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|author=Sara HollandGrady Hendrix|title=HavenfallThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history, they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008149089|title=The Cutting Place (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It was Kim Weldon who found the first bits of the body - she was a mudlarker on the banks of the Thames and when she turned over what looked like a stick she realised it was a hand, a right hand, in fact. DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent's team would later find three other body parts. Identification of the body was not going to be easy, but eventually, it would be given a name - Paige Hargreaves, a twenty-eight-year-old freelance journalist. Her friend, Bianca Drummond, another journalist, said that she was working on a story which she reckoned would be explosive - and she hadn't been willing to share any of the details with Bianca.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Hello Now|rating=4.5

|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed Jude reluctantly moves to spending the summer with a small, quiet seaside town after her Mum and her Grandma Ellen. But after most recent boyfriend split (making this their 13th post-breakup move) and settle into a visit big, old house overlooking the sea - which happens to her mother in prisoncontain a strange, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncleold sitting tenant named Henry, Marcus. Itwho stays rooted in the house like a ghost that just won't leave – or can's the only place she feels truly at homet. Maddie's fatherAs Jude settles into this new, understandablyseemingly mundane, reality she is not keen on Maddie spending time with consumed by a longing for her mother's family - because old life in London and anger at another forced change – but this will be the crime Maddie's mum last time, she swears. This world is languishing on death row quiet, dull and yet suffocating for committing Jude. That is until the murder day Novo arrives, and her entire concept of Maddie's brother..the world changes forever.|isbn=1547603798 0007466498

|authorisbn=Baye HartshorneB0867X8NW7|title=Ghosted: The Treason House TrilogyAccess Point|author=T R Gabbay

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=When we first meet Ula Mishkin she'Julia Crawley has lost s having something of a professional success: using a device of her job on own invention she''Celebrity'' magazine and so she decides to cut her losses and return home s helped a man who has been blind for decades to the village see an image of Monmouth Cove on the Jersey Shore, hoping to return to her harder hitting journalistic roots via local newsa hummingbird. She'll be staying with s thirty-six years old and her grandmother - a woman always ready life is about to help younger relatives change radically as, cycling home, she's involved in need of an accident with a handbus. There It's only one problem two years before we meet her again and in the meantime, she's spent 392 days in a coma and now walks with a stick. A professional colleague persuades Ula that: creepy Uncle Dex, who doesn't always keep his hands she should let out a spare bedroom to himselfbring in some income.|isbn= B0829CP5BM}}

|isbnauthor=0648684806Ben Oliver|title=Clara Colby: The International Suffragist|author=John HollidayLoop|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyTeens|summary=The path Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of Clara Dorothy Bewick's life was probably determined when her family emigrated punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the USAprecarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. At the time she was just three-years-old but because In a world of some childhood ailmentHave and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, she wasn't allowed he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to sail a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with her parents one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and three brothersrelentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Instead, she remained with her grandparents, who doted on her and saw that she received Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a good education, both guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in and out despair. His prison is based on the model of schoolan infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. She was With the only child in glimmers of hope being the household rumours of rebellion outside and her childhood was glorious. By contrast, her family had become pioneer farmers in the mid-west visits of the United States and life was hardsympathetic Alt guard Wren, as Clara was to find out when she and her grandparents eventually went to join the family. Clara would only know her mother can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for a few months: she was married for fifteen years, had ten pregnancies, seven surviving children and died in childbirth not long after Clara arrived. As him if he can break the eldest girl, a heavy burden would fall on Clara and Wisconsin was a rude awakening.loop?|isbn=1912626551

|author=Kathleen Boucher and Sara ChadwickKirsty Applebaum|title=Nine Ways to Empower TweensTroofriend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Are you tired of your child''9 Ways s classmates constantly being horrible to them? Do you want your child to Empower Tweens'' is a selfhave some positive experiences with people? Introducing the new Jenson & Jenson Troofriend 560 Mark IV android! These state-of-the-help book for tweensart machines are capable of emulating the full range of human emotions without lying, setting out to show them vital #lifeskillsstealing or bullying. DonThey't groanre the perfect companion for any child! I know there is a market glut of such books for we grown-ups Any mention that these androids are beginning to develop real human feelings are just unsubstantiated rumours and for young adults too, but there is a needful space have absolutely no basis in an increasingly technological world accessible to younger and younger children for material for tweens too. reality…right?|isbn= 02288188261788003470

