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|authorisbn=Don Behrendwilliamabbey|title=Copernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting QuestionsThe Pursuit of William Abbey|author=Claire North|rating=43.5|genre=4.5Paranormal|summary= Hello! Would this review be okay if I simply said When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOUs South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. FIN''?! Because I didA naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. And you willNever stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. |isbn=1789016770As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…}}

|isbn=19258200251643785036|title=Once, I was LovedThe Wondrous Apothecary|author=Belinda LandsberryMary E Martin

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=TockThose who have known Alexander Wainwright, the toy rabbitlandscape artist famous for his Turner prize winning ''The Hay Wagon'', and Rinaldo, is in a box of toys going to the charity shop. He realises renowned conceptual artist would say that hethey's re chalk and cheese, if not wanted any more, but muses that it wasn't always this waysworn enemies. If you've watched the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'Once''d have said that they were magnets, he saysdrawing and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable end of the artistic continuum, ''I but with Rinaldo it was all too obvious that there was loved''but a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisance. And As time has worn on, he tells us 's frequently been brought to the attention of all the children who have loved police. On this latest occasion we see him over the yearscharged with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''.

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Mary H.K. Choi|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasPermanent Record|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction Teens|summary= Pablo, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodega. He''It Would Be Night s massively in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcondebt, he's avoiding his mother , and chronicles Adelaidahe finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, he's coming surprised to terms discover that the girl he is chatting with her new solitude in this world as he serves is a super-famous pop star and her attempts to escape , as unlikely as itmay seem, they start a relationship. Danger stalks With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone, and the shadows other who is seen andfollowed and hounded by everyone all over the world, in it's an interesting clash as they come together. This isn't just a society where love story though, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smart.|isbn=00629368670349003459

|isbn=03494230671609809319|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub|author=Frances BrodyEtgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=From Christmas to Easter One day a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Crossboy is in the zoo with his father, arriving before dawn so that when the forced rhubarb it carried could be man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home first, though, no – he's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told to Covent Gardenjust stick around on his own and enjoy himself. In early March 1929 one of the porters who was unloading Well, it's no surprise that the boxes discovered orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the body of a manlad feels doesn't make him happy, stripped naked and with no means so he thinks of identification. Scotland Yard hit a dead end species name for himself, and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a child and could not come to terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murdernew exhibit. He was reluctant to give her all the information which And it's then the police held.drama begins…

|authorisbn= Stephen Baxter1785785516|title= World Engines: DestroyerFucking Good Manners|author=Simon Griffin|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionLifestyle|summary= Hundreds of years in the futureManners maketh man, on they say. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a stagnating and almost empty Earthset of conventions, a space shuttle pilot from the early days some of the 21st century is awoken from the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accidentwhich are ages old and other which have evolved over time. As he comes Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation to terms with this new worldBuckingham Palace, he begins they have nothing to realise that their history does not match what he remembers - and that only he may be able to stop do with class or financial status: they're about getting the coming catastrophe destined basics right before we try to destroy the planetdeal with more difficult matters. Until he meets a young woman who seems to Of course we all have a drive of her ownmore relaxed manners when we're with family and friends, but it's best if we learn to distinguish between our public and a planprivate lives and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the way..|isbn=1473223172

|isbn=14063893310008324859|title=In the Key of CodeFowl Twins|author=Aimee LucidoEoin Colfer|rating=45

|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across AmericaRelax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, to follow her fatherbut the baddies aren's dreams t getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of a big break in his music careerthe Fowl family to contend with. She leaves behind her friends Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and her school in Wisconsinthis, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and moves without even trying manage to California, knowing only what she has heard in songs. Her struggle make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to settle into her new lifeother people), make friends and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate toan unusual interrogator-nun. There The boys are many new opportunities chased, kidnapped, arrested and setbackseven killed (though not for long), taking all with the reader on a rollercoaster help of emotions, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongsone trainee fairy.

|isbn=15294022551472255798|title=A Body in the Bookshop The Bad Fire (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire MysteriesBob Skinner)|author=Helen CoxQuintin Jardine|rating=34.5

|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused of shoplifting from a local supermarket. It's always been assumed that she couldn't live with the scars on her faceshame. They People were acquired surprised that she committed suicide just before the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight to clear her name. She said that she'd been set up because she was rescued from a car hot on the trail of corruption in the River Ouse by Inspector Hallorancouncil. She’d been suspected of the murder of her boyfriendHer ex-husband has contacted Alex Skinner, OwenSolicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinner's daughter, and in the process of asked that she look into clearing her Brown's name she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detection. Kitt developed a taste for Inspector Halloran Too, but they’re taking : it slowly. Well, sort 's something which he feels that he has to do in memory of slowlyhis son who was murdered recently.

