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|isbn=1787634493183885410X|title=All Her FaultThe Dark Remains|author=Andrea MaraWilliam 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 why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1942410255|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it? The hours for which you're 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. When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his 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. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtime.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241425425|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had seemed like one helped to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the sort of those serendipitous events conundrum which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, retired spies have to go deal with on a play dateregular basis. She was concerned When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that he didnit't have any friends at his new schools someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husband. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb He's made a bad mistake - something to do with his classmate Jacob a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty- million pounds in diamonds and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterfew death threats. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet JacobHe's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esthernow in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyhis MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|author=Claire NorthAndrew Sharp|title=Notes from The Chef, the Burning AgeBird and the Blessing

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is a spy thriller, with as many double crossesin his mind, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that head chef of a new safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest 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 dedicated to start anew his task and live alongside nature without any he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons head chef of mass destruction, intensive farming)a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin star. There He is a growing unhappiness with thwarted in this limiting worldambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and one groupme) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, the Brotherhoodhis uninterest in his guests and - shock, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to horror - his allowing of bush animals into the Earthhouse.|isbn=0356514757B09926MK8H

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Alex Foulkes|title=Girls Who LieRules for Vampires|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=You might be forgiven Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for thinking that 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 the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthem remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. You thinkNow, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranesnight of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws lefthunt her first human. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lieinstead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Six months ago a woman failed Oops! And to turn up for her date eveningmake things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and was never seen againthe evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. This left a teenaged girl So, not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently only does Leo have to team up with the couple who had given her foster care friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before her mother had asked for the girl backhe becomes unstoppably powerful, and a couple of delighted adopters. But she has to do it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until all while hiding it stopped all of a suddenfrom her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, in one place, the womanthere's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy reason why there are rules for the reader to make the right one?vampires…|isbn=191319373X147119955X

|isbnauthor=B0925KS87NTori Bovalino|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to find deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemeterybooks: Mr Birch. It was a strange thing for ScotlandThe boarding school's premier criminal to doheadmaster, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to doa man Tess hates. OnlyAs a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the grave - books, scribbled with the one which said that it shouldnugliest insults she can think of. They't be opened - and his three sons began re never meant to worryreach him, of course. Tam JuniorHer plan is to get her anger out like this, Frankie and Dave wouldnthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worrieddelivered them for her.|isbn=1789098130

|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release in the hallmarks ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked fun picture books aims to take the design pain out of the book, potty training children and thought the authorreplace it with some fun. It's work sounded interestinga worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising . So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}}

|authorisbn=Sarah LanganB098FFFBH9|title=Good NeighboursSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a singFourteen-year-song ''thatold Rachel is her school's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo animal rights project leader and she and Gertie live her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one She gets a great deal of 18 households on the crescentsupport from her family: father Pip Harrison, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierlecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and her twin, Nick. They're not quite like all Kate runs the other families (he's an ex rockerfamily business, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled toy shop called Cornucopia inPutney, and itwhich is where we'll meet Rachel's all going okmain (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. Until it isn}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't. One hotknow his name, clammyor why he is there but he is used to the system, sticky, sweaty summerused to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a sinkhole opens up hive in the park across smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the wayDoctor. It's a revolting mess By the end of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Streetstory, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the worst is yet to comesame again.|isbn=17890982111912626977

|author=Lisa ThompsonYancey Williams|title=The Small ThingsCrosshairs 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 trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep

|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolIn a word, she feels like she never really fits rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches inthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Her There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family don't have enough money that has to let her do after school activitieskeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirswhere no ship dare sail. When a new girl joins her classThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, Anna is asked who has to partner her, but things are complicated because keep notes of activity from the new girlHidden Lands, Elliehis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, is unwell and so canAndrewe't attend school in person. Insteads foundling daughter, she joins in with who washed up out of the class by using a robotsea one day eleven years ago. Can Anna overcome But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the challenge world of making friends with someone through a robotprotecting their island, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?like it or not.|isbn=17811296491788452372

|isbnauthor=0008350388Erling Kagge|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha UwagbaWalking: One Step At A Time

