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|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana Betti0241636604|title=The Adventures of an Urban FoxTrading Game: Maggie ArrivesA Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in their own house when a very alarming thing happensyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A creature hoodie and jeans replaces the pin- a largestripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, dogpoverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -like creature - appears in their house. Black Cat, always one but he had been to take charge, challenges this fearsome creature with all the courage London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can musteronly envy. Tabby Cat backs He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got himan internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from a rather safe distanceher beloved aunt, Carole. The creature is indignant - Freya's former mentor and Carole'I'm s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to 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 a dogcafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649

|isbn=1712435728AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=JamieAll Tomorrow's KeepsakeFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Michael GallagherBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, he's just being released from 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the Southern General Hospitalshape of things to come. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing ' I've heard it said that: he's technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been there for more than a year, on the same ward where his brother died and now, few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with his hair all shorn off, hewhat's going home in his dead brotheradvantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's clothesall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. He wants to get outside Of course, I could research the possibilities and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good probabilities and his mother tells him that heend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitisre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Good luck with that one, AlexI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Alice OsemanSunny Singh|title=SolitaireHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary= Victoria Spring The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boringsuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She has one real friend; Hiding from the rest terrorists who are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She hates a lot of things - including herself. But suddenlyrampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a blog called Solitaire has arrived wartime photographer and is pulling pranks throughout Abhi, the schoolhotel manager. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involvedthe hotel, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be linked cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to Tori? Why does Michael want try to be in Toricapture what's life so badly and who is he, really? Things are happened through her photography. Although they only getting stranger and darkerever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymorethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=9780007559220086154742X

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant1529153298|title=Voyage The List of the SparrowhawkSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the story of two childrenPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Lotti and Benhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, who though. Women have lost everyone been disappearing. Well, they love've been murdered, but donto have 'disappeared' doesn't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopesound quite so frightening. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canal, lying Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the police about his brotherfamily 'Down South's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of him. LottiWhen you're from Yorkshire, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and Down South is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. The day Lotti meets Ben (For Miv, the day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deepmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and powerful friendshipshe'll do anything to prevent that. It sees them become each otherShe's family, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in not worried about the boat, dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to try to find out the truth of the people they both loveanyone.|isbn=0571348769

|isbn=14711792731398524085|title=House of CorrectionHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's in prison, on remandfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She's sharing a cell with MichaelaHer children, sons Niall, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love Paul and gets Tabitha eating Ollie and drinking her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - and encourages her to have a showerhusband, Alec, unpleasant as the whole processes might beis not. And how did Tabitha get here? WellShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, on 21 December find the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who the river. It was helping with an easy assumption for the renovations police to Tabithamake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's houselittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4. So far 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as the police are concernedGreek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, Tabitha is the in December 1923 and only person who could have killed Rees - and moved to Athens when they arrived at she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her house father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was covered back in his bloodAthens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Darren ShanChristopher Edge|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Black Hole Cinema Club

|summary=This third Lucas and final book his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the first volume nickname of Darren Shan's new The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they'Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Inez make it almost all many, many snacks! However, as the way 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't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the Cuckoo's Nestnext, where the Vote of Alignment will be held. But how will can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get inback to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1839942738

|isbnauthor=0008314721Rachel Greenlaw|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia AbdullahCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortfulI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' family Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Flowers are sent for Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent seven who swim out to thank survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and this prompts any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a phone call in return. There are two sons of trap to end the familywrecking, seventeen-year-old Kamran they capture the island's leader and sixteen-year-old AdamMira's father. Their motherDesperate to save him from death, SofiaMira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'sea. Sofia worries about that sort With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of thing. Both boys go foreign islands to the prestigious Hampton schoolheart of the smuggler's territory, where they board, despite Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park future of her home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1509889515James Sherwood Metts|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was Things have been a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took bit sticky for the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardEarthlings. If she hadn't the car might not AI and automation have been found until the morning proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and who knows what would have happened other tasks that took time to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly accomplish. Just as the car door had been left open. Vera took the boy they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and drove starting to think of other, new ways to the nearest habitationspend time, along came an awful pandemic. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it Life was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - pretty much shut down and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassingalong with it, but there was little else that she could do in all the circumstancesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0241425441Matthew Tree|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard OsmanWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a nurse drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to bleed out. Details of where his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams 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) set himself high 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 Villageachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1948124440A G Slatter|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=The second book in Justine Avery'' There's Wonders series is the perfect antidote a part of me that wants to keep this just to long summer days with bored children - or, indeed, as we've found recently, myself for those however long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across the worldI can. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played withThis secret magic of my own, repurposedall mine, and played with again?}}{{Frontpage|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous at last. I just want to Know|rating= 3enjoy it for a while.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In the end, we all become stories''

