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|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0241636604|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your word for themmind, find us a child that doesnyou't find them irresistibly funnyre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Funny to talk about A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and joke abouthis background is the East End, that iswhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the wrong timeLondon School of Economics. In class, say, when everyone will hear it Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and everyone will laughhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. At you He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim It was his ability at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmlywhat was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with the familiar humour attachedCitibank. Eventually, explains that tooting is perfectly normalthis turned into permanent employment as a trader. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}

|isbn=17841652631035021803|title=Invite Me InThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Emma CurtisC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had to be home twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that English country village where she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letgrew up. If she didnShe't get homes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, there would be troubleCarole. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and confined to a wheelchairthe circumstances seem suspicious, but don't be too quick to be understandingsay the least. He Arthur was also a very unpleasant personthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. All this was Even though they were in Eliza's mind when business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she first met Dan Jones who arrivedloved. After the split, unannouncedshe worked in a cafe, at met and married James (on the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted rebound from the lease love of flat 2her life, 42 Linden Road who was murdered) and Freya and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableJames have now divorced.

|isbn=1784742775AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Susan HillBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much 'Opening up new ways of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought thinking about the shape of drugs ops as things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a bit few decades of a waste of timetechnology in my lifetime. They still were, I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to a great extent, me but Serrailler knew I'm left with the feeling that something had to be doneit's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport Of course, I could research the drugs possibilities and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't be the correct one) of the person m reading someone who was running him but he certainly wouldnknows what they't know anything re talking about those higher up in or the organisationlatest conspiracy theorist. The police might catch I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Sunny Singh|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsHotel Arcadia

|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=Life should have The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been good for Hollie: violently taken over by a terrorist group. She was just going into Hiding from the final year of her veterinary degree terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and - three years later - was still working at BB's dinerAbhi, the hotel manager. Bob - As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the owner - regarded her fondly: residents who are still alive in the hotel, he was forms a good boss. Hollie had moved in bond with her boyfriendSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most keeps on venturing out of all he wanted her room to try to leave capture what's happened through her job at the dinerphotography. Then there was Although they only ever talk over the fact that he would be violentphone, both their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to other peoplesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=John Gwynne1529153298|title=The Shadow Of The GodsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the first installment of the Bloodsworn SagaPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarokthey've been murdered, when the Gods but to have battled and their bones lie scattered for all 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to seemove the family 'Down South'. This story When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is the ultimate in High Fantasya frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genremove would mean leaving her best friend, with mythical creaturesSharon, archaic language and battles galoreshe'll do anything to prevent that. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters She's not worried about the dangers or that are woven together her Mum's stopped talking - to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleanyone.|isbn=0356514218

|isbn=B09HTWX47X1398524085|title=Endless ObsessionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Dai HenleyNicci French|rating=45

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's some years since we last caught fiftieth birthday party but never turned up with Andy Flood. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, formerly a DCI in the Met Etty. are all worried but now a well-respected private investigator. He's married to Laurastrangely - her husband, Alec, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryis not. Flood's daughtersShortly afterwards, Gemma Etty and PippaGreg, have flown find the nestbody of Greg's father, Pippa to AustraliaDuncan Ackerley, from where she has very little contact with in the family, and Gemma to married liferiver. She's It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy murdered Charlie and Laura hope that married life will provide then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the support she needsguilt. FloodThe Salter children are not convinced but there's business is going well little else they can do but get on with their lives and that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Blackwonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1035906708|title=The StoningDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a town sleazy enough We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous Greek parents in comparisonManhattan, New York, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, December 1923 and only moved to Athens when shewas thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were make it more manageable in the world's tallest cricket stumpsStates. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on was back in Athens - supposedly so that shows she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the feeling – Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and it's only fair, is the general opinion, made no secret of her preference for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrievedher elder sister, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the lawJackie...|isbn=1529416973

