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|isbnauthor=0008441618Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellThe Disappearing Act|rating=54|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the new head town of West Burntridge First School: if F for a literary festival she didn't live up is to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the townguest speaker at. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association Detoured by erratic train schedules and the funds which they raised were nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a considerable benefit to the schooltraveling circus. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two membersSwept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in particular, causing problems for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the headshow. Laura Spence The train functions as a motif of transience and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on impermanence, while the circus embodies the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationlies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=1804272329

|authorisbn=Sarah Ann JuckesB0GFQ81YQK|title=The Hunt for How the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the NightingaleOral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Jasper is a little boy who has some struggles, Before people came and whilst we're never told why exactlyjoined the animals, we can see that he has anxiety there was only the sky and panic attacks, the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsthe sky began to tal to each other. His big sisterFirst, Rosiethe earth created bodies. And then, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things the sky breathed life into them. These were difficult, encouraging him, the first humans and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared they belonged to help him calm downboth earth and sky. His parents seem completely caught up in their businessAnd so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away especially how they came to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she wouldWhen they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak their life returned to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're sayingthe sky. Nothing seems to be right, And that is why the earth and the only way he feels he sky are both revered. Only together can find any peace they create human beings. And that is if he can find Rosiewhy people must pay attention to, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its songcare for, as they do together every Springboth.|isbn=1398510890

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)B0GHPMNF6P|title=Red is My HeartThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Fantasy|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my houseWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the running of the family's farm zoo. And so was this oneHe's not expecting much excitement, although I could have spelled until he receives an unidentified egg that more accurately – this one washis new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, and suddenly life is, black and white and redno longer quite what it seems. YesThen the egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a dragon! Now he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, Edgar, his mother Abi, and I think itthe zoo's possible part-time café waitress Pearl have to say raise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasbeing able to tell anyone about it.|isbn=1913547183But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…

|isbnauthor=1529135567Stephanie Zabriskie|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=It's five years since 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the stag weekend. Five oral traditions of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Neil and JoshTanzania. '' The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really Maasai are a cattle- herding people and in the night Scot managed this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to wander offbe so. The remaining four searched for him in vain Cattle are status and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced wealth in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didnMaasai culture but this doesn't come tell the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign whole story of Tim. Every yearthe intimate and symbiotic connection its people, Tim's father, Martinand especially its women, have with their cows and for the four friends natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timhad with their cows, does.|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J

|author=Gunnar StaalesenLivi Michael|title=Bitter FlowersElizabeth and Ruth

|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=Varg Veum ''Elizabeth and Ruth'' is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. Howeverof historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a radical critique of the quiet job hetreatment of the working class published under a pseudonym. The ''Ruth's supposedly taken on caretaking someone' from Livi Michael's house quickly turns into a murder investigationtitle appears in her novel as Pasley, and a mystery around young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a missing woman. Varg child and finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night herself in Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a difficult and was never foundunjust hand at life. SomehowSet in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and how can Varg possibly unravel interrogates the truth?extent to which the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=191319308X1784633682

|author=Kia AhankoobMakenna Goodman|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament Helen of SentinelsNowhere|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in It could be argued that the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power pervading theme of this book is contained within malaise - a magical ring belonging hard-to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children and their descendants. But it didn't -place feeling that something in your life is not quite work out like thatright. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of them losing both his career and the eight countries went to warhis relationship, embodies this feeling. Having fought themselves into an endless However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and ruinous stalemate unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and finding the cost of war too high, a solution protagonist is proposedindirect yet intimate. Each As the former owner of the eight countries will send their greatest warriorscountryside house he's considering, known as sentinelsHelen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to a single combat tournamenthis potential fresh start. The winner will take possession of all realtor who shows the rings and become protagonist around the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV}}{{Frontpage|author=Alastair Chisholm house shares stories about Helen, and Eric Deschamps|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and Ironskin|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with his father in the blacksmithdescribes her as 's forge, he's almost of the age to become a full apprentice, and help with the new batch of dragonswords an entity that is certainly needed. Not that there are any dragonspure consciousness, of course – they vanished centuries agobeyond form''. Except... Strange signals from within the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite to become Although she lives in an apprentice clerk insteadassisted living facility now, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in reader gets the ability to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them..sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=18399400261804272205

|isbn=1529346541B0GCB1MQ7D|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Elizabeth GeorgeAlan Kennedy

