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• Author Nikki Erlick on the Book Club

  Annabel and the book clubbers discuss "The Measure" by Nikki Erlick... with Nikki Erlick.

  Duration: 2:21

• Northamptonshire Twelve Days of Christmas

  Annabel has been stuffing the county into a festive classic.

  Duration: 5:12

• "Losing Fred is (like) losing my life."

  The father of 16-year-old Fred Shand, who was killed in Kingsthorpe, speaks to Annabel .

  Duration: 3:32

• 10 year old Isabella from Daventry and Twiglet the Spaniel win gold!

  Isabella and Twiglet won gold at the Junior Open Agility World Championships

  Duration: 1:24
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• Breakfast Book Club

  From Agatha Christie to Adam Kay, John Boyne to James Baldwin, we’ve devoured and dissected over forty books since we started our Book Club – we’ve also disagreed a lot! 
  Join Annabel on Â鶹Éç Radio Northampton’s Breakfast Show as they review a different book every few weeks. 
  All you need to do is read the book and let us know your thoughts with a score out of ten.
  This month’s book is ‘The Measure’ by Nikki Erlick.
  Are you in a book club? Do you have a favourite book you’d love to share? We’d love you to pick a book for us to read. Email annabel@bbc.co.uk and we’ll be in touch.
  

  

• This month's book

  Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth.
  
  Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heart-breaking tale of mischief, healing and above all, the courage it takes to survive.