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|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)183885410X|title=Girls Who LieThe Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of the dark corners of Iceland have featured major crime families in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nownineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigation. You think, seeing I say ''on the map that weteam''re set in Akranesbut Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and finding it''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this seedier pubs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1942410255|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author is clutching at the few final straws left=Michael Pronko|rating=4. However just because the book aims for 5|genre=Crime|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's the usual small-town feelculture, isn't it? The hours for which you's not re paid are really just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours to turn up for her date evening, get the job done and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with done to the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple satisfaction of delighted adoptersbullies like Shigeru Onizuka. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use When he was at a high level until it stopped all found dead in front of a sudden, in one place, the womanSenden Central's car headquarters in Tokyo there was found miles away nothing in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a thirdway of regret or grief, even more remote place. Meanwhilefrom his family, this narrative is interrupted by but there was a confessional monologue mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling the roof of the building or been assisted in her bodyhis descent. Is Gossip revolves around the assumption fact that is so easy for he left the roof at the reader exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xwork an unreasonable amount of overtime.

|isbn=B0925KS87N0241425425|title=Dead The Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Who Died Twice|author=Neil LancasterRichard Osman|rating=4.5

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemeteryletter. It was came from a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal man whose body she had helped to do, pull from the Thames and who had never existed but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted then this is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to dodeal with on a regular basis. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after When she visits the sender of the letter (he'd said that hes moved into the Cooper'd found the grave - the one which said s Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it shouldn't be opened s someone with whom she has a long professional history - and his three sons began who used to worrybe her husband. Tam JuniorHe's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, Frankie a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and Dave wouldna few death threats. He't normally go to the police but they werens now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who't certain where their father had been and they were worrieds his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitress.

|author=Emily CritchleyAndrew Sharp|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersChef, the Bird and the Blessing|rating=34

|summary= The Tiny Gestures Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, in his mind, the head chef of Small Flowers had a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the hallmarks guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef of something gooda restaurant in London or a big American city. I was intrigued Even to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the plothouse.|isbn=B09926MK8H}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Foulkes|title=Rules for Vampires|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, liked she sleeps during the design day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the booknight of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and thought the author's work sounded interestingevil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. From So, not only does Leo have to team up with the outset friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all looked incredibly promisingwhile hiding it from her family. So what on earth went wrong hereDid I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other?Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn= 1911427091147119955X}}

|author=Sarah LanganTori Bovalino|title=Good NeighboursThe Devil Makes Three

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, itWorking all summer in her boarding school's hard library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding do — especially when she gets a request for over a sing-song ''hundred books thatshe has to deliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streetheadmaster, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbsman Tess hates. They're one As a petty act of 18 households revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the crescentbooks, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierscribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're not quite never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inthis, and it's then take them all going okoff before delivering them. Until No harm done… Or it isnwould be, if someone hadn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but delivered them for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comeher.|isbn=17890982111789098130

|authorisbn=Lisa ThompsonB09BG8V3Q6|title=The Small ThingsWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home 'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is boring the latest release in comparison to theirsthe ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked This series of fun picture books aims to partner her, but things are complicated because take the new girl, Ellie, is unwell pain out of potty training children and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in replace it with the class by using a robotsome fun. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through It's a robotworthy aim, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649as any frustrated parent will tell you. .

|isbn=0008350388B098FFFBH9|title=We Need to Talk About MoneySnowcub|author=Otegha UwagbaGraham Fulbright|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school''To be s animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a dark-skinned Black woman is competition entry to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts..highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world.'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by She gets a writer great deal of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK support from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her family: father Pip Harrison, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother who came first, with Kate and her father joining them later. The family was hard-workingtwin, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possibleNick. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten Kate runs the family acquired a car. For Oteghabusiness, education meant a scholarship to a private school toy shop called Cornucopia in London and then a place at New CollegePutney, Oxfordwhich is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys.

