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|isbn=0241989094183885410X|title=The Perfect LifeDark Remains|author=Nuala EllwoodWilliam McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet Bobby Carter was a young woman called Imogen lawyer and she's viewing a house consigliere to one of the major crime families in Goring-nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and BarclayCID team charged with the investigation. The boys are I say ''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be a bit part of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her ownit. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The house would be perfect for them. ItDark Remains's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter uncovers the same young woman, only this time shetruth of why Bobby Carter's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgiebody was found behind one of Glasgow's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorseedier pubs.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1942410255|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt''Zangyo: overtime work, from which the Departed communicate with often unpaid'' It's the Mergeculture, Archie now has isn't it? The hours for which you'gropre 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 think aboutthe satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. But before that When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, soirees. Soirees! Archieeven from his family, much but there was a mild curiosity as to Inezwhether he's amusement, doesn't even know what one d jumped from the roof of those isthe building or been assisted in his descent. But Gossip revolves around the fact that he manages to come through left the roof at the fancy party unscathedexact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, even after had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume unreasonable amount of this seriesovertime. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbn=B07GZ81J7C0241425425|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Man Who Died Twice|author=Peter CottonRichard Osman

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Meet FredElizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. Well, actually, you're going It came from a man whose body she had helped to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this is the sort of conundrum which will become all too obvious very quicklyretired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. But IWhen she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper'm getting ahead of myself: Is Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it'd better tell you s someone with whom she has a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake long professional history - and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going used to warm to himbe her husband. He arrived as 's made a present in bad mistake - something to do with a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part mask being removed within the range of the familya CCTV camera on a raid, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkmissing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threats. And that was where the problem started. Fred didnHe's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who't have any road sense. Or brakess his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaAndrew Sharp|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)The Chef, the Bird and the Blessing

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'tChef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, as any parent will tell youthe head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. But really, why shouldn't it be? We Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all have of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to learn about our bodily functions just as we have become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to learn about everything else when we are smallwin a Michelin star. Why shouldnHe is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy't potty training be as much fun ass disapproval for his scruffy ways, sayhis uninterest in his guests and - shock, learning about why horror - his allowing of bush animals into the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? house.|isbn= B098BJZYHHB09926MK8H

|isbnauthor=1787634493Alex Foulkes|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraRules for Vampires

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenEleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that She drinks blood, she sleeps during the opportunity would arise for her sonday, Miloand she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to go on a play datecome back). She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new schoolPretty cool stuff. Milo would Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - out and Marissa would pick him hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterkilling two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. What could be better? OnlyOops! And to make things worse, when Marissa arrived at the houseghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, expecting not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, stop the ghost of the door was answered by EstherOrphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognisedhas to do it all while hiding it from her family. Milo had disappeared. And so had JennyDid I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's nanny.a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X

|author=Claire NorthTori Bovalino|title=Notes from the Burning AgeThe Devil Makes Three|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=At its core Working all summer in her boarding school''Notes From s library is the Burning Age'' by Claire North is last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleminghundred books that she has to deliver herself. However, as with What makes it worse is the man who requested the best novelsbooks: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a new and timely genrelarge request, cliTess sticks post-fiit notes on each of the books, or climate change fictionscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. NorthThey's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced re never meant to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelsreach him, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)course. There Her plan is a growing unhappiness with to get her anger out like this limiting world, and one groupthen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthif someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=03565147571789098130

|authorisbn= B09BG8V3Q6|title=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (translatorEverybody Potties!)|titleauthor=Girls Who LieJustine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the dark corners of Iceland have featured latest release in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres Everybody Potties!'' series from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws leftJustine Avery. However just because the book This series of fun picture books aims for to take the usual small-town feel, pain out of potty training children and replace it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. 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 couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopterssome fun. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanIt's car was found miles away in a second placeworthy aim, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placeas any frustrated parent will tell you. 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 for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbn=B0925KS87NB098FFFBH9|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Snowcub|author=Neil LancasterGraham Fulbright|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave Fourteen- and it took some finding year- in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for ScotlandRachel is her school's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old animal rights project leader and she and there were things he wanted her friend are producing a competition entry to dohighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. OnlyShe gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and his three sons began to worryher twin, Nick. Tam JuniorKate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, Frankie and Dave wouldnwhich is where we't normally go to the police but they werenll meet Rachel't certain where their father had been and they were worrieds main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.

|author=Emily CritchleyAngharad Walker|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersAsh House|rating=35|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Tiny Gestures Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of Small Flowers had all The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the hallmarks absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of something goodThe Ash House. I was intrigued But soon their easy peace is shattered by the plot, liked arrival of the Doctor. By the design end of the bookstory, lives will be changed forever and thought The Ash House will never be the author's work sounded interestingsame again. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 19114270911912626977}}

|author=Sarah LanganYancey Williams|title=Good NeighboursCrosshairs of the Devil

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= If you're of a certain vintageAward-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, it's hard despite his strenuous objections and thanks to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a singhis daughter, finds himself living -song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streetor imprisoned, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. TheyEddie're one s point of view - in room 315 of 18 households on the crescentGarden of Eden nursing home, quite new arrivals having moved in with only a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rockertrusty nursing aide, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inJenkins, and it's all for palatable company. Nothing is going ok. Until it isn't. One hotto keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, clammyso here, stickyfor his readers, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. Itare his wanderings through his life's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comework.|isbn=17890982110986031658}}

|author=Lisa ThompsonPhilip Reeve|title=The Small ThingsUtterly 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 In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she grew up on 's viewing a council estate house in Kent Goring-on-Thames and that she had two brothers telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and two sistersBarclay. It seemed to have been The boys are a bit of a loving, stable family. When we first meet her, handful which is why she can't sleep because s making this trip on her son, Freddie, whoown. The house would be perfect for them. It's nearly sixteen, hasnthe same month but now we't come home by re in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time he sort of half-promised heshe'd be s job hunting and living in by. Her husbandher sister, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but heGeorgie's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, thoughspare room, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that hewhere she's killed someonebeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.

