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|isbn=B005FM76AA1806344777|title=The DukeArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's ChildrenAble Adventures|author=Anthony TrollopeRob Keeley

|genre=Literary FictionFor Sharing|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news Arthur dreams of adventures. He looks out of his window each day and thinks of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliserthe escapades he could have, the Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief places he could go and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officethings he could see. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which His favourite day is easier said than done when none of them wishes to Saturday because that''be'' guided. Silverbridge (s the day his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) friend Maxine - she of the booming laugh and Gerald are destined silver bangles - comes to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sumsvisit. Lady Helen has fallen Maxine is a great believer in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos power of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayimagination.

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky1035043092|title=The Last GirlKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a new girl at Manchester Preplife on Orkney. A school filled to the brim It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belongdaughter of his former partner. She Willow's not richalso his boss, and she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all''should'' be on maternity leave, she spends but when the majority body of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect withpopular islander, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleArchie Stout, and unless someone screamsis found, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalateaftermath of a storm, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurtcan't resist getting involved. When He'd been battered about the competition then takes head with a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too lateNeolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|isbn=0755501527

|title=Fifty SoundsWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Polly Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while s debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and if governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from London to Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this yearprocess of localisation, but I am not hopefulrewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a new audience. And like Bartontreats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect striving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged, its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. From this, the novel opens out into a wider, resonant question : to what extent do we translate ourselves in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as beingorder to be understood, among other thingsaccepted, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.or loved?|isbn=19130975011804272175

|authorisbn=Lucy HollandZabriskie1|title=SistersongA Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Literary Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , or process the modern retelling world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. They were understood as natural variations of folk human intelligence and fairy talesawareness, each holding value within the community. These stories, for most of us, are '' This lovely story is a cornerstone synthesis of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdatedtradition, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of womenwhich was carried down through generations by oral retellings. Sistersong It shows that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a perfect example range of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled people with caredifferent skills and different personalities, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters all contributing to come to life, a whole that combines them all and to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece benefit of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endthem all.|isbn=1529039037

|isbn=15291242551787333175|title=The WhispersYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Heidi PerksBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=We know straight away that thereI was tempted to read ''You Don's going t Have to be a body. ItMad to Work Here''s on the beach under Crayneafter enjoying Adam Kay's Cliff near first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the town workings of Clearwater the NHS, humour and itautobiography. 's new year's day. To understand what happened weYou Don're going t Have to have to go back to the previous Septemberbe Mad... Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to her home town to livemental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, laughter is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in directed at a disenfranchised town dominated by situation rather than a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food person and treats, it is always delivered with empathy and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak..understanding.|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeDisappearing Act

|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke Despite her anonymisation of Omniumplace names and people, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heStepanova's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise message in this short work of Ferdinand Lopezautofiction is unmistakable. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explain. The ladies town of society, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser F for a literary festival she is placed in the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses be a guest speaker at. Detoured by-election. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt him.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics erratic train schedules and Society|summary=''When we do think about animalsnudged by forces beyond her control, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so onher journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. And we assign them places Swept up in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions this series of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhereevents,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going M eventually offers to argue. I mean, cows are step in for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meata circus performer who has unexpectedly left the show...) The train functions as a motif of transience and I much prefer my elephants in impermanence, while the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for circus embodies the sake reshaping of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - identity and I consider myself a retreat into fantasy, an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and impulse that lies at the company very heart of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablenovel form itself.|isbn=1804272329

|authorisbn=Jessie GreengrassB0GFQ81YQK|title=The High HouseHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Literary Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved Before people came and joined the animals, there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the earth and the sky began to tal to pass on its genetic material with each other. First, the implied belief that your progeny will earth created bodies. And then pass on theirs, the sky breathed life into them. HoweverThese were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and remembered, that train of thought is slowly seems especially how they came to have fallen out of favourbe. Today's young generation are discovering that When they grew old and died, their parents bodies returned to the earth and their parents' parents did not seem life returned to think that far aheadthe sky. Or they did think And that far ahead is why the earth and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrasssky are both revered. This is not a science-fiction novelOnly together can they create human beings. This And that is our reality. This is the life our children why people must pay attention to, and their children will have to livecare for, both.|isbn=1800750072

