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|authorisbn=Delia Owens0241636604|title=Where The Crawdads SingTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= In 1952If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Kyayou's mother disappeared up re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the dirt track to townEast End, wearing her alligator heelswhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and never came homeinjustice. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken fatherLondon School of Economics. Years pass and Kya Stevenson is bright - now nicknamed 'Marshextremely bright -Girl' – still yearns for a mother that would never return and grew up far too fast for he has a girl who facility with numbers which most of us can neither read nor writeonly envy. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to survive on the marshbe stupid. Eventually It was his ability at what was, as the years drift painfully byessentially, the time comes when Kya, now a card game which got him an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be heldinternship with Citibank. So Eventually, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, she finds this turned into permanent employment as a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysterious, run-down Marsh-Girltrader. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|authorisbn=David C Mason1035021803|title=PandoraThe Antique Hunter's GardenerGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary= John Cranston is 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 gardenerrequest for help from her beloved aunt, although what he did before he became a gardenerCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, he claimsArthur Crockleford, is classifieddead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. That is just Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as well because he is about antique hunters, she has not felt able to be caught up near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotcafe, where only he can save met and married James (on the rebound from the daylove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=0356512479AllTomorrowsFutureCover|authortitle= Alix E HarrowAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|titleauthor= The Once Benjamin Greenaway and Future WitchesStephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to become.''

In 1893, I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after the purges and the burningsyou're eighteen. Well, witching has I must confess that there have been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spellsa few decades of technology in my lifetime. If women want I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is now through women- 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's suffragere 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.

|author=Onjali Q RaufSunny Singh|title=The Night Bus HeroHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Hector The Hotel Arcadia is a bullyluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Egged Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on by his two 'friends'site, he takes other children's sweetsthere is Sam, harasses a wartime photographer and threatensAbhi, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turnthe hotel manager. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his faultAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homecowed by events, and seem keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they areever talk over the phone, and his teachers have abandoned him their friendship grows as a lost cause. So what happens when, in trying Abhi tries to tell the truth & fight help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with rescued before they are discovered by the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?terrorists.|isbn=1510106774086154742X

|isbn=18497673431529153298|title=Count on MeThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Miguel TancoJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=The title and format of this book might lead you to think that itIt's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journey1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. It isn't: it's a hymn of praise to maths(A woman? I mean, honestly... ) ItShe's about why maths is so wonderful and how you meet it in everyday life.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1849766920|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'Aquino|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: not what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that hes worrying Miv's kindfamily, clever and loyalthough. Women have been disappearing. YouWell, they'll also need ve been murdered, but to know that everything is '''MINEhave 'disappeared'doesn't sound quite so frightening. And he means Miv's upset because she'everythings overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. It begins with the slipper: mum still has oneWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Why For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing ll do anything to prevent that. Then it was the pork chop. Well, did you see anyoneShe's name on it? ''And'' he left not worried about the carrots for Leo. That's another example of Marcellodangers or that her Mum's generosity. There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownership. And stopped talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want - to chewanyone. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?

|isbn=18497670091398524085|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Rosie HaineNicci French

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This could have been one of those books which Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'preaches to the choir': the only people who'll buy it s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are the people who know that nudity all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is OK not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the ones who ''know'' that itbody of Greg's shameful will avoid it like they avoid father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the hot-police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and-bothered person in then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the supermarket who is coughing fit to bustguilt. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than a book about The Salter children are not wearing clothes. Itconvinced but there's a celebration of bodies: bodies large and small and of every possible hue. Bodies little else they can do but get on with disabilities their lives and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderfulwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=02412959551035906708|title=TrioDiva|author=William BoydDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|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 He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a literature lecturer, decade. The return has come about because he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home's had a letter from his ex-wife, a building saying that had existed throughout her life since childhood she's ill and which theyhasn'd occupied for over thirty yearst long to live. The building heIt's inherited, meanwhilehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and which they let out sent to a single mother, watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is needed a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by their adult daughtervisiting with him, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take and in the evening a hike, I'm moving in helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and you're moving out'runs. NowEli lives with his lovely gran, at this stage you may well, if you know this too – for there is a genre readgeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, think itEli's going parents were both lost to be the titular race, a throwback globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us navigate the world in the 1980s, but nocompany of a magical beast. We avoid genre completely, as I say This has made the race anathema to the pair – instead learning about Greek tragedybut when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, in case that has any bearing on Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what happens herehe most hates, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until with the sole aim the prize of magic at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should the end – until the point where the evicted tenant is found only thing to have completely vanishedpossibly save his gran.|isbn=19131933810571382231

