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|isbn=14736818471838593187|title=In Her EyesGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Sarah AldersonVictoria Thompson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong wayTilly is excited. One evening she returns from a night She's just come dashing out with a friendof the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and before she can finish a big grin on her bedtime routine, face. Dad's come to collect her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensuesplayground today, Ava is hurt, badlyalthough she concedes that he will never guess. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened Dad wants to know how school was, but she knows it was life-changing''obviously'' that's not important. With her daughter still fighting Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her life in scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a room down the corridorscrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recoverTilly did find exciting stuff. There are sequins, wills glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her daughter to recoverpocket, and attempts but that's not what she wants Dad to piece together what happened and whyguess.

|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson Becky Albertalli and Kit SeatonAisha Saeed|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelYes No Maybe So |rating=34|genre=Teens|summary=Diana''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, being unique on her island, is the victim of don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a lot of tauntsspecial election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, and claims he can't think of nepotismanything worse. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at allHowever, her naysayers declare – even though she Jaime has clearly fought always wanted to be a strong young womanpolitician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. Perhaps too strong for Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the islandworst summer of her life. Her parents are going through a separation, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story she has her quickly leaving home zero plans for the World of Men, summer to help take her mind off things and this Diana her only close friend is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin storypermanently busy. A shipwreck disturbs To help occupy her, her leading performance parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in a running racehistory, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot more..., about the election - and maybe even about each other?|isbn=14012825551471184668

|isbnauthor=1786075695Gregg Hurwitz|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=Helen SedgwickInto The Fire

|summary=It began with the discovery of For Janet and Chuck, it was a body under hiking break in the swings Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the children's playgroundbeaten track to find a stick. It What he found was Dr Alexis Crosse a human bone and he SSA Kimberley Quincy was found by PC Simon Huntercalled in, who loved him deeply, but who had reason to mistrust himalong with Sergeant D D Warren. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up Both women were experienced in Greece, this type of rather gruesome work but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)they also called on the services of Keith Edgar, a community which regards anyone not born computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought up there as an outsidersomething unique to the table. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you've only got If Ness had anything to look at her skin do with the current discoveries then what Flora had to realise that, and her husband, Fergus, well, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''say could be invaluable.

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm1529009677|title=Orion LostA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth Tom Sullivan and her parents board his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just the transport ship Orion ready for usual growing apart after more than a new life on Eos Fivedecade of marriage. Their new home is still being terra-formed son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and life there isnat sixteen wasn't going legally entitled to be easydrive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but it 'he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is'' going broken, but she wants to be a fresh startforgive Michael. As Beth To give some space, Tom's mum puts itmoved out of the family home, ''There's a future waiting for us. A chance but stresses to make our own decisionshis thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, create our own livesthat it is only a trial separation.''|isbn=1788005929

|isbn=07535532360241985153|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingHouse on the Lake|author=B J FoggNuala Ellwood|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=Go onWe know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in the house is taken away by the police, admit but it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (s going to you) habits that seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just be a little bit of effort. Or put another way, 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 to make while before we learn exactly what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the listhas happened.

|author= B T KeatonStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title= TransferenceOrphans of the Tide|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to dieIn the last city on Earth, stranded on a mining planet millions anyone can be the vessel of lightThe Enemy -years from home, executed for high crimes against the Church, god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the ruling body last of Earthhumanity. Except he's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such When a mysterious boy is pulled from the magic corpse of Transferencea whale, the ability citizens immediately believe him to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body be the Vessel - and all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a power that the Church has exclusive control overgirl inventor. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things the ruthless Inquisition prepares to worry aboutexecute the boy, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants Ellie must prove that he is to see his family againinnocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fightdarkest secrets....|isbn=B082WPHTHH0241384435

|authorisbn=Christine Brown0008297169|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaThe Guest List|author=Lucy Foley

|genre=TravelCrime|summary=In The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the summer of 2008Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, this book's author but it was spending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsewedding of the year. Long story short Will Slater (television personality, she ended up volunteering in Ghanaif not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, West Africa. Now coincidentallyonline magazine publisher, in the summer of 2010, this reviewruined chapel on the island. The bride's author was spending ''sister, Olivia, would be her'' days working in an office job (albeit in only bridesmaid and the UK) while spending ''wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsehusband, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West AfricaFreddy. So you can see why, when this book came up, said reviewer was delighted They gave a huge discount to have get the opportunity couple to read and critique the island, but surely it would be worth it.|isbn=171024299Xfor the publicity?

