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|authorisbn=Tasha Suri183885410X|title=The Jasmine ThroneDark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother Bobby Carter was a lawyer and refuses to step on consigliere to one of the pyremajor crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. She DC Jack Laidlaw is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled CID team charged with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersinvestigation. But now I say ''on the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a girl kill someone with magicpart of it. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime He does his own thing, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker goes his own way and begs for ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the girl to become her own personal maidservanttruth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BC1942410255|title=The Lies We TellTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Jane CorryMichael Pronko|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving''Zangyo: overtime work, stable family. When we first meet her, she canoften unpaid''t sleep because her son, Freddie, who It's nearly sixteenthe culture, hasnisn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. it? Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: theyThe hours for which you're moving house in paid are really just a statement of the morning but heminimum you's still going to ll be going required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and he needs his sleepdone to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. He wakesWhen he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, thougheven from his family, when Freddie does come but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in and overhears him tell his mother descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that heleft the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She's killed someoned accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0241425425|title=True Crime StoryThe Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created Elizabeth Best was a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"little surprised when she received the letter. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader Thames and who had never existed but then this is taken through the life and disappearance sort of Zoe through conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. When she visits the eyes sender of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help letter (he's moved into the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she presented has a long professional history - and who used to othersbe her husband. However, He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the twists and turns at the end range of each chapter leave you shockeda CCTV camera on a raid, confused a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and unsure of what is true or fabricateda few death threats. He's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaAndrew Sharp|title=NoThe Chef, No, No!the Bird and the Blessing

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=They say Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer head chef of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favouritesafari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. ''No, No, No!'' Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is based around to become the simplest text imaginablehead chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. ''No, no, no! Okay, okayEven to win a Michelin star. YesHe is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you may.'' Thatand me) who incurs Mozzy's it! Butdisapproval for his scruffy ways, like all the best picture bookshis uninterest in his guests and - shock, this tiny snippet horror - his allowing of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on bush animals into the outsidehouse.|isbn=1638820457B09926MK8H

|author=Monica ConnellAlex Foulkes|title=Against a Peacock SkyRules for Vampires|rating=4.5|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it short) is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-laVampire. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also wentdrinks blood, presumablyshe sleeps during the day, with the academic discipline and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of how bats to find these things outtravel around, how although not all of them remember to organise them in her mindcome back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, how to "understand" them in on the context night of her own paradigmshundredth birthnight, and how she has to keep enough notes go out and files and photos to help hunt her create some greater sense of the experience after the eventfirst human. FortunatelyHowever, instead she also went with a sense of open-ness ends up killing two humans by accident and curiosity and a willingness burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to muck-inmake things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to break haunt her own rules and . So, not only does Leo have to truly connect team up with the people friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the village where Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she hauled uphas to do it all while hiding it from her family.Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=1780600429147119955X

|isbnauthor=1409181669Tori Bovalino|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesDevil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to think carefully about what do — especially when she knew and decide how gets a request for over a hundred books that she should proceedhas to deliver herself. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with What makes it worse is the death of Tara Hampton on man who requested the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgebooks: Mr Birch. She'd been brutally stabbed and MarianaThe boarding school's nieceheadmaster, Zoe, had telephoned her in distressand a man Tess hates. Tara had been As a petty act of revenge for making her best friend find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she was struggling to copecan think of. Mariana wasnThey't ''entirely'' happy about having re never meant to go reach him, of course. Her plan is to Cambridgeget her anger out like this, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made then take them all the more so by the death of Mariana's husbandoff before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoeif someone hadn's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizat delivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130

|authorisbn=Maisie ChanB09BG8V3Q6|title=Danny Chung Does Who Needs Nappies? Not Do MathsMe! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad

|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Danny ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Dannylatest release in the ''Everybody Potties!''s dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living series from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peaceJustine Avery. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China This series of fun picture books aims to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on take the top bunk pain out of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, potty training children and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the townreplace it with some fun. Poor Danny, stuck on It's a maths projectworthy aim, as any frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Raviparent will tell you. ..how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|authorisbn=Terry MilesB098FFFBH9|title=RabbitsSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. ItFourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard animal rights project leader and fast structure, she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like way in which human beings exploit the game of life thenanimal world. Yes, this is the game of life for She gets a certain tribe great deal of people – the fan of the conspiracysupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, the computer gamea lecturer at Imperial College, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our heroLondon, Kmother Kate and her twin, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possibleNick. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of Kate runs the gamefamily business, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are a toy shop called Cornucopia in the most peculiar placesPutney, and are still very short. However this time itwhich is where we's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken itll meet Rachel's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, main (if it'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..unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|isbn=1529016932

