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|isbn=B097XNMCRK0241636604|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)Trading Game: A Confession|author=Neil LancasterGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=Loch Torridon It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'is'' the s back now because of beyond: therea request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's not even any light pollution which close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is why it was dead and the perfect place circumstances seem suspicious, to land illegal deliveries of drugssay the least. Jimmy McLeish thought that he Arthur was onto a nice little earner, only the reason why Freya had not been back to find that Maccathe village: Arthur, the man he thought he was working withshe feels, is deadlet her down badly. His remains would never Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be foundnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. The delivery is hijacked by Davie After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Callum. As married James (on the rebound from the story progresses we'll get to know them quite welllove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn= B09NDJ77LMAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Me All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and My ShadowAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Deborah StoneJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'What happens when someone is pushed too far and s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they begin 've been murdered, but to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that no one loved you? And how far would you go her father wants to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off move the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painfamily 'Down South'. When you'' Rachel re from Yorkshire, Down South is in a current conversation with her psychiatristfrightening, foreign place, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsbest avoided. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake For Miv, sometimes even contemptuous of the move would mean leaving herbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. You can see that it She's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachelworried about the dangers or that her Mum's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving claritystopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15294096591398524085|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elly GriffithsNicci French

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was some time since expected at her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhusband's belongingsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographHer children, sons Niall, taken in misty conditions Paul and Ollie and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'her daughter, some years before Ruth was bornEtty. It was before are all worried but - strangely - her parents were marriedhusband, Alec, is not. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the country was in lockdownriver. Ruth and Kate are restricted to It was an easy assumption for the cottage with Ruth attempting police to home school Kate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and continue with her university teaching dutiesthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they got to know whilst clapping for carerscan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=18479418341035906708|title=Atomic HabitsDiva|author=James ClearDaisy Goodwin

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=I've said this before We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but there are some books that you seek outshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, some books that you stumble across in December 1923 and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Atomic Habits'' to make it more manageable in the States. is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the last categoryNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WChristopher Edge|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps movie marathon at their local cinema, a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular place that has the United States government has made her its Ambassador nickname of Woke'The Black Hole'. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the governmentmovie starts, including they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the Shaming Conference and next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating cinema, and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''. Ouch!their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZRachel Greenlaw|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with ''I can hear the newspaper and song of the case she was covering was her big chancesea. It was even more important to her than The call of the celebrity wedding she was to attend deep, the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriend, Matthew. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel answering beat in the North Yorkshire countrysidemy heart. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phones.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838226834|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed Boxall|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=It was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much fun. A young boy was going to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him:

Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'It'll be brilliants father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, just remembershe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, donas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't let go s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of my handher home and the ones she holds most dear.''|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1529135362James Sherwood Metts|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was Things have been a long drive to bit sticky for the weekend retreat in NorthumbriaEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, right up near the Scottish borders often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to make it worse the three husbands had all - for one reason or another - had this technological change and starting to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each think of other for a long , new ways to spend time but Emily was a bit of , along came an outsiderawful pandemic. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she Life was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Mark, Toby pretty much shut down and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Wellalong with it, Rob's deadall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=gareth_steelMatthew Tree|title=We'll Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelKnow|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeLiterary Fiction|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be appropriate. Stories of different from his father, a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great drunk and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that the book is not suitable for younger readers chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and - after reading - I agree with himwho had endless crises of self confidence. He says that he's written it So Tim applied himself to inform and provoke thoughthis studies, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and distressing issues set himself high but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatingachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1787634884A G Slatter|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Our story opens in December 2019'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, before most all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of us had even heard the Briar's, a family of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a major issuesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. WeWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town're in Farley County Courts leader, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliEllie takes her place beside her. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major challenges come her way left, right and thatcentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, regardless putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the outcomeBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, this is not going to work out well for anyoneunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1529900360|title=The Language of FoodGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had the slightest inclination been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to boil an eggask for his help on difficult cases. When tasked with writing a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a local woman with psychologist only worked for a troubled home lifewhile. Together Finally, it was Robin, they testDelaware's partner, craftwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, refine and reshape though. Two lovers were murdered in the world swimming pool of domestic cookery, reinventing a remote property in Bel Air. He was the recipe book heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and changing it's not the face Italian. But which of cookery writing forever.|isbn=1398502227them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1529395224|title=LokiLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got Siôn Rowlands fell into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banishedveterinary science accidentally. And transformed – for Loki is spending His father was a month both in exile GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the physical form of a middlestrain that being on-school kid here call put on Earth. Hehis father's guarded by life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a giant and family friend who was a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular vet and more successful brother of was convinced this was the twojob for him. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation Before long, and get he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it dream since he has to write the text we read in was a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progresschild. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do If anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going he'd wanted to be a walk in the parkprofessional footballer...right?|isbn=1406399752