|authorisbn=Mark LinganeB07ZGL6B1B|title=Degrade In Plain Sight (Tesla ExpansionD I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion Todd|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerface, banging actionIt was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolen. Poor Arid, alone in They were there for the desert since his parents were killed, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out fun run and his is pretty much destroyedtheir attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the race. He finds himself rescued by They're against the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under firm is sponsoring the suspicious eyes of its leader, Queen Beafun run. Bea It was Lisa Mitchell's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six- Arid Geiger month- but before he can find out why that isold Abi, therehad been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's an assassination attempt and Arid a major incident when ''any'' child is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty- Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and her other daughter, Frey, stranded in the deserteight hours to live...|isbn= 099461649X

|isbn=B07XLM3SM61471180921|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelFirewatching|author=Helena DixonRuss Thomas|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and the conclusion was there are those who think that she was deadhe's lucky to be there, mainly given that he decked a superior officer. He's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there was no evidence 's a scar on his face to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this prove it - and 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 superior officer was ill. She was reluctant forced to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand whytake early retirement. SheThere's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's always coped with on the mix of holidaymakers, boating people force too) has looked after him and the naval college that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotelhall steps come Pride. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmotherEither way, he's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired there, but without anything really interesting to take charge of security at the hotelget his teeth into.

|author=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)A K Larkwood|title=The Honjin MurdersUnspoken Name|rating=4|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is enough a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to make her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the book one opportunity arises, she chooses to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. For those who need more, here is the extra background – weWho can blame her? Her god're in rural Japan in the 1930s. The oldest son of an esteemed family s reach is belatedly getting marriedlimited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, although the whole affair yet fate 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 a funny thing and when circumstances bring her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annexe before back within the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts reach of his fingers being in the neighbourhoodher god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itblames her very much indeed.|isbn=17822750021250238900

|author=Cixin LiuM G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title=Death's EndThe Highland Falcon Thief|rating=5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= If IHarrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn'd been paying more attention t exactly pleased when I picked this book uphis parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, I would have put it back on the shelfa long train journey. Not because I didnAlthough, this isn't want to read itany old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal train, but because I'd have figured out that and this is its last ever journey before it was the final part of gets sent to a trilogymuseum. Coming in partway through a saga A number of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is never quite the easiest thing to do and it's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing event on the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (social calendar. However, when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that you maybe this trip won't understandbe as boring as he previously thought. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – his range is phenomenal. George R R MartinAs the passengers begin to turn on each other, who knows a thing or two about world-creation, described it as ''a unique blend Hal vows to get to the bottom of scientific and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory and cosmology''. All the mystery…before the train gets to the end of that and morethe line.|isbn=17849716501529013062

|isbn=17808945110008275246|title=Die AlonePerfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Simon KernickHelen Fields

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a copWhen Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he's something of a target, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped was already 200 miles away and Mason is injured in just waking from a riotchemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. On Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his way to hospital hemother and wouldn's broken free by armed men and an offer is made to himt have stayed out all night without letting her know. HeBesides, he didn's to assassinate the man who is likely to become the country's next prime minister t have his phone with him and hewouldn'll then be given a new identity so t have gone far without that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say It's not long before Bart realises that theyhe're MI6s alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, but Mason has where his doubts. His choices are limited though and he fate has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadalready been decided.

|author=Akwaeke EmeziAlyssa Sheinmel|title=PetWhat Kind of Girl|rating=4.5|genre=TeensWomen's Fiction|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone. Their children are raised '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it to understand that they were saved by the angelsher, those who rid the town of evil, and there are no monsters anymoreher whole world is tipped upside down. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself Her relationship has just ended and bleeds a little onto one of her mothernow she's paintings. The blood awakens a bizarre, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt the monstertalk of the school. Though Jam tries to convince it that all Mike was the monsters are gonemost popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, Pet is certain everyone knew that there is one, stillso why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, and that the monster but one thing is hiding in the home of her best friendfor sure, Redemptionthis isn't going to blow over any time soon.|isbn=05713551100349003297

|isbnauthor=1686751680Holly Rivers|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien Demelza and Gustyawanthe Spectre Detectors|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother Demelza Clock isa scientist, welloften staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve''weird''? It might be s irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that in are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when you're at your brightest with lots ability to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her fingers in Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her ears? Then newfound skills. However, there's doing yoga in front of is a mysterious individual on the televisionprowl, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funnykidnapping young Spectre Detectors. We wonIt't go into too much detail about what goes on in the bathroom s up to Demelza and the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions best friend Percy to get to your artistic efforts on the wallbottom of this... I mean, what else would you use paint for?|isbn=1912626039

