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|author=Zillah BethellDK|title=The Extraordinary Colours My Encyclopedia of Auden DareVery Important Animals

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Auden has The animal kingdom is a condition called achromatopsiadiverse one, which means full of creatures that he do all sorts of things. The number of animals out there is so vast that even vets need to do a quick google when something strange appears in their practice. For budding vet-to-be animals are a constant source of fascination and they will absorb as much knowledge as you cangive them. It is not practical to visit the zoo every day, but getting an educational and entertaining animal encylopedia is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=DK Children't see colourss Encyclopedia|rating=4. He likes to pretend that 5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it doesnwas a major purchase for them as they didn't matter really ''do'' books, but it doeswas a treasure trove for me and I still have it today. And the older Auden gets, the more It didn't just teach me facts - it seems taught me how to find out information for myself and how to matter. Mind you, so does everything else...... because Auden lives in a near-future Britain in a world where climate change has taken rootuse an index. It opened my eyes to subjects I'd never rains any moreconsidered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. BritainIn format, an island with plenty of coastline, is doing better than many countries thanks in size and content it was very similar to its desalination plants. But water is still rationed ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and the Water Authority Board is now I can imagine a quasi-government as the most important younger me hunched over it and powerful body in the land. Water wars have broken out worldwide and Auden's father is away fightingbegging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18481260850241283868</amazonuk>

|author=J Saxena and J ZimmermanKelly Barnhill|title=Basic WitchesThe Girl Who Drank the Moon|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and ReligionConfident Readers|summary= Before I started this book I was expecting to be thrown into Every year the world people of magic and would know how the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to levitate by the end of witch who lives in the forest, in the first chapterhope that this sacrifice will keep their town safe. UnsurprisinglyLittle do they know that the witch, I was wrong. HoweverXan, what I was met by was is a book that explores kind soul who rescues the children and finds them new homes with families on the origins other side of witchcraftthe forest. She feeds the babies on starlight to keep them nourished throughout their journey, teaches you how to dress and act like but one year she accidently feeds a baby moonlight which fills the child with a witch powerful magic. Xan names the baby Luna and contains spells ranging from accepting compliments realises she must raise this magical child as her own, locking away her magical abilities until her thirteenth birthday. But as the day approaches where Luna's magic will emerge, she will have to conjuring up a relaxing Netflix bingelearn to protect the safe and loving world she has always known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15947497791848126476</amazonuk>

|author=Maja Lunde and Diane Oatley (translator)Robin Jarvis|title=The History Time of BeesBlood|rating=4|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Bees are Travel back over a handy symbol of the planethundred years into Whitby's environmental degradation, past to see two witches battle an ancient evil. Follow young Lil as you'll know if you've read anything by [[:Category:Dave Goulson|Dave Goulson]] – whose endorsement is featured proudly on the cover of this U.K. release of Norwegian children's writer Maja Lunde's first novel for adults. The creatures also provide subtle links between the book's three story linesshe tries to avoid spoilers and find her best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711627451405280255</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Greta Zargo J M Barrie and the Death Robots from Outer SpaceRobert Ingpen|authortitle=A F HarroldPeter Pan and Wendy|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=It''No one knew that only three things stood in s a childhood staple - the way story of the complete Wendy, John and Michael Darling and utter destruction of their beloved nurse, Nana the Earth: one elderly parrotNewfoundland dog who took them to school each day. It's George Darling, one eleven-year-old spelling 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 one intrepid young newspaper-reporter-cum-schoolgirl in search of a Big ScoopTinkerbell. There'' Oh my word! What s a prospect! Let me break it down for you. The parrot has only ever learned wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the boy who never wants to speak one sentence. The spelling mistake is between great and Greta. Both these things point grow up, Tinkerbell, the alien danger to Earthrather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, a silvery robotTiger Lily, in the direction lost boys and - of Greta Zargocourse - Wendy, who is but then it wouldn't have been a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the wannabe reporternovel of 1911 if it were otherwise. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088694701786750856</amazonuk>

|author= Yaba BadoeEmily Winslow|title= A Jigsaw of Fire and StarsLook For Her

|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sante was In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasurelocal celebrity. It seems she is For decades the sole survivor town of Lilling tried to solve the tragic sinking mystery of a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on sheAnnalise's a member of Mama Rosedisappearance until, almost twenty years later, her body was discovered. Annalise's unique body was badly decomposed and dazzling circus. But, from their watery gravethere was lack of DNA available, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them. A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must only trace on the body was found in her skirt and does not fallmatch anyone on record... if Sante is to tell their story The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and her ownthe murder soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seen. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866954800749022663</amazonuk>

