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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jennifer BohnetSylvie Cathrall|title=Follow Your StarA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Science Fiction|summary=It's three years since Nanette Weston left Monaco. She'd been engaged There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a Formula 1 racing driver and had lived the life of the wealthy but a serious car accident had ended all thatcompelling premise. The accident could have killed her fiancé and she lost her driving licence because And this is one of the alcohol she'd consumed. Her slow recovery was hindered by the end of her engagement but she's found some contentment in being a nanny to two young children. When her friend and employer, Vanessa, remarries and takes an extended honeymoon in the Amazon Nanette is asked to take the children back to Monaco where their father livesthem.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0709089090</amazonuk>0356522776
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=J R Stephenson0008517061|title=Crooked JusticeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=2.54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Barry Johns. You'll see him coming - he's five hundred pounds if he's an ounceFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Just don't ever lend him money - he won't pay it back. A businessman with There’s perhaps a share little uncertainty about the future of a nightclub on Cyprushis life with his vet girlfriend, he goes there for a customary breakLivia and her daughter Diana, and finds his sort-of moll-type sort-of girlfriend has been installed as the bar dancer. He manages to tread both on the toes moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his local colleague off-grid and some Greek rivals. And when a rival relaxing life to move in London chases him up with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for thousands of pounds owed he decides to pack up herself and shut up. her daughter? It's a big stone that hides him, but he leaves a very awkward trail for everyone wanting to upturn it For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and get their revengeputting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0955855713</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephen Baker1786482126|title=They've Got Your NumberThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
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|genre=Popular ScienceCrime|summary=If you are Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the slightest bit paranoid, worry that site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Big Brother'' is always watching or like to believe that you are not apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a number, but doorway. There was no skull. Was this a free man (ritual killing or woman)murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, then this may not be the book for youbut Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as it will do nothing to dispel any a result of those worries. If, on the other hand, you think 'the mathematical modelling of humanity' sounds like one of the sexiest things evernight they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, and are chomping at the bit not least because Ruth is prone to learn more about it, then you might well be interested in what Business Week journalist Baker has to saysudden bouts of sickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099507021</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rebecca Tope0008551324|title=Fear in the CotswoldsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5
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|summary=Thea Osborne is a house sitter by profession. When people go away she moves into their homes and looks after their animals and the property. This time itIt's winter and she's spending a month in unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the Cotswold village of Hampnettpolice. It wouldn't be a job Neither side likes or has any respect for all of us but Thea delights the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in getting to know the local people prison and the area. In the past shehe's also been involved with the police in solving various cases but it looks as though that might have come prepared to an end as the relationship she had with DS Phil Hollis has crumbled. For the first time Thea feels like an outsider – and a foolish one - when she finds footsteps in the snow which lead to a body in a nearby field. When tell the police finally arrive where the body has disappeared and the police obviously wonder if she's imagined it all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007478</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tad Tuleja|title=A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases|rating=3|genre=Home and Family|summary=Take a look at the cover design of this book, missing person is buried and you'd be mistaken for thinking this who was a trivia compendium responsible for all those foreign words that have taken part in our English language since whenever they crossed over from their original homesher death. But the title is definitely honestThis person, he promises, for this is a dictionary book first, for reference, someone big and a browser for it will be worth the trivia buff secondpolice doing what he wants.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089562</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Rice|title=Angel Time|rating=2.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Toby O'Dare And what he wants is to be transferred to an extremely efficient hit man with a passion for music, history and playing his beloved lute. He's also something open prison to serve the remainder of a lost soul having turned his back on God many years agosentence and to get an early parole date. One day while on a Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'jobt think so and she' he is visited by an Angel s even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who offers works with him a chance at redemption. Toby agrees to become the Angelis kept well away from what's human instrument and help save lives rather than take them. He is sent on an assignment to help a Jewish couple accused of murder in 13th Century Englandhappening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701178140</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ian Mortimer0008405026|title=1415: Henry V's Year of GloryA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
