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|isbn=17873320980241636604|title=How The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in 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|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to Love Animals be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a Human-Shaped Worldcafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Henry ManceBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''When we do think Opening up new ways of thinking 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 the shape of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesthings to come.''

I was going to argue've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. I meanWell, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but then I realised 'm left with the feeling that I was quibbling for the sake it's all getting away from me. Some of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals is - frankly - and I consider myself an animal loverquite frightening. If Of course, I had to choose between could research the company of humans possibilities and the company of animals, probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I would probably choose 'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the animalslatest conspiracy theorist. I insisted that needed people I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but knew I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken could trust and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. who could deliver information in a way I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablecould understand.

|author=Ananda DeviSunny Singh|title=Eve Out Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond 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. 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 the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Her RuinsSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=At It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not even 200 pageswhat's worrying Miv's family, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books Ithough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've read in a long whilebeen murdered, but itto have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's one of upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the most dramaticfamily 'Down South'. It When you's also told in re from Yorkshire, Down South is a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punchesfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the descriptions stark move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and unromanticshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0993009344}}

|isbn=02419851371398524085|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Cara HunterNicci French

|summary=DI Adam FawleyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the PrincipalPaul and Ollie and her daughter, Professor Hilary ReynoldsEtty. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a studentare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the alleged perpetrator doing body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? river. The problem It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Caleb Morgan ''was'Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn' t stand the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherguilt. Just to complicate matters further, CalebThe Salter children are not convinced but there's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month little else they can do but get on clothes with their lives and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' publicwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=07535583781035906708|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersDiva|author=Greg McKeownDaisy Goodwin

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''The marginal return We tend to think of working harder Maria Callas as Greek, but she wasborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in fact, negativeDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnismake it more manageable in the States. It's no exaggeration to say When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that he devoted his life to the company he worked she could get appropriate training for, struggling through, even when he her voice - she was ill, only to find that he was working for raised under the Nazi occupation by a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health mother who mercilessly exploited her and his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved no secret of her preference for those who bleedher elder sister, for those who almost breakJackie.''

|isbnauthor=1471181405Christopher Edge|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) Lucas and his friends are an oasis of calm all booked in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the body nickname of a young woman was discovered'The Black Hole'. It had obviously been buried in one All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months exciting films, and could have been undiscovered for years. many, many snacks! The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left However, as the twomovie starts, they very rarequickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers they are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbaniswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned But as they lurch from extended sick leave. one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as Will they ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author= Jennifer Saint Rachel Greenlaw|title= Ariadne Compass and Blade|rating= 43.5 |genre= Women's Fiction Teens|summary= This re-telling ''I can hear the song of the myth sea. The call of Ariadne the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the Minotaur rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is interesting one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and unusualany treasure that lies within. Jennifer Saint presents But when the story in Council Watch lays a way that is sympathetic trap to its origins but also appealing end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a modern audience. Saint's narrative bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood secretive and with only coordinates to guide her death, allowing she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the reader sea. With only nine days to really connect with Ariadne unearth what might save her father, as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the heroics future of Theseusher home and the ones she holds most dear. |isbn=14722738690008664730}}

|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah HorneJames Sherwood Metts|title=Monster DoughnutsPlanet Storyland

|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni Things have been left to run a bit sticky for the family bakeryEarthlings. But Grace needs the doughnuts AI and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she's only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! Monsters automation have a very sweet toothbeen proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Grace uses a number of methods other tasks that took time to defeat them such accomplish. Just as throwing baking powder on themthey were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimatelynew ways to spend time, be their demisealong came an awful pandemic. One dayLife was pretty much shut down and, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harrisalong with it, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as all the other monsters do, and many daily social interactions on which they depend so things start to get very strange…heavily.|isbn=18481294321736128426

|isbnauthor=0995647895Matthew Tree|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at Greenwich any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark. ''Her class who had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was firedendless crises of self confidence. She'd love So Tim applied himself to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirateshis studies, mermaids cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and treasureset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Kristen O'NealA G Slatter|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has '' There's a part of me that wants to come keep this just to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain myself for the rest however long I can. This secret magic of her lifemy own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, an online support group where she talks to a bunch family of other teens living with chronic illnesseswitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. They talk about their troubles and help each other outThough she has always wished for magic, while also providing an escape Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to just joke be born into her family for generations and mess as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved aroundletters and administration rather than spells and potions. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesngrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't respond to s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the chat for a whiletown's leader, Priya becomes concernedand Ellie takes her place beside her. She decides to steal As challenges come her parents' car way left, right and drive centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to Brigid's house to check up on communicate with the dead, putting herat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. But what she doesn't expect Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to find there is a werewolf in the basement – trust and for that werewolf determine what to be do as the girl she has been talking Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to online for the past few monthssurvive, is under threat.|isbn=16836923491803364548

