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|isbn=07535583780241636604|title=EffortlessThe Trading Game: Make It Easier to Do What MattersA Confession|author=Greg McKeownGary Stevenson

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary=''The marginal return If you were to bring up an image of working harder was, a city banker in factyour mind, negative.you'' That's what happened re unlikely to Patrick McGinnisthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his life to background is the company he worked forEast End, struggling through, even when where he was illfamiliar with violence, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt companypoverty and injustice. His stock had fallen by 97%, There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had lost his health and his job had little valuebeen to the London School of Economics. He made Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a bargain facility with God; if he survived, he would make some changesnumbers which most of us can only envy. He did survive and came through stronger - and richeralso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. There isIt was his ability at what was, you seeessentially, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleedcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, for those who almost breakthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.''

|isbn=14711814051035021803|title=NighthawkingThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Russ ThomasC L Miller|rating=43.5

|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 witha wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only 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 watched streets of foreign islands to the pranks escalateheart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and Rachel finally feels like the ones she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a masked figure keeps showing up to bit sticky for the pranksEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and people begin other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get hurtused to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. When the competition then takes a deadly turnLife was pretty much shut down and, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before along with it's too late, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=07555015271736128426

|author=Polly BartonMatthew Tree|title=Fifty SoundsWe'll Never Know

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself startsTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while drunk and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect chronic underachiever whose dreams of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of ''every party where you have self confidence. So Tim applied himself to introduce yourself''his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1913097501B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Lucy HollandA G Slatter|title=SistersongThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=Sistersong is '' There's a part of a genre 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 particularly just want to enjoyit for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the modern retelling world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of folk witches who protect the town and fairy talesthe wider world from the Darklands. These storiesThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for most of usgenerations and as such since she was young, are her training as a cornerstone of childhood steward revolved around letters and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes administration rather than spells and a fresh perspectivepotions. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdatedWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, fleshing out charactersthe town's leader, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of womenEllie takes her place beside her. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the plot is handled rare ability to communicate with carethe dead, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing putting her at the characters to come heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to lifeanother, Ellie must decide who to feel real trust and humandetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, most importantly everything they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This have sacrificed to survive, is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endunder threat.|isbn=15290390371803364548

|isbn=15291242551529900360|title=The WhispersGhost Orchid|author=Heidi PerksJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that thereIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's going fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to be a bodyask for his help on difficult cases. It's on the beach under CrayneHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's Cliff near t need the town help of Clearwater and a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's new year's daypartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to She knew that the involvement was something that the previous Septemberman she loved needed. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirtiesThe next case did look simple, she's returned to her home town to livethough. Her husband, Graham, works Two lovers were murdered in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be the swimming pool of a remote property in the lovely apartment she's foundBel Air. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she has is married to an eight-year-old child too. Ethanextremely rich man and it's in not the class Matilda will be joiningItalian. It's perfect!But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The SourceSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=23.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=1996Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Essex His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a disenfranchised town dominated by family friend who was a military base, struggling to care vet and was convinced this was the job for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingehim. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats Before long, and offers an exclusive invitation to army partieshe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, things start he'd wanted to look be a little less bleakprofessional footballer...|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=B004O37B6A0861541774|title=The Prime MinisterA Nye of Pheasants|author=Anthony TrollopeSteve Burrows

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet PalliserDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, the Duke of OmniumGuy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, is the prime minister he faced a charge of a coalition government manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now hecould be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's privately enraged t help Danny at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopezall.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4. Lopex 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is exotic - some describe him as Jewisha dating agency in Edinburgh, others run by Ness and operating as Portuguese but an alternative to all the truth is that no one knows online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Lopez look after the business, as Ness is not going planning to take a trip to Canada to explainget away for a while. The ladies Katie is coming out of societya break up with a bad boyfriend, even Palliser's own wifeand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Lady Glencorabringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses running a bybusiness, or in match-election. The Dukemaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt him.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=17873320980811771741|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldInstaKnits for Baby|author=Henry ManceMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, 'InstaKnits for Baby'somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going gives us a collection of knits from toys to argueblankets. I mean, cows Some will be quick knits - others are for cheese (I couldnof the 't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants long, cosy afternoons in front of the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of itfire' variety. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude The projects are divided by the time they'll take to animals complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and I consider myself an animal lovermore than twenty hours. If I had to choose between All the company of humans projects are attractive, modern and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animalsuseable. I insisted that perhaps show my age when I read this book: no one was trying to stop me wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable's me being picky.

|author=Jessie GreengrassDean Koontz|title=The High HouseBad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsBenny is having a terrifically bad day. However He loses his job, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favourhe loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents Oh, and their parents' parents did not seem someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead his home, and thought "it's not my problem" possible that whoever or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on whatever was inside is the precipice of catastrophe thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrassthe very last person to deserve all this bad luck. This He is not a science-fiction novelnice person. A really nice person. This So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is our realityclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. This Spike is the life our children going to take care of Benny, and their children will have to livecertainly take care of Benny's enemies, if 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=18007500721662500491

|author=Ruth HoganAdam Stower|title=Madame BurovaMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970sMurray is supposed to be a humble, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)tidy and friendly cat, a girl in a humdrum job wanting one who is able to become a singer, sleep and eat and eat and sleep and chiefly, Imeldawell, whatever takes his fancy next of the third generation of Madame Burova, two. But he's a bad magician'Tarot-Readers cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to the catflap they both use her family's sea-front booth. The singercan chuck them out, not into the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campregular back garden, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallinto a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. We also see her on her last dayThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, fifty years later, in possession of where a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who troll hunter is sheexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imeldabe honest, but he's turned up and why did it he'll have to remain a secret all this time?do…|isbn=152937331X0008561249

|authorisbn= Jonathan StroudB0C47LV1PC|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating= 4|genre= TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Scarlett McCain Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of question should you make it? Or is the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself aliveanswer for both could well be.... But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker pastno. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to  ''Fragility'' is set as the mythical Free Isles city of the London Lagoon. TogetherPortland, they must brave man-eating wildlifeOregon, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society cautiously begins to reach emerge from the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in restrictions imposed during the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815covid pandemic

