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Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to 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 ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''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 global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of books about weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to be published]]''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|isbn=1804271454}}

|author=Sarah LanganSamantha Harvey|title=Good NeighboursOrbital

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= If you're of a certain vintageIn 2024, it's hard to read Samantha Harvey won the words Booker Prize for ''Good NeighboursOrbital'' without adding , a sing-song ''compact yet profound work that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live unfolds over a world apart from single day in the Melbourne suburbs. They're one lives of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all group of astronauts aboard the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn'tInternational Space Station. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, Through a sinkhole opens up in narrative lens that mirrors the park across the way. Itastronauts's a revolting mess of dirt and chaosorbital perspective, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet Harvey invites readers to comesee our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=17890982111529922933

|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson295967572X|title=The Small ThingsPale Pieces|author=G M Stevens

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, she feels like she never really fits inis uncertain. Her family donDjango found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere''t have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison has persuaded our narrator to theirsaccompany him. When a new girl joins her class, Anna Why not? Not much else is asked to partner her, clear either - but things we are complicated because probably in the past as the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with pair travel to the class station by using a robot. Can Anna overcome coach and the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot, and train is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649steam locomotive.

|isbn=00083503880008551324|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Otegha UwagbaNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts..approach the police.'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0Neither side likes or has any respect for the other.7% of English Literature GCSE students But Davie Hardie is struggling in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'prison and he' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came s prepared to tell the police where the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven body of a missing person is buried and nine. It who was responsible for her mother who came first, with her father joining them laterdeath. The family was hard-workingThis person, he promises, principled is someone big and determined that their children would have it will be worth the best education possiblepolice doing what he wants. There was always a painful awareness And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedhis sentence and to get an early parole date. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. Not much to ask, is it? For Otegha, education meant a scholarship The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to a private school in London do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and then a place at New College, Oxfordanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbnauthor=1787631869Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydVaim

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but sheAll was strange''d built ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a good fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and decent life Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the aftermathonly 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. SheIt's now married to Danielbeen seven years since we heard from him, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucybut he's daughter now living with Willow Reeves and Fintheir young son, James, as well as Cassie, the child she had with Danieldaughter of his former partner. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, DanielWillow's partner also his boss, and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a childrenshe ''s home but itshould's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heartbe on maternity leave, particularly where Lucybut when the body of a popular islander, or moneyArchie Stout, is concernedfound, 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.

|author=Hannah PeckThea Lenarduzzi|title=Kate on the CaseThe Tower|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and How unctuous are the author fats of our heroineanother's favourite possessionlife, ''The Special Correspondent Manualhow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. Armed with a plucky father In this compelling novel, that bookThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, and her talking mouse called Rupertthe protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, she the story of a second protagonist is all equipped to manage unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a train ride to wealthy family in the Arctic19th century, to see her scientist mother for the first time who died of tuberculosis after being locked in yonksa tower, captures T's imagination. HoweverAnnie's fate is, above all, this an enticing story to T. It is a train ride with story which she consumes avariciously, both in a difference, quest for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan truth and her catknowledge, a thief – and two glowing eyesin service of myth, shining from the darkness in a blink-fable and-you'll-miss-them stylefantasy. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X1804271799

|author=Darren ShanClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox seriesBig Kiss, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Bye-Bye

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The second trilogy Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in Shananguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, 's 'come over here and kiss me,'Merge'' saga opens with our heroit is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, Archieher ex-partner, back in London a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the world of the Born. Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's not been easysixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, explaining to his foster parents where he's beenher mother, Helena, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends her father are dead in the Mergetheir bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but Archie has done his bestthere's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her 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... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Big BenRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0571365884Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettThe Other Girl

|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed ''We were comfortable: it was born from the sort of life where if she had nothing same body. I've never really wanted to worry think about she would become anxious this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but such occasions were few and far betweenthis raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. On a visit Ernaux writes in direct address to a therapisther sister, as an adulthowever, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with this letter will never reach her it was suggested that she should write it down and . Why? Because Annie Ernaux''My Mess is a Bit s sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a Life: Adventures few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in Anxiety'' is France, and 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the result - or so we are given jarring concept of writing to believean imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845

|author=Alex CotterMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The House on the EdgeReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on Biographies are often seen as the edge form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a cliffvibrant, literallysubjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. Is that crack in In the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to slope a little? And his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as the house seems it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling Whom would it help to copeknow how I see this tower, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in chargesea, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okayor that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Why is he obsessed with Of what he claims use is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened '. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe how he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantlysaw Tolstoy, Chekhov and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onAndreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=17880086261804271977

|isbn=00082690411529077745|title=Risk of HarmThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Lucie WhitehouseAnn Cleeves

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back A man walking his dog in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She might have been reinstated but early morning discovered the whole episode left body of a nasty taste man in her mouththe park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. She The dead man was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey Josh - then one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the man night before but who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforenever turned up. She and D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her fifteenonly clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but thereVera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. He's married find Chloe to discover what happened to Natalie, now and has a young child but he's still got it in for RobinJosh.

