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|isbn=1405951680B0CK3MYJ56|title=The Safe HouseResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Cameron WardAnn Macarthur

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to caretake have a luxury property high-flying job in the Australian outback for city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a couple private investigator. 'Shades of monthsCameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience that backs up this profession? After On the problems sheother 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'd had s been written off as a tragic accident at workan unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, it seemed like just the break Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she neededcould come to fall in front of a train. She was no longer Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 data analyst for hanging of some pirates in the Metropolitan police in London: town, she was Jess who was returning decides to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the country hands of two vicious pirates. She hides away, so that they don't find and kill her birth too, and in need of the space then to escape them completely she runs away to get over sea, dressing as a boy and joining the traumatic end of her relationship with Charlesnotorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. A few weeks She soon finds herself in the Otway Ranges thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in Victoria sounded like just her rip roaring tale of life on the ticketocean waves.|isbn=0861547438

|author=Rachel HarrisonTananarive Due|title=Bad DollsThe Reformatory|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesHistorical Fiction|summary=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 been some time since I've read any horrora place with a brutal and dark reputation. I had But the segregated reformatory is a couple chamber of misspent teen years reading Stephen Kinghorrors, borrowing haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the books from a boy I fancied at school governor and scaring myself half silly with them to his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the point that I couldnschool't shut my bedroom curtains at night s 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 fear a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of the vampires outside! a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. DonHe't worry - this short story collection isns asthmatic and the more you read, the more you't like ll suspect that! he's on the autistic spectrum. It doesnSometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she't have those jump scares, s a frequent flier in the local A&E and I didnsometimes Bo't have s not fit enough to go to read it during daylight hours only! school. But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from the fact that these school are stories about women, living normal lives, occasions when Jamie can be controlled and that at least put in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, wrong. It was going to come to a hen party and a coping with griefhead.|isbn=1803363932

|isbnauthor=1394159544Harry Allen|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerChildren of the Sun

|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is a talented singer.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 Life is hard and 2 years food is difficult to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducingcome by, reusing so Seo and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time her friends Nari and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other handMin go foraging every evening, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) for tree bark and dropping it in edible grasses to supplement the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - meagre rations of rice and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling biblekimchi at home.s|isbn=1805140493

|author=Lauren St JohnEdel Rodriguez|title=Finding WonderWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=Confident ReadersGraphic Novels|summary=RooWe's life re in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has become almost impossibly difficultproven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. Her mum died when she was youngWell, and now she finds herself awoken those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't in the middle happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be the night by good soldier the police banging on her door country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his way successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the corner shop kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=K P O'Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to buy a lottery ticketunderstand who she is. When asked what other family she hasUnfortunately, before she can only name her auntcould find any answers, Jonithe world ended, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations ofDrexel and Renada. But she has no one elseOver half-a-century later, and so off she goes civilisation is starting to live with her unreliable auntrebuild. Things Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue to get worse for Rooher father's legacy, as when she building a world where machines and Joni leave London humans can live together in Joni's old campervanharmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it breaks all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the middle of nowhere slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=0571376169B0CKRYFRZM

|isbn=14483097431838954481|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Misper|author=Caro RamsayKate London

|summary=In Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the village fifteen-year-old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of Cronchie on the West coast jury system he was found not guilty of Scotland, five members both the murder and the manslaughter of a wealthy family are found murderedthe officer. And so lives must go on. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says For DI Sarah Collins that if means leaving the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but capital and hoping for a quieter life in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald countryside but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan a missing teenager is pulled in to found on her territory she'shadow' hims drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|authorisbn= Kay Chronister1035025299|title= Desert CreaturesWent to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina Stibbe|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian FictionAutobiography|summary= With a world that Nina Stibbe is becoming increasingly inhospitable returning to London for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way sabbatical after being away for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fearstwenty years. She's been at Victoria'Desert Creaturess smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writing, as there' by Kay Chronister is a new work of posts always something smallholding happening -apocalyptic fiction that aligns many as you might expect. The other side of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a shocking novel that still manages to find hopevery reasonable rent.|isbn=1803364998

|authorisbn=Christopher FowlerB0CKD1L5JL|title=Word MonkeyRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=54|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= It's Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the first of August strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the middle forests of a cool wet summer in East AngliaWashington's Olympic Peninsula. I decided not to swim at the pool After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed 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 he actually is at that point, because rarely heard voices he does. He didencounters.|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 Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.}} {{Frontpage|author=Judith Eagle|title=The Stolen SongbirdFelix Francis

|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road rostrum when she encountered Josie Fair. Shethe colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, toobut Peter Radway, was out celebrating her 45th birthdaythe chairman, only she was just with her husbandhadn't arrived, Walterso he continued his session. It turns out To say that not only are Alix he 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 Josie birthday twins, they Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were both born well-known and respected in St Mary's hospitalthe racing industry. That's where Jennings was in one of the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are cubicles in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends toilets when the two men came in and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on their conversation revealed that the other hand, holds her handbag close horse had been deliberately bid up to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too figure. Both were happythat they had insurance in place. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after allThe following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.