|isbnauthor=B08Z8BMZ7HChristopher Edge|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrathBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=''Stories have joy Lucas and surprises in them'', we his friends are told here. And none more so than all booked in this wondrous storyfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, which feels an instant classic with a place that has the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportionnickname of 'The Black Hole'. We start with a group of monks All big movie fans, the Order they're looking forward to lots of the Chronicles of Sorrowingexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the demonic goat movie starts, they very quickly realise that loves nothing more than upendingsomething about this new film format is very different, trampling on and biting the poor Brothersthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, But as they lurch from one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate film genre to find the girlnext, for it can they figure out what on earth is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great change. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowinggoing on? But how can a simpleWill they ever get back to the cinema, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat and to anyonetheir real lives?|isbn=15295008931839942738

|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSRachel Greenlaw|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery Compass and Kate ZhoidikBlade

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=''For I can hear the big, grownup girls out theresong of the sea. The call of the deep, the potty masters answering beat in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pridemy heart.''

 And so it Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a little girltrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's final goodbye leader and Mira's father. Desperate to nappies save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and pull-ups and graduation with only coordinates to "proper" pants by following guide her around as , she proudly explains sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her dogfather, as her cat, journey takes her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can from the flowers, nor watched streets of foreign islands to the fish, nor heart of the birds. Boysmuggler's certainly can't. She's a big girl now territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she wants everyone to know it!holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}

|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettJames Sherwood Metts|title=Locked Out LilyPlanet Storyland

|summary=Lily is, or was, or has Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have beenproceeding apace, very ill, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma for a few daysaccomplish. The parents need the relief Just as Lily's baby sibling is just about they were beginning to get used to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already all this technological change and wants nothing starting to do with. But on tracking back home for word think of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parentsother, and the babe-in-armsnew ways to spend time, already installedalong came an awful pandemic. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intactLife was pretty much shut down and, even if along with it's not the family Lily wants – and , all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=14711948331736128426

|author=Greg James and Chris SmithMatthew Tree|title=The Great Dream RobberyWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maya's Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father is , a professor drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who invented an amazing dream machinehad endless crises of self confidence. But something went wrongSo Tim applied himself to his studies, and now he can't wake up. Or at least, that's what Maya has been told. In a cultivated his abilities rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, than his daydreams and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really.set himself high but achievable ambitions..and there's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051XB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1800464495A G Slatter|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas The Briar Book of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smiththe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFantasy|summary=''Babies seem There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware myself for however long I can. This secret magic of quantities at seven hours oldmy own, assessing probability at six months oldall mine, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldlast. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a strong predictor town under the protection of later achievementthe Briar's, double that a family of literacy skillswitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non- reading storieswitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children her training as a solid foundation when they start schoolsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. But do we think When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the same town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way about mathsleft, beyond counting? I don't think we doright and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, in part because so many putting her at the heart of us are afraid a maelstrom of mathschaos. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just determine what to do as beneficialthe Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=15293793851529900360|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Ghost Orchid|author=Louise PennyJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis're post-pandemic: the scars are still there s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but life is starting he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get back to normalask for his help on difficult cases. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the Aubergehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. They're visiting each otherFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's homes and having friends and relatives to staypartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for She knew that the involvement was something that the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and man she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known remote property in Bel Air. He was the village as heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Asshole SaintItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn= B09F4CTKJR1529395224|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven Burgauer|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's Letting the later stages Cat Out of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is Bag: The Secret Life of a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canada, the first to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=183885410X|title=The Dark RemainsVet|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinSion Rowlands

