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|isbn=1804183210B0CK3MYJ56|title=No ReserveResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Felix FrancisAnn Macarthur

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Thirty-four-yearIt's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old Theo Jennings shouldn't . He used to have been on a high-flying job in the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, city but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadnit wasn't arrived, satisfying so he continued his session's now set himself up as a private investigator. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be an understatementthinking. A lovely animal - Nice bloke, but three million poundswhere's the life experience that backs up this profession? Two men had On the other hand, he has been bidding against each otherasked to look into something. Brian Kitman Joyce and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were well-known and respected until Helen was killed in the racing industrywhat's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Jennings Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in one front of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had a train. Greg's been deliberately bid up asked to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stallinvestigate.

|author=Sarah WilsonKatherine Howe|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldA True Account|rating=34.5|genre= LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line Hannah Masury is the one living in which she asks ''What is it you plan Boston, having been sent to do live with your one wild a family who run an inn, and precious life?'' I get being made to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely thiswork there from a young age.'' I'm lucky enough When she hears there is to be living my one wild and precious life a hanging of some pirates in the way I want town, she decides togo and watch. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes OliverEnthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living death at the life we want – the best life that we could be livinghands of two vicious pirates. Her answer is an unequivocal ''noShe hides away, we are not''. Donso that they don't care what you're doingfind and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she thinks you (weruns away to sea, I) could be doing more…And shedressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's effing furious about pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the fact that thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are notcaught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=17856338480861547438

|isbnauthor=1839948493Tananarive Due|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeThe Reformatory

|genre=Children's Non-Historical Fiction|summary=In Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the interests segregated reformatory is a chamber of full disclosurehorrors, I must tell you haunted by the boys that I'm a sucker for dogshave died there. In nearly eight decadesorder to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, IRobert must enlist the help of the school've never met one I didns ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who't trust and I've loved most s a control freak with all the subtlety of thema half brick. I wish I felt the same about human beings. SoJamie's son, any book about dogsBo, I'm going to sit down and devourhas his problems'. Then IHe'm going to go back s asthmatic and the more you read it properly, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. And so it was with 'Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A World of Dogs&E and sometimes Bo'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely s not fit enough to go to my four-legged friendsschool. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself Missed shifts or the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a lot about dogs since thenhead.

|isbnauthor=1405951680Harry Allen|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron WardChildren of the Sun|rating=45|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property Ra Eun Seo lives in the Australian outback for a couple of months. After the problems North Korean town and she'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she neededis a talented singer. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning Life is hard and food is difficult to the country of come by, so Seo and her birth friends Nari and in need of the space Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to get over supplement the traumatic end meagre rations of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticketrice and kimchi at home.|isbn=1805140493

|author=Rachel HarrisonEdel Rodriguez|title=Bad DollsWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=Short StoriesGraphic Novels|summary=ItWe's been some time since Ire in childhood, and we've read any horrorre in Cuba. I had The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a couple saviour of misspent teen years reading Stephen Kingthe country, borrowing the books from has proven himself a boy I fancied at school Communist, and scaring myself half silly with them not done nearly enough to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night create a level playing field for fear all. Well, those hours-long speeches of the vampires outside! his were kind of taking his time away. DonOur narrator't worry - this short story collection isns family weren't like that! It doesn't have those jump scaresin the happiest of places here, and I didn't have an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepysome minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal livesfather being watched and watched, and that at least in partnot liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakupcouple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, trying a new dieting appbut in this sultry island country, going to a hen party and a coping with grief.it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=18033639321474616720

|isbnauthor=1394159544K P O'Donnell|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to 16understand who she is.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apple core to landfill, it will take apocalyptic war between 6 months the nations of Drexel and 2 years to decomposeRenada. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As Over half-a just-post-WWII babycentury later, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling civilisation is part of my DNAstarting to rebuild. NEVER throw away anything that might Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you s legacy, building a world where machines and humans can cobble live together something that would serve the purposein harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test Craig Anderson, leader of a group of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On salvagers called the other handExhumers, I suspected I was guilty of wishcyclinghas his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes none other than VL- I15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn'm looking at you) and dropping it t diminished in the kerbside bin. Yesslightest, and no errant machine, I could go searching on the internet - no savage human tribe and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.not even Drexel'sravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM

|authorisbn=Lauren St John1838954481|title=Finding WonderThe Misper|author=Kate London