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. With 'celebrities', there's frequently a book they might or might not have written, which might or might not tell the true story. It's late July and Deborah St James is at not often that you find a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for book that gives the school systemfull backstory, and rarely do you discover a representative from memoir where the NHS, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didntelling is so perfect that you't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi ll go back and reread paragraphs and Narissa Cameronsentences, a filmmakerjust for the pleasure the words give. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London VoicesWhy My Mother Went Away'': the meeting is an exploration one of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesthose rare exceptions. DeborahIt's uncertain about quite the story of how successful she could be as a boy from the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting Midlands, born at the beginning of the Second World War, would become a Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, he was one of the trust founders of the people she speaks to and photographsdepartment.

|isbnauthor=B09Q3P283YJeremy Cooper|title=Shadebringer|author=Grayson W HooperDiscord|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the US Army during novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the Vietnam Warnovel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. He's not really that invested in the fight against CommunismRebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to retirement, nor while Evie is he particularly interested in a career in force of nature, bounding onto the militarymusical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. If he's honest - which Clyde usually isThe two, predictably, with himself at least - he hasndon't got many choices always see eye to eye, their approaches different and this one, Evie's progressive views at least, gets him out of the rut heodds with Rebekah's inconservative leaning. He's good in training and is quickly put onto However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfsort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264

|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyTom Percival|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondWrong Shoes|rating=4.5

|summary=There Will's life is no mermaid difficult, in the millponda multitude of ways. That at least He is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all bullied because he has 'the other kidswrong shoes', who he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have had their entire childhoods sold to enough money for even the mill-owners by most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in college, was working a handcash-toin-mouth, every man for himself kind of existencehand job on a building site and had an accident. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in Throw into that mix the slight little Dotfact that his mum and dad are separated, and despite everything that Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer tiny amount of companionship in the tired-out mill workershope. But surely that doesn't mean there He is any truth in good at art, and clings to the existence moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the mermaid?end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=180090049X1398527122

|isbnauthor=1785633074Edward W Said|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryRepresentations of the Intellectual

|genre=HumourPolitics and Society|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the Edward Said's 'primus inter pares'Representations of the Intellectual' (that's for those is less a strict theory of you who what intellectuals are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentmore a passionate argument for what they should be. We are in Said clearly rejects the privileged position comfortable image of having access the intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to other specialists. Instead, he insists on the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisintellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and unpopular, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man speaks truth to watchpower even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248

|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4Sylvie Cathrall|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithLetter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received There are few greater joys than a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''and'' the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - but, unfortunately, not the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous book which was how he came lives up to be in a race with Turtlecompelling premise. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how it came aboutAnd this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1786482126|title=Walking on SunshineThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury's wife, Pia, who he apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was with for seventeen yearsno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, has died. And whilst he is dealing Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and ZazaDCI Harry Nelson. But Pia left them all some It'ruless difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' to followt, knowing that she was dying and that is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they would need help to carry on livingspent together some three months ago. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe Her condition will be obvious before long, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him not least because Ruth is prone to take one sudden bouts of their trips away, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, and go along with himsickness.|isbn=140593560X

|isbn=15293939300008551375|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Sophie RochesterNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=Leanne Wilson''Starting s body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a creative business has never been easiertragic accident. She'' ''If not nowd looked so happy, too, when?'' I know she posted her intentions on Facebook. 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 I'm not alone five other women had died in similar circumstances in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businessthe last year. There's a lot of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and there are a lot of sensible people who have been delighted to accept what I make as gifts. Selling would offset None of the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun 'what a stupid thing to do, couldn't it? explanations applied. But where to start? What do I need to think about? Well, the first thing anyone who They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read certain there''Making s a Living''killer on the loose.