|author= Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)Grady Hendrix|title= The Invisible Life Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Euridice GusmaoHorror Fiction from the '70s and '80s

|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary= On the surfaceDemonic possession, murderous babies, young housewife Euridice Gusmao has it all. A niceman-enougheating moths… for these books, parent-pleasing husband with a steady banking jobno plot was too ludicrous, two young children upon whom to doteno cover art too appalling, an immaculate home complete with maidno evil too despicable. ThatNow horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the reader's all anyone could ever want, isn't it? Not Euridice. She has an inexplicable ache inside her for something more!) to relate the true, like many untold story of usa fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing. Yet each  Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the true-life tales of her pet projectsthe writers, from a desire to publish a recipe book to starting a cottage sewing industry in her living roomartists, are met with scorn from her stern husband Antenor. He wants a wife and publishers who doesn't draw attention to herself, whose only domains are her house and her familygleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607298X1594749817</amazonuk>

|author=Jakob Wegelius and Peter Graves (translator)Luke Dittrich|title=The Murderer's ApePatient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Sally Jones is in clover as a mechanic Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on a cargo ship – when, that is, there is cargo to actually ship. Having needed emergency repairs, the two-strong crew of her and man behind the Chief are idling in Lisboninitials, and are given a mysterious and mysteriously overpaid job – a job that shouldn't go wrong, but does. Unfortunately for the Chief, taking even the first step at writing the wrong sees him arrested for murder. Sally Jones is forced into hidingin doing so, which she manages to do with uncovered quite a lovely, kind woman with a hidden talent for singing, and her landlord, who makes and repairs accordions and other musical instrumentsbit more than he expected. Life with them seems to be a new form of clover, then, but hints of that past nastiness keep coming back to haunt Sally Jones, especially when there's a suggestion that the alleged murder victim might still be alive… Oh, and did I say that Sally Jones is actually a gorilla?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826916180099571862</amazonuk>

|author= David BergenSita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|title= StrangerWorry Angels|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction Dyslexia Friendly|summary=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'Stranger'. That didn' tells the story of Íso, t mean that it had a young Guatemalan womangarden, and her affair with an American doctorjust that it was on the ground floor. When an accident forces him to return to They didn't have a lot of possessions as the States, she is left pregnant and lonelybailiffs had taken most of them. Her anguish becomes even more profound when her daughter is abducted, father was living in another old cottage now and taken hopefully he'd be able to live with the doctor and set up his wifekiln, but he wouldn't be able to home-school Amy-May. What followed - tales of The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the journey Íso embarked upon in the hope of finding her baby - rather nervous Amy was an amazing story of considered to be too ''anxious'' to start at the lengths school full time. As a mother will go gentle introduction to in order schooling she went to save her childGrace's art school instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715652419178112695X</amazonuk>

|author= Marianne TaylorCassandra Parkin|title= Owls: A Guide to Every SpeciesThe Winter's Child

|genre= ReferenceParanormal|summary=I feel like I am being watched. ''A huge pair modern Gothic tale of piercing orange eyes are staring right at metwisted love, locking me into their gazesecrets and hauntings'' it says on the cover. In contrast I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the hardness of the deep-amber eyesfuture, soft grey feathers fan out into but that hasn't stopped her spending a fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautifuldesperate hunt for her son. Joel has been missing for five years. An enigma; harsh and gentle He skipped out of school one day after an argument at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages home and take a closer look inside..has not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240404X1785079034</amazonuk>

|author=Orlando WeeksClare Foges and Al Murphy|title=The GrittermanBathroom Boogie|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsFor Sharing|summary=There's Every day I leave the house with the feeling that I left it in a man who has an ice cream vanpretty tidy state, but on my return some things always seem out of place. In summer, what there This is especially true of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Grittermanmy bathroom. The fibreglass 99s Why is there toothpaste on the roof light up and rotatemirror, playing or a tune, whether flannel on the van's gritting or selling ice creams. floor? Tonight - Christmas Eve - will It would appear that I may not actually be the vanto blame and that when I's last trip. The council has sent m at work all the letter about his services no longer being requiredbathroom items come out for a boogie. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live Will I ever catch them in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184614955X0571337317</amazonuk>

