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|author=Annabel PitcherFiona Mitchell|title=The Last Days of Archie MaxwellMaid's Room|rating=45|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Archie Maxwell was shocked when his parents told him that they were getting divorcedIn some apartments in Singapore you'll find a bomb shelter - airless and without a window. It wasn't will probably house the washing machine and the other domestic paraphernalia that Dads leaving was that unusual: Leon's Dad had left and so had Mo'sgot nowhere else to go. It was There''why'' he was leaving and Archie was embarrassed that his sister had suspected that their father was gay some time ago. Both ll be a mattress on the floor of his sisters are sad to see their father leavethis stifling room, but they don't seem to have any problem with the ''why'' and they tell their friendsheat increased by the tumble dryer. But Archie darenThis is the maid't tell the lads at school: the bullying is bad enough as it iss room. And then thereIt's possibly better than sleeping under the problem of Tiadining room table, whom he really fancies but he can't say anything about itnot by much. What Tia really needs is Back in 2009 there were 201,000 female domestic workers in Singapore, many not earning any money for a friend: ityear until they's just about ve repaid 'training' and other fees to the first anniversary of the day on which her brother committed suicide by throwing himself agency, many living in front of a train on 'the line which runs at the back of Archiemaid's houseroom'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112728X1473659566</amazonuk>

|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten MillerAllan Hailstone|title= OtherworldBerlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966|rating= 54|genre=FantasyHistory|summary=imon would not have considered himself a hero. In fact, by all accounts, particularly that of his parents, Simon is an epic failure. He's large, he's hairy, he has a ridiculously oversized nose and heBerlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966''s been kicked out of boarding school and kept on a federal watch list. But Simon is sure something is up with contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his friend Kat. She won't speak visits to himthe city during this period. So he resorts to buying The images provide an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game for them both - Otherworld. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so good, you'll swear they are real, insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and it's here that Simon really wants to talk to Kat. But it isn't real, it's a game… until a turn of events lands Simon glimpse into life in Otherworld in an all together different way. This time, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dies? Simon would rather not think about that. If he wants to save Kat, he has to keep pressing on. Simon is the chosen one, this is not a gamecity during the Cold War. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860736921445672901</amazonuk>

|author= Alison Ritchie and Marisa MoreaAsa Avdic|title= The Twelve Dogs of ChristmasDying Game

|genre= For SharingThrillers|summary= Christmas In a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is approaching presented with an offer from the formidable chairman. Except the offer, is more of an order than a choice. With nothing to lose and one little puppy everything to gain, Anna accepts. She is very excited about his first ever Christmas Daytaken to an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a job in the super-secret organisation. Everywhere he looks Anna's objective is simple, she is to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of the preparations are underway with every dog in town helping outhouse. However Once the experiment is finished, she will so many eager assistants joining in report her findings back to the fray help or hinder chairman. However, while this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and will everything ever be ready in time?Anna is faced with the terror of knowing this is not just a game anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711661711786090201</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Dr SeussScoop of the Year|titleauthor=What Was I Scared Of?Tom Claver

|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=All Hallows' Eve Martin is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Review. Martin is upon us once more good at his job - accurate, dedicated, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in the culture that can only mean that we are soon comes with reporting. He has a wife and two daughters at home and he doesn't want to be surrounded by all types of monsterswaste time and money in the pub, ghoulies and manifestationstalking macho nonsense with the other hacks. Fear notHe is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, as many of these unsettling creatures will actually be children dressed up on another adventure trick or treatingsilver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesn't just grab the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion to industrial correspondent. But what about And that pair of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? That is no childthe job Martin not only wanted, but a pair of haunted kecksneeded. Run, run, run, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082526021788036220</amazonuk>

|author=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Maureen Orth|title=Vulgar Favours: The Temptation to Be HappyAssassination of Gianni Versace|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTrue Crime|summary=Cesare What is 77, widowed, generally ignored by the offspring he likes and bothered too much by the one he doesn't. Still, he finds ways it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to fill his days. If hesuch a wide audience? I guess it's not taking advantage of his friend-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady of wanting to try to figure out what happened to make these people partake in the night Rossanaawful crimes they committed, or keeping an eye else the same inexplicable impulse people have to slow down when they overtake a car crash on his grandsonthe motorway. Whatever it is, heMaureen Orth's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy). Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when a young couple move book, Vulgar Favours, taps right on into the apartment block providing Cesare with a concern and the conviction that he has to do something, whatever the fall out or personal dangerit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860728821785943103</amazonuk>