|authorisbn=Ruth HoganB0GHPMNF6P|title=Madame BurovaThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970sWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum quits his Canary Wharf finance job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, take over the third generation running of Madame Burova, the family's farm zoo. He'Tarots not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-Readerage stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothsuddenly life is no longer quite what it seems. The singer, Then the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a revamped holiday campbird, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last daya dragon! Now he, fifty years laterEdgar, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is shehis mother Abi, and who delivered the secrets about her zoo's part-time café waitress Pearl have to Imeldaraise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and why did not being able to tell anyone about it have to remain a secret all . But this time?|isbn=152937331Xtiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…

|author= Jonathan StroudStephanie Zabriskie|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders|rating= 45|genre= TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Scarlett McCain ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is an outlaw, rejecting a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the draconian conformity oral traditions of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of BritainMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself aliveTanzania. But then she meets Albert Browne, '' The Maasai are a dark boy with dark powers cattle-herding people and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them this story writes down, its oral tradition explaining how they plan to flee came to be so. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the mythical Free Isles whole story of the London Lagoon. Togetherintimate and symbiotic connection its people, they must brave man-eating wildlifeand especially its women, the cannibalistic Tainted have with their cows and all for the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach natural world. The oral tradition retelling the Free Islesmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?does.|isbn=1406394815B0G9WTGY6J

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SLivi Michael|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo Elizabeth and Caroline SiegalRuth|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingHistorical Fiction|summary=Remy ''Elizabeth and Ruth'' is feeling miserablea work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), a radical critique of the treatment of the working class published under a pseudonym. HeThe 's let himself down 'Ruth'again'from Livi Michael'. The school bully Jaydens title appears in her novel as Pasley, together with his sidekicks Ryan a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a child and Brandon, have been laughing finds herself in Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyeslife. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see Set in Manchester between 1839 and then push him just that little bit further when 1842, the novel examines the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was harsh conditions endured by the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school Victorian working poor and interrogates the teachers don't believe him when he tries extent to explain what happenedwhich the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=1784633682

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Makenna Goodman|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeHelen of Nowhere

|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved The protagonist, a paying position he fell out with those who provided disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his income career and returned to Ireland where he married Maryhis relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his childhood sweetheartdiscomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. He was fortunate to get The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he's considering, Helen represents a job volta in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a his life of domesticity, her past tied to his potential fresh start. To bring Finn backThe realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the right time to allow reader gets the move to be possiblesense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205

|authorisbn=Dean KoontzB0GCB1MQ7D|title=The Other EmilyWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=45|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsI have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. ItWith 's the western coast wecelebrities're concerned with, there's frequently a place he has to return tobook they might or might not have written, and a place he has to be able to leavewhich might or might not tell the true story. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. HeIt's paying for contact with the man he thinks not often that you find a book that gives the only suspectfull backstory, and rarely do you discover a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, memoir where the telling is so perfect that you'll go back and has a dozen reread paragraphs and more unfound Jane Does on his recordsentences, just for the pleasure the words give. David ''Why My Mother Went Away'' is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availone of those rare exceptions. HeIt's also having the story of how a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into boy from the Midlands, born at the restaurant walks beginning of the sheer spitting imageSecond World War, the very embodimentwould become a Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, he was one of the virtual resurrection, founders of his lovethe department. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|author=Charlie CarrollJeremy Cooper|title=The LipDiscord|rating=3.5

|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the name novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is evocative of…probably a force of whatever we want it nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. The two, predictably, don't always see eye to beeye, their approaches different and maybe thatEvie's the pointprogressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. To me the name sings of English folk musicHowever, but even in my use something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetfragile alliance formed within the clamour. |isbn=15293341791804272264

