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|isbn=18484584280241636604|title=Local Woman MissingThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Mary KubicaGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Eleven years agoIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as you're unlikely to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit think of going out for a run late at nightsomeone like Gary Stevenson. It was A hoodie and jeans replaces the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby pin- but when she stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was out she would meet up familiar with a manviolence, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave herpoverty and injustice. The locality There was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to look after her disabled babythe London School of Economics. Ten days later, a local woman and her sixStevenson is bright -yearextremely bright -old daughter disappearedand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or sostupid. Her body It was his ability at what was eventually found in , essentially, a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicidecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. She left Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for hertrader.

|authorisbn=Nicolas Bouvier1035021803|title=The Japanese ChroniclesAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= It never does 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to start a review the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a book with a quote request for help from the blurbher beloved aunt, but sometimes itCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this bookclose friend, at some pointArthur Crockleford, with is dead and the words ''what circumstances seem suspicious, to say the old master craftsmen would call a masterpieceleast.'' It is precisely that Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. A masterpiece Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the sense of man or pursue the craft as well as profession she loved. After the art of writing. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much split, she worked in a history cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of Japanher life, a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living who was murdered) and Freya and travelling in the countryJames have now divorced. |isbn=1906011044

|authorisbn=Genevieve GornichecAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The WitchAll Tomorrow's HeartFutures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the Norse myths shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that centres around a witch named Angrboda'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds Well, remembering nothing of her past life but I must confess that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because there have been more than a few decades of Odintechnology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's wrath. Her attempts advantageous to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up me but I'm left with her literal heart—the one the feeling that was cut it's all getting away from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her aloneme. After an initial period Some of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charmsit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the two start an unusual family made of probabilities and end up a half-dead daughter, a son thatdown rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's a wolf, re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and another son that's who could deliver information in a snakeway I could understand.|isbn=1789097061

|isbnauthor=1788549759Sunny Singh|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for 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 evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old sonterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, Williama wartime photographer and Abhi, at home with her parentsthe hotel manager. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the family than residents who are still alive in the shame of illegitimacyhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) keeps on a better footing. She was going to meet venturing out of her well-to-do fiancé, hoping room to persuade him try to come and meet capture what's happened through her family the following weekphotography. LaterAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her body would keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be found in rescued before they are discovered by the bombed-out home where he had taken herterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=15294072491529153298|title=The Perfect LieList of Suspicious Things|author=Jo SpainJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was July 2019 's 1979 and Erin was happyMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when younot what's worrying Miv're married to a cop but she was hopefuls family, though. Women have been disappearing. They Well, they'd ve been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newportmurdered, Long Islandbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The knock on Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the door was insistent and when it was opened, Dannyfamily 'Down South'. When you's partnerre from Yorkshire, Ben Mitchell was there with Down South is a couple of other officersfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Danny took one look For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, turnedSharon, walked to the open window and jumped she'll do anything to his death from the fourth floorprevent that. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for She's not worried about the dangers or that her husbandMum's murderstopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15230927341398524085|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Eliza Van CortNicci French

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her lifes fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Again Her children, sons Niall, Paul and again Ollie and againher daughter, Etty.'' (Alma Derricksare all worried but - strangely - her husband, former CMOAlec, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravelynot. It is to live Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the life youbody of Greg've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskriver. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at It was an easy assumption for the moment seems police to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought make that women need to rise above this, to be people who donDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't need protection, people who claim their own spacestand the guilt. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we The Salter children are not just an easy target to be used to prove that convinced but there's little else they are big mencan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1035906708|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=The second trilogy We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroManhattan, ArchieNew York, back in London December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the world of the BornStates. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping When she was back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and except made no secret of her preference for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayher elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0008444501Christopher Edge|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Life should have been good Lucas and his friends are all booked in for Emily. She had a lovely husband, Stevenmovie marathon at their local cinema, who was a speech therapistplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. WeAll big movie fans, they'll pass over re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the fact movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they rarely speak to each other and donare swept up into an adventure they couldn't even sleep in the same bedimagine. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed But as that she's sharing a bed with they lurch from one of her children as it's film genre to the only way to next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get him back to sleep during the night. Arthur cinema, and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0241985137Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principalanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor remote and partially forgotten island, survives on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was luring ships into the alleged perpetrator doing in rocks and plundering the room wrecks. Mira, like her mother before they'd even got her, is one of the details from seven who swim out to survey the victim? The problem was ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that Caleb Morgan ''was'' lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island'victims leader and Mira' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishers father. Just Desperate to complicate matters furthersave him from death, Caleb's mother Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is Petra Newsonsecretive and with only coordinates to guide her, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is she sets off in search of a big name family secret that lies buried deep in Artificial Intelligencethe sea. She has an eight-year-old sonWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, buys as her journey takes her wine by from the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When watched streets of foreign islands to the excrement encounters heart of the ventilation equipmentsmuggler's territory, this is going Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be ''very'' publicsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerJames Sherwood Metts|title=A Tattoo on my BrainPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Alzheimer's is Things have been a disease that slowly wears away your identity bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and sense of self. I automation have been directly affected by this cruel diseaseproceeding apace, as have many. Your memories often replacing jobs they're paid to do and personality worn away like a statue over other tasks that took time affected the elementsto accomplish. It seems Just as if nature wants that final victory over you they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and your dignitystarting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who Life was diagnosed pretty much shut down and, along with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo it, all the many daily social interactions on my Brain''which they depend so heavily.|isbn=11088389361736128426

