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|isbn=1786332388183885410X|title=The First Day Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigation. I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of Springwhy Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1942410255|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Nancy TuckerMichael Pronko

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of SpringZangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn' was one such occasion. t it? The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the plot grips minimum you'll be required to do: you 'll work more hours to get the job done and won't let godone to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. So, whatWhen he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the problem? Wellway of regret or grief, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the problem is Chrissie, roof of the main characterbuilding or been assisted in his descent. When we first meet her she's just eight Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boyearlier. She's completely cold about what she's done with d accused Onizuka of bullying her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - and forcing her hands seized upto work an unreasonable amount of overtime. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0241425425|title=The Disappearing ActMan Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the cusp of successletter. Great success. If It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the rumours are true, award season Thames and who had never existed but then this is going the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed productiondeal with on a regular basis. She When she visits the sender of the letter (he's going places but so, unfortunately, is moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her partnerhusband. And the places he He's going take him towards lies, deceit and made a bad mistake - something to do with a pretty young thing in mask being removed within the form range of his new coa CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-starmillion pounds in diamonds and a few death threats. It He's now in hiding with a good time for Mia to escapeyoung woman called Polly, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusewho's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.|isbn=1471189783

|author= Christophe MedlerAndrew Sharp|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Chef, the Bird and the Blessing

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Set against Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, the backdrop head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the English Civil War, a secret plan (codeguests at BOD-named Madrigal) W safaris but his dream is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in to become the summer head chef of 1642a restaurant in London or a big American city. As Even to win a loyal servant of the KingMichelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and Head of the Secret Service, it is Robertme) who incurs Mozzy's duty to uncover the details of the plan disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and follow the clues to uncover one - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kinghouse.|isbn=B095HY8SXQB09926MK8H

|author=Tasha SuriAlex Foulkes|title=The Jasmine ThroneRules for Vampires|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= On Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her sacred hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burningdown an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, Princess Malini defies her brother the ghosts of one of the orphans and refuses the evil master of the orphanage come back to step on haunt her. So, not only does Leo have to team up with the pyre. She is immediately sent friendly ghost Minna to be imprisoned on stop the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community ghost of people who got powers the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has 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=147119955X}}{{Frontpage|author=Tori Bovalino|title=The Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the mysterious deathless waterslast thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. But now What makes it worse is the man who requested the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruinbooks: Mr Birch. One dayThe boarding school's headmaster, Malini witnesses and a girl kill someone with magicman Tess hates. Instead As a petty act of reporting revenge for making her for find and deliver such a gruesome crimelarge request, Malini claims that Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the girl saved ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her from an attacker anger out like this, and begs then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for the girl to become her own personal maidservant.|isbn=03565156481789098130

|isbn=B088YWF5BCB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Lies We TellWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Jane CorryJustine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|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, stable family. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasnWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'t come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house the latest release in the morning but he's still going 'Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to be going to work take the pain out of potty training children and he needs his sleepreplace it with some fun. He wakes, thoughIt's a worthy aim, when Freddie does come in and overhears him as any frustrated parent will tell his mother that he's killed someoneyou. .

|authorisbn=Joseph KnoxB098FFFBH9|title=True Crime StorySnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. The story follows the disappearance She gets a great deal of Zoe Nolan support from her university halls of residence. Split into four partsfamily: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, the reader is taken through the life mother Kate and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the policeNick. The various accounts help Kate runs the reader get to know Zoefamily business, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. Howevera toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, the twists and turns at the end which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedinformation: five soft toys. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaAngharad Walker|title=No, No, No!The Ash House|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=They say A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the best picture books are system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the simplest onesrules of The Ash House. And nothing could be truer These rules centre on a variety of this latest from Justine AveryNicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a Bookbag favouritehive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. ''No, No, No!'' But soon their easy peace is based around shattered by the arrival of the simplest text imaginableDoctor. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' That's it! But, like all By the best picture books, this tiny snippet end of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the outsidesame again.|isbn=16388204571912626977