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellTom Percival|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankWrong Shoes

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWill're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening s life is difficult, in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'poof, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but t have enough money for even the entire south-western village most basic of Mouseholethings like food, and not just that, either, but his dad can't work because he lost his job at the whole countrycollege, if not worldwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Suddenly people Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen backseparated, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Toasters can toastAnd yet, but TVs cannot do the V part he still has a tiny amount of their job, and no computer can show its computationshope. You might think this He is going good at art, and clings to be the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a social comedy about people stuck in such light at the end of a Luddite experience against their willlong, but nodark tunnel. For |isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Edward W Said|title=Representations of the family finally remember StellaIntellectual |rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Edward Said's grandma, ''Representations of the Intellectual'' is less a strict theory of what intellectuals are and see if more a passionate argument for what they can get across country to hershould be. Hence this has to go down Said clearly rejects the comfortable image of the intellectual as a road-trip bookdetached expert speaking only to other specialists. But not just thatInstead, he insists on the intellectual as a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatpublic figure, often awkward, too – for it's a slapstickabrasive, high-dramaand unpopular, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovewho speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=14711968871804272248

|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=19131935271786482126|title=Bound The Janus Stone (Detective Sam ShephardDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Vanda SymonElly Griffiths

|summary=Dunedin Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was shocked going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when it heard of they discovered the murder bones of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffchild beneath a doorway. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she There was forced to watch the no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the scene being discovered by their sonDCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, Declanbut Nelson doesn't, when he returned home from an evening out. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalthree months ago. His companyHer condition will be obvious before long, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedsickness.

|isbn=15291091160008551375|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's JourneyWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Hannah JacksonNeil Lancaster

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Leanne Wilson''I want s body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the image result of a British farmer to simply be tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a person who stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is proudly employed in feeding certain there's a killer on the nationloose.}}{{Frontpage|author=Paul B Preciado|title=Dysphoria Mundi|rating=4. I don5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''t think that It is never too much late to ask.embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''

The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to what he really wants the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born epistemological and political crack we are living through, and brought up on the Wirral: shetension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love . The whole text is framed against the backdrop of animals. Her original intention was the Covid-19 pandemic as that she would become 'Dr Jacksonwhich has catalysed this revolution, whale scientist' and she was well on her way when dysphoria began to achieving this when her life changed emerge on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born andglobal scale, although or as ''pangea covidica'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of her original intentionweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, she knew that she wanted Preciado urges his readers to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition'use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=1804271454

|isbnauthor=0857527231Samantha Harvey|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerOrbital|rating=4.5

|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wifeIn 2024, Ellen, died and it's Samantha Harvey won the first time that sheBooker Prize for 's let him down. He's lost, bereft without her ( he Orbital''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the doorstep, he'd much rather have lives of a good row with someone. He's particularly angry about group of astronauts aboard the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she diedInternational Space Station. She even dared to contradict him when he told her Through a narrative lens that mirrors the dog wasnastronauts't staying. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who are trying orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to interfere see our planet in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themwholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=B003UH99X4295967572X|title=The Eustace DiamondsPale Pieces|author=Anthony TrollopeG M Stevens

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come Our unnamed narrator is about to regret begin a train journey with his marriage but he didncompanion Django. Where they't live long enough for re going and what the purpose of this to become a problem. After his death, his wifejourney is, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husband's executorsis uncertain. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although Django found the precise circumstances of tickets ''on the giving varied from telling floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to tellingaccompany him. Lady Eustace was Why not a woman ? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to whom truth meant the station by coach and the train is a great deal. All that was important to her now, she maintained, was her son. And, of course, her diamondssteam locomotive.

|isbn=15290473150008551324|title=The LamplightersDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emma StonexNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|author=Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Tower

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''A fisherman told him once about How unctuous are the sea having two faces. You have to take them both, he said, the good and the badfats of another's life, and never turn your back on either one of them.how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''.