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S1529431735|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfThe Winter Visitor|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalJames Henry

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy It's February 1991 and Essex is feeling miserablebitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's let himself down ''again''d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The school bully Jayden, together with return has come about because he's had a letter from his sidekicks Ryan and Brandonex-wife, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short saying that she's ill and has small eyeshasn't long to live. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful It's hard to wind up Remy feel any sympathy when nobody can see Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and then push him just that little bit further when sent to a watery grave in the other kids are aroundboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. So, when Remy reacts, Is it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to explain what happened.home?

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's some time since Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we heard from [[Phineas Finn start by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out Eli lives with those who provided his income and returned to Ireland where he married Marylovely gran, his childhood sweethearttoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. He was fortunate A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to get the titular race, a job globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into the company of a life of domesticitymagical beast. To bring Finn back, Trollope had This has made the race anathema to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as the pair – but when a childless widower with bad incident at the eatery leads to a legacy confession from an aunt who died gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at just the right time to allow end – the move only thing to be possiblepossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz178763681X|title=The Other EmilyKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. ItHe didn's the western coast we're concerned with, t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a place he has way of getting both men and women to return to, and a place do what he has to be able to leavewanted. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. HePaul ''somehow''s paying for contact with got the man impression that he thinks 'd be at the only suspect, a lifer nowschool to assist Paul, who went had a bit Hannibal Lecterbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on the problems - are all his recordown. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manThe one thing he hadn's mind, but t expected was for someone to no availturn up dead. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into Unfortunately, he was the restaurant walks person who discovered the sheer spitting image, body and everyone knows that the very embodiment, police consider that person to be the virtual resurrection, of his loveprime suspect. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|author=Charlie CarrollSarah Marsh|title=The LipA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. even the name is evocative of…probably Suddenly plunged into a world of whatever we want it to besilence, and maybe that's the pointeverything about her life changes. To me Living in a time when the name sings use of English folk musicsign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but even physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on thingsanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. And Melody Janie Rowe At the same time, Bell is anti-emmetworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |isbn=15293341791035401614

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll1803816759|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Stella It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and her familypeaceful New York City. They're just innocently trying to have Joe longs for a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens bit of adventure and to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes blank. And it's not just their home, but horribly wrong with the entire south-western village of Mousehole, and not just AI system thatnow runs everything, eithermaking life easier for many, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first and riots start to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforespread. Toasters can toastFinally, but TVs cannot Joe gets to do some real policing. In the V part aftermath of their job, the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and no computer can show its computations. You might think this Joe is going assigned to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but nobring her home. For Joe isn't the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has only one trying to go down as a roadsave Suki -trip book. But not just thatDylan, a slapstick road-trip comedyBritish superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And more than that, too – for ithow is Suki's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887kidnapping connected?

|isbn=19131935271529421284|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)Laying Out the Bones|author=Vanda SymonKate Webb

|summary=Dunedin It was shocked when it heard one of those flash downpours that the murder of British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a wealthy human skeleton came to the surface and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. His wife had He'd been bound a known drug user and gagged and placed had learning disabilities, so that she it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was forced to watch the murdera townie, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when so what was he returned home from an evening doing out. on Salisbury Plain alone? The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which might have been were not considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalsuspicious at the time. His company, Eros Global, manufactured Lockyer and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that kind of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedcold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=15291091160571379559|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's JourneyThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Hannah JacksonFiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=''I want the image The House of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I donBroken Bricks''t think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generationsstory of four people. HeTess Hembry's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to doroots are in Jamaica: he knows that he'll temperamentally she might be a farmerhappier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. ItInsubstantial as it might look, it's not always stood the case though. Hannah Jackson was born passage of time, storms and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animalsfloods. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jacksonhusband, Richard, whale scientist' and she was well on her way struggles to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday grow his vegetables, to complete the Lake Districtdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. She saw a lamb being born They have twin boys - Sonny andMax, although the rainbow twins. Sonny'Hannah Jackson, farmers colouring reflects his mother' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherds Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. With the determination People don't believe that youthey're related, much less twins and there'll soon realise s an assumption when Max is an essential part of her, out with his mother that she set about achieving her ambition's his nanny.

|isbn=08575272311529425867|title=Dog DaysLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Ericka WallerSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=George Dempsey In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is exceedingly angryof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. It's eight days since his wifeD I Ryan Wilkins, Ellenson of Ryan and father of Ryan, died and itis not. He's the first time that she's let him downnot any of those things. He's lostwhite, bereft without her originated from a trailer park, barely educated ( he reading's not 'needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell'really''his thing)and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, heThey'd much rather have a good row with someonere usually in lime green or acid yellow. HeYou might wonder if you's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she diedre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasnWell, you't stayingre not. Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want and a load of busybodies who The two men are trying to interfere in his life. Worst just different sides of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answerthe same policing coin. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhoundSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themSometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Mosby Woods|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54

|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret his marriage but he didnThe West isn't live long enough for this to become a problemthe dominant force it once was. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only Nobody in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over the West is quite sure how to her husband's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given mend this or even if mending it to her absolutely, although is the precise circumstances best course of the giving varied from telling to tellingaction. Governments are flailing. Lady Eustace was not A war here, a woman to whom truth meant a great dealpush for climate action there. All A feeling that was important to her now, she maintainednobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was her sona man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. AndThat man would be valuable, of courseright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, her diamondsthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1