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone178763681X|title=A Song of IsolationKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a career way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that is only beginning he'd be at the school to hit assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the heights problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to retire turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of all thingsHer Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, though Ellen is sent to his credit he would rather be working a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in forestryanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. They have found a hideaway At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between themcomplicated tangle of espionage. |isbn=19131933651035401614

|authorisbn= Christopher Paolini1803816759|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 54|genre= Science Fiction|summary= On the moon of It's 2038 and Joe is a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with bored cop policing the efforts to make the planet habitable to human lifewealthy and peaceful New York City. However, Joe longs for a discovery bit of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research stationAI system that now runs everything, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in making life easier for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien shipmany, and she has riots start to flee spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the 61 Cygnus rioting global pop star system. She Suki is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and a rag-tag bunch of misfits, kidnapped and the news Joe is grimassigned to bring her home. The same aliens that destroyed Joe isn't the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of humanonly one trying to save Suki -occupied spaceDylan, a British superfan and only a mythical weapon known as tech nerd, is also on the Staff of Blue can stop themcase. As What went wrong? Did the death toll climbs 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 she couldsystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505s kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Carlie Sorosiak1529421284|title=My Life as a CatLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This is It was one of those flash downpours that the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human. It's something that each member in skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the alien collective is allowed body to dobe Lee Geary, for 1 monthwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, once they reach so it could have been a certain agesimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeGeary was a townie, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and what was he finds that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to work as a park ranger, he is instead in the body suicide of a cat on the Holly Gilbert and to two other side of deaths which were not considered suspicious at the country! This is not what he had planned! time. Not only is he in the wrong place Lockyer and the wrong body, he is also in the middle DC Gemma Broad of a storm, stuck in a tree! And so he meets Olive, the little girl who rows out in a boat Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to rescue him, you and who names him Leonardme) investigate.|isbn=1788006089

|authorisbn= Tahi Saihate0571379559|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a place to which we can never returnthe story of four people. Tahi Saihate Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in her debut novel the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it''Astral Seasons stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these roseto complete the delivery rounds -tinted glasses often lieand to bring in sufficient money. Her novel is a meditation on youth They have twin boys - Sonny and how Max, the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and often life-alteringthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn= 1916277101

|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart1529425867|title= The Bone Shard Daughter Lost and Never Found (The Drowning EmpireA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre= FantasyCrime|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructsOxford, an heir to the throne, a smugglerthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and a warrior will fight to find their place in the worldalways exquisitely dressed. Lin is the emperor's forgotten daughter D I Ryan Wilkins, kept locked away in a palace son of secrets Ryan and closed doors. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throneof Ryan, she vows to show him she is capable not. He's not any of reviving those things. He's white, originated from a dying empire trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries his wardrobe consists mainly of her past shell suits and the forbidden art of bone shard magictrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Yet Lin is playing You might wonder if you're being introduced to a deadly game and her quest police procedural written for power will come at great costlaughs. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace Well, Lin must decide you're not. The two men are just how far she will to go to become a catalyst different sides of change and save her peoplethe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=0356514943

|author=Sharon DoeringMosby Woods|title=She Lies CloseA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Ava Boone The West isn't the dominant force it once was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of her sinceaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, and no arrests have been madea push for climate action there. And yet, this book A feeling that nobody is not about Avain actual charge. Not reallyImagine then, there was a man with precognition. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour Imagine the strategic advantage in her new house is this asset; a suspect man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in Ava's disappearancehistory. As a single mother to two young childrenImagine then, she's really wishing that this man loses this sort of information had come ability. What would governments do to light before they moved in.get it back?|isbn=1789094194B0C9SNG8R1