In 1972this compelling novel, fifteen miles off Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the coast identity of CornwallT, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in 'the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''. Jory Martin had taken out story of a relief keepersecond protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the weather such that ''daughter of a wealthy family in the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a bath toy over the waveletstower, captures T's imagination. Annie' but they were unable s fate is, above all, an enticing story to get any response from the Maiden RockT. It was broken into the next dayis a story which she consumes avariciously, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for both in a meal quest for two - truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was brokenfantasy. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the men.|isbn=1804271799

|author=Mary H K ChoiClaire-Louise Bennett|title=YolkBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatIt's barely getting bysixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She drinkswas never found and the investigation ground to a halt. She smokes Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. She makes bad decisions Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the men she sleeps withpositioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She's What looked as though it was going to be an allopen-round messy character; and -shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and her charmtone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. JuneErnaux writes in direct address to her sister, on the other handhowever, is a complete contrast to Jaynethis letter will never reach her. SheWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a typical older sister: shefew months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the author was even born. The large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's smartprocess of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, thinks an absence that she knows has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it allcan be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and has offers a successful jobvibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. She constantly criticises Jayne for her In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life choicesas it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog in the two have barely kept in contact despite living early morning discovered the body of a man in the same city park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the past two yearscare workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. This D I Vera Stanhope is until June finds out she's sickcalled in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, and Jayne fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the only person girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she can turn has to. The two sisters have find Chloe to come together and decide how far they'll go discover what happened to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesJosh.|isbn= 0349003696

|author=Saima MirOlga Tokarczuk|title=The KhanHouse of Day, House of Night

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by ''What's the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterit?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night''s wedding after fifteen years in self, somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -imposed exilethe small, she is at subtle changes which govern our lives, like the top of her gameshift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. Returning to But, the constant in that image is the city of her birthhouse, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for stoic against the future with her sense of honour and dutyancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=17860790971804271918

|isbn=00083368301836284683|title=Two WrongsThe Big Happy|author=Mel McGrathDavid Chadwick

|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when she saw I open a young woman looking as though she was going book, it's nothing like I expected it to jump from the Clifton suspension bridge. She talks to herbe, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smithit takes me on a wild ride. Nevis And that is unworldly and rather reserved - and she canjust what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't understand why Satnam hasnwant to ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but I't shared her problems with her. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken ll have to hospital and Nevis calls her mother, Honorat least set the scene. TheyOnce that've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right nows done, Nevis needs her motherI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Sally Rooney|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsIntermezzo

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a little conflictedgrandmaster at putting it into words. We start Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as our hero arrives at Bucharest airporther characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, and before we even know his gender or the nature of central one for readers to unravel is the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a narrationsocially awkward chess prodigy, we see him picked up by contrasts sharply with his motherolder brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's chauffeurpassing after a long battle with cancer, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daybrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials. |isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The mother was Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a businesswomanconscientious student, who clearly left northern Italy a slightly annoying brother and settled in Romania with her (night-time a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and business) partnerone at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and feelings she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of abandonment are still strongafternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended. And so we flit from current }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1009473085|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (wellEditors)|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this came out in isn't the original Italian in 2007book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, so moderately current) Bucharest{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to the ladpolitics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's childhood, the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and see just what he has to tell her co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a private farewell addressseries of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Jane LightbourneJenny Valentine|title= My Cat Called RedUs in the Before and After|rating= 45|genre=Emerging ReadersTeens|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates itElk and Mab are best friends, and the freckles or more than that go along with iteven, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. He They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's been bullied and mocked contact details at school because of it. ''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are meanthe time. But red hair is not Robin's only misery in lifethen chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. He's already lost his dad to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againtheir friendship, together.|isbn= 18382168121471196585