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|isbn=05713626720241636604|title=SnowThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=John BanvilleGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Autobiography|summary=''WellIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, at least you're a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford unlikely to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Osborne was master of A hoodie and jeans replaces the Keelmore Hounds pin-stripe suit and had done something memorable his background is the East End, where he was familiar with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkviolence, poverty and injustice. The niceties There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to be established even when there was the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a Catholic priest dead on the library floor facility with some precious bits numbers which most of his anatomy missingus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Strafford It was from Roslea his ability at Bunclody and thiswhat was, along with his good-but-shabby suitessentially, marked a card game which got him out as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestantan internship with Citibank. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown Eventually, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled therethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=17874776301035021803|title=The Postscript MurdersAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Elly GriffithsC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a heart condition dies peacefully in request for help from her armchairbeloved aunt, it really shouldnCarole. Freya't be suspicious s former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and that was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke circumstances seem suspicious, to Peggy Smith's carersay the least. Natalka Kolisnyk Arthur was adamant that there was more the reason why Freya had not been back to Peggy's death than met the eye - particularly village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she was being followedloved. Then there was After the fact that Peggy was split, she worked in a 'murder consultant' cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0008330131AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Stolen SistersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Louise JensenBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' 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 feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - 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 reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that twenty-years on from has suddenly been violently taken over by a dreadful event they are all healthy adultsterrorist group. WellHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, they're healthy in the physical sensekilling everyone on site, but Carly has trust issuesthere is Sam, Leah has OCD a wartime photographer and Marie drinksAbhi, the hotel manager. They're As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was residents who are still alive in charge of her sistersthe hotel, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to get a text from Dean Malden be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her mobile phone held room to try to capture what's happened through her attentionphotography. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and BrunoAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to chase after him see if they were snatched will be rescued before they are discovered by two menthe terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Stephen Fabes1529153298|title=Signs The List of LifeSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= I was brought up on maps It's 1979 and first-person narratives of tales of far away placesMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiositymean, honestly... ) Unfortunately, I didnShe't inherit s not what Dr's worrying Miv's family, though. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts to simply go out and do it Women have been disappearing. I also didnWell, they't inherit the kind of steady nerveve been murdered, ability but to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that I would have survived if I had been gifted with her father wants to move the requisite family 'bottleDown South'. In order words IWhen you'm not re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and not come home for six yearsshe'll do anything to prevent that. Fabes did precisely She's not worried about the dangers or thather Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1788161211

|authorisbn=Arvin Ahmadi1398524085|title=How It All Blew UpHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime| summary=18Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Amir is American Iranianher husband, a MuslimAlec, and gayis not. He struggles with his identityShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, unable to face telling his parents who he really isfind the body of Greg's father, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himDuncan Ackerley, threatening in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and runs awaythen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and his family, where they all discover more wonder about him, and who he what really is, and who he really wants to behappened.|isbn=1471409929

|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Antoine LaurainDaisy Goodwin|titlerating=The Readers Room4.5

|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had a great successWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, and it but she was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work in the Readers' Room born to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor Greek parents in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashManhattan, New York, in December 1923 and so it has provenonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. But there are several Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'howeversCallas' to thatmake it more manageable in the States. As When she was back in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her own way, for voice - she has been involved in was raised under the Nazi occupation by a near-fatal accident, mother who mercilessly exploited her and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author made no secret of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in personher preference for her elder sister, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailJackie. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974

|isbnauthor=1948124572Christopher Edge|title=Think Outside the Box|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=''Whenever you find Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a problem <br>place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'Wherever there. All big movie fans, they's a puzzle re looking forward to solve <br>''lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside , as the boxmovie 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'' And so begins the latest picture book t even imagine. But as they lurch from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk. It's a clarion call one film genre to children the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to use their imaginations the cinema, and not logic alone when it comes to solving problems.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Seven DoorsCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre 'I can hear the song of any kind until we're a full fifth the sea. The call of the way throughdeep, the answering beat in my heart. We start with our couple'' Rosevear, she a literature lecturerremote and partially forgotten island, he big in medical provision survives on luring ships into the rocks and decisions at plundering the councilwrecks. Mira, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout like her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single motherbefore her, is needed by their adult daughter, one of the seven who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving swim out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in survey the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say ruins – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has rescuing any bearing on what happens here, survivors and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesany treasure that lies within. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until But when the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381}}{{Frontpage|author=Michael J Malone|title=A Song of Isolation|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Council Watch lays a career that is only beginning trap to hit end the heights to retire to wrecking, they capture the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to his credit he would rather be working in forestry. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estatesave him from death, but things are starting to feel wrong between them. |isbn=1913193365}}{{Frontpage|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in Mira makes a Sea of Stars|rating= 5|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of bargain with a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez wreck survivor who is as charming as he is helping secretive and with the efforts only coordinates to make the planet habitable to human life. Howeverguide her, she sets off in search of a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under family secret that lies buried deep in the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entitysea. After the entity bonded With only nine days to unearth what might save her loses control and kills half the staff of the research stationfather, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go as her journey takes her from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee watched streets of foreign islands to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch heart of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied spacesmuggler's territory, and only a mythical weapon known as Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the Staff future of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs her home and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than ones she could've possibly imagined…holds most dear.|isbn=15290465050008664730

