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|authorisbn=John Boyne183885410X|title=The Echo ChamberDark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife DC Jack Laidlaw is getting her kicks on the CID team charged with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withinvestigation. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save I say ''on the worldteam''s homeless with out-but Laidlaw never really seems to be a part of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle it. He does his own thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to goes his life, own way and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the modern worldtruth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubs. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219

|isbn=02419890941942410255|title=The Perfect LifeTokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Nuala EllwoodMichael Pronko|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children'Zangyo: overtime work, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why sheoften unpaid''s making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them.

It's the same month but now weculture, isn't it? The hours for which you're in Wimbledon and we encounter paid are really just a statement of the same young woman, only this time sheminimum you'll be required to do: you's ll work more hours to get the job hunting done and living done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When he was found dead in her sister, Georgiefront of Senden Central'sheadquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, spare roomeven from his family, where shebut there was a mild curiosity as to whether he's d jumped from the roof of the building or been since she broke up with assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the 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 boyfriend, Connorto work an unreasonable amount of overtime.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0241425425|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard Osman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=SoElizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. Having done It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the impossible Thames and unpicked who had never existed but then this is the lock sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basis. When she visits the Forgotten Crypt, from which sender of the Departed communicate with letter (he's moved into the Merge, Archie now has Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it'grop's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husband. He' s made a bad mistake - something to think about. But before thatdo with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, soireesa missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and a few death threats. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez He's amusementnow in hiding with a young woman called Polly, doesnwho't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after s his MI5 handler as well as being an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesincompetent waitress. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbnauthor=B07GZ81J7CAndrew Sharp|title=When Fred The Chef, the Snake Got Squished Bird and Mended|author=Peter Cottonthe Blessing|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Fred. WellChef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is, actuallyin his mind, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead the head chef of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fredsafari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Fred Mozzy is a snake earnest and dedicated to his task and even those he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef of us who have a phobia about snakes are going restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to warm to himwin a Michelin star. He arrived as a present is thwarted in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of the familythis ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for a walk. And that was where his scruffy ways, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakeshouse.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaAlex Foulkes|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Rules for Vampires|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isnEleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo'tfor short) is a Vampire. She drinks blood, as any parent will tell you. But reallyshe sleeps during the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel around, why shouldn't it be? We although not all have of them remember to learn about our bodily functions just as we have come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to learn about everything else when we are smallgo out and hunt her first human. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun asHowever, sayinstead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, learning about why the sun ghosts of one of the orphans and the moon take turns in evil master of the skyorphanage come back to haunt her. So, not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn= B098BJZYHH147119955X

|isbnauthor=1787634493Tori Bovalino|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraThe Devil Makes Three

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the opportunity would arise last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for her son, Milo, over a hundred books that she has to go on a play datedeliver herself. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. She was concerned that he didnThe boarding school't have any friends at his new schools headmaster, and a man Tess hates. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - As a petty act of revenge for making her find and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove deliver such a little later. What could be better? Onlylarge request, when Marissa arrived at Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the housebooks, expecting scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to meet Jacob's motherreach him, Jennyof course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, the door was answered by Estherand then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, who didnif someone hadn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given delivered them for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyher.|isbn=1789098130

|authorisbn=Claire NorthB09BG8V3Q6|title=Notes from the Burning AgeWho Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema Amjad|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionFor Sharing|summary=At its core ''Notes From Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the Burning Agelatest release in the ''Everybody Potties!'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingseries from Justine Avery. However, as with This series of fun picture books aims to take the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that pain out of a new potty training children and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fictionreplace it with some fun. NorthIt's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without worthy aim, as any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)frustrated parent will tell you. There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth .|isbn=0356514757

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)B098FFFBH9|title=Girls Who LieSnowcub|author=Graham Fulbright|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author Fourteen-year-old Rachel is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, ither school's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a woman failed competition entry to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen againhighlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal world. This left She gets a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before great deal of support from her mother had asked for the girl backfamily: father Pip Harrison, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was lecturer at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one placeImperial College, the woman's car was found miles away in a second placeLondon, mother Kate and now, after six monthsher twin, Nick. Kate runs the body has been discoveredfamily business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in a third, even more remote place. MeanwhilePutney, this narrative which is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodywhere we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toys. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbnauthor=B0925KS87NAngharad Walker|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterThe Ash House|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemeteryA new boy arrives at The Ash House. It was a strange thing for ScotlandHe doesn's premier criminal to dot know his name, or why he is there but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted is used to dothe system, used to different places and different faces. Only, his family didn't hear from He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and his three sons began to worrycomplete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. Tam JuniorBy the end of the story, Frankie lives will be changed forever and Dave wouldn't normally go to The Ash House will never be the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worriedsame again.|isbn=1912626977

