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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}}

|isbnauthor=B07GZ81J7CSamantha Harvey|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter CottonOrbital

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Fred. WellIn 2024, actually, youSamantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''re going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But IOrbital'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you , a bit more about Fred. Fred is compact yet profound work that unfolds over a snake and even those single day in the lives of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himgroup of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. He arrived as Through a present in a box with holes so narrative lens that he could breathe and immediately became part of mirrors the familyastronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for see our planet in a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakeswholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova295967572X|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens|rating=45|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isnOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they'tre going and what the purpose of this journey is, as any parent will tell youis uncertain. But really, why shouldnDjango found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere''t it be? We all have to learn about and has persuaded our bodily functions just as we have narrator to learn about everything accompany him. Why not? Not much else when is clear either - but we are small. Why shouldn't potty training be probably in the past as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun pair travel to the station by coach and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHtrain is a steam locomotive.

|isbn=17876344930008551324|title=All Her FaultThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Andrea MaraNeil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that 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 opportunity would arise body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her sondeath. This person, Milohe promises, to go on a play dateis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. She was concerned that And what he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in wants is to be transferred to an affluent Dublin suburb with open prison to serve the remainder of his classmate Jacob - sentence and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterto get an early parole date. What could be betterNot much to ask, is it? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet JacobThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's mother, Jenny, even prepared to do the door was answered by Esther, other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jennyworks with him is kept well away from what's nannyhappening.

|author=Claire NorthJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Notes from the Burning AgeVaim

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning AgeAll was strange'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with .. This haunting phrase encapsulates the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that pervading sense of a new and timely genre, cli-fiotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelsEline, weapons two of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=03565147571804271829

|authorisbn=1035043092|title=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb The Killing Stones (translatorJimmy Perez)|titleauthor=Girls Who LieAnn Cleeves|rating=35|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland I can't have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on been the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityperson who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, that this author is clutching at the few final straws Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|leftShetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelIt's been seven years since we heard from him, itbut he's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple daughter of delighted adoptershis former partner. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanWillow's car was found miles away in a second placealso his boss, and now, after six monthsshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body has been discovered, in of a thirdpopular islander, even more remote place. MeanwhileArchie Stout, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodythe aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. Is He'd been battered about the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right head with a Neolithic stone - one?|isbn=191319373Xof a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor=B0925KS87NThea Lenarduzzi|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterThe Tower|rating=45|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find ''How unctuous are the grave - and it took some finding - fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in an overgrown old cemeteryour bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. It was a strange thing for ScotlandJust as T's premier criminal to dostory is being told, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to do. Onlythe story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, his the daughter of a wealthy family didn't hear from him again in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after hebeing locked in a tower, captures T'd said that hes imagination. Annie'd found the grave - the one s fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which said that it shouldn't be opened - she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and his three sons began to worry. Tam Juniorknowledge, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been in service of myth, fable and they were worriedfantasy. |isbn=1804271799

|author=Emily CritchleyClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plotBig Kiss, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursBye-Bye

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= If you're of a certain vintageEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, thoughkiss, Arlo and Gertie live usually a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one symbol of 18 households on the crescentintimacy and closeness, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierbecomes evidence of love lost. They're not quite like all When the other families (he's an ex rockernarrator cries out internally, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends come over here and their kids have settled inkiss me, and it's all going ok. Until ' it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, is less an invitation than a sinkhole opens up in the park across the waydesperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. It's a revolting mess The imagined recipient of dirt and chaosthis plea is Xavier, but for the residents of Maple Streether ex-partner, the worst is yet a ghost she conjures to cometest her detachment.|isbn=17890982111804271934

|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson0008405026|title=The Small ThingsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family donIt't have enough money to let s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her do after school activities, bed one summer night. She was never found and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison the investigation ground to theirsa halt. When a new girl joins her class Now, Anna is asked to partner hermother, but things are complicated because the new girlHelena, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school her father are dead in persontheir bed. Instead Initially, she joins in with the class by using it looks like a robot. Can Anna overcome straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the challenge positioning of making friends with someone through a robot, the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and is she even interesting enough her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbnauthor=0008350388Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha UwagbaThe Other Girl|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts..We were born from the same body.I'' ''We Need ve never really wanted to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanthink about this.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021

Otegha Uwagba came to Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the UK from Kenya when she was five years oldmost intimate accounts I've read. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was Ernaux writes in direct address to her mother who came firstsister, however, with this letter will never reach her father joining them later. The family Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was hard-workingmade compulsory in France, principled and determined that their children would have 2 years before the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it author was simply carefully harvestedeven born. When Otegha was ten The large and instant void created by the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship jarring concept of writing to a private school an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in London and then a place at New Collegeher life, Oxfordan absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845

|isbnauthor=1787631869Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the aftermath. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with BillieReminiscences of Tolstoy, Lucy's daughter Chekhov and Fin, the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Peck|title=Kate on the CaseAndreyev

|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=Meet Kate, although I got Biographies are often seen as the impression she'd rather form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be a Catherine – seen as more objective and one specific Catherine at less personal. I think that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolGorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the author first section of our heroine's favourite possessionthis book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''The Special Correspondent Manual''you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. Armed with a plucky fatherWhom would it help to know how I see this tower, that booksea, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksit?''. HoweverWell, this is Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a train ride with a differencesubjective account, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catgiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, a thief – Chekhov and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness Andreyev in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=184812970X1804271977

