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|author= Katie FfordeGrady Hendrix|title= A Springtime AffairThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 45|genre= Women's FictionHorror|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages Women, by and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warmlarge, cosy read focused on romancehave always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history, family they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and friendshipslet nothing stand in his way. This provided two romances for Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to the price of one, but it was actually the family element as opposed strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to the romance that I really enjoyedtoe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac. |isbn=17808975611683691431

|isbn=18385931870008149089|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!The Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Victoria ThompsonJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the classroom, pigtails flapping behind her and body - she was a big grin mudlarker on her face. Dad's come to collect her the banks of the Thames and her brother and he ''has'' to try to guess when she turned over what looked like a stick she found realised it was a hand, a right hand, in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guessfact. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body parts. Dad wants Identification of the body was not going to know how school wasbe easy, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than eventually, it would be given a scrap ''book''?) Wellname - Paige Hargreaves, actually, Tilly did find exciting stuffa twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. There are sequinsHer friend, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocketBianca Drummond, another journalist, but said thatshe was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadn's not what she wants Dad t been willing to guessshare any of the details with Bianca.

|author= Becky Albertalli and Aisha SaeedJenny Valentine|title= Yes No Maybe So Hello Now|rating= 4.5|genre= Teens|summary= ''We might give it our all Jude reluctantly moves to a small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and crash her most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And settle into a big, old house overlooking the sea - which happens to contain a strange, old sitting tenant named Henry, who stays rooted in the house like a ghost that maybe makes it still worth going for, donjust won't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, he leave – or can't think of anything worse. HoweverAs Jude settles into this new, seemingly mundane, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. Maya reality she is consumed by a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of longing for her old life. Her parents are going through a separationin London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the last time, she has zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and her only close friend swears. This world is permanently busy. To help occupy herquiet, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassingdull and yet suffocating for Jude. The pair could possibly be That is until the worst canvassing duo in historyday Novo arrives, as neither and her entire concept of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election - and maybe even about each other?world changes forever.|isbn=14711846680007466498

|author=Gregg Hurwitz|title=Into The Fire|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountant. Or rather, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him alive. He was needed alive just long enough to give up a name. His cousin, Max.|isbn=0718185501}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529124395B0867X8NW7|title=When You See MeAccess Point|author=Lisa GardnerT R Gabbay

|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are When we first meet Ula Mishkin she's having problems. Itsomething of a professional success: using a device of her own invention she's not just the usual growing apart after more than helped a decade man who has been blind for decades to see an image of marriagea hummingbird. Their sonShe's thirty-six years old and her life is about to change radically as, Michaelcycling home, was killed she's involved in an accident with a car crash some months before: he was driving his fatherbus. It's Audi two years before we meet her again and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. Not only did he kill himself when in the car rammed into a treemeantime, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom canshe't think about Michael without s spent 392 days in a sense of shame coma and guiltnow walks with a stick. Rachel is broken, but A professional colleague persuades Ula that she wants should let out a spare bedroom to forgive Michael. To give bring in some space, Tom's moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separationincome.

|isbnauthor=0241985153Ben Oliver|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodLoop|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=We know that something Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has gone wrong - badly wrong - when been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the woman guards who was alone can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the house is taken away by model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the policevisits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, but it's going to can Luka ever be a while before we learn exactly what free? Why has happened.he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551

|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Kirsty Applebaum|title=Orphans of the TideTroofriend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= In Are you tired of your child's classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to have some positive experiences with people? Introducing the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of The Enemy - the god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last art machines are capable of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from emulating the corpse full range of a whalehuman emotions without lying, stealing or bullying. They're the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except perfect companion for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares any child! Any mention that these androids are beginning to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets....develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and have absolutely no basis in reality…right?|isbn=02413844351788003470