|author=Monica ConnellYancey Williams|title=Against Crosshairs of the Devil|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 Peacock Skytrusty 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=TravelConfident Readers|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.DIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went this story set on a grant-supported trippeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing throughbeyond the Scillies. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these There are troll people on it, and how they lived. She also wentsea-witches, presumably, with and legends of the academic discipline of how Dark family that has to find these things outkeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, how to organise them in her mindwhere no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigmsAndrewe, and how who has to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of activity from the experience after the event. FortunatelyHidden Lands, she also went his brother Will who lives in London with a sense too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-inthe sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, to break her own rules both his sullen brother and to truly connect with his curious ward are thrust into the people world of the village where she hauled upprotecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=17806004291788452372

|isbnauthor=1409181669Erling Kagge|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesWalking: One Step At A Time

|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Mariana was convinced Those who have read my reviews before will know that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or corners turned, so she thought - had begun let me start this one with an apology to the death Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Marianathis type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I's niecell allow creased corners, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to copedo as soon as I have finished telling you why). Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having  Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to go to Cambridgethe South Pole, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana North Pole and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death summit of MarianaEverest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn's husband, Sebastiant a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, in it is instead a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierthoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death It is a plenitude of Zoeunnumbered essays about walking. There is no 's mother contents' page and MarianaI haven's sistert counted. In small format paperback, Elizaeach essay is only a few pages long.Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705

|author=Maisie ChanIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsMonster Hunting For Beginners

|summary=Danny is eleven years oldMeet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and what although he really, really loves wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst let him out of his best friend Ravi adds the wordssight. DannyThat's because Jack's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget mother knew all about the drawingmonsters, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peacelook what happened to her – she died. But Luckily or unluckily 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 to live with themdepending on your point of view, and who a giant ogre will not only be sharing Dannythreaten his aunt when Jack's bedroom but she will father also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishgoes AWOL, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around Jack will fluke the town. Poor Dannyogre's death, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationdwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and then he even has 'll be given a falling out book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with Ravi. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X0755501942

|author=Terry MilesKeith Gray|title=RabbitsThe Climbers|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Welcome to Sully is the world of The Game. Or should that be best tree climber in the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookvillage. ItHe has what's also called Rabbits, although only known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowsnew kid shows up in town? A new kid, it has no official titlecalled Nottingham, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to who clambers up some of the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracybeing threatened, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our heroand not only that, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying chance to be historians of name the gamefinal, and have studied amongst many things unnamed big tree in the most unique of high score boards, for park by being the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar placesfirst to conquer it, and are still very shortmight be snatched from his hands. However this time How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doingcost him his best friend, if it's or maybe even being played, and how all of his loved ones might be kept safefriends, 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...do so?|isbn=15290169321781129991

|author=C J CareyEmma Carroll|title=WidowlandThe Week at World's End

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=ItFirst, the title. We's April 1953, and Adolf Hitlerre in World's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to LondonEnd Close, parading around a bitmediocre set of houses, and watching over the sanctioned return where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the throne of Edward VIII family dog and with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to boy over the road. But we could also be at World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know its End, and we are now because something taking a protectorate – well, we share enough great chunk of the same blood as fun away is the Germanic peoples on ''fact that the mainland''Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. 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 from high-brow office bigwigs The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the drudgesrisk of nuclear missiles offshore, and beyond those, right on down not much else is able to make the childless, the husbandless and the widowsnews. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existenceThat said, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task Vie has news of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it her own – after allAnna, not every book can be banneda secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisationin no short time, and so they just get taken a hefty tweak towards strong interest in the American airforce base behind the party line before theyClose, said she're stamped ready for reprint. That is d locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her job, life was at least, until the first emerging signs risk. But surely this bit of female protest come intrigue has got nothing to light, do with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=152941198X0571364438

|author=Louise BeechKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=This Is How We Are HumanJulia and the Shark

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her sonJulia, Sebastian our pre- but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian teen heroine, has decided that it's time been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for him to have sexa summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. But as an autistic 20 year-old Here be Vikings, that's easier said than donekind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And it's starting to cause them both problemsJulia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night. |isbn=19131937131510107789

