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|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1806344777|title=The SourceArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's Able Adventures|author=Rob Keeley|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=1996Arthur dreams of adventures. EssexHe looks out of his window each day and thinks of all the escapades he could have, the places he could go and the things he could see. ThirteenHis favourite day is Saturday because that's the day his friend Maxine -yearshe of the booming laugh and silver bangles -old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling comes to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingevisit. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look Maxine is a little less bleak..great believer in the power of imagination.|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=B004O37B6A1035043092|title=The Prime MinisterKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Anthony TrollopeAnn Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.}}{{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=What Am I, A Deer?

|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but hePolly Barton's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. Lopex debut novel is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows both subject and Lopez is not going to explaingoverning metaphor. The ladies of societynarrator, even Palliser's own wifenewly relocated from London to Berlin, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in works translating video games into Japanese through the position process of having localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses a by-electionnew audience. The Duke's payment Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of Lopez' election expenses disappearing altogether. From this, the novel opens out into a wider, resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in an attempt order to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt him.be understood, accepted, or loved?|isbn=1804272175

|isbn=1787332098Zabriskie1|title=How to Love Animals A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in a Human-Shaped WorldIndigenous Wisdom|author=Henry ManceStephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Politics and SocietyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species Across many African and groups: cowsIndigenous systems, dogsdifferences in how children learn, foxessense , elephants and so onor process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and millions of wild animals stay out thereawareness, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on each holding value within the next David Attenborough seriescommunity.''

I was going to argue. I meanThis lovely story is a synthesis of that tradition, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I which was quibbling for the sake of itcarried down through generations by oral retellings. Essentially It shows that quote sums a community or society is not made up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of humans people with different skills and the company of animalsdifferent personalities, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted all contributing to a whole that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish combines them all and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablebenefit of them all.

|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Jessie GreengrassBenji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The High HouseDisappearing Act|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of F for a literary festival she is to be a guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. The train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that lies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=1804272329}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0GFQ81YQK|title=How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Literary Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to pass on its genetic material with each other. First, the implied belief that your progeny will earth created bodies. And then pass on theirs, the sky breathed life into them. HoweverThese were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, that train of thought is slowly seems especially how they came to have fallen out of favourbe. Today's young generation are discovering that When they grew old and died, their parents bodies returned to the earth and their parents' parents did not seem life returned to think that far aheadthe sky. Or they did think And that far ahead is why the earth and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrasssky are both revered. This is not a science-fiction novelOnly together can they create human beings. This And that is our reality. This is the life our children why people must pay attention to, and their children will have to livecare for, both.|isbn=1800750072

|authorisbn=Ruth HoganB0GHPMNF6P|title=Madame BurovaThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970sWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum quits his Canary Wharf finance job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, take over the third generation running of Madame Burova, the family's farm zoo. He'Tarots not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-Readerage stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothsuddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. The singer, Then the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a revamped holiday campbird, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last daya dragon! Now he, fifty years laterEdgar, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is shehis mother Abi, and who delivered the secrets about her zoo's part-time café waitress Pearl have to Imeldaraise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and why did not being able to tell anyone about it have to remain a secret all . But this time?|isbn=152937331Xtiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…

|author= Jonathan StroudStephanie Zabriskie|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating= 45|genre= TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Scarlett McCain ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is an outlaw, rejecting a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the draconian conformity oral traditions of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of BritainMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself aliveTanzania. But then she meets Albert Browne, '' The Maasai are a dark boy with dark powers cattle-herding people and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them this story writes down, its oral tradition explaining how they plan to flee came to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the mythical Free Isles whole story of the London Lagoon. Togetherintimate and symbiotic connection its people, they must brave man-eating wildlifeand especially its women, the cannibalistic Tainted have with their cows and all for the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach natural world. The oral tradition retelling the Free Islesmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?does.|isbn=1406394815B0G9WTGY6J

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SLivi Michael|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo Elizabeth and Caroline SiegalRuth|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingHistorical Fiction|summary=Remy ''Elizabeth and Ruth'' is feeling miserablea work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a radical critique of the treatment of the working class published under a pseudonym. HeThe 's let himself down 'Ruth'again'from Livi Michael'. The school bully Jaydens title appears in her novel as Pasley, together with his sidekicks Ryan a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a child and Brandon, have been laughing finds herself in Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyeslife. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see Set in Manchester between 1839 and then push him just that little bit further when 1842, the novel examines the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was harsh conditions endured by the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school Victorian working poor and interrogates the teachers don't believe him when he tries extent to explain what happenedwhich the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=1784633682

