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|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0241636604|title=BetrayalThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in ministeryour mind, drafted in from outside the leading party you're unlikely to cover the post for a yearthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, A hoodie and jeans replaces the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in pin-stripe suit and his background is the foreign aid charity sectorEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the task London School of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profileEconomics. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has taken one look at a newspaper image facility with numbers which most of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside herus can only envy. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to acceptbe stupid. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked It was his ability at and prontowhat was, nobody can sayessentially, for all records of Ursula's meeting a card game which got him an internship with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1035021803|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girlIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. The sort She's back now because of small girl who often gets overlookeda request for help from her beloved aunt, and forgottenCarole. She is quietFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, and compliantArthur Crockleford, is dead and makes the best of whatever happens circumstances seem suspicious, to hersay the least. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to take care of herthe village: Arthur, she feels, they have to arrange for let her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a weekdown badly. Poor ElsieEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, forgotten again, just decides she has not felt able to make be near the man or pursue the best of thingsprofession she loved. On investigating After the house split, she finds that her Great Uncle had lived worked in India as a boycafe, met and he has an enormous tiger rug married James (on the floor rebound from the love of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappyher life, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, murdered) and Freya and he says it was the worst thing he ever didJames have now divorced. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time ago.|isbn=1788541707

|isbn=1472127013AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Agatha RaisinAll Tomorrow's Futures: Hot to TrotFictions that Disrupt|author=M C Beaton Benjamin Greenaway and R W GreenStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite a bit of work on hand. The chairman ''Opening up new ways of Philpott Electronics was concerned thinking about his managing director, Harold Cheeseman, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it there. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wife, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: he wanted shape of things to know what the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Geneva. Apparently, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murdercome.''

|isbnauthor=0008420386Sunny Singh|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth DayHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers |summary=What do Malcolm GladwellThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Alain de Bottonkilling everyone on site, Phoebe Waller-Bridgethere is Sam, Lemn Sissaya wartime photographer and Abhi, Nigel Slaterthe hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syalhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing keeps on venturing out of her room to try to appear on Elizabeth Daycapture what's podcast happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to discuss their failures help her keep safe and how life worked out for them afterwardsthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. You'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=05713626721529153298|title=SnowThe List of Suspicious Things|author=John BanvilleJennie Godfrey

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=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, at least youthey've been murdered, but to have 're a Wexford man.disappeared'doesn' So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced t sound quite so frightening. Miv'Sinjuns upset because she') Strafford s overheard that her father wants to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of move the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkfamily 'Down South'. The niceties had to be established even when there was When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a Catholic priest dead on the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, along with his good-but-shabby suitSharon, marked him out as of Osborneand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite not worried about the different religions dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled thereto anyone.

|isbn=17874776301398524085|title=The Postscript MurdersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elly GriffithsNicci French|rating=45

|summary=When a 90-yearCharlotte 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 -oldstrangely -woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchairhusband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, it really shouldn't be suspicious Etty and that was Greg, find the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy Smithbody of Greg's carerfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Natalka Kolisnyk It was adamant an easy assumption for the police to make that there was more to PeggyDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's death than met t stand the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedguilt. Then The Salter children are not convinced but there was the fact that Peggy was a 'murder consultant' who helped authors s little else they can do but get on with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more lives and wonder about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowwhat really happened.

|isbn=00083301311035906708|title=The Stolen SistersDiva|author=Louise JensenDaisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. WellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, they're healthy but she was born to Greek parents in the physical senseManhattan, but Carly has trust issuesNew York, Leah has OCD in December 1923 and Marie drinksonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. TheyHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 're Callas' to make it more manageable in the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolenStates. Carly When she was thirteenback in Athens -years-old and supposedly so that she was in charge of could get appropriate training for her sisters, the eightvoice -year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get raised under the Nazi occupation by a text from Dean Malden mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her mobile phone held preference for her attention. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Brunoelder sister, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menJackie.

|author=Stephen FabesChristopher Edge|title=Signs of LifeBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary= I was brought up on maps Lucas and first-person narratives his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity'The Black Hole'. UnfortunatelyAll big movie fans, I didnthey't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts re looking forward to simply go out lots of exciting films, and do it. many, many snacks! I also didn't inherit However, as the kind of steady nervemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite 'bottlethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. In order words I'm not But as they lurch from one film genre to the sort of person who will next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get on a bike outside a London hospital back to the cinema, and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely that.to their real lives?|isbn=17881612111839942738

|author=Arvin AhmadiRachel Greenlaw|title=How It All Blew UpCompass and Blade|rating=43.5

| summary=18-year-old Amir is American Iranian''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a Muslimremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and gayplundering the wrecks. He struggles with his identityMira, like her mother before her, unable to face telling his parents is one of the seven who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening swim out to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and runs away..any treasure that lies within.But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Italy! So begins a journey for Amirend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and his family, where they all discover more about Mira's father. Desperate to save himfrom death, and Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he really issecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and who he really wants as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must bedetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14714099290008664730