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|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=The medieval, in fact timeIt's sixteen years since nine-year-honoured, view of King Henry V as old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of England's greatest heroes summer night. She was propagated though not originated by Shakespearenever found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and again more recently to some extent by Olivier's portrayal her father are dead in filmtheir bed. At least one historian has called him 'Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the greatest man bodies that ever ruled England''makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079921</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Deborah Gregory|title=Dancing With The Dead|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=I wanted What looked as though it was going to read ''Dancing with be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the Deadexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, because I'm interested in family history. The blurb on the back of the book also mentioned Gill – our heroine of the piece – was moving from Bristol (my current home) to Lincolnshire (where I was born and brought upUna Burt)are less convinced. I felt with all these links, the novel could not fail to interest me – but this was not the case.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904529305</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Miss Read|title=Christmas at Thrush Green|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Set in the rural village of Thrush Green, this book is the latest in a series surrounding familiar characters. There is the feisty Ella Bembridge, who is finally having to admit that old age is creeping up as her eyesight fails. Friends such as Dimity and Charles Henstock are concerned about her, but she refuses to accept any help. Albert Piggott has decided it's time to retire now that his wife, Nelly, is a successful cafe owner and can afford to take care of him! And relative newcomer Phil Hurst and her husband are arranging the local nativity play, despite a number of set-backs. Will everything be in place for Christmas? And will independent Ella make a decision about her future?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409101592</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matt and Dave|title=Yuck's Robotic Bottom|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's concerned me for a while that it's relatively easy to pick up early readers for girls – princesses, magic soft toys, mermaids and pets abound – but there's a much smaller choice for boys. It's important too with early readers that the content is ''interesting'' and reading becomes more than just something which you ''have'' to do at school and moves into being fun. Matt and Dave have found the answer in Yuck.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847382991</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John E Smelcer0571379877|title=The Great Death|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary='As Western Europeans settled Alaska, they brought with them diseases against which the indigenous people had no natural immunity. At the beginning of the twentieth century, fully two thirds of all Alaska natives perished from a pandemic of measles, smallpox, and influenza. No community was spared. In most cases, half of a village's population died within a week. In some cases, there were no survivors. It was the end of an ancient way of life. Natives still refer to the dreadful period as the Great Death.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709194</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKellerby Code|author=Maxine Barry|title=River DeepJonny Sweet
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|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Two Edward Jevons is a working-class young women both have a love of the Thamesman, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Melisande RayRobert's beloved hotel, the Ray of Sunshine is on the river banka theatre director. ItHe's here that guests come who want to be pampered also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and looked after in the way that only the best hotels can do well, but when Wendell James checks in uses Edward to the hotel it's not pampering he's looking run errands forhim. He's buying a piece of land not far from the Ray of Sunshine Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's sussing out the competitiondrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. ThereMost men in Robert's something personal in there too – if his new hotel means position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the Ray two of Sunshine goes under then that would be an added bonus. There's just a slight doubt them kissing in his mind when a red-haired maid catches his eyedark passageway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709088930</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Joe GoresJo Callaghan|title=Spade and ArcherLeave No Trace
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|summary=Sam Spade decidesWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, bravelyDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, to set up his one-man the AI detective agencyLock. It's the 1920s in San Francisco so we have the prohibition era and all that that entailstheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Many localsBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, of course, choose to disobey the law, stick two fingers up, so to speak Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and as a result there's lots of bootleg liquor. Straight away, it's evident very high profile case that Sam is draws a man lot of few wordsunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. He has Will they be able to solve the mannerisms of a cat - stealthycase in time, quick on his feet. He's also a compulsive chain-smokeror will Kat find herself taken off the case and, but then againpotentially, most people were. In that era, holding out of a cigarette was an elegant, almost essential accessory. How times have changed.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140911323X</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Morpurgo and Emma Chichester Clark1399613073|title=The Best of TimesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