|author=Emily CritchleyYancey Williams|title=The Tiny Gestures Crosshairs of Small Flowersthe Devil|rating=34.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures 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 Small Flowers had all the hallmarks Garden of something goodEden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. I was intrigued by the plotNothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, liked the design of the bookfor his readers, and thought the authorare his wanderings through his life's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 19114270910986031658

|author=Sarah LanganPhilip Reeve|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo Utterly Dark and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one Face of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite 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 in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn'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 for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}}{{Frontpage|author=Lisa Thompson|title=The Small ThingsDeep

|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolIn a word, she feels like she never really fits rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches inthis story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. Her There are troll people on it, and sea-witches, and legends of the Dark family don't have enough money that has to let her do after school activitieskeep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirswhere no ship dare sail. When a new girl joins her classThe current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, Anna is asked who has to partner her, but things are complicated because keep notes of activity from the new girlHidden Lands, Elliehis brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, is unwell and so canAndrewe't attend school in person. Insteads foundling daughter, she joins in with who washed up out of the class by using a robotsea one day eleven years ago. Can Anna overcome But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the challenge world of making friends with someone through a robotprotecting their island, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?like it or not.|isbn=17811296491788452372

|isbnauthor=0008350388Erling Kagge|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha UwagbaWalking: One Step At A Time

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=''To be Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a dark-skinned Black woman book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to be seen the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as less desirablea reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterpartsbut 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)...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study Erligg Kagge is a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came Norwegian explorer who has walked to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven South Pole, the North Pole and ninethe summit of Everest. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them laterHe knows a thing or two about walking. The family was hard-workingHowever, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always this isn't a painful awareness travelogue about any of money although this did not translate into those epic journeys, it is instead a shortage thoughtful exploration of anything: what it was simply carefully harvestedmeans to walk. When Otegha was ten the family acquired It is a carplenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. For OteghaIn small format paperback, education meant each essay is only a scholarship to a private school in London and few pages long. Perhaps then , better thought of as a place at New College, Oxfordmeditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705

|isbnauthor=1787631869Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydMonster Hunting For Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Lucy LockeMeet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good slight boy, and decent life in the aftermathalthough he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. SheThat's now married because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to Danielher – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine depending on Penleith Beachyour point of view, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucya giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's daughter and Finfather also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Danielogre's partner and sodeath, a dwarfish wizard-called best friend. Nick type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and Daniel have he'll be given a history together from book that tells him all he needs to know about the time they both spent in a childrenperils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's home but itname? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned...|isbn=0755501942

|author=Hannah PeckKeith Gray|title=Kate on the CaseThe Climbers|rating=3.54

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got Sully is the best tree climber in the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatvillage. For Catherine Rodriguez is KateHe has what's idol, and known amongst the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manualkids as 'reach'. Armed with But what happens when a plucky fathernew kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that bookhis status is being threatened, and her talking mouse called Rupertnot only that, she is all equipped to manage a train ride that his chance to name the Arcticfinal, to see her scientist mother for unnamed big tree in the park by being the first time in yonksto conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. HoweverHow can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, this is a train ride with a differenceor maybe even all of his friends, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...to do so?|isbn=184812970X1781129991

|author=Darren ShanEmma Carroll|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Week at World's End|rating=4.5

|summary=The second trilogy First, the title. We're in ShanWorld's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroEnd Close, Archiea mediocre set of houses, back in London in where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the world of boy over the Bornroad. ItBut we could also be at World's not been easyEnd, explaining because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to his foster parents where he's beenreduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in not much else is able to make the Mergenews. That said, but Archie Vie has done his bestnews of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed.... wellAnna has, in no short time, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston taken a strong interest in Big Benthe American airforce base behind the Close, said she's clock tower d locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and except for fiddling implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak what the Cold War is doing miles away.?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0571364438

|isbnauthor=0571365884Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettJulia and the Shark