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=''To be Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a dark-skinned Black woman book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to be seen the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as less desirablea 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, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterpartsbut not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why)...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study Erligg Kagge is a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came Norwegian explorer who has walked to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven South Pole, the North Pole and ninethe summit of Everest. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them laterHe knows a thing or two about walking. The family was hard-workingHowever, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always this isn't a painful awareness travelogue about any of money although this did not translate into those epic journeys, it is instead a shortage thoughtful exploration of anything: what it was simply carefully harvestedmeans to walk. When Otegha was ten the family acquired It is a carplenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. For OteghaIn small format paperback, education meant each essay is only a scholarship to a private school in London and few pages long. Perhaps then , better thought of as a place at New College, Oxfordmeditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705

|isbnauthor=1787631869Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydMonster Hunting For Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Lucy LockeMeet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good slight boy, and decent life in the aftermathalthough he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. SheThat's now married because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to Danielher – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine depending on Penleith Beachyour point of view, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucya giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's daughter and Finfather also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Danielogre's partner and sodeath, a dwarfish wizard-called best friend. Nick type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and Daniel have he'll be given a history together from book that tells him all he needs to know about the time they both spent in a childrenperils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's home but itname? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned...|isbn=0755501942

|author=Hannah PeckKeith Gray|title=Kate on the CaseThe Climbers|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got Sully is the best tree climber in the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatvillage. For Catherine Rodriguez is KateHe has what's idol, and known amongst the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manualkids as 'reach'. Armed with But what happens when a plucky fathernew kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that bookhis status is being threatened, and her talking mouse called Rupertnot only that, she is all equipped to manage a train ride that his chance to name the Arcticfinal, to see her scientist mother for unnamed big tree in the park by being the first time in yonksto conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. HoweverHow can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, this is a train ride with a differenceor maybe even all of his friends, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...to do so?|isbn=184812970X1781129991

|author=Darren ShanEmma Carroll|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Week at World's End|rating=4.5

|summary=The second trilogy First, the title. We're in ShanWorld's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroEnd Close, Archiea mediocre set of houses, back in London in where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the world of boy over the Bornroad. ItBut we could also be at World's not been easyEnd, explaining because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to his foster parents where he's beenreduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in not much else is able to make the Mergenews. That said, but Archie Vie has done his bestnews of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed.... wellAnna has, in no short time, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston taken a strong interest in Big Benthe American airforce base behind the Close, said she's clock tower d locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and except for fiddling implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak what the Cold War is doing miles away.?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0571364438

|isbnauthor=0571365884Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettJulia and the Shark

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Georgia Pritchett Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has always been anxiouspacked off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, even as a childin the far NE of the Scottish islands. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort Here be Vikings, that kind of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweenScottish island. On a visit Dad is going to a therapistbe automating the lantern, as an adultwhich is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. when And Julia, well, she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that will be homesick and alone – until she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believesuddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789

|author=Alex CotterFreya Sampson|title=The House on the EdgeLast Library

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the edge thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a cliffbun, literally. Is that crack cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the 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 spends her evenings eating the garden getting bigger? Is same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the house starting to slope a little? And as book out of the house seems to be falling apartwindow, because I found I was interested in June, so is Faith's familyand why she lived as she did. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling used to copebe a librarian at the village library, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in chargebut when she got sick, taking June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her little brother Noahmum, as well as taking care of on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mumsadly died some years ago, feeding everyoneshe is still working there, getting Noah to schoolstill eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is still reading her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? Whatmum's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantlyold books. June is stuck, and but little does she doesn't know how much longer , everything in her life is about the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onchange.|isbn=1788008626183877369X

|isbn=00082690410008370982|title=Risk of HarmRock Paper Scissors|author=Lucie WhitehouseAlice Feeney

