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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova183885410X|title=No, No, No!The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=They say Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the best picture books are CID team charged with the simplest onesinvestigation. And nothing could I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be truer a part of this latest from Justine Averyit. He does his own thing, a Bookbag favouritegoes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1942410255|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid''

It''No, Nos the culture, No!isn't it? The hours for which you' is based around re paid are really just a statement of the simplest text imaginable. minimum you'll be required to do: you'No, no, no! Okay, okayll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. Yes, you may.'' That When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's it! Butheadquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from his family, like all but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the best picture books, this tiny snippet roof of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that it appears on he left the roof at the outsideexact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.|isbn=1638820457

|authorisbn=Monica Connell0241425425|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to do pull from the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it Thames and who had never existed but then this is important the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to know that. She went deal with on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objectiveregular basis. She wasn When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it't s someone with whom she has a hippy wanderer looking for Shangrilong professional history -laand who used to be her husband. She wasn He't s made a mere tourist passing through. She went bad mistake - something to do with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with mask being removed within the academic discipline range of how to find these things outa CCTV camera on a raid, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them a missing twenty-million pounds in the context of her own paradigms, diamonds and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the eventa few death threats. Fortunately, she also went He's now in hiding with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-inyoung woman called Polly, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upwho's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.|isbn=1780600429

|isbnauthor=1409181669Andrew Sharp|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesChef, the Bird and the Blessing|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything his employer - or so she thought - had begun with is, in his mind, the death head chef of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her a safari business catering to VIP guests in distressan unnamed African country. Tara had been her best friend Mozzy is earnest and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go dedicated to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana his task and Zoe were close and had been made he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the more so by guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the death head chef of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, a restaurant in London or a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierbig American city. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of ZoeEven to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's mother disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and Mariana's sister- shock, Elizahorror - his allowing of bush animals into the house.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|author=Maisie ChanAlex Foulkes|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsRules for Vampires

|summary=Danny Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is eleven years olda Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and what he reallyshe can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, really loves although not all of them remember to do is drawcome back). He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the wordsPretty cool stuff. Danny's dad, howeverNow, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawingnight of her hundredth birthnight, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny she has his own roomto go out and hunt her first human. However, where he can draw in secret instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and in peaceburning down an orphanage. But then Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts of one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, of the orphans and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has the evil master of the orphanage come over from China back to live with themhaunt her. So, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the top bunk ghost of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishthe Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, and Danny finds himself forced into being she has to do it all while hiding it from her babysitter, family. Did I mention vampires and showing her around the town. Poor Dannyghosts hate each other? Yeah, stuck on there's a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=180078001X147119955X

|author=Terry MilesTori Bovalino|title=RabbitsThe Devil Makes Three

|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=Welcome Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to the world of The Game. Or should do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that be the game, for while it ought she has to be capitalised to high heaven, deliver herself. What makes it never leaves lower case throughout this bookworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. ItThe boarding school's also called Rabbitsheadmaster, although only as and a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry pointman Tess hates. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game As a petty act of life revenge for making her find and deliver such a certain tribe large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer gamebooks, scribbled with the hack from the darkest ugliest insults she can think of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying They're never meant to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boardsreach him, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shortcourse. However Her plan is to get her anger out like this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwisethen take them all off before delivering them. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doingNo harm done… Or it would be, if itsomeone hadn's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..t delivered them for her.|isbn=15290169321789098130

|authorisbn=C J CareyB09BG8V3Q6|title=WidowlandWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved latest release in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on 'Everybody Potties!'the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging series from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widowsJustine Avery. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task This series of bowdlerising classical literature fun picture books aims to take all encouragement for female emancipation the pain out of potty training children and replace it – after allwith some fun. It's a worthy aim, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintas any frustrated parent will tell you. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X

