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|isbn=1787631869183885410X|title=The Rising TideDark Remains|author=Sam LloydWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built Bobby Carter was a good lawyer and decent life consigliere to one of the major crime families in the aftermathnineteen seventies Glasgow. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine DC Jack Laidlaw is on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point the CID team charged with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the child she had with Danielinvestigation. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, DanielI say ''on the team''s partner and so-called best friendbut Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of it. Nick He does his own thing, goes his own way and Daniel have a history together from ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the time they both spent in a children's home but ittruth of why Bobby Carter's difficult to think that Nick has Danielbody was found behind one of Glasgow's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernedseedier pubs.

|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1942410255|title=Kate on the CaseTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Kate''Zangyo: overtime work, although I got the impression sheoften unpaid''d rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate It's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionculture, isn't it? The hours for which you'The Special Correspondent Manualre paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. Armed with a plucky fatherWhen he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, that bookeven from his family, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage but there was a train ride mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for roof of the first time building or been assisted in yonkshis descent. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catGossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, a thief – and two glowing eyesMayu Yamase, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them stylehad 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 MelvickIn August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's earliest memory is of viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pondthree children, Lavender, only to find that he'd hanged himselfFreddie and Barclay. Twenty years later The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's back home again and making this time the occasion is no less sadtrip on her own. SheThe house would be perfect for them. It's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers the same month but now we'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor re in Wimbledon and major crueltieswe encounter the same young woman, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was only this time she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County job hunting and money was never living in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissaher sister, Georgie's health problems, Megan was deaf and their motherspare room, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would where she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.

|isbnauthor=0241400120Darren Shan|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson Archibald Lox and Victoria Cribbthe Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation So. Having done the impossible and since then sheunpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''d given up her medical studies and retrained as a teachergrop'' to think about. She was thirty years old and money was tightBut before that, soirees. Her friendSoirees! Archie, Saramuch to Inez's amusement, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsuladoesn't even know what one of those is. There were only ten people in But he manages to come through the village but a teacher fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat crushed in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredfirst volume of this series.|isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbn=1846975719B07GZ81J7C|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Denzil MeyrickPeter Cotton|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeFor Sharing|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to awkward placesbe meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But thatI's London, isnm getting ahead of myself: I't it? d better tell you a bit more about Fred. What's happening in Kinloch? When Fred is a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley snake and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayeven those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. It soon becomes evident though He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that both occupants he could breathe and immediately became part of the plane were dead before family, to the extent that they would take offFred out with them when they went out for a walk. How could And that be? was where the problem started. The sort of tech which would make that possible isnFred didn't available to the paying publichave any road sense. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?Or brakes.

|author=Richard BrookJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleFor Sharing|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latteras any parent will tell you. Not so very long agoBut really, if I had come across this book Iwhy shouldn'd have skimmed t it, found some of it interesting, but it would not be? We all have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not learn about our bodily functions just because I was likely as we have to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.slearn about everything else when we are small.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesnWhy shouldn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to readpotty training be as much fun as, say, right now.learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn=1800461682B098BJZYHH

|isbn=B095CY7NBN1787634493|title=Autumn CampAll Her Fault|author=Barry FowlerAndrea Mara

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=It was to be Brian's last camphad seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and Marissa Irvine had done all been hoping that the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time had come opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to hand the reins to someone elsego on a play date. The obvious person She was Gary, who'd always been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said concerned that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and hedidn'd just be there to observet have any friends at his new school. The problem Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you likehis classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. He was What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the entertainerhouse, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the person door was answered by Esther, who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingdidn't know Jenny or Jacob. He handed the camp over - and then took it backThe phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. And Gary determined to have his revengeMilo had disappeared. This should have been And so had Jenny''his'' camps nanny.

|isbnauthor=194812467XClaire North|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicNotes from the Burning Age

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Kirelle At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and her night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best friend Sam novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the cat decide modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to go for a walkmaster these processes no matter the cost to the Earth. Kirelle is dressed |isbn=0356514757}}{{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all weathers the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in her bright yellow wellies Akranes, and Sam finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is perfectly turned out as ever clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in his smart grey fur coatAkranes that our interests lie. As they walk 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 all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the top of couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the hillgirl back, they see and a big barn with a sign outsidecouple of delighted adopters. It's a farm shop! But this is it left our three detectives at a farm shop with quandary – mobile phone use was at a difference: high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the stallholders woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cowsnow, after six months, the body has been discovered, goats and chickensin a third, and even some micemore remote place. Excited Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingvery little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one? What will they buy?|isbn=191319373X

|isbn=0008404925B0925KS87N|title=The Killing KindDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Jane CaseyNeil Lancaster|rating=54

|summary=Difficult clients Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and there were nothing new things he wanted to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprisedo. After allOnly, it was her cross-examination of the his family didn'victimt hear from him again after he' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. Hed said that he'd been accused of stalking found the grave - the woman but one which said that it didnshouldn't take long be opened - and his three sons began to establish that - if anything - it was the other way aroundworry. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster Tam Junior, Frankie and then she came Dave wouldn't normally go 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 but theyweren'd t certain where their father had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous manbeen and they were worried.

|isbnauthor=0008395594Emily Critchley|title=Both The Tiny Gestures of You|author=Adele ParksSmall Flowers|rating=43|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresthe hallmarks of something good. ThenI was intrigued by the plot, one Mondayliked the design of the book, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Olithought the author's sixteen and at work sounded interesting. From the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put outset 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, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without traceall looked incredibly promising.So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091