THE story of a child going missing will resonate with many people from newspaper headlines if not actually from the direct experience of living with someone who has disappeared.

It can be hard to make an impact with a first novel, but Kate Hamer’s powerful thriller will certainly cement her name in the literature world.

Check out the starting line-ups for all of tonight's matches.

Leighton Baines returns to the starting XI as Everton look to follow up their impressive win over Young Boys with another victory against Leicester at Goodison Park.

Team news for tonight's Premier League games .

Team news for the 3pm Premier League games

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 24 in the Premier League.

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All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 22 in the Premier League.

Leicester 1 Aston Villa 0: Brad Guzan has defended under-fire Aston Villa boss Paul Lambert and urged frustrated fans to blame the players.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 21 in the Premier League.

Liverpool 2 Leicester City 2

Hull City 0 Leicester 1

Leicester 1 Tottenham 2

Premier League team news.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 17 in the Premier League.

Leicester 0 Manchester City 1

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 16 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 8 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

Team news for the 3pm games in the Premier League

Premier League team news for 3pm kick-offs.

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 2 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

10 teams are starting their Premier League campaigns this afternoon.

Sheffield United 2 Charlton 0

Charlton 2 Wolves 1

Busy Irish star Liam Neeson is to stay in his new all-action mode for his next movie — playing one of the Texas Rangers who hunted down and killed notorious robbers and outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

Hull 1 Charlton 0

Charlton 1 Ipswich 2

Luxembourg referee Alain Hamer may have reconsidered his part in officiating in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League last weekend if he had been informed of the reason for the Scottish refereeing strike sooner than two hours before kick-off.

Neil Lennon blamed “slapstick defending” for his Celtic side dropping two Clydesdale Bank Premier League points at home for the second week running.

Celtic 2 Inverness 2

LUXEMBOURG’S Alain Hamer will referee both halves of the Old Firm this weekend after the Scottish Football Association scrambled across Europe to find replacement officials.

Reading boss Brian McDermott will be boosted by the return of striker Shane Long for the FA Cup quarter-final clash with Aston Villa on Sunday.

AN explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a British journalist, a US Marine and an Afghan soldier, Britain’s military said yesterday.

A British journalist was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan yesterday, the British Ministry of Defence announced today.

DIFFICULT times call for revised ambitions, and far from aspiring to claim a first title in 20 years or delivering a sixth European Cup to the Anfield trophy room, Liverpool’s diminished status means Jamie Carragher is now hoping to place a tick against one of the less heady ambitions on his career ticklist.

THE ENEMIES of Reason, a TV series by Richard Dawkins, is being shown by Channel 4.

THE loss of their “very brave and kind-hearted little lad” has “devastated” the Geeling family, Manchester Crown Court heard yesterday.

MICHAEL HAMER had been planning to abduct Joe for at least three weeks even to the extent of practicing his letter-writing to lure his victim away from home.

MICHAEL Hamer’s ferocious attack on “little angel” Joe Geeling was the culmination of a three-week plan by a “cold, calculated and scheming young man”.

THE name Michael Hamer will now be added to a list of children who have killed other youngsters.

Schoolboy killer Michael Hamer was given a life sentence in the UK today for the murder of 11-year-old cystic fibrosis sufferer Joe Geeling.

Based on the writings of Charles Bukowski this somewhat rambling; but otherwise quite excellent; film is about hanging around, womanising, drinking, gambling; and writing about it.

A British rafting boss convicted over the deaths of four tourists who were sucked into a whirlpool of white water in Austria says he did not receive a fair trial.