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|isbn=15290955221806344777|title=The InterviewArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's Able Adventures|author=C M EwanRob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge CommunicationsArthur dreams of adventures. It's the last interview He looks out of the his window each day at one and thinks of London's newest office buildings all the escapades he could have, the places he could go and Edge have fitted out their part of the building to be something specialthings he could see. Maggie, KateHis favourite day is Saturday because that's recruitment agent, is keen to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state day his friend Maxine - she of mind: Kate assumes that this the booming laugh and silver bangles - comes to visit. Maxine is because Maggie will get a decent bonus if Kate gets great believer in the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlypower of imagination.

|isbn=B097XNMCRK1035043092|title=The Blood Tide Killing Stones (DS Max CraigieJimmy Perez)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Cleeves|rating=45

|summary=Loch Torridon I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It'is's been seven years since we heard from him, but he' s now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the back daughter of beyond: therehis former partner. Willow's not even any light pollution which is why it was also his boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the perfect place to land illegal deliveries body of drugs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerpopular islander, only to find that MaccaArchie Stout, is found, in the man he thought he was working withaftermath of a storm, is deadshe can't resist getting involved. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As He'd been battered about the story progresses we'll get to know them quite wellhead with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor= B09NDJ77LMPolly Barton|title=Me and My Shadow|author=Deborah StoneWhat Am I, A Deer?

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Polly Barton''What happens when someone s debut novel is pushed too far an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and they begin governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from London to Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a new audience. Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. From this, the novel opens out into a wider, resonant question: to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one what extent do we translate ourselves in order to be understood, accepted, or loved you? And |isbn=1804272175}}{{Frontpage|isbn= Zabriskie1|title=A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how far would you go children learn, sense , or process the world were not treated as disorders to be happy? Accompany Rachel corrected. They were understood as she tries to shake off the shadows natural variations of her past human intelligence and attempts to repair decades worth of painawareness, each holding value within the community.''

Rachel This lovely story is in a current conversation with her psychiatristsynthesis of that tradition, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardswhich was carried down through generations by oral retellings. But Rachel It shows that a community or society is combative not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with Doctor Blakedifferent skills and different personalities, sometimes even contemptuous of her. You can see all contributing to a whole that it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachel's recall combines them all and to the benefit of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving claritythem all.

|isbn=15294096591787333175|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Elly GriffithsBenji Waterhouse

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=It I was some time since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen tempted to read ''You Don't Have to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered be Mad to clear out her motherWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's belongings. She was intrigued by first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the discovery workings of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographthe NHS, taken in misty conditions humour and on the back it said autobiography. ''dawn 1963You Don', some years before Ruth was bornt Have to be Mad.. It was before her parents were married. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to find out what was behind '' promised the photograph same elements but Covid intervened moved from physical problems to mental illness and the country was in lockdownwork of a psychiatrist. Ruth and Kate are restricted I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the cottage laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with Ruth attempting to home school Kate empathy and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=1847941834Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Disappearing Act|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=IDespite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova've said s message in this before but there are some books that you seek outshort work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the town of F for a literary festival she is to be a guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. The train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, some books that you stumble across while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and some books that drop a retreat into your life because you really MUST read themfantasy, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in an impulse that lies at the very heart of the last categorynovel form itself.|isbn=1804272329

|isbn=B09MSC981WB0GFQ81YQK|title=The Woke IliadHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=George BoreasStephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=General Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Helen is a popular activistBefore people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to each other. First, the earth created bodies. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? AnywayAnd then, Helen is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokesky breathed life into them. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of These were the governmentfirst humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, including especially how they came to be. When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the Shaming Conference earth and their life returned to the sky. And that is why the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people must pay attention to, and legislating against summer fun care for any who still knew how to have it'', both. Ouch!

|isbn=B09D95TRKZB0GHPMNF6P|title=The Wedding MurdersZookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Sarah LinleyCarolyn Mathews

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Libby Steele was hoping When Phil's father unexpectedly dies, he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to get a permanent job with take over the newspaper and running of the case she was covering was her big chancefamily's farm zoo. It was even more important to her than the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her exHe's not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-rock star boyfriendage stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, Matthewand suddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. She was leaving her seven-year-old sonThen the egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, Patrick with her sisterbut a dragon! Now he, EmmaEdgar, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroydhis mother Abi, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'zoo' as highs part-profile as had been suggested as there was time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no ban on photos or phonesidea how to actually raise dragons and not being able to tell anyone about it.But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…

|isbnauthor=1838226834Stephanie Zabriskie|title=Carried Away With How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallOral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating=45|genre=For SharingChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there 'How Maasai Women Spoke to undo all Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the good that parents dooral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, so the trips out were always so much funTanzania. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:''

