Changes

Find us on [[File:facebook.gif|link=https://www.facebook.com/TheBookbagCoUk|alt=Facebook]] [https://www.facebook.com/TheBookbagCoUk '''Facebook'''], [[File:twitter.gif|link=http://twitter.com/TheBookbag|alt=Follow us on Twitter]] [http://twitter.com/TheBookbag '''Twitter'''] and , [[File:instagram_classic_logo.png|link=https://www.instagram.com/thebookbag.co.uk/|alt=Follow us on Instagram]] [https://www.instagram.com/thebookbag.co.uk/ '''Instagram'''] and [[File:LinkedIn.png|link=https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-bookbag-1b12a264/|alt=LinkedIn]]

There are currently '''{{PAGESINCATEGORY: Reviews}}''' [[:Category:Reviews|reviews ]] at TheBookbag.

|isbn=03565124790241636604|authortitle= Alix E HarrowThe Trading Game: A Confession|titleauthor= The Once and Future WitchesGary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''There's no such thing as witches, but there used re unlikely to bethink of someone like Gary Stevenson.'' In 1893, after A hoodie and jeans replaces the purges pin-stripe suit and his background is the burningsEast End, where he was familiar with violence, witching has poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been reduced to little more than weak charms the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and simple spellshe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. If women want He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to hold power in their handsbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, to have their voices hearda card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, it is now through women's suffragethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Onjali Q Rauf1035021803|title=The Night Bus HeroAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Hector is a bullyIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Egged on by his two 'friendsShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, he takes other childrenCarole. Freya's sweets, harasses former mentor and threatensCarole's close friend, plays pranks at schoolArthur Crockleford, is dead and gets into trouble at every turn. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his faultthe circumstances seem suspicious, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling liessay the least. Nothing seems fairArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. His parents are barely homeEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, and seem she has not felt able to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causebe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. So what happens whenAfter the split, she worked in trying to tell a cafe, met and married James (on the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with rebound from the police; first trying to accuselove of her life, who was murdered) and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?|isbn=1510106774Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1849767343AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Count on MeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Miguel TancoBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=The title and format ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of this book might lead you things to think come.'' I've heard it said that it's either about responsibility - or ittechnology' is what happens after you's re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journeyfew decades of technology in my lifetime. It isnI've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I't: m left with the feeling that it's a hymn all getting away from me. Some of praise to mathsit is - frankly - quite frightening. ItOf 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's re talking about why maths is so wonderful or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and how you meet it who could deliver information in everyday lifea way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1849766920Sunny Singh|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'AquinoHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson The Hotel Arcadia is a schnauzer: what else could you be with luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a name like that? terrorist group. He knows that you'll realise that he's kindHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, clever a wartime photographer and loyalAbhi, the hotel manager. You'll also need As Abhi continues to try to know that everything is '''MINE'''. And he means ''everything''. It begins with care remotely for the slipper: mum residents who are still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous alive in allowing that. Then it was the pork chop. Wellhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, did you see anyone's name and keeps on it? ''And'' he left the carrots for Leo. That's another example venturing out of Marcelloher room to try to capture what's generosityhappened through her photography. There was Although they only ever talk over the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to prove ownership. And talking of ownership see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chewterrorists. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=18497670091529153298|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Rosie HaineJennie Godfrey

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=This could have been one of those books which 'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it are the people who know that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' that itIt's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-1979 and-bothered person in the supermarket who Margaret Thatcher is coughing fit to bustPrime Minister. But(A woman? I mean, honestly... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about ) She's not wearing clotheswhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. ItWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible huet sound quite so frightening. Bodies with disabilities and markingsMiv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. TheyWhen you're finefrom Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. In factFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, theyand she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum're wonderfuls stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=02412959551398524085|title=TrioHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=William BoydNicci French

|summary=It We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It's also the year only moved to Athens when YSK Films are making a movie in Brightonshe was thirteen. ItHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's called Callas''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to make it more manageable in the Moon'', or ''Ladder the Moon'' as it's known on setStates. Anny Viklund is the female star When she was back in a production which is proving to be just a little bit rackety. There are odd pressures on Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the producer, Talbot Kydd, to employ this old actor friend for Nazi occupation by a couple mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star to use his catchphrase, or include a song from the leading manher preference for her elder sister, whose musical star is fadingJackie.