|isbn=1786332388B0FK5LHKD9|title=The First Day Colour of SpringMemory|author=Nancy TuckerChristopher Bowden|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and It's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden's stories, there's a mystery at the heart of ''The First Day Colour of SpringMoney'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb We like this running theme in an author's work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and completely compellingatmosphere each time. }}{{Frontpage|author=Olga Tokarczuk|title=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 can one go on calmly living in it?'' The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and wontitle of this spellbinding work, ''t let go. SoHouse of Day, whatHouse of Night''s , somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the problem? Wellshift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the problem constant in that image is Chrissiethe house, stoic against the main characterancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. When we first meet her she's just eight years oldUnfortunately, small for her age and she readily tells us that shehis daughter's just killed someone - defence against a twomurder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire -year-old boy''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. SheThat's completely cold about what she'ordinary people do','' He's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized not been entirely upfront about the state of their savings. ThereWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a clue miscarriage of justice that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?really should put right.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1836284683|title=The Disappearing ActBig Happy|author=David Chadwick

|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Well! This is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are truea murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, award season is going it's nothing like I expected it to treat her wellbe, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed productionand it takes me on a wild ride. SheAnd that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''s going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places heI don's going take him towards lies, deceit and t want to ruin a pretty young thing in similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the form of his new co-starscene. ItOnce that's a good time done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseyourself.|isbn=1471189783

|author= Christophe MedlerSally Rooney|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Set against Sally Rooney has studied the backdrop chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the English Civil Warmany relationships woven into this story, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) the central one for readers to unravel is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. As Ivan, a loyal servant of the Kingsocially awkward chess prodigy, and Head of the Secret Servicecontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, it is Roberta successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's duty to uncover passing after a long battle with cancer, the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ0571365469

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1036916375|title=The Jasmine ThroneJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle

|genre=FantasyAutobiography|summary= On the night ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother memories and refuses to step on to reflections from the pyreyears Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on Some are factual, such as the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled family history of a sea-going family, with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersdocks dominating lives. But now Other stories blend seamlessly into the temple is nothing more than an overgrownwhat-might-have-been. It's a book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, decaying ruin. One dayto think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, Malini witnesses despite the blitz that was a girl kill someone with magicconstant factor in McArdle's early years. Instead I'd never heard of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and begs for could appear after the girl to become her own personal maidservantall-clear was sounded.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BC1836285493|title=The Lies We TellDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Jane CorryRob Keeley|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a council estate in Kent slightly annoying brother and that she had two brothers and two sistersa supportive friend. It seemed to have been a lovingBut most of all, stable familyhe is an aspiring writer. When we first meet herEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteenMarlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't come home gone unnoticed by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in by. Her husbandhis headteacher, TomMrs Howarth, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going and she has suggested to work Will and his mum that he needs his sleep. He wakesspends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, thoughStation Road, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell where his mother that he's killed someoneability might be better extended.

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1009473085|title=True Crime StoryThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary= Joseph KnoxSometimes it's simpler to explain a book 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, known then this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're looking for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceConservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. Split into four parts, It's the reader is taken through seventh book in a series which looks at the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends impact a government has made and professionals, such co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the policemost important. The This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various accounts help fields review the state of the reader get to know Zoe, or at least nation when the Zoe she presented to others. Howevercoalition took over in 2010, the twists changes that occurred and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedsituation in 2024. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaJenny Valentine|title=No, No, No!Us in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=They say the Elk and Mab are best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Averyfriends, or more than that even, their friendship is a Bookbag favouriteonce in a lifetime connection.  They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'No, No, No!'' is based around s contact details at the simplest text imaginabletime. ''No But then chance brings them back together, noand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, no! Okaysomething terrible and tragic, okay. Yesand now they must work through their grief, you may.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture booksand their friendship, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outsidetogether.|isbn=16388204571471196585

|authorisbn=Monica Connell1787333175|title=Against a Peacock SkyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=TravelPopular Science|summary= Monica Connell went I was tempted to Nepal read ''You Don't Have to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is important Going to know that. She went on Hurt}}, a grant-supported tripglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, with a relatively specific objectivehumour and autobiography. She wasn ''You Don't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-laHave to be Mad. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with '' promised the academic discipline of how same elements but moved from physical problems to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in mental illness and the context work of her own paradigms, and how a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of be looking for humour in this setting but the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with laughter is directed at a sense of open-ness and curiosity and situation rather than a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules person and to truly connect it is always delivered with the people of the village where she hauled upempathy and understanding.|isbn=1780600429

|isbnauthor=1409181669Mariana Enriquez|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesA Sunny Place for Shady People

|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Mariana was convinced Enriquez writes horror that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew 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 Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's nieceis disturbingly real, Zoe, had telephoned achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her in distress. Tara had been paranormal plots on gritty realities: her best friend and she was struggling settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridgean urban planning mishap, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana an overcrowded homeless shelter and Zoe were close and had been made a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all the more within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so by plausible that the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizasimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230