|author= Chris BeckettCharlotte Peacock|title= America CityInto The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian FictionBiography|summary= ''America City'' tells Mostly we choose what books to read, because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the story of Hollyapproach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, an ambitious Publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help and we sell the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaignmyriad lesser known authors short as well. Set in the 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States So while, where the effects of climate change like most other people I have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern Statesmy favourite genres, and the Southfavoured authors, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change thiswhile, working together like most other people I read the reviews and follow up on the plan they believe what appeals, I also have a third string to be my reading bow: randomness. It was in such a 'left-field' move that ''Into the solution to the problem of where Mountain'' was offered to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating stormsme.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864915241903385563</amazonuk>

|author=Jessica TownsendAlan Moorehead|title=Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan CrowRussian Revolution|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistory|summary=Morrigan Crow is a cursed child. Everyone First published in Jackalfax where she lives believes she is responsible for all the things that go wrong in their life. And1958, if thatMoorhead's not bad enough, the curse means she will die on her eleventh birthday. Morrigan believes there account is no escape from her fate until a mysterious man appears and offers her a new life in regarded as one of the secret city most succinct accounts of Nevermoor. There is only one problem – to stay in Nevermoor she needs its subject, and now reprinted to gain a coveted place in mark the Wunderous Society by competing against hundreds centenary of other hopefuls to pass four seemingly impossible trialsthe revolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15101041191445667320</amazonuk>

|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Catherine Hewitt|title=Renoir's Dancer: The Sixteen Trees Secret Life of the SommeSuzanne Valadon

|genre=General FictionBiography|summary=While his grandfather lived Deep in the rural parts of France in the past was an area 1860s, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not just a movement at that, but a full generation of certainty for Edvardboth creative and societal change. At aged 4 he'd been taken And if you were to live with his grandparentsexpect that someone, having survived the accident that killed his parentsthey would like as not be male. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's name, But almost stumbling into the whereabouts hedonistic culture of late GreatMontmartre came Marie-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itselfClementine Valadon. Edvard is determined to solve She started in the puzzlecircus that first caught her teenaged eye, a determination although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that will take him away from his native Norway was the poise to be an area of France synonymous with devastation appealing model for some seriously important painters, and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsnatural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their audiences. And what she also had, much to the surprise of many and the distaste of some, was artistic talent of her own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560691785782738</amazonuk>

|author=Morag HoodDavid Melling|title=I Am BatMerry Christmas, Hugless Douglas|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bat Hugless Douglas is a creature with very definite opinions. He does not like morningslarge, comfy sort of bear who burst onto the picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for example, but he does like cherriesjust the right sort of hug. In factHis endearing, he really loves cherrieshopeful face and that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted young hearts, as they are and to universal delight we have since been treated to several more of his adventures. Douglas is hugless no longer, you''favourite of all things!'' What do you think might happen if somebody takes Batll be glad to know, but the name stuck, mostly because it's cherries? Bat won't be happysuch fun to say (go on, will try it!) and because he?!still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about to go out of fashion. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098346131444906844</amazonuk>

|author=Dr SeussJulia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|title=I Can Read With My Eyes ShutA Treasury of Songs|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=''The more that you readSome people have all the skills,''<br>''The more things you will know.''''The more that you learn,''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This not only is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and Julia Donaldson one that I painstakingly stickered onto of the wall of my most successful children's school library! authors, she can also carry a tune. The book is very sillyFor the past few years she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and plays them during open readings, or releases them as Dr Seuss always is, but is part of a song book. For the first time ''A Treasury of Songs'' brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also has a good rhyming ode to CD too of Donaldson singing the joys of readingsongs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082400191509846131</amazonuk>