|author=Antoine LaurainJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Readers RoomPlanet Storyland|genrerating=General Fiction4.5|ratinggenre=3.5Confident Readers|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had Things have been a great success, and it was through bit sticky for the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsEarthlings. The three people who work in the ReadersAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they' Room re paid to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, do and so it has provenother tasks that took time to accomplish. But there are several 'howevers' Just as they were beginning to get used to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own waythis technological change and starting to think of other, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accidentnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite along with it, all urging, the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author of the book has never once made themselves known =Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the publishers in personbe different from his father, a drunk and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailchronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. What is going So Tim applied himself to befall Violainehis studies, her memory, her staff – cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1910477974B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1948124572A G Slatter|title=Think Outside The Briar Book of the Box|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukDead|rating=45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=''Whenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever thereThere's a puzzle part of me that wants to keep this just to solve <br>''However you get stuck in myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the boxwhile.''

And so begins Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the latest picture book world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from Justine Avery the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and Liuba Syrotiukpotions. ItWhen her 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 way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a clarion call maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to children another, Ellie must decide who to use their imaginations trust and not logic alone when it comes determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to solving problemssurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1529900360|title=The Seven DoorsGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt hadn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until webeen Lt Milo Sturgis're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he big in medical provision felt responsible and decisions at the councileven after Alex recovered, being forced Sturgis was reluctant to move out of their home, a building ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that had existed throughout her life since childhood there were only open-and -shut cases which theydidn'd occupied t need the help of a psychologist only worked for over thirty yearsa while. The building heFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughterpartner, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'nudged Milo into asking for help again. 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 She knew that the involvement was something that the 1980s, but noman she loved needed. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in The next case that has any bearing on what happens heredid look simple, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesthough. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until Two lovers were murdered in the point where swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the evicted tenant heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is found married to have completely vanishedan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=1913193381 But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1529395224|title=A Song Letting the Cat Out of Isolationthe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a career that is only beginning GP and Rowlands didn't want to hit follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the heights to retire to strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the highlands opportunity of doing work experience with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all thingsa family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, though to he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his credit dream since he would rather be working in forestrywas a child. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateIf anything, but things are starting he'd wanted to feel wrong between thembe a professional footballer. |isbn=1913193365

|authorisbn= Christopher Paolini0861541774|title= To Sleep in a Sea A Nye of StarsPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|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 moonDCI Domenic Jejeune's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control close friend and kills half the staff of the research stationformer colleague, Danny Maik, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives has taken a short holiday in the system Singapore to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by meet up with an alien shipold ally, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star systemGuy Trueman. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and Maik was involved in a ragstreet brawl -tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grim. The same aliens he would later maintain that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of humanhe was facing a man armed with a knife -occupied space, and only he killed a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop themGhurka. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war Initially, Kira slowly begins he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to realise light that suggested that she may he might have had a greater hand in planned to murder the conflict than she man. Now he couldbe facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505t help Danny at all.

|author=Carlie SorosiakAlexander McCall Smith|title=My Life as a CatThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=This The Perfect Passion Company is the story of a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alien who has come down alternative to spend some time on earth living as all the online apps in providing a humanmore personal, tailored service. It's something that each member in Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the alien collective business, as Ness is allowed planning to take a trip to Canada to do, get away for 1 month, once they reach a certain agewhile. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Parkjumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, ready bringing us to work as a park rangeran Edinburgh we already love, 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 thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the wrong bodyIsabel Dalhousie novels, he is also but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in the middle of running a stormbusiness, stuck or in a tree! And so he meets Olivematch-making, the little girl who rows out but Ness has full confidence in a boat to rescue himher abilities, and who names him Leonard.there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=17880060891846976596

|authorisbn= Tahi Saihate0811771741|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary FictionCrafts|summary= We long Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for our past even though it is Baby'' gives us a place collection of knits from toys to which we can never returnblankets. Tahi Saihate Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in her debut novel front of the fire'variety. The projects are divided by the time they'Astral Seasonll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lieten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how All the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important projects are attractive, modern and often lifeuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-alteringmedia-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn= 1916277101

|author= Andrea StewartDean Koontz|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Bad Weather Friend

|genre= FantasyParanormal|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by Benny is having a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructsterrifically bad day. He loses his job, an heir to the thronehe loses his fiancee, a smugglerand his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a warrior will fight really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to find their place in his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the worldthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Lin He is the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doorsnice person. A really nice person. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the throne, she vows delivery to show him she his house is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secretnew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, she begins who has been sent to unlock one door after another, searching help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magicbeing a good person. Yet Lin Spike is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer going to the gates take care of the palaceBenny, Lin must decide just how far she and will to go to become a catalyst certainly take care of change Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and save her peopleHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03565149431662500491

|author=Sharon DoeringAdam Stower|title=She Lies CloseMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missingMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, around 6 months agowhatever takes his fancy next of the two. There But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been no sign of her sinceturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and no arrests have been made. And yetthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, this book is not about Ava. Not reallyinto the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This book time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is about Graceexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young childrenbe honest, shebut he's really wishing this sort of information had come turned up and he'll have to light before they moved in.do…|isbn=17890941940008561249

