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|isbnauthor=1786332388Paul B Preciado|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerDysphoria Mundi

|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of Springchildhood'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb  Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the plot grips you and won't let gonew generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. SoRather, what's it is the problem? Wellproportional, valid response to ''the problem is Chrissieepistemological and political crack we are living through, and the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age tension between emancipatory forces and she readily tells us conservative resistances that shecharacterize our present'' which Preciado calls 's just killed someone 'dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid- 19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a two-year-old boy. Sheglobal scale, or as ''pangea covidica's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come backpolitical paralysis, she wonders? HasnPreciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''t he been dead for long enough?. |isbn=1804271454

|author=Catherine SteadmanSamantha Harvey|title=The Disappearing ActOrbital

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her Booker Prize for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places he's going take him towards liesOrbital'', deceit and a pretty young thing compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the form lives of a group of his new co-starastronauts aboard the International Space Station. ItThrough a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts's a good time for Mia orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to escape, and pilot season see our planet in LA provides just the excusea wholly new light.|isbn=14711897831529922933

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler295967572X|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=45|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= Set against Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the backdrop purpose of the English Civil Warthis journey is, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642uncertain. As a loyal servant of Django found the King, and Head of tickets ''on the Secret Service, it is Robertfloor somewhere''s duty and has persuaded our narrator to uncover the details of accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the plan and follow past as the clues pair travel to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since station by coach and the plot could affect the Kingtrain is a steam locomotive.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri0008551324|title=The Jasmine ThroneDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On It's unusual for anyone from the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the pyreother. She But Davie Hardie is immediately sent struggling in prison and he's prepared to be imprisoned on tell the police where the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with body of a community of people missing person is buried and who got powers from the mysterious deathless waterswas responsible for her death. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown This person, decaying ruin. One dayhe promises, Malini witnesses a girl kill is someone with magicbig and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. Instead And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of reporting her for such a gruesome crimehis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, Malini claims is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that the girl saved her Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantwhat's happening.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryVaim

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasnAll was strange''t come home by ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the time he sort pervading sense of half-promised he'd be otherworldliness which permeates this story set in by. Her husbandVaim, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house a fictional fishing village in the morning but he's still going to be going to work Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and he needs his sleep. He wakesEline, though, when Freddie does come two of the protagonists caught in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someoneits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1035043092|title=True Crime StoryThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Joseph KnoxI can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new genre life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with his latest novelWillow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance daughter of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residencehis former partner. Split into four parts Willow's also his boss, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the eyes body of her twin sistera popular islander, other familyArchie Stout, friends and professionalsis found, such as in the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoeaftermath of a storm, or at least the Zoe she presented to otherscan't resist getting involved. However, He'd been battered about the twists and turns at the end head with a Neolithic stone - one of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricateda pair - which had been stolen from a museum. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaThea Lenarduzzi|title=No, No, No!The Tower|rating=45|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=They say the best picture books ''How unctuous are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer fats of this latest from Justine Averyanother's life, a Bookbag favouritehow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.

''NoIn this compelling novel, NoThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginableprotagonist of this tale. Just as T''Nos story is being told, nothe story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, no! Okaythe daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, okay. Yeswho died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, you maycaptures T's imagination.'' ThatAnnie's it! Butfate is, like above all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text an enticing story to T. It is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outsidestory which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=16388204571804271799

|author=Monica ConnellClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Against a Peacock SkyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. Everything in social anthropology. I think it this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is important to know thatsteeped in anguish and distortion. She went on Even a grant-supported tripkiss, with usually a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim symbol of learning about these people intimacy and how they livedcloseness, becomes evidence of love lost. She also went, presumably, with When the academic discipline of how to find these things narrator cries outinternally, how ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to organise them in confirm her mind, how to "understand" them in the context emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of her own paradigmsthis plea is Xavier, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunatelyex-partner, a ghost she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness conjures to muck-in, to break test her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled updetachment.|isbn=17806004291804271934

|isbn=14091816690008405026|title=The MaidensA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Alex MichaelidesJane Casey

|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She needed to think carefully about what she knew was never found and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeinvestigation ground to a halt. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's nieceNow, her mother, ZoeHelena, had telephoned and her father are dead in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to copetheir bed. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to CambridgeInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but she caught the first fast train from Kingthere's Crosssomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Mariana What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in -shut case is now a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earliercomplex double murder. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after Kerrigan is convinced that the death of Zoeexplanation lies in Rosalie's mother and Marianadisappearance: others (such as Derwent's sisterboss, ElizaUna Burt) are less convinced.

