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|isbnauthor=1785785516Chris Hauty|title=Fucking Good MannersDeep State|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of fighter, and well-trained in most of them. She's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and physically, and she knows how to deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605}}{{Frontpage|author=Simon GriffinH G Parry |title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=Manners maketh Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley a man, they saywho is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set After years of conventionsprotecting Charley, some Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of which are ages old both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and other which have evolved over timeintends to use them for nefarious gains. Manners are not about how much Rob and Charley must team up to tip or how you should behave if you get an invitation stop the madness - in a battle to Buckingham Palacewin before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1444776185|title=Haven't they have nothing Grown|author=Sophie Hannah|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to do with class or financial status: a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. theyActually, It's a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that she didn're about getting t find herself in this neck of the basics right woods very often and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before we try to deal with more difficult mattersthey'd all lost contact twelve years ago. Of course we all And it might have more relaxed manners when we're gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with family two children she called Thomas and friends, Emily. Beth remembered the names well - but itthese children were about three and five and Flora's best if we learn to distinguish between our public children - Thomas and private lives Emily - would now be fifteen and to act appropriately. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims to help us on the wayseventeen.

|isbn=00083248591529123763|title=Fowl TwinsMiss Austen|author=Eoin ColferGill Hornby

|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two letters which she and other members of the Fowl extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. What is not known is ''why'' she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to contend forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us withsome possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rory Clements|title=Hitler's Secret|rating=3. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and5|genre=Thrillers|summary=So, franklyHitler had a secret? Two, cute no longer) and if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersion. But thisis a secret that is counter to that, their first independent adventure, they meet and in fact is a troll and without secret that Hitler himself doesn't even trying manage know about. His neice, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to make two deadly enemies: in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever false identity ever since, the cost (to other people)girl is completely ignorant of her past, and an unusual interrogator-nunthe truth is a very rare thing. The boys are chased Martin Bormann, kidnappedthe 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right hand man, arrested knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and even killed (though not for long), removing all connected with her existence from the help of one trainee fairyReich. So it's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time.|isbn=1838770275

|isbn=14722557980241985110|title=The Bad Fire All the Rage (Bob SkinnerD I Fawley)|author=Quintin JardineCara Hunter

|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on the outskirts of shoplifting from a local supermarketOxford. It She didn's always been assumed that t want to go to the police station or the hospital: she couldnjust wanted to be taken home. The driver wasn't live with so certain though - and after dropping the shame. People were surprised that she committed suicide just before girl at home he went to the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight police, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to clear Faith Appleford and her namemother. She said Both were adamant that shethis was nothing more than an April Fool'd s joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been set up because she was hot on committed and Faith didn't want to take the trail of corruption in the councilmatter any further. Her ex-husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinner Fawley and his team weren's daughter, t prepared to leave it at that and asked they began investigating. What they found strange was that she look into clearing BrownFaith Appleford didn's name: it's something which he feels that he has t seem to do in memory have much of his son who was murdered recentlya history.

|isbn=B07X6GLQ3Q1529400279|title=See Them RunSix Wicked Reasons|author=Marion ToddJo Spain|rating=4.5

|summary=D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to St Andrew's: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station in GlasgowSpanish Cove after an absence of ten years. SheThe family had thought him dead - in fact, that's left quite a lot behind including a relationship that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to support her when what the chips were downprivate detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. She also left a nasty situation He was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed content, of her own making but if not her faulthappy, to be home. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and St Andrewhe's is a fresh start. Not long into d seen the job she's faced with a hit and run death and there's little doubt that it wasnin memoriam''t accidental - in the card with paper: this was the number five suggests murderfirst he'd heard about what had happened. Andy Robb was married His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delighted. In fact, he's determined to have a party. Only, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has to Sandrabe about him. You could say that they had He has an open marriage but there seemed announcement to be a lot of the 'openmake - it' s nine years since Kathleen died and very little of the he'marriages been lonely. He' left - on both sidess met Ana, a Polish immigrant, but would she want him dead?and they're getting married.