|author=Twigs WayAlexander McCall Smith|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse|rating=45|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip If you've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novel, but have always thought you might like to the country in those days. Men had their coffee housestry, but they were not places where women could or would one day then this might be seenthe book to start with. Tea was introduced to England in Rather than face the 17th century but daunting task of leaping into one of his now very long-running series, this is a standalone novel, and it was not until 1784 that gives a good flavour of AMS's style, the high duty was reduced from 119% way he can write to 12½% evoke a feeling of time and place, and tea became the drink of choice for the nationwarm optimism underlying his words that is so very reassuring and comforting to read. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap ginIt calls itself 'a wartime romance', which it is, and yet it is much more than that besides. OnlyFocussing mainly on Val, a young woman working as a Land Girl, we see her falling in love with an American pilot, where would this beverage be drunk? Mike Rogers. One answer was Thanks to a sheepdog on Val's farm (the pleasure gardens where Peter Woodhouse from the fashionable went to see title) their lives become entwined with that of a German soldier, and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such book shows us a variety of friendships as Ranelagh Gardensthey grow and develop over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456700111846974097</amazonuk>

|author=Gladys MitchellChristopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|title=Murder in the SnowSherlock: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Puzzle Book|rating=4|genre=CrimeEntertainment|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan and his wife Deborah at their new home in Who doesn't love a good puzzle, especially those really fiendish ones that get the Cotswolds. Mrs Bradley brain working extra hard? There really is a well-known psychiatrist but she's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers of observation. She soon comes nothing to compare to hear that buzz we get from the story of a local ghost''Aha!'' moment, that of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over when everything falls into place and the gate leading solution reveals itself. If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play a part in what is about put your grey cells to happen. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire test with ''The Sherlock Puzzle Book,'' based on the acquisition of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of the locals as they visit to give festive wishespopular TV series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847083211785943030</amazonuk>

|author= Melita ThomasHilary Lee-Corbin|title= The King's Pearl: Henry VIII Conkers and His Daughter MaryGrenades|rating= 54|genre= BiographyConfident Readers|summary= As It's Bristol in 1916. Britain is halfway through the eldest surviving child Great War and everyone is expected to put their shoulder to the wheel of a much-married father whose main aim was to secure the royal succession with sonswar effort. Mar and Appy might be boys, Mary Tudorbut they's relationship re no different. Both their fathers are away fighting and the two young boys are expected to help with Henry VIIIhousehold chores, who called her his 'pearl of the world'look after younger siblings, was inevitably earn a few extra pennies through casual jobs and concentrate on getting an important and often fraught oneeducation...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566125X1788033515</amazonuk>

|author=Lily Murray and Chris WormellKrysten Ritter|title=Dinosaurium (Welcome to the Museum)Bonfire|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceGeneral Fiction|summary=One of the selling points for entities like the ''Jurassic Park'' films is that they bring It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all the high-energy action visible evidence of dinosaur life to the screenher small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, in she has a way that is suitablethriving career, they would saya modern apartment, for children and her pick of all agesmeaningless one-night stands. But there is when a very different way of going about thingsnew case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. This book does feature dinosaurTasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-on-dinosaur combatprofile company and economic heart, but only in presenting Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the most scientific of fossil remainspopular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good. It delves into Abby knows the evolutionary life of what we have long loved key to enjoy and all solving any case lies in the major scientific developments for weak spots, the most inquisitive studentunanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, so the book is actually worth considering in troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a very different way. I would say this is ideal for ritual called ''adultsThe Game,'' it will threaten the reputations, and lives, of all agesthe community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837079251524759848</amazonuk>

|author=Kes Gray Sue Hendra and Jim FieldPaul Linnet|title=Oi Cat!Supertato: Evil Pea Rules|rating=4.5

|summary=When did children's books become so Meta? For all their heroics and lantern jaws, everyone knows that the good guy is never the best thing about a book or film. Back in That accolade goes to the day each Thomas bad guy. They are able to chew the Tank Engine adventure was separate from scenery and give the other as if they lived in their own episodic wildness, but not todaytype of larger than life performance a hero could only dream of. In this world One of Nintendo Switches and online platforms the average adult best bad guys in children's fiction is too scared to venture ontonot a guy at all, we have metaphysical children booksbut a pea. Books that reflect back on previous outings in the seriesAn evil pea. If you are going At last this pea is given his opportunity to get the most out of ''Oi Cat!''shine, but where there is an Evil Pea, you best know about your ''Oi Frog!'' and ''Oi Dog!'' tooa Supertato cannot be far behind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449325191471144062</amazonuk>

