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|isbn=00084049250241636604|title=The Killing KindTrading Game: A Confession|author=Jane CaseyGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a surpriserequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. After allFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, it was her cross-examination of to say the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceleast. He'd Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long back to establish that - if anything - it was the other way aroundvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Soon Ingrid never seemed Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be free of John Webster and then near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she came to see him as worked in a threat cafe, met and was forced to remember that married James (on the rebound from the police officer at his trial had told love of her that this life, who was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous manmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0008395594AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Both of YouAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Adele ParksBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=You could be forgiven for ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. ThenWell, one Monday, she went to work and never came homeI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but OliI's sixteen and at m left with the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. Hefeeling that it's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put all getting away from me. Some of it down to him growing up and starting to become independentis - frankly - quite frightening. SebOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's only twelve and Leighm reading someone who knows what they's absence hits him hardre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Then Daan Janssen, I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without traceway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1473685745Sunny Singh|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers |summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were 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 opposite ends of an angry exchange - wellsite, there is Sam, Simon was angry a wartime photographer and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's sonAbhi, Jake, off his bikethe hotel manager. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for those of you the residents who are not ''au fait'' still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with your medical acronyms. When he was bornSam who refuses to be cowed by events, the left side and keeps on venturing out of his heart hadnher room to try to capture what't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days olds happened through her photography. SoAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Simon has every right their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where rescued before they're drivingare discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1529153298|title=OtherlandThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin It's 1979 and Yang – Myra Margaret Thatcher is loudPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the tiniest thingshonestly... Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer) She's not what's worrying Miv's dayfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. And so Well, they've been murdered, every year their families get together but to celebrate the twohave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's birthday/deathday. But when Rohanupset because she's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey overheard that her father wants to move the Otherlandfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a magical realm full of fairiesfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, vampiresthe move would mean leaving her best friend, dragonsSharon, and Godsshe'll do anything to prevent that. It She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's going stopped talking - to be the worst night of their livesanyone.|isbn=1788000463

|isbn=walker141398524085|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=45

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was when he saw Elisabeth Daynesexpected at her husband' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his bosss fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, chief of detectives JalipeauPaul and Ollie and her daughter, known as JEtty. are all worried but - strangely -Jher husband, Alec, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsis not. The Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of a young male was found Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justiceriver. What if It was an artist could recreate easy assumption for the face from the skull police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? guilt. J-J calls the skull 'OscarThe Salter children are not convinced but there' s little else they can do but get on with their lives and has a picture 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 justicewonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1035906708|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in a slightly eccentricManhattan, New York, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familyin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his lifechanged it to 'Callas's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested to make it more manageable in the practicalities of lifeStates. There is love When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the house but also darker undercurrents that Nazi occupation by a child does not fully understand but knows is theremother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1800460384

|author=Darren ShanChristopher Edge|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=So. Having done the impossible Lucas and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypthis friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, from which a place that has the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has nickname of 'The Black Hole'grop'. All big movie fans, they' re looking forward to think about. But before thatlots of exciting films, and many, soirees. Soireesmany snacks! Archie However, as the movie starts, much to Inez's amusementthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, doesnand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even know what one of those isimagine. But he manages as they lurch from one film genre to come through the fancy party unscathednext, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtiscan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. and to their real lives?|isbn=B093J9TF731839942738

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyRachel Greenlaw|title= Shards of EarthCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionTeens|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by ''I can hear the moon-sized aliens known as song of the Architectssea. Humanity is scatteredThe call of the deep, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architectanswering beat in my heart.''s reshaping. Then Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, just when they had the human race survives on luring ships into the run, rocks and plundering the Architects vanishedwrecks. And soMira, the memories like her mother before her, is one of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins seven who swim out to fracture survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and fight among themselvesany treasure that lies within. Idris Telemmier, But when the Council Watch lays a man genetically engineered trap to try and communicate with end the Architectswrecking, does not want they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to be remembered. Butsave him from death, when Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and the crew with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the salvage ship he calls home discover sea. With only nine days to unearth what appears to be recent Architect activitymight save her father, suddenly he is thrust back into as her journey takes her from the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system watched streets of foreign islands to star systemthe heart of the smuggler's territory, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…ones she holds most dear.|isbn=15290518860008664730

|isbnauthor=1848458428James Sherwood Metts|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|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 was late - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't Things have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with been a man, grateful bit sticky for the unquestioning affection he gave herEarthlings. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedAI and automation have been proceeding apace, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband often replacing jobs they're paid to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman do and her six-year-old daughter disappearedother tasks that took time to accomplish. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and she'd seemed starting to be under some strain for the last couple think of weeks or soother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Her body Life was eventually found in a seedy motel - pretty much shut down and, along with it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for herall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Nicolas BouvierMatthew Tree|title=The Japanese ChroniclesWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary= It never does Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to start be different from his father, a review drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of a book with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book, being exceptional at some point, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely that. A masterpiece in the sense any of the craft as well as the art his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of writingself confidence. I'm going to hesitate So Tim applied himself to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a history of Japanhis studies, a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and travelling in the countryset himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn=1906011044B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Genevieve GornichecA G Slatter|title=The Witch's HeartBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45

