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|authorisbn=Stephen Fabes0241636604|title=Signs of LifeThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary= I was brought If you were to bring up on maps and first-person narratives an image of tales a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of far away placessomeone like Gary Stevenson. I was birth A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-righted wanderlust stripe suit and curiosity. Unfortunatelyhis background is the East End, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which where he was the guts to simply go out familiar with violence, poverty and do itinjustice. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been gifted with to the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not the sort London School of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six yearsEconomics. Fabes did precisely that.|isbn=1788161211}}{{Frontpage|author=Arvin Ahmadi|title=How It All Blew Up|rating=4|genre=Teens| summary=18Stevenson is bright -yearextremely bright -old Amir is American Iranian, and he has a Muslim, and gayfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He struggles with also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his identityability at what was, unable to face telling his parents who he really isessentially, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing a card game which got him, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awayan internship with Citibank...to Italy! So begins Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to betrader.|isbn=1471409929

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain1035021803|title=The Readers RoomAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|genreauthor=General FictionC L Miller

|genre=Crime|summary=ViolaineIt's publishing house twenty years since Freya Lockwood has had a great success, and it was through been back to the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsEnglish country village where she grew up. The three people who work in the ReadersShe' Room to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in s back now because of a request for help from her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashbeloved aunt, and so it has provenCarole. But there are several Freya'howeverss former mentor and Carole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to thatsay the least. As in, however – Violaine herself is Arthur was the reason why Freya had not having life all her own waybeen back to the village: Arthur, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accidentfeels, and starts this book coming round from a comalet her down badly. And, however – despite all urgingEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the author of man or pursue the book has never once made themselves known to profession she loved. After the publishers in personsplit, and she worked in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last email. What is going to befall Violainecafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her memorylife, her staff – who was murdered) and Freya and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974James have now divorced.

|isbn=1948124572AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Think Outside the BoxAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Justine Avery Benjamin Greenaway and Liuba SyrotiukStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=''Whenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever there's a puzzle Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to solve <br>''However you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the boxcome.''

And so begins I've heard it said that 'technology' is 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 me but I'm left with the latest picture book feeling that it's all getting away from Justine Avery me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and Liuba Syrotiukthe 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. It's I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a clarion call to children to use their imaginations and not logic alone when it comes to solving problemsway I could understand.

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Sunny Singh|title=The Seven DoorsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Come here for The Hotel Arcadia is a thriller luxury hotel in an unnamed city that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest has suddenly been violently taken over by a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of terrorist group. Hiding from the way terrorists who are rampaging through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturerkilling everyone on site, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their homethere is Sam, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood wartime photographer and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearsAbhi, the hotel manager. The building As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to forms a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, bond with Sam who quite blatantly says refuses to its occupant 'take a hikebe cowed by events, I'm moving in and you're moving keeps on venturing out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going of her room to be a throwback try to those capture what'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but nos happened through her photography. We avoid genre completelyAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, Abhi tries to help her keep safe 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 the point where they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedterrorists.|isbn=1913193381086154742X

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1529153298|title=A Song The List of IsolationSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that is only beginning her father wants to hit move the heights to retire to family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all thingsmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, though and she'll do anything to his credit he would rather be working in forestryprevent that. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to feel wrong between themanyone. |isbn=1913193365

|authorisbn= Christopher Paolini1398524085|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moonCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entityfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station Her children, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien shipsons Niall, Paul and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi Ollie and a rag-tag bunch of misfitsher daughter, and the news is grimEtty. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of humanworried but - strangely -occupied spaceher husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and only a mythical weapon known as Greg, find the Staff body of Blue can stop themGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. As It was an easy assumption for the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins police to realise make that she may have Duncan had a greater hand in murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the conflict than she couldguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505s little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Carlie Sorosiak1035906708|title=My Life as a CatDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=This is the story We tend to think of an alien who has come down Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to spend some time on earth living as a human. It's something that each member Greek parents in the alien collective is allowed to doManhattan, for 1 monthNew York, once they reach a certain agein December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Leonard comes Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to earth but gets distracted en route, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready 'Callas' to work as a park ranger, he is instead make it more manageable in the body of a cat on the other side of the country! States. This is not what he had planned! Not only is he When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the wrong place Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and the wrong body, he is also in the middle made no secret of a stormher preference for her elder sister, stuck in a tree! And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue him, and who names him LeonardJackie.|isbn=1788006089

