things always seem out of place. Hester Finch This is a respected and reasonably wealthy member especially true of her communitymy bathroom. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescence Why is there toothpaste on the mirror, spent or a flannel on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, floor? It would appear that I may not actually be to blame and that when we had so little'I'm at work all the bathroom items come out for a boogie. Will I ever catch them in the act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107094170571337317</amazonuk>

|author= Bali RaiMark Alder|title= Tales from IndiaSon of the Night

|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Fairy stories, folk tales and fables are a rite In [[Son of passage for an inquiring mind. They open the door to enchantment, magic and moral lessons. Many European collections exist, some Morning by Mark Alder|Son of the most notable being that of Aesop, Hans Christian AndersenMorning]], author Mark Alder plunges the Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang and Perrault. Tales can also originate from exotic climes. An endless source of delight for me as reader into a child was my great grandmother's much cherished copy of The Arabian Nights. Full of mysterychaotic, imagination and charmdangerous world, it communicated taking them back to me the power turbulent reign of storytelling Edward III and transported me to different worldsthe dangers of the Hundred Years War. This is what Bali Rai aims Adding elements of fantasy and theology to do for young readers with his latest offering. Inspired by the collected tales mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is continued in ''Son of the C19th Sydney-born English folklorist Joseph JacobNight''. With Lucifer, Satan, God, Rai has lovingly created Devils and Angels interacting with a tribute to cast of real and well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration of the traditional stories of IndiaHundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01413730670575115203</amazonuk>

|author=Lucy AdlingtonKenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|title=The Red RibbonWind in The Willows|rating=4.5

|summary=Ella is rushing to her audition for a job Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in fashion, as are several other the Willows'' was one of the defining books of my childhood and more than sixty years after I first read the book I've just recently passed it onto another young womenreader. Thrown in at Since the deep end book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for the high-pressure workplace1913 edition, she is tasked with creating a dress from scratch Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for an important client before four pm that day. But she manages ithis illustrations of ''Winnie the Pooh'') in 1933, even working through Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the non-existent lunch break, to design a silk wonder worthy golden age of any environment. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design house, book illustration) in 1940 and this is no normal environment for Robert Ingpen who illustrated the recipient to be wearing centenary edition of ''The Wind in the frock. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and IWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062881786751062</amazonuk>

|author=Andy BellSimon Jenkins|title=The DIY Investor: How to take control of your investments and plan for a financially secure futureBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations

|genre=Business and FinanceReference|summary=Investments are confusing. They're also rather frightening unless you have a background in finance: you could invest in equities In the mid twentieth century the railway was something which seem likely harked back to make your fortunethe Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, only even then and in the twenty-first century oil is giving way to find that you've lost all your moneyelectricity. On It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the other hand you could put stations which we'd all your savings into a nicerushed through as quickly as possible, safe building society or bank account only keen to find that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually have the same buying power that it did when you opened the account. You couldescape their grime, of course, spend the money, but what about when you want were restored and became places to buy a housebe admired, replace the roof or retire? possibly even lingered in. The roof might be relatively cheap but the other two are going to need a substantial investment potSimon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857196014024197898X</amazonuk>

|author= E LockhartSarah Baker|title= Genuine FraudEloise Undercover|rating= 4|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= I'm going Eloise has a wonderful life with her two best friends, Albert and Maddie, until the German soldiers start to straight up say that I'm arrive and everything changes. Nazi-occupied France is not going a place Eloise wants to be. Maddie and her family are taken away and Albert starts to mention act very strangely. Then her father disappears. Eloise is lost until she discovers her father has been working for the plot in this reviewresistance and there might, because I canif she is brave enough, be a way to rescue him before he't without inevitably spoiling something in this twisting, turning, great suspense of s deported to Germany. She now has hope and a novelplan. All I But will say is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on the side of resistance let a bus any time soon, and if that happens, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backside. twelve year old schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714066281910611131</amazonuk>

