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|authorisbn=Hannah Peck183885410X|title=Kate on the CaseThe Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Kate, although 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 got say ''on the impression sheteam'd rather ' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatpart of it. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolHe does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the author truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of our heroineGlasgow's favourite possessionseedier pubs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1942410255|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid''The Special Correspondent Manual It's the culture, isn'. t it? Armed with The hours for which you're paid are really just a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped statement of the minimum you'll be required to manage a train ride do: you'll work more hours to get the Arctic, job done and done to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonkssatisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. HoweverWhen he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, this is a train ride with a differenceeven from his family, for on board is but there was a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the darkness roof of the building or been assisted in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them stylehis descent. 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 earlier. ItShe's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..d accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.|isbn=184812970X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0241425425|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanElizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. 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'Merges someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husband. He'' saga opens s made a bad mistake - something to do with our hero, Archiea mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, back a missing twenty-million pounds in London in the world of the Borndiamonds and a few death threats. It He's not been easynow in hiding with a young woman called Polly, explaining to his foster parents where hewho's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... MI5 handler as well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayas being an incompetent waitress.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0571365884Andrew Sharp|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettThe Chef, the Bird and the Blessing

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousChef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, even as in his mind, the head chef of a childsafari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. She would worry about whether Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the sort head chef of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweena restaurant in London or a big American city. On a visit Even to win a therapist, as an adultMichelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, when she was completely unable Mr Bin (Ben to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down you and me) who incurs Mozzy''My Mess is a Bit s disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is bush animals into the result - or so we are given to believehouse.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|author=Alex CotterFoulkes|title=The House on the EdgeRules for Vampires|rating=4.5

|summary=FaithEleonore Von Motteberg (or 's family home Leo' for short) is teetering on the edge of a cliffVampire. She drinks blood, literally. Is that crack in she sleeps during the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a little? And as the house seems flock of bats to be falling aparttravel around, so is Faith's familyalthough not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Her dad Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has disappeared, to go out and hunt her mum is struggling to copefirst human. However, barely leaving her bedinstead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. So that leaves Faith in chargeOops! And to make things worse, taking care the ghosts of one of her little brother Noah, taking care the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her mum, feeding everyone. So, getting Noah not only does Leo have to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed team up with what he claims is a the friendly ghost in Minna to stop the cellar? What should she do about ghost of the house? Can Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she find a way has to raise enough money to fix do it all while hiding itfrom her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? WhatYeah, there's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding a reason why there are rules for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.vampires…|isbn=1788008626147119955X

|isbnauthor=0008269041Tori Bovalino|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehouseThe Devil Makes Three

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back Working all summer in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from boarding school's library is the Met. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a nasty taste in her mouthhundred books that she has to deliver herself. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then What makes it worse is the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforerequested the books: Mr Birch. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parentThe boarding school's home into headmaster, and a rented house but there's still man Tess hates. As a difficult situation with petty act of revenge for making her brother Luke who has gone out find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of his way to make life difficult for Robin since the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she was a young childcan think of. HeThey's married re never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to Natalieget her anger out like this, now and has a young child but hethen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn's still got it in t delivered them for Robinher.|isbn=1789098130

|isbn=1786332388B09BG8V3Q6|title=The First Day of SpringWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author=Nancy TuckerJustine Avery and Seema Amjad

|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of SpringWho Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and wonlatest release in the 't let go. So, what's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her sheEverybody Potties!'s just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boyseries from Justine Avery. She's completely cold about what she's done This series of fun picture books aims to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upsome fun. ThereIt's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will Steven come back, she wonders? tell you. Hasn't he been dead for long enough?.

|authorisbn=Catherine SteadmanB098FFFBH9|title=The Disappearing ActSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Fourteen-year-old Rachel is on her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the cusp way in which human beings exploit the animal world. She gets a great deal of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat support from her wellfamily: father Pip Harrison, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but soa lecturer at Imperial College, unfortunatelyLondon, is mother Kate and her partnertwin, Nick. And Kate runs the places he's going take him towards liesfamily business, deceit and a pretty young thing toy shop called Cornucopia in the form of his new co-star. ItPutney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusemain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.|isbn=1471189783

|author= Christophe MedlerAngharad Walker|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Ash House|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary= Set against the backdrop of 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 English Civil Warsystem, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the summer rules of 1642The Ash House. As These rules centre on a loyal servant variety of Nicenesses set out by the Kingabsent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, and Head working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of the Secret Service, it The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is Robert's duty to uncover shattered by the details arrival of the plan and follow Doctor. By the clues to uncover one end of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the Kingsame again.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ1912626977

