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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=0008541477Samantha Harvey|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildOrbital

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=It was a hot summer day right at In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the beginning of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: Booker Prize for ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.Orbital'' There are seven members of the Bean family living , a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the house: Grandad (who lives on of a group of astronauts aboard the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal CricketInternational Space Station. There's also Marcie, who's main claim to fame seems to be Through a narrative lens that she steals mirrors the batteries from Clariceastronauts's torchorbital perspective, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboard. Clarice would love Harvey invites readers to have someone who listened to her, rather than wanting to talk, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives see our planet in New York. The Bean family is ''different''a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=0711266204295967572X|title=The Secret Life of BirdsPale Pieces|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)G M Stevens

|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a great pleasure: I sit train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and watch what the vast numbers purpose of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisthis journey is, is uncertain. An hour can pass without my noticing. IDjango found the tickets ''ve established which species feed from on the ground, which pop floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful if, past as a child, I'd had access the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''steam locomotive. So – what is it?

|isbn=17370309420008551324|title=Bag OThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Goodiess even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jolly Walker BittickJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim

|genre= AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'GoodiesAll was strange''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]].. This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for their partying. Right now, I didn't want a full-length novelJatgeir and Eline, so I turned to this anthology two of verse and short storiesthe protagonists caught in its melancholic current. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!|isbn=1804271829

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1035043092|title=SeedThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his 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 lifeon Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and they both might be thought their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of as complete embarrassmentshis former partner. His grandfather runs an allotment Willow's also his boss, and manages to stink she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the entire town out from it when he douses it body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines the dual roles aftermath of housebound failure and hoarder – while a storm, she seems to do nothing and hasncan't left resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the building in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim head with junka Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum. What Marty}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's classmates donlife, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream't know about '. In this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always lookscompelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, with his one school uniform built from lost propertythe protagonist of this tale. We see him Just as once again T's story is being told, the council threaten her story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and him with evictionknowledge, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather in service of a solitary plant seedmyth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=15290776641804271799

|author=Sophie CameronClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Our SisterBig Kiss, AgainBye-Bye

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora diesEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, her family struggle to find usually a way forwardsymbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. In particularWhen the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, Isla's mum who can’t seem ' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to be able confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to let test her daughter godetachment. When Isla passes her mum|isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's details onto sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a support group she finds onlinehalt. Now, her mother, Helena, she thinks they might be able to helpand her father are dead in their bed. But actually Initially, it turns out they are part looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an experimental company who offer open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the family explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the chance same body. I've never really wanted to have Flora back againthink 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 robot formdirect address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. But this wonWhy? Because Annie Ernaux't just be s sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a look-a-likefew months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the author was even born. They use all The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of Florawriting to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's online historyprocess of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and interviews with family Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and friendsless personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and through offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this data they will recreate Flora book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as closely as possibleit is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. But what will Whom would it really mean for the familyhelp to know how I see this tower, that sea, to have Flora backor that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? And Of what use is it really Flora at all?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=17889539161804271977

|isbn=13985075041529077745|title=Cold ReckoningThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Russ ThomasAnn Cleeves

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that A man walking his father committed suicide and for dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the last sixteen years he's been searching park near Rosebank, a care home for evidence to prove that he's righttroubled teens. When a frozen body The dead man was found in Damflask Reservoir, there Josh - one of the care workers who was a link back due to work a cold case from 2002shift the night before but who had never turned up. There didn't immediately seem D I Vera Stanhope is called in to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death investigate the murder - but Adam Tyler senses a link to her only clue is the disappearance of one of the case his father was investigating before he diedresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Above all there's a growing sense Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the criminality of Det Supt Stevens death but Vera thinks this is going to be brought out into unlikely as the opengirl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. Perhaps Tyler is going She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to get the answers he needs?Josh.

|isbn=0727850547B0FK5LHKD9|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Colour of Memory|author=David MarkChristopher Bowden|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Like all Bowden's stories, there's a mystery at the heart of ''The Colour of Money''. We like this running theme in an author's work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.}}{{Frontpage|author=Olga Tokarczuk|title=House of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughs defence against a murder charge drained his savings. A body had His wife, Laura, has been found in trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the roots state of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hulltheir savings. When he gets Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the scene, thought of the money he will find what greets could make that convinces him that this is even worse than a miscarriage of justice that he could have imaginedreally should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4. A young man5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's corpse nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is entangled just what happened with the roots ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of a newly-fallen tree – you reading but I'll have to at least set the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesscene. It would seem Once that this was 's done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes a promise to the victim: , I will find answersthink you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself. You will know justice}}{{Frontpage|author=Sally Rooney|title=Intermezzo|rating=4. But justice always comes 5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at a cost putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this time story, the cost might be central one for readers to McAvoyunravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's own familypassing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|isbn=1036916375|title=Just a Liverpool Lad|author=Natalia Garcia FreirePeter McArdle|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a sea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.}} {{Frontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousWill is a keen player of video games, a delight. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'conscientious student, a delight' is perhaps using the expression in slightly annoying brother and a way I'm not familiar withsupportive friend. I have to confess my ignorance But most of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereall, he is an aspiring writer. From the little I have read (in translationEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, I donand one at which he excels. This hasn't read Spanish) there does seem gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismbetter extended. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1009473085|title= Rebel SkiesThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= TeensPolitics and Society|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Sometimes it's simpler to explain a servant book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on the Midoricertain occasions, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of then this isn't the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquestsbook for you. However If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, when {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a man named Himura arrives compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to tell her that she politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a Crafter like him, someone with series which looks at the power to form paper into whatever she desires – impact a power sought after all across government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the Empiremost important. He asks her to come with him, to leave This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the life state of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say the nation when the coalition took over in the matter2010, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, changes that occurred and she is forced to flee out into the worldsituation in 2024. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590

