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|isbn=18003211040241636604|title=The Body on the IslandTrading Game: A Confession|author=Nick LouthGary Stevenson

|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldIt'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 request for help from her beloved aunt, heading for HMP Spring HillCarole. Steve Freya's former mentor and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was 67 years old and the reason why Freya had served six years for not been back to the manslaughter of his wifevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Only that wasn't who he wasEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the murder of five boys between rebound from the ages love of ten her life, who was murdered) and Freya and seventeenJames have now divorced. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield }}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and into a Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts ways of thinking about the body shape of one of his victimsthings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. The Bogeyman was going to be set free on 2 July 2019Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. He appeared I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to be a reformed character me but he had a list I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people upon whom he wished to exact revengeI knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1473692407Sunny Singh|title=The Book of Two Ways|author=Jodi PicoultHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=Dawn Edelstein The Hotel Arcadia is a death doula: luxury hotel in an unnamed city that's someone has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who is are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there for the person who is dyingSam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to make their passage try to whatever they believe care remotely for the residents who are still alive in as easy as possible and the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to support their carers. It's a rewardingbe cowed by events, caring occupation and Dawn puts keeps on venturing out of her heart and soul into it but this wasnroom to try to capture what't always s happened through her lifephotography. Some fifteen years ago she was a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as an Egyptologist, she was working with Abhi tries to help her supervisor, Professor Ian Dumphries, on keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egypt. Then she was Dawn McDowell: that was her maiden name, the name she published underterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Delia Owens1529153298|title=Where The Crawdads SingList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|summary= In 1952It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Kyahonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's mother disappeared up the dirt track to townfamily, wearing her alligator heelsthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, and never came home. Then one by one her siblings leftthey've been murdered, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead but to nothing but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken fatherhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed Miv'Marsh-Girls upset because she' – still yearns for a mother s overheard that would never return and grew up far too fast for a girl who can neither read nor write. Finally, one night her father never came home leaving Kya completely alone wants to survive on move the marshfamily 'Down South'. Eventually When you're from Yorkshire, as the years drift painfully byDown South is a frightening, the time comes when Kyaforeign place, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young womanbest avoided. For Miv, yearns for company besides the gulls and the landmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, yearning to be loved and she'll do anything to be heldprevent that. So, when 2 boys from She's not worried about the town of Barkley Cove find their way to dangers or that her, she finds 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, runMum's stopped talking -down Marsh-Girlto anyone. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|authorisbn=David C Mason1398524085|title=Pandora's GardenerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35

|summary= John Cranston Charlotte 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 - strangely - her husband, Alec, is a gardenernot. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, although what he did before he became a gardenerfind the body of Greg's father, he claimsDuncan Ackerley, is classifiedin the river. That is just as well because he is about It was an easy assumption for the police to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can save the daydo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. |isbn=0956180523

|isbn=03565124791035906708|authortitle= Alix E HarrowDiva|titleauthor= The Once and Future WitchesDaisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=''There's no such thing We tend to think of Maria Callas as witchesGreek, but there used she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to beAthens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' In 1893, after the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced to little make it more than weak charms and simple spellsmanageable in the States. If women want to hold power When she was back in their handsAthens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrageJackie.

|author=Onjali Q RaufChristopher Edge|title=The Night Bus HeroBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=Hector is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a bullyplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Egged on by his two 'friends'All big movie fans, he takes other childrenthey's sweetsre looking forward to lots of exciting films, harasses and threatensmany, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turn. many snacks! Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his faultHowever, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homethe movie starts, and seem to only care they very quickly realise that something about his perfect sister this new film format is very different, and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost causeswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. So what happens when, in trying But as they lurch from one film genre to tell the truth & fight next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accusecinema, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local parktheir real lives?|isbn=15101067741839942738

|isbnauthor=1849767343Rachel Greenlaw|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel TancoCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The title 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 format plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of this book might lead you the seven who swim out to think survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that itlies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's either about responsibility - or itleader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on 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 numbers sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey. It isn't: it's a hymn takes her from the watched streets of praise foreign islands to maths. Itthe heart of the smuggler's about why maths is so wonderful territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and how you meet it in everyday lifethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1849766920James Sherwood Metts|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'AquinoPlanet Storyland

