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|isbn=B0CC9W7GLRB0CK3MYJ56|title=On the Beach: The Winter VisitorResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaAnn Macarthur|rating=54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kit It's the 1990s and Teal were just beginning Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to wonder whether have a high-flying job in the city but it was better to wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be at homethinking. Nice bloke, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto where's the shoreline. life experience that backs up this profession? On top of the ice other hand, he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a polar beartragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. As the ice bumped onto the sandJoyce - and her parents, the bear woke Oliver and with wobbly legs moved from the ice. Kit Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was all for making doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then anothertrain. He obviously needed Greg's been asked to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleepinvestigate. What else would you do?

|author=Claire NorthKatherine Howe|title=House of OdysseusA True Account|rating=4.5|genre= Literary General Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to live with a family who run an inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a hanging of some pirates in the excellent town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In s death at the palace hands of Odysseustwo vicious pirates. She hides away, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without so that they don't find and kill her husbandtoo, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever to escape them completely she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and physical – joining the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithacanotorious Ned Low's shores, Queen Penelope is on the brink of pirate ship as a fragile peacecabin boy. One that shatters however with She soon finds herself in the return thick of Orestesthings when there is a mutiny on board, King and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refugelife on the ocean waves.|isbn=03565160750861547438

|isbnauthor=1529427045Tananarive Due|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffReformatory

|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=''Life has more Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to offer than people - prime numbers six months at the Gracetown School for example'Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. Lisbeth Salander has headed north In order to survive the small town of Gasskasschool governor and his Funhouse, where Robert must enlist the so-far-untapped natural resources help of the area school's ghosts – only they have sparked 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 gold rushman who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. The criminal underworld Jamie's son, Bo, 'has not been slow in coming forwardhis problems'. SalanderHe's nieceasthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's mother is the latest woman in on the area to have vanished without traceautistic spectrum. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her nieceSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager whofrequent flier in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's unaware of not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the part Salander played need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in her father's deaththe wrong. It was going to come to a head.

|isbnauthor=B0CCCPJJ5BHarry Allen|title=The Last Person in Children of the World|author=Matthew TreeSun|rating=45|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Our narrator was Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finnstalented singer. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder Life is hard and had money food is difficult to throw around on a Rolex watchcome by, vintage wines so Seo and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on edible grasses to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, supplement the UK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph meagre rations of rice and kimchi at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorset.|isbn=1805140493

|author=Dean KoontzEdel Rodriguez|title=The House at the End of the WorldWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=ThrillersGraphic Novels|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and feel that there is no one on your sideCastro, you can either suck it upfirst thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat not done nearly enough to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in create a small chain level playing field for all. Well, those hours-long speeches of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitudehis were kind of taking his time away. ThatOur narrator's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life family weren't in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and all would have been the aforementioned peace father being watched and watched, and solitude were it not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the pesky US Government occupying Ringrock, couple jobs with the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner party to ease some of mischief the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the name kind of heat forcing you out of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.kitchen…|isbn=16624531591474616720

|author=T KingfisherK P O'Donnell|title=ThornhedgeThe Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''You had VL-15, a right prototype robot, is desperate to retake your placeunderstand who she is.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a fairytale that -century later, civilisation is well known and well belovedstarting to rebuild. But whilst there Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a princess trapped world where machines and humans can live together in a towerharmony, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her storybut internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. InsteadCraig Anderson, our protagonist is Toadlingleader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, who was stolen away by fairies has his entire life turned upside down when she was he unearths a newprototype combat robot: none other than VL-born baby 15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and secreted away to the land of fairie where no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from on her veins and cast spells.quest for answers…|isbn=1803364238B0CKRYFRZM

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX1838954481|title=Stories 2The Misper|author=Richard F WalkerKate London

