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|isbn=02419851370241636604|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Trading Game: A Confession|author=Cara Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in 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=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to see the Principal, Professor Hilary ReynoldsEnglish country village where she grew up. There had been an accusation She's back now because of sexual assault by a professor on a studentrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before theyFreya's former mentor and Carole'd even got s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the details from circumstances seem suspicious, to say the victim? least. The problem Arthur was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and reason why Freya had not been back to the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishervillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Just Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, be near the man or pursue the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligenceprofession she loved. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by After the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddsplit, spends more than £1000 she worked in a month cafe, met and married James (on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters rebound from the ventilation equipmentlove of her life, this is going to be ''very'' publicwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0753558378AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=EffortlessAll Tomorrow's Futures: Make It Easier to Do What MattersFictions that Disrupt|author=Greg McKeownBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''The marginal return Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of working harder was, in fact, negativethings to come.''

ThatI's ve heard it said that 'technology' is what happened to Patrick McGinnishappens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. ItI've kept up reasonably well with what's no exaggeration advantageous to say me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that he devoted his life to has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the company he worked forterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, struggling throughthere is Sam, even when he was illa wartime photographer and Abhi, only the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to find that care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he was working for forms a bankrupt companybond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. His stock had fallen Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by 97%the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, he had lost his health and his job had little valuehonestly... ) He made a bargain with God; if he survivedShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, he would make some changesthough. He did survive and came through stronger - and richerWomen have been disappearing. There isWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you see're from Yorkshire, Down South is a different way: frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She'great things are s not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breakworried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.''

|isbn=14711814051398524085|title=NighthawkingHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Russ ThomasNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=SheffieldCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's [http://wwwfiftieth birthday party but never turned up.sbg Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty.orgare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis find the body of calm in whatGreg's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when father, Duncan Ackerley, in the body of a young woman was discoveredriver. It had obviously been buried in one of was an easy assumption for the beds but who would have started police to dig her up? It make that Duncan had been in murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsguilt. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers Salter children are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks henot convinced but there's as obnoxious as ever little else they can do but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint 1035906708|title= Ariadne Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's General Fiction |summary= This re-telling We tend to think of the myth of Ariadne Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and the Minotaur is interesting and unusualonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but also appealing her father changed it to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through Callas' to make it more manageable in the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her childhood to her death, allowing voice - she was raised under the reader to really connect with Ariadne as Nazi occupation by a character in mother who mercilessly exploited her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics and made no secret of Theseusher preference for her elder sister, Jackie. |isbn=1472273869}}

|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah HorneChristopher Edge|title=Monster DoughnutsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=After Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their parents mysteriously disappearedlocal cinema, Grace and Danni have been left to run a place that has the family bakerynickname of 'The Black Hole'. But Grace needs the doughnuts All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she's only ten years oldmany, she is a monster huntermany snacks! Monsters have a very sweet toothHowever, and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on themthe movie starts, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat they very quickly realise that willsomething about this new film format is very different, ultimately, be their demiseand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. One dayBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to explode as the other monsters docinema, and so things start to get very strange…their real lives?|isbn=18481294321839942738

|isbnauthor=0995647895Rachel Greenlaw|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy Compass and Anita JoiceBlade

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarkanswering beat in my heart.''

''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the houses cowered in rocks and plundering the gloomwrecks. Mira,''<br>''To like her mother before her, is one of the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love seven who swim out to sail survey the oceans on an ancient sailing ship ruins – rescuing any survivors and went back regularlyany treasure that lies within. One day she fell asleep under But when the Council Watch lays a glass case (it's trap to end the wrecking, they capture the one where Nelsonisland's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell leader and the attendantMira's warning shoutfather. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she was sets off in the midst search of an adventure a family secret that she could never have imagined lies buried deep in a world 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 dolphinsthe smuggler's territory, pirates, mermaids Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and treasurethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Kristen O'NealJames Sherwood Metts|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Having recently Things have been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain a bit sticky for the rest of her lifeEarthlings. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they', an online support group where she talks re paid to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles do and help each other out, while also providing an escape tasks that took time to just joke and mess aroundaccomplish. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond Just as they were beginning to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides get used to steal her parents' car all this technological change and drive starting to Brigid's house think of other, new ways to check up on herspend time, along came an awful pandemic. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – Life was pretty much shut down and for that werewolf to be , along with it, all the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=16836923491736128426

|author=Mercedes HelnweinMatthew Tree|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in peopleWe's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B005FM76AA|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony Trollopell Never Know

