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|isbn=15290777451786482126|title=The Dark Wives Janus Stone (D I Vera StanhopeDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Ann CleevesElly Griffiths

|summary=A man walking his dog Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the early morning site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the body bones of a man in the park near Rosebank, child beneath a care home for troubled teensdoorway. The dead man There was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned upno skull. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the Was this a ritual killing or murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents? Inevitably, fourteen-year-old Chloe SpencerDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Some people believe It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this she is unlikely pregnant with his child as a result of the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Joshone night they spent together some three months ago. She knows that she has Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to find Chloe to discover what happened to Joshsudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=13996130730008551375|title=Moral InjuriesWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Christie WatsonNeil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on Leanne Wilson's body was found at the first day bottom of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a centurytragic accident. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousShe'd looked so happy, too, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeonshe 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. Laura is a perfectionist All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and a trauma doctorsensible people. Anjali is the free spirit None of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at what a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going stupid thing to end in tragedy. We dondo't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequencesexplanations applied. Twenty-five years later They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involveda killer on the loose.

|isbnauthor=0241636604Paul B Preciado|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary StevensonDysphoria Mundi

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=If you were ''It is never too late to bring up an image embrace the revolutionary optimism of a city banker in your mindchildhood''  Through this hybrid text, you're unlikely to think consisting of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his background is the East Endown hybrid self, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the London School new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of Economicspolitical apathy. Stevenson Rather, it is bright - extremely bright - the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and he has a facility with numbers conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which most Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of us can only envy. He also realised the Covid-19 pandemic as that most rich people expect poor people which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to be stupid. It was his ability at what wasemerge on a global scale, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibankor as ''pangea covidica''. Eventually, Rather than taking this turned into permanent employment extreme dysphoria as a tradersign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=1804271454

|isbn=B0DB64PYV5|title=The White Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating=4|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=In 2033, a superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Northern Hemisphere. And it's not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. Instead, it hovers across half the Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and never going away.}}{{Frontpage|author=Leanne EganSamantha Harvey|title=Lover BirdsOrbital

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When new girlIn 2024, Isabel, moves to LouSamantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for 's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and thatOrbital's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any group of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabelastronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, and wanting Harvey invites readers to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=000862657X1529922933

|isbn=1009473085295967572X|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024Pale Pieces|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)G M Stevens

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes it's simpler Our unnamed narrator is about to explain begin a book by describing what it ''isn't'train journey with his companion Django. Where they' re going and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver Django found the inside story about what tickets ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If thatfloor somewhere'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 tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return has persuaded our narrator to politicsaccompany him. ''The Conservative Effect'' Why not? Not much else is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book clear either - but we are probably in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this past as the most important. This book follows pair travel to the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred station by coach and the situation in 2024train is a steam locomotive.

|authorisbn=Max Boucherat0008551324|title=The Last Life of Lori MillsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening sheIt's got unusual for anyone from the house Hardie family to herself – no neighbour 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 pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her lonesomedeath. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fortThis person, she has one main intentionhe promises, is someone big and that it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to log on be transferred to an open prison to Voxminer, serve the world-buildingremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. it? But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't find herself entirely on her own, think so and then she finds something 's even more spooky. For prepared to do the server she other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tamperinganyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Jenny LecoatJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Beyond SummerlandVaim

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating ''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the end pervading sense of the occupation. During the warotherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, Jean's father was arrested a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for listening to a banned radio Jatgeir and soldiers took him away one nightEline, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news two of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of himprotagonists caught in its melancholic current. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=18469765371804271829

|isbn=15294282891035043092|title=A Grave in the Woods The Killing Stones (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelJimmy Perez)|author=Martin WalkerAnn Cleeves|rating=45