|isbn=00084544420861541774|title=A Flicker in the DarkNye of Pheasants|author=Stacy WillinghamSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's May 2019 close friend and Dr Chloe Davisformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a medical psychologistshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, is completing Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a session street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a new patientknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Lacey is suffering mentally Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but Chloe has hopes of getting her through the trauma. You see, Chloe knows what it's like evidence came to light that suggested that he might have a traumatic childhood. Her father is Richard Davis, planned to murder the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to Now he could be facing the policedeath penalty. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary and Chloie has had Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to do with him for the last twenty years. Her mother is in a care home.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which help as any interference from another police force could provoke a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, diplomatic incident and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What Iwouldn've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, t help Danny at all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|isbnauthor=1732898731Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese Perfect Passion Company

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=There was The Perfect Passion Company is a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art suppliesdating agency in Edinburgh, stuffed toys run by Ness and the like: operating as an alternative to all the things which most children have online apps in abundanceproviding a more personal, tailored service. The Boy's delight was in Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happybusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. As he grew Katie is coming out of a break up and became with a Manbad boyfriend, his life became more complicated and he dealt with so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this by getting bigger new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and better boxesthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Look carefully at the pictures Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and youthere'll see that one of them has s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a padlock...hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B09MN1526W0811771741|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Liz MistryMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's the third murder in the space of ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a few weeks and they've all been because collection of machetes used on teenagersknits from toys to blankets. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik Some will be quick knits - others are amongst of the first to arrive on 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradford. Only, this time, itfire's going to be differentvariety. The body appears to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, and she has a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there projects are similarities but divided by the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going time they'll take to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ally Wilkes|title=All the White Spaces|rating=4|genre=Horror|summary=In postcomplete -WWI Englandless than five hours, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathanfive to ten hours, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity ten to live life as his authentic self twenty hours and true gender, without more than twenty hours. All the disapproval and constraints of his parents. Howeverprojects are attractive, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past modern and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionuseable. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, I perhaps show my age when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tombI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1789097835

|title=QuicksilverThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetloses his job, for he's lived in loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a nunreally weird, disturbing coffin-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingsized object to his home, and now is starting a career on a needless magazineit's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden possible that whoever or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for something – call Benny it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him turns out that he go the delivery to his house is a derelict dinernew friend, find a gold coin worth a fortunebad weather friend called Spike, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for going on the lambeing a good person. And all this Spike is just in time for two going to take care of those typical Men in Black types to turn up Benny, and suggest hewill certainly take care of Benny's of interest to them. Helped to escapeenemies, if he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – Benny, and Harper (a whole lot more besideswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15420198851662500491

|isbnauthor=0008441618Adam Stower|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association Murray and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Ann Juckes|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleBun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jasper Murray is supposed to be a little boy who has some struggleshumble, tidy and whilst we're never told why exactlyfriendly cat, we can see that he has anxiety one who is able to sleep and eat and panic attacks, eat and has difficulty dealing with change sleep and big emotions, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. His big sister, Rosie But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a huge support to himhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, talking him down when things were difficultand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, encouraging himnot into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and writing whiffs. This time round it drops them into a book with himViking land, all about birdswhere a troll hunter is expected – well, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their businessone much bigger than Murray was, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University nowbe honest, she has promised him that she will still be there when but he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, s turned up and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen ll have to its song, as they do together every Spring.do…|isbn=13985108900008561249

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=Red is My HeartFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And so was this one, although I if you could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and isthe question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, black and white and redwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. Yes ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceOregon, and I think it's possible cautiously begins to say not one page lacks emerge from the restrictions imposed during the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183covid pandemic

|isbn=15291355671529431735|title=One Step Too FarThe Winter Visitor|author=Lisa GardnerJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's five years since the stag weekend. Five of them had set out: Tim (the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didn't come the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Tim's father, Martin, and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Tim.}}{{Frontpage|author=Gunnar Staalesen|title=Bitter Flowers|rating=3.5