|summary=The story opens Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to probably the worst news be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke failed miserably and who had endless crises of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officeself confidence. He seeks So Tim applied himself to protect and guide his three adult childrenstudies, which is easier said cultivated his abilities rather than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, daydreams and set himself high but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Goldy MoldavskyA G Slatter|title=The Last GirlBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at Manchester Preplast. A school filled I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the brim with world, lies Silverton; a town under the richest children in protection of the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. SheBriar's not rich, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has no ties always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to some royal be born into her family in Serbia, for generations and most of allas such since she was young, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies training as a source of comfortsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. She struggles to find anyone to connect withWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Clubtown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleAs challenges come her way left, right and unless someone screamscentre, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in Ellie uncovers the competition. But as rare ability to communicate with the pranks escalatedead, and Rachel finally feels like she has found putting her place in this schoolat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, things start Ellie must decide who to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up trust and determine what to do as the pranksBriar witches' legacy, and people begin everything they have sacrificed to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turnsurvive, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too lateunder threat.|isbn=07555015271803364548

|authorisbn=Polly Barton1529900360|title=Fifty SoundsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis' Japan has 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 my radar difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year Finally, but I am not hopeful. And like Bartonit was Robin, I donDelaware't know s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the answer to involvement was something that the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in respect the swimming pool of the question a remote property in Bel Air. He was the first essay, which heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is on married to an extremely rich man and it's not the sound ''giro' '' – Italian. But which she describes as being, among other things, of them was the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501primary target?

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland1529395224|title=SistersongLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Sistersong is part of Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a genre I GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly enjoy, when he considered the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesstrain that being on-call put on his father's life. These stories, for most When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of us, are doing work experience with a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and family friend who was a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life vet and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating was convinced this was the role of womenjob for him. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well Before long, the plot is handled he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with careso many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters he'd wanted to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in be a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live inprofessional footballer. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037

|isbn=15291242550861541774|title=The WhispersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Heidi PerksSteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's going close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to be a bodymeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and it's new year's dayhe killed a Ghurka. To understand what happened we're going Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to go back to murder the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to liveman. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well Now he could be in facing the lovely apartment she's founddeath penalty. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethanwouldn's in the class Matilda will be joiningt help Danny at all. It's perfect!

|author=Sarah SultoonAlexander McCall Smith|title=The SourcePerfect Passion Company|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in a disenfranchised town dominated Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a military basemore personal, struggling tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to care take a trip to Canada to get away for her baby sister a while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and treatsso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and offers bringing us to an exclusive invitation Edinburgh we already love, thanks to army parties44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, things start but with some new characters who quickly begin to look charm. 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 handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a little less bleak...hand…|isbn=19131935941846976596

|isbn=B004O37B6A0811771741|title=The Prime MinisterInstaKnits for Baby|author=Anthony TrollopeMelissa Leapman

|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heMelissa Leapman's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of Ferdinand Lopezknits from toys to blankets. Lopex is exotic Some will be quick knits - some describe him as Jewishothers are of the 'long, others as Portuguese but cosy afternoons in front of the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainfire' variety. The ladies of society, even Palliserprojects are divided by the time they's own wifell take to complete - less than five hours, Lady Glencorafive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support his wifeattractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's actions when Lopez loses a bysocial-media-election. The Dukeworthy projects' but that's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himme being picky.

|isbnauthor=1787332098Dean Koontz|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyParanormal|summary=''When we do think about animalsBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, we break them down into species and groups: cowshe loses his fiancee, dogs, foxes, elephants and so onhis house gets trashed. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates Oh, dogs on sofasand someone has delivered a really weird, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoosdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and millions of wild animals stay out there, it''somewheres possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is,'' hopefully on Benny is the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going very last person to arguedeserve all this bad luck. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatHe is a nice person. A really nice person..) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling So fortunately for the sake of Benny it. Essentially turns out that quote sums up my attitude the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to animals - and I consider myself an animal loverhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. If I had Spike is going to choose between the company take care of humans Benny, and the company will certainly take care of animalsBenny's enemies, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheeseif he, eggsBenny, 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 comfortableHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Jessie GreengrassAdam Stower|title=The High HouseMurray and Bun

|summary=Charles Darwin taught Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsanswer for both could well be.. However, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do"no. Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives  ''The High HouseFragility'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is set as the life our children and their children will have city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to live.|isbn=1800750072emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1529431735|title=Madame BurovaThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970sIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all vaguely connectedthe more surprising. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as he would have been called then), a girl in wanted drug smuggler for a humdrum job wanting to become decade. The return has come about because he's had a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burovaletter from his ex-wife, saying that she''Tarot-Reader, Palmist s ill and Clairvoyant'hasn', t long to use her familylive. It's sea-front booth. The singerhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, the scryer stripped to his underwear and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at sent to a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time watery grave in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair boot of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiestolen Ford Sierra. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did Is it have a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to remain a secret all this timehome?|isbn=152937331X

|author= Jonathan StroudAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 4|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= Scarlett McCain Eli is a busy lad – by day an outlawapprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander in the wildlands between evening a helper at the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks dessert cafe his gran owns and shooting other outlaws to keep herself aliveruns. But then she meets Albert Browne Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a dark boy with dark powers and a darker pastgeneration missing in the family. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down A few short years ago, they plan Eli's parents were both lost to flee the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the mythical Free Isles world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the London Lagoon. Togethereatery leads to a confession from gran, they must brave man-eating wildlifeEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the cannibalistic Tainted and all sole aim the horrors prize of post-apocalyptic society to reach magic at the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in end – the rest of Britain?only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=14063948150571382231