|authorisbn=Louise BeechB098FFFBH9|title=This Is How We Are HumanSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Veronica Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a devoted single competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother to Kate and her sontwin, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantsNick. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, thatwhich is where we's easier said than done. And itll meet Rachel's starting to cause them both problemsmain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LAngharad Walker|title=Cape Henry The Ash House|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet BosnerA new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if why he has a first name: is there's merely a hint that but he had is used to the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointsystem, used to different places and different faces. He's simply Bosner meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to one and all. When we first encounter teach him he's exploring his memories the rules of 2008 when he was The Ash House. These rules centre on a greaser on helicopters (or helosvariety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as they were called) at a naval establishmenthive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at By the age end of twenty-onethe story, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking lives will be changed forever and eating) into his dayThe Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977

|author=Hannah WhittenYancey Williams|title=For Crosshairs of the WolfDevil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=In Red's familya word, the first daughter becomes queenrich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortuneBritish but way west, she is beyond the second daughterScillies. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape There are troll people on her backit, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolfand sea-witches, and he is legends of the one who will decide the fate of Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their kingdommonster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. If she is not a worthy sacrificeThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the monsters he keeps contained Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to the woods will be releasedworry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories gosea one day eleven years ago. But when Red enters the woodsAndrewe Dark drowns himself, expecting nothing more than to be killed within both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the hourworld of protecting their island, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is like it or not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=03565163691788452372

|author=M G LeonardErling Kagge|title=TwitchWalking: One Step At A Time

|summary=Twitch is Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, although he wants for danger and peril and even has swallows nesting in interesting things his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared dad refuses to that let him out of his time in schoolsight. But things are That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to change for Twitch in all aspects her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the run, and itogre's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wooddeath, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and he'll be given a book that tells him all he knows like needs to know about the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millionsperils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name?''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=14063893740755501942

|isbnauthor=1838853804Keith Gray|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayClimbers

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory Sully is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfbest tree climber in the village. Twenty years later sheHe has what's back home again and this time known amongst the occasion is no less sadkids as 'reach'. She's there to say her final farewells to her sisterBut what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, Melissacalled Nottingham, who is dying clambers up some of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she meanthe hardest trees with ease? There were lots of thingsSuddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatened, minor and major crueltiesnot only that, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem that his chance to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of name the County and money was never final, unnamed big tree in short supply - but there did seem the park by being the first to conquer it, might be a cursesnatched from his hands. In addition to Melissa's health problemsHow can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, Megan was deaf and their motheror maybe even all of his friends, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeralto do so?|isbn=1781129991

|isbnauthor=0241400120Emma Carroll|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbWeek at World's End

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Una was not thriving First, the title. We're in Reykjavik: it was some years since World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation friends) finds fun only with the family dog and since then shewith the boy over the road. But we could also be at World'd given up her medical studies and retrained as s End, because something taking a teachergreat chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. She was thirty years old The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and money was tightnot much else is able to make the news. Her friendThat said, SaraVie has news of her own – Anna, showed her an advert for a job secretive young woman hiding in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulatheir coal shed. There were only ten people Anna has, in the village but no short time, taken a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was strong interest in the only applicant and American airforce base behind the job meant that Close, said she'd locate something she could let her flat in Reykjavik wanted andleave, hopefullyfailed to leave, save some money over the winter which and implied her contract coveredlife was at risk.But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438

|isbnauthor=1846975719Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickJulia and the Shark|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to awkward places. But that's Londonbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayfar NE of the Scottish islands. It soon becomes evident though Here be Vikings, that both occupants kind of the plane were dead before take offScottish island. How could that Dad is going to be? The sort of tech automating the lantern, which would make that possible isn't available is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the paying publicelusive Greenland shark. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789

|author=Richard BrookFreya Sampson|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Last Library|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary= I am always a little nervous to start a story about a firm believer that sometimes we choose bookslibrary, and sometimes books choose ussince I am a librarian. In I always grit my case, this is one teeth slightly at the thought of the latter. Not so very long agoincoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, if I had come across glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this book I'd have skimmed itstory, the main character, found some of it interestingJune, but it would not have 'hit home' does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the way that it does now. same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I believe it came to me not just didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was likely interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to give it take care of her mum, as well as taking on a favourable review [ job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum''full disclosure The Bookbags favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's u.s.pold books. June is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlystuck, but little does she know, so there everything in her life is a predisposition towards expecting to like about the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowchange.|isbn=1800461682183877369X

|isbn=B095CY7NBN0008370982|title=Autumn CampRock Paper Scissors|author=Barry FowlerAlice Feeney

