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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Agnes Ravatn Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and Rosie Hedger (translator)he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. 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 him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Seven DoorsAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt't even try s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way throughEnglish country village where she grew up. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out She's back now because of their home, a building that had existed throughout request for help from her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearsbeloved aunt, Carole. The building heFreya's inheritedformer mentor and Carole's close friend, meanwhileArthur Crockleford, is dead and which they let out to a single motherthe circumstances seem suspicious, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'say the least. NowArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, at this stage you may wellshe feels, if you know this is a genre readlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, think it's going she has not felt able to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in near the man or pursue the 1980s, but noprofession she loved. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyAfter the split, she worked in case that has any bearing on what happens herea cafe, met and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until married James (on the point where rebound from the evicted tenant is found to love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have completely vanishednow divorced.|isbn=1913193381

|authorisbn=Michael J MaloneAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Song of IsolationAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=35|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws ''Opening up a career new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is only beginning what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to hit me but I'm left with the heights to retire to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of all thingsit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestryI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. They have found a hideaway on I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between themway I could understand. |isbn=1913193365

|author= Christopher PaoliniSunny Singh|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= Science FictionThrillers |summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez The Hotel Arcadia is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of luxury hotel in an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a strange alien entityterrorist group. After Hiding from the entity bonded to her loses control terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and kills half the staff of the research stationAbhi, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examinationhotel manager. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has As Abhi continues to flee try to care remotely for the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard residents who are still alive in the freighter Wallfishhotel, crewed he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by Captain Falconi events, and a rag-tag bunch keeps on venturing out of misfits, and the news is grimher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The same aliens that destroyed Although they only ever talk over the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied spacephone, and only a mythical weapon known their friendship grows as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs Abhi tries to help her keep safe and more players they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in discovered by the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…terrorists.|isbn=1529046505086154742X

|authorisbn=Carlie Sorosiak1529153298|title=My Life as a CatThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=This is the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a human. It's something that each member in the alien collective 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is allowed to doPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, for 1 monthhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, once they reach a certain agethough. Women have been disappearing. Leonard comes Well, they've been murdered, but to earth but gets distracted en route, and have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready her father wants to work as a park ranger, he is instead in move the body of a cat on the other side of the country! family 'Down South'. This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong bodyWhen you're from Yorkshire, he Down South is also in the middle of a stormfrightening, foreign place, stuck in a tree! best avoided. And so he meets OliveFor Miv, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue himmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and who names him Leonardshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1788006089

|authorisbn= Tahi Saihate1398524085|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place to which we can Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never returnturned up. Tahi Saihate Her children, sons Niall, in Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her debut novel husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg''Astral Seasons father, Duncan Ackerley, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often liein the river. Her novel is a meditation on youth It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and how then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the things we guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do as a teenager can seem intensely important but get on with their lives and often life-alteringwonder about what really happened.|isbn= 1916277101

|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart1035906708|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir We tend to the thronethink of Maria Callas as Greek, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight but she was born to find their place Greek parents in the world. Lin is the emperor's forgotten daughterManhattan, New York, kept locked away in a palace of secrets December 1923 and closed doorsonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. When Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father refuses changed it to recognise her as heir 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the throne, States. When she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and was back in secret, Athens - supposedly so that she begins to unlock one door after another, searching could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the mysteries of Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her past and the forbidden art made no secret of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest preference for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palaceher elder sister, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her peopleJackie.|isbn=0356514943

|author=Sharon DoeringChristopher Edge|title=She Lies CloseBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, around 6 months agoa place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. There has been no sign All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of her sinceexciting films, and no arrests have been made. And yetmany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this book new film format is not about Avavery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Not really. This book is about Grace But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house can they figure out what on earth is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother going on? Will they ever get back to two young childrenthe cinema, she's really wishing this sort of information had come and to light before they moved in.their real lives?|isbn=17890941941839942738

|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiRachel Greenlaw|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in their own house when my heart.'' Rosevear, a very alarming thing happensremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. A creature - a largeMira, dog-like creature - appears in their house. Black Cather mother before her, always 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 trap to take chargeend the wrecking, challenges this fearsome creature with all they capture the courage he can musterisland's leader and Mira's father. Tabby Cat backs Desperate to save him.... from death, Mira makes a bargain with a rather safe distance. The creature wreck survivor who is as charming as he is indignant - ''I'm not secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a dogfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. I'm a fox!'With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=1511658649 0008664730

|isbnauthor=1712435728James Sherwood Metts|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherPlanet Storyland

