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|isbn=00084336310241636604|title=Next of KinThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Kia AbdullahGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=It was the sort If you were to bring up an image of thing that happened every daya city banker in your mind, although not you're unlikely to Leila Syedthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his fatherbackground is the East End, Andrew Hansonwhere he was familiar with violence, had rung her in a panicpoverty and injustice. He There was supposed to be taking Max to no posh public school on his CV - but he'd had been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out London School of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Economics. Of course, she could Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back facility with numbers which most of her carus can only envy. On the way Leila took a phone call - there He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was panic his ability at her work toowhat was, essentially, with a problem card game which could put got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a multi-million-pound contract at risktrader.
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|authorisbn=Oliver Greeves1035021803|title=NelsonThe Antique Hunter's Folly|rating=2.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=The story of Admiral Nelson – who never actually achieved that rank, but only ascended to Vice Admiral – is one of the best known in English history. Despite our history teachers' best efforts there are very few battles that most of us can name. Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Hastings…if we live in the north then Flodden, Bannockburn, Culloden…it probably takes an interest in maritime things to know of the Battle of the Nile and the siege of Malta…but just about every English person knows about Trafalgar. They may not know where it is and what it was about, but we know (if only from the Square and the Column) that it was a mighty victory and that Nelson was in command.|isbn=0645023701}}{{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny Guide to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me InMurder|author=Emma CurtisC L Miller|rating=43.5
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|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.
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|isbn=1784742775AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Susan HillBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|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.
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|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Sunny Singh|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsHotel Arcadia
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|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
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|authorisbn=John Gwynne1529153298|title=The Shadow Of The GodsList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey
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|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
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|isbn=B09HTWX47X1398524085|title=Endless ObsessionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Dai HenleyNicci French|rating=45
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|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.
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|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
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|isbnauthor=B08Z8BMZ7HChristopher Edge|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrathBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSRachel Greenlaw|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery Compass and Kate ZhoidikBlade
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|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.''
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|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettJames Sherwood Metts|title=Locked Out LilyPlanet Storyland
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|genre=Confident Readers
|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 think of other, new ways to do withspend time, along came an awful pandemic. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (Life was pretty much shut down and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and along with it, all the babe-in-arms, already installedmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4. These devilish interlopers need 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be ousted to get the family back intactdifferent from his father, even if it's not the family Lily wants – a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all she has failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Molehis studies, Mouse cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Snakeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1471194833B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=Greg James and Chris SmithA G Slatter|title=The Great Dream RobberyBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Maya'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's father is , a professor family of witches who invented an amazing dream machineprotect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. But something went wrongThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and now he canadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't wake up. Or at leasts cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, thatthe town's what Maya has been toldleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. In As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a rather strange dream maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one night Maya makes a new friendfamily secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and discovers that determine what to do as the only way Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to save her dad may be by being asleepsurvive, is under threat. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams |isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and reality collideeven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again.really She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and thereit's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=18004644951529395224|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby MathsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: Support All Areas The Secret Life of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsVet|author=Emma SmithSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''Babies seem t want to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the womb, strain that being aware on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldwas convinced this was the job for him.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement Before long, double that of literacy skillshe was at Liverpool University.'' I didn It hadn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes as with so many students - gives children been his dream since he was a solid foundation when they start schoolchild. But do we think the same way about maths If anything, beyond counting? I donhe't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children d wanted to be a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialprofessional footballer.
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|isbn=15293793850861541774|title=The Madness A Nye of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Pheasants|author=Louise PennySteve Burrows|rating=4.5
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|summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, we're postGuy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -pandemic: the scars are still there and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but life is starting evidence came to get back light that suggested that he might have planned to normalmurder the man. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and Now he could be facing the Aubergedeath penalty. They're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she soon proves that not wouldn't help Danny at all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saint.