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LFreya Sampson|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickThe Last Library

|summary=Meet Bosner, or, I am always a little nervous to give him his full titlestart a story about a library, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnersince I am a librarian. We never really find out if he has I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a first name: there's merely bun, cat-owning, glasses on a hint that he had chain stereotypes! In this story, the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner to one main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and all. When we first encounter him hespends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn's exploring his memories t immediately throw the book out of 2008 when he the window, because I found I was a greaser on helicopters (or helosinterested in June, and why she lived as they were called) at a naval establishmentshe did. The hours could Her mum used to be long a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and he was often working nights but stayed at the age home to take care of twenty-oneher mum, there was always as well as taking on a way to work job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some fun (think drinking years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and eating) into his daystill reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X

|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}}{{Frontpage|author=M G Leonard|title=Twitch|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in school. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run, and it's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18388538040008370982|title=The Cursed GirlsRock Paper Scissors|author=Caro RamsayAlice Feeney|rating=4.5

|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory Amelia Wright is of forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the pondidea. Like Amelia, only he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of making it clear to find Amelia that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later sheprefer to spend time with the novels he's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sadhoping to adapt than with her. SheAmelia's there to say annoyed that he never enquires about how her final farewells to her sisterday has been - and working with the dogs, Melissamany of whom have been abused, who is dying of anorexianever easy. As Still - she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of thingss won the weekend away, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry it does mean driving for sleeping eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything Adam beside her in the passenger seat - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of and then doing the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem same thing to be come back a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforecouple of days later. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbnauthor=0241400120Doug Johnstone|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbGreat Silence

|summary=Una was not thriving For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in Reykjavik: without being heavy handed about it was . Skelf isn't some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname of a teacherfamily of undertakers. She was thirty years old Undertakers and money was tightprivate investigators. Her friendDorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, Sara, showed her an advert for she married a job in Skalar on scot and ended up helping to run the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the village but a teacher was required family for two children: generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a salary would be paid and accommodation providedblack Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her flat in Reykjavik still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and, hopefully, save some money over join the winter which her contract coveredacademic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=18469757191901514978|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)There's a Problem With Dad|author=Denzil MeyrickCarlos Alba|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=We learn that MI5 Life is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesdifferent for George Lovelace and he can't really understand why. But thatHe's Londonalways done everything he ought to: steady worker, isn't ithusband and father - and a father who was always there for school plays and sports days. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? What's happening in KinlochWhy does he upset people? When Why is someone with such a light aircraft crash lands ''good'' mind unable to progress at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and work or to relate to his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight away. colleagues? It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take off. How could that beWhy does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? The sort of tech which would make It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest that possible isnsomeone who is a little different is 't available to on the paying public. And why have spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the man no identification on them symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high- or even labels in their clothes?functioning autism.

|author=Richard BrookLouise Candlish|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Heights

|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary= I am a firm believer Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that sometimes we choose booksday. She's on site, and sometimes books choose usvisiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. In my caseThere are lots of things, this is one lots of the latter. Not so very long agopeople, if I had come you might see when you look out across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interestingLondon, but it would not have 'hit homethis isn' t one Ellen expected that day or in the way that it does nowfact any other day. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlyWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, so there is and Ellen knows this for a predisposition towards expecting to like the bookfact, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is she had a book I needed to read, right nowhand in his murder.|isbn=18004616821471183483

|isbn=B095CY7NBN0008421714|title=Autumn CampMrs March|author=Barry FowlerVirginia Feito

|summary=It was to be Brian's last campMeet George Cleverley. He'd founded is self-defined as "one of the organisation some four years ago and had done all few television personalities over the organisation since age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but he was leaving school and then his author wife is getting her kicks with the time had come to hand the reins to someone elseUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. The obvious person was GaryThey have three children, whoare a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world'd always been the fun element s homeless with out-of -date food, and a fit young lad doing the camps and Brian had said gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that on this campall have two very different connections to his life, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was you have something that Gary wasn't really suggests an organiser, an administrator if you likealmost farcical approach to the modern world. He was What suggests the entertainerfarcical approach even more, however, is the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' campfact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219

|isbn=194812467X0241989094|title=The Farm ShopPerfect Life|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicNuala Ellwood

|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Kirelle In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for she's viewing a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her bright yellow wellies three children, Lavender, Freddie and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatBarclay. As they walk to the top The boys are a bit of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Ithandful which is why she's a farm shop! But making this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalstrip on her own. There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping The house would be perfect for them.