|author=Cath Jones and Chris JevonsStephen Aryan|title=Bonkers about BeetrootMageborn (Age of Dread)|rating=54|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Sunset Safari Park rarely has any visitors ''Magic will destroy us all'' Ten years after the devastating battlemage war when mages used their immense power to tear each other apart and sundered the world itself, suspicion of those who wield magic is in danger of closing downat an all-time high. To tackle With the problem Zebra calls a meeting recent resurrection of all the animals Red Tower, an institution for students to learn to control and challenges them expand their magic, Seekers visit villages each month to find a way to make the safari park more interestingtest children for magical abilities. Penguin thinks there's no hope but Zebra has But for those children and their families it is not a totally bonkers idea – they'll grow gift, it is a beetroot. They'll grow cursed For Habreel, who will never forget the destruction during the biggest beetroot in war, the world! It should be easy because they have plenty elimination of manure (animal poo) to help it grow. At first it looks like Zebra's plan all magic will save countless lives and is going the only solution to worklong lasting stability. One beetroot grows so big that crowds of people come He will stop at nothing to see it. There is just one problem – achieve his aim; he will deal with the beetroot keeps growing. Soon there won't be any room for visitors. Luckilydevil, Zebra has another idea: an equally bonkers but totally brilliant ideacrush villages and kill anyone in his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18488628140356508471</amazonuk>

|author= Martin Cruz SmithLaura Wilson|title= The Girl from VeniceOther Woman|rating= 4.5

|summary= The romantic in me was immediately drawn to this book. Venice in 1945 at Based on the blurb on the close of back, Sophie might not be the war is enticement enoughmost likable heroine. Add She's a backdrop of partisansquote-unquote perfect woman, with the house, the husband, Mussolini the children and the desperate fight of dog. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the losing SS and my interest husband is certainly piquedsuccessful, but present the aforementioned along with her own achievements seem linked to having bagged herself a catch), though there's a sort of part time hobby running her own shop, because, well, yes. So Sophie is the mystery sort of a young woman found floating in , one imagines, who might rub other people up the Venice Lagoon in the dead of night and resistance is futilewrong way, especially those who find their own lives lacking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X1786485214</amazonuk>

|author=Nathan ConnollyAdrian Mourby|title=Know Your PlaceRooms with a View: Essays on the Working Class by the Working ClassThe Secret Life of Great Hotels|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Simple summary: Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'Know Your Place? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' is an anthology was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of essays on the working class by the working classchallenges. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about everything you can imagine: day trips to We begin in the seasideAmericas, access move to the artsUnited Kingdom, food povertycircumnavigate Europe, pub culturebriefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, glass ceilingsIndia and Asia. Australia, housing estatesit seems, vulgarity-as-class-marker, and much moredoes not go for the grand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19115853631785782754</amazonuk>

|author=Nina StibbeJoseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers|title=An Almost Perfect ChristmasLuna Loves Library Day|rating=4.5|genre=Humour For Sharing|summary=Christmas – Luna is always excited when library day comes around, not just because she gets to take her books back and borrow some new ones, but also because it's the time of traditional traumaday she spends with her dad. You only have to think about Once inside the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on library, magical things occur as the downstairs loo books Luna and her dad discover seemingly come to defrost overnightlife. They spend their time together sharing stories, and if some that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside are more significant than others, until it treatment was your next best bet's time for Luna to go home. Nowadays itYet even once she's all having home, she still has her newly borrowed books to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit itescape into, and get too friendly the memories of her day with it to want to eat ither dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445483</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 11/11 -->|title=Under The Light of a Full Moon|author=Donna McGrath|rating=3. Christmas, though5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When the bad dreams and the whispers at night first start, Clara has no idea what's going on. All she knows is that the lack of course also sleep is making her feel ill. But a time of great boonsvisit from her Great Aunt Selina supplies some answers. ItClara's cash in hand for family has a lot gift. One member of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all each generation has the thank-you letters ability to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in longshape-hand as a child, and as for shift into the makers form of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time species of animal. But the gift comes with an ancient curse - bearers of it can only transform during the three days of the year?full moon each month.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241309824B00D9V7QOA</amazonuk>

