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|isbn=17124357280241636604|title=Jamie's KeepsakeThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Michael GallagherGary Stevenson

|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, heyou's just being released from re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the Southern General Hospitalpin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. The nurse thinks There was no posh public school on his CV - but he'll come back had been to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention London School of doing that: Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he's been there for has a year, on the same ward where his brother died and now, facility with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothesnumbers which most of us can only envy. He wants also realised that most rich people expect poor people to get outside and back with be stupid. It was his friends: his brotherability at what was, Forbesessentially, says that the fresh air will do a card game which got him good and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitisan internship with Citibank. Good luck with that oneEventually, Alexthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1035021803|title=SolitaireThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Victoria Spring It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead been back to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boringEnglish country village where she grew up. She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so she's not back now because of a complete loner. She hates a lot of things - including herself. But suddenlyrequest for help from her beloved aunt, a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout the schoolCarole. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere in Tori Freya's life. Tori doesn't know (or care) why sheformer mentor and Carole's involvedclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to be linked say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to Tori? Why does Michael want the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in Tori's a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life so badly and , who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger was murdered) and darker, Freya and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymoreJames have now divorced.|isbn=9780007559220

|authorisbn=Natasha FarrantAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Set in England in the aftermath ''Opening up new ways of World War One, this is thinking about the story shape of two children, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want things to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopecome. Ben '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is living on a narrowboat on the canal, lying to the police about his brotherwhat happens after you's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of himre eighteen. LottiWell, meanwhile, has I must confess that there have been expelled from school and is back at home; itmore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's a beautiful house that belongs advantageous to her me but I'm left with the feeling that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forit's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. The day Lotti meets Ben (Of course, I could research the day she steals a dog!) is possibilities and the beginning of a deep, probabilities and powerful friendshipend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. It sees them become each other's family, I needed people I knew I could trust and undertake who could deliver information in a perilous trip to France, in the boat, to try to find out the truth of the people they both loveway I could understand.|isbn=0571348769

|isbnauthor=1471179273Sunny Singh|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in prisonan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on remandsite, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. She's sharing As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a cell bond with Michaela, Sam who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her refuses to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Wellcowed by events, and keeps on 21 December the body venturing out of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations room to try to Tabithacapture what's househappened through her photography. So far as Although they only ever talk over the police are concernedphone, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodboth wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529153298|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote The List of Alignment Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=This third It's 1979 and final book in the first volume of Darren ShanMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's new upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Archibald LoxDown South'. When you' series sees Archie re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and Inez make it almost all the way she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the Cuckoodangers or that her Mum's Nest, where the Vote of Alignment will be heldstopped talking - to anyone. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V

|isbn=00083147211398524085|title=Truth Be ToldHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kia AbdullahNicci French

|summary=The Hadids are an 'Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'effortful'' familys fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and this prompts a phone call in returnher daughter, Etty. There are two sons of the family, seventeenall worried but -yearstrangely -old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamher husband, Alec, is not. Their motherShortly afterwards, SofiaEtty and Greg, regrets that she didn't name them find the other way round: body of Greg'Adam and Kamran' trips off s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'river. Sofia worries about It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sort of thingDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from can do but get on with their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year lives and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15098895151035906708|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Diva|author=Ann CleevesDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she drove home was born to Greek parents in the blizzard. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and who knows what would have happened only moved to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left openAthens when she was thirteen. Vera took the boy and drove Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to the nearest habitation. She ''thought'Callas' to make it would be more manageable in the village but it States. When she was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her father had been voice - she was raised under the younger brother of the man Nazi occupation by a mother who inherited - mercilessly exploited her and Hector was the black sheep made no secret of the family. Calling there unannouncedher preference for her elder sister, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstancesJackie.

|isbnauthor=0241425441Christopher Edge|title=The Thursday Murder Black Hole Cinema Club|author=Richard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used to be a nurse and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed out. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical help. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Village.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1948124440|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The second book in Justine AveryBlack Hole'. All big movie fans, they's Wonders series is the perfect antidote re looking forward to long summer days with bored children - orlots of exciting films, indeedand many, many snacks! However, as wethe movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn've found recentlyt even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic can they figure out what on earth is rolling across going on? Will they ever get back to the world. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with, repurposedcinema, and played with againto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author= Samira AhmedRachel Greenlaw|title= Mad, Bad Compass and Dangerous to KnowBlade|rating= 3.5

|summary=''In I can hear the endsong of the sea. The call of the deep, we all become storiesthe answering beat in my heart.''