''It'll The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be brilliant, just remember, donso. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't let go tell the whole story of my handthe intimate and symbiotic connection its people, and especially its women, have with their cows and for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the many conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, does.''|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J

|isbnauthor=1529135362Livi Michael|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanElizabeth and Ruth|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersHistorical Fiction|summary=It was ''Elizabeth and Ruth'' is a long drive to work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the weekend retreat in NorthumbriaVictorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - best known for one reason or another - had to delay making her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a radical critique of the trip until treatment of the Saturday morningworking class published under a pseudonym. Jane and The ''Ruth had known each other for '' from Livi Michael's title appears in her novel as Pasley, a long time but Emily young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a bit of an outsiderchild and finds herself in Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at life. She Set in Manchester between 1839 and Paul had married only relatively recently 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of interrogates the group went back extent to school days. Paul had coached rugby at which the school where Mark, Toby and Rob wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Well, Rob's deadresponsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=1784633682

|isbnauthor=gareth_steelMakenna Goodman|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelHelen of Nowhere|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeLiterary Fiction|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to It could be appropriate. Stories argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a vet's hard-to-place feeling that something in your life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the companion volume you've been looking forbrink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. As However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismforce which is seductive, as do other similar programmesradical and unnerving: Helen. Gareth Steel says that The connection between Helen and the book protagonist is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with himindirect yet intimate. He says that As the former owner of the countryside house he's written it considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to inform his potential fresh start. The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and provoke thoughtdescribes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, particularly amongst aspiring vetsbeyond form''. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivityAlthough she lives in an assisted living facility now, although there Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingnot altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205

|isbn=1787634884B0GCB1MQ7D|title=The HerdWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Emily EdwardsAlan Kennedy

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=Our story opens in December 2019I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. With 'celebrities', before most of us had even heard of Covid there's frequently a book they might or realised that whether might not have written, which might or might not we should be vaccinated would come to be a major issuetell the true story. WeIt're in Farley County Courts not often that you find a book that gives the full backstory, and rarely do you discover a memoir where Elizabeth the telling is so perfect that you'll go back and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony reread paragraphs and Ash Kohlisentences, just for the pleasure the words give. As they were best friends until just ''Why My Mother Went Away'' is one of those rare exceptions. It's the story of how a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major and thatboy from the Midlands, regardless born at the beginning of the outcomeSecond World War, this is not going to work out well for anyonewould become a Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, he was one of the founders of the department.

|author=Annabel AbbsJeremy Cooper|title=The Language of FoodDiscord|rating=3.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is a poet who has never had easily located. The two protagonists of the slightest inclination novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to boil an egg. When tasked with writing retirement, while Evie is a cookery bookforce of nature, she recruits Ann Kirbybounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, a local woman oozing with a troubled home lifetalent and charm. TogetherThe two, they testpredictably, craftdon't always see eye to eye, refine their approaches different and reshape the world Evie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing fragile alliance formed within the face of cookery writing foreverclamour.|isbn=13985022271804272264

|author=Louie StowellTom Percival|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided thereWill's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki life is spending difficult, in a month both in exile and in the physical form multitude of a middle-school kid here on Earthways. Heis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor he has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular wrong shoes because his dad can't work and more successful brother doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputationthings like food, and get his moral compass pointing dad can't work because he lost his job at the right way againcollege, or elsewas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and to prove it Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that tiny amount of hope. He is able to cry foul of his liesgood at art, and judge his progress. But Loki is clings to the kind moments of god who insists joy when he can do anythingis drawing, so surviving that feel like a bit more virtuously for light at the end of a month is going to be a walk in the park..long, dark tunnel.right?|isbn=14063997521398527122

|isbnauthor=0008454442Edward W Said|title=A Flicker in Representations of the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamIntellectual |rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=ItEdward Said's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, ''Representations of the Intellectual'' is completing a session with less a new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes strict theory of getting her through the trauma. You see, Chloe knows what it's like to have intellectuals are and more a traumatic childhoodpassionate argument for what they should be. Her father is Richard Davis, Said clearly rejects the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to comfortable image of the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in intellectual as a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it detached expert speaking only to the policeother specialists. Dick Davis is in Instead, he insists on the Louisiana State Penitentiary intellectual as a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and Chloie has had nothing unpopular, who speaks truth to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother power even when it is in a care homeinconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248

|author=Christopher EdgeSylvie Cathrall|title=Escape RoomA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way outcompelling premise. What I've not done (alongside experience And this is one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerthem. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079640356522776

|isbn=17328987311786482126|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Michael Albanese Elly Griffiths