|author= Tahi SaihateChristopher Edge|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= We long Lucas and his friends are all booked in for our past even though it is a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place to which we can never returnthat has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Tahi Saihate All big movie fans, in her debut novel they''Astral Seasonre looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Beastly Seasonand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often liet even imagine. Her novel But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is a meditation going on youth and how ? Will they ever get back to the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important cinema, and often life-altering.to their real lives?|isbn= 19162771011839942738

|author= Andrea StewartRachel Greenlaw|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Compass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre= FantasyTeens|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 to can hear the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in song of the worldsea. Lin is The call of the emperor's forgotten daughterdeep, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doors. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and answering beat in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magicmy heart.''

Yet Lin Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is playing 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 deadly game trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her quest for power will come at great cost, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With revolution in only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the air and creeping closer and closer watched streets of foreign islands to the gates heart of the palacesmuggler's territory, Lin Mira must decide just how far she will be determined to go stop at nothing to become a catalyst save the future of change her home and save her peoplethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565149430008664730

|author=Sharon DoeringJames Sherwood Metts|title=She Lies ClosePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months agoThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. There has been no sign of her since, AI and no arrests automation have been made. And yetproceeding apace, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Avaoften replacing jobs they's disappearancere paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. As a single mother Just as they were beginning to get used to two young children, she's really wishing all this sort technological change and starting to think of information had come other, new ways to light before spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they moved independ so heavily.|isbn=17890941941736128426

|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiMatthew Tree|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Black Cat Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when a very alarming thing happenswho had endless crises of self confidence. A creature - a large, dog-like creature - appears in their house. Black Cat, always one So Tim applied himself to take chargehis studies, challenges this fearsome creature with all the courage he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... from a cultivated his abilities rather safe distancethan his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. The creature is indignant - ''I'm not a dog. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649 B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1712435728A G Slatter|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, he'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just being released want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit world, lies Silverton; a town under the other patients but Alex has no intention protection of doing that: hethe Briar's been there , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for a yearmagic, on Ellie Briar is the same ward where his brother died first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and nowas such since she was young, with his hair all shorn offher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, heEllie's going home in his dead brothercousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's clothesleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. He wants As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to get outside and back communicate with his friends: his brotherthe dead, Forbesputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, says that Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that heBriar witches's not to mention TB and legacy, everything they have sacrificed to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that onesurvive, Alexis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1529900360|title=SolitaireThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and feels dead even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to the worldask for his help on difficult cases. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid His assertions that there were only open-and boring-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so sheFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's not a complete lonerpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She hates a lot of things - including herselfknew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. But suddenly The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout remote property in Bel Air. He was the school. And Michael Holden has appeared heir to an Italian shoe empire 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 married to an extremely rich man and 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, reallynot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymore.|isbn=9780007559220

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant1529395224|title=Voyage Letting the Cat Out of the SparrowhawkBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this is the story of two children, Lotti Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but donRowlands didn't want to let go of their lastfollow in his footsteps, tiny glimpses of hope. Ben is living particularly when he considered the strain that being on a narrowboat -call put on the canal, lying to the police about his brotherfather's imminent return from life. When he was seventeen he took the battlefields to take care opportunity of him. Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's doing work experience with a family friend who was a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt vet and Uncle currently have guardianship was convinced this was the job forhim. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deepBefore long, and powerful friendshiphe was at Liverpool University. It sees them become each otherhadn's family, and undertake t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a perilous trip to France, in the boatchild. If anything, he'd wanted to try to find out the truth of the people they both lovebe a professional footballer.|isbn=0571348769

|isbn=14711792730861541774|title=House A Nye of CorrectionPheasants|author=Nicci FrenchSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in prisonSingapore to meet up with an old ally, on remandGuy Trueman. She's sharing Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a cell man armed with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appearsa knife - and he killed a Ghurka. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have a shower, unpleasant as planned to murder the whole processes might beman. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December Now he could be facing the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's housedeath penalty. So far Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as the any interference from another police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who force could have killed Rees - provoke a diplomatic incident and when they arrived wouldn't help Danny at her house she was covered in his bloodall.