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|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Most children enjoy a good traditional tale Olivia, Laura and this lovely book by Michael Morpurgo seems to have all Anjali met on the right ingredients – first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a handsome prince and quarter of a beautiful princess who fall in lovecentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, get married which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and live happily ever aftera trauma doctor. Or do they? Sadly, not long after Prince Frederico marries Anjali is the free spirit of the lovely Princess Serafina, group and she becomes very sada GP. Nobody knows what has caused such great sadness, but poor Prince Frederico is desperate to find When we first meet them they're at a cure for his wifedrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's miserygoing to end in tragedy. He tries everything in his power and eventually decides to offer his kingdom to anyone We don't know who can make her happy again before she dies of a broken heart. Lots of people come to suffered the palace to try and help but in tragedy or the end consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the solution is a simple one provided by some very kind travellersthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405232552</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Shirley Jackson0241636604|title=We Have Always Lived In The CastleTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
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|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=Mary Katherine BlackwoodIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, also known as Merricat, is eighteen, and lives with her older sister Constance in the family home where 'Blackwoods had always livedyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Merricat quickly draws A hoodie and jeans replaces the reader into her world by a series of matter of fact but bizarre statements – her likes include her sister pin-stripe suit and death cap mushroomshis background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and everyone else in her family is deadinjustice. The wealthy Blackwood family has always kept There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the house 'steady against the world', shutting out other people, London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and they live near he has a villagefacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Merricat believes He also realised that 'The most rich people expect poor people of the village have always hated us'to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and tells us that she hates them toothis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141191457</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon Weston1035021803|title=Nelson The Antique Hunter's Guide to the RescueMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Nelson used to pull Mike the MilkIt's milk float, but he twenty years since Freya Lockwood has now retiredbeen back to the English country village where she grew up. He lives in the stable at the She's back now because of the dairy along with a couple of tricky ratsrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Rhodri and Rhys, a pigeon who has no sense of direction, a frog who thinks heCarole. Freya's a secret agent spy and an old racehorse who spends most of his time sleeping. Rhodri former mentor and Rhys find a mysterious message on MikeCarole's fridge close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the animals believe that Mike has been invited circumstances seem suspicious, to Buckingham Palace to receive an MBEsay the least. Somehow our heroArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, Nelsonshe feels, finds himself travelling let her down to London, pulling a ceremonial coach for Prince Charles as well as giving a TV interview about his experience.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848510454</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Elizabeth Baines|title=Too Many Magpies|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Becoming a mother brings a whole new world of fear into your lifebadly. Suddenly you see the danger Even though they were in every situationbusiness together as antique hunters, and fear and trepidation can she has not felt able to be become your constant companionsnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. In this novellaAfter the split, we meet she worked in a young mother who is cafe, met and married to a logical scientist. They attempt to control their children's futures James (on a scientific basis, growing their own fruit and vegetables, giving their children nothing sugary, eating no eggs for a whole year until any adverse affects the rebound from them were disproved. But after meeting with an enigmatic stranger our young mother begins to struggle as he introduces ideas the love of freedom into her world. She begins an affair with himlife, begins to let things slip at home who was murdered) and Freya and with the children, yet finds she is still continuously haunted by the sense of an ever-present dangerJames have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844717216</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Amanda DownumSunny Singh|title=The Drowning CityHotel Arcadia
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|genre=FantasyThrillers |summary=In The Hotel Arcadia is a nutshellluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, you're reading this because you're wondering whether The Drowning City killing everyone on site, there is goodSam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, bad or mediocrethe hotel manager. You As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what've probably glanced at s happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating =5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and guessed the latterMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? Imean, honestly...) She's not what'm afraid its worrying Miv's not family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that simpleher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. This When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a debut that provokes decidedly mixed feelingsfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. I started off convinced that I was going to love this book. The cover art is effortlessly coolFor Miv, the premise intriguingmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, the characters laden with potential for greatness and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the backdrop is certainly evocativedangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498149</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tove Jansson1398524085|title=The True DeceiverHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French