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=There Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a Boy who loved boxes. He had child beneath a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have in abundancedoorway. The Boy's delight There was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happyno skull. As he grew up and became Was this a Manritual killing or murder? Inevitably, his life became more complicated and he dealt Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with this by getting bigger and better boxesDCI Harry Nelson. Look carefully at the pictures and youIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'll see t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of them has a padlock..sickness.

|isbn=B09MN1526W0008551375|title=Blood Games When Shadows Fall (DS Nikki Parekh 4D S Max Craigie)|author=Liz MistryNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=ItLeanne Wilson's body was found at the third murder in bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the space result of a few weeks and theytragic accident. She've all been because of machetes used d looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on teenagersFacebook. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts Her friends were relieved as she was just out of Bradfordan unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Only, this time, Then it's going to be differentemerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, HaqibAll were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and she has a very public meltdownsensible people. It isnNone of the 'what a stupid thing to do't Haqib: there are similarities but the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundexplanations applied. What it does mean though They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is that Nikki is going to be certain there's a killer on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depressionthe loose.

|author=Ally WilkesPaul B Preciado|title=All the White SpacesDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorPolitics and Society|summary=In post-WWI England''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathanconsisting of arias, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh startletters, essays and the opportunity to live life as autofiction, Preciado expresses his authentic own hybrid self , and true genderbrings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, without the disapproval and constraints a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of his parentspolitical apathy. HoweverRather, Jonathan isnit is the proportional, valid response to ''t the only one fleeing epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the confines of his past tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the shadow backdrop of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party andCovid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when disaster strikes and they are forced dysphoria began to overwinter emerge on landa global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out sign of the Arctic winter aliveweakness, he will have to face his demons once and or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for all, or risk making the barrenpolitical paralysis, icy landscape Preciado urges his tombreaders to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=17890978351804271454

|author=Dean KoontzSamantha Harvey|title=QuicksilverOrbital|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, Booker Prize for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mindOrbital'', for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him compact yet profound work that he go to unfolds over a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash single day in the value lives of it out a group of his bank and prepare for going on astronauts aboard the lamInternational Space Station. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest heThrough a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts's of interest orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to them. Helped to escape, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique see our planet in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besideswholly new light.|isbn=15420198851529922933

|isbn=0008441618295967572X|title=Other ParentsPale Pieces|author=Sarah StovellG M Stevens

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up Our unnamed narrator is about to her retired predecessor there could well be begin a house price slump in that part of the towntrain journey with his companion Django. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association Where they're going and what the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were tickets ''devastatingly shockableon the floor somewhere'', with two members, and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence past as the pair travel to the station by coach and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just train is a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationsteam locomotive.

|authorisbn=Sarah Ann Juckes0008551324|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jasper It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is a little boy who has some struggles, struggling in prison and whilst wehe're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety s prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionswho was responsible for her death. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him This person, and writing a book with him, all about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their businesspromises, is someone big and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when worth the police doing what he needs herwants. But now And what he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and she isn't answering her phoneto get an early parole date. His parents won't speak Not much to him or when they doask, he is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't understand or take in what theythink so and she're saying. Nothing seems s even prepared to be right, do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and the only way he feels he can find any peace anyone who works with him is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every Springkept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1398510890

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Red is My HeartThe Tower|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in my houseour bloodstream''. And so was  In this onecompelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, although I could have spelled that more accurately – the protagonist of this one wastale. Just as T's story is being told, and the story of a second protagonist isunveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, black and white and redcaptures T's imagination. YesAnnie's fate is, above all, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceenticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence in service of some striking visual ideasmyth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=19135471831804271799

|isbnauthor=1529135567Claire-Louise Bennett|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It's five years since the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmenEverything in this book, Scothowever sweet or seemingly innocent, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil is steeped in anguish and Joshdistortion. The first night they had plenty Even a kiss, usually a symbol of alcohol - too much really - intimacy and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Timcloseness, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpbecomes evidence of love lost. When help didnthe narrator cries out internally, ''t come the remaining three finally made their way back over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to townconfirm her emotional numbness. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign The imagined recipient of Tim. Every yearthis plea is Xavier, Tim's father, Martinher ex-partner, and the four friends have been back a ghost she conjures to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timtest her detachment.|isbn=1804271934