|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining '' There's a part of the Norse myths me that centres around wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a witch named Angrbodawhile. She hides in '' Within a forest at remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the edge protection of the nine worldsBriar's, remembering nothing a family of her past life but that fact that witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she was survived burnt at has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts first non-witch to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with be born into her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before family for generations and as such since she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave young, her alonetraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. After an initial period of mistrustWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, Angrboda begins to fall for Lokithe town's charmsleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, putting her at the heart of a son that's a wolfmaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and another son thatdetermine what to do as the Briar witches's a snakelegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=17890970611803364548

|isbn=17885497591529900360|title=The Distant DeadGhost Orchid|author=Lesley ThomsonJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening hadn'with her friend Idat been Lt Milo Sturgis' leaving her three-year-old sons fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, William, at home with her parentsSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. The boy thought His assertions that Maple was his sister there were only open-and- shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was better Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the family than involvement was something that the shame of illegitimacyman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, but Maple had high hopes though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of putting her life (and William's) on a better footingremote property in Bel Air. She He was going the heir to meet her well-an Italian shoe empire and she is married to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come an extremely rich man and meet her family it's not the following weekItalian. Later, her body would be found in But which of them was the bombed-out home where he had taken her.primary target?

|isbn=15294072491529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Perfect LieSecret Life of a Vet|author=Jo SpainSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happySiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. She His father was a GP and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatRowlands didn's always a dangerous thing t want to do follow in his footsteps, particularly when youhe considered the strain that being on-call put on his father're married to s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a cop but she family friend who was hopeful. They'd been married for six months a vet and life was good with a decent apartment by convinced this was the sea in Newportjob for him. Before long, Long Islandhe was at Liverpool University. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, DannyIt hadn's partner, Ben Mitchell t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was there with a couple of other officerschild. Danny took one look If anything, turned, walked he'd wanted to the open window and jumped to his death from the fourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murdera professional footballer.

|isbn=15230927340861541774|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceNye of Pheasants|author=Eliza Van CortSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again s close friend and again and again.'' (Alma Derricksformer colleague, former CMODanny Maik, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at has taken a time when violence against women is much short holiday in the newsSingapore to meet up with an old ally, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskGuy Trueman. Now Maik was involved in a street brawl - to be clear he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - this book is not and he killed a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effectiveGhurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but discussion at evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the moment seems to man. Now he could be about how women can be ''protected''facing the death penalty. I've always thought that women need Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to rise above this, to be people who donhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't need protection, people who claim their own space. If help Danny at all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.

|author=Darren ShanAlexander McCall Smith|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=The second trilogy Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroEdinburgh, Archierun by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, back in London in tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the world 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 so jumps at the Bornchance to come home to Edinburgh. It's not been easy And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, explaining bringing us to his foster parents where he's beenan Edinburgh we already love, or slipping back into ordinary life thanks to 44 Scotland Street and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Mergethe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but Archie with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has done his best.... wellno experience in running a business, or in match-making, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston but Ness has full confidence in Big Benher abilities, and there's clock tower always her very helpful (and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=B093H8DPQZ1846976596

|isbn=00084445010811771741|title=The Answer to EverythingInstaKnits for Baby|author=Luke KennardMelissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Life should have been good Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Emily. She had Baby'' gives us a lovely husband, Steven, who was a speech therapistcollection of knits from toys to blankets. We'll pass over Some will be quick knits - others are of the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep long, cosy afternoons in front of the same bedfire' variety. It isn't so much that Emily has left The projects are divided by the marital bed as that shetime they's sharing a bed with one of her children as it's the only way ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to get him ten hours, ten to sleep during the nighttwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Arthur and Matty All the projects are gorgeous but they are a handful attractive, modern and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a weekuseable. TheyI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: itsocial-media-worthy projects's a trendy area but that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their ownme being picky.

|isbnauthor=0241985137Dean Koontz|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by Benny is having a professor on a studentterrifically bad day. When Fawley arrived He loses his job, 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 that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' loses his fiancee, and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherhis house gets trashed. Just Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to complicate matters furtherhis home, Caleband it's mother possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is Petra Newson, Benny is the local MP, and Professor Fisher very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a big name in Artificial Intelligencenice person. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the case from Berry Brothers & Rudddelivery to his house is a new friend, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and bad weather friend called Spike, who has more than ten thousand Twitter followersbeen sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this Spike is going to be ''very'' public.}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Alzheimertake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel diseaseenemies, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you he, Benny, and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is Harper (a neurologist waitress slash Private Investigator who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain'finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=11088389361662500491

|isbnauthor=1635862353Adam Stower|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryMurray and Bun

|genre=CraftsConfident Readers |summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of her shoes. One pair had come apart and she could see how the sandal was constructedtwo. Then she realised that she couldnBut he't afford to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create s a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a few people her first pair hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a pairworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. A new career This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was born., to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1787332098B0C47LV1PC|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldFragility|author=Henry ManceMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. ' joke? And we assign them places in society: cows go on platesif you could, dogs on sofasis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on would it land? The catch is that the next David Attenborough seriesanswer for both could well be.... no.''