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=RooRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's life has become almost impossibly difficultno doubt about that. Her mum died when she He was young, the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and now she finds herself awoken in pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the middle vagaries of the night by jury system he was found not guilty of both the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to murder and the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly manslaughter ofthe officer. But she has no one else, and And so off she goes to live with her unreliable auntlives must go on. Things continue to get worse For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for Roo, as a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the middle orbit of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=14483097431035025299|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Caro RamsayNina Stibbe

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of Nina Stibbe is returning to London for a wealthy family are found murderedsabbatical after being away for twenty years. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says She's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that if the stone is removed from Otterburn Houseconducive to writing, death will followas there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two other side of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but decision was sealed when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' hima room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rent.

|authorisbn= Kay ChronisterB0CKD1L5JL|title= Desert CreaturesRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian General Fiction|summary= With a world that Petr is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillorphan. Whether it is a robotic takeoverRescued by the strange, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaustreclusive Bear, this genre he is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the forests of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Fowler|title=Word Monkey|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary= ItWashington's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East AngliaOlympic Peninsula. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in, rain arrivedhuman company, and I decided not to do that either. When I finished reading this bookarmed with only a pirate radio transmitter, I realised it was because (Petr goes on a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alertsjourney through the forest, broadcasting the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, wild and you know rarely heard voices he actually is at that point, because he doesencounters. He did.|isbn=0857529625

|isbn=15290776991635866243|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Ann CleevesKristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=''ItI quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn's all bloody peculiart enough. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial and error, isn't itpatience, Sir?and perseverance.''(Introduction byFrancoise Danoy)

Well yes, it isA friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. Jem Rosco blew into The first line of the local pub one evening in instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month instructions didn't get any better - and then turned up, naked and dead, in (finally) PayPal obliged with a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the village of Greystone, in Devonrepayment. Rosco had The pattern looked pretty, but the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round creator didn't have the world sailor basic knowledge and all round ''celebrity''skills to enable her to connect with her knitters. I ''nearly'She should have read ' said 'all-round good egg' but as weThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open book. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbnauthor=B0CC9W7GLRAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaOscar's Lion|rating=53|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to wonder whether it was better have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be at homeready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroom, bored but warmall he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a snowy beach when lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto birthday party for Oscar the shorelineother month. On top And it can shapeshift, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of the ice was a polar bearproblem. As And it's wonderful to have around the ice bumped onto house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the sandrules, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the iceso on. Kit was all for making OK, it can't work a run for dimmer switch but it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given can give Oscar a good meal and somewhere to sleepwonderful time. What else would you do?|isbn=0008596751

|authorisbn=Claire NorthB0BC3YTCMR|title=House of OdysseusGood Girls Die|author=Ayura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?This story is not for everyone.''

Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The followIncident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo -up people were afraid to the excellent hug her in case it's contagious. It'Ithaca'' picks up s not easy being a few months after where we left offblack girl whose skin is 84% white. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her husband, who sailed to war . Then he did: Lavender was very good at Troy math and then by divine intervention never returned homeReggie asked if she would tutor him. As ever She readily agreed: tutoring was something she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Islesgladly did at church: this was just an extension. Having survived – politically She went to his house and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of give her a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refugelift home.|isbn=0356516075

|isbnauthor=1529427045V Castro|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffHaunting of Alejandra|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeHorror|summary=''Life has more This was a part of her past that had to stop with her. She would be the one to offer than people - prime numbers for exampleconfront this.''.

Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of GasskasAt some point during her life, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rushAlejandra lost herself. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother She feels as if she is the latest woman playing parts for others in the area her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to have vanished her own desires, her own future, her own identity. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without traceanyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. It was only with reluctance that Salander became For invisible to all but Alejandra, there is a darkness threatening to consume her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala . More and more she is visited by a remarkably gifted teenager ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who's unaware of the part Salander played leaves distress in her father's deathwake.|isbn=1803365617

|isbnauthor=B0CCCPJJ5BRichard Kadrey|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew TreePale House Devil

|genre=ThrillersHorror|summary=Our narrator was Ford and Neuland are a scholarship day boy at couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It book was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and had money to throw around on a Rolex watchthe other is undead, vintage wines and a state-so one of-them kills the-art sound systemliving, and the other kills the undead. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances (Only not each other, obviously). Finns had no intention of going They're on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College job in WellingfordNew York that goes badly, and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the UK'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's third most prestigious university. Before going uphouse they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, he took up and a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894

|author=Dean KoontzHelen Cooper|title=The House at the End Taming of the WorldCat|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you experience overwhelming tragedy 're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and feel that there therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie is no one on your sideshunned, scorned and, if you can either suck it upmust, mous-tracised, saddle for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and ride makes stories based on or you can retreat to your own private fortress the visuals on an island it. And that sits snugly story-telling will come in a small chain of tiny dots on the map handy one night, when he feels all alone and live cast out your days in peace and solitude. ThatIt's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for top dog in the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockmouse community, though, as all the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in others had the name of science and quite possibly bringing about chance to half-inch some cheese while the end of all mankindcat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=16624531590571376010

|authorisbn=T KingfisherB0CDZRGT1M|title=ThornhedgeSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyShort Stories|summary=''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You had can read one in a right to retake your placeflash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.''

T Kingfisher's latest novella is Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a lovely reimagining flavour of a fairytale fully rounded little story if that story is well known and well beloved. But whilst told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there is really isn't a princess trapped in fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her storythree hundred word limit. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was That's about a new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spellssingle page in your average paperback.|isbn=1803364238

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX1732898766|title=Stories 2The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Richard F WalkerWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)

|genre=Short StoriesFor Sharing|summary= This When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is Richard F Walkerchasing them. He's second volume of short stories. There are thirteen in all and I took something right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from each of themhis nostrils. There isn (Please don't a single one that doesntry this at home: it won't deserve end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to be among the others or brings down Tree Wee homes high up in the overall quality. It can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much awaytangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, so I'll just pick two to talk about Nester Nook and I think they give a general flavourGranny Cranny.

|isbn=17876366071472263936|title=The TrapFigurine|author=Catherine Ryan HowardVictoria Hislop|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often was in the early hours of the morning1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and looking for Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a way to get homepity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Some are lucky and manage Her trip to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the night bus that will only go as far as one first of the outlying villagesseveral annual visits. The woman all regret She grew to love her grandmother and the family'taxi problem's maid, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'. For one young womanDina, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short but was wary - and frightened - of her homegrandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. She had intended He was proud of his close connections to ring someone the Junta and expected his family to come and collect her - uphold his values but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance saw no reason to beg the bus driver to let her use hisaccommodate them. ThereHis prejudices included Helena's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed red hair and in highgreen eyes -heeled shoesinherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

|isbnauthor=1405957174Cody Goodfellow|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy StuartVertical|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine WalshThere's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call the ambulance he so desperately needssomething about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. What we donWho doesn't know is who love a good view from up high, after all? Even the man drabbest office building is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. somewhere I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand whatm intrigued to get inside if it's happening40 stories tall.So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991

|author=Tania UnsworthHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Nowhere IslandFinding Bear

|summary=Meet Gil[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Just twelveBack home, he is so determined to escape things on the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not homes – perfect for her, and find so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a home for himselfbear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. He is en route Desperate to yet another fosterer, when make sure he jumps into an anonymous car's OK, she and lets it ride him her father return to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but the Arctic and hope that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions world of a motorwayvery white and very dangerous things, a place inaccessible she can find one specific white and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety dangerous thing – and seclusionthat the friendship can continue. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfully. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=18045400800008582017

