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|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Tattoo on my BrainConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5

|summary=AlzheimerIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is a disease that slowly wears away your identity the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and sense of selfinjustice. I have There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have manyto the London School of Economics. Your memories Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and personality worn away like he has a statue over time affected the elementsfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. It seems as if nature wants He also realised that final victory over you and your dignitymost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. This is It was his ability at what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirablewas, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Daniel Gibbs is Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''trader.|isbn=1108838936

|isbn=16358623531035021803|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Rachel CorryC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldnIt't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intriguedEnglish country village where she grew up. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - She's back now because of a small fire destroyed some of request for help from her shoesbeloved aunt, Carole. One pair had come apart Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and she could see how the sandal was constructedcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Then Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she realised that she couldn't afford to replace all feels, let her shoesdown badly. Could Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she combine these two facts has not felt able to create a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - be near the man or if pursue the profession she'd make them a pairloved. A new career After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was bornmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1787332098AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldAll 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 she's ill and hasn't long to have fallen out of favourlive. Today It's young generation are discovering that their parents hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and their parents' parents did not seem sent to think that far aheada watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Or they did think that far ahead and thought " Is it's not my a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a child busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and living in the evening a world on helper at the precipice of catastrophe dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is what drives a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not s parents were both lost to the titular race, a scienceglobe-fiction novel. This is our realitytrotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the life our children and their children will have only thing to livepossibly save his gran.|isbn=18007500720571382231

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan178763681X|title=Madame BurovaKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This book lets us discover several people Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedBelgravia. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting He didn't really want to become but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a singer, way of getting both men and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, to use her familybut it didn's sea-front bootht turn out that way. The singer, the scryer teaching - and the sufferer's mother will problems - are all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallhis own. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything The one thing he hadn't expected was for a woman called Billiesomeone to turn up dead. Just who is sheUnfortunately, and he was the person who delivered discovered the secrets about her to Imelda, body and why did it have everyone knows that the police consider that person to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xbe the prime suspect.

|author= Jonathan StroudSarah Marsh|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneA Sign of Her Own|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlawAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, rejecting the draconian conformity Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms use of Britainsign language was seen as something only savages do, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to keep herself alivelip read, but physically restrained from signing. But then From here, she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a darker pastsystem called Visible Speech. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of At the London Lagoon. Togethersame time, they must brave man-eating wildlifeBell is working on other inventions and ideas, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the rest a complicated tangle of Britain?espionage.|isbn=14063948151035401614

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S1803816759|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfThe Unravelling|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalWill Gibson

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. HeIt's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan 2038 and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he Joe is short a bored cop policing the wealthy and has small eyespeaceful New York City. They are mean but they are not stupidJoe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and But then push him just something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that little bit further when the other kids are around. Sonow runs everything, when Remy reactsmaking life easier for many, it looks as though he was the instigatorand riots start to spread. And then he Finally, Joe gets into trouble at school to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and the teachers donJoe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't believe him when he tries the only one trying to explain what happenedsave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case.What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=B00474HVX41529421284|title=Phineas ReduxLaying Out the Bones|author=Anthony TrollopeKate Webb

|summary=It''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's some roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]], storms and floods. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his income vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartbring in sufficient money. He was fortunate to get a job in Cork (or Dublin They have twin boys - recollections may vary) Sonny and seemed settled into a life of domesticityMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. To bring Finn backPeople don't believe that they're related, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary much less twins and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower there's an assumption when Max is out with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow the move to be possiblehis mother that she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529425867|title=The Other EmilyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an authorIn Oxford, who shares his life between the there are two US coastsD I Wilkins. It's the western coast we're concerned withRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, a place he has to return toBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and a place he has to be able to leavefather of Ryan, is not. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at nightHe's not any of those things. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspectwhite, originated from a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lectertrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and has a dozen his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and more unfound Jane Does on his recordtrackies. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the manThey's mind, but to no availre usually in lime green or acid yellow. HeYou might wonder if you's also having re being introduced to a recharge ready police procedural written for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagelaughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the very embodiment, same policing coin. Sometimes the virtual resurrection, of his lovecombination works brilliantly well. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Charlie CarrollMosby Woods|title=The LipA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54

|summary=The West isn''Melody Janie Rowe'' even t the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want dominant force it to be, and maybe that's the pointonce was. To me Nobody in the name sings of English folk music, but even in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe West is anti-emmet. |isbn=1529334179}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying quite sure how to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And mend this or even if mending it's not just their home, but is the entire south-western village best course of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not worldaction. Suddenly people Governments are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeflailing. Toasters can toastA war here, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computationsa push for climate action there. You might think this A feeling that nobody is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such actual charge. Imagine then, there was a Luddite experience against their will, but noman with precognition. For Imagine the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence strategic advantage in this has to go down as asset; a road-trip bookman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. But not just thatThat man would be valuable, a slapstick road-trip comedyright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. And more than thatImagine then, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovethis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1471196887B0C9SNG8R1