I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and 'Fragility'' is set as the company city of animals, 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 cheesePortland, eggsOregon, chicken and fish and I needed cautiously begins to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making emerge from the restrictions imposed during the decision would not be comfortable.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529431735|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, called there by Jancis Appleby to see which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynoldsmore surprising. There had He'd been an accusation of sexual assault by exiled on the Costa del Sol as a professor on wanted drug smuggler for a studentdecade. When Fawley arrived The return has come about because he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details s had a letter from the victim? The problem was his ex-wife, saying that Caleb Morgan she's ill and hasn'was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishert long to live. Just to complicate matters further, CalebIt's mother hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is Petra Newsonabducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the local MP, and Professor Fisher is boot of a big name is Artificial Intelligencestolen Ford Sierra. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case Is it a warning from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going Spanish gang or a problem closer to be ''very'' public.home?

|isbnauthor=0753558378Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=''The marginal return of working harder wasEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in factthe evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnistoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. ItA few short years ago, Eli's no exaggeration parents were both lost to say that he devoted his life the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for of a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little valuemagical beast. He This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a bargain with God; if he survivedconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There ismost hates, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breakwith the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.''|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1471181405178763681X|title=NighthawkingKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Russ ThomasOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=Sheffield's [http://wwwChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you He didn'd like t really want to visit) are an oasis but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of calm in getting both men and women to do whathe wanted. Paul 's otherwise thought of as an industrial city 'somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but this was disrupted when it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the body of a young woman was discoveredproblems - are all his own. It had obviously been buried in The one of the beds but who would have started thing he hadn't expected was for someone to dig her turn up? dead. It had been in Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the earth for months body and could have been undiscovered for years. The everyone knows that the police need consider that person to establish who stabbed her - and who left be the twoprime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, very rareEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, gold aurei on everything about her eyeslife changes. DCI Diane Jordan Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbanisent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. They're joined by DS Guy Daley From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who's just returned from extended sick leavehas been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint 1803816759|title= Ariadne The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Science Fiction |summary= This re-telling of It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the myth wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of Ariadne adventure and the Minotaur is interesting and unusualto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Jennifer Saint presents But then something goes horribly wrong with the story in a way AI system that is sympathetic now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to its origins but also appealing spread. Finally, Joe gets to a modern audiencedo some real policing. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through In the viewpoint aftermath of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her death, allowing home. Joe isn't the reader only one trying to really connect with Ariadne as save Suki - Dylan, a character in her own right rather than just a prop in British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the heroics of Theseuscase. |isbn=1472273869What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?}}

|authorisbn=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne1529421284|title=Monster DoughnutsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni have been left to run It was one of those flash downpours that the family bakeryBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for In a rather unusual reason...even though she's only ten years oldgully, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, human skeleton came to the surface and Grace uses a number of methods forensic testing proved the body to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on thembe Lee Geary, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisewho had disappeared nine years earlier. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing He'd been a cyclops monster called Mr Harrisknown drug user and had learning disabilities, who has so it could have been a weakness for doughnuts simple case of misadventure but doesnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't seem convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to explode as the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other monsters do, deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and so things start DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432you and me) investigate.

|isbn=09956478950571379559|title=Sadie and the Sea DogsThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceFiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Sadie''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's mother always said that roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she was a dreamermight be happier there, but instead, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by in the house on the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarkriverbank, built of broken bricks.  Insubstantial as it might look, it''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all s stood the houses cowered in the gloompassage of time,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''storms and floods. Her imagination was fired. She'd love husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to sail complete the oceans on an ancient sailing ship delivery rounds - and went back regularlyto bring in sufficient money. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the one where Nelsonrainbow twins. Sonny's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendantcolouring reflects his mother's warning shoutJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. When she woke (hard floors People don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an adventure assumption when Max is out with his mother that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Kristen O'Neal1529425867|title=Lycanthropy Lost and Other Chronic IllnessesNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseIn Oxford, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of her lifeNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'' D I Ryan Wilkins, an online support group where she talks to a bunch son of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles Ryan and help each other outfather of Ryan, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess aroundis not. When Brigid—one He's not any of her closest friends—doesnthose things. He't respond to the chat for s white, originated from a whiletrailer park, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parentsbarely educated (reading's not ''really'' car his thing) and drive to Brigidhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They's house to check up on herre usually in lime green or acid yellow. But what she doesn You might wonder if you't expect re being introduced to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and police procedural written for that werewolf to be laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the girl she has been talking to online for same policing coin. Sometimes the past few monthscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1683692349

|author=Mercedes HelnweinMosby Woods|title=SlingshotA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=34|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to being lonelymend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. As Governments are flailing. A war here, a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is used to not being a priority in people's livesactual charge. But when she defends Imagine then, there was a random boy in her class man with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for goodprecognition. No longer Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can she spend her time writing novels tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in solitudehistory. Imagine then, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=152905818XB0C9SNG8R1