|author= Adam SilveraMark Alder|title= They Both Die at Son of the EndNight

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= ''No matter how we choose to live, we both die at In [[Son of the Morning by Mark Alder|Son of the end'' The year is 2017Morning]], author Mark Alder plunges the place is America, but this is not reader into a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know the exact date of everyone's death and make it their mission to inform Deckers that they will be dead within the next twenty-four hours. Many have tried to cheat deathchaotic, all have failed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471166201</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= K J Whittaker|title= False Lights|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Cornwalldangerous world, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed taking them back to the course turbulent reign of history? Napoleon has crushed Edward III and the Duke dangers of Wellington at the Battle Hundred Years War. Adding elements of Waterloo, fantasy and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebelliontheology to the mix, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, WellingtonAlder created an intriguing read which is continued in ''s former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in Son of the catastrophic defeatNight''. TogetherWith Lucifer, they become embroiled in Satan, God, Devils and Angels interacting with a web cast of treachery real and espionage well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration of the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as plans they are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long..entertained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866953400575115203</amazonuk>

|author=Cynthia Ryland Kenneth Grahame and Mary BlairRobert Ingpen|title=Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)The Wind in The Willows

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=IKenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the Willows''m sure almost all my readers are au fait with was one of the story defining books of Cinderella, my childhood and of how she went from more than sixty years after I first read the gutter to the stars in one romantic swoopbook I've just recently passed it onto another young reader. It's only a good thing Since the relevant people didn't book was first published in 1908 there have foot fetishes or phobias, been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for then the tale would have been utterly different. Disney made it slightly different1913 edition, Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of course''Winnie the Pooh'') in 1933, when they made the animated classic based on Arthur Rackham (possibly the legend, and this book, complete with art leading illustrator from the time the film was being made, is evidence golden age of just how the look book illustration) in 1940 and Robert Ingpen who illustrated the emotion centenary edition of ''The Wind in the piece were intended to beWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052869971786751062</amazonuk>

|author=Jon Scieszka and Mary BlairSimon Jenkins|title=Walt DisneyBritain's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)100 Best Railway Stations|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersReference|summary=I'll take is as read you have some knowledge of In the mid twentieth century the railway was something which harked back to the story of Alice Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in Wonderland – certainly when she got the twenty-first century oil is giving way to be 150 years old a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her storyelectricity. And It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through as you knowquickly as possible, 150 years is a heck of a lot of unbirthdays. But her story got keen to be slightly differentescape their grime, were restored and if anything only more lovedbecame places to be admired, courtesy of the Disney cartoon, and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during the production of that film is the unique selling pointpossibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287004024197898X</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=MoonriseSarah Baker|authortitle=Sarah CrossanEloise Undercover|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Joe Eloise has a wonderful life with her two best friends, Albert and Maddie, until the German soldiers start to arrive and everything changes. Nazi-occupied France is seventeen not a place Eloise wants to be. Maddie and he hasn't seen his brother her family are taken away and Albert starts to act very strangely. Then her father disappears. Eloise is lost until she discovers her father has been working for ten years. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed resistance and there might, if she is on Death Row in Texasbrave enough, convicted of the murder of be a police officer. Ed says way to rescue him before he's innocentdeported to Germany. Aunt Karen doesn't believe himShe now has hope and a plan. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When But will the execution date comes through, Joe passes up on his job and resistance let a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinks.twelve year old schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X1910611131</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=I am TraitorNalini Singh|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above LondonJump straight into a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation and order Visit a curfew. After thatworld of humans, he went AWOL changelings and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army to patrol the streetsPsy. Not that The world the army books have set in has any answer to the long pipes that snake down from the ships faced a dramatic change and gobble up teenagersa new world-order of peace has been declared. To where, nobody knowsThe peace is painful and not universally loved.Into this world a bear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449344731473217571</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysColin Thubron|authortitle=Alex BellMirror to Damascus|rating=4.5|genre=TeensTravel|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.'' Jemima's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that Damascus today is why Jemima decides a monument to her past, to leave London and take up a job as a teacher on the Isle of Skye. But leaving all the place doesn't mean escaping the memories people and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on civilisations that terrible nighthelped shape her. It doesn't help that Miss GraysonIn this enthusiastic piece of travel writing, Collin Thubron tells the mistress at the school, is tale of a strangecity that has seen empires rise and fall, forbidding sort, while the school itself conquerors come and go and has lasted for over two thousand years. It's rich in impressive history and this book is a thoroughly creepy old buildingrich in impressive detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471584040099532298</amazonuk>

|author= J Jefferson FarjeonFearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|title= Seven DeadYoga Babies