Spending Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the summer in Paris sounds rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a dream for most peopletrap to end the wrecking, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam canthey capture the island't relax s leader and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in ChicagoMira's father. On Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a chance encounter bargain with a descendant wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of Alexandre Dumasa family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Khayyam finds herself on a historical as her journey with him takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to unveil the truth about heart of the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumassmuggler's territory, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story future of her home and the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgottenones she holds most dear.|isbn=03490035560008664730

|author=Alice OsemanJames Sherwood Metts|title=LovelessPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Georgia is Things have been a teenager whobit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's embarking on her first year of university re paid to do and is in a desperate struggle other tasks that took time to figure herself outaccomplish. She's always been in love with love. With the idea Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of loveother, the idea of falling madly for someone new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and finding bliss. But , along with it, all the reality for her has always been differentmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. She|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We's never had a crushll Never Know|rating=4. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to feel something be different from his father, a drunk and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any kind of realhis artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, tangible cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and physical way for her - she's disgusted by itset himself high but achievable ambitions. But isn't that what she's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412XB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHA G Slatter|title=Archibald Lox and The Briar Book of the Empress of SuanpanDead|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Archie's second foray into 'the MergeThere' opens with s a fantastic vistapart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. All This secret magic of the Bornmy own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''s most famous buildings and monuments - Big Ben Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Taj Mahalworld,  lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Eiffel Tower - are collected together, joined by those clever Merge vines. But thereBriar's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winstonthe Darklands.Winston Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is a darling but is afraid to help the first non- what is witch to be done? Despite yearning to go home born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and worry for his foster parentspotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, Archie feels an obligation to take Winstonthe town's leader, and Ellie takes her placebeside her. And so Archie embarks on As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a newmaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and even more dangerousdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, adventure...everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=14087122881529900360|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)The Ghost Orchid|author=Val McDermidJonathan Kellerman

|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the middle of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out help of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of psychologist only worked for a lobster potwhile. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and Finally, it didnwas Robin, Delaware't take too long to establish s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchmanshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghthough. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was the prime suspect Two lovers were murdered in the disappearance and possible murder swimming pool of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Aulda remote property in Bel Air. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been He was the last person heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to review the case, a couple of years earlier an extremely rich man and it seemed sensible to bring her into 's not the case at an early stageItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1529395224|title= Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Doors Secret Life of Edena Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 43.5|genre=Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Wow – this novel is giganticSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, in every sense of particularly when he considered the word. "Epic" is a word strain thatbeing on-call put on his father's thrown around life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a lot these days, but if family friend who was a book ever earned vet and was convinced this was the name it's this onejob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. Ithadn's t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a doorstopper full of big ideaschild. If anything, and at times it almost felt too big for my brainhe'd wanted to be a professional footballer.|isbn=1509865888

|authorisbn=Will Carver0861541774|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hinton HollowDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, population 5Danny Maik,120has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways Maik was involved in America's mida street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -west, but this particular Hinton Hollow is and he killed a small town in Berkshire, EnglandGhurka. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereInitially, until something happened and he ran away faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the citydeath penalty. HeDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townt help Danny at all.|isbn=1913193306

|author=Jacqueline WilsonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Love FrankieThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Frankie The Perfect Passion Company is nearly fourteena dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum Ness has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave asked her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the girliest girl who ever livedbusiness, andas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you so jumps at schoolthe chance to come home to Edinburgh. Oh And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and when Samthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, your best friend since foreverbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you or in match- making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and you donthere't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn= 0857535897 1846976596

|isbn=17765728580811771741|title=How Do You Make a InstaKnits for Baby?|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that sheSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire'd get me a book about itvariety. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the basicsprojects are attractive, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) modern and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'knew'' more, but was little that''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changeds me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1542017432Dean Koontz|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R EllisBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It was Benny is having a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. The shooters at the butts were Oh, and someone has delivered a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his friends) home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the owner of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the moor and a retired judgevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. James Symonds was He is a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a bankernice person. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysA really nice person. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleySo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold has been sent to help him an expensive car and Fraser was since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being slow to paya good person. Other people had reason Spike is going to comment on Frasertake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's attitude to money: his gamekeeperenemies, Ian Davis thought if he was stingy , Benny, and very difficult to work forHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0241433568Adam Stower|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers |summary=It's 1930 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and Megan sleep and Henry are staying with Bunny at , well, whatever takes his house in Spainfancy next of the two. ItBut he's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: hea bad magician's going to have cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a rest hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and then he wants to talk to Megan the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and Henry about something seriouswhiffs. Only This time round it never gets that far: when Bunny doesndrops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he't emerge after his siesta his guests find that s turned up and he's been murdered. How can that ll have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1526362759B0C47LV1PC|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give ItFragility|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=What Can you make a relief! A book about money''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, for children, with clear explanations of what is the question should you make it ? Or isthe question if you did, why it matters, how to acquire more of would it (nope - robbing banks land? The catch is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of itthat the answer for both could well be.... Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extentno. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an  ''investorFragility'') and there might be something you reallyis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, ''really'' want cautiously begins to buy. There's also emerge from the possibility of using to do good in restrictions imposed during the world.covid pandemic

