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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell0241636604|title=OtherlandThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary= Myra 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 Rohan are like Yin jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and Yang – Myra his background is loud, bright and hates rulesthe East End, while Rohan is very politewhere he was familiar with violence, serious poverty and worries about the tiniest thingsinjustice. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital There was no posh public school on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together his CV - but he had been to celebrate the two's birthday/deathdayLondon School of Economics. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa Stevenson is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, bright - extremely bright - and he has a magical realm full facility with numbers which most of fairiesus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, vampiresessentially, dragonsa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their livesthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1788000463

|isbn=walker141035021803|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Martin WalkerC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might a request for help his bossfrom her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, chief of detectives JalipeauArthur Crockleford, known as J-Jis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearssay the least. The body of a young male Arthur was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought reason why Freya had not been back to justicethe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be used to identify near the young man? or pursue the profession she loved. J-J calls After the skull 'Oscar' split, she worked in a cafe, met and has a picture married James (on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justicethe rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Martha LeighAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Invisible InkAll Tomorrow's Futures: A Family MemoirFictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= BiographyScience Fiction|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking ''Opening up new ways of thinking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familythe shape of things to come. Her father '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his lifefeeling that it's workall getting away from me. Her mother Some of it is a concert pianist - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in knows what they're talking about or the practicalities of lifelatest conspiracy theorist. There is love I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully way I could understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384

|author=Darren ShanSunny Singh|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=SoThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Having done Hiding from the impossible terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and unpicked Abhi, the lock hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the Forgotten Crypthotel, from which the Departed communicate he forms a bond with the MergeSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Archie now has ''grop'' and keeps on venturing out of her room to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much try to Inezcapture what's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those ishappened through her photography. But he manages to come through Although they only ever talk over the fancy party unscathedphone, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in 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 first volume of this seriesterrorists. |isbn=B093J9TF73086154742X

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1529153298|title= Shards The List of EarthSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating= 45|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= Eighty years agoIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architectshonestly... Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect) She's not what's worrying Miv's reshapingfamily, though. Then Women have been disappearing. Well, just when they had the human race on the run've been murdered, the Architects vanishedbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. And so, Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselvesfamily 'Down South'. Idris Telemmier When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architectsfrightening, foreign place, does not want to be rememberedbest avoided. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity For Miv, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star systemmove would mean leaving her best friend, chased by alien crime syndicatesSharon, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins she'll do anything to realise prevent that . She's not worried about the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=18484584281398524085|title=Local Woman MissingHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Mary KubicaNicci French|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he Charlotte Salter was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late expected at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didnher husband't have to look after her baby - s fiftieth birthday party but when she was out she would meet never turned up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedHer children, seemingly without a tracesons Niall, leaving Paul and Ollie and her husband to look after her disabled babydaughter, Etty. Ten days later, a local woman and her sixare all worried but -yearstrangely -old daughter disappearedher husband, Alec, is not. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula Shortly afterwards, Etty and sheGreg, find the body of Greg'd seemed to be under some strain for s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the last couple of weeks or soriver. Her body It was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared an easy assumption for the police to make that she'd Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicidewhen he couldn't stand the guilt. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and there was no point in looking for herwonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Nicolas Bouvier1035906708|title=The Japanese ChroniclesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It never does We tend to start a review think of a book with a quote from the blurbMaria Callas as Greek, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this bookshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, at some pointNew York, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiecein December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' It is precisely that. A masterpiece to make it more manageable in the sense of the craft as well as the art of writingStates. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a history of Japan, a mythology When she was back in Athens -primer supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Japanese culture as it is Nazi occupation by a personal response to living mother who mercilessly exploited her and travelling in the countrymade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. |isbn=1906011044

|author=Genevieve GornichecChristopher Edge|title=The Witch's HeartBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= A modern Lucas and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides his friends are all booked in for a forest movie marathon at the edge of the nine worldstheir local cinema, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact a place that she was survived burnt at has the stake three times because nickname of Odin's wrathThe Black Hole'. Her attempts All big movie fans, they're looking forward to live in peacelots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, howeverthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are quickly thwarted when Loki shows swept up with her literal heart—the into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one that was cut from her chest before she was tied film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the stake—and refuses cinema, and to leave her alonetheir real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. After an initial period The call of mistrustthe deep, Angrboda begins to fall for Lokithe answering beat in my heart.''s charms Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the two start an unusual family made rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of up the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a half-dead daughtertrap to end the wrecking, a son thatthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wolfwreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, and another son she sets off in search of a family secret thatlies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's a snaketerritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17890970610008664730

|isbnauthor=1788549759James Sherwood Metts|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out Things have been a bit sticky for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parentsEarthlings. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacyAI and automation have been proceeding apace, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (often replacing jobs they're paid to do and William's) on a better footingother tasks that took time to accomplish. She was going Just as they were beginning to meet her well-get used to-do fiancéall this technological change and starting to think of other, hoping new ways to persuade him to come spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in along with it, all the bombed-out home where he had taken hermany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1529407249Matthew Tree|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months drunk and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple who had endless crises of other officersself confidence. Danny took one lookSo Tim applied himself to his studies, turned, walked to the open window cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and jumped to his death from the fourth floorset himself high but achievable ambitions. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1523092734A G Slatter|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary=''She brings There's a hug-kick-thunderclap part of me that every woman needs in her lifewants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Again and again and againThis secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD)

Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar''To claim space is to live s, a family of witches who protect the life of choosing unapologetically town and bravelythe wider world from the Darklands. It is to live the life you've Though she has always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women wished for magic, Ellie Briar is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now first non- witch to be clear - this book is not born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: itsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's something far more effectivecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected'town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. I've always thought that women need to rise above thisAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be people who don't need protectioncommunicate with the dead, people who claim their own spaceputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. If all women did thisReeling from one family secret to another, those few men Ellie must decide who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target trust and determine what to be used do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to prove that they are big mensurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529900360|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanIt 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 ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in t need the world help of the Borna psychologist only worked for a while. It's not been easy Finally, it was Robin, explaining to his foster parents where heDelaware's beenpartner, or slipping back who nudged Milo into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestasking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaynot the Italian.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=00084445011529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Answer to EverythingSecret Life of a Vet|author=Luke KennardSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Life should have been good for EmilySiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who His father was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other GP and donRowlands didn't even sleep want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the same bed. It isn't so much strain that Emily has left the marital bed as that shebeing on-call put on his father's sharing life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a bed with one of her children as it's vet and was convinced this was the only way to get job for him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with too so many students - she teaches drama two days been his dream since he was a weekchild. TheyIf anything, he've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's d wanted to be 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 ownprofessional 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 in 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.

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Tattoo on my BrainThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Alzheimer's The Perfect Passion Company is a disease that slowly wears away your identity dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and sense of selfoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as have many. Your memories and personality worn Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away like for a statue over time affected the elementswhile. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and your dignityso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir And so admirablebegins 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 some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Daniel Gibbs is Katie has no experience in running a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and business, or in match-making, but Ness has documented his journey full confidence in her abilities, and there''A Tattoo on my Brain''.s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=11088389361846976596

|isbn=16358623530811771741|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopInstaKnits for Baby|author=Rachel CorryMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5

|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldnMelissa Leapman's ''t really believe it, mainly because IInstaKnits for Baby'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able gives us a collection of knits from toys to contain but I was intriguedblankets. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally Some will be quick knits - a small others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire destroyed some of her shoes' variety. One pair had come apart and she could see how The projects are divided by the sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldntime they't afford ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to replace all her shoestwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Could she combine these two facts to create a new All the projects are attractive, modern and worthwhile craft? useable. She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media- or if sheworthy projects' but that'd make them a pair. A new career was borns me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1787332098Dean Koontz|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyParanormal|summary=''When we do think about animalsBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, we break them down into species and groups: cowshe loses his fiancee, dogs, foxes, elephants and so onhis house gets trashed. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates Oh, dogs on sofasand someone has delivered a really weird, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoosdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and millions of wild animals stay out there, it''somewheres possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is,'' hopefully on Benny is the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going very last person to arguedeserve all this bad luck. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meatHe is a nice person. A really nice person..) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling So fortunately for the sake of Benny it. Essentially turns out that quote sums up my attitude the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to animals - and I consider myself an animal loverhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. If I had Spike is going to choose between the company take care of humans Benny, and the company will certainly take care of animalsBenny's enemies, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheeseif he, eggsBenny, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortableHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Ananda DeviAdam Stower|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins Murray is one of the shortest books I've read in supposed to be a long whilehumble, tidy and friendly cat, but it's one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the most dramatictwo. It But he's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=0993009344}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Adam Fawleybad magician's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstcat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called there by Jancis Appleby to see the PrincipalBun, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was and the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before catflap they'd even got both use can chuck them out, not into the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherwhiffs. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MPThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, and Professor Fisher is where a big name troll hunter is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old sonexpected – well, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more one much bigger than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipmentMurray was, this is going to be honest, but he's turned up and he'very'' public.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=0753558378B0C47LV1PC|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersFragility|author=Greg McKeownMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''The marginal return of working harder wasjoke? And if you could, in factis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, negativewould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.''