|author=Andy MulliganStephen Norman|title=DogTrading Down

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=What life can you find Chris Peters was happy in his work for yourself, when it seems to be marked out at the start that this – the only one you get – begins at such a lowly place? That's the question the dog multinational bank in ''Dog'' faces, especially Hong Kong and excited when a snide spider tells him he is the runt of the litter, was promoted and instead of being bought has been selected by an adult only because he's freesent back to London. He wasn't even really chosenThe job had it all: a hectic trading floor, targets which were impossible and they had thought to get a cat. Oddly enough some of the mutt gets to be called Spider by Tom, fastest computers in the lad who gets to call him world under his, but he's fraught with self-doubtsupervision. The spider tells him heHe's only going to cause harm – which happy at home too: he doesand Olivia met in Hong Kong: now they're married and thinking about starting a family. But the neighbourhood cat declares that Spider ... has something of he been promoted beyond his capabilities? There are those in the feline in his mongrel mixbank who think so, and tempts him across particularly when things start to her way of livinggo badly wrong. Tom himself, meanwhile, is being nudged into thinking he's beginning at a lowly place – he ignores his absent mother, he has the privilege of a scholarship for him to get beaten up and bullied at school, and he can't see much future He was never there for himself, Olivia either. Can Spider work out his lot, and match his life with that of Tom, or will outside agencies get in the way?Life for Chris Peters was turning sour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691715B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

|author= Rebecca Tuhus-DubrowJenny Colgan|title= Personal StereoChristmas at Little Beach Street Bakery|rating= 54|genre=LifestyleWomen's Fiction|summary= These tiny 'Object Lessons'Polly, a range of books which Huckle and Neil are more like a long-form essayback but in what, explore often seemingly mundane items. ''Personal Stereo'' packs a lot sadly for fans of information into a small space. Split into three distinct sections: Novelty, Norm, and Nostalgia, 'Novelty' traces the origin of the Sony WalkmanLittle Beach series, from its conception by two Japanese business men seems to it becoming a recognised entity on be the streets last of Americathis trilogy. 'Norm' follows on from Never say never but by the universal success end of the personal stereo, relating this to the technology which it set the groundwork forbook, such as the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, author has certainly secured the iPod, and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in the popularity destiny of the Walkmanthese three much-loved characters. Finally, in Don'Nostalgiat be put off if you haven', Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need to hark back to a simpler time, when the personal stereo seemed the height of freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501322818</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 2/11 -->|author=Marjorie Orr|title=By t read the Light of a Lie|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friend, Erica, was killed in a hit-and-run accident (if, indeedprevious ones, it was an accident) but she really couldnwon't understand why she should have been in Hammersmith. She'd left her getting into matter particularly as the author provides a taxi helpful little synopsis at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane and she was on her way home start to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her way. The police didn't seem likely to pursue the case on the grounds help those, like me, that it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going are new to leave her friend unavengedthese stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956258727075156477X</amazonuk>

|author= Melissa CarusoAlice Hoffman|title= The Tethered MageRules of Magic|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction |summary= The Raverran Empire is run by a doge and the council I've read several of sevenAlice Hoffman's novels, although strangely, not the governing group formed by the aristocratic families of Eruviaone she's most famous for ''Practical Magic'', which went on to be made into a film. ''The Empire thrives from tradeRules of Magic'' is the long-awaited prequel to that book, culture and tells the obedience story of three siblings of the cities surrounding RaverraOwens family; Franny, Jet and Vincent. The Empire has obtained this power two sisters, Franny and dominance by harnessing and controlling Jet, go on to become the magic of Eruvia and all two aunts in the ''mage-markedPractical Magic'' that possess it. For years the Raverran empire has known peace, but with whispers of a rebellion, the discovery of a fire-warlock and the disappearance of children, the Empire's authority over Eruvia is in danger and war is looming on the horizonstory.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565106111471157679</amazonuk>