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=It Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was to be Brian's last campthe staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. HeHer husband, Adam, isn'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all t so keen on the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elseidea. The obvious person was GaryLike Amelia, whohe knows that their marriage has been under strain: he'd always been the fun element s a screenwriter and he's never shy of the camps and Brian had said making it clear to Amelia that on this camp, Gary should act as he'd prefer to spend time with the leader and novels he'd just be there s hoping to observeadapt than with her. The problem Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiserthe dogs, many of whom have been abused, an administrator if you likeis never easy. He was Still - she's won the entertainerweekend away, the person who basked even if it does mean driving for eight hours in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in and did the organising. He handed the camp over passenger seat - and then took it doing the same thing to come back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' campa couple of days later.

|isbnauthor=194812467XDoug Johnstone|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicGreat Silence

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam For those who, like me, haven't come across the cat decide to go for Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a walkgood job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk though it ought to be, it is merely the top surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the hillmatriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, they see she married a big barn scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a sign outsideblack Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. It's Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a farm shop! But this violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is a farm shop about to graduate with a difference: all first-class physics degree and join the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingacademic staff next term. What will they buy?|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=00084049251901514978|title=The Killing KindThere's a Problem With Dad|author=Jane CaseyCarlos Alba|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of the Life is different for George Lovelace and he can'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencet really understand why. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long s always done everything he ought to establish that : steady worker, husband and father - if anything - it and a father who was the other way aroundalways there for school plays and sports days. Soon Ingrid So why is he never seemed quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to be free of John Webster and then she came relate to see him as his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a threat and was forced cliche these days to remember suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on the police officer at his trial had told her that this was spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the best chance theysymptoms of Asperger'd had to put Webster away for a long times Syndrome: he was a very dangerous manhigh-functioning autism.

|isbnauthor=0008395594Louise Candlish|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksThe Heights|rating=4.5

|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresday. Then, one MondayShe's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she went to work and never came homespies him in a building across the way. MarkThere are lots of things, lots of people, Oli and Seb are shattered. Wellyou might see when you look out across London, Mark and Seb are but Olithis isn's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookt one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. He's Why? Because Kieran has been a bit off with Leigh dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a while but fact, because she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, had a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports hand in his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracemurder.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=14736857450008421714|title=Unbreak Your HeartMrs March|author=Katie MarshVirginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends The problem began just after the publication of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonGeorge March's son, Jake, off his bikemost successful novel to date. He wasn't hurt Everyone but Jake has historyMrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. He has HLHS - Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on thatparticular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of based a character on you who are not ?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'au faither mannerisms'' with your medical acronyms. When he was bornPerhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the left side whore of his heart hadnNantes - ''t developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldweak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.

|author=Louie StowellJohn Boyne|title=OtherlandThe Echo Chamber

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra Meet George Cleverley. He is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the tiniest thingsage of fifty without a criminal record". Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on MidsummerHe starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's daycarrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. And soThey have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, every year their families get together keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to celebrate save the twoworld's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queenhomeless with out-of-date food, they must journey to and a fit young lad doing the Otherland, gay hustle thing. Add in a magical realm full of fairiesfew other characters – therapists, vampireslawyers, dragonsrandom transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and Godsyou have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. It's going to be What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the worst night of their livesfact this is bloody funny.|isbn=17880004630857526219

|isbn=walker140241989094|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Perfect Life|author=Martin WalkerNuala Ellwood

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth DaynesIn August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she' work s viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his bossestate agent about her three children, chief of detectives JalipeauLavender, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsFreddie and Barclay. The body boys are a bit of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justicehandful which is why she's making this trip on her own. What if an artist could recreate The house would be perfect for them. It's the face from the skull same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the resulting publicity be used to identify the same young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscarwoman, only this time she' s job hunting and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.}}{{Frontpage|author= Martha Leigh|title= Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Martha Leigh begins living in her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentricsister, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge donGeorgie's, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauspare room, his lifewhere she's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of lifebeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384

|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. 