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is Things have been a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that he's kindbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, clever and loyal. Youoften replacing jobs they'll also need re paid to know do and other tasks that everything is '''MINE'''took time to accomplish. And he means ''everything''Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. It begins Life was pretty much shut down and, along with the slipper: mum still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that he's being generous in allowing that. Then it was , all the pork chop. Well, did you see anyone's name many daily social interactions on it? ''And'' he left the carrots for Leo. That's another example of Marcello's generosity. There was the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation to prove ownershipthey depend so heavily. And talking of ownership the tree would provide all the sticks he could ever want to chew. There's nothing unreasonable in any of that, is there?|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1849767009Matthew Tree|title=It IsnWe't Rude to be Nude|author=Rosie Hainell Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary 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 it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bust. But... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a book about not wearing clothes. It's a celebration drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of bodies: bodies large and small his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of every possible hueself confidence. Bodies with disabilities So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and markings. They're fine. In fact, they're wonderfulset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0241295955A G Slatter|title=Trio|author=William BoydThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinated. It'' There's also the year when YSK Films are making a movie in Brightonpart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. It's called ''Emily Bracegirdle's Extremely Useful Ladder to  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the Moon''world, or ''Ladder lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Moon'' as itBriar's known on set, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Anny Viklund Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the female star in a production which is proving first non-witch to be just born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a little bit racketysteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. There are odd pressures on When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the producertown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, Talbot Kyddright and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs communicate with the moneydead, allow putting her at the heart of a fading star maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to use his catchphraseanother, or include a song from Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the leading manBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, whose musical star is fadingunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=B08B39QNRH1529900360|title=The Curious History of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problemGhost Orchid|author=Michael PritchardJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Popular ScienceCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Society is based s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on speech but civilisation requires the written word''difficult cases. I came to Michael Pritchard His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's ''The Curious History t need the help of Writera psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's Cramp'' by a rather strange routepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer She knew that the word 'painful' but I have an interest in involvement was something that the way that hands workman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. An exploration of Two lovers were murdered in the history swimming pool of a problem which has defeated some of remote property in Bel Air. He was the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and so it proved, with 's not the book being as much about the doctors treating Italian. But which of them was the sufferers and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itself.primary target?

|authorisbn=Blake Nuto and Charlotte Ager1529395224|title=Child Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of Galaxiesa Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=What does it mean to be alive? Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. What are we made of, His father was a GP and where are we going? Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father'Child s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of Galaxies'' is doing work experience with a family friend who was a lovely children's picture book that deals with all vet and was convinced this was the big questionsjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. Written It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a poemchild. If anything, the lyrical words donhe't shy away from darkness, nor talk down d wanted to the children you are reading to, but rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations to create be a powerful, uplifting reading experienceprofessional footballer.|isbn=1912497425

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0861541774|title=BetrayalA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34

|summary=Meet UrsulaDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, the stand-in ministerDanny Maik, drafted has taken a short holiday in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get Singapore to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deservesup with an old ally, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sectorGuy Trueman. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a famous newsreader man armed with her Tinder profilea knife - and he killed a Ghurka. You'll certainly meet a homeless trampInitially, who has taken one look at he faced a newspaper image charge of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the devil posing beside herman. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver Now he could be facing the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptdeath penalty. But Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as for the first ministerial case, of any interference from another police force could provoke a woman demanding her daughterdiplomatic incident and wouldn's rape get looked t help Danny at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403.