|author=Maisie ChanAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Other Girl|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Danny ''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is eleven years old, always very candid and what he reallyher tone transparent, really loves but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to do is draw. He creates fantastical comicsher sister, however, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the wordsthis letter will never reach her. DannyWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's dadsister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his mathsa few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and forget about 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the drawingjarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny an absence that she has his own roomalways felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, where he Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can draw in secret be seen as more objective and in peaceless personal. But then one day his parents tell him they have I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a surprise for himvibrant, and subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this surprise turns out book, Tolstoy complains to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themfriend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also of what you yourself imagine it to be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitterthat sea, and showing her around the townor that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Poor DannyWell, stuck on Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a maths projectsubjective account, frustrated with his bedroom situationgiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X1804271977

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1529077745|title=RabbitsThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Welcome to A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the world body of The Game. Or should that be a man in the gamepark near Rosebank, a care home for while it ought troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to be capitalised to high heaven, it work a shift the night before but who had never leaves lower case throughout this bookturned up. It's also D I Vera Stanhope is called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and in to investigate the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this murder - but her only clue is the game disappearance of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan one of the conspiracy, the computer gameresidents, the hack from the darkest of websfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. People like our hero, K, named like Some people believe that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, Chloe was responsible for the lists of who has successfully won death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time itgirl's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken diary makes it's ever been – morally and otherwiseclear that she adored Josh. Unfortunately for K, in trying She knows that she has to find Chloe to sort out discover what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only happened to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..Josh.|isbn=1529016932

|authorisbn=C J CareyB0FK5LHKD9|title=WidowlandThe Colour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden

|summary=It's April 1953been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming so we were very glad to London, parading around see a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisnew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. For yesLike all Bowden's stories, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didnthere't happen as we know it, and we are now s a protectorate – well, we share enough mystery at the heart of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainlandThe Colour of Money''. But We like this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazirunning theme in an author's work -styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into take a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of mystery but give it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, different flavour and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitatmosphere each time.|isbn=152941198X

|author=Louise BeechOlga Tokarczuk|title=This Is House of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How We Are Humancan one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', 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, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a devoted single mother murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to her sontake his case, Sebastian - but she canit't give s the thought of the money he could make that convinces him everything that this is a miscarriage of justice that he wantsreally should put right. Sebastian has decided that }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's time nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a similar experience for him any of you reading but I'll have to have sexat least set the scene. But as an autistic 20 year-old, Once that's easier said than done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4. And 5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting itinto words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's starting to cause them both problemspassing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. |isbn=19131937130571365469

|isbn=B093VPBL5L1036916375|title=Cape Henry HouseJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Jolly Walker BittickPeter McArdle

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=Meet Bosner''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, orsuch as the family history of a sea-going family, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerwith the docks dominating lives. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had Other stories blend seamlessly into the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointwhat-might-have-been. HeIt's simply Bosner a book to one settle into and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories , to think of 2008 simpler times when he life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as constant factor in McArdle's early years. I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours almost soundless and could be long and he was often working nights but at appear after the age of twentyall-one, there clear was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daysounded.

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten1836285493|title=For the WolfThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=In Red's familyWill is a keen player of video games, the first daughter becomes queena conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and the second daughter becomes a sacrificesupportive friend. To Red's misfortuneBut most of all, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdoman aspiring writer. If she English is not a worthy sacrificehis favourite lesson at his school, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be releasedMarlowe Park, and the fabled kings one at which he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories goexcels. But when Red enters the woodsThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hourMrs Howarth, and she finds has suggested to Will and his mum that the legends are lies. The wolf is not he spends a couple of afternoons a monster—he's week at a mandifferent school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.|isbn=0356516369

|authorisbn=M G Leonard1009473085|title=TwitchThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Twitch is Sometimes it's simpler to explain a boy who loves birdsbook by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. He keeps pigeons If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at home10}}, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! can be bettered for those tumultuous years. His time spent watching It's a compelling read and helping birds is easy compared should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to that of his time in schoolpolitics. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there ''The Conservative Effect'' is a dangerous bank robber on the run, and itan entirely different beast. It's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere seventh book in Aves Wood, a series which looks at the place where Twitch impact a government has his secret hide made and that he knows like co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the back state of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterynation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374situation in 2024.

|isbnauthor=1838853804Jenny Valentine|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pondElk and Mab are best friends, only to find or more than that he'd hanged himselfeven, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. Twenty years later sheThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's back home again and this contact details at the time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sisterBut then chance brings them back together, Melissa, who is dying of anorexiaand they are inseparable. As she dies Something has happened though, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of thingssomething terrible and tragic, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on now they must work through their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problemsgrief, Megan was deaf and their mother, Bethfriendship, had left suddenly three years beforetogether. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?|isbn=1471196585