|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Bobby Carter Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a lawyer GP and consigliere Rowlands didn't want to one of follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. DC Jack Laidlaw is on When he was seventeen he took the CID team charged opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the investigationjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I say It hadn''on the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a part of itchild. He does his own thingIf anything, goes his own way and he''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=19424102550861541774|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael PronkoSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Zangyo: overtime works close friend and former colleague, often unpaid'' It's the cultureDanny Maik, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just has taken a statement of the minimum you'll be required short holiday in Singapore to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukameet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. When he Maik was found dead involved in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was nothing in the way facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of regret or grief, even from his family, manslaughter but there was a mild curiosity as evidence came to whether light that suggested that he'd jumped from might have planned to murder the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentman. Gossip revolves around the fact that Now he left the roof at could be facing the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierdeath penalty. SheDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimet help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=0241425425Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Best was The Perfect Passion Company is a little surprised when she received dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the letteronline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. It came from a man whose body Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she had helped to pull from could come and look after the Thames and who had never existed but then this business, as Ness is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have planning to take a trip to Canada to deal with on get away for a regular basiswhile. When she visits the sender Katie is coming out of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone a break up with whom she has a long professional history - bad boyfriend, and who used so jumps at the chance to come home to be her husbandEdinburgh. He's made a bad mistake - something And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to do 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raidbusiness, a missing twentyor in match-million pounds making, but Ness has full confidence in diamonds her abilities, and a few death threats. Hethere's now in hiding with always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp0811771741|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to his employer blankets. Some will be quick knits - isothers are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in his mind, front of the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countryfire' variety. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated The projects are divided by the time they'll take to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODcomplete -W safaris but his dream is less than five hours, five to become the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even ten hours, ten to win a Michelin startwenty hours and more than twenty hours. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss All the projects are attractive, Mr Bin (Ben to you modern and me) who incurs Mozzyuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and social- shock, horror media- his allowing of bush animals into the houseworthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|author=Alex FoulkesDean Koontz|title=Rules for VampiresThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) Benny is having a Vampireterrifically bad day. She drinks blood He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, she sleeps during the dayand his house gets trashed. Oh, and she can Grimwalk (turning into someone has delivered a flock of bats to travel aroundreally weird, although not all of them remember disturbing coffin-sized object to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Nowhis home, on and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the night of her hundredth birthnight, she thing that has to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oopstrashed his house! And to make things worse The thing is, Benny is the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back very last person to haunt herdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So, not only does Leo have to team up with fortunately for Benny it turns out that the friendly ghost Minna delivery to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, she who has been sent to do it all while hiding it help him since Benny is clearly under attack from her familynefarious forces for being a good person. Did I mention vampires Spike is going to take care of Benny, and ghosts hate each other? Yeahwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, thereif he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's a reason why there wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are rules for vampires….|isbn=147119955X1662500491

|author=Tori BovalinoAdam Stower|title=The Devil Makes ThreeMurray and Bun

|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library Murray is the last thing Tess Matheson wants supposed to do — especially when she gets be a request for over a hundred books that she has humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the books: Mr Birchtwo. The boarding school But he's a bad magician's headmastercat, and so his favourite bun has been turned into a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and deliver such a large requestthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of not into the booksregular back garden, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think but into a world offrightening adventure and whiffs. They're never meant to reach him This time round it drops them into a Viking land, of course. Her plan where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to get her anger out like thisbe honest, but he's turned up and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadnhe't delivered them for her.ll have to do…|isbn=17890981300008561249

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6B0C47LV1PC|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)Fragility|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the latest release in question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Everybody Potties!Fragility'' series from Justine Avery. This series is set as the city of fun picture books aims Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to take emerge from the restrictions imposed during the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fun. It's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. .covid pandemic

|isbn=B098FFFBH91529431735|title=SnowcubThe Winter Visitor|author=Graham FulbrightJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her schoolIt's animal rights project leader February 1991 and she and her friend are producing a competition entry to highlight Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the way in which human beings exploit more surprising. He'd been exiled on the animal worldCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. She gets The return has come about because he's had a great deal of support letter from her family: father Pip Harrisonhis ex-wife, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate saying that she's ill and her twin, Nickhasn't long to live. Kate runs the family businessIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a toy shop called Cornucopia watery grave in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source the boot of information: five soft toysa stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author= Angharad WalkerAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= The Ash HouseGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 54|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at The Ash Housethe dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. He doesn't know Eli lives with his namelovely gran, or why he is too – for there but he is used a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the systemtitular race, used a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to different places and different facesnavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out This has made the race anathema to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on pair – but when a variety of Nicenesses set out by bad incident at the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their choreseatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, working as a hive in with the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by sole aim the arrival prize of the Doctor. By magic at the end of – the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=19126269770571382231