|author=Tania UnsworthAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerPerfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Elsie The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an ordinary sort of girlalternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, and forgottenas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. She Katie is quietcoming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and compliant, and makes so jumps at the best of whatever happens chance to come home to herEdinburgh. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to take care of heran Edinburgh we already love, they have thanks to arrange for her to go 44 Scotland Street and stay the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with her Great Uncle for a weeksome new characters who quickly begin to charm. Poor ElsieKatie has no experience in running a business, forgotten againor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, just decides to make the best lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of thingsknits from toys to blankets. On investigating Some will be quick knits - others are of the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived 'long, cosy afternoons in India as a boy, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one front of the roomsfire' variety. When Elsie asks him about The projects are divided by the rug he seems unhappytime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and he says he has to keep it because he was more than twenty hours. All the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years oldprojects are attractive, modern and he says it was the worst thing he ever diduseable. So I perhaps show my age 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 I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time ago's me being picky.|isbn=1788541707

|isbnauthor=1472127013Dean Koontz|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Benny is having a bit of work on handterrifically bad day. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about He loses his managing directorjob, Harold Cheesemanhe loses his fiancee, who had apparently returned from Australia because and his wife did not like it therehouse gets trashed. This was unusualOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, as disturbing coffin-sized object to his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then there home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced thing that has trashed his wifehouse! The thing is, Sheraton, was seeing another manBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the staff canteen: he wanted delivery to know what the staff were saying about him and his secretaryhouse is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who was has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from Genevanefarious forces for being a good person. ApparentlySpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, the staff called her The Swiss Roll. Then there was the murderif he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0008420386Adam Stower|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth DayMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers |summary=What do Malcolm GladwellMurray is supposed to be a humble, Alain de Bottontidy and friendly cat, Phoebe Waller-Bridgeone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, Lemn Sissaywell, Nigel Slaterwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, Emeli Sandéso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, Meera Syaland the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Dame Kelly Holmes not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and Andrew Scott have in common? whiffs. They've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to appear on Elizabeth Daybe honest, but he's podcast to discuss their failures turned up and how life worked out for them afterwards. Youhe'll find the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=0571362672B0C47LV1PC|title=SnowFragility|author=John BanvilleMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''Welljoke? And if you could, at least is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you're a Wexford mandid, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''

So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John (pronounced 'Sinjun') Strafford to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds and had done something memorable with the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirk. The niceties had to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on Fragility'' is set as the library floor with some precious bits city of his anatomy missing. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody and thisPortland, along with his good-but-shabby suitOregon, marked him out as of Osborne's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless cautiously begins to emerge from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in restrictions imposed during the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled there.covid pandemic

|isbn=17874776301529431735|title=The Postscript MurdersWinter Visitor|author=Elly GriffithsJames Henry

|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchairIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, it really shouldnwhich made Bruce Hopkins't be suspicious and that was return all the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy Smithmore surprising. He's carerd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant that there was more to PeggyThe return has come about because he's death than met the eye had a letter from his ex- particularly as wife, saying that she knew that there was no heart condition 's ill and that Peggy had worried that she was being followedhasn't long to live. Then there was the fact that Peggy was a It'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines in their books: she knew more about murder than s hard to feel any elderly woman should need sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to knowa watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0008330131Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Stolen Sisters|author=Louise JensenGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start ''The Stolen Sisters'' we know that twenty-years on from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Wellby visiting with him, they're healthy and in the physical sense, but Carly has trust issues, Leah has OCD evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Marie drinksruns. They're Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolenfamily. Carly was thirteen-A few short years-old and she was in charge of her sistersago, Eli's parents were both lost to the eighttitular race, a globe-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate trotting adventure where all entrants have to get navigate the world in the company of a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentionmagical beast. Leah and Marie were nattering about a lost ball and a fleece which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As This has made the three girls went race anathema to chase after him they were snatched by two men.}}{{Frontpage|author=Stephen Fabes|title=Signs of Life|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the guts pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to simply go out and do it. I also didn't inherit the kind of steady nervea confession from gran, ability Eli knows his only hope is to talk dare to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted enter what he most hates, with the requisite 'bottle'. In order words I'm not sole aim the sort prize of person who will get on a bike outside a London hospital and not come home for six years. Fabes did precisely thatmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=17881612110571382231

|authorisbn=Arvin Ahmadi178763681X|title=How It All Blew UpKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=TeensCrime| summary=18-year-old Amir is American Iranian, Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a Muslim, and gayresidential cookery school in Belgravia. He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he didn't really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening want to show his parents photographs but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics getting both men and runs away..women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to Italy! So begins assist Paul, who had a journey for Amirbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his familyown. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, where they all discover more about him, and he was the person who he really is, discovered the body and who he really wants everyone knows that the police consider that person to bethe prime suspect.|isbn=1471409929