|isbnauthor=1786540991Penny Chrimes|title=The Impossible Boy|author=Ben BrooksTiger Heart

|summary=''Oleg and Emma entered their den Fly never meant to find end up in the cage with a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually satman-eating tiger. SlowlyShe just saw her chance to skedaddle, the front door opened. Smoke billowed outand she took it. And out stepped even when the cloud of soot cleared and she saw the golden eyes of a boykiller staring into hers, dressed in a long coat with an even longer scarf, wound around his neckshe still didn't turn round and climb back up the chimney straightaway.''  ''"My name's Sebastian Cole," Cos there was worse waiting for her back on the boy said, "But you already know thatroof."'' What an opener! And indeed they do. Ever since the summer, when their friend Sarahthere's mother had moved her away, Oleg and Emma have been unable plenty more to find a new friend to take her place.come!|isbn=1510107045

|isbnauthor=1447281357Tanya Landman|title=Salvation Lost|author=Peter F HamiltonJane Eyre: a Retelling|rating=45|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=In the twenty-third centuryA young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, humanity is enjoying and years in a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered have something like the worst threat ever to face mankind life she wants – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanitywith only one job, in order to carry us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earthtutor a young half-French girl, vast warships converge above to gather this cargowhose father is almost always absent. Some factions push for humanity When he does turn up he seems to fleebe dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in time. But others refuse to break before the stormhouse. As disaster looms Yes, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from if you know Jane Eyre then you know the face of creation. Even rest – but if it means preparing you don't, for whatever reason, this is a future this generation will never seewonderful book to turn to.|isbn=1781129126

|isbnauthor=1471186393T R Hendrick|title=Photographer of the Lost|author=Caroline ScottWhat if They Knew|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=May 1921It's 2025. Edie receives Underneath a photograph through lodge in the post. There Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvania, is no letter or note with ita secret facility. There is nothing written Here, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on the back behalf of the photographBenefactor, their anonymous funder. It is a picture of her husbandAlready, Francisthe team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to another. Francis But, unbeknownst to the Benefactor, Dr Benton has been missing also coded for four yearsanother type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And he's ready to test. TechnicallyIf successful, he Benton has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killed. very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211

|isbnauthor=1783784350Catherine Steadman|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted History|author=Esther RutterMr Nobody|rating=54|genre=HistoryThrillers|summary=It was December Don't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and Esther Rutter was stuck writer, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her office job, writing as to people shemy mind the 'fight scene'd never met and preparing spreadsheets. The job frustrated her and even her knitting did not soothe her mind. January at the end was going to be a time for making changes and she decided that she would travel somewhat unrealistic – you know the length and breadth of kind where the British Isles with occasional forays abroad, discovering and telling the story of woolhero has been hurt so many times that it's history and how it had made and changed the landscape. Shevirtually impossible they'd grown up on still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a sheep farm steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in Suffolk - '' a free range child on frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost as if the farm'' - and learned author wanted to spin, knit and weave from her mother and her mother's friend. This keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to do in her bloodthe closing stages.|isbn=1984890646

|isbn=14012862081473681847|title=Black Canary: IgniteIn Her Eyes|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGeeSarah Alderson|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Dinah LanceAva lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. Frustrated that One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her policeman father will not allow bedtime routine, her to try home, and follow her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at schoolare demanding money from her husband, she is desperate to find while her voiceyoung daughter cowers beside him. But it's actually more a case of her voice finding herIn the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, as when badly. When she wakes up in hospital she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call barely remember what happened, but she knows it a weapon, or a powerwas life-changing. But in order With her daughter still fighting for her to call herself life in a superheroroom down the corridor, there Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to be a whole path of steps for recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to take – one of which will be into her past…piece together what happened and why.