|author=Tasha SuriYancey Williams|title=The Jasmine ThroneCrosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary= On the night of her sacred burningAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, Princess Malini defies her brother despite his strenuous objections and refuses to step on thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the pyreGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. She Nothing is immediately sent going to be imprisoned on 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 Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community Face of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersDeep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. But now the temple There is nothing more than certainly an overgrownabundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, decaying ruinbeyond the Scillies. One dayThere are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magicwhere no ship dare sail. Instead The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of reporting her for activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such a gruesome crimelocal yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, Malini claims that who washed up out of the girl saved her from an attacker sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and begs for his curious ward are thrust into the girl to become her own personal maidservantworld of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=03565156481788452372

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCErling Kagge|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryWalking: One Step At A Time|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Sarah Wallace said Those who have read my reviews before will know that she grew up on how much I loved a council estate in Kent and book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have been finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a lovingNorwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, stable familythe North Pole and the summit of Everest. When we first meet herHe knows a thing or two about walking. However, she canthis isn't sleep because her sona travelogue about any of those epic journeys, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of half-promised he'd be in byunnumbered essays about walking. Her husband, Tom, There is fast asleep: theyno 're moving house in the morning but hecontents's still going to be going to work page and he needs his sleepI haven't counted. He wakesIn small format paperback, thougheach essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonebetter thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705

|author=Joseph KnoxIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=True Crime StoryMonster Hunting For Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Joseph KnoxMeet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitshe's a slight boy, has created a new genre with and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance dad refuses to let him out of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residencehis sight. Split into four partsThat's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of look what happened to her twin sister– she died. Luckily or unluckily then, other familydepending on your point of view, friends and professionalsa giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, such as the police. The various accounts help Jack will fluke the reader get to know Zoeogre's death, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. Howevera dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, the twists and turns at he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedperils he always wanted closer contact with. Whose accounts can we trustThe book's name?''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=08575277030755501942

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaKeith Gray|title=No, No, No!The Climbers

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=They say Sully is the best picture books are tree climber in the simplest onesvillage. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'No. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, Nocalled Nottingham, No!'' who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is based around the simplest text imaginable. ''Nobeing threatened, noand not only that, no! Okaythat his chance to name the final, okay. Yesunnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, you maymight be snatched from his hands.'' That's How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it! Butcost him his best friend, like or maybe even all the best picture booksof his friends, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - to do so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.?|isbn=16388204571781129991

|author=Monica ConnellEmma Carroll|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Week at World's End|rating=54|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do First, the fieldwork for her Ph.Dtitle. We're in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went on World's End Close, a grant-supported tripmediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with a relatively specific objectivethe boy over the road. She wasnBut we could also be at World't s End, because something taking a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-lagreat chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of learning about these people nuclear missiles offshore, and how they livednot much else is able to make the news. She also went, presumablyThat said, with the academic discipline Vie has news of how to find these things outher own – Anna, how to organise them a secretive young woman hiding in her mindtheir coal shed. Anna has, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigmsno short time, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of taken a strong interest in the experience after American airforce base behind the event. FortunatelyClose, said she'd locate something she also went with a sense of open-ness wanted and curiosity and a willingness leave, failed to muck-inleave, to break and implied her own rules and life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to truly connect do with what the people of the village where she hauled up.Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=17806004290571364438

|isbnauthor=1409181669Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesJulia and the Shark|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and looked likely their cat from the family home in SW England to get away with them bothbe lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceedHere be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on Dad is going to be automating the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niecelantern, Zoewhich is his specialist thing, had telephoned while mum will be leaving her career in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go algae behind to Cambridge, but she caught hunt the first fast train from King's Crosselusive Greenland shark. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husbandAnd Julia, Sebastianwell, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother she will be homesick and Mariana's sister, Elizaalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789