{{Frontpage|isbn=00082971691529123941 |title=The Guest ListSilent Treatment |author=Lucy FoleyAbbie Greaves |rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction |summary=The boat trip out to Inis AmploirWhen we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and his wife, off the Irish coastMaggie, might have been enough to put some guests offFrank is playing chess against his computer, but it was the wedding of the yearalthough not very successfully. Will Slater (television personalityMaggie, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keeganon the other hand, online magazine publisherhas just taken some pills - eight of them, in fact - and before long she will collapse. When Frank rings the ruined chapel on the islandemergency services in Oxford he has a bit of a problem. The brideHe has to admit that he and Maggie haven's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddyt actually spoken for a while. They gave a huge discount to get the couple to the islandHow long? Well, but surely it would be worth 's about six months since he spoke to Maggie and he can't really say if it for the publicity?'s likely that Maggie has tried to take her own life.

|isbnauthor=B07ZGL6B1BRob Harrell|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddWink

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was When Ross is diagnosed with a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at the beach when the baby was stolenschool to just be 'normal' become impossible. They were there for Suddenly he is the fun run cancer kid, and their attention was taken by everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt scrutiny of the raceother kids in school. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and the firm Ross is sponsoring the fun run, understandably, angry. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everythingHe is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. Her daughterHe has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was lookingplus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. It's With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a major incident when ''series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without itmore, she might have only forty-eight hours and he has to livefind new ways to deal with his feelings, and survive.|isbn=1471409147

|isbn=14711809211786485575|title=FirewatchingMagpie Lane|author=Russ ThomasLucy Atkins

|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that heWhen we first meet Dee she's lucky talking to be thereNick Law, given that he decked a superior officerthe new college master. HeLaw's there because Tyler came off worse in lately of the exchange - thereBBC and he doesn't come with an entirely good reputation: he's a scar bit of a bully and Dee can sense something of that in their first conversation. She had been planning to return home to Scotland before taking on his face a new job as a nanny, but somehow she finds herself going to prove it - and see Mariah, the Danish wife of the superior officer was forced to take early retirementmaster. ThereShe's a suggestion too that Tylerpregnant and looking for help, not with the new baby but with the master's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him and that daughter by his current boss first wife, Ana. Felicity is keen selectively mute: she does talk to have a tame gay her father, but to put on the town hall steps come Prideno one else. Either way, he's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth intoThe eight-year-old is grieving for her dead mother and struggling at school.

|author= A K LarkwoodSally Magnusson|title= The Unspoken NameSealwoman's Gift|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyHistorical Fiction|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone There is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing legend that she would be sacrificed God came to visit Adam & Eve in the Garden. Eve had not finished bathing her god on her fourteenth birthdaychildren and ashamed of those still not cleansed, yet when she attempted to hide them from the opportunity ariseseyes of God, denying that she chooses to abandon everything had more children that those, already bathed, that she knows and flee with her lifewilling paraded for him. Who can blame her? Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends God was not to stay far beyond itbe deceived, however, yet fate is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within decreed that what was sought to be hidden from the eyes of God would henceforth be hidden from the reach eyes of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers herman, and blames her very much indeedso the Elves were born: the hidden folk. They can see man, but man can only see them if they so choose.|isbn=12502389001473638984

|author= M G Leonard and Sam SedgmanWendy Cheyne |title= The Highland Falcon ThiefFrom the Auld Rock to a Hard Place|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary= Harrison BeckAfter the Jacobite defeat at the Battle of Culloden, or Hal as he prefers many Scottish estates were given to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journeyEnglish lords. Although, this isn't any old train; this is the Highland Falcon, the royal train, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent They were not kind to a museumtheir crofting tenants. A number of high-society figures, including film stars, millionaires Many on the mainland were cleared and aristocrats, will be on while this train, so it is quite the event did not happen much on the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolenislands such as Shetland, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to turn leave - to port cities on each otherthe mainland, Hal vows to get North America and even to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the lineAustralia and New Zealand.|isbn=15290130621838591753