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S178763681X|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalOrlando Murrin

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy is feeling miserableChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Hedidn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul 's let himself down 'somehow'again'got the impression that he'. The d be at the school bully Jaydento assist Paul, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandonwho had a broken arm, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and has small eyes. They the problems - are mean but they are not stupidall his own. They are careful The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to wind turn up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are arounddead. So, when Remy reacts Unfortunately, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the teachers don't believe him when he tries police consider that person to explain what happenedbe the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Sarah Marsh|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]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. Having succeeded Living in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to Ireland a school where he married Maryshe is taught to lip read, his childhood sweetheartbut physically restrained from signing. He was fortunate to get a job From here, she ends up in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and seemed settled into using a life of domesticitysystem called Visible Speech. To bring Finn backAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow the move to be possiblecomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1803816759|title=The Other EmilyUnravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the western coast we're concerned with, wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a place he has to return to, bit of adventure and a place he has to be able to leaveget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact But then something goes horribly wrong with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer AI system that nowruns everything, who went a bit Hannibal Lectermaking life easier for many, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordriots start to spread. David is trying Finally, Joe gets to pry do some real policing. In the connection between aftermath of the murderer rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and his girl from the man's mind, but Joe is assigned to no availbring her home. HeJoe isn's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into t the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, the very embodimenta British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the virtual resurrection, of his lovecase. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is a man to doSuki's kidnapping connected?|isbn=1542019958

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1529421284|title=The LipLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. even In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it body to beLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and maybe thathad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's the pointt convinced. To me Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the name sings suicide of English folk music, but even in my use Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmets cold cases to you and me) investigate. |isbn=1529334179

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll0571379559|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when 'The House of Broken Bricks'poof'' everything goes blankis the story of four people. And itTess Hembry's not just their homeroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholeinstead, and not just that, either, but she lives in the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly house on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen backthe riverbank, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforebuilt of broken bricks. Toasters can toastInsubstantial as it might look, but TVs cannot do it's stood the V part passage of their jobtime, storms and no computer can show its computationsfloods. You might think this is going Her husband, Richard, struggles to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their willgrow his vegetables, but no. For to complete the family finally remember Stella's grandma, delivery rounds - and see if they can get across country to herbring in sufficient money. Hence this has to go down as a roadThey have twin boys -trip bookSonny and Max, the rainbow twins. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedySonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. And more than People don't believe thatthey're related, too – for itmuch less twins and there's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy an assumption when Max is out with oodles of cuddly heart his mother that kids of all ages will loveshe's his nanny.|isbn=1471196887

|isbn=19131935271529425867|title=Bound Lost and Never Found (Detective Sam ShephardA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Vanda SymonSimon Mason

|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the murder of a wealthy Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffalways exquisitely dressed. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced to watch the murderD I Ryan Wilkins, with the scene being discovered by their sonof Ryan and father of Ryan, Declan, when he returned home from an evening outis not. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if He's not illegalany of those things. His companyHe's white, Eros Globaloriginated from a trailer park, manufactured and marketed barely educated (reading's not ''really''vitamin-type supplements his thing) and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind his wardrobe consists mainly of thingshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, as Hendersonyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedproblematic.

|isbnauthor=1529109116Mosby Woods|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonWhirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''I want t the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed dominant force it once was. Nobody in feeding the nation. I don't think that West is too much quite sure how to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on mend this or even if mending it is the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born 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 best course of animalsaction. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake DistrictGovernments are flailing. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intentionA war here, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherdpush for climate action there. With the determination A feeling that you'll soon realise nobody is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857527231|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka Waller|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angryin actual charge. It's eight days since his wifeImagine then, Ellen, died and it's the first time that she's let him down. He's lost, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wife, like there was a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, he'd much rather have a good row man with someoneprecognition. He's particularly angry about Imagine the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now he's lumbered with strategic advantage in this asset; a dog he doesn't want and a load man who can tell you what will happen given any set of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his lifecircumstances. Worst of all is BettyThat man would be valuable, who won't take no for an answerright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Betty knits jumpers for LuckyImagine then, her greyhoundthat this man loses this ability. Lucky spends a lot of time trying What would governments do to escape from and destroy them.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1