|author=Antoine LaurainSarah Marsh|title=The Readers RoomA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had After a bout of scarlet fever as a great successchild, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsEllen Lark loses her hearing. The three people who work in the Readers' Room 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 Suddenly plunged into a huge smashworld of silence, and so it has proveneverything about her life changes. But there are several 'howevers' to that. As Living ina time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, however – Violaine herself Ellen is not having life all her own way, for sent to a school where she has been involved in a near-fatal accidentis taught to lip read, and starts this book coming round but physically restrained from a comasigning. AndFrom here, however – despite all urging, the author of the book she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has never once made themselves known to been teaching the publishers in person, deaf and in fact offered up using a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailsystem called Visible Speech. What At the same time, Bell is going to befall Violaineworking on other inventions and ideas, her memory, her staff – and how much is any Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?espionage.|isbn=19104779741035401614

|isbn=19481245721803816759|title=Think Outside the BoxThe Unravelling|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukWill Gibson

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=It''Whenever you find s 2038 and Joe is a problem <br>''Wherever there's bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a puzzle bit of adventure and to solve <br>''However you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the box'' And so begins aftermath of the latest picture book from Justine Avery rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Liuba SyrotiukJoe is assigned to bring her home. ItJoe isn's t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a clarion call to children to use their imaginations British superfan and not logic alone when tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it comes to solving problems.hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)1529421284|title=The Seven DoorsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Come here for a thriller It was one of those flash downpours that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're the British weather often delivers in a full fifth of the way throughheatwave. We start with our coupleIn a gully, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision human skeleton came to the surface and decisions at forensic testing proved the council, being forced body to move out of their homebe Lee Geary, a building that who had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty disappeared nine yearsearlier. The building heHe's inherited, meanwhile, d been a known drug user and which they let out to a single motherhad learning disabilities, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take so it could have been a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving outsimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is Geary was a genre readtownie, think it's going so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to be a throwback the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the 1980s, but notime. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, Lockyer and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (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 's cold cases to have completely vanishedyou and me) investigate.|isbn=1913193381

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone0571379559|title=A Song of Isolation|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career that is only beginning to hit the heights to retire to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant The House of all things, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestry. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between them. |isbn=1913193365}}{{FrontpageBroken Bricks|author= Christopher Paolini|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsFiona Williams|rating= 5|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= On ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the moon story of a distant gas giantfour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with she lives in the efforts to make house on the planet habitable to human liferiverbank, built of broken bricks. However Insubstantial as it might look, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moonit's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entity. After stood the entity bonded to her loses control passage of time, storms and kills half the staff of the research stationfloods. Her husband, Richard, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system struggles to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad grow his vegetables, to worse when complete the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien ship, delivery rounds - and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star systembring in sufficient money. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi They have twin boys - Sonny and a rag-tag bunch of misfitsMax, and the news is grimrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. The same aliens People don't believe that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied spacethey're related, much less twins and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop them. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins to realise there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505s his nanny.

|authorisbn=Carlie Sorosiak1529425867|title=My Life as a CatLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is the story of an alien who has come down to spend some time on earth living as a human. It's something that each member in the alien collective is allowed to doNigerian descent, for 1 month, once they reach a certain ageBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds that instead father of landing in Yellowstone ParkRyan, ready to work as a park ranger, he is instead in the body of a cat on the other side of the country! not. This is He's not what he had planned! any of those things. Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong bodyHe's white, he is also in the middle of originated from a stormtrailer park, stuck barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a tree! police procedural written for laughs. And so he meets OliveWell, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the little girl who rows out in a boat to rescue him, and who names him Leonardcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1788006089

|author= Tahi SaihateMosby Woods|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 3.54|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even though if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a place to which we can never returnpush for climate action there. Tahi Saihate, A feeling that nobody is in her debut novel ''Astral Seasonactual charge. Imagine then, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often liethere was a man with precognition. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how Imagine the things we do as strategic advantage in this asset; a teenager man who can seem intensely important and often life-alteringtell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn= 1916277101B0C9SNG8R1