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|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRAlexander McCall Smith|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's the later stages of World War I The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the United States online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has just entered asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the conflictbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Petrol Petronus Katie is coming out of a young American who has signed break up with a bad boyfriend, and joined so jumps at the 17 Aero Squadronchance to come home to Edinburgh. This company was the first US Aero Squadron And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be trained in Canadaan Edinburgh we already love, the first to be attached thanks to the RAF 44 Scotland Street and the first Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in active combat. But before that can happenmatch-making, Petrol but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|isbn=183885410X0811771741|title=The Dark RemainsInstaKnits for Baby|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Bobby Carter was Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a lawyer and consigliere collection of knits from toys to one blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the major crime families 'long, cosy afternoons in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on front of the CID team charged with the investigationfire' variety. I say ''on The projects are divided by the teamtime they'' but Laidlaw never really seems ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to be a part of ittwenty hours and more than twenty hours. He does his own thingAll the projects are attractive, goes his own way modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgowbut that's seedier pubsme being picky.
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|isbnauthor=1942410255Dean Koontz|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, often unpaid'' It's the culturehe loses his fiancee, isn't it? and his house gets trashed. The hours for which you're paid are Oh, and someone has delivered a really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done his home, and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When he was found dead in front of Senden Centralit's headquarters in Tokyo there possible that whoever or whatever was nothing in inside is the way of regret or grief, even from thing that has trashed his familyhouse! The thing is, but there was Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentnice person. A really nice person. Gossip revolves around the fact So fortunately for Benny it turns out that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employeedelivery to his house is a new friend, Mayu Yamasea bad weather friend called Spike, had committed suicide some three years earlierwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. She'd accused Onizuka Spike is going to take care of bullying her Benny, and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount will certainly take care of overtimeBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=0241425425Adam Stower|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanMurray and Bun
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Elizabeth Best was Murray is supposed to be a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who had never existed but then this is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basistwo. When she visits the sender of the letter (But he's moved into the Coopera bad magician's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a long professional history - hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and who used to be her husband. He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raidcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds world of frightening adventure and a few death threatswhiffs. He's now in hiding with This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a young woman called Pollytroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, whobut he's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|authorisbn=Andrew SharpB0C47LV1PC|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingFragility|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is, in his mind, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy question should you make it? Or is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream question if you did, would it land? The catch is to become that the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American cityanswer for both could well be.... Even to win a Michelin starno. He ''Fragility'' is thwarted in this ambition by his bossset as the city of Portland, Oregon, Mr Bin (Ben cautiously begins to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into emerge from the restrictions imposed during the house.|isbn=B09926MK8Hcovid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1529431735|title=Rules for VampiresThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or It'Leo' for short) s February 1991 and Essex is a Vampire. She drinks bloodbitingly cold, she sleeps during which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)more surprising. Pretty cool stuff. Now, He'd been exiled on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has to go out and hunt her first human. Howevercome about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, instead saying that she ends up killing two humans by accident 's ill and burning down an orphanagehasn't long to live. Oops! And It's hard to make things worsefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, the ghosts of one of the orphans stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the evil master boot of the orphanage come back to haunt hera stolen Ford Sierra. So, not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding Is it a warning from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each othera Spanish gang or a problem closer to home? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X
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|author=Tori BovalinoAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Devil Makes ThreeGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Working all summer Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in her boarding school's the wondrous library is we start by visiting with him, and in the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets evening a request helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for over there is a hundred books that she has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is generation missing in the man who requested the books: Mr Birchfamily. The boarding school A few short years ago, Eli's headmasterparents were both lost to the titular race, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks postglobe-it notes on each of trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the books, scribbled with world in the ugliest insults she can think company ofa magical beast. They're never meant This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to reach hima confession from gran, of course. Her plan Eli knows his only hope is to get her anger out like thisdare to enter what he most hates, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for herwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=17890981300571382231
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|isbn= B09BG8V3Q6178763681X|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)Knife Skills for Beginners|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= 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 both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!somehow'' is got the latest release in impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyt turn out that way. This series of fun picture books aims to take The teaching - and the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some funproblems - are all his own. It The one thing he hadn's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell yout 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.