|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck TingleSarah Wilson|title=Camp DamascusThis One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured world

|genre=HorrorLifestyle|summary=Love 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; although humans continue that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be confused by this sentimentliving my one wild and precious life the way I want to. Gay conversion therapy Sarah Wilson is ongoingequally lucky. The UK government ruled out plans In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to make it a crime and, in think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received itbest life that we could be living. Although it Her answer is both a secular and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horroran unequivocal ''no, we are not''Camp Damascus. Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'I) could be doing more…And she' camps to show s effing furious about the reader the horror lurking withinfact that we are not.|isbn=1785633848

|isbn=18031363831839948493|title=Tin SoldiersA World of Dogs|author=David ChadwickCarlie Sorosiak and Luisa Uribe|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a cloudsucker for dogs. What actually happened out there is gossiped In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about and nobody is sure exactly what took placehuman beings. So, any book about dogs, but an act of heroism leading I'm going to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice sit down and disgrace seems devour. Then I'm going to be the consensusgo back and read it properly. Wat himself is keeping his cards close And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to his chest, as he always doesmy four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.

|isbn=B0C7J9D21B1405951680|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)The Safe House|author=A J LewisCameron Ward|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=When we first meet our heroJess Walker accepted an offer (OK, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of Beautiful Swallowsmonths. Idyllic as this might soundAfter the problems she'd had at work, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was bornseemed like just the break she needed. He's not been short of mothers, though - but She was no longer a data analyst for someone the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of his background her birth and in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult need of the space to obtain decent employment. The stint working with get over the preparation traumatic end of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatsher relationship with Charles. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some moneyA few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.

|author=Dean KoontzRachel Harrison|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}} {{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=ArkspireBad Dolls

|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=Two sisters, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheeseIt's been some time since I've read any horror. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one I had a couple of the religious districts of Arkspiremisspent teen years reading Stephen King, perhaps even to become borrowing the child in line books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to inherit the power point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the Watchervampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, the closest and I didn't have to a ruler the district hasread it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and one I found most of that feeling came from the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in the magic fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But at least in finding something oddly magicalpart, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for goodthe horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, or for verytrying a new dieting app, very bad…going to a hen party and a coping with grief.|isbn=02415861431803363932

|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes1394159544|title=Old Gods New TricksRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Trixie''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil. Forever getting into scrapes'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, larks it will take between 6 months and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance2 years to decompose. But A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just when she's being told that by her one-last-chancepost-giving headteacher, the world changes. SuddenlyWWII baby, practically everything electronic stops working – I faced a power-outdilemma: reducing, even reusing and recycling is part of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolmy DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly''s come in handy now or in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that powers would serve the Internet, just for our convenience's sake)purpose. Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the power test of power from us. 'Is this absolutely essential?' And so she begins her epic questOn the other hand, to gather all the people I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that can steal something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Godskerbside bin. Yes, ie I could go searching on the semiinternet -deities, giants, halfand get conflicting advice -gods and so on known as the trickstersbut what I needed was a recycling bible.|isbn=178845295Xs

|author=Alexia CasaleLauren St John|title=Sing if you Can't DanceFinding Wonder|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=ItRoo's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability toohas become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of a dance performance the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that was going her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to change buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her lifedad didn't think very highly of. But she comes back fightinghas no one else, desperate and so off she goes to avoid the pity stares, and desperate live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get back to a life that's as normal worse for Roo, as when she can possibly manage. Meanwhile thereand Joni leave London in Joni's a new (cute!) boy old campervan, it breaks down in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day-to-day traumas middle of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. nowhere and then bursts into flames! So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?Poor Roo!|isbn=05713738010571376169

|authorisbn=Helen Peters1448309743|title=Friends and TraitorsThe Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=EnglandIn the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland, WW2five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. Two young girls are new at The only item missing from the country pile called Stanbrook. One home is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-pathsOtterburn House, death will follow. The girls only suspects are chalk and cheeseknown Satanists but in many ways, and if we hadnthat't guessed s an easy conclusion given that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it sotwo of them 'discovered' the body. But something The Senior Investigating Office is amissDCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, and first separately and then DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum to 'shadow'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedhim. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647