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|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec1806344777|title=The WitchArthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's HeartAble Adventures|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyFor Sharing|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining Arthur dreams of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrbodaadventures. She hides in a forest at the edge He looks out of his window each day and thinks of all the nine worldsescapades he could have, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times places he could go and the things he could see. His favourite day is Saturday because of Odinthat's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before the day his friend Maxine - she was tied to of the stake—and refuses booming laugh and silver bangles - comes to leave her alonevisit. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and Maxine is a great believer in the two start an unusual family made power of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snakeimagination.|isbn=1789097061

|isbn=17885497591035043092|title=The Distant DeadKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Lesley ThomsonAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=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 life on Orkney. It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old Willow Reeves and their young son, WilliamJames, as well as Cassie, at home with her parentsthe daughter of his former partner. The boy thought that Maple was Willow's also his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacyboss, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and Williamshe ''should''s) be on maternity leave, but when the body of a better footing. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancépopular islander, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. LaterArchie Stout, her body would be is found , in the bombedaftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone -out home where he one of a pair - which had taken herbeen stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor=1529407249Polly Barton|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was July 2019 Polly Barton's debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that uses translation as both subject and Erin was happygoverning metaphor. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing The narrator, newly relocated from London to do when you're married Berlin, works translating video games into Japanese through the process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to a cop but she was hopefulnew audience. They'd been married for six months and life was good with Barton treats this as a decent apartment by the sea paradoxical act: arguably, in Newportstriving for universality, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was openedlanguage is endlessly repackaged, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple its originality at risk of other officersdisappearing altogether. Danny took one lookFrom this, turnedthe novel opens out into a wider, walked resonant question: to the open window and jumped what extent do we translate ourselves in order to his death from the fourth floor.be understood, accepted, or loved? Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.|isbn=1804272175

|isbn=1523092734Zabriskie1|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceVillage Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Community, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Eliza Van CortStephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Politics and SocietyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in her lifehow children learn, sense , or process the world were not treated as disorders to be corrected. Again They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and again and againawareness, each holding value within the community.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

''To claim space This lovely story is to live the life a synthesis of choosing unapologetically and bravelythat tradition, which was carried down through generations by oral retellings. It shows that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of human beings but by a range of people with different skills and different personalities, all contributing to a whole that combines them all and to live the life you've always wantedbenefit of them all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don''t Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular ScienceSometimes |summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in workings of the newsNHS, humour and autobiography. ''A WomenYou Don's Guide t Have to Claiming Spacebe Mad...'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskpromised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. Now - I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be clear - looking for humour in this book setting but the laughter is not directed at a situation rather than a 'how to disable your attacker person and it is always delivered with two simple jabs' manual: itempathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Disappearing Act|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's something far more effective, but discussion at message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the moment seems town of F for a literary festival she is to be about how women can be ''protected''a guest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. I've always thought that women need to rise above Swept up in thisseries of events, M eventually offers to be people step in for a circus performer who don't need protectionhas unexpectedly left the show. The train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, people who claim their own space. If all women did thiswhile the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove impulse that they are big menlies at the very heart of the novel form itself.|isbn=1804272329

|authorisbn=Darren ShanB0GFQ81YQK|title=Archibald Lox How the Sky and the Forgotten CryptEarth Made People: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 From the Oral Stories of 3Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroBefore people came and joined the animals, Archie, back in London in there was only the sky and the earth. Everything was quiet until the world of earth and the Bornsky began to tal to each other. It's not been easyFirst, explaining to his foster parents where he's beenthe earth created bodies. And then, or slipping back the sky breathed life into ordinary life them. These were the first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and forgetting about Inez learned and his other friends in the Mergeremembered, but Archie has done his bestespecially how they came to be.When they grew old and died, their bodies returned to the earth and their life returned to the sky.And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered.Only together can they create human beings. wellAnd that is why people must pay attention to, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except care for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away, both.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbn=0008444501B0GHPMNF6P|title=The Answer to EverythingZookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Luke KennardCarolyn Mathews|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husbandWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, Steven, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and donrunning of the family't even sleep in the same beds farm zoo. It isnHe't so s not expecting much excitement, until he receives an unidentified egg that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a bed with one of her children as cave in New Zealand, and suddenly life is no longer quite what it's seems. Then the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous egg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but they are a handful dragon! Now he, Edgar, his mother Abi, and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: itthe zoo's a trendy area that has been gentrified part-time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and not being able to tell anyone about it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…