|isbnauthor=1787631869Angharad Walker|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydAsh House|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadnA new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't been easy know his name, or why he is there but she'd built a good he is used to the system, used to different places and decent life in the aftermathdifferent faces. She's now married to Daniel, He meets Dom who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, names him Sol and they live at Wild Ridge sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and Fincomplete their chores, working as a hive in the child she had with Danielsmouldering shadows of The Ash House. They have financial difficulties, some caused But soon their easy peace is shattered by Nick Poveythe arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, Daniel's partner lives will be changed forever and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from The Ash House will never be the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernedsame again.|isbn=1912626977

|author=Hannah PeckYancey Williams|title=Kate Crosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the CaseGarden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet KateIn a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, although I got British but way west, beyond the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and one specific Catherine at legends of the Dark family thathas to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. For Catherine Rodriguez is KateThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's idolfoundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author =Erling Kagge|title=Walking: One Step At A Time|rating=5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of our heroine's favourite possessionpages with corners turned, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. Armed with a plucky fatherIn my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of bookthere is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is all equipped to manage a train ride Norwegian explorer who has walked to the ArcticSouth Pole, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksNorth Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this is isn't a train ride with a differencetravelogue about any of those epic journeys, for on board it is instead a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a thief – plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and two glowing eyesI haven't counted. In small format paperback, shining from the darkness in each essay is only a blink-and-you'll-miss-them stylefew pages long. It's definitely Perhaps then, better thought of as a case for a new young investigative journalist..meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=184812970X0241357705

|author=Darren ShanIan Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Monster Hunting For Beginners

|summary=The second trilogy in ShanMeet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack'Merge'' saga opens with our heros mother knew all about monsters, Archieand look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, back in London in the world depending on your point of the Born. Itview, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's not been easyfather also goes AWOL, explaining to his foster parents where heJack will fluke the ogre's beendeath, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestperils he always wanted closer contact with.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big BenThe book's clock tower and except name? ''Monster Hunting for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayBeginners''...|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0755501942

|isbnauthor=0571365884Keith Gray|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettThe Climbers

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a child. She would worry about whether Sully is the monsters under best tree climber in the bed were comfortable: it was village. He has what's known amongst the sort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweenkids as 'reach'. On But what happens when a visit to a therapistnew kid shows up in town? A new kid, as an adultcalled Nottingham, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong who clambers up some of the hardest trees with her it was suggested ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that she should write it down his status is being threatened, and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in Anxiety'' is the result - park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so we are given to believe.?|isbn=1781129991

|author=Alex CotterEmma Carroll|title=The House on the EdgeWeek at World's End

|summary=FaithFirst, the title. We're in World's family home is teetering on the edge End Close, a mediocre set of a cliffhouses, literally. Is that crack in where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the garden getting bigger? Is family dog and with the house starting to slope a little? And as boy over the house seems to road. But we could also be falling apartat World's End, so because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is Faith's familykicking off. Her dad has disappearedThe Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and her mum not much else is struggling able to cope, barely leaving her bedmake the news. So that leaves Faith in chargeThat said, taking care Vie has news of her little brother Noahown – Anna, taking care of her muma secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, feeding everyone, getting Noah to schoolin no short time, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is taken a ghost strong interest in the cellar? What should she do about American airforce base behind the house? Can Close, said she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened d locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to get funding for do with what the houseCold War is doing miles away? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=17880086260571364438

|isbnauthor=0008269041Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehouseJulia and the Shark|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure parents and their cat from the Met. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a nasty taste summer, in her mouththe far NE of the Scottish islands. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeHere be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. She and Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way career in algae behind to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childhunt the elusive Greenland shark. He's married to NatalieAnd Julia, well, now she will be homesick and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robinalone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789

|isbnauthor=1786332388Freya Sampson|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerLast Library|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sometimes I wonder if am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I take am a librarian. I always grit my pleasures too sadly teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat- owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn''The First Day t immediately throw the book out of Spring'' the window, because I found I was one such occasion. The writing is superb interested in June, and completely compellingwhy she lived as she did. The characterisation is excellent and Her mum used to be a librarian at the plot grips you village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and won't let go. Sostayed at home to take care of her mum, what's as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the problem? Welllocal library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, the problem she is Chrissiestill working there, the main character. When we first meet still eating her shemum's just eight years oldfavourite takeaway meal, small for and still reading her age and she readily tells us that shemum's just killed someone - a two-year-old boybooks. She's completely cold about what June is stuck, but little does she's done with know, everything in her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized uplife is about the change. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?|isbn=183877369X