|authorisbn= Alexandra ChristoB07X6GLQ3Q|title= Into the Crooked PlaceSee Them Run|author=Marion Todd|rating= 4|genre= TeensCrime|summary= In D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new to St Andrew's: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station in Glasgow. She's left quite a lot behind including a world thriving relationship that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to support her when the chips were down. She also left a nasty situation, of her own making but not her fault, and St Andrew's is a fresh start. Not long into the job she's faced with black magic, four young crooks embark on a quest hit and run death and there's little doubt that it wasn't accidental - the card with the number five suggests murder. Andy Robb was married to take down their criminal leader after Sandra. You could say that they discover had an open marriage but there seemed to be a lot of the plot behind his dangerous new magic.|isbn=1250318378'open' and very little of the 'marriage' left - on both sides, but would she want him dead?

|authorisbn=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark Gill1786540991|title=Madness Between Light and DarkThe Impossible Boy|author=Ben Brooks|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=It's 1912, 'Oleg and at New Hope SanatoriumEmma entered their den to find a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually sat. Slowly, Christine Agnes Tupper is fast growing upthe front door opened. Smoke billowed out. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of her hunchbackAnd out stepped a boy, dressed in a long coat with an even longer scarf, shewound around his neck.''  ''"My name's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with a good heartSebastian Cole," the boy said, "But you already know that."'' And indeed they do. Her encounters with Ever since the inhabitants of the asylum swiftly take summer, when their friend Sarah's mother had moved her on a fascinatingaway, thrilling Oleg and sometimes terrifying journey of self discovery, allowing Agnes Emma have been unable to prove that, even with find a twisted spine, new friend to take her heart is in the right place!|isbn=1641110708.

|isbn=190874572X1447281357|title=Letters from ToveSalvation Lost|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)Peter F Hamilton|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary=Back at the beginning of In the twenty-third century I went , humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on holiday Earth is about to Nepalchange, forever. I met a wonderful Finnish woman Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we became sort of friends. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or a later one that Paula told me I really had ve almost no time to read Tove Janssonfight back. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Booksupposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, and that I eagerly awaited in order to carry us to their god at the ''Sort Of'' translations end of the rest of Jansson's work and devoured them universe. And as soon as I could get my hands their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on themjust one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see.

|isbn=17847427831471186393|title=The Benefit Photographer of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler)the Lost|author=Susan HillCaroline Scott|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky and - all things considered - his life is as good as it could beMay 1921. He's back at work after Edie receives a long break to recuperate from photograph through the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his lifepost. When he's not at work he's spending his time in the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restoredThere is no letter or note with it. There's talk is nothing written on the back of an exhibition of his drawingsthe photograph. Lafferton seems to be quite settled as far as crime It is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelterpicture of her husband, Francis. It's the usual story of a broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a callFrancis has been missing for four years. The man are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that the couple are simply there to plan a robberyyoung widow can believe. ItShe hangs on the word 'missing's a serious error of judgement in , disbelieving the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubtword killed.

|isbn=140638853X1783784350|title=Somebody Give This Heart a PenGolden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Sophia ThakurEsther Rutter

|genre=AnthologiesHistory|summary=Sophia ThakurIt was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in her office job, writing to people she's debut anthology is d never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January was going to be a collection of poems time for making changes and she decided that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, she would travel the length or theme. The collection is split into four sectionsand breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, titled discovering and telling the story of wool'grows history and how it had made and changed the landscape. She',d grown up on a sheep farm in Suffolk - 'wait',a free range child on the farm'break'- and 'grow again'learned to spin, guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging knit and weave from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbsher mother and her mother's friend. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put was in her heart and soul intoblood.

|isbn=19109894601401286208|title=FlemberBlack Canary: The Secret BookIgnite|author=Jamie SmartMeg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=3.5

|summary=A mysterious islandMeet Dinah Lance. A strange Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and mystical power called Flemberfollow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. A boy-inventor called DevYou could almost call it a weapon, who uncovers or a long forgotten secretpower. And But in order for her to call herself a giantsuperhero, red robot bear?! The sleepy village there has to be a whole path of Eden is about steps for her to descend take – one of which will be into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventure.her past…

|isbn=02413552221789017977|title=FrostheartRonnie and Hilda's Romance: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Jamie LittlerWendy Williams|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersHistory|summary=Way out in Ronnie Williams was the furthest part son of the Thomas Henry Williams (known worldas Harry) and Ethel Wall. There's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or even Harry's birthdate: he claimed to have been born in 1863, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut few years off from the rest of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Seahis age. There, For a little boy called Ash waits for while the return of his parents, singing a forbidden lullaby family was quite well-to remind him of them... -do but disaster struck in the 1929 Depression and doing his best five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust to avoid his a very, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobudifferent lifestyle. But life is about One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to get a whole lot more crazybe well-turned-adventurous for Ashout and this would stay with him throughout his life. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers, he's whisked aboard He joined the Frostheart, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his helparmy at eighteen in 1942. But can they help him find his family?