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|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 has no intention of doing that: he's Things have been there a bit sticky for a year, on the same ward where his brother died Earthlings. AI and nowautomation have been proceeding apace, with his hair all shorn off, heoften replacing jobs they's going home in his dead brother's clothes. He wants re paid to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him other tasks that he's not took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to mention TB all this technological change and starting to say it think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was tonsillitis. Good luck pretty much shut down and, along with that oneit, Alexall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Alice OsemanMatthew Tree|title=SolitaireWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Victoria Spring has returned Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than 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 of things - including herself. But suddenlybe different from his father, a blog called Solitaire has arrived drunk and is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she iswho had endless crises of self confidence. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem to be linked So Tim applied himself to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is hehis studies, really? Things are only getting stranger cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymoreset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=9780007559220B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Natasha FarrantA G Slatter|title=Voyage The Briar Book of the SparrowhawkDead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Set in England in the aftermath '' There's a part of World War One, me that wants to keep this is the story just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of two children, Lotti and Benmy own, who have lost everyone they loveall mine, but don't at last. I just want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopeenjoy it for a while. Ben is living on '' Within a narrowboat on remote mountain pass, far away from the canalworld, lying to lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the police about his brotherBriar's imminent return , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the battlefields to take care of himDarklands. LottiThough she has always wished for magic, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and Ellie Briar is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs the first non-witch to be born into her but that family for generations and as such since she was young, her terrible Aunt training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and Uncle currently have guardianship forpotions. The day Lotti meets Ben (When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the day she steals a dog!) is Briar Witch, the beginning of a deeptown's leader, and powerful friendshipEllie takes her place beside her. It sees them become each other's familyAs challenges come her way left, right and undertake a perilous trip centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to Francecommunicate with the dead, in putting her at the boatheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to try trust and determine what to find out do as the truth of the people Briar witches' legacy, everything they both lovehave sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=05713487691803364548

|isbn=14711792731529900360|title=House of CorrectionThe Ghost Orchid|author=Nicci FrenchJonathan Kellerman|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's in prisonfault 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 remanddifficult cases. SheHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's sharing t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a cell with Michaelawhile. Finally, whoit was Robin, Delaware's more caring than she first appearspartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as knew that the involvement was something that the whole processes might beman she loved needed. And how The next case did Tabitha get here? look simple, though. Well, on 21 December Two lovers were murdered in the body swimming pool of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered a remote property in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who Bel Air. He was helping with the renovations heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Tabithaan extremely rich man and it's housenot the Italian. So far as But which of them was the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.primary target?

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529395224|title=Archibald Lox and Letting the Cat Out of the Vote Bag: The Secret Life of Alignment a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=This third Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and final book Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the first volume of Darren Shanstrain that being on-call put on his father's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and Inez make it almost all was convinced this was the way to the Cuckoojob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn's Nestt - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, where the Vote of Alignment will he'd wanted to be helda professional footballer. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V

|isbn=00083147210861541774|title=Truth Be ToldA Nye of Pheasants|author=Kia AbdullahSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=The Hadids are an DCI Domenic Jejeune''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank s close friend and this prompts former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a phone call short holiday in returnSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. There are two sons of the family, seventeenMaik was involved in a street brawl -yearhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamhe killed a Ghurka. Their motherInitially, Sofia, regrets he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off he might have planned to murder the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'man. Sofia worries about that sort of thingNow he could be facing the death penalty. Both boys go Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles help as any interference from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has another police force could provoke a place diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was raped.

|isbnauthor=1509889515Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was The Perfect Passion Company is a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the wrong turning as she drove home online apps in the blizzardproviding a more personal, tailored service. If Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning could come and who knows what would have happened to look after the toddler strapped into the car seatbusiness, particularly as 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, and so jumps at the car door had been left openchance to come home to Edinburgh. Vera took 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 boy and drove Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to the nearest habitationcharm. She Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always 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'thoughts '' it would InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the village but it was Brockburn'long, the ancestral home cosy afternoons in front of the Stanhopes: her father had been fire' variety. The projects are divided by the younger brother of the man who inherited time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and Hector was more than twenty hours. All the black sheep of the familyprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but there was little else that she could do in the circumstances's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=0241425441Dean Koontz|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard OsmanBad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter Benny is Joyce Meadowcrofthaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. She used Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to be a nurse his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is thus the perfect thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person who has been stabbed to bleed out. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that So fortunately for Benny it would have taken about forty-five minutes and turns out that the victim could have delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been saved if she'd received prompt medical sent to helphim since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherdSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's pie enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (which tells us that it was a Mondaywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) 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 Villagecan figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1948124440Adam Stower|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery Murray and Liuba SyrotiukBun|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=The second book in Justine Avery's Wonders series Murray is the perfect antidote supposed to long summer days with bored children - orbe a humble, tidy and friendly cat, indeedone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, as we've found recentlywell, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across whatever takes his fancy next of the worldtwo. What do you do when every book But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been read turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and every toy has been played withwhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, repurposedto be honest, but he's turned up and played with again?he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn= Samira AhmedB0C47LV1PC|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 3.54|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''In Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the endquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, we all become stories''would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about 'Fragility'' is set as the mess she left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant city of Alexandre DumasPortland, Oregon, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him cautiously begins to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover emerge from the true story of restrictions imposed during the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.|isbn=0349003556covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1529431735|title=LovelessThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Georgia is a teenager whoIt's embarking on her first year of university February 1991 and Essex is in a desperate struggle to figure herself outbitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. She He's always d been in love with love. With exiled on the idea of love, the idea of falling madly Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for someone and finding blissa decade. But the reality for her The return has always been different. Shecome about because he's never had a crush. Sheletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's never been kissedill and hasn't long to live. And she It's desperate hard to feel something any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and fall for someone. But when sent to a watery grave in the opportunity presents itself in any kind boot of real, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted by a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it. But isn't that what she's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to dohome? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412X

