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|authorisbn=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton1838593187|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria Thompson|rating=34.5|genre=TeensFor Sharing|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the victim of a lot of tauntsclassroom, pigtails flapping behind her and claims of nepotisma big grin on her face. ItDad's only come to collect her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that brother and he ''has her with any standing at all'' to try to guess what she found in the playground today, her naysayers declare – even though although she has clearly fought concedes that he will never guess. Dad wants to be a strong young womanknow how school was, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Perhaps too strong Could Tilly have found more collectable things for the islandher scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of MenTilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, glittered paper and this Diana is the heroine all sorts of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs other things in her leading performance in a running racepocket, but the survivor that's not what she drags from the waters is only going wants Dad to disturb a lot more.guess..|isbn=1401282555

|isbnauthor=1786075695Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=Helen SedgwickYes No Maybe So |rating=54|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It began ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with the discovery of campaigning in time for a body under the swings in the children's playgroundspecial election. It was Dr Alexis Crosse and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved When his mother encourages him deeplyto go canvassing, but who had reason to mistrust himhe can't think of anything worse. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)However, Jaime has always wanted to be a community which regards anyone not born politician and brought up decides there as an outsideris no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. DI Georgie Strachan Maya is an outsider a Pakistani- you've American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separation, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only got close friend is permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to look at buy her skin a car if she agrees to realise thatgo canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, and her husbandas neither of them really want to be there, Fergus, wellbut as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, he's a little strange toolot, not entirely ''here''.about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668

|author=Alastair ChisholmGregg Hurwitz|title=Orion LostInto The Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for Grant Merriweather is a new life on Eos Fiveforensic accountant. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy Or rather, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, but it ''is'' going his friend pleading with the medics to be a fresh startkeep him alive. As Beth's mum puts it, ''There's He was needed alive just long enough to give up a future waiting for usname. A chance to make our own decisions His cousin, create our own livesMax.''|isbn=17880059290718185501

|isbn=07535532361529124395|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingWhen You See Me|author=B J FoggLisa Gardner|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Go onFor Janet and Chuck, admit it - you're not quite perfectwas a hiking break in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find a stick. You still have those oddWhat he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, quirky, even loveable (to you) habits that seem to annoy other peoplealong with Sergeant D D Warren. Other people, Both women were experienced in this type of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which rather gruesome work but they could so easily correctalso called on the services of Keith Edgar, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another waycomputer analyst, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try Flora Dane who brought something unique to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the conceptstable. I constantly fail Flora had been kidnapped and then I get cross with myself held for failing472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. Lack of willpower is another burden If Ness had anything to add do with the current discoveries then what Flora had to the listsay could be invaluable.

|authorisbn= B T Keaton1529009677|title= TransferenceA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers|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 EarthTom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. Except he It's not Barrabus Madzimurejust the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: hewas driving his father's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus MadzimureAudi and at sixteen wasn's bodyt legally entitled to drive. Such is the magic of Transference, Not only did he kill himself when the ability to transplant a person's soul or consciousness car rammed into a different body tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year- and a power that the Church has exclusive control overold Fiona Connor. As if Thaniel doesn Tom can't have enough things to worry think about, Michael without a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate himsense of shame and guilt. All Thaniel Rachel is broken, but she wants is to see his family againforgive Michael. To give some space, and heTom'll stop at nothing to accomplish thiss moved out of the family home, but the Church isn't going stresses to give in without a hell of his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a fight.trial separation..|isbn=B082WPHTHH

|authorisbn=Christine Brown0241985153|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaThe House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=43.5|genre=TravelThrillers|summary=In We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the summer of 2008, this book's author woman who was spending her days working in an office job alone in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africa. Now coincidentally, in house is taken away by the summer of 2010police, this reviewbut it's author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) going to be a while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted to have the opportunity to read and critique itbefore we learn exactly what has happened.|isbn=171024299X

|author=Mark LinganeStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Orphans of the Tide|rating=45|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to go wreak havoc on - with inyerface, banging actionthe last of humanity. Poor AridWhen a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whale, alone in the desert since his parents were killedcitizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out and his is pretty much destroyedgirl inventor. He finds himself rescued by As the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the suspicious eyes of its leaderboy, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before Ellie must prove that he can find out why that is, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella innocent - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and even if it means revealing her other daughterdeepest, Frey, stranded in the desertdarkest secrets....|isbn= 099461649X0241384435

|isbn=B07XLM3SM60008297169|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelThe Guest List|author=Helena DixonLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, leaving her daughteroff the Irish coast, Kittymight have been enough to put some guests off, in but it was the care wedding of her grandmotherthe year. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was deadWill Slater (television personality, mainly because there if not yet a celebrity) was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was illruined chapel on the island. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. SheThe bride's always coped with the mix of holidaymakerssister, Olivia, boating people would be her only bridesmaid and the naval college on the edge of town before - wedding planner and chef are Aoife and she's done every job in the hotelher husband, Freddy. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in They gave a huge discount to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired get the couple to take charge of security at the hotel.island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?