Spending Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the summer in Paris sounds like world, lies Silverton; a dream town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for most peoplemagic, especially artEllie Briar is the first non-loverswitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, but Khayyam can't relax her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicagopotions. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre DumasWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the truth about Briar Witch, the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumastown's leader, Eugene Delacroix and Lord ByronEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the two teenagers travel rare ability to communicate with the city they not only discover themselvesdead, but uncover putting her at the true story heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the woman and why it was one that should never Briar witches' legacy, everything they have been forgottensacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=03490035561803364548

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1529900360|title=LovelessThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Georgia is a teenager whoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's embarking on her first year of university fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and is in a desperate struggle even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to figure herself outask for his help on difficult cases. She His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's always been in love with love. With t need the idea help of love, the idea of falling madly a psychologist only worked for someone and finding blissa while. But the reality for her has always been different. She Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's never had a crushpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She's never been kissedknew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. And she's desperate to feel something and fall for someone The next case did look simple, though. But when Two lovers were murdered in the opportunity presents itself swimming pool of a remote property in any kind of real, tangible Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and physical way for her - sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's disgusted by itnot the Italian. 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 shewhich of them was the primary target?|isbn=000824412X

|isbn=B086LLRZFH1529395224|title=Archibald Lox and Letting the Cat Out of the Empress Bag: The Secret Life of Suanpana Vet|author=Darren ShanSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Archie's second foray Siôn Rowlands fell into 'the Merge' opens with veterinary science accidentally. His father was a fantastic vista. All of the BornGP and Rowlands didn's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Bent want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the Taj Mahal,  the Eiffel Tower strain that being on- are collected together, joined by those clever Merge vines. But therecall put on his father's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston is family friend who was a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning to go home vet and worry was convinced this was the job for his foster parentshim. Before long, Archie feels an obligation to take Winstonhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn's place. And t - as with so Archie embarks on many students - been his dream since he was a newchild. If anything, and even more dangerous, adventure...he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=14087122880861541774|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Val McDermidSteve Burrows

|summary=It DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was the middle of February and bitterly cold when facing a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled man armed with a body out the Firth of Forth instead of knife - and he killed a lobster potGhurka. It fell Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer light that suggested that he might have planned to investigate and it didn't take too long to establish that murder the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but in reality James Auld of Edinburgh. A decade earlier he's gone missing when Now he was could be facing the prime suspect in the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Aulddeath penalty. DCI Karen Pirie, Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person to review the case, any interference from another police force could provoke a couple of years earlier diplomatic incident and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case wouldn't help Danny at an early stageall.

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyAlexander McCall Smith|title= The Doors of EdenPerfect Passion Company|rating= 4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel The Perfect Passion Company is gigantica dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in every sense of providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the wordbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. "Epic" Katie is coming out of a word that's thrown around break up with a lot these daysbad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but if with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a book ever earned the name itbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's this one. Italways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a doorstopper full collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of big ideasthe fire' variety. 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 at times it almost felt too big for more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my brainage when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1509865888

|author=Will CarverDean Koontz|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary= Hinton HollowBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, population 5he loses his fiancee,120and his house gets trashed. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in AmericaOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's mid-westpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, but Benny is the very last person to deserve all this particular Hinton Hollow bad luck. He is a small town in Berkshire, Englandnice person. A really nice person. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, until something happened and he ran away who has been sent to the cityhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. HeSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's running away again…only this time evil is following him enemies, if he, Benny, and is going to touch just about everyone in townHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=19131933061662500491

|author=Jacqueline WilsonAdam Stower|title=Love FrankieMurray and Bun

|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Frankie Murray is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided able to leave her for another womansleep and eat and eat and sleep and, when your older sister well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the girliest girl who ever livedcatflap they both use can chuck them out, andnot into the regular back garden, above all when Sally but into a world of frightening adventure and her mates are bullying you at schoolwhiffs. Oh This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, and when Samone much bigger than Murray was, your best friend since foreverto be honest, suddenly starts sending out signs that but he might fancy you - 's turned up and you donhe't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! ll have to do…|isbn= 0857535897 0008561249

|isbn=1776572858B0C47LV1PC|title=How Do You Make a Baby?Fragility|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Mosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Home and FamilyLiterary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me a book about joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than ? Or is the basicsquestion if you did, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told would it land? The catch is that it wouldn't the answer for both could well be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked about''. I ... no. ''knewFragility'' moreis set as the city of Portland, but was little ''wiser''. ThankfullyOregon, times have changed.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15420174321529431735|title=The Nidderdale MurdersWinter Visitor|author=J R EllisJames Henry|rating=34