|authorisbn= Adrian TchaikovskyB07GZ81J7C|title= Shards of EarthWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionFor Sharing|summary= Eighty years agoMeet Fred. Well, Earth was destroyedactually, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moonyou're going to be meeting Fred-sized aliens known as the ArchitectsFred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect But I'm getting ahead of myself: I's reshapingd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories Fred is a snake and even those of the war fades, heroes us who have a phobia about snakes are forgotten, and humanity begins going to warm to fracture and fight among themselveshim. Idris Telemmier, He arrived as a present in a man genetically engineered to try and communicate box with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when holes so that he could breathe and the crew immediately became part of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears family, to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlightextent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise And that was where the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.

|isbnauthor=1848458428Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=Eleven years agoCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to any parent will tell you. But really, why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didnshouldn't it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned learn about everything else when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babywe are small. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and sheWhy shouldn'd seemed to t potty training be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughteras much fun as, Delilahsay, was safe learning about why the sun and there was no point the moon take turns in looking for her.the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHH

|authorisbn=Nicolas Bouvier1787634493|title=The Japanese ChroniclesAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=TravelThrillers|summary= It never does had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to start go on a review of a book play date. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a quote from little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the blurbhouse, but sometimes itexpecting to meet Jacob's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this bookmother, at some pointJenny, with the words door was answered by Esther, who didn''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiecet know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'' It is precisely thatd been given for Jenny was not recognised. A masterpiece in the sense of the craft as well as the art of writing Milo had disappeared. I And so had Jenny'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a history of Japan, a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the countrys nanny. |isbn=1906011044

|author=Genevieve GornichecClaire North|title=The Witch's HeartNotes from the Burning Age

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining of At its core ''Notes From the Norse myths that centres around Burning Age'' by Claire North is a witch named Angrbodaspy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. She hides in a forest at the edge of However, as with the nine worldsbest novels, remembering nothing of her past life but it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odina new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's wrath. Her attempts novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live in peacealongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, howeverweapons of mass destruction, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with her literal heart—the this limiting world, and one that was cut from her chest before she was tied group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the stake—and refuses cost to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snakeEarth.|isbn=17890970610356514757

|isbnauthor=1788549759Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonGirls Who Lie|rating=4.53|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was December 1940 You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for crime books before now. You think, seeing on the evening map that we'with her friend Idare set in Akranes, and finding it' leaving her three-year-old son, Williams only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at home with her parentsthe few final straws left. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better However just because the book aims for the family than the shame of illegitimacyusual small-town feel, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and Williamit's) on a better footingnot just in Akranes that our interests lie. She was going Six months ago a woman failed to meet turn up for her well-to-do fiancédate evening, hoping to persuade him to come and meet was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her family foster care before her mother had asked for the following weekgirl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. LaterBut it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, her body would be in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the bombedbody has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-out home where he had taken natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in herbody. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbn=1529407249B0925KS87N|title=The Perfect LieDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Jo SpainNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=It was July 2019 Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and Erin was happyit took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. She and Danny Ryan were planning It was a few days away: thatstrange thing for Scotland's always a dangerous thing premier criminal to do when you're married to a cop , but she Tam was hopefulgetting old and there were things he wanted to do. They Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by found the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on grave - the door was insistent and when one which said that it was shouldn't be opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers- and his three sons began to worry. Danny took one look, turned Tam Junior, walked to the open window Frankie and jumped Dave wouldn't normally go to his death from the fourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandpolice but they weren's murdert certain where their father had been and they were worried.

|isbnauthor=1523092734Emily Critchley|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=53|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the life hallmarks of choosing unapologetically and bravelysomething good. It is to live I was intrigued by the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes plot, liked the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in design of the newsbook, ''A Womenand thought the author's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskwork sounded interesting. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: From the outset it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big menlooked incredibly promising.So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091