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0008370982|title=The Disappearing ActRock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the cusp idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy of success. Great success. If making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the rumours are true, award season is going novels he's hoping to treat her well, acknowledging adapt than with her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She Amelia's going places but soannoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, unfortunatelymany of whom have been abused, is her partnernever easy. And the places he Still - she's going take him towards lieswon the weekend away, deceit and a pretty young thing even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the form of his new copassenger seat -star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just then doing the excusesame thing to come back a couple of days later.|isbn=1471189783

|author= Christophe MedlerDoug Johnstone|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Great Silence

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against the backdrop of For those who, like me, haven't come across the English Civil WarSkelfs before, I'll risk a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer quick synopsis of 1642. As who's who – although Johnstone does a loyal servant good job of bringing the Kingbackstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, and Head of the Secret Servicethough it sounds as though it ought to be, it is Robert's duty to uncover merely the details surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the plan matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and follow the clues ended up helping to uncover one of run the most guarded secrets Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in history—especially since the plot could affect family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the Kingacademic staff next term.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ1913193837

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1901514978|title=The Jasmine ThroneThere's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos Alba|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother Life is different for George Lovelace and refuses to step on to the pyrehe can't really understand why. She is immediately sent He's always done everything he ought to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that steady worker, husband and father - and a father who was once filled always there for school plays and sports days. So why is he never quite in tune with a community of those around him? Why does he upset people who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple ? Why is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the girl to become her own personal maidservantsymptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autism.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCLouise Candlish|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryHeights|rating=4.5

|summary=Sarah Wallace said Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that she grew up day. She's on site, visiting a client for a council estate lighting consultation when she spies him in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, stable familybuilding across the way. When we first meet herThere are lots of things, she can't sleep because her sonlots of people, Freddieyou might see when you look out across London, who's nearly sixteen, hasnbut this isn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be one Ellen expected that day or in byfact any other day. Her husband, TomWhy? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakesEllen knows this for a fact, though, when Freddie does come because she had a hand in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonemurder.|isbn=1471183483

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0008421714|title=True Crime StoryMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows problem began just after the disappearance publication of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceGeorge March's most successful novel to date. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of Everyone but Mrs March (we know her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as first name only on the policelast page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. The various accounts help Every day Mrs March went to the reader get local patisserie to know Zoebuy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, or at least as she was wrapping the Zoe she presented to others. Howeverbread, ''but isn't this the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave first time he's based a character on you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}}{{Frontpage|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=No'' She mentioned that Johanna, No, No!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest onesprincipal character had 'her mannerisms''. And nothing could be truer of Perhaps this latest from Justine Averywould not have mattered, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' except for the fact that Johanna is based around the simplest text imaginable. whore of Nantes - ''Noa weak, noplain, no! Okaydetestable, okay. Yespathetic, unloved, you mayunloveable wretch.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outside.|isbn=1638820457

|author=Monica ConnellJohn Boyne|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Echo Chamber

|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropologyMeet George Cleverley. I think it He is important to know thatself-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". She went on He starts this book a grant-supported tripbit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't They have three children, who are a hippy wanderer looking for Shangrisad-la. She wasn't sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a mere tourist passing through. She went girl who hangs around with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also wentvirtue-signalling, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to keyboard warrior "understandwokester" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how who wants to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of save the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went world's homeless with a sense out-of open-ness and curiosity date food, and a willingness to muck-fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add ina few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to break her own rules his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to truly connect with the people of modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the village where she hauled upfact this is bloody funny.|isbn=17806004290857526219

|isbn=14091816690241989094|title=The MaidensPerfect Life|author=Alex MichaelidesNuala Ellwood|rating=54|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and decide how she should proceed. Everything 's viewing a house in Goring- or so she thought on- had begun with Thames and telling the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeestate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. She'd been brutally stabbed and MarianaThe boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's niece, Zoe, had telephoned making this trip on her in distressown. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to copeThe house would be perfect for them. Mariana wasn It't s the same month but now we''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridgere in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, but only this time she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana job hunting and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Marianaliving in her sister, Georgie's husband, Sebastianspare room, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoewhere she's mother and Mariana's sisterbeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, ElizaConnor.