|author=Carlie SorosiakJames Sherwood Metts|title=My Life as a CatPlanet Storyland

|summary=This is Things have been a bit sticky for the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a humanEarthlings. ItAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's something re paid to do and other tasks that each member in the alien collective is allowed took time to do, for 1 month, once accomplish. Just as they reach a certain age. Leonard comes were beginning to get used to earth but gets distracted en route, all this technological change and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead starting to think of landing in Yellowstone Parkother, ready new ways to work as a park rangerspend time, he is instead in the body of a cat on the other side of the country! This is not what he had planned! Not only is he in the wrong place along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and the wrong body, he is also in along with it, all the middle of a storm, stuck in a tree! And many daily social interactions on which they depend so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonardheavily.|isbn=17880060891736128426

|author= Tahi SaihateMatthew Tree|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonWe'll Never Know|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to which we can never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Seasonbe different from his father, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and often life-alteringset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= 1916277101B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Andrea StewartA G Slatter|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I could never be what he wanted if can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I did not take what I wantedjust want to enjoy it for a while.''

In an empire controlled by Within a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructsremote mountain pass, an heir to far away from the throneworld, lies Silverton; a smugglertown under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and a warrior will fight to find their place in the wider worldfrom the Darklands. Lin Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the emperor's forgotten daughterfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, kept locked away in her training as a palace of secrets steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and closed doorspotions. When her father refuses to recognise grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her as heir to the throneway left, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire right and in secretcentre, she begins Ellie uncovers the rare ability to unlock one door after anothercommunicate with the dead, searching for the mysteries of putting her past and at the forbidden art heart of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great costmaelstrom of chaos. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer Reeling from one family secret to the gates of the palaceanother, Lin Ellie must decide just how far she will who to trust and determine what to go do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to become a catalyst of change and save her peoplesurvive, is under threat.|isbn=03565149431803364548

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1529900360|title=She Lies CloseThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Ava Boone It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months agoreluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. There has been no sign His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of her sincea psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, and no arrests have been made. And yetDelaware's partner, this book is not about Avawho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Not really She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. This book is about Grace The next case did look simple, who has just discovered her neighbour though. Two lovers were murdered in her new house is the swimming pool of a suspect remote property in AvaBel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's disappearancenot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. As His father was a single mother GP and Rowlands didn't want to two young childrenfollow in his footsteps, sheparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's really wishing life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this sort of information had come was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to light before they moved inbe a professional footballer.|isbn=1789094194

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana Betti0861541774|title=The Adventures A Nye of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesPheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Black Cat DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and Tabby Cat are minding their own business former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in their own house when a very alarming thing happens. A creature street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a large, dogknife -like creature - appears in their houseand he killed a Ghurka. Black Cat Initially, always one he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to take charge, challenges this fearsome creature with all murder the courage man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - diplomatic incident and wouldn''I'm not a dogt help Danny at all. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649

|isbnauthor=1712435728Alexander McCall Smith|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, he's just being released from run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the Southern General Hospitalonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. The nurse thinks he'll Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come back and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to visit the other patients but Alex has no intention Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of doing that: he's been there for a yearbreak up with a bad boyfriend, on and so jumps at the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going chance to come home in his dead brother's clothesto Edinburgh. He wants And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to get outside 44 Scotland Street and back the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with his friends: his brothersome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, Forbesor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that hethere's not to mention TB always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alex.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman0811771741|title=SolitaireInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=TeensCrafts|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to the worldblankets. Nothing is interesting. People Some will be quick knits - others are stupid and boringof the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. She has one real friend; The projects are divided by the rest are just people she sits near so shetime they's not a ll take to complete loner. She hates a lot of things - including herself. But suddenlyless than five hours, five to ten hours, a blog called Solitaire has arrived ten to twenty hours and is pulling pranks throughout more than twenty hours. All the school. And Michael Holden has appeared projects are attractive, modern and is showing up everywhere in Tori's lifeuseable. Tori doesn I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 't know (or care) why shesocial-media-worthy projects'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 Torithat's life so badly and who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymoreme being picky.|isbn=9780007559220

|author=Natasha FarrantDean Koontz|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War OneBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, this is the story of two childrenhe loses his fiancee, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopehis house gets trashed. Ben is living on Oh, and someone has delivered a narrowboat on the canalreally weird, lying disturbing coffin-sized object to the police about his brotherhome, and it's imminent return from possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the battlefields very last person to take care of himdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. LottiSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, meanwhilea bad weather friend called Spike, who has been expelled sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from school and is back at home; it's nefarious forces for being a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship forgood person. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) Spike is the beginning going to take care of a deepBenny, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each otherwill certainly take care of Benny's familyenemies, if he, Benny, and undertake Harper (a perilous trip to France, in the boat, to try to find waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out the truth of the people who exactly they both loveare.|isbn=05713487691662500491

