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|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart0241636604|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre= FantasyAutobiography|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In If you were to bring up an empire controlled by image of a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructscity banker in your mind, an heir you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the thronepin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, a smugglerwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and a warrior will fight injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to find their place in the worldLondon School of Economics. Lin Stevenson is the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in bright - extremely bright - and he has a palace facility with numbers which most of secrets and closed doorsus can only envy. When her father refuses He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secretbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, she begins to unlock one door after anotheressentially, searching for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly card game and her quest for power will come at great costwhich got him an internship with Citibank. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace Eventually, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become this turned into permanent employment as a catalyst of change and save her peopletrader.|isbn=0356514943

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1035021803|title=She Lies CloseThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Ava Boone was five It's twenty years old when since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she went missing, around 6 months agogrew up. There has been no sign She's back now because of a request for help from her sincebeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and no arrests have the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been madeback to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. And yet Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, this book is she has not about Ava. Not reallyfelt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. This book is about Grace After the split, who has just discovered her neighbour she worked in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young childrencafe, she's really wishing this sort met and married James (on the rebound from the love of information had come to light before they moved inher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1789094194

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Adventures of an Urban FoxAll Tomorrow's Futures: Maggie ArrivesFictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when a very alarming thing ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happensafter you're eighteen. A creature - Well, I must confess that there have been more than a large, dog-like creature - appears few decades of technology in their housemy lifetime. Black Cat, always one I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to take charge, challenges this fearsome creature me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all the courage he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... getting away from a rather safe distanceme. The creature Some of it is indignant - ''frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm not a dogreading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I'm needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a fox!''|isbn=1511658649 way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1712435728Sunny Singh|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers |summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, he's just being released from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit the other patients but Alex Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has no intention of doing that: he's suddenly been there for violently taken over by a yearterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the same ward where his brother died site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and nowAbhi, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothesthe hotel manager. He wants As Abhi continues to get outside and back try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with his friends: his brother, ForbesSam who refuses to be cowed by events, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that hekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's not happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to mention TB help her keep safe and they both wait to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexsee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1529153298|title=Solitaire|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She hates a lot The List of things - including herself. But suddenly, a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is he, really? Suspicious Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymore.|isbn=9780007559220}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkJennie 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's houset stand the guilt. So far as the police The Salter children are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Darren ShanDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|titlegenre=General Fiction|summary=Archibald Lox We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Vote Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Alignment her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=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 After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is about taught to have his throat cut lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in his own bedanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. To find out who - At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and why - we need to go back nine days ideas, and twenty yearsEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science FictionMackenzie, Robin |summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and Lily met when they all went to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the same college in MonroevilleAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friendsriots start to spread. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the famous girl band aftermath of the dayrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Lily would be Adventure SpiceJoe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, Robin the Homemaker a British superfan and Mackenzie - welltech nerd, Mackenzie would be is also on the supporting actress in her own lifecase. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, whoWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's now fifteen-year-old.kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529421284|title=Archibald Lox and Laying Out the Bridge Between WorldsBones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Time to catch you all up with some It was one of my lockdown reading - I've been doing so much of it those flash downpours that I'm the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a bit late human skeleton came to the party with actual reviewing. Oops! And where better surface and forensic testing proved the body to start than with the new series from Bookbag favouritebe Lee Geary, Darren Shan? Archie is very downwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He's lost d been a dear friend recentlyknown drug user and had learning disabilities, in so it could have been a tragic accident, and Archie blames himself. He cansimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around Londonconvinced. As he strolls across Geary was a footbridgetownie, so what was he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suitsdoing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. He watches, aghast Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD6

|authorisbn=Antony Wootten0571379559|title=Season The House of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are waiting in great excitement for Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the hunting party led by their uncle to returnhouse on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. They Insubstantial as it might look, it're hoping for a feast s stood the passage of mammoth meattime, storms and floods. Geb longs for the day he can join Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his uncle Gagba and vegetables, to complete the other warriors on a hunting party delivery rounds - and take part to bring in their deeds of derringsufficient money. They have twin boys -doSonny and Max, the rainbow twins. But their Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father, the leader of the village, thinks . People don't believe that they also need 're related, much less twins and there's an education; assumption when Max is out with his mother that knowledge is powershe's his nanny.|isbn=1939269679

|authorisbn=1529425867|title= Laura Lam Lost and Elizabeth MayNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor= Seven DevilsSimon Mason|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eris In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is one of the foremost operatives of the NovantaeNigerian descent, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for yearsBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Clo D I Ryan Wilkins, an ace pilot for the Novantaeson of Ryan and father of Ryan, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effortis not. Although she He's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empirenot any of those things. Eris He's brother Damocleswhite, the runner-up heir to the Empireoriginated from a trailer park, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and the last his wardrobe consists mainly of the free alien speciesshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. It You might wonder if you's a race against time as the rebels move re being introduced to put a stop Damoclespolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you' plans, with millions re not. The two men are just different sides of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Non PrattMosby Woods|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Freya The West isn't the dominant force it once was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable . Nobody in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the end best course of GCSEs just months awayaction. But one dayGovernments are flailing. A war here, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her sincea push for climate action there. A once active social profile left desertedfeeling that nobody is in actual charge. SoImagine then, when her best friend Sophie receives there was a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find man with precognition. Imagine the parcel contains another layer addressed to strategic advantage in this asset; a complete strangerman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and right? Perhaps the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it allmost valuable asset in history. With each parcelImagine then, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten this man loses this ability. What would governments do to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leaveget it back?|isbn=1406366943B0C9SNG8R1