{{Frontpage|authorisbn= Katie Fforde1529123941 |title= A Springtime AffairThe Silent Treatment |author=Abbie Greaves |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages When we meet Professor Frank Hobbs and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warmhis wife, Maggie, Frank is playing chess against his computer, although not very successfully. Maggie, cosy read focused on romancethe other hand, has just taken some pills - eight of them, family in fact - and friendshipsbefore long she will collapse. This provided two romances for When Frank rings the price emergency services in Oxford he has a bit of onea problem. He has to admit that he and Maggie haven't actually spoken for a while. How long? Well, but it was actually the family element as opposed 's about six months since he spoke to the romance Maggie and he can't really say if it's likely that I really enjoyedMaggie has tried to take her own life. |isbn=1780897561

|isbnauthor=1838593187Rob Harrell|title=Guess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Victoria ThompsonWink

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Tilly When Ross is exciteddiagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossible. She's just come dashing out Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the classroomother kids in school. Ross is, pigtails flapping behind her and understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a big grin on her facepermanent wink. Dad's come to collect her and her brother and he ''He has'' gloopy eye medicine to try to guess what she found in help with the playground todaypain, although she concedes that he will never guessplus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. Dad wants to know how With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school wascreates about Ross, but ''obviously'' that's not important. Could Tilly have found nothing about his life is normal any more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ''book''?) Well, actually, Tilly did and he has to find exciting stuff. There are sequinsnew ways to deal with his feelings, glittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to guesssurvive.|isbn=1471409147

|authorisbn= Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed1786485575|title= Yes No Maybe So Magpie Lane|author=Lucy Atkins|rating= 45|genre= TeensCrime|summary= When we first meet Dee she's talking to Nick Law, the new college master. Law'We might give it our all s lately of the BBC and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, donhe doesn't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin come with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go canvassing, an entirely good reputation: he can't think s a bit of anything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician bully and decides there is no time like the present Dee can sense something of that in their first conversation. She had been planning to conquer his fear of speaking return home to the public. Maya is Scotland before taking on a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents are going through new job as a separationnanny, but somehow she has zero plans for finds herself going to see Mariah, the Danish wife of the summer to help take her mind off things master. She's pregnant and her only close friend is permanently busy. To looking for help occupy her, her parents offer not with the new baby but with the master's daughter by his first wife, Ana. Felicity is selectively mute: she does talk to buy her a car if she agrees father, but to go canvassingno one else. The pair could possibly be the worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to be there, but as the campaign goes on they discover that they care, a lot, about the election eight-year- old is grieving for her dead mother and maybe even about each other?|isbn=1471184668struggling at school.

|author=Gregg HurwitzSally Magnusson|title=Into The FireSealwoman's Gift|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary= Grant Merriweather There is a forensic accountantlegend that God came to visit Adam & Eve in the Garden. Or ratherEve had not finished bathing her children and ashamed of those still not cleansed, she attempted to hide them from the eyes of God, denying that she had more children that those, wasalready bathed, that she willing paraded for him. He God was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crashnot to be deceived, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him alive. He however, and decreed that what was needed alive just long enough sought to give up a namebe hidden from the eyes of God would henceforth be hidden from the eyes of man, and so the Elves were born: the hidden folk. His cousinThey can see man, Maxbut man can only see them if they so choose.|isbn=07181855011473638984

|isbnauthor=1529124395Wendy Cheyne |title=When You See Me|author=Lisa GardnerFrom the Auld Rock to a Hard Place

|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it was a hiking break in After the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off Jacobite defeat at the beaten track Battle of Culloden, many Scottish estates were given to find a stickEnglish lords. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, along with Sergeant D D WarrenThey were not kind to their crofting tenants. Both women Many on the mainland were experienced in cleared and while this type of rather gruesome work but they also called did not happen much on the services of Keith Edgarislands such as Shetland, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique the new exploitative conditions led many Shetlanders to leave - to port cities on the table. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killermainland, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with the current discoveries then what Flora had North America and even to say could be invaluableAustralia and New Zealand.|isbn= 1838591753

|isbnauthor=1529009677Ele Fountain|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M EwanLost|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Tom Sullivan Lola lives in an Indian city with her father, and his wife Rachel are having problemsher brother, Amit. It's She lives with them in a nice apartment, and although they are not just rich like some of the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriagegirls at school, they have enough money to be comfortable. Their sonLola spends her time thinking about her school friends, Michaeland trying to fit in with them, was killed until one day, suddenly, everything in her life changes. After taking a car crash some months before: he was driving his fatherwork trip away, Lola's Audi and at sixteen wasnfather doesn't legally entitled to drivecome home. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a treeThey have nobody else to help, but he also killed his girlfriendand as they wait day after day, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense Lola wonders what will become of shame them until, finally, they are evicted from their flat, and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants and her brother find themselves forced to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's moved out of live on the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separationstreets.|isbn=178269255X