|isbnauthor=1789017977Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Ronnie and Hilda's RomanceWonder Woman: Warbringer: Towards a New Life after World War II|author=Wendy WilliamsThe Graphic Novel|rating=43|genre=HistoryTeens|summary=Ronnie Williams was Diana, being unique on her island, is the son victim of a lot of Thomas Henry Williams (known as Harry) taunts, and Ethel Wallclaims of nepotism. ThereIt's some doubt as to whether or not they were ever married or only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even Harry's birthdate: he claimed though she has clearly fought to have been born in 1863be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, but he was already many years older than Ethel and he might well have shaved a few years off his agethis Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. For A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a while running race, but the family was quite well-to-do but disaster struck in survivor she drags from the 1929 Depression and five-year-old Ronnie had to adjust waters is only going to disturb a very different lifestylelot more. One thing he did inherit from his father was his need to be well-turned-out and this would stay with him throughout his life. He joined the army at eighteen in 1942.|isbn=1401282555

|isbn=15420154211786075695|title=The Royal Baths MurderWhen the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=J R EllisHelen Sedgwick|rating=3.5

|summary=When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage of suspects: he was a deeply unpleasant man. In fact It began with the only surprising thing was that there wasn't more discovery of a queue waiting to do body under the dirty deed. What was a bit of a headline maker was that Penrose was a crime writer and that he was strangled swings in the midst of Harrogatechildren's crime writing festivalplayground. He went for a swim at the Royal Baths It was Dr Alexis Crosse and never returned, his body being he was found by the receptionistPC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason to mistrust him. DCI Jim Oldroyd Crosse was the man tasked a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with investigating the crimeforeigners), a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsider. It would not be the DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you've only deathgot to look at her skin to realise that, and it was only because of the quick actions of his sergeanther husband, Fergus, Andy Carterwell, that Oldroydhe's was a little strange too, not one of thementirely ''here''.

|author=Daniel KrausAlastair Chisholm|title=Blood SugarOrion Lost|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=This is Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for a difficult readnew life on Eos Five. And not because of the dark subject matter – thatTheir new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn'll come later – but because of the way in which it's told. This might put a lot of readers off, and t going to be honest easy, but it'd be hard to blame them. Kraus tells the story in a distinctive voice unlike any other I've read; an erratic dialect with heavy and frequent slang. The immediate effect is disorientating and distracting, and it takes some time '' going to feel naturalbe a fresh start. ItAs Beth's a struggle to acclimatise to Jodymum puts it, ''There's voice, a future waiting for us. A chance to get acquainted with his mannerismsmake our own decisions, but the story wouldncreate our own lives.'t be the same without it, and somehow it works. It shouldn't, but it does.|isbn=17890919341788005929

|authorisbn=Don Behrend0753553236|title=Copernicus! What Have You Done?Tiny Habits: ...and Other Interesting QuestionsThe Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J Fogg|rating=4.5|genre=TriviaLifestyle|summary= Hello! Would this review be okay if I simply said Go on, admit it - you''I LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOUre not quite perfect. FIN''?! Because I did. And You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (to you will) habits that seem to annoy other people. |isbn=1789016770}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1925820025|title=OnceOther people, I was Loved|author=Belinda Landsberry|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tockof course, the toy rabbitare sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, is in if only they would make just a box little bit of toys going to the charity shopeffort. He realises that he's not wanted any Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more, but muses that it wasn't always this waythan I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. ''Once'', he says, ''I was loved''constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. And he tells us Lack of all the children who have loved him over willpower is another burden to add to the yearslist.

|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)B T Keaton|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasTransference

|genre= Literary Science Fiction |summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to die, stranded on a mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against the Church, the ruling body of Earth. Except he's not Barrabus Madzimure, he'It Would Be Night s Thaniel Kilraven in CaracasBarrabus Madzimure'' illuminates s body. Such is the everyday horrors magic of modern day Venezuela. It begins with Transference, the death of Adelaida Falconability to transplant a person's mother soul or consciousness into a different body - and chronicles Adelaidaa power that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn's coming t have enough things to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts worry about, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to escape itinterrogate him. Danger stalks the shadows All Thaniel wants is to see his family again, andhe'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? hell of a fight...|isbn=0062936867B082WPHTHH

|isbnauthor=0349423067Christine Brown|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyBucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West Africa

|genre=Crime (Historical)Travel|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Cross, arriving before dawn so that In the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929 one summer of the porters who 2008, this book's author was unloading spending her days working in an office job in the boxes discovered the body of a manUSA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, stripped naked and with no means of identificationWest Africa. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called on Now coincidentally, in the services summer of Kate Shackleton 2010, this review's author was spending ''her'' days working in the hope that her knowledge and connections an office job (albeit in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered UK) while spending ''her as a child '' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and could not come to terms with the fact that ''she was now a woman experienced '' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in dealing with murderSierra Leone, West Africa. He So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was reluctant delighted to give her all have the information which the police heldopportunity to read and critique it.|isbn=171024299X