|author=Maisie ChanFreya Sampson|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Last Library|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Danny is eleven years oldI am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, and what he really, really loves to do is drawsince I am a librarian. He creates fantastical comicsI always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dadhair in a bun, howevercat-owning, wants Danny to concentrate glasses on his mathsa chain stereotypes! In this story, and forget about the drawingmain character, June, because he says nobody can make does put her hair in a living from drawing! At least Danny has his bun, and she does own rooma cat (called Alan Bennett), where he can draw in secret and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for himJune, and this surprise turns out why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with thema librarian at the village library, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but when she will also be sleeping got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishstill working there, and Danny finds himself forced into being still eating her babysittermum's favourite takeaway meal, and showing still reading her around the townmum's old books. Poor Danny, June is stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationbut little does she know, and then he even has a falling out with Ravieverything in her life is about the change...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X183877369X

|authorisbn=Terry Miles0008370982|title=RabbitsRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney

|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome to Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the world of The Gamestaff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Or should that be the game Her husband, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heavenAdam, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookisn't so keen on the idea. It Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for screenwriter and he's never shy of making it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the average person no obvious entry pointnovels he's hoping to adapt than with her. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like Amelia's annoyed that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K he never enquires about how her day has been - and his bezzies are trying to be historians of working with the gamedogs, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boardswhom have been abused, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shortis never easy. However this time it Still - she's different. This time won the game seems the most dangerousweekend away, nay lethal, the most broken even if it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately does mean driving for K, eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in trying to sort out what the game is passenger seat - and then doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only the same thing to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is come back a very thin one indeedcouple of days later...|isbn=1529016932

|author=C J CareyDoug Johnstone|title=WidowlandThe Great Silence

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ItFor those who, like me, haven's April 1953t come across the Skelfs before, and Adolf HitlerI'll risk a quick synopsis of who's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral who – although Johnstone does a good job of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over bringing the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisbackstory in without being heavy handed about it. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didnSkelf isn't happen some fantastic creature, though it sounds as we know though itought to be, and we are now it is merely the surname of a protectorate – well, we share enough family of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. But this Dorothy is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, the matriarch – Californian by birth and ideas of female purposeinstinct, has put all of that gender into she married a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, scot and beyond those, right on down ended up helping to run the childless, Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the husbandless family for generations. Recently widowed and the widowsnow involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Female literacy is actively discouragedScottish police. And in this puritanical existence, our heroineDaughter Jenny, Rose Ransom46, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it haunted by her still-living husband – after all, 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 reprintviolent escaped prisoner. That And grand-daughter is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come about to light, graduate with their potential to spoil Hitler's visita first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=152941198X1913193837

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1901514978|title=This Is How We Are HumanThere's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos Alba|rating=4.5

|summary=Veronica Life is a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she different for George Lovelace and he can't give him everything he wantsreally understand why. Sebastian has decided that it He's time always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband 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 ? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to have sex. But as an autistic 20 yearprogress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-old, taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest thatsomeone who is a little different is 'on the spectrum's easier said than done. And it, but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's starting to cause them both problemsSyndrome: high-functioning autism. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LLouise Candlish|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickThe Heights|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Meet Bosner, or, Ellen doesn't expect to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnersee Kieran that day. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereShe's merely on site, visiting a client for a hint that he had lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointway. HeThere are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn's simply Bosner to t one and allEllen expected that day or in fact any other day. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, as they were called) at and Ellen knows this for a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at the age of twenty-onefact, there was always because she had a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into hand in his daymurder.|isbn=1471183483

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten0008421714|title=For the WolfMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=In RedThe problem began just after the publication of George March's family, the most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first daughter becomes queen, and name only on the second daughter becomes a sacrificelast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. To Red's misfortune Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she is was wrapping the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing bread, ''but isn't this the cape first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her backmannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, Red knows what to expect: within except for the woods is a wolf, and he fact that Johanna is the one who will decide the fate whore of their kingdom. If she is not Nantes - ''a worthy sacrificeweak, plain, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be releaseddetestable, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woodspathetic, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hourunloved, she finds that the legends are liesunloveable wretch. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369'

|author=M G LeonardJohn Boyne|title=TwitchThe Echo Chamber

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Twitch Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a boy who loves birdscriminal record". He keeps pigeons at homestarts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in but then his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds author wife is easy compared to that of his time in schoolgetting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. But things They have three children, who are about a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to change for Twitch in all aspects save the world's homeless with out-of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run-date food, and it's possible that a fit young lad doing the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere gay hustle thing. Add in Aves Wooda few other characters – therapists, lawyers, the place where Twitch has random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his secret hide life, and you have something that he knows like suggests an almost farcical approach to the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve modern world. What suggests the mysteryfarcical approach even more, however, and find is the missing millions?fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=14063893740857526219

|isbn=18388538040241989094|title=The Cursed GirlsPerfect Life|author=Caro RamsayNuala Ellwood

|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's back home again viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and this time telling the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say estate agent about her final farewells to her sisterthree children, MelissaLavender, who is dying of anorexiaFreddie and Barclay. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots The boys are a bit of things, minor and major cruelties, for a handful which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was is why she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, making this trip on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curseher own. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241400120|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was 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 as a teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary house would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredperfect for them.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846975719|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil Meyrick|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch?