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Georgia Pritchett Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has always been anxiouspacked off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, even as a childin the far NE of the Scottish islands. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort Here be Vikings, that kind of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweenScottish island. On a visit Dad is going to a therapistbe automating the lantern, as an adultwhich is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. when And Julia, well, she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that will be homesick and alone – until she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believesuddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789

|author=Alex CotterFreya Sampson|title=The House on the EdgeLast Library

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the edge thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a cliffbun, literally. Is that crack 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 garden getting bigger? Is same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the house starting to slope a little? And as book out of the house seems to be falling apartwindow, because I found I was interested in June, so is Faith's familyand why she lived as she did. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling used to copebe a librarian at the village library, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in chargebut when she got sick, taking June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her little brother Noahmum, as well as taking care of on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mumsadly died some years ago, feeding everyoneshe is still working there, getting Noah to schoolstill eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is still reading her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? Whatmum's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantlyold books. June is stuck, and but little does she doesn't know how much longer , everything in her life is about the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onchange.|isbn=1788008626183877369X

|isbn=00082690410008370982|title=Risk of HarmRock Paper Scissors|author=Lucie WhitehouseAlice Feeney

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from merely the Metsurname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. She might have been reinstated but Dorothy is the whole episode left matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a nasty taste scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in her mouththe family for generations. She was Recently widowed and now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeinvolved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. She and Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her fifteenstill-yearliving husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation is about to graduate with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. He's married to Natalie, now first-class physics degree and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robinjoin the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837

|isbn=17863323881901514978|title=The First Day of SpringThere's a Problem With Dad|author=Nancy TuckerCarlos Alba

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - Life is different for George Lovelace and he can''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasiont really understand why. The writing is superb He's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent father - and the plot grips you a father who was always there for school plays and won't let gosports days. So, what's the problemwhy is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Well, the problem Why is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her shesomeone with such a 's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. Shegood's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath- suffocating - her hands seized up. taking gaffes? ThereIt's almost become a clue cliche these days to suggest that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions someone who is a little later in different is 'on the book: when will Steven come backspectrum', she wonders? Hasnbut George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger't he been dead for long enough?s Syndrome: high-functioning autism.

|author=Catherine SteadmanLouise Candlish|title=The Disappearing ActHeights

|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the cusp of success. Great successway. If the rumours There are truelots of things, award season is going to treat her welllots of people, acknowledging her for her latestyou might see when you look out across London, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places hethis isn's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing t one Ellen expected that day or in the form of his new co-starfact any other day. It's a good time Why? Because Kieran has been dead for Mia to escapeover two years, and pilot season Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in LA provides just the excusehis murder.|isbn=14711897831471183483

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler0008421714|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretMrs March|author=Virginia Feito|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= Set against The problem began just after the backdrop publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigallast page) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. As a loyal servant of Every day Mrs March went to the Kinglocal patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, and Head of as she was wrapping the Secret Servicebread, it is Robert''but isn't this the first time he's duty to uncover based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the details of principal character had 'her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the plan and follow fact that Johanna is the clues to uncover one whore of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the KingNantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ''

|author=Tasha SuriJohn Boyne|title=The Jasmine ThroneEcho Chamber|rating=45|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= On Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the night few television personalities over the age of her sacred burningfifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, Princess Malini defies but then his author wife is getting her brother and refuses to step on to kicks with the pyreUkrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. She is immediately sent They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to be imprisoned on save the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a community of people who got powers from fit young lad doing the mysterious deathless watersgay hustle thing. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrownAdd in a few other characters – therapists, decaying ruin. One daylawyers, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crimerandom transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, Malini claims and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for farcical approach even more, however, is the girl to become her own personal maidservantfact this is bloody funny.|isbn=03565156480857526219

|isbn=B088YWF5BC0241989094|title=The Lies We TellPerfect Life|author=Jane CorryNuala Ellwood

|summary=Sarah Wallace said that In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she grew up on 's viewing a council estate house in Kent Goring-on-Thames and that she had two brothers telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and two sistersBarclay. It seemed to have been The boys are a bit of a loving, stable family. When we first meet her, handful which is why she can't sleep because s making this trip on her son, Freddie, whoown. The house would be perfect for them. It's nearly sixteen, hasnthe same month but now we't come home by re in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time he sort of half-promised heshe'd be s job hunting and living in by. Her husbandher sister, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but heGeorgie's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, thoughspare room, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that hewhere she's killed someonebeen since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.