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529077745|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy A man walking his dog in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London the early morning discovered the body of a man in the world park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the Borncare workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. It's not been easy, explaining D I Vera Stanhope is called in to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the Mergeresidents, but Archie has done his bestfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer.... well, except Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benthe death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's clock tower and except for fiddling with diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayshe has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbn=0571365884B0FK5LHKD9|title=My Mess is a Bit The Colour of Life: Adventures in AnxietyMemory|author=Georgia PritchettChristopher Bowden

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always It's been anxiousthree years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, even as so we were very glad to see a childnew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. She would worry about whether Like all Bowden's stories, there's a mystery at the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort heart of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. On a visit to a therapist, as an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit The Colour of a Life: Adventures Money''. We like this running theme in Anxiety'an author' is the result s work - or so we are given to believetake a mystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.

|author=Alex CotterOlga 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 title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House on 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 Edgeancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley

|summary=Ex-DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She might have Andy Flood has been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was Private Investigator for some time now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before, and he should be doing quite well financially. She and her fifteen-year-old Unfortunately, his daughter have moved out of her parent's home into defence against a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has gone out of his way been trying to persuade him to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's married not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to Natalietake his case, now and has it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a young child but miscarriage of justice that he's still got it in for Robinreally should put right.

|isbn=17863323881836284683|title=The First Day of SpringBig Happy|author=Nancy TuckerDavid Chadwick

|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=Sometimes Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I wonder if open a book, it's nothing like I take my pleasures too sadly - expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The First Day of SpringBig Happy'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and wonI don't let go. So, whatwant to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, ll have to at least set the main characterscene. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us Once that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She'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 a clue 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 I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for long enough?yourself.

|author=Catherine SteadmanSally Rooney|title=The Disappearing ActIntermezzo

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary= British actress Mia Eliot Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is on the cusp something of successa grandmaster at putting it into words. Great successHer dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. If Among the rumours are truemany relationships woven into this story, award season the central one for readers to unravel is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed productionthe fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. She's going places but soIvan, unfortunatelya socially awkward chess prodigy, is her partner. And the places he's going take him towards liescontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, deceit and a pretty young thing successful lawyer living in the form of his new co-starDublin. ItFollowing their father's passing after a good time for Mia to escapelong battle with cancer, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusebrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=14711897830571365469

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler1036916375|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle

|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary= Set against the backdrop ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the English Civil Waryears Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a secret plan (codesea-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in going family, with the summer of 1642docks dominating lives. As a loyal servant of Other stories blend seamlessly into the King, and Head of the Secret Service, it is Robertwhat-might-have-been. It's duty a book to uncover the details of the plan settle into and follow the clues allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to uncover one think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the most guarded secrets blitz that was a constant factor in history—especially since the plot McArdle's early years. I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could affect appear after the Kingall-clear was sounded.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1836285493|title=The Jasmine ThroneDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=45|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= On the night Will is a keen player of her sacred burningvideo games, Princess Malini defies her a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and refuses to step on to the pyrea supportive friend. She But most of all, he is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersaspiring writer. But now the temple English is nothing more than an overgrownhis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, decaying ruinand one at which he excels. One dayThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Malini witnesses Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a girl kill someone with magic. Instead couple of reporting her for such afternoons a week at a gruesome crimedifferent school, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantStation Road, where his ability might be better extended.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BC1009473085|title=The Lies We TellConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Jane CorryAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on Sometimes it's simpler to explain a council estate in Kent book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that she had two brothers and two sistersapplies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. It seemed to have been a lovingIf you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, stable familythen this isn't the book for you. When we first meet herIf that's what you're looking for, she canI don't sleep because her sonthink Anthony Seldon's book, Freddie{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone whothinks Johnson should return to politics. 's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised heThe Conservative Effect''d be in byis an entirely different beast. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: theyIt're moving house s the seventh book in a series which looks at the morning but he's still going to be going to work impact a government has made and he needs his sleepco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. He wakes, though, This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when Freddie does come the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonethe situation in 2024.

|author=Joseph KnoxJenny Valentine|title=True Crime StoryUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= Joseph KnoxElk and Mab are best friends, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsor more than that even, has created their friendship is a once in a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"lifetime connection. The story follows They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residencetime. Split into four parts But then chance brings them back together, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sisterthey are inseparable. Something has happened though, other familysomething terrible and tragic, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoenow they must work through their grief, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shockedtheir friendship, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedtogether. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=08575277031471196585