|author= Jackie Morris and James MayhewNalini Singh|title= Mrs Noah's PocketsSilver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel|rating= 54|genre= For SharingParanormal|summary= The heavy rainsJump straight into a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. Visit a world of humans, Noah building his ark changelings and Psy. The world the animals going books have set in two by two to be saved. This most familiar has faced a dramatic change and a new world-order of stories peace has been retold time and time again but not like thisdeclared. This time there The peace is twist painful and someone else quietly takes centre stagenot universally loved. When Mr Noah builds the ark, he makes two lists - one for all the animals who will come on board and one for those troublesome creatures he will leave behind. Meanwhile, Mrs Noah gets out her sewing machine and makes Into this world a coat bear falls in love with very deep pockets. Lots of pockets.an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095909X1473217571</amazonuk>

|author=Jem VanstonColin Thubron|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 - The One with the Kittens|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=George, Dog the cat and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewing. Three kittens had found their way into the garden and told the resident cats that their mother had told them to run away when a two-legs cat catcher came for them all. Mother couldn't run as she had a sore paw, but Daisy, Maisie and Boo had run and run and run. They'd no idea what happened to her - or how Mirror to get back home again. George is getting on in years and wouldn't like to upset his two legs, The Lady, by being away from home for too long, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition to reunite the kittens and their Mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786293390</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Cressida Cowell|title= The Wizards of OnceDamascus

|genre= Confident ReadersTravel|summary= Xar and Wish only meet because they are both where they are not supposed to be. Xar is an impetuous young wizard keen to prove his magical prowess. Wish Damascus today is a young warrior desperate monument to demonstrate her worth. They live in a world in which Iron vanquishes Magic - and the Magic of the witches is pretty evil stuff. Thankfullypast, the warriors have used Iron to keep all the witches at baypeople and civilisations that helped shape her. And nowIn this enthusiastic piece of travel writing, they are turning their attention to Collin Thubron tells the wizards. But what if not all Magic is bad? What if the witches are tale of a threat to warrior city that has seen empires rise and wizard alike? What then? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444936700</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 10/9 -->|author=Stuart Burrell|title=Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey tofall, conquerors come and go and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=The first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the first has lasted for over two, actually, as hethousand years. It's not a man to do things by halves, came about by accident. There had been a plan to raise some money for the Children rich in Need Charity impressive history and quite late on the people who were to have been the main attraction got a better offer and Burrell this book is not a man to let people down. What could be done to bring people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but Burrell had made a hobby of escapology and idea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002 he went for the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children rich in Needimpressive detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154712251X0099532298</amazonuk>

|author= Susan Duxbury-NeumannFearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great BritainYoga Babies

|genre= HistoryFor Sharing|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time Radio host, TV presenter, fashion designer, author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can't do? Based on the content of this book, we can undoubtedly add Yogi to provide a full answerthe ongoing list of talents, and because it's hard to imagine any other way in which this slim but useful volume does so very wellcame into being. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456648601783445645</amazonuk>

|author= Holly HepburnClaire Freedman and Jane Massey|title= The Picture House by the SeaFlorence Frizzball|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's FictionFor Sharing|summary=So as another typically dreary British summer is drawing to Florence Frizzball has the frizziest, curliest, most out of control mop of hair you've ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, brushable locks like all her friends. As a closekid, I found myself craving remember being chased round the garden by my mother, brandishing a fix of literary sunshine hair brush and trying to get me to sit still and sea kissed romancehave my frizz sorted out. In such a mood it was then, that To say I came across identified with Florence would be an understatement. As the cover for ''The Picture House by tale goes on, though, we see another side to the Sea''story. Perfect blue skiesFlorence gets what she wants, glistening seabut when her dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all the wrong things, a beautiful Art Deco building and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartthat actually her frizzball is part of her identity. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711617141471144542</amazonuk>