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Makenna Goodman|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeHelen of Nowhere

|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved The protagonist, a paying position he fell out with those who provided disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his income career and returned to Ireland where he married Maryhis relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his childhood sweetheartdiscomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. He was fortunate to get The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a job volta in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a his life of domesticity, her past tied to his potential fresh start. To bring Finn backThe realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the right time to allow reader gets the move to be possiblesense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205

|authorisbn=Dean KoontzB0GCB1MQ7D|title=The Other EmilyWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=45|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsI have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. ItWith 's the western coast wecelebrities're concerned with, there's frequently a place he has to return tobook they might or might not have written, and a place he has to be able to leavewhich might or might not tell the true story. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. HeIt's paying for contact with the man he thinks not often that you find a book that gives the only suspectfull backstory, and rarely do you discover a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, memoir where the telling is so perfect that you'll go back and has a dozen reread paragraphs and more unfound Jane Does on his recordsentences, just for the pleasure the words give. David ''Why My Mother Went Away'' is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availone of those rare exceptions. HeIt's also having the story of how a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into boy from the Midlands, born at the restaurant walks beginning of the sheer spitting imageSecond World War, the very embodimentwould become a Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, he was one of the virtual resurrection, founders of his lovethe department. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|author=Charlie CarrollJeremy Cooper|title=The LipDiscord|rating=3.5

|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the name novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is evocative of…probably a force of whatever we want it nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. The two, predictably, don't always see eye to beeye, their approaches different and maybe thatEvie's the pointprogressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. To me the name sings of English folk musicHowever, but even in my use something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetfragile alliance formed within the clamour. |isbn=15293341791804272264

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellTom Percival|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankWrong Shoes

|summary=Meet Stella and her familyWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. TheyHe is bullied because he has 're just innocently trying to the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a Sunday evening cash-in together, watching -hand job on a film – using three different screens to watch three different thingsbuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, mind – when and Will''poof'' everything goes blanks life seems bleak in every direction. And it's not just their homeyet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, but and clings to the entire south-western village moments of Mouseholejoy when he is drawing, and not just thatfeel like a light at the end of a long, either, but dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Edward W Said|title=Representations of the whole country, if not worldIntellectual |rating=4. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Edward Said's ''Representations of the Intellectual''re first to get is less a screen back, strict theory of what intellectuals are and not more a passionate argument for what they were constantly doing on them beforeshould be. Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. Toasters can toastInstead, but TVs cannot do he insists on the V part of their jobintellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and no computer can show its computationsunpopular, who speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. You might think And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to be hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a social comedy about people stuck in such child beneath a Luddite experience against their will, but nodoorway. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to herThere was no skull. Hence Was this has to go down as a road-trip book. ritual killing or murder? But not just thatInevitably, a slapstick road-trip comedyDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And more than that, too – for itIt's a slapstickdifficult as Ruth knows, high-dramabut Nelson doesn't, high-octane road-trip comedy that she is pregnant with oodles his child as a result of cuddly heart that kids the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of all ages will lovesickness.|isbn=1471196887

|isbn=19131935270008551375|title=Bound When Shadows Fall (Detective Sam ShephardD S Max Craigie)|author=Vanda SymonNeil Lancaster

|summary=Dunedin Leanne Wilson's body was shocked when it heard found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the murder result of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seaclifftragic accident. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed She'd looked so that she was forced to watch the murder, with the scene being discovered by their sonhappy, Declantoo, when he returned home from she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an evening outunpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. The subsequent investigation would prove Then it emerged that John Henderson five other women had been involved died in similar circumstances in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalthe last year. His company, Eros GlobalAll were experienced climbers, manufactured properly equipped for what they were doing and marketed sensible people. None of the ''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind of what a stupid thingto do'', as Hendersonexplanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explaineda killer on the loose.

|isbnauthor=1529109116Paul B Preciado|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonDysphoria Mundi

|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that It is never too much late to ask.embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''