|author=Patrice LawrenceJenny Valentine|title=NeedleUs in the Before and After|rating=35

|summary=Brave. CharleneElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, the 'heroine' of this piece their friendship is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers botha once in a lifetime connection. Kicked They meet as children one day on a trip out of multiple homes and schools, shebut unfortunately they don's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while het get each other's contact details at unithe time. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket But then chance brings them back together, you might perhaps thinkand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knittertragic, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detectivenow they must work through their grief, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to saytheir friendship, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..together.|isbn=18009010111471196585

|isbn=14059409801787333175|title=The BirdcageYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Eve ChaseBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''s the 7th of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We donYou Don't know whose body it Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is. Four days earlierGoing to Hurt}}, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at a glorious mixture of insight into the request workings of their fatherthe NHS, Charlie Finch, a famous artisthumour and autobiography. The girls are actually ''halfYou Don't Have to be Mad...''-sisters promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and their dates the work of birth are embarrassingly closea psychiatrist. Finch I did wonder whether it was known acceptable to be looking for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since humour in this setting but the girls have been laughter is directed at Rock Point togethera situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Mariana Enriquez|title=A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: just over twenty years ago, at the time her settings include an abandoned field full of the total eclipsedisused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, something happened. Kat an overcrowded homeless shelter and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her sisterscharacters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230

|isbn=17876349061529934753|title=No Less the DevilThe Protest|author=Stuart MacBrideRob Rinder

|summary=WeFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country're s most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in Oldcastle the nick of time, complete with his two wives and Malcolm is in troublesix children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. He's in Lexi Williams, an abandoned house intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and heproceeded to spray Bruce in the face, whilst shouting ''s being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (weStop the War'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat seemed to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplebe part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he this was sleepingdifferent. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was one of their own: not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsdead.

|author=Jennifer SaintAriel Saramandi|title=ElektraPortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionPolitics and Society|summary=In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'Elektra' , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by Jennifer Saint tells the story malignant forces of three women who live in the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandraracism, Clytemnestrapatriarchy, environmental degradation and Elektra are all bit players governmental dysfunction. Each essay in the story this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and various diseases afflicting the most extreme furiesisland state.|isbn=14722739151804271616

|isbnauthor=1529149800Pekka Harju-Autti|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia LoveVortex and Sara Boccaccini Meadowsthe Drakor's Curse

|genre=Home and FamilyFantasy|summary=We begin with It's the eighteenth century, a telling storytime of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. All Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the birds Andaman Islands in his endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watchedtheir cat, Michi, unable they set off on a perilous voyage to think of anything they could dothese faraway lands. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river islands are beautiful and began taking tiny amounts of water stunning in their scenery and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'islanders'leader, said the hummingbird. And that, reallyAarav, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might bekeen to establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|isbnauthor=1776574338Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnLili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Every morning LeilongFirst published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children hearts of its readers just as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the window page and slide down his neck. It's perfectpositions them elsewhere, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problemdisjointed, thoughtruncated. Leilong isn't happy in Like the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he lives of her characters, they are often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymoreleft tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675

|isbnauthor=303091657XTom Percival|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Boards must act Will's life is difficult, in the best interests a multitude of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureways. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have resulted in death or enough money for even the collapse most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a major company cash-in- have left interested parties asking what the board was doinghand job on a building site and had an accident. Where were they? Occasionally Throw into that mix the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eyefact that his mum and dad are separated, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. The 21st century And yet, he still has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened a tiny amount of hope. He is nothing new: Gerry Brown good at art, and Randall S Peterson give us clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway manialight at the end of a long, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littledark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1529337968Sylvie Cathrall|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS compelling premise. And this is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part one of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1786482126|title=GalaxyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Spark, who is Builders were demolishing an elite pilot with old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the Space Academy, barely makes it through bones of a child beneath a battle alivedoorway. His co-pilot There was not so fortunateno skull. Waking from Was this a coma ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that lasted yearsshe 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, he remembers little and not least because Ruth is in no physical shape prone to resume his dutiessudden bouts of sickness. But Earth is under threat }}{{Frontpage|author=Guadalupe Nettel and he mustRosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Accidentals|rating=4. Returned by his superiors to 5|genre=Short Stories|summary=This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the space stationword: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and human relationships. Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, he finds himself amid her stories structured by a last ditch attempt wisdom that appears to want to save humanity - and not just from teach us something about the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itselfworld. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W1804271470}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551375|title=When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when 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 five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.