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0008405026|title=Bitter FlowersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=3.5

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and is now returning the investigation ground to worka halt. However Now, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigationher mother, Helena, and a mystery around a missing womanher father are dead in their bed. Varg finds himself not only investigating these Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but also looking into an old, cold case there's something about the positioning of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear going to be linked, but what an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the linkexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308XUna Burt) are less convinced.

|author=Kia AhankoobAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsOther Girl

|genre=Graphic NovelsAutobiography|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in ''We were born from the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous societysame body. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging I've never really wanted to one of eight countries led by Myriadthink about this.'' Ernaux's children work is always very candid and their descendants. But it didnher tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I't quite work out like thatve read. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went Ernaux writes in direct address to warher sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of war too highdiphtheria at 6 years old, a solution is proposed. Each of few months before the eight countries will send their greatest warriorsvaccine was made compulsory in France, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournamentand 2 years before the author was even born. The winner will take possession of all the rings large and become instant void created by the supreme ruler jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of Dunivareckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV1804271845

|author=Alastair Chisholm Maxim Gorky and Eric DeschampsBryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and IronskinAndreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=Meet TomasBiographies 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 vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. Happy In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to work with his father in the blacksmithfriend Gorky that: ''s forgeyou write not of real life as it is, he's almost but of the age what you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to become know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a full apprenticesubjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not Andreyev in such privileged detail that there are any dragons, one almost feels unworthy of course – they vanished centuries agoit. Except|isbn=1804271977}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4... Strange signals from within 5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the forge furnacepark near Rosebank, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things care home for Tom troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to puzzle over – until it all comes out work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the washdisappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that yes dragons do still exist in Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this world, and that Tom is rare in unlikely as the ability girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with themfind Chloe to discover what happened to Josh...|isbn=1839940026

|isbnauthor=1529346541Olga Tokarczuk|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeHouse of Day, House of Night

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It''What's late July and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school system, good of a representative from the NHSworld that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, Mr Oh from Barnardos''House of Day, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmaker. It follows on from the success of DeborahNight's book ''London Voices'': the meeting is an exploration , somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the possibility of small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the idea behind the book being used shift from day to highlight an area which is night, however quotidian, causing concern in some communitieschaos. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as But, the problem seems to occur constant in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies on getting that image is the trust of house, stoic against the people she speaks to and photographsancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1836284683|title=ShadebringerThe Big Happy|author=Grayson W HooperDavid Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyDystopian Fiction|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. HeWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's not really that invested in the fight against Communismnothing like I expected it to be, nor is he particularly interested in and it takes me on a career in the militarywild ride. If he's honest - which Clyde usually And that is, just what happened with himself at least - he hasn''The Big Happy''. I don't got many choices and this one, want to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least, gets him out of set the rut he's inscene. HeOnce that's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. He's chuffed with himselfdone, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.

|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmySally Rooney|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondIntermezzo

|summary=There Will is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend for her in amongst . But most of all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homehe is an aspiring writer. Bess knows there English is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouthhis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, every man for himself kind of existenceand one at which he excels. But despite herself Bess does find This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a bit couple of afternoons a week at a kindred spirit in the slight little Dotdifferent school, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmStation Road, there where his ability might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workersbetter extended. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X

|isbn=17856330741009473085|title=Staggering HubrisThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Josh BerryAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=HumourPolitics and Society|summary=Members of Parliament like us Sometimes it's simpler to believe explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister 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 ''primus inter paresreally'' (happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those of you tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'prime'is an entirely different beast. It' movers are s the special advisers - seventh book in a series which looks at the SPADS impact a government has made and co- who are editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the driving force behind the governmentmost important. We are in This book follows the privileged position well-established format: a series of having access to experts from various fields review the memoirs state of Rafe Hubristhe nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the man who was behind changes that occurred and the skilful control of situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Covid crisis which was completely contained by Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a 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 end of 2020time. You might not know the name But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now but he will certainly be the man to watchthey must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585