|genre= Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminalRadio host, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. HoweverTV presenter, needs mustfashion designer, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart itt do?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind Based on the shutterscontent of this book, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing we can undoubtedly add Yogi to the house in horrorongoing list of talents, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Tedbecause it's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides hard to investigate imagine any other way in which this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victimscame into being.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123568861783445645</amazonuk>

|author= Chris ColferClaire Freedman and Jane Massey|title= The Land of Stories: Worlds CollideFlorence Frizzball

|genre= Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=FinallyFlorence Frizzball has the frizziest, after much anticipationcurliest, the grand finale to the best-selling ''Land most out of Stories'' is here. The previous book [[The Land control mop of Stories: An Authorhair you's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling on an almighty cliffhangerve ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, as well as leaving many plot threads unresolvedbrushable locks like all her friends. We have been with As a kid, I remember being chased round the Bailey twins from the very beginning; seen them grow garden by my mother, brandishing a hair brush and mature from awkward pre-teens trying to get me to confident young adultssit still and have my frizz sorted out. Orson Welles famously said: ''If you want a happy endingTo say I identified with Florence would be an understatement. As the tale goes on, that dependsthough, of course, on where you stop your we see another side to the story.'' Is the fact Florence gets what she wants, but when her dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all the book begins with this quote an ominous warning wrong things, and that the Bailey twins may not get their 'happily ever after' after all?actually her frizzball is part of her identity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>03163558951471144542</amazonuk>

|author= Brian MastersStuart Maconie|title= Killing for CompanyLong Road From Jarrow

|genre= True CrimeTravel |summary= Killing for Company I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a detailed criminal study soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of Dennis Nilsensomeone else's review, unique in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it was produced with Nilsenbeing ''a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave's full cooperation ' then somehow it does become part of my history too. Tangentially, at least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785030531</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Larwood|title= The Gift of Dark Hollow|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= This is the second marvellous book featuring the rabbits of Enderby, and includes material from Nilsenthe delightful young rabbit hero, Podkin One Ear. I love the format of a story within a story. The adventures of Podkin in ''The Gift of Dark Hollow's prison diaries. Covering Nilsen's early life, are told by an old rabbit who has been a Bard all his career and subsequent murders, this is life - a detailed analysis teller of stories and legends from the man behind the murder and rabbit world. The Bard has an attemptapprentice, Rue, desperately eager to learn his trade. He hangs on Masters' partevery word spoken by the Bard as they travel together to a festival. Rue is hungry to learn the art of story-telling, but also wants to understand know all about Podkin One Ear, and what shaped Nilsen better way to do this than to hear from the Master himself. The tale he tells Rue (and us) is a gripping and scary one, featuring Podkin and what could have caused such apparently senseless violencehis friends in their ongoing battle to overturn the ruthless Gorm, and their cruel leader, Scramashank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847594220571328415</amazonuk>

|author= E V HartePhil Allcock and Richard Watson|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneClumpety Bump|rating= 54|genre= CrimeFor Sharing|summary= I love reading Clumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, after all: they're tasty and full stop so I was excited to have the chance to read the first crime novel from establishedof goodness. But you don't get delicious, well-regarded author Daisy Waughjuicy treats like that unless you deserve them, writing under and naughty Clumpety is a pseudonymbit too keen on saying ''I can't be bothered'' when his friend Wally asks for help. ButSo, as a self-confessed chicklit fanafter several disasters, whoWally decides he's never read a crime novel befored be better off leaving Clumpety at home and using his tractor instead. Unfortunately, I wasnthings don't sure turn out too well, and our two heroes learn that if I was going you want to be properly happy, other people need to like itbe happy too.Selfishness just makes everyone sad...turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721242431848862458</amazonuk>

|author=Vicky HaywardRoger Moore|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookBientot...