|author=Freya MarskePaul B Preciado|title=A Marvellous LightDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Robin Blyth ''It is nudged into a job in never too late to embrace the Civil Servicerevolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, much to letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey own hybrid self, and learns that brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the streets new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of London are threaded with magicpolitical apathy. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow himRather, it is the proportional, Robin follows Edwin valid response to ''the countrysideepistemological and political crack we are living through, where and the hedgegrows bristle with incantations tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the people shimmer with powerbackdrop 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''. There they uncover Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sinister plot that threatens the lives sign of all magicians in the British Islesweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn=15290808861804271454

|isbnauthor=0241480442Samantha Harvey|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienOrbital

|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=EmotionallyIn 2024, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by Samantha Harvey won the way in which we treat animals in our search Booker Prize for (preferably cheap) food. Practically''Orbital'', I am not a vegan. It worked for compact yet profound work that unfolds over a while apart from single day in the odd blip with regard to cheese but then lives of a perfect storm group of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinastronauts aboard the International Space Station. It wasn't the taste - I know Through a narrative lens that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from mirrors the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched see our planet in a few spare momentswholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=suppl_stafl295967572X|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversPale Pieces|author=Kim StaflundG M Stevens|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceLiterary Fiction|summary=So, you've finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now Our unnamed narrator is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted about to - and you had begin a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to fronttrain journey with his companion Django. Now youWhere they're going to have to get to grips with and what the book supply chainpurpose of this journey is, which even parts of is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the publishing industry believe to be wrong but itfloor somewhere''s too difficult to change and no one wants has persuaded our narrator to be accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the first past as the pair travel to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''station by coach and the train is'' going to be down to youa steam locomotive.

|isbn=13987069060008551324|title=The LostDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Simon BeckettNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyIt's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself unusual for what had happenedanyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. He'd fallen asleep Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in the park whilst Theo was playing prison and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and his homewho was responsible for her death. Ten years later This person, he's largely come through promises, is someone big and it and will be worth the police doing what he's out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinneywants. Gavin used And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his best friend but sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's a long time since they've spoken. Het think so and she's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he asks Jonah to meet anyone who works with him at Slaughter Quay. ''Thereis kept well away from what's no one else I can trust'', he sayshappening.

|authorisbn=Amanda Mason1035043092|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{FrontpageKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleAnn Cleeves

|summary= I am not a fan of "can't have been the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start with Luca Pittman who is in a hurrynew life on Orkney. He has to hurry because It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he has children that he should not have's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and when he hurriesshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when he bundles things into the back body of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind hima popular islander, Archie Stout, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things therefound, he takes in the aftermath of a riskstorm, she can't resist getting involved. It ends badly He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|isbn=1913193942

|author=Will CarverThea Lenarduzzi|title=Psychopaths AnonymousThe Tower|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, drinking continuously and alsohow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, curiouslyThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsthe protagonist of this tale. She Just as T's story is also being told, the story of a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the AA steps she is mainly using daughter of a wealthy family in the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters19th century, targets to feed her desire to hear who died of peopletuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's miseryimagination. Annie's fate is, and targets for her violent behaviourabove all, an enticing story to T. Yet It is a story which she also seems to be searching consumes avariciously, both in a quest for others who think as she doestruth and knowledge, and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any service of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessionsmyth, fable and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornfantasy. |isbn=19131937561804271799

|isbnauthor=1529418100Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=I'm not Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a fan symbol of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories intimacy and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan closeness, becomes evidence of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so love lost. When the temptation to read narrator cries out internally, ''Brunocome over here and kiss me,'s Challenge'' was hard it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryconfirm her emotional numbness. For those new to the seriesThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need a ghost she conjures to know about who's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denistest her detachment.|isbn=1804271934

|isbn=B09GJW49GF0008405026|title=Buried Lies A Stranger in the Family (Gaby Darin Book 5Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jenny O'BrienJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=Hannah Thomas was having It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her first bed one summer night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes She was never found and this was controlled by the investigation ground to a pump attached to his stomachhalt. Now, so her over-protectiveness was understandablemother, but her fianceHelena, Ian, was pestering and her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likefather are dead in their bed. Her friendInitially, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night in it looks like a posh hotel straightforward murder/suicide but then he dumped her and she couldnthere't get s something about the money back, so Hannah was offered positioning of the opportunity to go in his placebodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She would return home What looked as though it was going to find Ian dead be an open-and five-year-old Hunter missingshut case is now a complex 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=B09GV3WS1QAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyThe Other Girl