|authorisbn=B07ZGL6B1B|title=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai In Plain Sight (translatorD I Clare Mackay)|titleauthor=The Honjin MurdersMarion Todd|rating=4.5

|summary=To many readers, It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolen. They were there for the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make fun run and their attention was taken by the book one NEFEW protesters who tried to read; preferably quantified by disrupt the words 'clever' or 'good'race. For those who need more, here is the extra background – weThey're in rural Japan in against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family firm is belatedly getting married, although sponsoring the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great hastefun run. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thingIt was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Either wayHer daughter, the celebrations have gone ahead as plannedsix-month-old Abi, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before the sun rises on their marriagehad been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. What with It's a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crimeheart problem: without it, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itshe might have only forty-eight hours to live.|isbn=1782275002

|authorisbn=Cixin Liu1471180921|title=Death's EndFirewatching|author=Russ Thomas

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= If I'd been paying more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the shelf. Not because I didnCold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he't want s lucky to read itbe there, but because I'd have figured out given that it was the final part of he decked a trilogysuperior officer. Coming in partway through a saga is never the easiest thing to do and it He's particularly true there because Tyler came off worse in science fiction because without knowing the backexchange -story there are not just people whose names mean nothing 's a scar on his face to you (when prove it- and the superior officer was forced to take early retirement. There's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts a suggestion too that you wonTyler't understand. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Lius godmother (she's work – on the force too) has looked after him and that his range current boss is phenomenalkeen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pride. George R R MartinEither way, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as he''a unique blend of scientific and philosophical speculations there, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All of that and morebut without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.|isbn=1784971650

|isbnauthor=1780894511A K Larkwood|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickThe Unspoken Name|rating=4|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Ray Mason What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a copgod? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, he's something of a targetyet when the opportunity arises, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped she chooses to abandon everything she knows and Mason is injured in a riotflee with her life. On his way to hospital heWho can blame her? Her god's broken free by armed men reach is limited and an offer is made Csorwe intends to him. He's to assassinate the man who stay far beyond it, yet fate is likely to become a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the country's next prime minister and he'll then be given a new identity so reach of her god Csorwe learns that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6her god remembers her, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadblames her very much indeed.|isbn=1250238900

|author=Akwaeke EmeziM G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title=PetThe Highland Falcon Thief|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are goneHarrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journey. Their children are raised to understand that they were saved by Although, this isn't any old train; this is the angelsHighland Falcon, those who rid the town of evilroyal train, and there are no monsters anymorethis is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. But one dayA number of high-society figures, including film stars, Jam accidentally cuts herself millionaires and bleeds a little onto one of her mother's paintings. The blood awakens a bizarrearistocrats, terrifying-looking creature named Petwill be on this train, who somehow comes to life and declares that so it is here to hunt quite the event on the monstersocial calendar. Though Jam tries to convince it that all the monsters are goneHowever, Pet when an expensive brooch is certain stolen, Hal realises that there is onemaybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, still, and that Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the monster is hiding in train gets to the home end of her best friend, Redemptionthe line.|isbn=05713551101529013062

|isbn=16867516800008275246|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresPerfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanHelen Fields

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Which child doesn't think When Maggie Campbell realised that their mother isher son, wellBart, ''weird''? was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. It Bart might be that in the morning their twenty but he was considerate of his mother doesnand wouldn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when youhave stayed out all night without letting her know. Besides, he didn're at your brightest t have his phone with lots to say? him and he wouldn't have gone far without that. It''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then theres not long before Bart realises that he's doing yoga in front of the televisionalone, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about what goes on trapped in the bathroom a shipping container and the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges and franklyon his way to France, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on the wallwhere his fate has already been decided. I mean, what else would you use paint for?

|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukAlyssa Sheinmel|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?Kind of Girl|rating=4|genre=For SharingWomen's Fiction|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But now, it's time, to be sure'' <br>Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you'For an entirely different adventurere not'' <br>

I hope you havenWhen Mike Parker't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If you're s girlfriend comes into school with a parent at leastblack eye, you'll know how claiming he gave it is to persuade an excited small person that yesher, it her whole world is in fact time for bedtipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she''What Wonders DoYou See...'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead s the talk of trying to persuade them that night time is a calm time, it takes a slightly different tack. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limitthe school. But Mike was the trick most popular boy in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that you can easily fall asleep , so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and open the door some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to itblow over any time soon. |isbn=194812422X 0349003297

|author=Michael HarrisHolly Rivers|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= This Demelza Clock is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it a scientist, often staying up late to be another self-help manual work on how her various gadgets, much to find calmher Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, how the ability to step outside summon the mainstream, but it is not that at all. Instead ghosts of telling us how it is more about the ''why''recently deceased. Harries examines how we're eroding solitudeUnder the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, which used Demelza begins to be master her newfound skills. However, there is a natural part of our human lifemysterious individual on the prowl, and why that matterskidnapping young Spectre Detectors. Of course, he talks about how some people have found solitude It's up to Demelza and what has come of that, and eventually in her best friend Percy to get to the final chapter he talks about his own experience bottom of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him...|isbn=18479476621912626039