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary= This is Richard F WalkerRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's second volume of short storiesno doubt about that. There are thirteen in all He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun and I took something from each of thempointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve He pulled the trigger but due to be among the others or brings down vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the overall qualityofficer. It can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, And so Ilives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she'll just pick two to talk about s drawn into a wider investigation - and I think they give a general flavourback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=17876366071035025299|title=The TrapWent to London, Took the Dog|author=Catherine Ryan HowardNina Stibbe|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=It's Nina Stibbe is returning to London for a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking sabbatical after being away for a way to get hometwenty years. Some are lucky and manage She's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go writing, as far there's always something smallholding happening - as one of the outlying villagesyou might expect. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light other side of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her decision was sealed when a long way short room became available (courtesy of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesDeborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rent.

|isbn=1405957174B0CKD1L5JL|title=A Death at the PartyRadio Free Olympia|author=Amy StuartJeffrey Dunn

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=From Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the first pagestrange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, we know that Nadine Walshin the forests of Washington's party will not end wellOlympic Peninsula. The victim - After Bear dies and a man - is dying when we first meet him brief sojourn in human company, and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting the ambulance strange, wild and rarely heard voices he so desperately needs. What we don't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you a little more background so that you can understand what's happeningencounters.

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1635866243|title=Nowhere IslandThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth

|summary=Meet GilWe start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to 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 ready for school. Just twelveBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is so determined a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to escape the care system having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the system that constantly puts him in futureless places bully that are not homes – and find ruined a home birthday party for himselfOscar the other month. He is en route to yet another fostererAnd it can shapeshift, when so he jumps into an anonymous car, can take it to school and lets it ride can get him to his futureout of a problem. That future seems And it's wonderful to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings have around the house – but that someone lives with not limiting his brother in a camp on an island between biscuit intake, being much more lax about the two directions of a motorwayrules, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusionso on. ThemOK, and it can't work a mute girl also finding dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a home there, albeit so much more successfullywonderful time. 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=18045400800008596751

|isbn=0008530025B0BC3YTCMR|title=Murder in the FamilyGood Girls Die|author=Cara HunterAyura Ayira

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body three weeks short of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London homefifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years latertruth be told, no one has been charged with his murder and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's now the subject of contagious. It''Infamous'', s not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a truecrush on seventeen-year-crime showold Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and to take the investigation furtherReggie asked if she would tutor him. More to the point, they're going to do She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this live on camera, episode by episodewas just an extension. There's no dump of the whole box set - She went to his house and no shortage of cliffhangershe raped her. It's compelling viewingIn shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift home.

|author=Judith EagleV Castro|title=The Stolen SongbirdHaunting of Alejandra|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersHorror|summary=Caro's mother, 'This was a world-famous whistler, has failed part of her past that had to return home from stop with her recent work trip abroad and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnie, is having She would be the one to go up North to take care of confront this.'' At some point during her sister who is unwelllife, Alejandra lost herself. So who She feels as if she is going playing parts for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gamher own desires, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesown future, her own identity. Day by day she feels frustrated and confused and worriedgoes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment For invisible to all but Alejandra, there is a darkness threatening to practise consume her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst . More and more she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's housevisited by a ghost, along a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with an orphan boy, Albiewater, who is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up leaves distress in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peoplewake. 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=05713631481803365617

|isbnauthor=1529195977Richard Kadrey|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa JewellThe Pale House Devil|rating=54|genre=ThrillersHorror|summary=On her 45th birthdayFord and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, Alix Summer celebrated with though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a crowd couple of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. strange detectives! SheOne of them is living, tooyou see, was out celebrating her 45th birthdayand the other is undead, only she was just with her husbandand so one of them kills the living, Walterand the other kills the undead. It turns out that (Only not only are Alix and Josie birthday twinseach other, they were both born in St Mary's hospitalobviously). ThatThey's where the similarities endre on a job in New York that goes badly, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in and so they head out to the midst of West coast to try to lay low for a joyful, monied group of friends while and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselvesfind some other work to keep them going. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to her tummy and you get kill the sense that Walter's not too happy. Hesomething's not used that appears to spending this much money on be haunting a meal - but it is Josiewealthy gentleman's birthday after all.house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894