|isbnauthor=1635862353Matthew Tree|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryWe'll Never Know

|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - different from his father, a small fire destroyed some drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of her shoes. One pair his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had come apart and she could see how the sandal was constructedendless crises of self confidence. Then she realised that she couldn't afford So Tim applied himself to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a new his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was bornset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1787332098A G Slatter|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so onThere's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions This secret magic of wild animals stay out theremy own, ''somewhereall mine,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

I was going to argue. I meanWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, cows are for cheese (I couldnlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar't consider eating red meat...) s, a family of witches who protect the town and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude first non-witch to animals - be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and I consider myself an animal loverpotions. If I had to choose between When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the company of humans town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the company of animalsrare ability to communicate with the dead, I would probably choose putting her at the animalsheart of a maelstrom of chaos. I insisted that I read this book: no Reeling from one was trying family secret to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheeseanother, eggs, chicken and fish Ellie must decide who to trust and I needed determine what to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making as the decision would not be comfortableBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529900360|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=At not It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even 200 pagesafter Alex recovered, Eve Out Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books I've read in a long psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, but itwas Robin, Delaware's one of partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the most dramaticman she loved needed. It's also told The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a way that I can only describe as brutal: 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 spares nothing and pulls very few punches, 's not the descriptions stark and unromanticItalian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=09930093441529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}

|isbn=02419851370861541774|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Cara HunterSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=DI Adam FawleyDCI Domenic Jejeune's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, called there by Jancis Appleby has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see the Principalmeet up with an old ally, Professor Hilary ReynoldsGuy Trueman. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a professor on man armed with a studentknife - and he killed a Ghurka. When Fawley arrived Initially, he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that Caleb Morgan ''was'' he might have planned to murder the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherman. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, Now he could be facing the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencedeath penalty. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 another police force could provoke a month on clothes diplomatic incident and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'wouldn' publict help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=0753558378Alexander McCall Smith|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''The marginal return of working harder wasPerfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in factproviding a more personal, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnistailored service. It's no exaggeration Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to say that he devoted his life take a trip to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only Canada to find that he was working get away for a bankrupt companywhile. His stock had fallen by 97%Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, he had lost his health and his job had little valueso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. He made a bargain And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with God; if he survived, he would make some changesnew characters who quickly begin to charm. He did survive Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and came through stronger - there's always her very helpful (and richerrather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. There isSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, you see, a different way: cosy afternoons in front of the fire'variety. The projects are divided by the time they'great things ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are not reserved for those who bleedattractive, for those who almost breakmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1471181405Dean Koontz|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Sheffield's [http://wwwBenny is having a terrifically bad day.sbg He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, if you'd like disturbing coffin-sized object to visit) are an oasis of calm in whathis home, and it's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this possible that whoever or whatever was disrupted when inside is the body of a young woman was discovered. thing that has trashed his house! It had obviously been buried in one of The thing is, Benny is the beds but who would have started very last person to dig her up? deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsA really nice person. The police need So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to establish who stabbed her - and who left the twohis house is a new friend, very rarea bad weather friend called Spike, gold aurei on her eyeswho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. DCI Diane Jordan Spike is the Investigating Officer going to take care of Benny, and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley whowill certainly take care of Benny's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injurieswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author= Jennifer Saint Adam Stower|title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting Murray and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster DoughnutsBun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedMurray is supposed to be a humble, Grace tidy and Danni have been left friendly cat, one who is able to run sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the family bakerytwo. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for he's a rather unusual reason...even though shebad magician's only ten years oldcat, she is so his favourite bun has been turned into a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet toothhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Grace uses the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a number world of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops theminto a Viking land, or tricking them into eating where a sweet treat that willtroll hunter is expected – well, ultimatelyone much bigger than Murray was, to be their demise. One dayhonest, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesnhe't seem to explode as the other monsters do, s turned up and so things start he'll have to get very strange…do…|isbn=18481294320008561249

|isbn=0995647895B0C47LV1PC|title=Sadie and the Sea DogsFragility|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceMosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=SadieCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s mother always said that she was a dreamerjoke? And if you could, her mind never on what she is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sark... no.