|isbnauthor=0241985137Stephanie Zabriskie|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|genre=CrimeChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got 'How Maasai Women Spoke to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see Cows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the Principaloral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, Professor Hilary ReynoldsTanzania. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by '' The Maasai are a professor on a studentcattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing Cattle are status and wealth in the room before theyMaasai culture but this doesn'd even got t tell the details from whole story of the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' intimate and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters furthersymbiotic connection its people, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MPand especially its women, have with their cows and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by for the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersnatural world. When The oral tradition retelling the excrement encounters the ventilation equipmentmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, this is going to be ''very'' publicdoes.|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerLivi Michael|title=A Tattoo on my BrainElizabeth and Ruth

|genre=AutobiographyHistorical Fiction|summary=Alzheimer's 'Elizabeth and Ruth'' is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense work of historical fiction wrought from the life of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel diseasethe Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, best known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected radical critique of the elementstreatment of the working class published under a pseudonym. It seems The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in her novel as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is Pasley, a neurologist young Irish prostitute who was diagnosed with Alzheimers abandoned as a child and has documented his journey finds herself in Manchester''A Tattoo on my Brain''s New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at life. Set in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and interrogates the extent to which the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=11088389361784633682

|isbnauthor=1635862353Makenna Goodman|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryHelen of Nowhere

|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought It could be argued that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to be able to contain but I was intrigued-place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - The protagonist, a small fire destroyed some disgraced professor on the brink of her shoeslosing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. One pair had come apart The connection between Helen and she could see how the sandal was constructedprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. Then she realised that she couldnAs the former owner of the countryside house he't afford s considering, Helen represents a volta in his life, her past tied to replace all her shoeshis potential fresh start. Could she combine these two facts to create a new The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people describes her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if sheas ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''d make them a pair. A new career was bornAlthough she lives in an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205

|isbn=1787332098B0GCB1MQ7D|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Henry ManceAlan Kennedy

|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary=I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. With 'celebrities'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cowsthere's frequently a book they might or might not have written, dogswhich might or might not tell the true story. It's not often that you find a book that gives the full backstory, foxes, elephants and rarely do you discover a memoir where the telling is so on. And we assign them places in society: cows perfect that you'll go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, back and reread paragraphs and millions of wild animals stay out theresentences, just for the pleasure the words give. ''somewhere,Why My Mother Went Away''is one of those rare exceptions. It' hopefully on s the story of how a boy from the Midlands, born at the beginning of the Second World War, would become a Professor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, he was one of the founders of the next David Attenborough seriesdepartment.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Cooper|title=Discord|rating= 3.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas)

I was going The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Rebekah is an uptight, traditional and no-nonsense composer close to argueretirement, while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. I meanThe two, predictably, cows are for cheese (I couldndon't consider eating red meatalways see eye to eye, their approaches different and Evie's progressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning.However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways.) He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling doesn't have enough money for even the sake most basic of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in- hand job on a building site and I consider myself had an animal loveraccident. If I had to choose between Throw into that mix the company of humans fact that his mum and the company of animalsdad are separated, I would probably choose the animalsand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctantAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. I eat cheese, eggsHe is good at art, chicken and fish and I needed clings to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected the moments of joy when he is drawing, that making feel like a light at the decision would not be comfortableend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Ananda DeviEdward W Said|title=Eve Out Representations of Her Ruinsthe Intellectual |rating=4.5|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out Edward Said's ''Representations of Her Ruins the Intellectual'' is one less a strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a passionate argument for what they should be. Said clearly rejects the shortest books I've read in a long while, but it's one comfortable image of the most dramatic. It's also told in intellectual as a way that I can detached expert speaking only describe to other specialists. Instead, he insists on the intellectual as brutal: it spares nothing a public figure, often awkward, abrasive, and pulls very few punchesunpopular, the descriptions stark and unromanticwho speaks truth to power even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=09930093441804272248}}

|isbnauthor=0241985137Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on are few greater joys than a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just book which lives up to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerscompelling premise. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, And this is going to be ''very'' publicone of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=07535583781786482126|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Greg McKeownElly Griffiths