|isbnauthor=B08B39QNRHChristopher Edge|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problem|author=Michael PritchardBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Popular ScienceConfident Readers|summary=''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the written wordnickname of 'The Black Hole'. I came All big movie fans, they're looking forward to Michael Pritchard's ''The Curious History lots of Writer's Cramp'' by a rather strange route. exciting films, and many, many snacks! I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to However, as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painfulmovie 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' but I have an interest in the way that hands workt even imagine. An exploration of But as they lurch from one film genre to the history of a problem which has defeated some of next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it provedcinema, with the book being as much about the doctors treating the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Blake Nuto and Charlotte AgerRachel Greenlaw|title=Child of GalaxiesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=What does it mean to be alive? What are we made of, and where are we going? ''Child I can hear the song of Galaxiesthe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''  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 a lovely children's picture book one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that deals with all lies within. But when the big questions. Written as Council Watch lays a poemtrap to end the wrecking, they capture the lyrical words donisland's leader and Mira't shy away s father. Desperate to save him from darknessdeath, nor talk down Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the children you are reading sea. With only nine days tounearth what might save her father, but rather than work beautifully together with as her journey takes her from the illustrations watched streets of foreign islands to create a powerfulthe heart of the smuggler's territory, uplifting reading experienceMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=19124974250008664730

|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)James Sherwood Metts|title=BetrayalPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Meet Ursula, Things have been a bit sticky for the stand-in ministerEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, drafted in from outside the leading party often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to cover the post for a yearaccomplish. You might Just as they were beginning to get used to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, this technological change and, knowing her starting to think of oldother, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside her. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula new ways to acceptspend time, along came an awful pandemic. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at Life was pretty much shut down and pronto, nobody can sayalong with it, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=19131934031736128426

|author=Tania UnsworthMatthew Tree|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerWe'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgotten. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes the best of whatever happens Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to her. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of her, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsiebe different from his father, forgotten again, just decides to make the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boy, drunk and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor chronic underachiever whose dreams of one being exceptional at any of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, his artistic passions all failed miserably and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever didhad endless crises of self confidence. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, Tim applied himself to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years oldhis studies, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agocultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1788541707B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1472127013A G Slatter|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite '' There's a bit part of work on handme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The chairman This secret magic of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing directormy own, Harold Cheesemanall mine, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it thereat last. This was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went I just want 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 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 murderenjoy it for a while.''

|isbn=00084203861529900360|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrongThe Ghost Orchid|author=Elizabeth DayJonathan Kellerman

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=What do Malcolm GladwellIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Alain de Botton, Phoebe WallerSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-Bridgeshut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Lemn Sissayit was Robin, Nigel SlaterDelaware's partner, Emeli Sandéwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in common? Bel Air. They've all failed He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and - more importantly - they've been willing she is married to appear on Elizabeth Dayan extremely rich man and it's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwardsnot the Italian. You'll find But which of them was the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''primary target?

|isbn=05713626721529395224|title=SnowLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=John BanvilleSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''Wellt want to follow in his footsteps, at least you're a Wexford man.'' So said Colonel Osborne particularly when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced considered the strain that being on-call put on his father'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957s life. Osborne When he was master seventeen he took the opportunity of the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable doing work experience with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had to be established even when there a family friend who was a Catholic priest dead on vet and was convinced this was the library floor with some precious bits of his anatomy missingjob for him. Strafford Before long, he was from Roslea at Bunclody and this, along with his good-butLiverpool University. It hadn't -shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions with so many students - been his dream since he was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass Housea child. His horse was stabled thereIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=17874776300861541774|title=The Postscript MurdersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Elly GriffithsSteve Burrows