|authorisbn=Yancey Williams178763681X|title=Crosshairs of the DevilKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting on in years both men and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks women to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddiedo what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he's point of view - in room 315 of d be at the Garden of Eden nursing homeschool to assist Paul, with only who had a trusty nursing aidebroken arm, Jenkins, for palatable companybut it didn't turn out that way. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stockThe teaching -inand the problems -trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are all his wanderings through his lifeown. The one thing he hadn's workt expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|isbn=0986031658}}

|author=Philip ReeveSarah Marsh|title=Utterly Dark and the Face A Sign of the DeepHer Own|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=In After a wordbout of scarlet fever as a child, richEllen Lark loses her hearing. There is certainly an abundance Suddenly plunged into a world of riches silence, everything about her life changes. Living in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond time when the Scillies. There are troll people on ituse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and sea-witchesEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching but physically restrained from even further west, where no ship dare sailsigning. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has to keep notes of activity from been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the Hidden Landssame time, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world in a complicated tangle of protecting their island, like it or notespionage.|isbn=17884523721035401614

|authorisbn=Erling Kagge1803816759|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54|genre= LifestyleScience Fiction|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved It's 2038 and Joe is a book is evidenced by bored cop policing the number wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of pages adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with corners turnedthe AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, so let me and riots start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minespread. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased cornersFinally, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about Joe gets to do as soon as I have finished telling you why)some real policing. Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to In the South Pole, aftermath of the North Pole rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and the summit of EverestJoe is assigned to bring her home. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a travelogue about any of those epic journeysBritish superfan and tech nerd, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it means to walk. It hacked? And how is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no Suki'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705s kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1529421284|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet JackIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick In a gully, for he's a slight boy, human skeleton came to the surface and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses forensic testing proved the body to let him out of his sightbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. That He's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, d been a known drug user and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily thenhad learning disabilities, depending on your point so it could have been a simple case of view, misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLtownie, Jack will fluke so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, suicide of Holly Gilbert and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the perils he always wanted closer contact withtime. The book Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''..cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=0755501942

|authorisbn=Keith Gray0571379559|title=The ClimbersHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Sully ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the best tree climber in the villagestory of four people. He has what Tess Hembry's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up roots are in town? A new kidJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, called Nottinghamshe lives in the house on the riverbank, who clambers up some built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatenedpassage of time, storms and not only thatfloods. Her husband, Richard, that struggles to grow his chance vegetables, to name complete the finaldelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his handsmother's Jamaican heritage. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him Max takes after his best friendfather. People don't believe that they're related, or maybe even all of much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991nanny.

|authorisbn=Emma Carroll1529425867|title=The Week at World's EndLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=FirstIn Oxford, the titlethere are two D I Wilkins. We're in World's End Close, a mediocre set Raymond Wilkins is of housesNigerian descent, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog Balliol educated and with the boy over the roadalways exquisitely dressed. But we could also be at World's End D I Ryan Wilkins, because something taking a great chunk son 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 reduce the risk Ryan and father of nuclear missiles offshoreRyan, and is not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news He's not any of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedthose things. Anna has He's white, in no short time, taken originated from a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Closetrailer park, said shebarely educated (reading'd locate something she wanted s not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and leave, failed trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to leavea police procedural written for laughs. Well, and implied her life was at riskyou're not. But surely this bit The two men are just different sides of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonMosby Woods|title=Julia and the SharkA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from The West isn't the family home dominant force it once was. Nobody in SW England the West is quite sure how to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in mend this or even if mending it is the far NE best course of the Scottish islandsaction. Governments are flailing. Here be VikingsA war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that kind nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Scottish islandcircumstances. Dad is going to That man would be automating valuable, right? Perhaps the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career most valuable asset in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkhistory. And JuliaImagine then, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1510107789B0C9SNG8R1