|author=Joseph KnoxDarren Shan|title=True Crime StoryArchibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"So. The story follows Having done the disappearance of Zoe Nolan impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, which the reader is taken through Departed communicate with the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sisterMerge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, other familysoirees. Soirees! Archie, friends and professionalsmuch to Inez's amusement, such as the policedoesn't even know what one of those is. The various accounts help But he manages to come through the reader get to know Zoefancy party unscathed, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. Howevereven after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the twists and turns at the end first volume of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedthis series. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703B093J9TF73

|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Justine Avery When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Naday MeldovaMended|titleauthor=No, No, No!Peter Cotton|rating=4.5

|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favouriteMeet Fred. ''No Well, Noactually, No!you'' is based around the simplest text imaginablere going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly.  But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, d better tell you maya bit more about Fred.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet Fred is a snake and even those of text is us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a veritable tardis - box with holes so much bigger on that he could breathe and immediately became part of the inside family, to the extent that it appears on they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the outsideproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|isbn=1638820457

|author=Monica ConnellJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Against a Peacock SkyEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54|genre=TravelFor Sharing|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know thatCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. She went on a grant-supported tripBut really, with a relatively specific objective. She wasnwhy shouldn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-lait be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. She wasnWhy shouldn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with why 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 sun 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-moon take turns in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up.sky? |isbn=1780600429B098BJZYHH

|isbn=14091816691787634493|title=The MaidensAll Her Fault|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 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 of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Maisie Chan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsAndrea Mara

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is drawIt had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the words. Danny's dadopportunity would arise for her son, howeverMilo, wants Danny to concentrate go on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! play date. At least Danny has She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peacenew school. But then one day Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his parents tell classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him they have up from 14 Tudor Grove a surprise for himlittle later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China expecting to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Dannymeet Jacob's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishmother, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitterJenny, and showing her around the towndoor was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with RaviThe phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|author=Terry MilesClaire North|title=RabbitsNotes from the Burning Age|rating=4.5

|summary=Welcome to At its core ''Notes From the world of The Game. Or should that be the gameBurning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heavenwith as many double crosses, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookinterrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. It's also called RabbitsHowever, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowswith the best novels, it has no official title, no official source, no hard wears many masks and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this its most affecting one is the game that of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracynew and timely genre, the computer gamecli-fi, the hack from the darkest or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and his bezzies are trying to be historians live alongside nature without any of the game, modern and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boardscorrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, for the lists weapons of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar placesmass destruction, and are still very shortintensive farming). However There is a growing unhappiness with this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerouslimiting world, nay lethaland one group, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for KBrotherhood, in trying aims to sort out what master these processes no matter the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only cost to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..Earth.|isbn=15290169320356514757

|author=C J CareyEva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=WidowlandGirls Who Lie|rating=43|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend You might be forgiven for thinking that all the state funeral dark corners of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Walliscrime books before now. For yesYou think, Britain caved in the lead-up to seeing on the World War Two map that certainly didnwe't happen as we know itre set in Akranes, and we are now a protectorate – wellfinding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, we share enough of that this author is clutching at the same blood as few final straws left. However just because the Germanic peoples on ''book aims for the mainland'usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. But this is most certainly Six months ago a different Britainwoman 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 couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for Nazi-styled phrenologythe girl back, and ideas a couple of female purpose, has put delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of that gender into a caste systemsudden, in one place, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudgeswoman's car was found miles away in a second place, and beyond thosenow, after six months, right on down to the childlessbody has been discovered, in a third, the husbandless and the widowseven more remote place. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in Meanwhile, this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, narrative is employed interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be bannedheavy post-natal depression, 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 reprintvery little maternal feeling in her body. That Is the assumption that is her job, at least, until so easy for the first emerging signs of female protest come reader to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.make the right one?|isbn=152941198X191319373X

|authorisbn=Louise BeechB0925KS87N|title=This Is How We Are HumanDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a devoted single mother strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to her sondo, Sebastian - but she canTam was getting old and there were things he wanted to do. Only, his family didn't give hear from him everything again after he wants. Sebastian has decided 'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that itshouldn's time for him t be opened - and his three sons began to have sexworry. But as an autistic 20 year-old Tam Junior, thatFrankie and Dave wouldn's easier said than done. And itt normally go to the police but they weren's starting to cause them both problemst certain where their father had been and they were worried. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LEmily Critchley|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=43

|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: there's merely a hint that he The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointhallmarks of something good. He's simply Bosner to one and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he I was a greaser on helicopters (or helosintrigued by the plot, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at liked the age design of twenty-onethe book, there was always a way to and thought the author's work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daysounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising.So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091