|isbnauthor=0008275246Ele Fountain|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen FieldsLost|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that Lola lives in an Indian city with her sonfather, Bartand her brother, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleepAmit. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrongShe lives with them in a nice apartment, and although they are not rich like some of the girls at school, they have enough money to be comfortable. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother Lola spends her time thinking about her school friends, and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting trying to fit in with them, until one day, suddenly, everything in her knowlife changes. BesidesAfter taking a work trip away, he didnLola't have his phone with him and he wouldns father doesn't have gone far without thatcome home. It's not long before Bart realises that he's aloneThey have nobody else to help, and as they wait day after day, Lola wonders what will become of them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, trapped in a shipping container and she and her brother find themselves forced to live on his way to France, where his fate has already been decidedthe streets.|isbn=178269255X

|author= Alyssa SheinmelN K Jemisin|title= What Kind of GirlThe City We Became

|genre= Women's Science Fiction|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared New York is braver than doing something when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes being born, the city has reached critical mass and has matured into school with a black eye, claiming he gave it living almost-breathing entity and is ready to her, her whole make its way out into the world is tipped upside down. Her relationship has Before it can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just ended as it destroyed Atlantis and now she's other forgotten places. The city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the values are selected to become the talk living embodiment of the schoolcity, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has six. Mike was Together these human-embodiments must defeat the most popular boy woman in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her white and some save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don'talways see eye to eye, but one thing it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soonboth critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=03490032970356512665

|authorisbn= Holly Rivers0241446732|title= Demelza Our House is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and the Spectre DetectorsSvante Thunberg|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set most of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts parenting of the recently deceasedtheir two daughters. Under the guidance of Then eleven-year-old Greta stopped eating and talking and her Grandma Maevesister, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. HoweverBeata, there is a mysterious individual on the prowlthen nine years old, kidnapping young Spectre Detectorsstruggled with what was happening. It In such circumstances, it's up natural to Demelza and her best friend Percy seek a solution close to get home, but eventually, it became clear to the bottom of thisfamily that they were ''burned-out people on a burned-out planet''. If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to be radical..|isbn=1912626039

|isbn=1787477533178730101X|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)Keep Him Close|author=Elly GriffithsEmily Koch|rating=3.5

|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth GallowayAlice had two children: Benny (well, Benoît, actually) and Louis. SheLou's no longer providing assistance to the police seventeen and isnhe't even working at the University of North Norfolks just got his A level results and he and his brother are going out to celebrate. She's lecturing at Cambridge and Someone has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker find something to celebrate in Cambridge. Her daughterthe letters, KatieD, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped D and life is looking goodE. Settled. She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, KatieAlice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but it's fathera touch problematic with Lou and being honest, because Katie sees him regularly and therehe's a close relationship with his familynot terribly likeable. You might ''almost'' think that Ruth's life is settling downThe letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHD.

|isbn=183895015X0241396840|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a PrisonerKeeper|author=Chris AtkinsJessica Moor|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Documentary filmmakers donKatie Straw worked in the women't usually get s refuge and the run women who lived there liked and respected her. She treated them well and seemed to have an understanding of establishments within what they were going through. Why then did she jump from the Mountbattenlocal suicide spot into the river below? There had been no signs that she was unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together -Windsor Hotel Groupand Noah has a decent alibi for the time when she died, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited what other explanation could there be for a five-year stay. her death? The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworthpolice are convinced that it's suicide, which is probably but the oldest, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europewomen who knew her believed otherwise.

|isbn=12501685461838880658|authortitle=Sarah KozloffMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingHelena Dixon|rating=34|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= World-building It's the summer of 1933 and Kitty Underhay is on her way to visit the backbone by family which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, thenshe never knew she had, to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve intoat Enderley Hall. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered worldHer grandmother, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tapMrs Treadwell, and Great Aunt Livvy are back at the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedDolphin Hotel in Dartmouth. But it's Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much the same - but her real reason for going away is that she needs a world I could – and did – eagerly buy intobreak after her recent adventures, which involved three vicious murders, an arson attack and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone an attempt on her magical talent felt very real and very aptlife.