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1529900360|title=SlingshotThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself It 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 being lonelyask for his help on difficult cases. As a secret illegitimate daughter His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a man with psychologist only worked for a "real" familywhile. Finally, it was Robin, she is used to not being a priority in peopleDelaware's livespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. But when She knew that the involvement was something that the man she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshotloved needed. The next case did look simple, her simple existence is changed for goodthough. No longer can she spend her time writing novels Two lovers were murdered in solitude, for her life now has the swimming pool of a boy remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield's not the Italian.|isbn=152905818X But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B005FM76AA1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Duke's ChildrenSecret Life of a Vet|author=Anthony TrollopeSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief His father was a GP and struggling - at the same time - Rowlands didn't want to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even follow in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult childrenfootsteps, which is easier said than done particularly when none he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of them wishes to ''be'' guideddoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Silverbridge (his elder sonBefore long, actually called Plantagenet, 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 sumshe was at Liverpool University. Lady Helen has fallen in love It hadn't - as with so many students - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of been his dream since he was a poor squirechild. If anything, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about d wanted to learn that parents do not always get their waybe a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky0861541774|title=The Last GirlA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. SheDCI Domenic Jejeune's not richclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, she has no ties taken a short holiday in Singapore to some royal family meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in Serbia, a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and most of allhe killed a Ghurka. Initially, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as he faced a source charge of comfort. She struggles manslaughter but evidence came to find anyone light that suggested that he might have planned to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon murder the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failedman. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in Now he could be facing the competitiondeath penalty. But Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; any interference from another police force could provoke a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, diplomatic incident and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before itwouldn's too latet help Danny at all.|isbn=0755501527

|author=Polly BartonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Fifty SoundsThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself startsThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, with run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has been on my radar asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while . Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and if so jumps at the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowchance to come home to Edinburgh. I may get there later And so begins this yearnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but I am not hopefulwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. And like Barton Katie has no experience in running a business, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings or in respect of the question match-making, but Ness has full confidence in the first essayher abilities, which is on the sound and there''giro' '' – which she describes as beings always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, among other thingsWilliam, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.lend a hand…|isbn=19130975011846976596

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland0811771741|title=SistersongInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for most of Baby'' gives us, are a cornerstone collection of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveknits from toys to blankets. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that Some will be quick knits - others are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdatedof the 'long, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating cosy afternoons in front of the role of womenfire' variety. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, The projects are divided by the plot is handled with caretime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters five to come to lifeten hours, ten to feel real twenty hours and humanmore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon and useable. I perhaps show my age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and when I was captivated from beginning to endwonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1529039037

|isbnauthor=1529124255Dean Koontz|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksBad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be Benny is having a bodyterrifically bad day. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and it's new year's dayhis house gets trashed. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin Oh, and someone has delivered a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and nowreally weird, in her middisturbing coffin-thirtiessized object to his home, sheand it's returned possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to her home town to livedeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Her husbandSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, Grahama bad weather friend called Spike, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's foundwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. GraceSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's best friendenemies, if he, Anna RobinsonBenny, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child too. EthanHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's in the class Matilda will be joiningwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. It's perfect!|isbn=1662500491

|author=Sarah SultoonAdam Stower|title=The SourceMurray and Bun|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=1996Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in But he's a disenfranchised town dominated by bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a military basehyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and offers an exclusive invitation whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to army partiesbe honest, things start but he's turned up and he'll have to look a little less bleak...do…|isbn=19131935940008561249

|isbn=B004O37B6AB0C47LV1PC|title=The Prime MinisterFragility|author=Anthony TrollopeMosby Woods

|summary=Plantagenet PalliserCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the Duke of Omnium, question should you make it? Or is the prime minister of a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewishquestion if you did, others as Portuguese but the truth would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no one knows and Lopez is not going to explain. The ladies of society, even Palliser ''Fragility''s own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in set as the position city of having Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses a by-election. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt him.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass1529431735|title=The High HouseWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all living matter evolved to pass the more surprising. He'd been exiled on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. However The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. Todayshe's young generation are discovering that their parents ill and their parentshasn' parents did not seem t long to think that far aheadlive. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it It's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a child and living watery grave in a world on the precipice boot of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrassa stolen Ford Sierra. This is not Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have problem closer to live.|isbn=1800750072home?

|author=Ruth HoganAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Madame BurovaThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So wondrous library we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)start by visiting with him, a girl and in the evening a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, helper at the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist dessert cafe his gran owns and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothruns. The singerEli lives with his lovely gran, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at too – for there is a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time generation missing in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty A few short years laterago, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered Eli's parents were both lost to the secrets about her to Imeldatitular race, and why did it a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting navigate the world in the draconian conformity company of a magical beast. This has made the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses race anathema to wander the wildlands between pair – but when a bad incident at the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws eatery leads 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 downconfession from gran, they plan Eli knows his only hope is to flee dare to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlifeenter 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 dominant force it once was. Nobody in the image of a British farmer West is quite sure how to simply be that mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nationpush for climate action there. I don't think A feeling that nobody is too much to askin actual charge.'' The stereotypical farmer Imagine then, there was probably born on 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 farmerman with precognition. It's not always Imagine the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animalscircumstances. Her original intention was that she That man would become 'Dr Jacksonbe valuable, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to right? Perhaps the Lake Districtmost valuable asset in history. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intentionImagine then, she knew that she wanted this man loses this ability. What would governments do to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1