|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreStuart Maconie|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!Long Road From Jarrow|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsTravel |summary=I was reading cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a book so utterly different to this year ago and the other day, it has to bear mentiononly thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics for the YA audience, His down-to-earth approach and it featured sharp wit belie an essay picking up on the way books like the fill-in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid equally sharp intellect and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|admit. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one]]) let you interact with the franchiseup because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and also to create your own contentNewton Aycliffe. There was some weird high-falutin' academic language to describe such books – but you know what? Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I say have no connection (redactedthat I know of) to that – letthe Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave''s just hang then somehow it and have fundoes become part of my history too. And this book, spinning off from the four books this partnership has so far been responsible forTangentially, is certainly a provider of thatat least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01927640471785030531</amazonuk>

|author=Jeremy Strong and Jamie SmithKieran Larwood|title=Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems)The Gift of Dark Hollow|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Meet Nellie Choc-IceThis is the second marvellous book featuring the rabbits of Enderby, and the delightful young rabbit hero, Podkin One Ear. Thus named by her grandparents (and grandparents have I love the format of a story within a habit story. The adventures of Podkin in this book ''The Gift of making unusual names for their grandchildrenDark Hollow'', whichever species they belong to), she is are told by an old rabbit who has been a Bard all his life - a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows teller of stories and a woolly hat with legends from the rabbit world's biggest pompom . The Bard has an apprentice, Rue, desperately eager to learn his trade. He hangs on every word spoken by the endBard as they travel together to a festival. She has a habit Rue is hungry to learn the art of going exploring and finding out what's over the next ridge in the icestory-telling, and the nextbut also wants to know all about Podkin One Ear, and what better way to do this than to hear from the nextMaster himself. But when disaster happens The tale he tells Rue (and the ice she is on us) is knocked off Antarctica by a submarinegripping and scary one, even she can have no idea as featuring Podkin and his friends in their ongoing battle to where she will end up…overturn the ruthless Gorm, and their cruel leader, Scramashank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811272120571328415</amazonuk>

|author= Sally NichollsPhil Allcock and Richard Watson|title= Things A Bright Girl Can DoClumpety Bump

|genre= TeensFor Sharing|summary=Clumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, after all: they're tasty and full of goodness. But you don'Things t get delicious, juicy treats like that unless you deserve them, and naughty Clumpety is a Bright Girl Can Dobit too keen on saying '' tells the story of three teenage girlsI can't be bothered'' when his friend Wally asks for help. So, all of whom are fighting for women's suffrageafter several disasters, despite coming from very different backgrounds. ThereWally decides he's Evelyn, an upper-class girl expected to marry d be better off leaving Clumpety at a young agehome and using his tractor instead. Unfortunately, May, a middle-class girl with an opinionated Motherthings don't turn out too well, and Nellour two heroes learn that if you want to be properly happy, a working-class girl who does what she can other people need to help her large family scrape bybe happy too. The novel chronicles both their contributions to the fight for suffrage, and the way their lives change when World War One beginsSelfishness just makes everyone sad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17834452541848862458</amazonuk>

|author= Neil WhiteRoger Moore|title= From The ShadowsA Bientot...|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeAutobiography|summary= I'm a bit old-fashioned and therefore not The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great fan shock: he was one of stories that can't keep their timeline straightthose people you knew would go on for ever. I'll go with There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news that a prologue – even if itmatter of days before his death he's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at d delivered the beginning finished manuscript of a story – but switching between his book, 'now' and À bientôt…'a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazy, a way of creating tension when all else failsto his publishers. That, however, is Just a few months later a copy landed on my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' desk and I admit, whether didn't even bother to look as though I like could resist reading it or not, it does more or less workstraight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857609201782438610</amazonuk>