|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck TingleHelen Cooper|title=Camp DamascusThe Taming of the Cat

|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=Love is love; although humans continue 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're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be confused by this sentimentthe names of cheeses. Gay conversion therapy Anyway, Brie is ongoingshunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. The UK government ruled out plans to make They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it a crime as art and, in makes stories based on the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received visuals on it. Although it is both a secular And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in his new horrorthe mouse community, ''Camp Damascus''though, peels back as all the skin of Christian ''pray others had the gay away'' camps chance to show half-inch some cheese while the reader cat was distracted. But will the horror lurking within.story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010

|isbn=1803136383B0CDZRGT1M|title=Tin SoldiersSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=David ChadwickMark C Wallfisch

|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting ''Got a minute to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in Vietnam under something a flash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a cloud. What actually happened fully rounded little story if that story is 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 gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took placereally isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, but an act of heroism leading to author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be the consensusthree hundred word limit. Wat himself is keeping his cards close to his chest, as he always doesThat's about a single page in your average paperback.

|isbn=B0C7J9D21B1732898766|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=A J LewisWynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore Birpus and he Bulbus they're running for their lives at The House in the Forest of Beautiful SwallowsFine Repute. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was bornTheir greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's not been short of mothersright behind them, spewing hot, though - but for someone of sour milk from his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didnwon't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatsend well. ) Ettore was nothing if not resourceful Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and determined - when a ladder of moss and it vines was not long before he had a successful business as a guide lowered for visitorsthem, they escaped. He was even saving some moneyThey climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1472263936|title=After DeathThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=35

|summary= Michael MaceIt was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. She was alone: her mother, Head of SecurityGreek by birth, at a top secret biological research facilityhad left the family home and refused to return, is among 55 people who die when but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a virus is released pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in a bioup-hazard accidentmarket Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuaryShe grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, covered in plasticDina, he has a sense that something verybut was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, very bad has happened retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to him – and only him – as he sits up the Junta and looks around at the shrouded bodies of expected his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers family to uphold his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everythingvalues but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father'Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymores Scottish ancestors.|isbn=1662500467}}

|author=Jamie LittlerCody Goodfellow|title=ArkspireVertical|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheeseThere's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magicWho doesn't love a good view from up high, including relics from prior major wars left out in after all? Even the Badlands. Elodie drabbest office building is intent on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even somewhere I'm intrigued to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier warget inside if it's 40 stories tall. Being trained in the magic that only five So when I picked up this book – about people can use would definitely change the status of the whole familywho scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued. But 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=02415861431803363991

|author=Thiago de MoraesHannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Old Gods New TricksFinding Bear

|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with fart powder, a polar bear – that she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisancecalled Bear. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacherBack home, things on the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – domestic and family front are a power-outbit advanced, even of electric cars, hits but not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phonesperfect for her, and all that powers so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the Internet, just for our convenience's sake)islands Bear was last left on. Trixie, luckily, realises what For a bear doing very Bear-y things has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from usbeen shot and wounded. And so Desperate to make sure he's OK, she begins and her epic quest, father return to gather all the people Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can steal it back find one specific white and dangerous thing – namely the characters from myth and that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersfriendship can continue.|isbn=178845295X0008582017

|authorisbn=Alexia Casale1804183210|title=Sing if you Can't DanceNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=54|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=ItThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a lifet have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed -changing disability toocame up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say thathe was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her liferacing industry. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the pity stares, two men came in and desperate to get back their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to a life that's as normal as she can possibly managefigure. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy Both were happy that they had insurance in schoolplace. The following morning, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day-to-day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatehorse was dead in its stall. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801