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk1787477533|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=''The day Everything has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But now, itchanged for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's time, no longer providing assistance to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you haventhe police and isn't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bedeven working at the University of North Norfolk. If you She're a parent s lecturing at leastCambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Her daughter, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yesKatie, it has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is in fact time for bed. ''What Wonders DoYou See.looking good. Settled. She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie' sets out to cater to these children. Instead of trying to persuade them that night time is a calm times father, it takes because Katie sees him regularly and there's a slightly different tackclose relationship with his family. It tells them You might ''almost'' think that sleep Ruth's life is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limitsettling down. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door to it. |isbn=194812422X

|authorisbn=Michael Harris183895015X|title=SolitudeA Bit of a Stretch: In Pursuit The Diaries of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldPrisoner|author=Chris Atkins

|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary= This is not Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another selfMountbatten-help manual on how to find calmWindsor Hotel Group, how but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to step outside the mainstreamfund his latest film, but it is not that at allChris Atkins was invited for a five-year stay. Instead of telling us how it The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is more about probably the ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Of course, he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of thatoldest, largest and eventually most dysfunctional prison in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led himEurope.|isbn=1847947662

|isbn=1250168546|author=Andy BriggsSarah Kozloff|title=Ctrl+SA Queen In Hiding|rating=53|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary= In World-building is the near future, life's pretty goodbackbone by which fantasy novels live and die. Climate change has been brought under controlAnd what a pleasure, the bee population has been brought back from near-extinctionthen, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker than ever before. But the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, get a simulated novel with world that has the ability -building you actually want to mimic emotions as well as imagesdelve into. ButSarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, as with every technology, there is the potential for it a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to be abused. Every day, people are being kidnappedtap, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions and feelings harvested for the richest and sickest members of societycharacters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. And now TheoBut it's mum has gone missing. As he follows a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the trail left by struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her, he uncovers a vast conspiracy that would use any means necessary to stop him from finding out where his mum has gonemagical talent felt very real and very apt...|isbn=1409184641

|isbn=16098093781543987877|title=The Rabbits' RebellionLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellDr Thomas Jordan

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=We're in 'Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the realm opposite of the rabbitsgrief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, only the foxes and wolves have taken over''you will inevitably grieve''. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared Your love relationships begin the rabbits donmoment you't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still aroundre born and end only when you die. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey Whilst we all come into the world hoping to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom give and receive love there are many people for whom love is a distinct leporine hintnot quite so simple. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the rabbits show their continued existence to all same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. For people who need to know of it – and what can are making the poor monkey caught same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in between do?the form of resignation is a necessity.

|author=Innosanto NagaraChris Hauty|title=M is for MovementDeep State|rating=43|genre=Emerging ReadersThrillers|summary=Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this Hayley Chill is a story about social changefighter. Dealing with some difficult issuesShe is every kind of fighter, such as political corruption and nepotism, the book well-trained in most of them. She's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is neither boring nor preachyfocussed. It educates gentlyShe works hard, with vibrant, challenging illustrationsmentally and physically, and it portrays she knows how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will failto deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. The message This fight is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power against someone she is not expected to instigate changebeat. And she is being watched.|isbn=16098093511471185605

|isbnauthor=1780724047H G Parry |title=A Dictionary The Unlikely Escape of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J ConradiUriah Heep

|genre=PetsGeneral Fiction|summary=I struggle Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to resist see eye to eye for years - Rob a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog sensible lawyer who wasn't interesting or important exists in the "normal" world - and probably both, I was expecting Charley a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' man who is actually blessed with an ability he can''a rich compendium of t fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: CloudyAfter years of protecting Charley, Sky. Bradley Rob wants to discharge his duties and Maxleave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogsAs literary characters begin to appear everywhere, but what comes over is Conradiit soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's love for each powers and every one of intends to use themfor nefarious gains. I knew that I was Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in safe hands.a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777

|isbn=17857692941444776185|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardellini)Haven't they Grown|author=Robert JeffreysSophie Hannah

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It's was when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to a teacher's bedroom one October night football match that we realise something is badly wrongshe found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Nowadays you Actually, It's a little disingenuous to say 'mightfound herself'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief Beth had made a deliberate detour on the part grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the childwoods very often and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. The boy would be safe And it might have gone no further than that night though - albeit in the most horrific fashionhad Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found Beth remembered the man dead on the floor, the top of his skull missing. The schoolnames well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and it was obviously a stray bullet that had killed the Captainseventeen.

|isbn=17866952271529123763|title=Invisible in a Bright LightMiss Austen|author=Sally GardnerGill Hornby|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=The beginning It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the letters which she and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. What is not known is ''why'' she did this and at this excellent story will leave the reader stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a little confused: who definitive answer is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? unlikely to forthcoming. But stick Gill Hornby has provided us with it – Ms. Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch some possible answers in dismay as the strange man, who seems a book that proved 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 awaybe far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.