|isbn=02414001201787333175|title=The Girl Who DiedYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Una I was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then shetempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay'd given up her medical studies 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 retrained as a teacherautobiography. She was thirty years old and money was tight''You Don't Have to be Mad.. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in '' promised the village same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedpsychiatrist. Una I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the only applicant laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik it is always delivered with empathy and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=1846975719Mariana Enriquez|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=We learn Mariana Enriquez writes horror that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to awkward places. But that's Londonan urban planning mishap, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When an overcrowded homeless shelter and a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awaycrime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort circumstances of tech which would make her characters are so plausible that possible isn't available to the paying publicsupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?|isbn=1803511230

|authorisbn=Richard Brook1529934753|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I am For a firm believer that sometimes we choose bookslittle while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, and sometimes books choose us. In my casethe country's most famous living artist, this is one was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the latterRoyal Academy. Not so very long agoStill, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed ithe arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, found some one of it interestingwhom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way was fortunate that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I there was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's urecord of the protest.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, so there is grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a predisposition towards expecting chair and proceeded to like spray Bruce in the bookface, even if it doesnwhilst shouting ''Stop the War''t always turn out that way. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' ] – attacks, but also because it is a book I needed to readthis was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, right nowand Sir Max Bruce was dead.|isbn=1800461682

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNAriel Saramandi|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary=It was In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to be Brian's last camp. He'd founded intradermally dissect the organisation some four years ago and had done all sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the organisation since but he was leaving school wounds left by colonialism and the time had come to hand the reins slavery to someone elseexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. The obvious person was Gary, who'd always been the fun element of Saramandi describes the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act country at one stage as the leader and he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiserrotting'', an administrator if you like. He was a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the entertainermalignant forces of racism, the person who basked in the spotlight patriarchy, environmental degradation and made things fun - so Brian stepped governmental dysfunction. Each essay in and did this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the organising. He handed various diseases afflicting the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' campisland state.|isbn=1804271616

|isbnauthor=194812467XPekka Harju-Autti|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery LoveVortex and Ema Tepicthe Drakor's Curse

|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam It's the cat decide to go for eighteenth century, a walktime of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Kirelle Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever sent to the Andaman Islands in his smart grey fur coatendeavour. As they walk to the top of the hillAlong with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they see set off on a big barn with a sign outsideperilous voyage to these faraway lands. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers The islands are farmyard animals. There are sheep beautiful and ducks stunning in their scenery and cowsthe islanders' leader, goats and chickensAarav, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingis keen to establish good relations. What will they buy?|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|isbnauthor=0008404925Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' timeless text which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused of stalking wrenches the woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free hearts of John Webster its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and then she came to see him as a threat sentences from their proper position on the page and was forced to remember that positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Like the police officer at his trial had told lives of her that this was the best chance characters, they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous manare often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675

|isbnauthor=0008395594Tom Percival|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. ThenHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', one Monday, she went to he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and never came home. Markdoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Olihis dad can's sixteen and t work because he lost his job at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been college, was working a bit off with Leigh for cash-in-hand job on a while but she put it down to him growing up building site and starting to become independenthad an accident. Seb's only twelve Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and LeighWill's absence hits him hardlife seems bleak in every direction. Then Daan JanssenAnd yet, he still has a wealthy Dutch businessmantiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, reports his wifethat feel like a light at the end of a long, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracedark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1473685745Sylvie Cathrall|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best A Letter to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=OtherlandLuminous Deep

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Myra and Rohan There are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's dayfew greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa this is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full one of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their livesthem.|isbn=17880004630356522776

|isbn=walker141786482126|title=The Coldest Case Janus Stone (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Martin WalkerElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=It Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in they discovered the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief bones of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearschild beneath a doorway. The body of a young male There was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justiceno skull. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young manWas this a ritual killing or murder? J-J calls the skull Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he s difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't want to forget Oscar until , that she is pregnant with his killer has been brought child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to justicesudden bouts of sickness.

|author= Martha LeighGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirThe Accidentals|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyShort Stories|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent This collection was truly enchanting in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence all senses of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauword: spellbinding with its fantastical, his life's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested magical elements and charming in the practicalities its gentle portrayal of lifenature and human relationships. There is love in Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by a wisdom that appears to want to teach us something about the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is thereworld.|isbn=18004603841804271470

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0008551375|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to InezLeanne Wilson's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez body was crushed in found at the first volume bottom of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyeda Scottish mountain, warped into an unrecognisable shape by seemingly the moon-sized aliens known as the Architectsresult of a tragic accident. Humanity is scattered She'd looked so happy, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping. Thentoo, just when they had the human race she posted her intentions on the run, the Architects vanishedFacebook. And so, the memories Her friends were relieved as she was just out of the war fadesan unpleasant relationship, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselvesbut it looked like she was living her best life now. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the Architects, does not want to be rememberedlast year. But All were experienced climbers, when he properly equipped for what they were doing and the crew sensible people. None of the salvage ship he calls home discover 'what appears a stupid thing to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is thrust back into certain there's a killer on the spotlightloose. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886