|isbn=00085300251804183210|title=Murder in the FamilyNo Reserve|author=Cara HunterFelix Francis|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteenThirty-four-year-old Maura Howard Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came home and found up for auction, but Peter Radway, the body of her stepfatherchairman, Luke Ryderhadn't arrived, in the garden of their West London homeso he continued his session. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if To say that he'd slipped down was shocked when the steps bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but the vicious beating his face three million pounds? Two men had taken was obviously deliberatebeen bidding against each other. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder Brian Kitman and it's now the subject of Elliot 'Mitch'Infamous'', a trueMitchell were well-crime showknown and respected in the racing industry. A group Jennings was in one of experts has been brought together to review the evidence cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to take the investigation furtherthat figure. More to the point, Both were happy that they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episodehad insurance in place. There's no dump of The following morning, the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewinghorse was dead in its stall.

|author=Judith EagleSarah Wilson|title=The Stolen SongbirdThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=CaroMy favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks 's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed 'What is it you plan to return home from her recent work trip abroad do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is now missing''This! Precisely this. '' Her other mother, Ronnie, is having I'm lucky enough to go up North be living my one wild and precious life the way I want to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who Sarah Wilson is going to look after Caro? equally lucky. Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard In her book that takes Oliver's words as her mother despises, title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she feels frustrated and confused and worriedpushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she Her answer is stuck inside this staid old Victorian ladyan unequivocal ''s houseno, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toowe are not''. But Don't care what you're doing, she soon finds herself caught up in a mysterythinks you (we, as I) could be doing more…And she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called effing furious about the Snakes fact that we are thieving artworks and terrorising peoplenot. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=05713631481785633848

|isbn=15291959771839948493|title=None A World of this is TrueDogs|author=Lisa JewellCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe

|summary=On Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her 45th birthdayfriend, Alix Summer celebrated with Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a crowd couple of friends in months. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when break she encountered Josie Fairneeded. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was just with Jess who was returning to the country of her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix birth and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where need of the space to get over the similarities traumatic end, though: Alix, of her relationship with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselvesCharles. Josie, on A few weeks in the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after allticket.

|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck TingleRachel Harrison|title=Camp DamascusBad Dolls|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorShort Stories|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentimentIt's been some time since I've read any horror. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a crime boy I fancied at school and, in scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the USvampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, nearly 700 000 adults and I didn't have received to read it. Although during daylight hours only! But it is both a secular creepy, and a religious prejudiceI found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, Chuck Tingleliving normal lives, and that at least in his part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new horror, ''Camp Damascus''dieting app, peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps going to show the reader the horror lurking withina hen party and a coping with grief.|isbn=1803363932

|isbn=18031363831394159544|title=Tin SoldiersRecycling for Dummies|author=David ChadwickSarah Winkler|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Wat Tyler has returned ''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from fighting being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in Vietnam under handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something of a cloudthat would serve the purpose. What actually happened out there is gossiped about Almost everything can be used one more time and nobody is sure exactly what took placeany purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, but an act I suspected I was guilty of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and disgrace seems to be dropping it in the consensuskerbside bin. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest Yes, as he always doesI could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible. s

|isbnauthor=B0C7J9D21BLauren St John|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J LewisFinding Wonder|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful SwallowsRoo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother Her mum died when he she was born. He's not been short of mothersyoung, though - but for someone and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult way to the corner shop to obtain decent employmentbuy a lottery ticket. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't work out think very highly of. But she has no one else, and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatsso off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and determined - Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. then bursts into flames! He was even saving some money.Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1448309743|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{FrontpageThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Jamie Littler|title=ArkspireCaro Ramsay

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apartIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, five members of a wealthy family are growing to be chalk and cheesefound murdered. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics The only item missing from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie home is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even to become Devil Stone: myth says that if the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcherstone is removed from Otterburn House, the closest to a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier wardeath will follow. Being trained The only suspects are known Satanists but in the magic many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that only five people can use would definitely change the status two of them 'discovered' the whole familybody. But The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143'shadow' him.