|isbn=19131010371542015421|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte MettlestoneRoyal Baths Murder|author=Jaclyn MoriartyJ R Ellis|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Bronte doesnWhen Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage of suspects: he was a deeply unpleasant man. In fact the only surprising thing was that there wasn't miss her parents, and she's not particularly sad when she learns more of their terrible fate at a queue waiting to do the hands dirty deed. What was a bit of pirates. And why should she be? After all, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be a convenient arrangement for either party) when she headline maker was a baby. They swanned off to have adventures, and never once came back to check if their only child that Penrose was healthy and happy.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1401280048|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, crime writer and suchlike – reminding him that hewas strangled in the midst of Harrogate's crime writing festival. He went for a billionaire swim at the age of eighteenRoyal Baths and never returned, his body being found by the receptionist. Feeling rather stuck DCI Jim Oldroyd was the man tasked with investigating the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deedscrime. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as It would not be the authorities are concernedonly death, and gets given the most unlikely stretch it was only because of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns quick actions of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkershis sergeant, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they canAndy Carter, and murder the owner. Can he get close to that Oldroyd's was not one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?.

|isbnauthor=B07W4MNBSGDaniel Kraus|title=Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy MumfreyBlood Sugar

|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and This is a group difficult read. And not because of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When youthe dark subject matter – that're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, ll come later – but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marrybecause of the way in which it's told. This might put a lot of readers off, and to be honest it'd be hard to blame them. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and Kraus tells the idea of living story in a farmhouse distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; an erratic dialect with heavy and having a couple of children called Will frequent slang. The immediate effect is disorientating and Olly appealed to Charlottedistracting, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined it takes some time to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothamfeel natural. The place It's a struggle to acclimatise to Jody's voice, to start their search was obviously get acquainted with his mannerisms, but the Young Farmersstory wouldn' Halloween disco that weekendt be the same without it, and somehow it works. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the classIt shouldn't, but it does.|isbn=1789091934

|author=Michael J MaloneDon Behrend|title=In The Absence of MiraclesCopernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Other Interesting Questions|rating=4.5|genre=Trivia|summary= Hello! Would this review be okay if I simply said ''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU. FIN''?! Because I did. And you will. |isbn=1789016770}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1925820025|title=Once, I was Loved|author=Belinda Landsberry

|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=John DochertyTock, the toy rabbit, is in a box of toys going to the charity shop. He realises that he's mother has been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke. It is thought unlikely not wanted any more, but muses that she will ever be able to live independently againit wasn't always this way. Faced with having to sell the family home in order to pay for her nursing care''Once'', Docherty starts the clear out. In the attic he finds a childhood picture of himselfsays, holding a toddler – a toddler he knows nothing about''I was loved''. He also finds a blood-stained shoeAnd he tells us of all the children who have loved him over the years.|isbn=191237479X

|isbnauthor=0692853545Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)|title=The Things We Do|author=Kay PfaltzIt Would Be Night in Caracas|rating=4|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction |summary= ''ItWould Be Night in Caracas''s 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is a prison psychologist at illuminates the state penitentiary and she knows that her next patient is not going to be easyeveryday horrors of modern day Venezuela. 'Jane Doe' has been convicted of It begins with the murder death of two men - one a police officer. She pleaded guilty Adelaida Falcon's mother and since then has been silent: even her identity is in doubt. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrested, but itchronicles Adelaida's been proved coming to be false. There seem terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts to be no family or friends who are missing herescape it. Eleanor's task Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is to get Jane talkingcrumbling, who can you turn to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two men.? |isbn=0062936867

|authorisbn=Patti Smith0349423067|title=Year of The Body on the MonkeyTrain (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyCrime (Historical)|summary=On From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Cross, arriving before dawn so that the coast forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929 one of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrowa man, stripped naked and unexpected momentswith no means of identification. In Scotland Yard hit a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, it's dead end and called on the year services of Kate Shackleton in the monkey''hope that her knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. As Smith wanders Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to terms with the coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, fact that she reflects on was now a year that brings huge shifts woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her life - loss and aging are faced head on, as it all the information which the shifting political waters in Americapolice held. |isbn=1526614758

|author=Margaret AtwoodStephen Baxter|title=The TestamentsWorld Engines: Destroyer|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Science Fiction|summary= Finally! Almost forty Hundreds of years in the future, ona stagnating and almost empty Earth, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. I don't want to tell you too much about space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the plot because it's cryogenic sleep he entered after a novel that is entirely plot drivendevastating accident. Suffice it As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to say realise that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, their history does not knowing match what will happen nexthe remembers - and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, Until he meets a young woman who is secretly writing seems to have a drive of her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnesown, and a girl brought up in Gilead with the expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parentsplan...|isbn=17847423251473223172