|isbnauthor=0008404925Darren Shan|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyArchibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After allthe Forgotten Crypt, it was her cross-examination of from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. Hegrop'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish think about. But before that - if anything - it was the other way around, soirees. Soon Ingrid never seemed Soirees! Archie, much to be free Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of John Webster and then she came those is. But he manages to see him as a threat and come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was forced to remember that crushed in the police officer at his trial had told her that first volume of this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous manseries.|isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbn=0008395594B07GZ81J7C|title=Both of YouWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Adele ParksPeter Cotton|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresMeet Fred. ThenWell, one Mondayactually, she went you're going to work and never came homebe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. Mark, Oli and Seb are shatteredBut I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Well, Mark Fred is a snake and Seb even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookgoing to warm to him. He's been arrived as a present in a bit off box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with Leigh them when they went out for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independentwalk. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hardAnd that was where the problem started. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missingFred didn't have any road sense. She too has vanished without traceOr brakes.

|isbnauthor=1473685745Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|genre=Women's FictionFor Sharing|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn's sont, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of as any parent will tell you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was bornBut really, the left side of his heart hadnwhy shouldn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when he was a few days oldwe are small. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isnWhy shouldn't looking where they're driving.potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHH

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1787634493|title=OtherlandAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary= Myra and Rohan are It had seemed like Yin and Yang – Myra is loudone of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, bright and hates rulesMilo, while Rohan is very polite, serious to go on a 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 worries about the tiniest thingsMarissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. Their only connection What could be better? Being born and briefly dying Only, when Marissa arrived at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummerhouse, expecting to meet Jacob's day. And somother, Jenny, every year their families get together to celebrate the twodoor was answered by Esther, who didn's birthday/deathdayt know Jenny or Jacob. But when Rohan The phone number she's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Godsd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. It And so had Jenny's going to be the worst night of their livesnanny.|isbn=1788000463

|isbnauthor=walker14Claire North|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerNotes from the Burning Age

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth DaynesAt its core ' work in 'Notes From the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the idea which he thought might help his bossbest novels, chief it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of detectives Jalipeaua new and timely genre, known as Jcli-Jfi, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsor climate change fiction. The body North's novel tells of a young male was found in world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the woods but he was never identified modern and his killer never brought to justicecorrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the resulting publicity be used Brotherhood, aims to identify master these processes no matter the young man? J-J calls cost to the skull 'Oscar' 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 justiceEarth.|isbn=0356514757

|author= Martha LeighEva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirGirls Who Lie|rating= 53|genre= BiographyThrillers|summary= You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent You think, seeing on the map that we're set in a slightly eccentricAkranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familythat this author is clutching at the few final straws left. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits However just because the complete correspondence of book aims for the philosopher Jeanusual small-Jacques Rousseautown feel, his lifeit's worknot just in Akranes that our interests lie. Her mother is Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a concert pianist teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who practises had given her foster care before her mother had asked for hours every daythe girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. Neither parent is hugely interested 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's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the practicalities of lifebody has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. There Meanwhile, this narrative is love interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the house but also darker undercurrents assumption that a child does not fully understand but knows is there.so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=1800460384191319373X

|authorisbn=Darren ShanB0925KS87N|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done Tam Hardie had been determined to find the impossible grave - and unpicked the lock it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to the Forgotten Cryptdo, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergebut Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to do. Only, Archie now has his family didn't hear from him again after he'gropd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn' t be opened - and his three sons began to think aboutworry. But before that Tam Junior, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesnFrankie and Dave wouldn't even know what one of those is. But he manages normally go to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriespolice but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyEmily Critchley|title= Shards The Tiny Gestures of EarthSmall Flowers|rating= 43|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape intrigued by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scatteredplot, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to liked the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories design of the war fades, heroes are forgottenbook, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselvesthought the author's work sounded interesting. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with From the Architects, does not want to be rememberedoutset it all looked incredibly promising. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover So what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. 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 that the real war is only just getting started…on earth went wrong here?|isbn=15290518861911427091