|author= Stephen BaxterMark Lingane|title= World Engines: DestroyerDegrade (Tesla Expansion)|rating= 4|genre= Science FictionTeens|summary= Hundreds of years ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerface, banging action. Poor Arid, alone in the futuredesert since his parents were killed, on has a stagnating narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from his is pretty much destroyed. He finds himself rescued by the early days of mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the 21st century is awoken from ''Moonlight'' under the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accidentsuspicious eyes of its leader, Queen Bea. As Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he comes to terms with this new world, tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he begins to realise can find out why that their history does not match what he remembers is, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her ownother daughter, Frey, and a planstranded in the desert...|isbn=1473223172099461649X

|isbn=1406389331B07XLM3SM6|title=In Murder at the Key of CodeDolphin Hotel|author=Aimee LucidoHelena Dixon

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime (Historical)|summary=Emmy is moving with Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her parents halfway across Americadaughter, to follow Kitty, in the care of her father's dreams grandmother. A great deal of a big break in his music career. She leaves behind money had been spent to find out what happened to her friends and her school in Wisconsinthe conclusion was that she was dead, and moves mainly because there was no evidence to California, knowing only what she suggest otherwise. Kitty has heard in songs. Her struggle come to settle into her new life, make friends terms with this and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had toleave to look after her sister who was ill. There are many new opportunities She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and setbacksKitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, taking boating people and the reader naval college on a rollercoaster the edge of emotions, but it isntown before - and she't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that s done every job in the hotel. And she begins particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to feel she might have a chance keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to feel like she truly belongstake charge of security at the hotel.

|isbnauthor=1529402255|title=A Body in the Bookshop Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteriestranslator)|authortitle=Helen CoxThe Honjin Murders|rating=3.54

|summary= Evie Bowes To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is very conscious of enough to make the book one to read; preferably quantified by the scars on her facewords 'clever' or 'good'. They were acquired when she was rescued from a car For those who need more, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan in the River Ouse by Inspector Halloran1930s. She’d been suspected The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting married, although the murder of whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great haste. She only has an uncle representing her boyfriendfamily, Owenfor one thing. Either way, and in the process of clearing her name she and her best friendcelebrations have gone ahead as planned, Kitt Hartley developed a taste only for detectionthe wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriage. Kitt developed What with a taste for Inspector Halloran Tooman missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, but they’re taking it slowly. Welland some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, sort this case has a lot of slowlythe peculiar about it.|isbn=1782275002

|author= Alexandra ChristoCixin Liu|title= Into the Crooked PlaceDeath's End|rating= 45|genre= TeensScience Fiction|summary= In a world thriving with black magicIf I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, four young crooks embark I would have put it back on the shelf. Not because I didn't want to read it, but because I'd have figured out that it was the final part of a trilogy. Coming in partway through a quest saga is never the easiest thing to take down their criminal leader after do and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they discover the plot behind will) but there are whole concepts that you won't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his dangerous new magicrange is phenomenal. George R R Martin, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All of that and more.|isbn=12503183781784971650

|authorisbn=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark Gill1780894511|title=Madness Between Light and DarkDie Alone|author=Simon Kernick|rating=3.54|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=ItRay Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's 1912in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop, he's something of a target, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped and at New Hope Sanatorium, Christine Agnes Tupper Mason is fast growing upinjured in a riot. Abandoned there On his way to hospital he's broken free by parents who were ashamed of her hunchback, shearmed men and an offer is made to him. He's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with a good heart. Her encounters with assassinate the inhabitants of man who is likely to become the asylum swiftly take her on country's next prime minister and he'll then be given a fascinatingnew identity so that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6, thrilling but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and sometimes terrifying journey of self discovery, allowing Agnes he has personal reasons to prove believe that, even with a twisted spine, her heart is in the right place!|isbn=1641110708it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was dead.