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchair, it really shouldnDCI Domenic Jejeune't be suspicious s close friend and that was the view former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke a short holiday in Singapore to Peggy Smith's carermeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Natalka Kolisnyk Maik was adamant involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that there he was more to Peggy's death than met the eye facing a man armed with a knife - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that Peggy had worried suggested that she was being followedhe might have planned to murder the man. Then there was Now he could be facing the fact that Peggy was death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowt help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=0008330131Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenPerfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from Perfect Passion Company is a dreadful event they are dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all healthy adultsthe online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Well, they're healthy in the physical sense, but Carly Ness has trust issues, Leah has OCD asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Marie drinks. They're look after the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolenbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Carly was thirteen-years-old and she was in charge Katie is coming out of her sistersa break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the eight-year-old twinschance to come home to Edinburgh. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to get a text from Dean Malden 44 Scotland Street and her mobile phone held her attentionthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Leah and Marie were nattering about Katie has no experience in running a lost ball business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasnthere't shut properly s always her very helpful (and Brunorather handsome) neighbour, their boxer dogWilliam, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two men.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Stephen Fabes0811771741|title=Signs of LifeInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=TravelCrafts|summary= I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of tales of far away placesknits from toys to blankets. I was birth Some will be quick knits -righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunatelyothers are of the 'long, I didncosy afternoons in front of the fire't inherit what Drvariety. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was The projects are divided by the guts time they'll take to simply go out complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and do itmore than twenty hours. I also didn't inherit All the kind of steady nerveprojects are attractive, ability to talk to strangers modern and basic practicality that would have meant that useable. I would have survived if perhaps show my age when I had been gifted with the requisite wonder about 'bottlesocial-media-worthy projects'. In order words Ibut that'm not the sort of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely thats me being picky.|isbn=1788161211

|author=Arvin AhmadiDean Koontz|title=How It All Blew UpThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal| summary=18-year-old Amir Benny is American Iranian, having a Muslim, and gayterrifically bad day. He struggles with loses his identityjob, unable to face telling he loses his parents who he really isfiancee, so when another student at and his school starts blackmailing himhouse gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, threatening disturbing coffin-sized object to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his boyfriend Amir panics and runs awayhouse! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person.to Italy! So begins fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a journey for Amirnew friend, and his familya bad weather friend called Spike, where they all discover more about who has been sent to help himsince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and who will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he really is, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who he really wants to befinds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=14714099291662500491

|author=Antoine LaurainAdam Stower|title=The Readers RoomMurray and Bun|genrerating=General Fiction4.5|ratinggenre=3.5Confident Readers |summary=Violaine's publishing house has had Murray is supposed to be a great successhumble, tidy and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people friendly cat, one who work in the Readers' Room is able to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has proventwo. But there are several he'howeverss a bad magician' to that. As ins cat, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she so his favourite bun has been involved in turned into a near-fatal accidenthyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and starts this book coming round from the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a comaworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. AndThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, however where a troll hunter is expected – despite all urgingwell, one much bigger than Murray was, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in personbe honest, and in fact offered but he's turned up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last email. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due he'll have to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?do…|isbn=19104779740008561249

|isbn=1948124572B0C47LV1PC|title=Think Outside the BoxFragility|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukMosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=''Whenever Can you find make a problem <br>''Wherever thereYo birthing person's a puzzle to solve <br>''However joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside did, would it land? The catch is that the box''answer for both could well be.... no.

And so ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk. It's a clarion call to children to use their imaginations and not logic alone when it comes to solving problems.restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1529431735|title=The Seven DoorsWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnIt't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until wes February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins're a full fifth of return all the way throughmore surprising. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at He'd been exiled on the council, being forced to move out of their home, Costa del Sol as a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied wanted drug smuggler for over thirty yearsa decade. The building return has come about because he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to had a single motherletter from his ex-wife, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant saying that she'take a hike, I'm moving in s ill and you're moving outhasn't long to live. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is a genre readabducted, think it's going stripped to his underwear and sent to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us watery grave in the 1980s, but noboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, 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 the evicted tenant is found Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381home?