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgillmore surprising. The shooters at He'd been exiled on the butts were Costa del Sol as a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner of the moor and wanted drug smuggler for a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since their school daysdecade. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley return has come about because he's had a gripe with Fraser: heletter from his ex-wife, saying that she'd sold him an expensive car s ill and Fraser was being slow hasn't long to paylive. Other people had reason to comment on FraserIt's attitude hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy underwear and very difficult sent to work fora watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0241433568Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=It's 1930 Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and Megan in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Henry are staying runs. Eli lives with Bunny at his house lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in Spainthe family. ItA few short years ago, Eli's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something seriousmagical beast. Only it never gets that far: This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when Bunny doesn't emerge after a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his siesta his guests find that only hope is to dare to enter what he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in most hates, with the sole aim the house, so one prize of them must be magic at the killerend – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1526362759178763681X|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give ItKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeOrlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=What Chef Paul Delamare took a relief! teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it is, why it matters, how He didn't really want to acquire more but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of it (nope - robbing banks is out) getting both men and women to do what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of ithe wanted. Your reasons for wanting money donPaul 't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an 'somehow'investor'got the impression that he') and there might d be something you reallyat the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn'really'' want t expected was for someone to buyturn up dead. There's also Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the possibility of using police consider that person to do good in be the worldprime suspect.

|isbnauthor=0008378363Sarah Marsh|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneA Sign of Her Own

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=A husband is After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about to have his throat cut in his own bedher life changes. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met Living in a time when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best use of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a nod school where she is taught to the famous girl band of the daylip read, but physically restrained from signing. Lily would be Adventure SpiceFrom here, Robin she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Homemaker deaf and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifeusing a system called Visible Speech. She married OwenAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, her college sweetheart and they have Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldcomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1803816759|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between Worlds|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much of it that I'm a bit late to the party with actual reviewing. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. He's lost a dear friend recently, in a tragic accident, and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridge, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watches, aghast. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD6}}{{FrontpageThe Unravelling|author=Antony Wootten|title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Will Gibson

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= Tannash It's 2038 and her brother Geb are waiting in great excitement for Joe is a bored cop policing the hunting party led by their uncle to returnwealthy and peaceful New York City. They're hoping Joe longs for a feast bit of mammoth meatadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Geb longs But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the day he can join his uncle Gagba aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the other warriors on only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a hunting party British superfan and take part in their deeds of derring-do. But their fathertech nerd, is also on the leader of case. What went wrong? Did the village, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge system fail or was it hacked? And how is power.|isbn=1939269679Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May1529421284|title= Seven DevilsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eris is It was one of those flash downpours that the foremost operatives of the NovantaeBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a resistance movement fighting against human skeleton came to the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined surface and forensic testing proved the body to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordiabe Lee Geary, whom everyone believed has been dead for who had disappeared nine yearsearlier. Clo He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has so it could have been a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although shesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this missiont convinced. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with Geary was a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damoclestownie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the runner-up heir suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos time. Lockyer and the last DC Gemma Broad of the free alien species. ItMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's a race against time as the rebels move cold cases to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140you and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Non Pratt0571379559|title=Every Little Piece The House of My HeartBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Freya was a beautiful''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, popular and complex girlbut instead, loved by many and seemingly stable she lives in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of house on the end riverbank, built of GCSEs just months awaybroken bricks. But one day Insubstantial as it might look, on January 1stit's stood the passage of time, she just... left. No explanation. No warningstorms and floods. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So Her husband, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterRichard, she expects it struggles to contain answers of some kindgrow his vegetables, but is surprised to find complete the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, delivery rounds - and then another layer to another person bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and anotherMax, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of rainbow twins. Sonny'treasures colouring reflects his mother' at the end of it alls Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. With each parcel People don't believe that they're related, a new layer of the story much less twins and of Freya there's an assumption when Max is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light out with his mother that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can whatshe's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943his nanny.

|isbn=178089922X1529425867|title=Invisible GirlLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Lisa JewellSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''When you wear a hoodIn Oxford, you're invisiblethere are two D I Wilkins.'' Saffyre Maddox Raymond Wilkins is seventeen-years-old of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and beautifulalways exquisitely dressed. By her own admissionD I Ryan Wilkins, she's a bit son of a boffin, doing Ryan and enjoying mathsfather of Ryan, physics and biology at A levelis not. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and sheHe's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatnot any of those things. Something He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and she self-harmed for a long timetrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Aaron organised psychological help and You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for three years Roan Fours was her therapistlaughs. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psycheWell, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really badyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. When Sometimes the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roancombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1838951067Mosby Woods|title=The Nothing A Whirly Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardLoses His Turn|rating=54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heThe West isn's about to get a shockt the dominant force it once was. He's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman who Nobody in the West is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders quite sure how to mend this or even if she's planning to pay for mending itis the best course of action. Suddenly it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsGovernments are flailing. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve BlackA war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is the titlein actual charge. Why is Jim shocked? WellImagine then, Jim there was - ''is'' - a man with precognition. Imagine the Nothing Man strategic advantage in this asset; a man whocan tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, until eighteen years ago raped and killedright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and Imagine then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annathat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1