|authorisbn=Maisie Chan1529934753|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Protest|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Danny is eleven years oldFor a little while, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comicsit looked as though Sir Max Bruce, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Dannycountry's dadmost famous living artist, however, wants Danny was not going to concentrate on show up for the opening of his mathsretrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, and forget about he arrived in the drawingnick of time, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has complete with his own roomtwo wives and six children, where he can draw in secret and in peaceone of whom filmed what happened. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for himBeing an influencer, and this surprise turns out you tend to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themdo things like that, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on it was fortunate that there was a record of the top bunk of his bunk bed! protest. Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no EnglishLexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitterproceeded to spray Bruce in the face, and showing her around whilst shouting ''Stop the townWar''. Poor DannyIt seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, stuck on a maths project, frustrated but this was different. The can had been laced with his bedroom situationcyanide, and then he even has a falling out with RaviSir Max Bruce was dead...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|author=Terry MilesAriel Saramandi|title=RabbitsPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=Science FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Welcome to the world In this powerful collection of The Game. Or should that be the gameessays, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also 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 Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game sociopolitical fabric of life then. YesMauritius, this is tunneling deep into the game of wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in Saramandi describes the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the gamecountry at one stage as ''rotting'', and have studied amongst many things a blunt yet apt metaphor for the most unique of high score boards, for systemic decay brought about by the lists malignant forces of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerousracism, nay lethalpatriarchy, the most broken it's ever been – morally environmental degradation and otherwisegovernmental dysfunction. Unfortunately for K, Each essay in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safethis collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, he is only to find out that charting the line between observing and learning about various diseases afflicting the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..island state.|isbn=15290169321804271616

|author=C J CareyPekka Harju-Autti|title=WidowlandLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londoneighteenth century, parading around a bit, time of discovery and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wifeBritain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, Queen Wallis. For yesan experienced Scottish sea captain, Britain caved in the lead-up is sent to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''Andaman Islands in his endeavour. But this is most certainly a different BritainAlong with his son, for Nazi-styled phrenologyPeter, and ideas of female purposetheir cat, has put all of that gender into a caste systemMichi, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right they set off on down a perilous voyage to the childless, the husbandless these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And stunning 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 it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, their scenery and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before theyislanders're stamped ready for reprint. That is her jobleader, at leastAarav, until the first emerging signs of female protest come is keen to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitestablish good relations.|isbn=152941198XB0DS1VGHH3

|author=Louise BeechHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=This Is How We Are HumanLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Veronica First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as an autistic 20 year-old, that's easier said than done. And it's starting to cause Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B093VPBL5L|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Bosnerelsewhere, ordisjointed, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnertruncated. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had Like the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner to one and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories lives of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosher characters, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long and he was are often working nights but at the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his dayleft tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675

|author=Hannah WhittenTom Percival|title=For the WolfThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=In RedWill's familylife is difficult, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes in a sacrificemultitude of ways. To Red He is bullied because he has 's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her backwrong shoes', Red knows what to expect: within he has the woods is a wolf, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and he is doesn't have enough money for even the one who will decide the fate most basic of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrificethings like food, the monsters and his dad can't work because he keeps contained to lost his job at the woods will be releasedcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fabled kings fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories gostill has a tiny amount of hope. But when Red enters the woods He is good at art, expecting nothing more than and clings to be killed within the hourmoments of joy when he is drawing, she finds that feel like a light at the legends are lies. The wolf is not end of a monster—he's a manlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=03565163691398527122

|author=M G LeonardSylvie Cathrall|title=TwitchA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Twitch is There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a boy who loves birdscompelling premise. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds And this is easy compared to that one of his time in schoolthem. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run, and it's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millions?|isbn=14063893740356522776

|isbn=18388538041786482126|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, 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 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 problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241400120|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846975719|title=For Any Other Truth Janus Stone (DCI Jim DaleyDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Denzil MeyrickElly Griffiths|rating=34.5

|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to awkward placeshold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But that's London, isn't itWas this a ritual killing or murder? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayHarry Nelson. It soon becomes evident though 's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that both occupants she is pregnant with his child as a result of the plane were dead before take offone night they spent together some three months ago. How could that Her condition will be? The sort obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying publicsickness. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|author=Richard BrookGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Accidentals

|genre=LifestyleShort Stories|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksThis collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one charming in its gentle portrayal of the latternature and human relationships. Not so very long agoGuadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way her stories structured by a wisdom that it does now. I believe it came appears to me not just because I was likely want to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like teach us something about the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowworld.|isbn=18004616821804271470

|isbn=B095CY7NBN0008551375|title=Autumn CampWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Barry FowlerNeil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was to be BrianLeanne Wilson's last camp. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he body was leaving school and found at the time had come to hand bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the reins to someone elseresult of a tragic accident. The obvious person was Gary, whoShe'd always been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observeFacebook. The problem with this Her friends were relieved as she was that Gary wasn't really just out of an organiserunpleasant relationship, an administrator if you but it looked likeshe was living her best life now. He was the entertainer, the person who basked Then it emerged that five other women had died in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped similar circumstances in and did the organisinglast year. He handed the camp over - All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and then took it backsensible people. And Gary determined None of the 'what a stupid thing to have his revengedo' explanations applied. This should have been They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there''his'' camps a killer on the loose.