|author=Helen PetersSarah Wilson|title=Friends This One Wild and TraitorsPrecious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=England, WW2. My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Two young girls are new at the country pile called StanbrookPrecisely this. '' One is Nancy, destined I'm lucky enough to be in service all her living my one wild and precious life it seems, like the female generations before herway I want to. The other Sarah Wilson is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-pathsequally lucky. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadnIn her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't guessed see that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the Lord Evesham must best life that we could be a rum 'unliving. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk Her answer is made of meetings with Germansan unequivocal ''no, and we are not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked''. But surely the girls are wrongDon't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, and the upper class I) could never be so underhand?doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.|isbn=17880046471785633848

|isbn=02419961041839948493|title=Coming to Find YouA World of Dogs|author=Jane CorryCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted In the interests of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the courtfull disclosure, after Martin receives I must tell you that I'm a life sentencesucker for dogs. The barrister tells her that sheIn nearly eight decades, I's received a ve never met one I didn'silent sentencet trust and I' - she's not been found guilty ve loved most of anything but will have to live with what happened for them. I wish I felt the rest of her lifesame about human beings. Of courseSo, itany book about dogs, I's made worse because Nancym going to sit down and devour. Then I's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - m going to go back and the papers are making the most of read itproperly. And so it was with ''Farmhouse slaughter daughterA World of Dogs'' is one favourite epithet and , with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokens learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

|isbn=15294136801405951680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Safe House|author=Martin WalkerCameron Ward

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friends. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong whenJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, Kerquelinactually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the man playing one Australian outback for a couple of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the scriptmonths. Luckily, his doctor is there and After the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as heproblems she's a senior government employeed had at work, it seemed like just the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped inbreak she needed. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Grant Cliveden She was no longer a herodata analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: a policeman she was Jess who stood for all that was good returning to the country of her birth and honest and looked up in need of the space to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at get over the Old Baileytraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. There's just one man A few weeks in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears Otway Ranges in court, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to Victoria sounded like just the contraryticket.

|author=Essie FoxRachel Harrison|title=The FascinationBad Dolls

|genre=Historical FictionShort Stories|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. ThereIt's such been some time since I've read any horror. I had a glut couple of media set in misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with it are familiar them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of being clichedthe vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, hackneyed even. All this is simply and I didn't have to illustrate that read it would be an easy thing to do poorly. during daylight hours only! But despite it is creepy, and I found most of thatfeeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as wella breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with grief.|isbn=19145855261803363932

|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1394159544|title=Death in Fine ConditionRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=35|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and in particular 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a series called Sleuth Hounddilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. She spends her time hunting out copies NEVER throw away anything that she can sell on for profit, sometimes might ''possibly'tweaking' them, to add value, come in handy now or in somewhat fraudulent waysthe future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the background test of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where Is this collection isabsolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and how she can steal dropping it! in the kerbside bin. It's a nextYes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice -level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947I needed was a recycling bible.s

|isbnauthor=1529507987Lauren St John|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Finding Wonder|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop'Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. It's my go-to programme Her mum died when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worth. You seeshe was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the value is in what these possessions are worth to middle of the people who own them and night by the memories they hold. No expense appears police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required corner shop to achieve the desired resultbuy a lottery ticket. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining When asked what it is theyother family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn're doingt think very highly of. But how did they start?}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicole Jarvis|title=A Portrait in Shadow|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Romeshe has no one else, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home and where so off she goes to live with her future can thrive rather than stagnateunreliable aunt. But as some Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademiaand Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the self-proclaimed guardians middle of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city nowhere and its citizens from plagues and curses. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=18033623400571376169

|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH1448309743|title=The Grave ListenersDevil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=William FrankCaro Ramsay

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The In the village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And of Cronchie on the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood West coast of the forest provides heat and warmthScotland, roofs on homes, and even gallows, if neededfive members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The fear of being buried alive only item missing from the home is an existential superstition in the village and Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is the reason Volushkaremoved from Otterburn House, a drunkendeath will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, self-indulgentthat's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, lazy lout of a man DCI Christine Caplan is toleratedpulled in to 'shadow' him.