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons 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 without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from merely the Metsurname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. She might have been reinstated but Dorothy is the whole episode left matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a nasty taste scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in her mouththe family for generations. She was Recently widowed and now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeinvolved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. She and Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her fifteenstill-yearliving husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation is about to graduate with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. He's married to Natalie, now first-class physics degree and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robinjoin the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=17863323881901514978|title=The First Day of SpringThere's a Problem With Dad|author=Nancy TuckerCarlos Alba

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - Life is different for George Lovelace and he can''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasiont really understand why. The writing is superb He's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent father - and the plot grips you a father who was always there for school plays and won't let gosports days. So, what's the problemwhy is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Well, the problem Why is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her shesomeone with such a 's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Shegood's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath- suffocating - her hands seized up. taking gaffes? ThereIt's almost become a clue cliche these days to suggest that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions someone who is a little later in different is 'on the book: when will Steven come backspectrum', she wonders? Hasnbut George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger't he been dead for long enough?s Syndrome: high-functioning autism.

|author=Catherine SteadmanLouise Candlish|title=The Disappearing ActHeights

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the cusp of success. Great successway. If the rumours There are truelots of things, award season is going to treat her welllots of people, acknowledging her for her latestyou might see when you look out across London, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places hethis isn's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing t one Ellen expected that day or in the form of his new co-starfact any other day. It's a good time Why? Because Kieran has been dead for Mia to escapeover two years, and pilot season Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in LA provides just the excusehis murder.|isbn=14711897831471183483

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler0008421714|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= Set against The problem began just after the backdrop publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigallast page) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. As a loyal servant of Every day Mrs March went to the Kinglocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, and Head of as she was wrapping the Secret Servicebread, it is Robert''but isn't this the first time he's duty to uncover based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the details of principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the plan and follow fact that Johanna is the clues to uncover one whore of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the KingNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ''

|author=Tasha SuriJohn Boyne|title=The Jasmine ThroneEcho Chamber|rating=45|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= On Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the night few television personalities over the age of her sacred burningfifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, Princess Malini defies but then his author wife is getting her brother and refuses to step on to kicks with the pyreUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. She is immediately sent They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to be imprisoned on save the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a community of people who got powers from fit young lad doing the mysterious deathless watersgay hustle thing. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrownAdd in a few other characters – therapists, decaying ruin. One daylawyers, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crimerandom transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, Malini claims and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for farcical approach even more, however, is the girl to become her own personal maidservantfact this is bloody funny.|isbn=03565156480857526219

|isbn=B088YWF5BC0241989094|title=The Lies We TellPerfect Life|author=Jane CorryNuala Ellwood

|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on In August 2018 we meet a council estate in Kent young woman called Imogen 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, hasn'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 viewing a house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work Goring-on-Thames and he needs his sleep. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.}}{{Frontpage|author=Joseph Knox|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows telling the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from estate agent about her university halls of residence. Split into four partsthree children, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sisterLavender, other family, friends Freddie and professionals, such as the policeBarclay. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}}{{Frontpage|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=No, No, No!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=They say the best picture books boys are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer a bit of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' handful which is based around the simplest text imaginable. why she''No, no, no! Okay, okays making this trip on her own. Yes, you may The house would be perfect for them.''

ThatIt's it! But, like all the best picture bookssame month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outsidetime she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.|isbn=1638820457

|author=Monica ConnellDarren Shan|title=Against a Peacock Sky|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up.|isbn=1780600429}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend Archibald Lox and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death Slides of Mariana's husbandBon Repell: Archibald Lox series, SebastianVolume 2, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death book 2 of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Maisie Chan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths3

|summary=Danny is eleven years old, So. Having done the impossible and what he really, really loves unpicked the lock to do is draw. He creates fantastical comicsthe Forgotten Crypt, whilst his best friend Ravi adds from which the words. DannyDeparted communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop''s dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget think about the drawing. But before that, because he says nobody can make a living from drawingsoirees. Soirees! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for himArchie, and this surprise turns out much to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themInez's amusement, and who will not only be sharing Dannydoesn's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk t even know what one of his bunk bed! Danny those is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around . But he manages to come through the town. Poor Dannyfancy party unscathed, stuck on a maths project, frustrated even after an uncomfortable encounter with his bedroom situationKurtis, and then he even has a falling out whose fledgling romance with RaviInez was crushed in the first volume of this series...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001XB093J9TF73