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|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Most people of my age will have come across JanssonCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's work unwittinglyfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, via sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the televised renditions body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Moomin talesriver. The readers amongst us would then have been entranced a few years ago It was an easy assumption for the police to discover make that at last Thomas Teal Duncan had set about the translation into English, first of The Summer Book murdered Charlie and then of a collection of short stories which were published as committed suicide when he couldn'A Winter Bookt stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0954899571</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel Kehlmann 1035906708|title=Me and KaminskiDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=After reviewing several long books, it's been refreshing We tend to read such a fluent yet pared down story think of Maria Callas as 'Kaminski and Me'. In itGreek, Sebastian Zollnerbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, the obnoxious main characterNew York, shoves himself forward in a desperate attempt December 1923 and only moved to research a best seller which will re-ignite his career as an art criticAthens when she was thirteen. Kaminski, the proposed subject, Her original surname was a fashionable painter long ago, Kalogeropoulos but now, ancient and chronically ill, has virtually slid into oblivionher father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. So When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the second-rate writer is on Nazi occupation by a loser unless he can dig up some juicy details to hook the art world mother who mercilessly exploited her and general publicmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847249892</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Louis BarfeChristopher Edge|title=Turned Out Nice Again: The Story of British Light EntertainmentBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre=EntertainmentConfident Readers|summary=Light entertainment is often looked down uponLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, as if it's a bit naff, tepid and ignorable. What's often forgotten is place that it's hugely popular, enjoyable and much of it is of the highest quality. Louis Barfe's Turned Out Nice Again tells has the complete story nickname of British light entertainment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843543818</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Helmore and Karen Wall|title=Oh No, Monster Tomato!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Marvin is entering the Great Grislygust Grow-Off, but just like him, his tomatoes aren't growing very big. He takes the only sensible course of action: he sings his tomatoes a song. The results are spectacularBlack Hole'. Victory is surely within his grasp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140524741X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joseph Delaney |title=The Spook's Stories: Witches|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= All big movie fans, they'Warning: Not re looking forward to be read after dark,' are the only words on the back lots of ''The Spook's Stories''exciting films, and on many, many snacks! However, as the inside flapmovie starts, 'The Times' warns us they very quickly realise that something about this book new film format is 'seriously scary'... The whole thing kicks-off relatively tamely, thoughvery different, with a story about a young Spook (a sort of monster-hunter) who falls in love with a witch and is forced to bear the consequences when the witchthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's sister comes to stay and exhibits a taste for the neighbor-children.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0370329961</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa Unger|title=Die For You|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Best-selling novelist Isabel Connelly is married to successful video game designer Marcus Raine. Or so she thinkst even imagine. But when her husband fails to return as they lurch from work, she realises something is wrong. Going to his office to try one film genre to find out what happens to him, she gets attacked and ends up in hospital, while his co-workers are killed. Things get worse for her, however, when investigating detective Grady Crowe reveals that Marcus Raine has been dead for several years, and the man she married was using a false identity. Infuriated by the betrayalnext, and the realisation that she's been living a lie for the past five years, Izzy takes matters into her own hands and sets can they figure out to find her husband and work out why he lied to her for so long. Ignoring police warnings, she delves deeper and deeper into a nasty underworld, and finds a tale which has its roots in Prague and rivals anything she could have plotted in one of her novels.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099522179</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lisa McMann|title=Wake|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Janie is seventeen and studying hard for college. She's also working lots of hours at a local nursing home to earn money for college as it's unlikely her alcoholic mother what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to provide much in the way of resources. College is Janie's only chance at a life better than the one she's lived so far cinema, and so you can't blame her for being so single-minded in the pursuit of her goal. Only one thing stands in her way...to their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847385036</amazonuk>1839942738
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jaclyn Moriarty Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Spell Book of Listen TaylorCompass and Blade
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|genre=Teens