|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for I can't have been the grave but only person who was sad when they found itInspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, it came but he's now living with three sets Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of boneshis former partner. They dated back to World War II Willow's also his boss, and it fell to Brunoshe ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the Chief body of Police for St Denisa popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, to discover in the identities aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the bodies and establish whether or not head with a Neolithic stone - one of a crime pair - which had been committedstolen from a museum. As if }}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this isntale. Just as T't enough to worry abouts story is being told, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - story of a second protagonist is flowing at record levelsunveiled: 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. ItAnnie's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had fate is, above all, an enticing story to release water T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and St Denis faces the possibility in service of a devastating floodmyth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799

|isbnauthor=152919640XClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Suspect|author=Rob RinderBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|summary=The nationIt's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one suspectsummer night. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks She was never found and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso the investigation ground to Jessica Holbya halt. She's seriously allergic Now, her mother, Helena, and carries an EpiPen her father are dead in case of emergenciestheir bed. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in Initially, it looks like a busy, live television studio - straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Brooks served a ragout to Holbyher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Her EpiPen What looked as though it was nowhere going to be found an open-and she was dead within minutes-shut case is now a complex double murder. It was soon clear Kerrigan is convinced that this was no accidentthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbnauthor=0008385068Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy FoleyOther Girl|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=It's midsummer on 'We were born from the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manorsame body. I've never really wanted to think about this. It'' Ernaux's their opening weekend work is always very candid and splendid celebrations are promisedher tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. ItWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's all headed up by Francesca Meadowssister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the author was even born. The Manor was her ancestral home large and sheinstant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's converted it into process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an impressive retreat for absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the wealthy form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and famousless personal. Her husbandI think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, Owenand offers a vibrant, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts subjective yet informed portrait of three of the sitehis literary contemporaries. The heat is oppressive and amongst In the guests are enemies first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as well as friendsit is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. Old scores are going Whom would it help to be settled and know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it won?'t '. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be long before gained from a body is foundsubjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977

|authorisbn=Ashley Hickson-Lovence1529077745|title=Wild EastThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Written A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in verse, this is Ronny's storythe park near Rosebank, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white schoolcare home for troubled teens. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying was due to settle in work a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of troubleshift the night before but who had never turned up. He listens D I Vera Stanhope is called in to music constantlyinvestigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, and has always dreamed of being a rapperfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. But now, in Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this new school, his teacher encourages him is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins discover what happened to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your wordsJosh.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=1635866847B0FK5LHKD9|title=The Lavender CompanionColour of Memory|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin VesciChristopher Bowden|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=It's strangebeen three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for youso we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'Like all Bowden's stories, I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture mystery at the heart of a slice ''The Colour of chocolate cake on the homepage. I donMoney''t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (ThereWe like this running theme in an author's work - take a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book mystery but give it different flavour and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book alreadyatmosphere each time.

|author=Rob KeeleyOlga Tokarczuk|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special editionHouse 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

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Around hereEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, weLaura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - 're big fans of children'maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's author Rob Keeley. what 'ordinary people do','' He's a ball not been entirely up front about the state of happy positivitytheir savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the thought of the money he understands children, and could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hectorreally should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4. 5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other!

The I do love it when I open a book, it's nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with ''Childish SpiritsThe Big Happy'' series is one of his greatest achievements. ItI don's t want to ruin a sequence similar experience for any of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything you reading but I'll have to at least set the spirit world throws at herscene. Once that's done, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.

|author=Jenny ValentineSally Rooney|title=Us in the Before and AfterIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction |summary=Elk Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is something of a once in a lifetime connectiongrandmaster at putting it into words. They meet Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately her characters never quite say exactly what they don't get each other's contact details at feel. Among the time. But then chance brings them back togethermany relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and they are inseparablePeter Koubek. Something has happened thoughIvan, something terrible and tragica socially awkward chess prodigy, and now they must work through their griefcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, and a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their friendshipfather's passing after a long battle with cancer, togetherthe brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=14711965850571365469

|authorisbn=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton1036916375|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero TrialJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Kit. Like most ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the people years Peter McArdle spent growing up in his worldand around Liverpool. Some are factual, it seems, he is an avid fan such as the family history of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, centurysea-oldgoing family, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the big bad and the points they grant you along the waywhat-might-have-been. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing heIt's seen 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 latest race on the inn TV equivalent is blitz that one team has been retired, eaten, and was a new trio of questors is neededconstant factor in McArdle's early years. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully I'd never heard of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscleparachute mines before -free-zone have in actually managing that, but they were almost soundless and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184appear after the all-clear was sounded.