|authorisbn=Terry MilesB07GZ81J7C|title=RabbitsWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|genre=Science FictionFor Sharing|summary=Welcome to the world of The GameMeet Fred. Or should that be the game Well, actually, for while it ought you're going to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookmeeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. It But I'm getting ahead of myself: I's also called Rabbits, although only as d better tell you a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life thenmore about Fred. Yes, this Fred 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 that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K snake and his bezzies are trying to be historians even those of the game, and us who have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in the most peculiar places, a box with holes so that he could breathe and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems immediately became part of the most dangerous, nay lethalfamily, to the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort extent that they would take Fred out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeedproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|isbn=1529016932

|author=C J CareyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=WidowlandEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary=Can potty training ever be joyous? Itoften isn's April 1953t, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisas any parent will tell you. For yesBut really, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didnwhy shouldn't happen it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we know it, and have to learn about everything else when we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste systemsay, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to learning about why the drudges, sun and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And moon take turns in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – 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 reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.sky? |isbn=152941198XB098BJZYHH

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1787634493|title=This Is How We Are HumanAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to 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, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantsMilo, to go on a play date. Sebastian has decided She was concerned that ithe didn's time for him to t have sexany friends at his new school. But as Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an autistic 20 yearaffluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -oldand Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, thatwhen Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's easier said than donemother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And itso had Jenny's starting to cause them both problemsnanny. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LClaire North|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickNotes from the Burning Age

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereAt its core ''s merely a hint that he had Notes From the nickname Burning Age'Secretary' at one pointby Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. He's simply Bosner to However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and alltimely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. When we first encounter him heNorth's exploring his memories novel tells of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (or helosread: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, as they were calledintensive farming) at . There is a naval establishment. The hours could be long growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and he was often working nights but at one group, the age of twenty-oneBrotherhood, there was always a way aims to master these processes no matter the cost to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daythe Earth.|isbn=0356514757

|author=Hannah WhittenEva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=For the WolfGirls Who Lie|rating=53|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=In Red's familyYou might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the first daughter becomes queenmap that we're set in Akranes, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Redfinding it's misfortuneonly twenty kilometres from the capital city, she that this author is clutching at the second daughterfew final straws left. Sent alone into However just because the woods with nothing but book aims for the cape on her backusual small-town feel, Red knows what it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to expect: within the woods is a wolfturn up for her date evening, and he is was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the one couple who will decide had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the fate girl back, and a couple of their kingdomdelighted adopters. If she is not But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a worthy sacrificesudden, in one place, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be releasedwoman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woodsbody has been discovered, in a third, expecting nothing even more than to be killed within the hourremote place. Meanwhile, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf this narrative is not interrupted by a monster—he's confessional monologue from a manmother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=0356516369191319373X

|authorisbn=M G LeonardB0925KS87N|title=TwitchDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birdsTam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. He keeps pigeons at homeIt was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared there were things he wanted to that of his time in schooldo. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of Only, his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run, and itfamily didn't hear from him again after he's possible d said that he'd found the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, grave - the place where Twitch has his secret hide one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and that he knows like the back of his hand! three sons began to worry. Can Twitch solve the mysteryTam Junior, Frankie and find Dave wouldn't normally go to the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried.

|isbnauthor=1838853804Emily Critchley|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayTiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=43|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is The Tiny Gestures of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to Small Flowers had all the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfhallmarks of something good. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time I was intrigued by the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sisterplot, Melissa, who is dying liked the design of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of thingsthe book, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissathought the author's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of work sounded interesting. From the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curseoutset it all looked incredibly promising. 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 funeralSo what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091