|author=Darren ShanAlexander McCall Smith|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=This third The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and final book operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the first volume business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of Darren Shan's a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Inez make it almost all the way Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to the Cuckoocharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's Nestalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, where the Vote of Alignment will be held. But how will they get in?William, to lend a hand…|isbn=B086LLWP4V1846976596

|isbn=00083147210811771741|title=Truth Be ToldInstaKnits for Baby|author=Kia AbdullahMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=The Hadids are an Melissa Leapman's ''effortfulInstaKnits for Baby'' familygives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Flowers Some will be quick knits - others are sent for of the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call 'long, cosy afternoons in returnfront of the fire' variety. There The projects are two sons of divided by the family, seventeentime they'll take to complete -year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their motherless than five hours, Sofiafive to ten hours, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam ten to twenty hours and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and Adam'useable. Sofia worries I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school 's me being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedpicky.

|isbnauthor=1509889515Dean Koontz|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesBad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It was Benny is having a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning Oh, and who knows what would have happened someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the toddler strapped into the car seatthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, particularly as Benny is the car door had been left openvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitationA really nice person. She ''thought'' So fortunately for Benny it would be turns out that the village but it was Brockburndelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had who has been the younger brother sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of the man who inherited - Benny, and Hector was the black sheep will certainly take care of the family. Calling there unannouncedBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, particularly as and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstancesare.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0241425441Adam Stower|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard OsmanMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter Murray is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used supposed to be a nurse humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth able to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed out. Details of where sleep and eat and how are exchanged eat and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes sleep and that , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helptwo. It didnBut he't put Joyce off her shepherds a bad magician's pie (which tells us that it was cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a Monday) hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubinto a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. They meet each Thursday (as you might This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Village.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1948124440B0C47LV1PC|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsFragility|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukMosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=The second book in Justine AveryCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s Wonders series joke? And if you could, is the perfect antidote to long summer days with bored children - or, indeed, as we've found recently, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic question should you make it? Or is rolling across the world. What do question if you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with, repurposeddid, and played with againwould it land?}}{{Frontpage|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know|rating= 3The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.5|genre=Teens|summary=''In the end, we all become stories''

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=General Fiction|summary=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 taught to lip read, but 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 system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4

|summary= Wow – this novel It's 2038 and Joe is gigantica bored 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, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, in every sense Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the wordrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. "Epic" is a word thatJoe isn's thrown around t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a lot these daysBritish superfan and tech nerd, but if a book ever earned is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the name system fail or was ithacked? And how is Suki's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain.|isbn=1509865888kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Will Carver1529421284|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like was one of those signs you see on improbably wide highways flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Americaa heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's mid-westd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but this particular Hinton Hollow is DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a small town in Berkshiretownie, England. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Detective Sergeant Pace grew up here, until something happened There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and he ran away to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the citytime. HeLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's running away again…only this time evil is following him cold cases to you and is going to touch just about everyone in townme) investigate.|isbn=1913193306

|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Jacqueline WilsonFiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Love FrankieLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Frankie In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is nearly fourteenof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Being nearly fourteen D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided . 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 trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to leave her a police procedural written for another womanlaughs. Well, when your older sister has turned into you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the girliest girl who ever livedcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, anda push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you at schoolwhat will happen given any set of circumstances. OhThat man would be valuable, and when Sam, your best friend since foreverright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back. Poor Frankie! ?|isbn= 0857535897 B0C9SNG8R1