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1836285493|title=VengeanceThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of this novel – all, he is an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim womanaspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadnThis hasn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and screen) she has suggested to Will and it needn't be his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't week at a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speeddifferent school, Station Road, and I never felt lostwhere his ability might be better extended.|isbn=0861541561

|authorisbn=Stuart Douglas1009473085|title=Lowe The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress RehearsalTom Egerton (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=During location filming for his 1970Sometimes it's sitcom simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't''Floggit and Leggitthat applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?'', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as If you're looking for an accidental death, but something easy read which will deliver the inside story about the whole thing bothers Lowewhat ''really'' happened on certain occasions, and he enlists then this isn't the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters furtherbook for you. They travel across the country during their days off filmingIf that's what you're looking for, uncovering more possible murders andI don't think Anthony Seldon's book, seemingly{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a link compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to death during the Second World Warpolitics. But ''The Conservative Effect'' is there really an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a link between series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209situation in 2024.

|isbnauthor=B0CYV674G2Jenny Valentine|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David BlakeUs in the Before and After|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It seemed like an open-Elk and-shut case. A manMab are best friends, or more than that even, covered their friendship is a once in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasnlifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't killed the man. A body get each other's contact details at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to deathtime. DCI John Tanner is just But then chance brings them back from his honeymoontogether, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samanthaand they are inseparable. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at now they must work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at homethrough their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Onyi NwabineliMariana Enriquez|title=Allow Me 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: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to Introduce Myselfan urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the worldcountry's most famous living artist, thanks was not going to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social mediashow up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, where she posted every step he arrived in the nick of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer deals , you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair andproceeded to spray Bruce in the face, basicallywhilst shouting ''Stop the War''. It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, monetary gainbut this was different. Now Anuri is in her twenties The can had been laced with cyanide, and Sir Max Bruce was dead.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ariel Saramandi|title=Portrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and she is slowly trying Society|summary=In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to regain her confidence intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to get her expose how these legacies still shape modern life back. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting'', suing her step-mother to take down a blunt yet apt metaphor for the content systemic decay brought about herby the malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Anuri is battling alcoholismEach essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, failing to start her PhDcharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Pekka Harju-Autti|title=LoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's the eighteenth century, undergoing therapy a time of discovery and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing soBritain is expanding its foreign trade. Most importantlyCaptain Julius Hawthorne, she is desperately worried about her little sisteran experienced Scottish sea captain, who is sent to the new focus of Ophelia's online empireAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Can she save her sisterAlong with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and perhaps herself stunning in their scenery and her relationship with her father at the same time?islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=0861546873B0DS1VGHH3

|author=David ChadwickHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Headload of NapalmLili is Crying

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= It's September 1973 First published in Hicks1953 in French, California. Hicks this novel is a Mojave desert town timeless text which wrenches the hearts of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and Las Vegas both a significant drive awaypositions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are Like the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much lives of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiether characters, until...they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn= B0D321VJ761804271675

|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia Guadalupe Nettel and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsAccidentals

|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=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 child beneath a doorway. There This collection was no skull. Was this a 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 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 sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The 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 truly enchanting in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body all senses 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's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works word: spellbinding with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's 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 halt. Now, her mother, Helenaits fantastical, magical elements and her father are dead charming in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning its gentle portrayal of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan nature and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicioushuman relationships. What looked as though it was going to be an open-Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's bossprecisely, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is her stories structured by a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward wisdom that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left appears to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned want to teach us something about the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing projectworld. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X1804271470