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|isbn=15294103470241636604|title=Death Awaits The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Durham (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Helen CoxC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Kitt HartleyIt's assistant, Grace Edwards, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has left her library job and taken a place on been back to the Venerable Bede AcademyEnglish country village where she grew up. She's vocational library studies course in Durhamback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. ItFreya's former mentor and Carole's an unusual place to study as students with government grants are not acceptedclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, so most of is dead and the people attending are scions of the seriously rich, scholarship students - or they've managed, somehowcircumstances seem suspicious, to scrape together say the moneyleast. GraceArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, who's 22she feels, comes into the last categorylet her down badly. Her parents agreed Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to fund be near the man or pursue the course but told her that if that was what profession she chose to do then they were finished with herloved. Not long after she started After the coursesplit, Kitt Hartley came for she worked in a visit - cafe, met and immediately discovered an unsolved disappearance married James (on the rebound from the love of a student from a year agoher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Vincent PanettiereAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=These Thy GiftsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''2006 is a tumultuous year for the Catholic Church. Reports Opening up new ways of horrific sexual abuse are becoming widespread. Monsignor Steven Trimboli is troubled. He worries for thinking about the future shape of the church—and rightly so. A new crime will soon reverberate throughout his church and hit closer things to home than he ever imaginedcome.''

As ageing priest Steve Trimboli begins to try to make sense of the child sexual abuse scandal I've heard it said that 'technology' is rocking his beloved Catholic churchwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, he discovers I must confess that one child in his own parish has there have been abused by more than a priest sent by his bishopfew decades of technology in my lifetime. And this isn I't just any boy: this is Steveve kept up reasonably well with what's grandson whose mother is advantageous to me but I'm left with the offspring of a long past relationship between Steve and a gangsterfeeling that it's widowall getting away from me. Steve Some of it is determined to seek justice for this boy - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and all children victimised by priests end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who have been protected by his churchknows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But he must also face up to his own failings, going right back to his breaking of the celibacy vows I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1503199886}}

|isbnauthor=1800321104Sunny Singh|title=The Body on the Island|author=Nick LouthHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=A prison transport left HMP Wakefield, heading for HMP Spring HillThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Steve and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright Hiding from the terrorists who was 67 years old are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and had served six years for Abhi, the manslaughter of his wifehotel manager. Only that wasn't who he was. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the murder of five boys between residents who are still alive in the ages of ten hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and seventeen. He was being ghosted keeps on venturing out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of the body of one of his victimsher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The Bogeyman was going Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to be set free on 2 July 2019. He appeared help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengerescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=14736924071529153298|title=The Book List of Two WaysSuspicious Things|author=Jodi PicoultJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Dawn Edelstein is a death doula: thatIt's someone who 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is there for the person who is dyingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, to make their passage to whatever they believe in as easy as possible and to support their carershonestly... ) ItShe's not what's worrying Miv's a rewardingfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, caring occupation and Dawn puts her heart and soul into it but this wasnto have 'disappeared' doesn't always sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her lifefather wants to move the family 'Down South'. Some fifteen years ago she was When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a graduate student at Yale working towards her doctorate: as an Egyptologistfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, she was working with the move would mean leaving her supervisorbest friend, Professor Ian DumphriesSharon, on the Djehutyakht tombs at Deir el-Bersha on the Nile in Middle Egyptand she'll do anything to prevent that. Then she was Dawn McDowell: She's not worried about the dangers or that was her maiden name, the name she published underMum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Delia Owens1398524085|title=Where The Crawdads SingHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary= In 1952We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, Kya's mother disappeared up the dirt track but she was born to townGreek parents in Manhattan, wearing her alligator heelsNew York, in December 1923 and never came homeonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Then one by one her siblings left, ran from the shack on the North Carolina marsh that served as home and the life that would lead to nothing Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but suffering, leaving 7-year-old Kya with her drunken father. Years pass and Kya - now nicknamed changed it to 'Marsh-GirlCallas' – still yearns for a mother 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 to survive on make it more manageable in the marshStates. Eventually, as the years drift painfully by, the time comes when Kya, now an emotional and vastly intelligent young woman, yearns When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for company besides the gulls and the land, yearning to be loved and to be held. So, when 2 boys from the town of Barkley Cove find their way to her, voice - she finds was raised under the Nazi occupation by a new way of life. But in 1969, the body of former star quarterback mother who mercilessly exploited her and new husband Chase Andrews is found lying in the mud made no secret of the marsh, and everyone in town immediately suspects the mysteriousher preference for her elder sister, run-down Marsh-GirlJackie. Who is Kya now, after years of isolation and a broken, hardened heart? Is she really capable of murder?|isbn=1472154665

|author=David C MasonChristopher Edge|title=Pandora's GardenerBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=34|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= John Cranston is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a gardenermovie marathon at their local cinema, although what he did before he became a gardenerplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, he claimsthey're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is classifiedvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. That is just But as well because he is about they lurch from one film genre to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plotthe next, where only he can save they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the day. cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=09561805231839942738

|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowRachel Greenlaw|title= The Once Compass and Future WitchesBlade|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary=''There's no such thing as witchesI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, but there used to bethe answering beat in my heart.''