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'The marginal return apartments - when they discovered the bones of working harder a child beneath a doorway. There wasno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, in fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnisDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked fordifficult as Ruth knows, struggling throughbut Nelson doesn't, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost she is pregnant with his health and his job had little value. He made child as a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make result of the one night they spent together some changesthree months ago. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you seeHer condition will be obvious before long, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breakleast because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.''

|isbn=14711814050008551375|title=NighthawkingWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Russ ThomasNeil Lancaster

|summary=SheffieldLeanne Wilson's [http://wwwbody was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a tragic accident.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you She'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of as an industrial city unpleasant relationship, but this it looked like she was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discoveredliving her best life now. It Then it emerged that five other women had obviously been buried died in one of the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been similar circumstances in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearslast year. The police need to establish who stabbed her - All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyessensible people. DCI Diane Jordan is None of the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They're joined by were all alone when they died: DS Guy Daley whoMax Craigie is certain there's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesa killer on the loose.

|author= Jennifer Saint Paul B Preciado|title= Ariadne Dysphoria Mundi|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction Politics and Society|summary= This re-telling ''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of the myth childhood''  Through this hybrid text, consisting of Ariadne arias, letters, essays and the Minotaur is interesting autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the story new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a way that sign of political apathy. Rather, it is sympathetic the proportional, valid response to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. Saint's narrative The whole text is told predominantly through framed against the viewpoint backdrop of Ariadnethe Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, spanning from her childhood when dysphoria began to her deathemerge on a global scale, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne or as a character in her own right rather ''pangea covidica''. Rather than just taking this extreme dysphoria as a prop in the heroics sign of Theseusweakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn=14722738691804271454}}

|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah HorneSamantha Harvey|title=Monster DoughnutsOrbital

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedIn 2024, Grace and Danni have been left to run Samantha Harvey won the family bakery. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes Booker Prize for a rather unusual reason...even though she's only ten years old'Orbital'', she is a monster hunter! Monsters have compact yet profound work that unfolds over a very sweet tooth, and Grace uses single day in the lives of a number group of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a sweet treat narrative lens that will, ultimately, be their demise. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesnmirrors the astronauts't seem to explode as the other monsters doorbital perspective, and so things start Harvey invites readers to get very strange…see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=18481294321529922933

|isbn=0995647895295967572X|title=Sadie and the Sea DogsPale Pieces|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceG M Stevens|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=SadieOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on re going and what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarkpurpose of this journey is, is uncertain. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in Django found the gloom,tickets ''<br>''To on the Maritime Museumfloor somewhere''and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's past as the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed pair travel to the closing bell station by coach and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in train is a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasuresteam locomotive.

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal0008551324|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to terms with approach the fact that she may be in constant pain police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the rest of her lifeother. She joins But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group s prepared to tell the police where she talks to the body of a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnessesmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. They talk about their troubles and help each other out This person, he promises, while also providing an escape to just joke is someone big and mess aroundit will be worth the police doing what he wants. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car remainder of his sentence and drive to Brigid's house get an early parole date. Not much to check up on her. But what she ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – think so and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking 's even prepared to online for do the past few monthsother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1683692349

|author=Mercedes HelnweinThea Lenarduzzi|title=SlingshotThe Tower|rating=35|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being lonely. As told, the story of a secret illegitimate second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a man with a "real" wealthy familyin the 19th century, she is used to not who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a priority in peopletower, captures T's livesimagination. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshotAnnie's fate is, above all, her simple existence an enticing story to T. It is changed for good. No longer can a story which she spend her time writing novels consumes avariciously, both in solitudea quest for truth and knowledge, for her life now has a boy and in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldservice of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=152905818X1804271799

|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is deadsteeped in anguish and distortion. Her husbandEven a kiss, Plantagenet Palliserusually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, the Duke becomes evidence of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at love lost. When the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime ministernarrator cries out internally, or even in office. He seeks to protect ''come over here and guide his three adult childrenkiss me, which '' it is easier said less an invitation than done when none of them wishes a desperate attempt to ''be'' guidedconfirm her emotional numbness. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debtsThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry her ex- Frank Tregearpartner, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about ghost she conjures to learn that parents do not always get their waytest her detachment.|isbn=1804271934