|summary=Listen Taylor's father has just moved in with his girlfriend and they are adopted into 'I can hear the Zing family, with all song of its delightful eccentricities and unusual behaviour – the Zings meet every Friday night for dinner and then disappear into the garden shed to work on the 'Zing Family Secret'. Marbie Zing is terrified of doing something wrong and losing Nathaniel and Listen. Her sister Fancy is becoming increasingly disillusioned with her home life, and her daughter's year two teacher is coming to terms with a break upsea. The stories call of these people come together to create a tale of lifethe deep, love, and ultimately, what being part of a family meansthe answering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0330446363</amazonuk>}}''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jon BerkeleyJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Lightning Key (Circus Trilogy)Planet Storyland
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=I shall start with Things have been a word of advicebit sticky for the Earthlings. When youAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're being hounded by a circus master, paid to do and a magician, for the soul of a tiger other tasks that's contained in a tiger's egg that's contained in the brain took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of your teddy bearother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and your best friend - a fallen angel - is trying her best to make sure , along with it, all the other angels do not turn many daily social interactions on you in a big way - then youwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We're probably living the third book in a fantasy trilogyll Never Know|rating=4. Still - never mind5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, the angel's efforts will involve you entering a dream world drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of flight being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and cloud cities, the chase after your enemies will take you across the world who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to desert oases and backhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and friends new and old will be on board to helpset himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847384447</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sue TownsendA G Slatter|title=Adrian Mole: The Prostrate YearsBriar Book of the Dead
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|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Adrian Mole is now 39¼ and living, quite literally, in a pigsty, sharing an all too thin party wall with his parents and working in a bookshop. It'' There's not quite how life was supposed to turn out. As he spends his days wrestling his strong willed 5 year old Gracie into her school uniform, trying to reassure glamorous wife Daisy a part of me that life in the provinces is not as bad as she would like wants to believe, and desperately attempting keep this just to talk his mother out myself for however long I can. This secret magic of her quest to appear on the vile ''Jeremy Kyle'' showmy own, all mine, worrying over his increasingly frequent visits to the toilet is really the at last thing he needs. And yet, the worst is still I just want to come. Think a crumbling economy, redundancy, affairs, death, a family member challenging him in the novel writing stakes and a query over the big C – enjoy it's going to be for a tough year for the Moles, and therewhile.'s little that ol' Adrian can do except sit back and watch his life spin out of control around him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718153707</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gareth Hinds1529900360|title=King LearThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=Hound me out It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even 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 town in a most appropriate manner, but I do not like King Learpsychologist only worked for a while. For meFinally, even as a trained actorit was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the language is too dense and richman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the set-up too archly unfeasible to create the great tragedy it's thought to beswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. To my mind He was the acclaim heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and esteem in which it's held is only mirrored by its own over-long, over-blown blusteringnot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763643440</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Theroux1529395224|title=A Dead HandLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: A Crime in CalcuttaThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
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|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Set Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in Indiahis footsteps, familiar territory for Theroux, ''A Dead Hand'' tells particularly when he considered the story of a travel writer suffering from writerstrain that being on-call put on his father's block (also known as 'dead hand') until a chance letter from an American ex-pat, life. When he was seventeen he took the mysterious Mrs Unger, relating a story opportunity of doing work experience with a mystery of family friend who was a dead body in a hotel leads vet and was convinced this was the job for him to release . Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his creativity in very unexpected waysdream since he was a child. The story is more about obsession and infatuation than it is about the mystery itself as the narrator falls under Mrs Unger If anything, he's Tantric charmsd wanted to be a professional footballer. But does she have more to hide than she's letting on?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144639</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Toby Lester0861541774|title=The Fourth Part A Nye of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest MapPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=In 2003 a map was bought for $10 millionDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, the highest price ever paid publicly for has taken a historical documentshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, by the Library of Congress, where it is now on permanent public displayGuy Trueman. No ordinary map, this is sometimes described as America's birth certificateMaik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. It is the sole survivor Initially, he faced a charge of a thousand copies printed early in manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the 16th century, and was discovered by accident in some archives in a German castle in 1901man. The sale and story behind it intrigued Toby Lester so much that Now he was inspired could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to discover more, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and this book is the resultwouldn't help Danny at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861978030</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur Alexander McCall Smith|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Stanton|title=What's For Dinner, Mr Gum?Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=As soon The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as heroine Polly turns an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her back, younger cousin Katie if she could come and leaves look after the town of Lamonic Bibber business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a day at the seaside, Mr Gum falls while. Katie is coming out of a break up with his best frienda bad boyfriend, causing carnivorous carnage all over and so jumps at the placechance to come home to Edinburgh. Meat is getting thrown around like it's going out of fashionAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and bringing us to an Edinburgh we have already love, thanks to doubt whether Polly 44 Scotland Street and her companions can ever utilise the power of love and put things Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to rightscharm. Especially as this book does not contain Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a magic unicorn called Elizabeth.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405248246</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Loose Women0811771741|title=Here Come the GirlsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
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|genre=Home and FamilyCrafts|summary=This is the second volume by the panelists from that nice ITV series, Melissa Leapman's ''Loose WomenInstaKnits for Baby''gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Just as promised on Some will be quick knits - others are of the cover'long, this book is an entertaining night with cosy afternoons in front of the girlsfire' variety. It turns out that they're just like us. The faces projects are already familiar and even if you dondivided by the time they't know them yetll take to complete - less than five hours, with nine contributorsfive to ten hours, you'll soon find a like-minded woman behind one of ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the celebrity facesprojects are attractive, modern and useable. The women are universally warmI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-hearted and supportive: there will be many a lonely woman who reads this book and feels as if she sat down with a group of friends for the eveningworthy projects' but that's me being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444700154</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jean UreDean Koontz|title=Fortune CookieThe Bad Weather Friend
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|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Fudge Cassidy Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and the Cupcake kid are best friendshis house gets trashed. If the names remind you of Oh, and someone has delivered a certain film then youreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it'd be spot on as s possible that's where Fudge's father got whoever or whatever was inside is the idea from. thing that has trashed his house! They're actually chalk and cheese – Fudge The thing is loud mouthed and opinionated and Cupcake , Benny is quiet and thoughtful – but the combination worksvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. They've just started at secondary school and Cupcake has rather He is a lot on her platenice person. Her brother Joey has muscular dystrophy and his problems are becoming more obviousA really nice person. Add to this So fortunately for Benny it turns out that her father couldn't cope with the problems and he now delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has another familybeen sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. ItSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's just Cupcakeenemies, if he, Benny, Joey and her mother – and not Harper (a lot of moneywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007224621</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenifer RobertsAdam Stower|title=The Madness of Queen Maria: The Remarkable Life of Maria I of PortugalMurray and Bun
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|genre=BiographyConfident Readers |summary=Born in 1734 in LisbonMurray is supposed to be a humble, at that time the richest tidy and most opulent city in Europefriendly cat, Maria was destined one who is able to become sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the first female monarch in Portuguese historytwo. Married to her uncle Infante PedroBut he's a bad magician's cat, seventeen years her seniorso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, she had six children (outliving all but one of and the catflap they both use can chuck them)out, and became Queen in 1777. A conscientious womannot into the regular back garden, she had the misfortune to be born in during the 'age but into a world of reason', when church frightening adventure and state were vying for supremacywhiffs. Instinctively This time round it drops them into a supporter of the old religionViking land, with where a humanitarian approach to state affairstroll hunter is expected – well, she one much bigger than Murray was no Queen Elizabeth, no Catherine the Greatto be honest, but he's turned up and wore her crown rather reluctantly.he'll have to do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095455891X</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
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|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dave Eggers1529431735|title=The Wild ThingsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet MaxIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. When I say he sometimes gets He'd been exiled on the wrong end of the stick Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about adults, or dislikes his motherbecause he's new boyfriend, or gets had a bit feisty when he feels the need for revengeletter from his ex-wife, I am certainly understating the factssaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. He It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a bit watery grave in the boot of a rascal to say the leaststolen Ford Sierra. But all that might change when he finds himself travelling Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to a strange land of roisterous animals, and ends up installed as their king.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241144221</amazonuk>}}home?