In 1893Rosevear, after a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the purges rocks and plundering the burningswrecks. Mira, witching has been reduced like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to little more than weak charms survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and simple spellsany treasure that lies within. If women want But when the Council Watch lays a trap to hold power in their handsend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to have their voices heardsave him from death, it Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is now through womensecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's suffrageterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Onjali Q RaufJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Night Bus HeroPlanet Storyland

|summary=Hector is Things have been a bullybit sticky for the Earthlings. Egged on by his two 'friends'AI and automation have been proceeding apace, he takes other childrenoften replacing jobs they's sweets, harasses re paid to do and threatens, plays pranks at school, and gets into trouble at every turnother tasks that took time to accomplish. Yet he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his fault, but then he isn't believed Just as everyone expects him they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to be telling lies. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homethink of other, and seem new ways to only care about his perfect sister and his annoying little brother when they arespend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and his teachers have abandoned him as a lost cause. So what happens when, in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believedalong with it, Hector finds himself embroiled with all the police; first trying to accuse, and then trying to save a homeless man from his local park?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15101067741736128426

|isbnauthor=1849767343Matthew Tree|title=Count on Me|author=Miguel TancoWe'll Never Know

|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=The title Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and format chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of this book might lead you to think that it's either about responsibility - or it's a basic 1-2-3 book for those just starting out on the numbers journeyhis artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. It isn't: it's a hymn of praise So Tim applied himself to maths. It's about why maths is so wonderful his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and how you meet it in everyday lifeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1849766920A G Slatter|title=Everything is MINE|author=Andrea D'AquinoThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Marcello Von Cauliflower Bonaparte Jackson is a schnauzer: what else could you be with a name like that? He knows that you'll realise that he' There's kinda part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, clever and loyalall mine, at last. You'll also need I just want to know that everything is '''MINE'''enjoy it for a while. And he means ''everything''. It begins with  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the slipper: mum still has one. Why would she need more? You sense that Marcello feels that heBriar's being generous in allowing that. Then it was , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the pork chopDarklands. WellThough she has always wished for magic, did you see anyone's name on it? ''And'' he left Ellie Briar is the carrots first non-witch to be born into her family for Leogenerations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. ThatWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's another example of Marcellocousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's generosityleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. There was As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the acorn which squirrel was gnawing at: there was no documentation rare ability to prove ownership. And talking of ownership communicate with the tree would provide all dead, putting her at the sticks he could ever want heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to chew. Theredo as the Briar witches's nothing unreasonable in any of thatlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is there?under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=18497670091529900360|title=It Isn't Rude to be NudeThe Ghost Orchid|author=Rosie HaineJonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=This could have It hadn't been one of those books which Lt Milo Sturgis'preaches s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to the choirask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn': t need the help of a psychologist only people whoworked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware'll buy it are the people s partner, who know nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that nudity is OK and the ones who ''know'' involvement was something that it's shameful will avoid it like they avoid the hot-and-bothered person in the supermarket who is coughing fit to bustman she loved needed. ButThe next case did look simple, though... Rosie Haines makes it into something so much more than Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a book about not wearing clothesremote property in Bel Air. It's a celebration of bodies: bodies large He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and small she is married to an extremely rich man and of every possible hue. Bodies with disabilities and markings. Theyit're fines not the Italian. In fact, they're wonderful.But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=02412959551529395224|title=TrioLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=William BoydSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It was 1968: the year when Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were assassinatedSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. It's also the year when YSK Films are making His father was a movie in Brighton. It's called ''Emily BracegirdleGP and Rowlands didn's Extremely Useful Ladder t want to the Moon''follow in his footsteps, or ''Ladder particularly when he considered the Moon'' as itstrain that being on-call put on his father's known on setlife. Anny Viklund is When he was seventeen he took the female star in opportunity of doing work experience with a production which is proving to be just family friend who was a little bit racketyvet and was convinced this was the job for him. There are odd pressures on the producerBefore long, Talbot Kyddhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, to employ this old actor friend for a couple of days because he needs the money, allow a fading star 'd wanted to use his catchphrase, or include be a song from the leading man, whose musical star is fadingprofessional footballer.