|isbn=00083783631529431735|title=One Perfect MorningThe Winter Visitor|author=Pamela CraneJames Henry|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A husband It's February 1991 and Essex is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenziebitingly cold, Robin and Lily met when they which made Bruce Hopkins' return all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friendsmore surprising. When they first met they called themselves He'd been exiled on the Spicier Girls Costa del Sol as a nod to the famous girl band of the daywanted drug smuggler for a decade. Lily would be Adventure SpiceThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, Robin the Homemaker saying that she's ill and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifehasn't long to live. She married OwenIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, her college sweetheart stripped to his underwear and they have sent to a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Darren ShanAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=Time to catch you all up Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much of it that I'm him, and in the evening a bit late to helper at the party with actual reviewingdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Oops! And where better to start than Eli lives with the new series from Bookbag favouritehis lovely gran, Darren Shan? Archie too – for there is very downa generation missing in the family. He A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a dear friend recently, globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a tragic accident, and Archie blames himselfmagical beast. He can't face school so he takes himself for This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across bad incident at the eatery leads to a footbridgeconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watchesmost hates, aghastwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD60571382231

|authorisbn=Antony Wootten178763681X|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb are waiting Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in great excitement for the hunting party led by their uncle to returnBelgravia. They He didn're hoping for t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a feast way of mammoth meatgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Geb longs for Paul ''somehow'' got the day impression that he can join his uncle Gagba and 'd be at the other warriors on school to assist Paul, who had a hunting party broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and take part in their deeds of derringthe problems -doare all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. But their father Unfortunately, he was the leader of person who discovered the village, thinks body and everyone knows that they also need an education; the police consider that knowledge is powerperson to be the prime suspect.|isbn=1939269679

|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MaySarah Marsh|title= Seven DevilsA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= Eris is one After a bout of the foremost operatives scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of the Novantaesilence, everything about her life changes. Living in a resistance movement fighting against time when the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she use of sign language was destined to inherit in her past life seen as Princess Discordiasomething only savages do, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has Ellen is sent to a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft school where she is taught to gather information vital to the war effortlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Although From here, she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with deaf and using a secret that could potentially cripple the Empiresystem called Visible Speech. Eris's brother Damocles, At the runner-up heir to the Empiresame time, Bell is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos working on other inventions and ideas, and the last Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the free alien speciesespionage. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=14732311401035401614

|authorisbn=Non Pratt1803816759|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Freya was It's 2038 and Joe is a beautiful, popular bored cop policing the wealthy and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend bit of adventure and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months awayto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But one daythen something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, on January 1stmaking life easier for many, she justand riots start to spread... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterFinally, she expects it Joe gets to contain answers do some real policing. In the aftermath of some kind, but the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is surprised assigned to find bring her home. Joe isn't the parcel contains another layer addressed only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a complete stranger, British superfan and then another layer to another person and anothertech nerd, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and is also on the promise of 'treasure' at case. What went wrong? Did the end of system fail or was it all. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya hacked? And how is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can whatSuki's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leavekidnapping connected?|isbn=1406366943

|isbn=178089922X1529421284|title=Invisible GirlLaying Out the Bones|author=Lisa JewellKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''When you wear It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautifulheatwave. By her own admissionIn a gully, she's a bit of a boffin, doing human skeleton came to the surface and enjoying mathsforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, physics and biology at A levelwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Life hasnHe't d been easy for her: most people who a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been close to her have died and shea simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatt convinced. Something ''reallyGeary was a townie, really bad happened'' so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to her when she was ten the suicide of Holly Gilbert and she self-harmed for a long to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Aaron organised psychological help Lockyer and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled DC Gemma Broad of the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed to miss Major Crimes Review Unit (that 'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roans cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=18389510670571379559|title=The Nothing ManHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Catherine Ryan HowardFiona Williams

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about to get a shock'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. HeTess Hembry's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslyroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if sheInsubstantial as it might look, it's planning to pay for itstood the passage of time, storms and floods. Suddenly it drops Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the floor with the spine splayed upwardsdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve BlackThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, is the titlerainbow twins. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - Sonny's colouring reflects his mother'iss Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they' - the Nothing Man whore related, until eighteen years ago raped much less twins and killed. The author of the book was twelve years old there's an assumption when Jim raped her Max is out with his mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annathat she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds Reed1529425867|title=The Black KidsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Christina Hammonds ReedIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's debut novel is set against the backdrop not any of the 1992 Los Angeles riotsthose things. He's white, originated from a reaction trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the absolution same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of four police officers action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for beating climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a black man, Rodney King, nearly to deathwith precognition. Told from Imagine the perspective strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Ashley Bennettcircumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of racemost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.get it back?|isbn=1471188191B0C9SNG8R1