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab It's February 1991 and Essex is now returning to work. Howeverbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the quiet job hemore surprising. He's supposedly taken d been exiled on caretaking someonethe Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's house quickly turns into had a murder investigationletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and a mystery around a missing womanhasn't long to live. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear It's hard to be linked, but what feel any sympathy when Hopkins is the linkabducted, stripped to his underwear and how can Varg possibly unravel sent to a watery grave in the truthboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=191319308X

|author=Kia AhankoobAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament Glorious Race of SentinelsMagical Beasts

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with different powershim, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating evening a dynamic helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and prosperous societyruns. Each power Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriadgeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and parents were both lost to the eight countries went titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding navigate the world in the cost company of war too high, a solution is proposedmagical beast. Each of This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eight countries will send their greatest warriorseatery leads to a confession from gran, known as sentinelsEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession with the sole aim the prize of all magic at the rings and become end – the supreme ruler of Dunivaonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV0571382231

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps178763681X|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet TomasChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Happy He didn't really want to work with his father in but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the blacksmith's forge, impression that he's almost of d be at the age school to become assist Paul, who had a full apprenticebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there problems - are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except.all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Strange signals from within Unfortunately, he was the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in person who discovered the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, body and everyone knows that Tom is rare in the ability police consider that person to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with thembe the prime suspect...|isbn=1839940026

|isbnauthor=1529346541Sarah Marsh|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at After a bout of scarlet fever as a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systemchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a representative from the NHSworld of silence, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakereverything about her life changes. It follows on from Living in a time when the success use of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used sent to highlight an area which a school where she is causing concern in some communitiestaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful From here, she could be as ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the problem seems to occur in Nigerian deaf and Somali communities as she relies using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on getting the trust other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the people she speaks to and photographsespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1803816759|title=ShadebringerThe Unravelling|author=Grayson W HooperWill Gibson

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. HeIt's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor 2038 and Joe is he particularly interested in a career in bored cop policing the militarywealthy and peaceful New York City. If he's honest - which Clyde usually isJoe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, with himself at least - he hasn't got making life easier for many choices , and this one, at leastriots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets him out to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rut he's inrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. HeJoe isn's good in training t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training coursealso on the case. HeWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's chuffed with himself.kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1529421284|title=The Mermaid in Laying Out the MillpondBones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herselfa heatwave. Neither will there be In a friend for her in amongst all the other kidsgully, who have had their entire childhoods sold a human skeleton came to the mill-owners by surface and forensic testing proved the London workhouse they used body to call homebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in He'd been a hand-to-mouthknown drug user and had learning disabilities, every man for himself kind so it could have been a simple case of existencemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. But despite herself Bess does find Geary was a bit townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of a kindred spirit in Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the slight little Dot, time. Lockyer and despite everything DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that life has taught her about betrayal 's cold cases to you and how befriending me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people only leads to harm. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, there built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might be a glimmer look, it's stood the passage of companionship time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the tired-out mill workersrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. But surely People don't believe that doesnthey't mean re related, much less twins and there 's an assumption when Max is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xout with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=17856330741529425867|title=Staggering HubrisLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Josh BerrySimon Mason

|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Members In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Parliament like us to believe that the country Ryan and father of Ryan, is run by politiciansnot. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, headed by the Prime minister - the barely educated (reading's not 'primus inter pares'really' (that's for those his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of you who are Eton shell suits and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'primere being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentre not. We The two men are in the privileged position just different sides of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of same policing coin. Sometimes the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020combination works brilliantly well. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watchSometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4Mosby Woods|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithWhirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=When The West isn't the world dominant force it once was made, . Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the animals were given giftsbest course of action. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protectorGovernments are flailing. Water Spider received A war here, a strong web that even fire could not burnpush for climate action there. Owl had excellent sight so A feeling that he could see the present ''and'' the futurenobody is in actual charge. Rabbit developed intelligence - butImagine then, unfortunately, not there was a man with precognition. Imagine the ability to use it well. He liked to trick other animalsstrategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. He was also jealous which was how he came to That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in a race with Turtlehistory. You might think Imagine then, that's not a fair contest but wait and seethis man loses this ability. Things are not always as they seem. I'll tell you how What would governments do to get it came about.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1