|authorisbn=Andy Briggs1787477533|title=Ctrl+SThe Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= Life in the near futureEverything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's not all bad. Weno longer providing assistance to the police and isn've reversed global warming and fixed t even working at the collapsing bee populationUniversity of North Norfolk. We even created SPACE, a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desire. But almost anything isn She't enough for somes lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Every day Her daughter, normal people are being takenKatie, their emotions harvested - and lives traded - to create death-defying thrills for the rich has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and twistedlife is looking good. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared Settled. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail of clues She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, heKatie'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has to offer: polices father, AI Bots because Katie sees him regularly and anarchists - as well as there's a criminal empire close relationship with his family. You might ''almost'' think that will kill to stop him finding her . . Ruth's life is settling down.|isbn=1409184641

|isbn=1609809378183895015X|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Rabbits' RebellionDiaries of a Prisoner|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellAtkins|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=WeDocumentary filmmakers don're in t usually get the realm run of establishments within the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits don't existMountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are after getting involved in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey an illegal tax scheme to be fund his official portrait photographerlatest film, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is Chris Atkins was invited for a distinct leporine hintfive-year stay. Can King Wolf succeed The first nine months were spent in proving himself victoriousHMP Wandsworth, can which is probably the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – oldest, largest and what can the poor monkey caught most dysfunctional prison in between do?Europe.

|isbn=1250168546|author=Innosanto NagaraSarah Kozloff|title=M is for MovementA Queen In Hiding|rating=43|genre=Emerging ReadersFantasy|summary=Set in IndonesiaWorld-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, in the not too distant pastthen, this is to get a story about social changenovel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Dealing Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with some difficult issuesa complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, such as political corruption and nepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachycharacters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when But it seems that they will fail. The message is 's a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain worldI could – and did – eagerly buy into, we do still have and the power struggle of each Queen to instigate changediscover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.|isbn=1609809351

|isbn=17807240471543987877|title=A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J Conradi|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=I struggle Learn to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin''Love: given that I've never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably both, I was expecting a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, Sky. Bradley and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one of them. I knew that I was in safe hands.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785769294|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardellini)Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Robert JeffreysDr Thomas Jordan

|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=It's when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly 'Learn to Love: Guide to a teacherHealing Your Disappointing Love Life''s bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wronga book about love relationships rather than a book about love. Nowadays The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the opposite of grief: ''if you love''might, Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 '. Your love relationships begin the moment you're born and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the part of the childworld hoping to give and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. The boy would be safe that night though Some people suffer multiple disappointments - albeit in sometimes repeating the most horrific fashionsame mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found For people who are making the man dead on the floorsame mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the top form of his skull missing. The school's initial reaction was that this was resignation is a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet that had killed the Captainnecessity.

|isbn=1786695227|title=Invisible in a Bright Light|author=Sally Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick with it – Ms. Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason, Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912374854Chris Hauty|title=Violet|author=S J I HollidayDeep State|rating=3.5

|summary=I've never been but understand that travelling Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is all about meeting new people every kind of fighter, and forming instantaneous bonds with people well-trained in often chance situationsmost of them. Well, thatShe's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket army infantry and she boxes for the Trans-Siberian train fun – and Violet she wins. Always. She wins because she is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journeyfocussed. As the two team upShe works hard, travelling through Mongoliamentally and physically, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been she knows how to deal with the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all pain. She is not so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation, and toxic friendshipsmuch cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605

|isbnauthor=1912374838H G Parry |title=Nothing Important Happened Today|author=Will CarverThe Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep

|summary=Nothing Important Happened Today 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 who is a darkblessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years of protecting Charley, twisted, difficult readRob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. Stories about cults often areAs literary characters begin to appear everywhere, but this is different; itsoon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's written with powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a sense of style that is quite unlike anything I've read battle to win before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an oddthey, distinctive narrative voice. While a slim the characters and relatively small book, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages.world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777

|isbn= williamabbey1444776185|title=The Pursuit of William AbbeyHaven't they Grown|author=Claire NorthSophie Hannah|rating=34.5|genre=ParanormalThrillers|summary=When William Abbey fails It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to prevent the lynching of a young boy football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in 1880Hemingford Abbots. Actually, It's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the shadow grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the dead boy begins woods very often and she was curious to follow him across the worldsee where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. Never stopping, always growing – And it crosses oceans might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and mountains in pursuit of WilliamEmily. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking Beth remembered the truths that he hears in others, he also learns names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeen.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529123763|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the letters which she and other members of the dark shadow extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. What is deadly – not known is ''why'' she did this and seeks at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to kill the one he loves the most…be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.