|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art The news of Cookery, Drawn From the School death of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at one of those who could afford to cook people you knew would go on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbersever. Whilst There was just one small glimmer of light in the ingredients were sadness - for the most part - modestly priced there is news that a stress on matter of days before his death he'd delivered the careful combination finished manuscript of flavours and aromashis book, ''À bientôt…'', to his publishers. Spices are used conservatively Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from AltamirasI didn' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New Worldt even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14422794191782438610</amazonuk>

|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileJonathan Stroud|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneLockwood and Co: The Empty Grave

|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= It's In a cliché world that takes the Irish have a picturesque turn best and worst of Victorian times (atmospheric fogs, candles, mudlarks who scavenge along the banks of phrasethe Thames for treasures) and the modern day (leggings, skinny jeans, but clichés only exist because they're truecabs and concrete underpasses) absolutely anything can happen – and it does. Roddy Doyle put it differently in a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazineFor fifty years ghosts of all kinds have infested Britain, when he said that ''With Irishand as only children and young people can see them, there's another language bubbling under theirs is the English''. However you express it, that art task of expression is woven into every other line protecting the adults and ridding the country of Clár's prosethe menaces, one by painful one. Pick a page at random Lucy, George, Holly and you'll find something like ''Lockwood are the members of the sickness that had come to roost in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was God, Jesus smallest and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbingmost ramshackle independent agency, slow but their constant success (and inevitable as rain on survival despite forever lengthening odds) is a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawaresthorn in the flesh of the elite Fittes Agency, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes bothwhich has acquired almost total control over the whole ghost-bashing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790180552575798</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Salt CreekKenneth Steven|authortitle=Lucy TreloarWinter Tales|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionShort Stories|summary=The first chapter Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of twelve short stories centred around a common theme of ''Salt Creek'' opens Winter. You are taken around the world as you read stories set in Chichestera variety of places from Helsinki to New York, England, in 1874Germany to Russia. Hester Finch is Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a respected and reasonably wealthy member key component of her community. But she short stories - that you can't stop her thoughts wandering back read each story in one sitting - to her adolescencehis advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, spent on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive such as thenbullying, when we had so little''ensuring that you are reading a distinct story every time you open the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107094171910674508</amazonuk>

|author= Bali RaiWilliam Sutton|title= Tales from IndiaLawless and the House of Electricity|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersCrime (Historical)|summary=Fairy storiesCampbell Lawless is back, folk tales and fables are this time tasked with solving a rite series of passage for an inquiring mind. They open terrorist attacks across the door to enchantment, magic and moral lessonsnation. Many European collections exist, some of Is it the most notable being that work of Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers GrimmFrench, Andrew Lang and Perrault. Tales can also originate from exotic climes. An endless source of delight for me as a child was my great grandmother's much cherished copy of The Arabian Nights. Full of mystery, imagination police and charmpublic are being led to believe, it communicated or someone closer to me the power of storytelling home? Who can be trusted and transported me to different worlds. This is what Bali Rai aims does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do for young readers with his latest offering. Inspired by the collected tales of bombs used to cause chaos across the C19th Sydney-born English folklorist Joseph Jacob, Rai has lovingly created a tribute to country? Employing the traditional stories services of India.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373067</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Adlington|title=The Red Ribbon|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ella is rushing to her audition for a job in fashionMolly, as are several other young women. Thrown in at the deep end in the high-pressure workplace, she is tasked with creating a dress effervescent ragamuffin from scratch for an important client before four pm that day. But she manages ithis previous adventures, even working through the non-existent lunch break, to design he sets in motion a silk wonder worthy campaign of any environment. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design housesubterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and this is no normal environment for the recipient to be wearing the frock. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and Idesperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062881785650130</amazonuk>

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|genre=Business and FinanceThrillers|summary=Investments are confusing. TheyDaniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: he're also rather frightening unless you have s a background photographer of some merit and in finance: you could invest in equities his fifties he has a settled life. It was the disappearance of his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which seem likely disrupted everything. It wasn't unknown for him to make your fortunedisappear occasionally, only to find that youbut missing an exhibition was a first for him. He've lost all your money. On d been distracted for a few days - and then there were the other hand you could put all your savings into a nicestrange papers which arrived, to be kept safe building society or bank account only 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 couldThe authorities, in the form of a shadowy senior member of coursethe security services, spend confirmed the moneyview that Ivan was probably dead, but what about when you want to buy a house, replace the roof or retire? The roof might be relatively cheap but the other two are going to need a substantial investment potbecause of some supposed connections with organised crime and drug dealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08571960141999782704</amazonuk>

|author= E LockhartJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= Genuine FraudDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary= Consider the Doctor. I'm going Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to straight up say that I'm not going hand out each year, were he to mention the plot keep in this reviewtouch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something in this twistingsay, turningfor example, great suspense whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a novelTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. All I will say is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading As luck would have it; I feel like I might see this advertised as , he has the space in his TARDIS 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 film on the side of shorter timescale, with a bus any time soonshorter lifespan, and if that happensthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backsidewell my advice is pretty much the same. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714066281785942719</amazonuk>