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|isbn=14711814050241636604|title=NighthawkingThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Russ ThomasGary Stevenson

|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://wwwtwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up.sbg She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you Freya'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in whats former mentor and Carole's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the body of a young woman was discoveredleast. It Arthur was the reason why Freya had obviously not been buried in one of back to the beds but who would have started to dig village: Arthur, she feels, let her up? down badly. It had been Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsprofession she loved. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left After the twosplit, very rareshe worked in a cafe, gold aurei met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer life, who was murdered) and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler Freya and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Ariadne All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Science Fiction |summary= This re-telling ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the myth shape of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing things to a modern audiencecome. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. '|isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster Doughnuts|rating=4I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared Well, Grace and Danni I must confess that there have been left to run the family bakerymore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. But Grace needs I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the doughnuts and sweet treats feeling that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though sheit's only ten years old, she all getting away from me. Some of it is a monster hunter! - frankly - quite frightening. Monsters have a very sweet toothOf course, I could research the possibilities and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisethe latest conspiracy theorist. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, I needed people I knew I could trust and who has could deliver information in a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters do, and so things start to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0995647895Sunny Singh|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceHotel Arcadia

|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Sadie's mother always said The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that she was has suddenly been violently taken over by a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doingterrorist group. She lives by Hiding from the River Thames at Greenwich terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloomAbhi,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''hotel manager. Her imagination was fired. She'd love As Abhi continues to try to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's care remotely for the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches residents who are on show) and missed still alive in the closing bell hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and the attendantkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's warning shouthappened through her photography. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in Although they only ever talk over the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphinsphone, pirates, mermaids their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and treasurethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal1529153298|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her lifehonestly... ) She joins 's not what'Oof Ouch My Boness worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, an online support group where she talks but to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesseshave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to just joke and mess aroundmove the family 'Down South'. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesnyou't respond to the chat for re from Yorkshire, Down South is a whilefrightening, Priya becomes concernedforeign place, best avoided. She decides to steal For Miv, the move would mean leaving her parents' car best friend, Sharon, and drive to Brigidshe's house ll do anything to check up on herprevent that. But what she doesn She't expect to find there is a werewolf in s not worried about the basement – and for dangers or that werewolf to be the girl she has been her Mum's stopped talking - to online for the past few monthsanyone.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1398524085|title=SlingshotHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonelyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. As a secret illegitimate Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter of a man with a "real" family, she Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is used to not being a priority in people. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's livesfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. But It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for goodhe couldn't stand the guilt. No longer The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfielddo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA1035906708|title=The Duke's ChildrenDiva|author=Anthony TrollopeDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The story opens We tend to probably the worst news think of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed Nazi occupation by grief a mother who mercilessly exploited her and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to made no longer being prime ministersecret of her preference for her elder sister, or even in officeJackie. He seeks to protect }}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and guide his three adult childrenfriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, which is easier said than done when none a place that has the nickname of them wishes to 'The Black Hole'be. All big movie fans, they'' guided. re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Silverbridge (his elder sonHowever, as the movie starts, actually called Plantagenetthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, but always known by his title) and Gerald they are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run swept up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sumsinto an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes But as they lurch from one film genre to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squirenext, which can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Duke cannot countenancecinema, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about and to learn that parents do not always get their way.real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Goldy MoldavskyRachel Greenlaw|title=The Last GirlCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary= Rachel Chavez is ''I can hear the song of the new girl at Manchester Prepsea. A school filled to The call of the brim with deep, the richest children answering beat in the city – and Rachel doesnmy heart.'t belong. She's not rich Rosevear, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbiaa remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and most of allplundering the wrecks. Mira, she spends the majority of like her mother before her spare time watching horror movies as a source , is one of comfortthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She struggles But when the Council Watch lays a trap to find anyone end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to connect save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and withonly coordinates to guide her, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull sets off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the competitionsea. But With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the pranks escalatewatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start Mira must be determined to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up stop at nothing to save the pranks, future of her home and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too lateones she holds most dear.|isbn=07555015270008664730

|author=Polly BartonJames Sherwood Metts|title=Fifty SoundsPlanet Storyland

|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has Things have been on my radar a bit sticky for a while the Earthlings. AI and if the world hadnautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowre paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. I may Just as they were beginning to get there later used to all this yeartechnological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, but I am not hopefulalong came an awful pandemic. And like BartonLife was pretty much shut down and, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of along with it, all the question in the first essay, which is many daily social interactions on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''they depend so heavily.|isbn=19130975011736128426