|author= Amanda FoodyPhilip Matyszak|title= Daughter of the Burning City24 Hours in Ancient Rome|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersHistory|summary=GomorrahI've never been that interested in Ancient Rome. Blame my teachers, a travelling circus as big as a cityor our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, tours or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the land, entertaining interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the crowds impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with fantastic shows of magiclittle to recommend them. ''Mea culpa'', illusion and sleight of handyou might say. But the proprietor of GomorrahSo when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', Villiam, believes he has a far more important role than merely organising and its claim to introduce readers to the acts in real Ancient Rome by examining the circus. He has political ambitionlives of ordinary people, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughterI decided it was high time to update my education. Growing up in And the lovely artwork on the circus, Sorina knows that she will one day become front cover made this book all the Proprietor and take over from her father. At sixteen, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiammore appealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18484554451782438564</amazonuk>

|author=L Frank Baum, Michel Laporte, Olivier Latyk and Vanessa Mieville (translator)Dallas Campbell|title=The Wizard of OzAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you''Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Hollywood any more.'' And no, indeed we are not. We are in d better study the realm whole history of L Frank Baum, and not the cinema version of this fantasy quest story. So those slippers are silver and not ruby, the companions do not human space flight to get given solid things that may imply they have achieved what they seek, and the flying monkeys played backwards do not work out up to be singing Pink Floyd records, or whatever the urban myth speed. That could take a while… if only there was. Otherwise, we're pretty much on the same, assured, solid ground, with the greyness of Kansas (in a scene handy guide that seemed to foretell of the Dust Bowl decades later) being swapped could condense it all down for the quartet of queer, questing characters, the yellow bricked road and everything else you would want of a young reader adaptation of . Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the novelplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027738X1471164055</amazonuk>

|author=Kate Jane NealSharon Bennett Connolly|title=Words and Your HeartHeroines of the Medieval World|rating=45|genre=For Sharing History|summary=TrollingMany women in medieval times left their mark on history, bullying, cyber-shaming, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act but as proof that the adage about sticks a rule they have been neglected by biographers and stones historians as there is actually a lot of piffle. In a world where we all too little surviving information for them to have hearts, we should have a heart that what we say even brief biographies to other people is positivethemselves. We can examine our world and Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing and be happy together, and bit problem by bit the world can be writing a general account on a better place. And hang the 'no, after you' attitude some people would have in response. There, I've given the entire plot of this book away in my summary, but that's not really an issuebroadly thematic basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711685301445662647</amazonuk>

|author=Matt TavaresJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|title=Red and LuluGrave Matter|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Meet Red and LuluSince Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soul. They're He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a committed couple part of cardinalshim died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. However, and they have lived for some time in someone's gardenfinding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, safely which causes Sam in an evergreen tree. It seems his grieving state to them that every year people mention their home in make a lovely song, which tells the tree ''thy leaves are so unchanging'pact with forces he doesn't understand. But one year, just Things soon turn complicated as the seasons turn supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for the cold of winter, the tree vanishes, taking Lulu with it….|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14063769221781126046</amazonuk>

|author= Nathen AminKurt Andersen|title=The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownFantasyland

|genre= History|summary= The family name Fantasyland covers the history of Beaufort played a major part America from 1517 to 2017 in British awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history during , Andersen paints the fourteenth and fifteenth centuriesconjuring of America in vivid relief. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about them until Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the appearance of this bookexhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456476481785038656</amazonuk>

|author=Susanna Tee and Santy GutierrezEmily Suvada|title=This Cookbook is GrossMortal Coil|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=The misuse of language A life threatening virus is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with a modern diseaseGovernment that many do not trust. Too many times something is described The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as awesome or stupendousthe virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the past two years, but were you truly awed since her brilliant father was rounded up by it? Or stupefied? People just seem to pluck words out of the ether State and pretend that they are taken by force to work in the correct onesnational laboratories. Are His last message to her was to hide from the recipes in Susanna Tee State and Santy Gutierrez's 'This Cookbook is Gross' truly gross? For once the language is not overplayedto trust them an inch. These recipes may taste niceSet in America, but not an America we would recognise, most of the citizens are incarcerated in appearance they are absolutely vileunderground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of the State, remain in hiding on the surface, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849382890141379278</amazonuk>