|isbnauthor=B086LLRZFHAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress The Glorious Race of SuanpanMagical Beasts|author=Darren Shan|rating=4.5

|summary=Archie's second foray into 'Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the Merge' opens wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a fantastic vistahelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. All of Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the Bornfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Ben, parents were both lost to the Taj Mahaltitular race,  the Eiffel Tower a globe- are collected together, joined by those clever Merge vines. But there's no time trotting adventure where all entrants have to waste navigate the world in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to the company of a venerable locksmith called Winstonmagical beast.Winston is This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a darling but is afraid bad incident at the eatery leads to help - what a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to be done? Despite yearning dare to go home and worry for his foster parentsenter what he most hates, Archie feels an obligation with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to take Winston's place. And so Archie embarks on a new, and even more dangerous, adventure...possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1408712288178763681X|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Val McDermidOrlando Murrin

|summary=It was the middle of February and bitterly cold when Chef Paul Delamare took a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled teaching job at a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster potresidential cookery school in Belgravia. It fell He didn't really want to DCI Charlie Todd but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and DS Daisy Mortimer women to investigate and it didndo what he wanted. Paul ''somehow''t take too long to establish got the impression that he'd be at the man was school to assist Paul Allard, ostensibly who had a Frenchmanbroken arm, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghit didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. A decade earlier The one thing hehadn's gone missing when he t expected was the prime suspect in the disappearance and possible murder of his brother, prominent civil servant, Iain Auldfor someone to turn up dead. DCI Karen PirieUnfortunately, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been he was the last person to review who discovered the case, a couple of years earlier body and it seemed sensible everyone knows that the police consider that person to bring her into be the case at an early stageprime suspect.

|author= Adrian TchaikovskySarah Marsh|title= The Doors A Sign of EdenHer Own|rating= 43.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel is giganticAfter 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 every sense a time when the use of the word. "Epic" sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a word that's thrown around a lot these daysschool where she is taught to lip read, but if physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a book ever earned system called Visible Speech. At the name it's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brainEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=15098658881035401614

|authorisbn=Will Carver1803816759|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow 2038 and Joe is a small town in Berkshirebored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, Englandmaking life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereFinally, until something happened Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and he ran away Joe is assigned to the citybring her home. HeJoe isn's running away again…only this time evil is following him t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is going to touch just about everyone in townalso on the case.|isbn=1913193306What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Jacqueline Wilson1529421284|title=Love FrankieLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteenIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to leave her for another womanbe Lee Geary, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedhad disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, andso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, above all when Sally so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and her mates are bullying you to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at schoolthe time. Oh, Lockyer and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that he might fancy 's cold cases to you - and you don't fancy him backme) investigate. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897

|isbn=17765728580571379559|title=How Do You Make a Baby?The House of Broken Bricks|author=Anna Fiske and Don Bartlett (translator)Fiona Williams

|genre=Home and FamilyLiterary Fiction|summary=It''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were maderoots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. My mother was deeply embarrassed Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and told me that she'd get me a book about itfloods. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the basics, delivery rounds - and to bring in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and I was told that it wouldn't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked aboutMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. I People don't believe that they'knew'' morere related, but was little much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she'wiser''. Thankfully, times have changeds his nanny.

|isbn=15420174321529425867|title=The Nidderdale MurdersLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=J R EllisSimon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near NiddersgillIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner Raymond Wilkins is of the moor Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and a retired judgealways exquisitely dressed. James Symonds was a local landowner D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Henry Saunders was a bankerfather of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He 's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and Fraser had known each other since their school daystrackies. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt They're usually in exclusive cars in nearby Riponlime green or acid yellow. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: heYou might wonder if you'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was re being slow introduced to paya police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Other people had reason to comment on FraserSometimes it's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work forproblematic.

|isbnauthor=0241433568Mosby Woods|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=ItThe West isn's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only t the dominant force it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murderedonce was. How can that have happened? There's no one else Nobody in the house, so one of them must be the killer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1526362759|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi Sirdeshpande|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it West is, why it matters, quite sure how to acquire more of mend this or even if mending it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold the best course of itaction. Governments are flailing. Your reasons A war here, a push for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extentclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. You might want to go into businessImagine then, be there was a clever shopper, man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a saver (man who can tell you might even become an ''investor'') and there might what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be something you reallyvaluable, ''really'' want to buy. There's also right? Perhaps the possibility of using to do good most valuable asset in the worldhistory. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1