|author=Lucy HollandMatthew Tree|title=SistersongWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary=Sistersong is part of Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk drunk and fairy tales. These stories, for most chronic underachiever whose dreams of us, are a cornerstone being exceptional at any of childhood his artistic passions all failed miserably and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectivewho had endless crises of self confidence. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning So Tim applied himself to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out charactershis studies, examining relationships cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel set himself high but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endachievable ambitions.|isbn=1529039037B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529124255A G Slatter|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=We know straight away that there'' There's going a part of me that wants to keep this just to be myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a bodywhile. It's on ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the beach world, lies Silverton; a town under Craynethe protection of the Briar's Cliff near , a family of witches who protect the town of Clearwater and it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous Septemberwider world from the Darklands. Grace Goodwin Though she has a soft Australian accent always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non- witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she's lived there since was young, her teens training as a steward revolved around letters and nowadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, in her mid-thirtiesEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, shethe town's returned to leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her home town to live. Her husbandAs challenges come her way left, Grahamright and centre, works in Singapore and she and Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her eight-year-old daughterat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Matilda, might Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. GraceBriar witches's best friendlegacy, Anna Robinsoneverything they have sacrificed to survive, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child toounder threat. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!|isbn=1803364548

|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...|isbn=1913193594}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B004O37B6A1529900360|title=The Prime MinisterGhost Orchid|author=Anthony TrollopeJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet PalliserIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'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 difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the Duke help of Omniuma psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heit was Robin, Delaware's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but She knew that the truth is involvement was something that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainthe man she loved needed. The ladies of societynext case did look simple, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed though. Two lovers were murdered in the position swimming pool of having a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to support his wifean Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's actions when Lopez loses a by-electionnot the Italian. The Duke's payment But which of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt him.them was the primary target?

|isbn=17873320981529395224|title=How to Love Animals in Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Human-Shaped WorldVet|author=Henry ManceSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down Siôn Rowlands fell into species veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places Rowlands didn't want to follow in society: cows go on plateshis footsteps, dogs particularly when he considered the strain that being on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully -call put on the next David Attenborough series.'his father' I was going to argues life. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I When he was quibbling for seventeen he took the sake opportunity of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and I consider myself an animal loverwas convinced this was the job for him. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animalsBefore long, I would probably choose the animalshe was at Liverpool University. I insisted that I read this book: no one It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctanta child. I eat cheeseIf anything, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed he'd wanted to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablea professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass0861541774|title=The High HouseA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to pass on its genetic material meet up with the implied belief an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that your progeny will then pass on theirshe was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. However Initially, that train he faced a charge of thought is slowly seems manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have fallen out of favourplanned to murder the man. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead Now he could be facing the death penalty. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I Domenic Jejeune can do". Raising nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a child diplomatic incident and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives wouldn''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our realityt help Danny at all. This is the life our children and their children will have to live.|isbn=1800750072

|author=Ruth HoganAlexander McCall Smith|title=Madame BurovaThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=This book lets us discover several people The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in different stages of life Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in the early 1970sproviding a more personal, all vaguely connectedtailored service. So we have Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), trip to Canada to get away for a girl in while. Katie is coming out of a humdrum job wanting to become break up with a singerbad boyfriend, and chiefly, Imelda, so jumps at the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', chance to come home to use her family's sea-front boothEdinburgh. The singerAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, the scryer thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campIsabel Dalhousie novels, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. We also see her on her last dayKatie has no experience in running a business, fifty years lateror in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is sheher abilities, and who delivered the secrets about there's always her to Imeldavery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, and why did it have to remain lend a secret all this time?hand…|isbn=152937331X1846976596

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud0811771741|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 4|genre= TeensCrafts|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses knits from toys to wander blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain'long, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles cosy afternoons in front of the London Lagoonfire' variety. Together, The projects are divided by the time they must brave man'll take to complete -eating wildlifeless than five hours, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society five to reach the Free Islesten hours, but will they be any ten to twenty hours and more accepted there than they twenty hours. All the projects are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SDean Koontz|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=Remy Benny is feeling miserablehaving a terrifically bad day. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jaydenloses his job, together with he loses his sidekicks Ryan fiancee, and Brandon, have been laughing at Remyhis house gets trashed. Oh, calling him names because he is short and someone has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to wind up Remy when nobody can see his home, and then push him just it's possible that little bit further when whoever or whatever was inside is the other kids are aroundthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Sofortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, when Remy reactsa bad weather friend called Spike, it looks as though he was the instigatorwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And then Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he gets , Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into trouble at school and the teachers donBenny't believe him when he tries to explain what happeneds wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Adam Stower|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeMurray and Bun