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky0008405026|title=The Last GirlA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled investigation ground to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belonga halt. She's not rich Now, her mother, she has no ties to some royal family in SerbiaHelena, and most of allher father are dead in their bed. Initially, she spends it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the majority positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her spare time watching horror movies boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a source of comfortcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the 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. She struggles I've never really wanted to find anyone to connect withthink about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, until but this raw epistolary text must be one day she stumbles upon of the Mary Shelley Clubmost intimate accounts I've read. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank Ernaux writes in true horror movie styledirect address to her sister, and unless someone screamshowever, you have failedthis letter will never reach her. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the competitionauthor was even born. But as The large and instant void created by the pranks escalatejarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, and Rachel finally feels like an absence that she has found her place in 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 can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this schoolperspective, things start to go wrong; and offers a masked figure keeps showing up vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to the prankshis friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is, and people begin but of what you yourself imagine it to get hurtbe. When the competition then takes a deadly turnWhom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is before it?''s too late. 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=07555015271804271977

|authorisbn=Polly Barton1529077745|title=Fifty SoundsThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself startsA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, with a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for care workers who was due to work a while and if shift the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, night before but I am not hopefulwho had never turned up. And like Barton, D I don't know the answer Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the question ''why Japan?'' She explains murder - but her feelings in respect only clue is the disappearance of one of the question in residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the first essay, which death but Vera thinks this is on unlikely as the sound girl''giro' '' – which s diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have has to find Chloe to discover what happened to introduce yourself''Josh.|isbn=1913097501

|author=Lucy HollandOlga Tokarczuk|title=SistersongHouse of Day, House of Night

|summary=Sistersong is part ''What's the good of a genre I particularly enjoyworld that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, the modern retelling ''House of folk and fairy tales. These storiesDay, for most House of usNight'', are a cornerstone somewhat reflects this notion 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 shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdatednight, fleshing out charactershowever quotidian, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of womencausing chaos. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellBut, the plot constant in that image is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and humanhouse, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for stoic against the pre-Saxon age they live in. This ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endperceived.|isbn=15290390371804271918

|isbn=15291242551836284683|title=The WhispersBig Happy|author=Heidi PerksDavid Chadwick

|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=We know straight away that thereWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's going nothing like I expected it to be , and it takes me on a bodywild ride. ItAnd that is just what happened with 's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and itThe Big Happy's new year's day. To understand what happened weI don're going to have to go back t want to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has ruin a soft Australian accent - shesimilar experience for any of you reading but I's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town ll have to live. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in at least set the lovely apartment she's foundscene. GraceOnce that's best friend, Anna Robinsondone, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child tooI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!

|author=Sarah SultoonSally Rooney|title=The SourceIntermezzo|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=1996Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. EssexHer dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military baseAmong the many relationships woven into this story, struggling the central one for readers to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingeunravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. When her squaddie Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother brings food and treatsPeter, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak.successful lawyer living in Dublin.Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=19131935940571365469

|isbn=B004O37B6A1836285493|title=The Prime MinisterDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Anthony TrollopeRob Keeley|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Plantagenet PalliserWill is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, the Duke a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of Omniumall, he is the prime minister of a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezan aspiring writer. Lopex English is exotic - some describe him as Jewishhis favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no and one knows and Lopez is not going to explainat which he excels. The ladies of society, even PalliserThis hasn's own wifet gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Lady GlencoraMrs Howarth, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having and she has suggested to support Will and his wife's actions when Lopez loses mum that he spends a by-election. The Duke's payment couple of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his wife will come back to haunt himability might be better extended.

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass1009473085|title=The High HouseConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Charles Darwin taught Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that all living matter evolved applies to pass ''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 its genetic material with certain occasions, then this isn't the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsbook for you. However, If that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parentswhat you're looking for, I don' parents did not seem to t think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "itAnthony Seldon's not my problem" or "therebook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's nothing I can do". Raising a child compelling read and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The High HouseConservative Effect'' by Jessie Greengrassis an entirely different beast. This is not It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a sciencegovernment has made and co-fiction noveleditor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This is our reality. This is book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the life our children changes that occurred and their children will have to livethe situation in 2024.|isbn=1800750072

|author=Ruth HoganJenny Valentine|title=Madame BurovaUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970sElk and Mab are best friends, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)or more than that even, their friendship is a girl once in a humdrum job wanting to become lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'trip out but unfortunately they don', to use her familyt get each other's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff contact details at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last dayBut then chance brings them back together, fifty years laterand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is shesomething terrible and tragic, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imeldanow they must work through their grief, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?their friendship, together.|isbn=152937331X1471196585