|isbn=15439878771788638026|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love LifeWhere the Innocent Die (D I Ridpath)|author=Dr Thomas JordanM J Lee|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=''Learn It was easy to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about loveassume that the death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. The two greatest emotions are love Her throat was cut, there was a lot of blood and grief and love is the opposite knife was on the floor at the side of grief: ''if you love''the bed, Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve'' She was due to be deported that day. Your love relationships begin But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was the moment yougirl're born and end s room the only when you die. one which was unlocked? Whilst we all come into DI Thomas Ridpath, the world hoping coroner's officer, is sent to give investigate and receive love there he quickly becomes suspicious, There's a snag though: the inquest is due to open in a couple of days' time, the girl's parents are many people for whom love is not quite so simplecoming over from China and they want to take their daughter's body home with them. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating Ridpath has just five days to solve the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignationcase. For people who are making The coroner is disinclined to delay the same mistakes repeatedlyinquest: for her, self-preservation, in it's about giving closure to the form of resignation is a necessityparents.

|authorisbn=Chris Hauty1471166023|title=Deep StateBurnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate Rhodes|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind The 5th of fighterNovember was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrations, and well-trained in most but it would be marred this year by the discovery of themProfessor Alex Rogan's body on a bonfire. She He's army infantry d obviously been alive when he was put on the fire and she boxes for fun – and she winscan only have died a terrible death. Always. She wins The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because she he speaks little or nothing and his only concern is focussedthe welfare of the birds he looks after. She works hard, mentally His instinct is to cover Rogan's body and physicallyhe uses his sheepskin coat to do this, 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 watchedresult that he's the prime suspect.|isbn=1471185605

|author=H G Parry Elliot Reed|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepA Key to Treehouse Living

|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob This is the story of a sensible lawyer young boy, William Tyce, who exists in is being raised by his uncle after the "normal" world - death of his mother and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he canhis father's abandonment. However, it isn't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into told in the real worldusual narrative way. After years Instead, the book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of protecting Charleydescribing certain events, situations and emotions. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, Rob wants then moving to discharge his duties and leave Charley ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to his own devices - read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but circumstances I soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin grew used to appear everywherethe style, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charleyand was instead caught up in William's powers story.|isbn=1911545418}}{{Frontpage|author=Will Dean |title=Black River |rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and intends this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her to use them the isolated town of Gavrik and into a desperate search for nefarious gainsher missing best friend. Rob and Charley must team up to stop With the madness - in a battle to win before they, Midsommar sun blocked out by the characters and dark pines of the world reach The End…forest, Tuva fights to save her friend. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=03565137771786077116

|isbn=14447761851782407480|title=Haven't they GrownBird Love: The Family Life of Birds|author=Sophie HannahWenfei Tong and Mike Webster

|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It I was a little perturbed when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actually, ItI looked at the blurb for ''s a little disingenuous to say Bird Love'found herself' as Beth had made on a deliberate detour couple of on -line booksellers: ''exploring the grounds that she didnsex life of birds''t find herself in this neck of it said. I very nearly passed over the woods very often and she was curious to see where book, but a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family wholife'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years agoof birds, which is rather different. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you would be missing an opportunity to understand how birds live day-to-day, bring up their families and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emilycope in the wild. Beth remembered Not only that, you have missed the names well - but these children were treat of so many beautiful illustrations about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeena wide variety of birds which run through this book from the first page to the last.

|isbnauthor=1529123763Camilla Bruce|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill HornbyYou Let Me In|rating=54|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's long Eccentric, isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the letters which she missing for a year and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about has been pronounced legally dead by her sister Janelawyers. What is not known is ''why'' she did this Her will instructs her niece and nephew to enter her home and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely find the key to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers their inheritance in an old manuscript left in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expectingher office: the last story she'll ever tell.|isbn=1787633179