That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to Fragility'' is set as the company he worked forcity of Portland, struggling throughOregon, even when he was ill, only cautiously begins to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health 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 for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=14711814051529431735|title=NighthawkingThe Winter Visitor|author=Russ ThomasJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse RoadFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in whatwhich made Bruce Hopkins's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when return all the body of a young woman was discoveredmore surprising. It had obviously He'd been buried in one of exiled on the beds but who would have started to dig her up? It had been in the earth Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsa decade. The police need to establish who stabbed her return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex- and who left the twowife, very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer saying that she's ill and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbanihasn't long to live. They're joined by DS Guy Daley whoIt's just returned from extended sick leavehard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered Is it a warning from his injuries.a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author= Jennifer Saint Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing 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 The Glorious Race of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster DoughnutsMagical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Grace and Danni have been left to run in the evening a helper at the family bakerydessert cafe his gran owns and runs. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a rather unusual reasongeneration missing in the family...even though she A few short years ago, Eli's only ten years oldparents were both lost to the titular race, she is a monster hunter! Monsters globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have a very sweet tooth, and Grace uses a number to navigate the world in the company of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on them, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisemagical beast. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a cyclops monster called Mr Harrisconfession from gran, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem Eli knows his only hope is to dare to explode as enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the other monsters do, and so things start prize of magic at the end – the only thing to get very strange…possibly save his gran.|isbn=18481294320571382231

|isbn=0995647895178763681X|title=Sadie and the Sea DogsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceOrlando Murrin|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doingresidential cookery school in Belgravia. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and she loves women to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarkdo what he wanted.  Paul ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoonsomehow''<br>got the impression that he''When all d be at the houses cowered in the gloomschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm,but it didn''<br>''To t turn out that way. The teaching - and the Maritime Museum''problems - are all his own. Her imagination The one thing he hadn't expected was fired. She'd love for someone to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularlyturn up dead. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's Unfortunately, he was the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed person who discovered the closing bell body and everyone knows that the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in police consider that person to be the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasureprime suspect.

|author=Kristen O'NealSarah Marsh|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her lifechanges. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'' Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, an online support group Ellen is sent to a school where she talks is taught to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesseslip read, but physically restrained from signing. They talk about their troubles and help each other out From here, while also providing an escape to just joke she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and mess aroundusing a system called Visible Speech. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to At the chat for a whilesame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is in a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthscomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=16836923491035401614

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1803816759|title=SlingshotThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=34|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonelyIt's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. As Joe longs for a secret illegitimate daughter bit of a man with a "real" family, she is used adventure and to not being a priority in people's livesget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But when she defends a random boy in her class then something goes horribly wrong with her slingshotthe AI system that now runs everything, her simple existence is changed making life easier for goodmany, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. No longer can she spend In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her time writing novels in solitudehome. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, for her life now has a boy in British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818Xhacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=B005FM76AA1529421284|title=The Duke's ChildrenLaying Out the Bones|author=Anthony TrollopeKate Webb

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The story opens to probably It was one of those flash downpours that the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Her husband, Plantagenet PalliserIn a gully, a human skeleton came to the Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief surface and struggling - at forensic testing proved the same time - body to adjust to no longer being prime ministerbe Lee Geary, or even in officewho had disappeared nine years earlier. He seeks to protect 'd been a known drug user and guide his three adult childrenhad learning disabilities, which is easier said than done when none so it could have been a simple case of them wishes to ''bemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'' guidedt convinced. Silverbridge (his elder sonGeary was a townie, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are destined connections to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sumstwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - Lockyer and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son DC Gemma Broad of a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. HeMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's about cold cases to learn that parents do not always get their wayyou and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky0571379559|title=The Last GirlHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Rachel Chavez ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belongstory of four people. She Tess Hembry's not richroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she has no ties to some royal family lives in Serbiathe house on the riverbank, and most built of allbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, she spends it's stood the majority passage of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort, storms and floods. She Her husband, Richard, struggles to find anyone grow his vegetables, to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off complete the best prank in true horror movie style, delivery rounds - and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed to bring in the competitionsufficient money. But as the pranks escalate, They have twin boys - Sonny and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this schoolMax, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurtrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. When the competition then Max takes a deadly turnafter his father. People don't believe that they're related, Rachel must figure much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out who this masked figure is before itwith his mother that she's too latehis nanny.|isbn=0755501527

|authorisbn=Polly Barton1529425867|title=Fifty SoundsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do In Oxford, there are two D I start? Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I could start with where Barton herself startsRyan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, with the question barely educated (reading's not ''Why Japan?really'' Japan has been on my radar for a while his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if the world hadnyou't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. I may get there later this year Well, but I am you're not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know The two men are just different sides of the answer to same policing coin. Sometimes the question combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn'why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of t the question dominant force it once was. Nobody in the first essay, which West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as beingbest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, among other thingsa push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the sound strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of ''every party where you have circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to introduce yourself''.get it back?|isbn=1913097501B0C9SNG8R1