|author=Lisa PappJonathan Stroud|title=Madeleine Finn Lockwood and the Library DogCo: The Empty Grave|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Madeleine Finn doesn't like to read - not In a world that takes the best and worst of Victorian times (atmospheric fogs, candles, mudlarks who scavenge along the banks of the Thames for treasures) and the modern day (leggings, skinny jeans, cabs and concrete underpasses) absolutely anythingcan happen – and it does. It's not really her faultFor fifty years ghosts of all kinds have infested Britain, you know. Her teacher tries to encourage herand as only children and young people can see them, but some theirs is the task of protecting the adults and ridding the other kids giggle when she makes mistakes. And they pull faces country of the type which would have given me my head in my hands to play with when I was a childmenaces, one by painful one. The words just don't seem to come out right for her. The other children Lucy, George, Holly and Lockwood are getting gold stars the members of the smallest and most ramshackle independent agency, but their constant success (I've ''never'' liked that systemand survival despite forever lengthening odds) but all Madeleine gets is a heart sticker thorn in the flesh of the elite Fittes Agency, which tells her to keep trying. She's got plenty of those. All week she tries her best but doesn't get has acquired almost total control over the star she longs forwhole ghost-bashing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19106463260552575798</amazonuk>

|author= Rose BlakeKenneth Steven|title= Going to SchoolWinter Tales

|genre= For SharingShort Stories|summary= At Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of twelve short stories centred around a common theme of Winter. You are taken around the start world as you read stories set in a variety of places from Helsinki to New York, Germany to Russia. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a new school year parents often ask for recommendations for books key component of short stories - that would help make things you can read each story in one sitting - to his advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, such as bullying, ensuring that you are reading a little easier for those about to start school for the first distinct story every time or for slightly older children making you open the transition to Junior School. This vibrant and cheerful picture book contains much in both text and images that would be useful and encouraging for anxious children and equally anxious parents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478089801910674508</amazonuk>

|author=Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)William Sutton|title=Water MemoryLawless and the House of Electricity|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime (Historical)|summary=Despite the titleCampbell Lawless is back, it seems at first the memories here are much more earthy, for Caroline has brought her young daughter to this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across the place she herself left as a toddlernation. The move has been caused by a break-up, and Is it's just the two work of them in the family unitFrench, making a fresh start (with the help of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory of the Brittany coast. Young Marion soon discovers the clifftops as police and public are peppered with strange standing stonesbeing led to believe, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, with even stranger figuresan innovative inventor previously disgraced, initials and dates carved on have to them. She also soon works out there is a way do with the bombs used to get cause chaos across a causeway at low tide to the local lighthousecountry? Employing the services of Molly, manned as it is by a gruffthe effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, surly old man. But while Caroline's beginning anew starts with he sets in motion a nice local job, things are slowly getting more creepy. Large sea creatures are beaching themselvescampaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the stonesdesperate yearnings beneath Roxbury' imagery is found in even stranger places - and the lighthousekeeper seems to hold darker secretss constant invention. What memory could possibly be in this storm-drenched land?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19413024321785650130</amazonuk>

|author=Rob BiddulphK J Lawrence|title=KevinThe Cossack

|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Sidney Gibbons Daniel Brooking is always not what you'd think of as hero material: he's a photographer of some merit and in trouble and, to make matters worse, his fifties he insists on blaming has a settled life. It was the mess he makes on disappearance of his invisible friend – Kevinassistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everything. ThisIt wasn't unknown for him to disappear occasionally, howeverbut missing an exhibition was a first for him. He'd been distracted for a few days - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, changes when Sidney actually meets Kevin and discovers what it is like to be on kept safe. The authorities, in the receiving end form of bad behaviour. In a magical world shadowy senior member of make-believethe security services, Sidney finally comes to realise confirmed the view that heIvan was probably dead, because of some supposed connections with organised crime and drug dealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999782704</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's been selfish Rhymes and Verse |summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and resolves Christmas gifts must he have to put things right hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for both some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his invisible chum friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his very own mumTARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082074101785942719</amazonuk>