|isbnauthor=0241985153N K Jemisin|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodCity We Became|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=We know that something New York is being born, the city has reached critical mass and has gone wrong matured into a living almost- badly wrong breathing entity and is ready to make its way out into the world. Before it can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy it just as it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. The city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody the values are selected to become the living embodiment of the city, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has six. Together these human- when embodiments must defeat the woman who was alone in the house is taken away by the policewhite and save New York from very real destruction. But these are five different boroughs which don't always see eye to eye, but it's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happenedpersonality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteed.|isbn=0356512665

|authorisbn=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)0241446732|title=Orphans Our House is on Fire: Scenes of the Tidea Family and a Planet in Crisis|author=Malena Ernman, Greta Thunberg, Beata Thunberg and Svante Thunberg

|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary= In the last city The Ernman / Thunberg family seemed perfectly normal. Malena Ernman was an opera singer and Svante Thunberg took on Earth, anyone can be most of the vessel parenting of The Enemy their two daughters. Then eleven- the god who drowned the world year- who has come old Greta stopped eating and talking and her sister, Beata, then nine years old, struggled with what was happening. In such circumstances, it's natural to wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When seek a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whalesolution close to home, but eventually, the citizens immediately believe him it became clear to be the Vessel family that they were ''burned- all except for young Ellie Lancaster, out people on a girl inventorburned-out planet''. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares If they were to find a way to live happily again their solution would need to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets..be radical.|isbn=0241384435

|isbn=0008297169178730101X|title=The Guest ListKeep Him Close|author=Lucy FoleyEmily Koch|rating=43.5

|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests offAlice had two children: Benny (well, but it was the wedding of the year. Will Slater (television personalityBenoît, if not yet a celebrityactually) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the islandand Louis. The brideLou's seventeen and he's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid just got his A level results and the wedding planner he and chef his brother are Aoife and her husband, Freddygoing out to celebrate. They gave a huge discount Someone has to get the couple find something to celebrate in the islandletters, D, D and E. Alice has always had a good relationship with nineteen-year-old Benny but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?'s a touch problematic with Lou and being honest, he's not terribly likeable. The letters which kept coming to my mind were ADHD.

|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B0241396840|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)Keeper|author=Marion ToddJessica Moor

|summary=It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West Katie Straw worked in the women's refuge and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolenwomen who lived there liked and respected her. They were there for the fun run She treated them well and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried seemed to disrupt the racehave an understanding of what they were going through. They're against Why then did she jump from the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and local suicide spot into the firm is sponsoring the fun run. river below? It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, six-month-old Abi, There had been taken from her pram whilst no one signs that she was looking. It's unhappy and she and her boyfriend seemed to have been content together - and Noah has a major incident decent alibi for the time when ''any'' child is abducted she died, but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without what other explanation could there be for her death? The police are convinced that it's suicide, she might have only forty-eight hours to livebut the women who knew her believed otherwise.

|isbn=14711809211838880658|title=FirewatchingMurder at Enderley Hall (Miss Underhay)|author=Russ ThomasHelena Dixon|rating=54

|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he's lucky to be there, given that he decked a superior officer. HeIt's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there's a scar on his face to prove it - and the superior officer was forced to take early retirement. There's a suggestion too that Tyler's godmother (she's on the force too) has looked after him summer of 1933 and that his current boss Kitty Underhay is keen to have a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come Pride. Either her way, he's there, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.}}{{Frontpage|author= A K Larkwood|title= The Unspoken Name|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when visit the opportunity arises, family which she chooses to abandon everything never knew she knows and flee with her lifehad, at Enderley Hall. Who can blame her? Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond itgrandmother, Mrs Treadwell, yet fate is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her Great Aunt Livvy are back within at the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeedDolphin Hotel in Dartmouth.|isbn=1250238900}}{{Frontpage|author= M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title= The Highland Falcon Thief|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Harrison 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. Although, this isn't any old train; this Kitty gets easily bored working at the Dolphin - every day is much the Highland Falcon, the royal train, and this same - but her real reason for going away is its last ever journey before it gets sent to that she needs a museum. A number of high-society figuresbreak after her recent adventures, including film starswhich involved three vicious murders, millionaires an arson attack and aristocrats, will be on this train, so it is quite the event on the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn attempt on each other, Hal vows to get to the bottom of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the lineher life.|isbn=1529013062

|isbn=00082752461788638026|title=Perfect Kill Where the Innocent Die (D I CallanachRidpath)|author=Helen FieldsM J Lee