|author=Maisie ChanDarren Shan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsArchibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3

|summary=Danny is eleven years old, So. Having done the impossible and what he really, really loves unpicked the lock to do is draw. He creates fantastical comicsthe Forgotten Crypt, whilst his best friend Ravi adds from which the words. DannyDeparted communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop''s dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget think about the drawing. But before that, because he says nobody can make a living from drawingsoirees. Soirees! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for himArchie, and this surprise turns out much to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themInez's amusement, and who will not only be sharing Dannydoesn's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk t even know what one of his bunk bed! Danny those is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around . But he manages to come through the town. Poor Dannyfancy party unscathed, stuck on a maths project, frustrated even after an uncomfortable encounter with his bedroom situationKurtis, and then he even has a falling out whose fledgling romance with RaviInez was crushed in the first volume of this series...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001XB093J9TF73

|authorisbn=Terry MilesB07GZ81J7C|title=RabbitsWhen Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter Cotton

|genre=Science FictionFor Sharing|summary=Welcome to the world of The GameMeet Fred. Or should that be the game Well, actually, for while it ought you're going to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookmeeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. It But I'm getting ahead of myself: I's also called Rabbits, although only as d better tell you a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life thenmore about Fred. Yes, this Fred is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K snake and his bezzies are trying to be historians even those of the game, and us who have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in the most peculiar places, a box with holes so that he could breathe and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems immediately became part of the most dangerous, nay lethalfamily, to the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort extent that they would take Fred out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeedproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|isbn=1529016932

|author=C J CareyJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=WidowlandEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)

|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary=Can potty training ever be joyous? Itoften isn's April 1953t, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisas any parent will tell you. For yesBut really, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didnwhy shouldn't happen it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we know it, and have to learn about everything else when we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood small. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste systemsay, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to learning about why the drudges, sun and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And moon take turns in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.sky? |isbn=152941198XB098BJZYHH

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1787634493|title=This Is How We Are HumanAll Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantsMilo, to go on a play date. Sebastian has decided She was concerned that ithe didn's time for him to t have sexany friends at his new school. But as Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an autistic 20 yearaffluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob -oldand Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, thatwhen Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's easier said than donemother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And itso had Jenny's starting to cause them both problemsnanny. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LClaire North|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickNotes from the Burning Age

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereAt its core ''s merely a hint that he had Notes From the nickname Burning Age'Secretary' at one pointby Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. He's simply Bosner to However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and alltimely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. When we first encounter him heNorth's exploring his memories novel tells of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (or helosread: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, as they were calledintensive farming) at . There is a naval establishment. The hours could be long growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and he was often working nights but at one group, the age of twenty-oneBrotherhood, there was always a way aims to master these processes no matter the cost to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daythe Earth.|isbn=0356514757

|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}}{{Frontpage|author=M G LeonardVictoria Cribb (translator)|title=Twitch|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in school. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the run, and it's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838853804|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayWho Lie|rating=43

|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the pond, only to find map that hewe'd hanged himself. Twenty years later shere set in Akranes, and finding it's back home again and only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this time author is clutching at the occasion is no less sadfew final straws left. SheHowever just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's there to say her final farewells not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her sisterdate evening, Melissa, who is dying of anorexiaand was never seen again. As This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she diescould now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? and a couple of delighted adopters. There were lots But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of thingsa sudden, minor and major crueltiesin one place, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or the woman's car was it even found miles away in a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husbandsecond place, and now, Jagoafter six months, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never body has been discovered, in short supply - but there did seem to be a cursethird, even more remote place. In addition to Melissa's health problemsMeanwhile, Megan was deaf and their this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a motherwho found herself with heavy post-natal depression, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeand very little maternal feeling in her body. Would she come back Is the assumption that is so easy for her elder daughter's funeralthe reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbn=0241400120B0925KS87N|title=The Girl Who DiedDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbNeil Lancaster

|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it was took some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacherfinding - in an overgrown old cemetery. She It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was thirty years getting old and money was tightthere were things he wanted to do. Her friendOnly, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in grave - the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would one which said that it shouldn't be paid opened - and accommodation providedhis three sons began to worry. Una was the only applicant Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik police but they weren't certain where their father had been and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredthey were worried.

|isbnauthor=1846975719Emily Critchley|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. But that's LondonI was intrigued by the plot, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportliked the design of the book, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for thought the airport straight awayauthor's work sounded interesting. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of From the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying publicoutset it all looked incredibly promising. And why have the man no identification So what on them - or even labels in their clothesearth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091