|author=Michael J MaloneAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=A Song The Glorious Race of IsolationMagical Beasts|rating=34|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a career that helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is only beginning to hit a generation missing in the heights to retire family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all things, though entrants have to his credit he would rather be working navigate the world in forestrythe company of a magical beast. They have found This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a hideaway on bad incident at the eatery leads to a small Scottish estateconfession from gran, but things are starting 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 feel wrong between thempossibly save his gran. |isbn=19131933650571382231

|authorisbn= Christopher Paolini178763681X|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= On the moon of Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to make the planet habitable to human life. However, but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a discovery way of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control getting both men and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system women to take Kira in for examinationdo what he wanted. Things go from bad to worse when Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, and she has to flee school to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfishassist Paul, crewed by Captain Falconi and who had a rag-tag bunch of misfitsbroken arm, and the news is grimbut it didn't turn out that way. The same aliens that destroyed teaching - and the Extenuating Circumstances problems - are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied spacehis own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, and only a mythical weapon known as he was the Staff of Blue can stop them. As person who discovered the death toll climbs body and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins everyone knows that the police consider that person to realise that she may have had a greater hand in be the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505prime suspect.

|author=Carlie SorosiakSarah Marsh|title=My Life as a CatA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=This is the story After a bout of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living scarlet fever as a humanchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. It's something that each member in the alien collective is allowed to do, for 1 month Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, once they reach a certain ageeverything about her life changes. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en route, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead Living in a time when the use of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready to work sign language was seen as a park rangersomething only savages do, he Ellen is instead in the body of sent to a cat on the other side of the country! This school where she is not what he had planned! taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Not only is he From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the wrong place deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the wrong bodysame time, he Bell is also in the middle of a stormworking on other inventions and ideas, stuck and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a tree! And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonardcomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=17880060891035401614

|authorisbn= Tahi Saihate1803816759|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Science Fiction|summary= We long It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for our past even though it is a place bit of adventure and to which we can never returnget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Tahi SaihateBut then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, in her debut novel ''Astral Seasonand riots start to spread. Finally, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lieJoe gets to do some real policing. Her novel In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is a meditation on youth kidnapped and how Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the things we do as only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a teenager can seem intensely important British superfan and often life-alteringtech nerd, is also on the case.|isbn= 1916277101What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart1529421284|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre= FantasyCrime|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructsgully, an heir a human skeleton came to the throne, a smuggler, surface and a warrior will fight forensic testing proved the body to find their place in the worldbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Lin is the emperor He's forgotten daughterd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, kept locked away in so it could have been a palace simple case of secrets and closed doorsmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving Geary was a dying empire and in secrettownie, she begins so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries suicide of her past Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great costtime. With revolution in the air Lockyer and creeping closer and closer to the gates DC Gemma Broad of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to go to become a catalyst of change you and save her peopleme) investigate.|isbn=0356514943

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering0571379559|title=She Lies CloseThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she went missingmight be happier there, around 6 months agobut instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. There has been no sign Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of her sincetime, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and no arrests to bring in sufficient money. They have been madetwin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. And yet, this book is not about Ava Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Not reallyMax takes after his father. This book is about Grace People don't believe that they're related, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Avamuch less twins and there's disappearance. As a single an assumption when Max is out with his mother to two young children, that she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved inhis nanny.|isbn=1789094194

|authorisbn=1529425867|title=Yara Evans Lost and Luciana BettiNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Black Cat and Tabby Cat In Oxford, there are minding their own business in their own house when a very alarming thing happenstwo D I Wilkins. A creature - a large Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, dog-like creature - appears in their houseBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Black Cat D I Ryan Wilkins, always one to take chargeson of Ryan and father of Ryan, challenges this fearsome creature with all the courage he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him..is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really''Ihis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They'm not a dogre usually in lime green or acid yellow. I You might wonder if you'm re being introduced to a fox!police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it'|isbn=1511658649 s problematic.

|isbnauthor=1712435728Mosby Woods|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, heThe West isn's just being released from t the Southern General Hospitaldominant force it once was. The nurse thinks he'll come back Nobody in the West is quite sure how to visit mend this or even if mending it is the other patients but Alex has no intention best course of doing action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that: he's been nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there for was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a yearman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, on right? Perhaps the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home most valuable asset in his dead brother's clotheshistory. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, ForbesImagine then, says that the fresh air will this man loses this ability. What would governments do him good and his mother tells him that he's not to mention TB and to say get it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alex.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1