|isbnauthor=1471179273Adam Stower|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, she's in prisonwell, on remandwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. SheBut he's sharing a cell with Michaela, whobad magician's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a showerthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, unpleasant as not into the whole processes might beregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. And how did Tabitha get here? WellThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees one much bigger than Murray was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabithabe honest, but he's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could turned up and he'll have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Darren ShanB0C47LV1PC|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Fragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=This third and final book in the first volume of Darren ShanCan you make a 's new 'Yo birthing person'Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie and Inez joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it almost all ? Or is the way to the Cuckoo's Nestquestion if you did, where would it land? The catch is that the Vote of Alignment will answer for both could well be held. But how will they get in?... no. |isbn=B086LLWP4V''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=00083147211529431735|title=Truth Be ToldThe Winter Visitor|author=Kia AbdullahJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=The Hadids are an It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'effortful'' familyreturn all the more surprising. Flowers are sent He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in returndecade. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-yearThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-old Adam. Their motherwife, Sofia, regrets saying that she didn's ill and hasn't name them the other way round: long to live. It'Adam s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and Kamran' trips off sent to a watery grave in the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort boot of thinga stolen Ford Sierra. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles Is it a warning from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed Spanish gang or a problem closer to be going well until the night when he was raped.home?

|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's 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 magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1509889515178763681X|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Ann CleevesOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=It was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home residential cookery school in the blizzardBelgravia. If she hadnHe didn't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened really want to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been left open. Vera took the boy a way of getting both men and drove women to the nearest habitationdo what he wanted. She Paul ''thoughtsomehow'' it would got the impression that he'd be at the village school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and Hector was the black sheep of the familyproblems - are all his own. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests The one thing he hadn't expected was going for someone to be embarrassingturn up dead. Unfortunately, but there he was little else the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that she could do in the circumstancespolice consider that person to be the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=0241425441Sarah Marsh|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard OsmanA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=The first member After a bout of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroftscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She used to be Suddenly plunged into a nurse and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult world of silence, everything about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outher life changes. Details Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubsystem called Visible Speech. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagea complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=19481244401803816759|title=What Wonders Await OutdoorsThe Unravelling|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukWill Gibson

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=The second book in Justine AveryIt's Wonders series 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the perfect antidote wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to long summer days get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with bored children - orthe AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, indeedand riots start to spread. Finally, as weJoe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn've found recentlyt the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across also on the worldcase. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with, repurposed, and played with againwent wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn= Samira Ahmed1529421284|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating= 34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=''It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the endbody to be Lee Geary, we all become storieswho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like d been a dream for most people, especially art-loversknown drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but Khayyam canDI Matt Lockyer wasn't relax and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicagoconvinced. On Geary was a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumastownie, Khayyam finds herself so what was he doing out on a historical journey with him Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix suicide of Holly Gilbert and Lord Byron. As the to two teenagers travel the city they other deaths which were not only discover themselves, but uncover considered suspicious at the true story time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the woman Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and why it was one that should never have been forgottenme) investigate.|isbn=0349003556

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman0571379559|title=LovelessThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Georgia ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a teenager whothe story of four people. Tess Hembry's embarking roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on her first year the riverbank, built of university and is in a desperate struggle to figure herself outbroken bricks. She Insubstantial as it might look, it's always been in love with love. With stood the idea passage of lovetime, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the idea of falling madly for someone delivery rounds - and finding blissto bring in sufficient money. But They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the reality for her has always been differentrainbow twins. She Sonny's never had a crush. Shecolouring reflects his mother's never been kissedJamaican heritage. And sheMax takes after his father. People don't believe that they's desperate to feel something and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in any kind of realre related, tangible much less twins and physical way for her - shethere's disgusted by it. But isn't an assumption when Max is out with his mother that what she's supposed to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412Xhis nanny.

|isbn=B086LLRZFH1529425867|title=Archibald Lox Lost and the Empress of SuanpanNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Darren ShanSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Archie's second foray into 'the Merge' opens with a fantastic vistaIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. All Raymond Wilkins is of the Born's most famous buildings Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and monuments - Big Benalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, the Taj Mahalson of Ryan and father of Ryan,  the Eiffel Tower - are collected together, joined by is not. He's not any of those clever Merge vinesthings. But there He's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help white, originated from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winston.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning to go home trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and worry for his foster parents, Archie feels an obligation to take Winstonwardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They's placere usually in lime green or acid yellow. And so Archie embarks on You might wonder if you're being introduced to a newpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, and even more dangerous, adventureyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1408712288Mosby Woods|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)|author=Val McDermidA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It The West isn't the dominant force it once was . Nobody in the middle of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the Firth of Forth instead best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a lobster potpush for climate action there. It fell to DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didn't take too long to establish A feeling that the man nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was Paul Allard, ostensibly a Frenchman, but man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in reality James Auld this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Edinburghcircumstances. A decade earlier he's gone missing when he was That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the prime suspect most valuable asset in the disappearance and possible murder of his brotherhistory. Imagine then, prominent civil servant, Iain Auldthat this man loses this ability. DCI Karen Pirie, as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had been the last person What would governments do to review the case, a couple of years earlier and get it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stage.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1