''Her class had gone one rainy afternoonFragility''<br>''When all is set as the houses cowered in the gloomcity of Portland, Oregon,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love cautiously begins 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 emerge from the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in restrictions imposed during the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal1529431735|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Having recently It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has to come to terms with the fact about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins 's ill and hasn'Oof Ouch My Bones't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, an online support group where she talks stripped to his underwear and sent to a bunch watery grave in the boot of other teens living with chronic illnessesa stolen Ford Sierra. They talk about their troubles Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and help each other outTim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess aroundin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli't respond s parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the chat for world in the company of a while, Priya becomes concernedmagical beast. She decides This has made the race anathema to steal her parents' car and drive the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to Brigid's house dare to check up on her. But enter what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the basement end – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking only thing to online for the past few monthspossibly save his gran.|isbn=16836923490571382231

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein178763681X|title=SlingshotKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to being lonely. As but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a secret illegitimate daughter way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a man with a "real" familybroken arm, she is used to not being a priority in peoplebut it didn's livest turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed The one thing he hadn't expected was for goodsomeone to turn up dead. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude Unfortunately, for her life now has a boy in it he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldperson to be the prime suspect.|isbn=152905818X

|isbnauthor=B005FM76AASarah Marsh|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news After a bout of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Her husband, Plantagenet PalliserSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the Duke use of Omniumsign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - sent to adjust a school where she is taught to no longer being prime ministerlip read, or even in officebut physically restrained from signing. He seeks to protect From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guidedusing a system called Visible Speech. Silverbridge (his elder sonAt the same time, actually called PlantagenetBell is working on other inventions and ideas, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught 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 complicated tangle of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky1803816759|title=The Last GirlUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Rachel Chavez It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the new girl at Manchester Prepwealthy and peaceful New York City. A school filled Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to the brim get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the richest children in the city – AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and Rachel doesn't belongriots start to spread. She's not richFinally, she has no ties Joe gets to do some royal family in Serbia, and most real policing. In the aftermath of all, she spends the majority of rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comforthome. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon Joe isn't the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with only one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styletrying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and unless someone screamstech nerd, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in is also on the competitioncase. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go What went wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to ? Did the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure system fail or was it hacked? And how is before itSuki's too late.|isbn=0755501527kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Polly Barton1529421284|title=Fifty SoundsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself startsIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, with a human skeleton came to the question surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He''Why Japan?'' Japan has d been on my radar for a while known drug user and if the world hadnhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowconvinced. I may get there later this year Geary was a townie, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect suicide of the question in the first essay, Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which is on were not considered suspicious at the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the sound of Major Crimes Review Unit (that''every party where s cold cases to you have to introduce yourself''and me) investigate.|isbn=1913097501

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland0571379559|title=SistersongThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|summary=Sistersong ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling story of folk and fairy talesfour people. These stories Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, for most of usshe lives in the house on the riverbank, are a cornerstone built of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectivebroken bricks. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated Insubstantial as it might look, fleshing out charactersit's stood the passage of time, examining relationships storms and re-evaluating the role of womenfloods. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well Her husband, the plot is handled with careRichard, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters struggles to come grow his vegetables, to life, complete the delivery rounds - and to feel real bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and humanMax, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they live in. This 're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endout with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1529039037

|isbn=15291242551529425867|title=The WhispersLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Heidi PerksSimon Mason

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that In Oxford, there's going to be a bodyare two D I Wilkins. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town Raymond Wilkins is of Clearwater Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and it's new year's dayalways exquisitely dressed. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and nowfather of Ryan, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to liveis not. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment sheHe's foundnot any of those things. GraceHe's best friendwhite, Anna Robinsonoriginated from a trailer park, is still in Clearwater barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and she has an eight-year-old child tootrackies. EthanThey's re usually in the class Matilda will be joininglime green or acid yellow. ItYou might wonder if you's perfect!}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by re being introduced to a military base, struggling to care police procedural written for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingelaughs. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats Well, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleakyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AMosby Woods|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=Plantagenet Palliser, The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the Duke best course of Omniumaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the prime minister of strategic advantage in this asset; a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Ferdinand Lopezcircumstances. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as JewishThat man would be valuable, others as Portuguese but right? Perhaps the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explainmost valuable asset in history. The ladies of societyImagine then, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez that this man loses a by-electionthis ability. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt What would governments do to stem gossip about his wife will come get it back to haunt him.?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1