When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportIt's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, DCI Jim Daley only this time she's job hunting and his colleagueliving in her sister, Georgie's, Acting DI Brian Scottspare room, head off for the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isnwhere she't available to the paying publics been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|author=Richard BrookDarren Shan|title=Understanding Human NatureArchibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: A User's Guide to LifeArchibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, So. Having done the impossible and sometimes books choose us. In my caseunpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, this is one of from which the Departed communicate with the latter. Not so very long agoMerge, if I had come across this book IArchie now has ''d have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have grop'hit home' in the way to think about. But before that it does now, soirees. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely Soirees! Archie, much to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The BookbagInez's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlyamusement, so there doesn't even know what one of those is a predisposition towards expecting . But he manages to like come through the bookfancy party unscathed, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to readafter an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, right nowwhose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series.|isbn=1800461682B093J9TF73

|isbn=B095CY7NBNB07GZ81J7C|title=Autumn CampWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Barry FowlerPeter Cotton

|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary=It was to be Brian's last campMeet Fred. HeWell, actually, you'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done re going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elsetoo obvious very quickly. The obvious person was Gary, whoBut I'd always been the fun element m getting ahead of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and hemyself: I'd just be there to observebetter tell you a bit more about Fred. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you likeFred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He was the entertainer, the person who basked arrived as a present in the spotlight and made things fun - a box with holes so Brian stepped in that he could breathe and did immediately became part of the family, to the organisingextent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. He handed And that was where the camp over - and then took it backproblem started. And Gary determined to Fred didn't have his revengeany road sense. This should have been ''his'' campOr brakes.

|isbnauthor=194812467XJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for a walk. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as ever in his smart grey fur coatany parent will tell you. As they walk to the top of the hillBut really, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Itwhy shouldn's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: t it be? We all the stallholders and customers have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are farmyard animalssmall. There are sheep and ducks and cowsWhy shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, goats and chickenssay, learning about why the sun and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.the moon take turns in the sky?  What will they buy?|isbn= B098BJZYHH

|isbn=00084049251787634493|title=The Killing KindAll Her Fault|author=Jane CaseyAndrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new It 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 barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of go on a surpriseplay date. After all, it She was her crossconcerned 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 -examination of the 'victim' which saved and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a lengthy prison sentencelittle later. HeWhat could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob'd been accused of stalking s mother, Jenny, the woman but it door was answered by Esther, who didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way aroundknow Jenny or Jacob. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then The phone number she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away been given for a long time: he Jenny was a very dangerous mannot recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.

|isbnauthor=0008395594Claire North|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksNotes from the Burning Age

|summary=You could might be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adorescrime books before now. ThenYou think, one Mondayseeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, she went to work and never came homefinding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. MarkHowever just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, Oli and Seb are shatteredit's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. WellSix months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookwas never seen again. He's been This left a bit off teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with Leigh the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independentcouple of delighted adopters. SebBut 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 only twelve car was found miles away in a second place, and Leigh's absence hits him hardnow, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Then Daan JanssenMeanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a wealthy Dutch businessmanconfessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, reports his wife, Kai missingand very little maternal feeling in her body. She too has vanished without trace.Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbn=1473685745B0925KS87N|title=Unbreak Your HeartDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Katie MarshNeil Lancaster

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of it took some finding - in an angry exchange - well, Simon overgrown old cemetery. It was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise a strange thing for having knocked SimonScotland's sonpremier criminal to do, Jakebut Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to do. Only, off his bike. He wasnfamily didn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - hear from him again after he'd said thathe's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, d found the grave - the left side of his heart hadnone which said that it shouldn't developed properly be opened - and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldhis three sons began to worry. SoTam Junior, Simon has every right Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to be over-protective particularly when someone isnthe police but they weren't looking certain where their father had been and theywere 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 hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author're drivings work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising.So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091