|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised It was easy to assume that her son, Bartthe death of the young Chinese girl at the Immigrant Removal Centre was suicide. Her throat was cut, there was missing he a lot of blood and the knife was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. on the floor at the side of the bed, Maggie knew straight away She was due to be deported that something was wrongday. Bart might be twenty but he But... how did the knife get into the secure centre and why was considerate of his mother and wouldnthe girl't have stayed out all night without letting her know. s room the only one which was unlocked? BesidesDI Thomas Ridpath, he didnthe coroner't have his phone with him s officer, is sent to investigate and he wouldn't have gone far without that. quickly becomes suspicious, ItThere's not long before Bart realises that hea snag though: the inquest is due to open in a couple of days' time, the girl's alone, trapped in a shipping container parents are coming over from China and on his way they want to take their daughter's body home with them. Ridpath has just five days to solve the case. The coroner is disinclined to Francedelay the inquest: for her, where his fate has already been decidedit's about giving closure to the parents.

|authorisbn= Alyssa Sheinmel1471166023|title= What Kind of GirlBurnt Island (Ben Kitto)|author=Kate Rhodes|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's FictionCrime|summary= The 5th of November was D I Ben Kitto's thirty-fifth birthday and the occasion for the usual bonfire celebrations, but it would be marred this year by the discovery of Professor Alex Rogan' Doing something when yous body on a bonfire. He're scared is braver than doing something d obviously been alive when you're not'' When Mike Parker's girlfriend comes into school with he was put on the fire and can only have died a black eyeterrible death. The body was first discovered by Jimmy Curwen, claiming better known on St Agnes as the Bird Man because he gave it to her, her whole world speaks little or nothing and his only concern is tipped upside down. Her relationship has just ended and now she's the talk welfare of the schoolbirds he looks after. Mike was His instinct is to cover Rogan's body and he uses his sheepskin coat to do this, with the most popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew result that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and some don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn't going to blow over any time soons the prime suspect.|isbn=0349003297

|author= Holly RiversElliot Reed|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsA Key to Treehouse Living|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Demelza Clock This is the story of a scientistyoung boy, often staying up late to work on her various gadgetsWilliam Tyce, much to her Grandma Maevewho is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his father's irritationabandonment. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, it isn't told in the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceasedusual narrative way. Under Instead, the guidance book is made up of her Grandma Maeveglossary entries, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. Howeverwritten by William, there is as a mysterious individual on the prowlway of describing certain events, kidnapping young Spectre Detectorssituations and emotions. It's up runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to Demelza and her best friend Percy ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to get read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the bottom of this..style, and was instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=19126260391911545418

|isbnauthor=1787477533Will Dean |title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsBlack River

|summary=Everything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's no longer providing assistance Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her to the police and isn't even working at the University isolated town of North Norfolk. She's lecturing at Cambridge Gavrik and has moved from into a desperate search for her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridgemissing best friend. Her daughterWith the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of the forest, Katie, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and life is looking good. SettledTuva fights to save her friend. She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly and But who’ll be there's a close relationship with his family. You might ''almost'' think that Ruth's life is settling down.to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116

|isbn=183895015X1782407480|title=A Bit of a StretchBird Love: The Diaries Family Life of a PrisonerBirds|author=Chris AtkinsWenfei Tong and Mike Webster|rating=4.5|genre=Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife|summary=Documentary filmmakers donI was a little perturbed when I looked at the blurb for ''t usually get Bird Love'' on a couple of on-line booksellers: ''exploring the run sex life of establishments within birds'' it said. I very nearly passed over the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Groupbook, but after getting involved in a closer examination suggested that the book is about the ''family life'' of birds, which is rather different. If the book was confined to the sex life of birds, you would be missing an illegal tax scheme opportunity to fund his latest filmunderstand how birds live day-to-day, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year staybring up their families and cope in the wild. The first nine months were spent in HMP WandsworthNot only that, you have missed the treat of so many beautiful illustrations about a wide variety of birds which is probably run through this book from the first page to the oldest, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europelast.

|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah KozloffCamilla Bruce|title=A Queen You Let Me In Hiding|rating=34|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, thenEccentric, to get isolated romance novelist Cassandra Tipp has been missing for a novel with world-building you actually want to delve intoyear and has been pronounced legally dead by her lawyers. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich Her will instructs her niece and layered world, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain nephew to have more to tap, enter her home and find the characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. But it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen key to discover and hone their inheritance in an old manuscript left in her magical talent felt very real and very aptoffice: the last story she'll ever tell.|isbn=1787633179