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1787333175|title=No, No, No!You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=For SharingPopular Science|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. Mad to Work Here''No, No, No!'after enjoying Adam Kay' s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is based around Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the simplest text imaginableNHS, humour and autobiography.  ''You Don'No, no, no! Okay, okayt Have to be Mad.. Yes, you may.'' That's promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it! But, like all was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text laughter is directed at a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that situation rather than a person and it appears on the outsideis always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1638820457

|author=Monica ConnellMariana Enriquez|title=Against a Peacock SkyA Sunny Place for Shady People

|genre=TravelShort Stories|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went paranormal plots on a grant-supported trip, with 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 gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how disused refrigerators due to find these things outan urban planning mishap, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes an overcrowded homeless shelter and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of opencrime-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muckridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine -in, to break all within Argentina. The circumstances of her own rules and to truly connect with characters are so plausible that the people of the village where she hauled upsupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|isbn=17806004291803511230

|isbn=14091816691529934753|title=The MaidensProtest|author=Alex MichaelidesRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=Mariana For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his two murders wives and looked likely to get away with them bothsix children, one of whom filmed what happened. She needed Being an influencer, you tend to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeprotest. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's nieceLexi Williams, Zoean intern at the RA, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and she was struggling proceeded to cope. Mariana wasnspray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting 't 'Stop the War'entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of Mariana's husbandblue-face' attacks, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierbut this was different. Zoe The can had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother laced with cyanide, and Mariana's sister, ElizaSir Max Bruce was dead.

|author=Maisie ChanAriel Saramandi|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Danny is eleven years oldIn this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and what he really, really loves slavery to do is drawexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds Saramandi describes the words. Dannycountry at one stage as ''rotting''s dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the drawingmalignant forces of racism, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own roompatriarchy, where he can draw in secret environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have this collection serves as a surprise for himkind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Pekka Harju-Autti|title=LoveVortex and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Dannythe Drakor's Curse|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk eighteenth century, a time of his bunk bed! Danny discovery and Britain is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishexpanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitteran experienced Scottish sea captain, and showing her around is sent to the townAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated Along with his bedroom situationson, Peter, and then he even has their cat, Michi, they set off on a falling out with Raviperilous voyage to these faraway lands.The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations..how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001XB0DS1VGHH3

|author=Terry MilesHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=RabbitsLili is Crying

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Welcome to First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the world hearts of The Gameits readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Or should that be Like the gamelives of her characters, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookthey are often left tragically incomplete. It|isbn=1804271675}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's also called Rabbitslife is difficult, although only as in a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game multitude of life thenways. Yes, this He is bullied because he has 'the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracywrong shoes', he has the computer game, wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the hack from the darkest most basic of webs. People things like our herofood, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of dad can't work because he lost his job at the gamecollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and have studied amongst many things had an accident. Throw into that mix the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game fact that his mum and dad are in the most peculiar placesseparated, and are still very short. However this time itWill's differentlife seems bleak in every direction. This time the game seems the most dangerous And yet, nay lethalhe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying clings to sort out what the game moments of joy when he is doingdrawing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that feel like a light at the line between observing and learning about the gameend of a long, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..dark tunnel.|isbn=15290169321398527122

|author=C J CareySylvie Cathrall|title=WidowlandA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|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 London, parading around There are few greater joys than a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-book which lives up 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''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into 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 discouragedcompelling premise. 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 it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, 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 one of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitthem.|isbn=152941198X0356522776

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1786482126|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to her son, Sebastian hold seventy- but she canfive 'luxury't give him everything he wantsapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Sebastian has decided that it It's time for him to have sex. But difficult as an autistic 20 year-oldRuth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that's easier said than doneshe is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. And it's starting Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to cause them both problemssudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickThe Accidentals|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=Meet BosnerThis collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. He's simply Bosner to one magical elements and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories charming in its gentle portrayal of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishmentnature and human relationships. The hours could be long Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and he was often working nights but at the age of twenty-oneprecisely, there was always her stories structured by a way wisdom that appears to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daywant to teach us something about the world.|isbn=1804271470

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten0008551375|title=For the WolfWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=In RedLeanne Wilson's family, body was found at the first daughter becomes queenbottom of a Scottish mountain, and seemingly the second daughter becomes result of a sacrificetragic accident. To Red She's misfortuned looked so happy, too, when she is the second daughterposted her intentions on Facebook. Sent alone into the woods with nothing Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the cape on her backlast year. All were experienced climbers, Red knows properly equipped for what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, they were doing and he is sensible people. None of the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not 'what a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained stupid thing to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories godo' explanations applied. But They were all alone when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf they died: DS Max Craigie is not a monster—hecertain there's a mankiller on the loose.|isbn=0356516369