|isbn=B08B39QNRH0861541774|title=The Curious History A Nye of Writer's Cramp: Solving an age-old problemPheasants|author=Michael PritchardSteve Burrows

|genre=Popular ScienceCrime|summary=''Society is based on speech but civilisation requires the written word''. I came to Michael PritchardDCI Domenic Jejeune's ''The Curious History of Writer's Cramp'' by close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a rather strange routeshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. I have problems with my hands which orthopaedic surgeons refer to as 'interesting': I prefer the word 'painful' but I have an interest Maik was involved in the way a street brawl - he would later maintain that hands workhe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. An exploration of the history of Initially, he faced a problem which has defeated some charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the best medical minds for some three-hundred-years seemed liked excellent background reading and so it proved, with man. Now he could be facing the book being death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as much about the doctors treating the sufferers any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and the changing medical attitudes as the problem itselfwouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Blake Nuto and Charlotte AgerAlexander McCall Smith|title=Child of GalaxiesThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=What does it mean The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be alive? all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. What are we made ofNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, and where are we going? as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. ''Child Katie is coming out of Galaxies'' is a lovely children's picture book that deals break up with all a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the big questionschance to come home to Edinburgh. Written as a poemAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, the lyrical words don't shy away from darknessbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, nor talk down thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the children you are reading Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin tocharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather than work beautifully together with the illustrations handsome) neighbour, William, to create lend a powerful, uplifting reading experience.hand…|isbn=19124974251846976596

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)0811771741|title=BetrayalInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=34|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from outside the leading party toys to cover the post for a yearblankets. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who Some will be quick knits - others 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 cleanerlong, who bizarrely has fallen into cosy afternoons in front of the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profilefire' variety. YouThe projects are divided by the time they'll certainly meet a homeless tramptake to complete - less than five hours, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulafive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside hermore than twenty hours. You'll meet All the ministerial bodyguard projects are attractive, modern and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to acceptuseable. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughterI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursulabut that's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403me being picky.

|author=Tania UnsworthDean Koontz|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerBad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Elsie Benny is an ordinary sort of girlhaving a terrifically bad day. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and forgottenhis house gets trashed. She is quietOh, and compliantsomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and makes it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the best of whatever happens very last person to herdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So when her parents forget fortunately for Benny it turns out that her school holidays have started before they are free the delivery to take care of herhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, they have who has been sent to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a weekgood person. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides Spike is going to make the best take care of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boyBenny, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor will certainly take care of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug Benny's enemies, if he seems unhappy, Benny, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time agoroped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=17885417071662500491

|isbnauthor=1472127013Adam Stower|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to Trot|author=M C Beaton Murray and R W GreenBun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Murray is supposed to be a bit humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of work on handthe two. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about But he's a bad magician's cat, so his managing directorfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, Harold Cheesemanand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it thereinto the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was unusual, as his wife had died before Cheeseman went to Australia. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifebe honest, Sheraton, was seeing another man. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in the staff canteen: but he's turned up and he wanted 'll have 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 murder.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=0008420386B0C47LV1PC|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrongFragility|author=Elizabeth DayMosby Woods

|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=What do Malcolm Gladwell, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? TheyCan you make a 've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth DayYo birthing person's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find joke? And if you could, is the results of these discussions in ''Failosophy''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571362672|title=Snow|author=John Banville|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=''Wellquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, at least you're a Wexford manwould 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 the British weather often delivers in a genre of any kind until we're 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 inheritedd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, meanwhileso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which they let out were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary='take a hike, I'm moving in and youThe House of Broken Bricks're moving out'is the story of four people. NowTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, at this stage you may wellbut instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, if you know this is a genre readbuilt of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in stood the 1980spassage of time, but nostorms and floods. We avoid genre completelyHer husband, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyRichard, in case that has any bearing on what happens herestruggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and seeing how an olderto bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -middle aged couple live their livesSonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Until at People don't believe that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises they're related, much less twins and there's an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant assumption when Max is found to have completely vanishedout with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1913193381

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A Song of IsolationD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career that In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is only beginning to hit the heights to retire to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant not. He's not any of all those things. He's white, though to originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his credit he would rather be working wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in forestrylime green or acid yellow. They have found You might wonder if you're being introduced to a hideaway on a small Scottish estatepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, but things you're not. The two men are starting to feel wrong between themjust different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. |isbn=1913193365

|author= Christopher PaoliniMosby Woods|title= To Sleep in a Sea of StarsA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 54|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= On The West isn't the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is helping with the efforts quite sure how to make mend this or even if mending it is the planet habitable to human lifebest course of action. Governments are flailing. HoweverA war here, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moon's surface leaves her bonded with a strange alien entitypush for climate action there. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives A feeling that nobody is in the system to take Kira in for examinationactual charge. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed by an alien shipImagine then, and she has to flee to the 61 Cygnus star systemthere was a man with precognition. She is revived aboard Imagine the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and strategic advantage in this asset; a rag-tag bunch man who can tell you what will happen given any set of misfitscircumstances. That man would be valuable, and right? Perhaps the news is grimmost valuable asset in history. The same aliens Imagine then, that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across all of human-occupied space, and only a mythical weapon known as the Staff of Blue can stop themthis man loses this ability. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into this war, Kira slowly begins What would governments do to realise that she may have had a greater hand in the conflict than she could've possibly imagined…get it back?|isbn=1529046505B0C9SNG8R1