|author=C J CareyAngharad Walker|title=WidowlandThe Ash House|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=ItA new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn's April 1953t know his name, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow or why he is there but he is used to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming system, used to London, parading around a bit, different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and watching over the sanctioned return sets out to teach him the throne rules of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen WallisThe Ash House. For yes, Britain caved in These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and we are now a protectorate – wellcomplete their chores, we share enough of the same blood working as a hive in the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But this soon their easy peace is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all shattered by the arrival of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouragedDoctor. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with By the task end of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after allthe story, not every book can lives will be banned, changed forever and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards The Ash House will never be the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitsame again.|isbn=152941198X1912626977

|author=Louise BeechYancey Williams|title=This Is How We Are HumanCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Veronica Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is a devoted single mother getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to her sonhis daughter, Sebastian finds himself living - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that itor imprisoned, from Eddie's time point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for him palatable company. Nothing is going to have sex. But as an autistic 20 yearkeep Eddie from his stock-in-oldtrade of writing though, thatso here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's easier said than done. And it's starting to cause them both problemswork. |isbn=19131937130986031658}}

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LPhilip Reeve|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickUtterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet BosnerIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, orand sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to give him his full titlekeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerwhere no ship dare sail. We never really find out if he The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had to keep notes of activity from the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to one worry about such local yokel superstitions, and all. When we first encounter him heAndrewe's exploring his memories foundling daughter, who washed up out of 2008 the sea one day eleven years ago. But when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosAndrewe Dark drowns himself, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long both his sullen brother and he was often working nights but at his curious ward are thrust into the age world of twenty-oneprotecting their island, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daylike it or not.|isbn=1788452372

|author=Hannah WhittenErling Kagge|title=For the WolfWalking: One Step At A Time

|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she book is evidenced by the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods number of pages with nothing but the cape on her backcorners turned, Red knows what so let me start this one with an apology to expectthe Norfolk Library Service: within the woods sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is a wolfsubtle – I'll allow creased corners, and he is but not scribbles – for the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomlatter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). If she  Erligg Kagge is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained Norwegian explorer who has walked to the woods will be releasedSouth Pole, the North Pole and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories gosummit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. But when Red enters the woodsHowever, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, expecting nothing more than it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lieswalk. The wolf It is not a monster—heplenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 's contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a manfew pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=03565163690241357705

|author=M G LeonardIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=TwitchMonster Hunting For Beginners|rating=4.5

|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!)

|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. His wife was in Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the habit of going out opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a run late at nightplay date. It She was the only time she had for herself when she concerned that he didn't have to look after her baby any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - but when she was out she and Marissa would meet pick him up with from 14 Tudor Grove a manlittle later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave herdoor was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The locality phone number she'd been given for Jenny was stunned when Shelby Tebow not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, seemingly without a tracewith as many double crosses, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babyinterrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Ten days laterHowever, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a local woman new and her sixtimely genre, cli-year-old daughter disappearedfi, or climate change fiction. Meredith Dickey was North's novel tells of a birth doula world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and she'd seemed to be under some strain for live alongside nature without any of the last couple modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of weeks or somass destruction, intensive farming). Her body was eventually found in There is a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughtergrowing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, Delilahthe Brotherhood, was safe and there was aims to master these processes no point in looking for hermatter the cost to the Earth.|isbn=0356514757

|author=Nicolas BouvierEva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=The Japanese ChroniclesGirls Who Lie|rating=53|genre=TravelThrillers|summary= It never does to start a review You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of a Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book with a quote from aims for the blurbusual small-town feel, but sometimes it's unavoidablenot just in Akranes that our interests lie. Le Monde reviewed this book Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at some point, all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the words ''what couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the old master craftsmen would call girl back, and a masterpiececouple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman'' It is precisely that. A masterpiece s car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the sense of the craft as well as the art of writingbody has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because Meanwhile, this narrative is as much interrupted by a history of Japan, confessional monologue from a mythologymother who found herself with heavy post-primer natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response reader to living and travelling in make the country. right one?|isbn=1906011044191319373X

|authorisbn=Genevieve GornichecB0925KS87N|title=The WitchDead Man's HeartGrave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrbodait took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. She hides in It was a forest at the edge of the nine worldsstrange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she Tam was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrathgetting old and there were things he wanted to do. Her attempts to live in peace Only, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to leave her aloneworry. After an initial period of mistrust Tam Junior, Angrboda begins Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to fall for Lokithe police but they weren's charms, t certain where their father had been and they were worried.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the two start an unusual family made hallmarks of up a half-dead daughtersomething good. I was intrigued by the plot, a son that's a wolfliked the design of the book, and another son thatthought the author's a snakework sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising.So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn=17890970611911427091