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers |summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded in parliament Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and achieved a paying position he fell out with those friendly cat, one who provided his income is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, well, whatever takes his childhood sweetheartfancy next of the two. He was fortunate to get But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and seemed settled the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a life world of domesticityfrightening adventure and whiffs. To bring Finn backThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary be honest, but he's turned up and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time he'll have to allow the move to be possible.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Dean KoontzB0C47LV1PC|title=The Other EmilyFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Our hero David Thorne Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's question should you make it? Or is the western coast we're concerned withquestion if you did, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He.. no. ''Fragility's paying for contact with ' is set as the man he thinks the only suspectcity of Portland, a lifer nowOregon, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying cautiously begins to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl emerge from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into restrictions imposed during the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1529431735|title=The LipWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'Melody Janie Rowereturn all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he' even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to bes had a letter from his ex-wife, and maybe saying thatshe's the pointill and hasn't long to live. To me the name sings of English folk musicIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, but even stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in my use the boot of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on thingsa stolen Ford Sierra. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmet. |isbn=1529334179Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Danny Wallace Alex Bell and Gemma CorrellTim McDonagh|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have Eli is a Sunday evening busy lad – by day an apprentice in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholewondrous library we start by visiting with him, and not just that, either, but in the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get evening a screen back, helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeruns. Toasters can toastEli lives with his lovely gran, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this too – for there is going to be a social comedy about people stuck generation missing in such a Luddite experience against their will, but nothe family. For the family finally remember StellaA few short years ago, Eli's grandmaparents were both lost to the titular race, and see if they can get across country a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to hernavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Hence this This has made the race anathema to go down as the pair – but when a road-trip book. But not just that, bad incident at the eatery leads to a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatconfession from gran, too – for it's a slapstick, high-dramaEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles the sole aim the prize of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovemagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=14711968870571382231

|isbn=1913193527178763681X|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Vanda SymonOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of the murder of Chef Paul Delamare took a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out teaching job at Seacliffa residential cookery school in Belgravia. His wife He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been bound a way of getting both men and gagged and placed so that she was forced women to watch do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the murder, with impression that he'd be at the scene being discovered by their sonschool to assist Paul, Declanwho had a broken arm, when he returned home from an evening but it didn't turn outthat way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalone thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. His companyUnfortunately, Eros Global, manufactured he was the person who discovered the body and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, everyone knows that the police consider that kind of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedperson to be the prime suspect.

|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her 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, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=15291091161035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=Call Me Red: A ShepherdThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck 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 aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's Journeykidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Hannah JacksonKate Webb

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=''I want It was one of those flash downpours that the image of a British farmer to simply be that of weather often delivers in a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nationheatwave. I don't think that is too much In a gully, a human skeleton came to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as surface and forensic testing proved the body to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmerLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: sheHe'd never set foot on been a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a deep love simple case of animalsmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Her original intention Geary was that she would become 'Dr Jacksona townie, whale scientist' and she so what was well he doing out on her way Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Lake Districttime. She saw a lamb being born Lockyer and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked DC Gemma Broad of the kudos of her original intention, she knew Major Crimes Review Unit (that she wanted 's cold cases to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitionand me) investigate.

|isbn=08575272310571379559|title=Dog DaysThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Ericka WallerFiona Williams

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=George Dempsey ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is exceedingly angrythe story of four people. ItTess Hembry's eight days since his wiferoots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, Ellenbuilt of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, died and it's stood the first passage of time that she's let him down, storms and floods. He's lostHer husband, Richard, bereft without her ( he ''needs struggles to grow his wifevegetables, like a snail needs its shell'')to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. He misses their ordered life They have twin boys - Sonny and rather than bringing him meals to leave on Max, the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row with someonerainbow twins. HeSonny's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she diedcolouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. She even dared to contradict him when he told her People don't believe that the dog wasnthey't staying. Now here related, much less twins and there's lumbered an assumption when Max is out with a dog he doesnhis mother that she't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in s his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themnanny.

|isbn=B003UH99X41529425867|title=The Eustace DiamondsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Anthony TrollopeSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become a problemIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. After his deathRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, his wifeBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession son of a very valuable diamond necklace Ryan and was determined that she would father of Ryan, is not hand it over to her husband. He's executorsnot any of those things. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutelyHe's white, originated from a trailer park, although the precise circumstances barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the giving varied from telling to tellingshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Lady Eustace was not a woman You might wonder if you're being introduced to whom truth meant a great dealpolice procedural written for laughs. All that was important to her nowWell, she maintained, was her sonyou're not. And, The two men are just different sides of course, her diamondsthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1529047315Mosby Woods|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''A fisherman told him t the dominant force it once about was. Nobody in the sea having two faces. You have West is quite sure how to take them both, he said, the good and mend this or even if mending it is the bad, and never turn your back on either one best course of themaction. Governments are flailing.'' In 1972A war here, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''actual charge. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeperImagine then, the weather such that ''the boat [there was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over man with precognition. Imagine the wavelets'' but they were unable to get strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any response from the Maiden Rockset of circumstances. It was broken into the next dayThat man would be valuable, but there was no sign of right? Perhaps the menmost valuable asset in history. The table was set for a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was brokenImagine then, that this man loses this ability. No explanation was ever found for what happened What would governments do to the men.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1