The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to what he really wants the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born epistemological and political crack we are living through, and brought up on the Wirral: shetension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love . The whole text is framed against the backdrop of animals. Her original intention was the Covid-19 pandemic as that she would become 'Dr Jacksonwhich has catalysed this revolution, whale scientist' and she was well on her way when dysphoria began to achieving this when her life changed emerge on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born andglobal scale, although or as ''pangea covidica'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of her original intentionweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, she knew that she wanted Preciado urges his readers to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition'use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=1804271454

|isbnauthor=0857527231Samantha Harvey|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerOrbital|rating=4.5

|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wifeIn 2024, Ellen, died and it's Samantha Harvey won the first time that sheBooker Prize for 's let him down. He's lost, bereft without her ( he Orbital''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the doorstep, he'd much rather have lives of a good row with someone. He's particularly angry about group of astronauts aboard the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she diedInternational Space Station. She even dared to contradict him when he told her Through a narrative lens that mirrors the dog wasnastronauts't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to interfere see our planet in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themwholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=B003UH99X4295967572X|title=The Eustace DiamondsPale Pieces|author=Anthony TrollopeG M Stevens

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come Our unnamed narrator is about to regret begin a train journey with his marriage but he didncompanion Django. Where they't live long enough for re going and what the purpose of this to become a problem. After his death, his wifejourney is, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executorsis uncertain. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although Django found the precise circumstances of tickets ''on the giving varied from telling floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to tellingaccompany him. Lady Eustace was Why not a woman ? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to whom truth meant the station by coach and the train is a great deal. All that was important to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondssteam locomotive.

|isbn=15290473150008551324|title=The LamplightersDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emma StonexNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''A fisherman told him once about How unctuous are the sea having two faces. You have to take them both, he said, the good and the badfats of another's life, and never turn your back on either one of them.how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.

In 1972this compelling novel, fifteen miles off Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the coast identity of CornwallT, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in 'the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''. Jory Martin had taken out story of a relief keepersecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the weather such that ''daughter of a wealthy family in the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a bath toy over the waveletstower, captures T's imagination. Annie' but they were unable s fate is, above all, an enticing story to get any response from the Maiden RockT. It was broken into the next dayis a story which she consumes avariciously, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for both in a meal quest for two - truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was brokenfantasy. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the men.|isbn=1804271799

|author=Mary H K ChoiClaire-Louise Bennett|title=YolkBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Jayne Baek Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokeskiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. She makes bad decisions about When the men she sleeps with. Shenarrator cries out internally, ''s an all-round messy character; come over here and that's her charm. Junekiss me, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, and has is less an invitation than a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for desperate attempt to confirm her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two yearsemotional numbness. This The imagined recipient of this plea is until June finds out she's sickXavier, her ex-partner, and Jayne is the only person a ghost she can turn conjures to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiestest her detachment.|isbn= 03490036961804271934

|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008405026|title=The KhanA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the motto be twice as good as men investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and four times as good as white men. This has served her well father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her rise through boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the criminal justice system explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and by Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the time she same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is called home for always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's wedding after fifteen sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in self-imposed exileFrance, she is at and 2 years before the top of her gameauthor was even born. Returning to The large and instant void created by the city jarring concept of her birth, writing to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her sense of honour and dutylife, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=17860790971804271845

|isbnauthor=0008336830Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersBiography|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking Biographies are often seen as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgeform of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. She talks to herI think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to call her best his friend and flatmateGorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is, Nevis Smithbut of what you yourself imagine it to be. Nevis Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is unworldly and rather reserved - and she canit?'t understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with her. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken to hospital and Nevis calls her motherWell, Honor. They've not been on good terms since Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right nowsubjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Nevis needs her motherChekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977

|authorisbn=1529077745|title=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris The Dark Wives (translatorD I Vera Stanhope)|titleauthor=If You Kept a Record of SinsAnn Cleeves

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know A man walking his gender or dog in the nature of early morning discovered the person he's addressing in his second person monologue body of a narrationman in the park near Rosebank, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daya care home for troubled teens. The mother dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a businesswoman, shift the night before but who clearly left northern Italy and settled had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in Romania with to investigate the murder - but her (nightonly clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strongold Chloe Spencer. And so we flit from current (well, Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this came out in is unlikely as the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladgirl's childhood, and see just diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what he has happened to tell her as a private farewell addressJosh.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Jane LightbourneOlga Tokarczuk|title= My Cat Called RedHouse of Day, House of Night|rating= 45|genre=Emerging ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates it, and ''What's the freckles good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go along with on calmly living in it. He?''s been bullied and mocked at school because  The title of it. this spellbinding work, ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!House of Day, House of Night'' Kids are mean, somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But red hair , the constant in that image is not Robin's only misery in life. He's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill and the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againperceived.|isbn= 18382168121804271918