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiB0C47LV1PC|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when Can you make a very alarming thing happens. A creature - a large''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, dog-like creature - appears in their house. Black Catis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, always one to take charge, challenges this fearsome creature with all would it land? The catch is that the courage he can musteranswer for both could well be. Tabby Cat backs him...no. from a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant -  ''IFragility'm not a dog. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649 is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=17124357281529431735|title=Jamie's KeepsakeThe Winter Visitor|author=Michael GallagherJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, hewhich made Bruce Hopkins's just being released from return all the Southern General Hospitalmore surprising. The nurse thinks heHe'll come back to visit d been exiled on the other patients but Alex Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has no intention of doing that: come about because he's been there for had a year, on the same ward where letter from his brother died and nowex-wife, with his hair all shorn off, hesaying that she's going home in his dead brotherill and hasn's clothest long to live. He wants It's hard to get outside and back with his friends: his brotherfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and stripped to his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB underwear and sent to say it was tonsillitisa watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Good luck with that one, Alex.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Alice OsemanAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=SolitaireThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and feels dead to in the evening a helper at the worlddessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Nothing Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is interesting. People are stupid and boringa generation missing in the family. She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so sheA few short years ago, Eli's not parents were both lost to the titular race, a complete loner. She hates globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a lot of things - including herselfmagical beast. But suddenly, This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout bad incident at the school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involvedeatery leads to a confession from gran, but suddenly she Eli knows his only hope is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem to be linked dare to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is enter what hemost hates, really? Things are with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymoreto possibly save his gran.|isbn=97800075592200571382231

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant178763681X|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Set Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in England in the aftermath of World War One, this is the story of two children, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but donBelgravia. He didn't really want to let go but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of their last, tiny glimpses of hopegetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Ben is living on a narrowboat on Paul ''somehow'' got the canal, lying to the police about his brotherimpression that he's imminent return from d be at the battlefields school to take care of him. Lottiassist Paul, meanwhilewho had a broken arm, has been expelled from school and is back at home; but itdidn's a beautiful house t turn out that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt way. The teaching - and Uncle currently have guardianship forthe problems - are all his own. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendshipone thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. It sees them become each other's familyUnfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and undertake a perilous trip to France, in everyone knows that the boat, to try police consider that person to find out the truth of be the people they both loveprime suspect.|isbn=0571348769

|isbnauthor=1471179273Sarah Marsh|title=House A Sign of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchHer Own|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, she's in prison, on remandEllen Lark loses her hearing. She's sharing Suddenly plunged into a cell with Michaelaworld of silence, who's more caring than she first appearseverything about her life changes. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to have a showerschool where she is taught to lip read, unpleasant as the whole processes might bebut physically restrained from signing. And how did Tabitha get From here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered she ends up in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who was helping with has been teaching the renovations to Tabitha's housedeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. So far as At the police are concernedsame time, Tabitha Bell is the only person who could have killed Rees - working on other inventions and ideas, and when they arrived at her house she was covered Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in his blooda complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1803816759|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=This third It's 2038 and final book in Joe is a bored cop policing the first volume wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of Darren Shan's new ''Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie adventure and Inez make it almost all to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the way AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the Cuckoorioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn's Nestt the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, where is also on the Vote of Alignment will be heldcase. But What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how will they get inis Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn=B086LLWP4V

|isbn=00083147211529421284|title=Truth Be ToldLaying Out the Bones|author=Kia AbdullahKate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' familyIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Flowers are sent for In a gully, a human skeleton came to the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank surface and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of forensic testing proved the familybody to be Lee Geary, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adamwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didnHe't name them the other way round: 'Adam d been a known drug user and Kamran' trips off the tongue had learning disabilities, so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adamit could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Both boys go There are connections to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park hometime. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year Lockyer and all seemed DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to be going well until the night when he was rapedyou and me) investigate.

|isbn=15098895150571379559|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)House of Broken Bricks|author=Ann CleevesFiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the wrong turning as story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she drove home lives in the blizzardhouse on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. If she hadnInsubstantial as it might look, it't s stood the car might not have been found until the morning passage of time, storms and who knows what would have happened floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to the toddler strapped into the car seatgrow his vegetables, particularly as to complete the car door had been left opendelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. Vera took the boy They have twin boys - Sonny and drove to Max, the nearest habitationrainbow twins. She Sonny's colouring reflects his mother'thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her s Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as People don't believe that they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing're related, but much less twins and there was little else 's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she could do in the circumstances's his nanny.

|isbn=02414254411529425867|title=The Thursday Murder ClubLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Richard OsmanSimon Mason

|summary=The first member In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. She used to be a nurse D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outnot. Details He's not any of where those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and how are exchanged his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if sheyou'd received prompt medical helpre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. It didnWell, you't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get her interested in re not. The Thursday Murder Clubtwo men are just different sides of the same policing coin. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in Sometimes the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1948124440Mosby Woods|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=The second book West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in Justine Avery's Wonders series the West is the perfect antidote quite sure how to long summer days with bored children - mend this oreven if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, indeeda push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, as we've found recentlythere was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across right? Perhaps the worldmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with, repurposed, and played with againto get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1