|author=Joseph KnoxDarren Shan|title=True Crime StoryArchibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"So. The story follows Having done the disappearance of Zoe Nolan impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, which the reader is taken through Departed communicate with the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sisterMerge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, other familysoirees. Soirees! Archie, friends and professionalsmuch to Inez's amusement, such as the policedoesn't even know what one of those is. The various accounts help But he manages to come through the reader get to know Zoefancy party unscathed, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. Howevereven after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the twists and turns at the end first volume of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedthis series. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703B093J9TF73

|authorisbn=B07GZ81J7C|title=Justine Avery When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Naday MeldovaMended|titleauthor=No, No, No!Peter Cotton|rating=4.5

|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favouriteMeet Fred. ''No Well, Noactually, No!you'' is based around the simplest text imaginablere going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly.  But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, d better tell you maya bit more about Fred.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet Fred is a snake and even those of text is us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to him. He arrived as a present in a veritable tardis - box with holes so much bigger on that he could breathe and immediately became part of the inside family, to the extent that it appears on they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the outsideproblem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|isbn=1638820457

|author=Monica ConnellJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Against a Peacock SkyEverybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=54|genre=TravelFor Sharing|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know thatCan potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. She went on a grant-supported tripBut really, with a relatively specific objective. She wasnwhy shouldn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-lait be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. She wasnWhy shouldn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with why the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes sun and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-moon take turns in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up.sky? |isbn=1780600429B098BJZYHH

|isbn=14091816691787634493|title=The MaidensAll Her Fault|author=Alex MichaelidesAndrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca It had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothseemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - Marissa Irvine had begun with been hoping that the death of Tara Hampton opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgea play date. Shewas concerned that he didn'd been brutally stabbed t have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and MarianaMarissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's niecemother, ZoeJenny, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she the door was struggling to copeanswered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but The phone number she caught the first fast train from King's Crossd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Mariana and Zoe were close and Milo had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierdisappeared. Zoe And so had been their surrogate daughter after the death of ZoeJenny's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizananny.

|author=Maisie ChanClaire North|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsNotes from the Burning Age|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Danny At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is eleven years olda spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and what he reallynight time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best novels, really loves to do it wears many masks and its most affecting one is draw. He creates fantastical comicsthat of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the wordsor climate change fiction. DannyNorth's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make novel tells of a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, world devastated by climate change where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they humans have a surprise for him, been forced to start anew and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, alongside nature without any of the modern and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai corrupting "luxuries" (grandmother) speaks no Englishread: fossil fuels, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitterweapons of mass destruction, and showing her around the townintensive farming). Poor Danny, stuck on There is a maths project, frustrated growing unhappiness with his bedroom situationthis limiting world, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X0356514757

|author=Terry MilesEva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=RabbitsGirls Who Lie|rating=4.53|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=Welcome to You might be forgiven for thinking that all the world dark corners of The GameIceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. Or should You think, seeing on the map that be the gamewe're set in Akranes, for while and finding it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as 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 twenty kilometres from the game of life then. Yescapital city, that this author is clutching at the game of life few final straws left. However just because the book aims for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracyusual small-town feel, the computer gameit's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, the hack from the darkest of websand was never seen again. People like our hero, K, named like This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that in she could now live permanently with the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the gamegirl back, and have studied amongst many things the most unique a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high score boardslevel until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are woman's car was found miles away in the most peculiar placesa second place, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerousnow, nay lethalafter six months, the most broken it's ever body has been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for Kdiscovered, in trying to sort out what the game is doinga third, if it's even being playedmore remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is only so easy for the reader to find out that make the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin right one indeed...?|isbn=1529016932191319373X

|authorisbn=C J CareyB0925KS87N|title=WidowlandDead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. Itwas a strange thing for Scotland's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming premier criminal to London, parading around a bitdo, but Tam was getting old and watching over the sanctioned return there were things he wanted to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisdo. For yesOnly, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly his family didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazigrave -styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of the one which said that gender into a caste system, ranging from highit shouldn't be opened -brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down his three sons began to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouragedworry. And in this puritanical existenceTam Junior, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go 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 police but theyweren're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with t certain where their potential to spoil Hitler's visitfather had been and they were worried.|isbn=152941198X

|author=Louise BeechEmily Critchley|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=43

|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her sonThe Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-oldliked the design of the book, thatand thought the author's easier said than donework sounded interesting. And From the outset it's starting to cause them both problemsall looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn=19131937131911427091