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Life hadn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a divorce few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and right now it 2 years before the author was raining hardeven born. All she wanted was to get back The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her new home life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and settle down for Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the 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 quiet eveningvibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. It wasnIn the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: 't going 'you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with a knife in his chest. SheWhom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''d no idea who . Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he wassaw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977

|isbn=18387748231529077745|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=S J BennettAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on A man walking his waistband. Swimming, he decides, is the way to go and he can use dog in the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came to be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at a man in the side of the poolpark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. There The dead man was broken glass Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a crystal tumbler, by shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the look at it murder - probably but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the young royals being careless residents, fourteen-year- and old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly clear that she had bled outadored Josh. Still, it was a shock for Sir SimonShe knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|isbnauthor=057136358XOlga Tokarczuk|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleHouse of Day, House of Night

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think 'What's the good of himself a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in those terms. He saw what he did as it?''a matter  The title of making things tidythis spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'. I couldn't resist , somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his jobsmall, something subtle changes which occurred to him when he was in Burma with the army ''where he got govern our lives, like the chance shift from day to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''night, however quotidian, causing chaos. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know But, the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles constant in that image is the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw house, stoic against the benefits of taking up a job in Spainancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918

|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1836284683|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyDystopian Fiction|summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence to kick off Well! This is a review of his memoir? Do you know, I really don't think I can.murder mystery unlike any other!

 Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker I do love it when I open a book, it's nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a professional horsemanwild ride. And that is just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a recovering alcoholic. The son similar experience for any of a Lutheran minister, heyou reading but I's struggled with a controlling father, run away ll have to join at least set the circus (not a metaphor)scene. Once that's done, trained horses, painted caravans, designed and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when the bottle took overI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn=B0965V3LLN

|author=Tade ThompsonSally Rooney|title=Far From the Light of HeavenIntermezzo

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is fulfilling gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her lifelong dream of going to spacecharacters never quite say exactly what they feel. As first officer aboard Among the sleeper ship Ragtimemany relationships woven into this story, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter central one for readers to unravel is the ship's AI captainfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. HoweverIvan, when she wakes up at the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtime's AI almost non-responsivea socially awkward chess prodigy, she begins to realise that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodrootcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimea successful lawyer living in Dublin. Meanwhile, former astronaut and friend of ShellFollowing their father's father Lawrence Biz takes passing after a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quietlong battle with cancer, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=03565143230571365469

|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!|rating= 45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Lily loves eating fruit Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and vegetablesa supportive friend. She likes carrotsBut most of all, broccoli, cabbage and aubergineshe is an aspiring writer. When her friends English is his favourite lesson at his school turn up their noses, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you Marlowe Park, and how nice to eatone at which he excels. One day, poor Lily gets tricked This hasn't gone unnoticed by Jordanhis headteacher, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. InfuriatedMrs Howarth, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetables, like carrots, grow in the ground. Jordan says, "I did try she has suggested to tell her, Miss!" Will and everyone laughs his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at poor Lilya different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbn=178607981X1009473085|title=Bad ApplesThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Will DeanAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Sometimes it's simpler to explain a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the roadbook by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the car - and heard the screams from deep inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the forestbook for you. Determining the direction of a sound isnIf that's what you're looking for, I don't easy when you need hearing aids think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manpolitics. He'd been decapitated'The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. He was Arne Gustav Persson, It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a resident series of Visbergexperts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.

|author=Lilja SigurdadottirJenny Valentine|title=Cold As HellUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary= In Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a red suitcase lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the bottom of a fissure in a lava fieldtime. But then chance brings them back together, there is a bodyand they are inseparable. And the man who Something has put her there has just discovered that he is capable of killinghappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=19131938881471196585

|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1787333175|title=FledglingYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=BavariaI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the decadesNHS, humour and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods belowautobiography. It 's an eccentric house, 'You Don't Have to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as webe Mad...''d know it, promised the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby work of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of be looking for humour in this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh setting but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day the laughter is directed at a cherub. And if you think such situation rather than a heavenly arrival person and it is going to be a completely great always delivered with empathy and wonderful thing, think againunderstanding...|isbn=183994188X