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|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Sarah Marsh|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing hearing. Suddenly plunged into a competition entry to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldof silence, everything about her life changes. She gets Living in a great deal time when the use of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonsign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a lecturer at Imperial Collegeschool where she is taught to lip read, Londonbut physically restrained from signing. From here, mother Kate she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and her twin, Nickusing a system called Visible Speech. Kate runs At the family businesssame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source complicated tangle of information: five soft toysespionage.|isbn=1035401614
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|authorisbn= Angharad Walker1803816759|title= The Ash HouseUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnIt't know his name, or why he s 2038 and Joe is there but he is used to a bored cop policing the system, used to different places wealthy and different facespeaceful New York City. He meets Dom who names him Sol Joe longs for a bit of adventure and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash Houseget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by But then something goes horribly wrong with the absent HeadmasterAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their choresFinally, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash HouseJoe gets to do some real policing. But soon their easy peace is shattered by In the arrival aftermath of the Doctorrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. By Joe isn't the end of the storyonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, lives will be changed forever a British superfan and The Ash House will never be tech nerd, is also on the same againcase.|isbn=1912626977What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?
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|authorisbn=Yancey Williams1529421284|title=Crosshairs of Laying Out the DevilBones|author=Kate Webb
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in years anda heatwave. In a gully, despite his strenuous objections a human skeleton came to the surface and thanks forensic testing proved the body to his daughterbe Lee Geary, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddiewho had disappeared nine years earlier. He's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing homed been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, with only so it could have been a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade simple case of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his lifemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's workt convinced.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In Geary was a wordtownie, rich. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There is certainly an abundance are connections to the suicide of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Scilliestime. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, Lockyer and legends DC Gemma Broad of the Dark family Major Crimes Review Unit (that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother cold cases to you and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or notme) investigate.|isbn=1788452372
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|authorisbn=Erling Kagge0571379559|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams
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|genre= LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is evidenced by the number story of pages with corners turnedfour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, so let me start this one with an apology to she lives in the house on the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it was your book not mine. In my defencemight look, 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 cornerss stood the passage of time, but 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)storms and floods. Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked Her husband, Richard, struggles to the South Polegrow his vegetables, to complete the North Pole delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the summit of Everestrainbow twins. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn Sonny's colouring reflects his mother't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walks Jamaican heritage. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walkingMax takes after his father. There is no People don'contentst believe that they' page re related, much less twins and I haventhere't counted. In small format paperback, each essay s an assumption when Max is only a few pages longout with his mother that she's his nanny. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705
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|authorisbn=1529425867|title=Ian Mark Lost and Louis GhibaultNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=Monster Hunting For BeginnersSimon Mason
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet JackIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and nimble always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and quickfather of Ryan, for heis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a slight boytrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out wardrobe consists mainly of his sightshell suits and trackies. That They's because Jackre usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened re being introduced to her – she dieda police procedural written for laughs. Luckily or unluckily then Well, depending on your point you're not. The two men are just different sides of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about same policing coin. Sometimes the perils he always wanted closer contact withcombination works brilliantly well. The book Sometimes it's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''problematic...|isbn=0755501942
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|author=Keith GrayMosby Woods|title=The ClimbersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Sully The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best tree climber in the villagecourse of action. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'Governments are flailing. But what happens when A war here, a new kid shows up in town? push for climate action there. A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried feeling that his status nobody is being threatenedin actual charge. Imagine then, and not only that, that his chance to name there was a man with precognition. Imagine the final, unnamed big tree strategic advantage in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How this asset; a man who can Sully stop Nottingham? And tell you what will it cost him his best friendhappen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, or maybe even all of his friendsright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to do soget it back?|isbn=1781129991B0C9SNG8R1
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