|isbn=B003L7TDMU1836284683|title=Phineas FinnThe Big Happy|author=Anthony TrollopeDavid Chadwick

|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Phineas Finn Well! This is the son of Dr Malachi Finn, a successful doctor in Killaloe in County Claremurder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, who sent his son it's nothing like I expected it to London to train as be, and it takes me on a lawyerwild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. PhineasI don's interest is more in making influential friends than in becoming t want to ruin a lawyer and one of them, Barrington Erle, suggests that he runs similar experience for Parliament in the forthcoming election. His father is not entirely in favour any of this as members are not remunerated and it would be up you reading but I'll have to him to provide financial support for his son as well as funding his electionat least set the scene. One of the doctorOnce that's patients is Lord Tulla who controls the borough of Loughshane and by done, I think you should simply experience this stroke of luck Finn is, eventually, elected by a small marginwonderfully original story for yourself.

|isbnauthor=1838595031Sally Rooney|title=Crooked: Honest Criminality|author=Bronwen JohnIntermezzo

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=The con had seemed like a good one: tricking people into buying artwork supposedly by Sally Rooney has studied the new Banksy - chessboard of life and they should have made is something of a decent profit from grandmaster at putting itinto words. The problem was Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they were too successful: feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one of for readers to unravel is the marks had bought a few fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and then discovered that they were valuelessPeter Koubek. Henry Martin Holmes had fallen for Ivan, a simple con and socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his fatherolder brother Peter, celebrity criminal Harry Holmes, was determined that he and his family could not lose face like thata successful lawyer living in Dublin. The grifters were going to pay. Ashia Following their father'Ash' Cox and Max 'Colorado' Ying needed to be got out of the country. In s passing after a long battle with cancer, the course of bringing this about, Luke Gaines, Ashbrothers's foster father, lost his lifealready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|authorisbn=Hayley Webster1836285493|title=Luna Rae is Not AloneThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley

|summary=Luna Rae has just moved house. Moving house Will is always trickya keen player of video games, but especially when you're ten years olda conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and you miss your old home, and you and your little sister have to start a new school but your mum seems to be out working supportive friend. But most of all the time, he is an aspiring writer. Then there's your dadEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, who doesnand one at which he excels. This hasn't seem like he's coping so wellgone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and so there's no one she has suggested to take care Will and his mum that he spends a couple of things but you. Everything feels afternoons a week at a different and strangeschool, and mysteriousStation Road, and so Luna finds a way of coping is by watchingwhere his ability might be better extended. She turns detective and starts keeping an eye on her new neighbourhood, but it turns out she's not the only one keeping watch!|isbn=1788006046

|isbn=B003A6W0FO1009473085|title=Can You Forgive Her?The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony TrollopeSeldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionPolitics and Society|summary=On the surface Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''Can You Forgive HerThe Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?'' looks deceptively simple: it. If you's re looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story of one woman and two men who are vying with each other about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for her loveyou. Alice Vavasor was originally engaged to her cousinIf that's what you're looking for, George Vavasor but she broke off that engagement and later became engaged to John Grey. When we first meet Alice sheI don't think Anthony Seldon's on an extended tour of the continent with George Vavasor and his sister Katebook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's obvious that there's still a great deal of chemistry between John and Alice - compelling read and Kate is all should be compulsory for encouraging the relationship as it would tie Alice anyone who thinks Johnson should return to herpolitics. George wants Alice but it's a matter of 'The Conservative Effect'amour propre'is an entirely different beast. It' rather than love: he s the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has little consideration for anyone other than himself made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the original engagement had fallen through because of his infidelity and deceitfulnessmost important. This thread is book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the story state of a very complicated love affair the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and a woman who lacks confidence the situation in her own judgement. You might not like Alice to start with but you will warm to her2024.

|author=Hannah GoldJenny Valentine|title=The Last BearUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=April's fatherElk and Mab are best friends, a scientistor more than that even, has been given their friendship is a job on once in a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himlifetime connection. They live alone anyway, since Aprilmeet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's mother died some contact details at the time before, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with natureBut then chance brings them back together, and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the islandare inseparable. But when they get there Something has happened though, her father finds that his work monitoring something terrible and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his timetragic, and so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of onenow they must work through their grief, and so she sets out to find the Beartheir friendship, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himtogether.|isbn=000841128X1471196585