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|isbn=B095CY7NBN0241636604|title=Autumn CampThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Barry FowlerGary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=It was If you were to be Brianbring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's last campre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. He'd founded A hoodie and jeans replaces the organisation some four years ago pin-stripe suit and had done all his background is the organisation since but East End, where he was leaving school familiar with violence, poverty and the time had come to hand the reins to someone elseinjustice. The obvious person There was Gary, who'd always no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the fun element London School of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observeEconomics. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainer, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - so Brian stepped in and did the organisinghe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He handed the camp over - and then took it backalso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. And Gary determined to have It was his revengeability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. This should have been ''his'' campEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=194812467X1035021803|title=The Farm ShopAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kirelle It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and her best Carole's close friend Sam , Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the cat decide circumstances seem suspicious, to go for a walksay the least. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatdown badly. As Even though they walk were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the top of profession she loved. After the hillsplit, they see a big barn with she worked in a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cowscafe, goats met and chickensmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle Freya and Sam go shoppingJames have now divorced. What will they buy?

|isbn=0008404925AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Killing KindAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane CaseyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Difficult clients were nothing ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprisecome. After all, '' I've heard it was her cross-examination of the said that 'technology'victimis what happens after you' which saved him from re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a lengthy prison sentencefew decades of technology in my lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'd been accused of stalking m left with the woman but feeling that it didn't take long to establish that s all getting away from me. Some of it is - if anything frankly - it was the other way aroundquite frightening. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster Of course, I could research the possibilities and then she came to see him as a threat the probabilities and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'd had to put Webster away for re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a long time: he was a very dangerous manway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0008395594Sunny Singh|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoressuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. ThenHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, one Mondaythere is Sam, she went to work a wartime photographer and never came home. MarkAbhi, Oli and Seb are shatteredthe hotel manager. Well, Mark and Seb As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are but Oli's sixteen and at still alive in the stage where hotel, he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been forms a bit off bond with Leigh for a while but she put it down Sam who refuses to him growing up be cowed by events, and starting keeps on venturing out of her room to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leightry to capture what's absence hits him hardhappened through her photography. Then Daan JanssenAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracetheir friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=14736857451529153298|title=Unbreak Your HeartThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Katie MarshJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle It's 1979 and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - wellMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simonhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's sonfamily, Jake, off his bikethough. Women have been disappearing. He wasnWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't hurt but Jake has historysound quite so frightening. He has HLHS - thatMiv's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'au faitDown South'' with your medical acronyms. When he was bornyou're from Yorkshire, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was Down South is a few days oldfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. SoFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, Simon has every right and she'll do anything to be over-protective particularly when someone isnprevent that. She't looking where theys not worried about the dangers or that her Mum're drivings stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1398524085|title=OtherlandHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Myra Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Rohan her daughter, Etty. are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loudall worried but - strangely - her husband, bright and hates rulesAlec, while Rohan is very politenot. Shortly afterwards, serious Etty and worries about Greg, find the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummerbody of Greg's dayfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. And so, every year their families get together It was an easy assumption for the police to celebrate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the two's birthday/deathdayguilt. But when Rohan The Salter children are not convinced but there's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, else they must journey can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to the Otherland, a magical realm full think of fairiesMaria Callas as Greek, vampiresbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, dragonsNew York, in December 1923 and Godsonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's going to be make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the worst night Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of their livesher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1788000463

|isbnauthor=walker14Christopher Edge|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work Lucas and his friends are all booked in the prehistory museum for a movie marathon at Les Eyzies their local cinema, a place that chief has the nickname of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, chief they're looking forward to lots of detectives Jalipeauexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, known as J-Jthe movie starts, to solve a case they very quickly realise that had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified something about this new film format is very different, and his killer never brought to justicethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. What if an artist could recreate the face But as they lurch from the skull and the resulting publicity be used one film genre to identify the young mannext, can they figure out what on earth is going on? J-J calls Will they ever get back to the skull 'Oscar' cinema, 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 justice.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author= Martha LeighRachel Greenlaw|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirCompass and Blade|rating= 3.5|genre= BiographyTeens|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in a slightly eccentricmy heart.'' Rosevear, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge donremote and partially forgotten island, forever clacking away survives on his typewriter as he edits luring ships into the rocks and plundering the complete correspondence wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, his lifethey capture the island's workleader and Mira's father. Her mother is Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a concert pianist wreck survivor who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the practicalities 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 territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of life. There is love in her home and the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is thereones she holds most dear.|isbn=18004603840008664730

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Planet Storyland

|summary=SoThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. Having done the impossible AI and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergeautomation have been proceeding apace, Archie now has ''grop'often replacing jobs they' re paid to think about. But before do and other tasks that, soireestook time to accomplish. Soirees! ArchieJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, much new ways to Inez's amusementspend time, doesn't even know what one of those isalong came an awful pandemic. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathedLife was pretty much shut down and, even after an uncomfortable encounter along with Kurtisit, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in all the first volume many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of this seriesbeing exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. |isbn=B093J9TF73B0CVFXPGP8

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyA G Slatter|title= Shards The Briar Book of Earththe Dead|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionFantasy|summary= Eighty years ago'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, Earth was destroyedall mine, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architectsat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. Humanity is scattered'' Within a remote mountain pass, constantly fleeing as far away from the world after world falls to , lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the architectBriar's reshaping. Then, just when they had a family of witches who protect the human race on town and the run, wider world from the Architects vanishedDarklands. And soThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgottenfirst non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and humanity begins to fracture administration rather than spells and fight among themselvespotions. Idris TelemmierWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architectstown's leader, does not want to be rememberedand Ellie takes her place beside her. ButAs challenges come her way left, when he right and centre, Ellie uncovers the crew of rare ability to communicate with the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activitydead, suddenly he is thrust back into putting her at the spotlightheart of a maelstrom of chaos. As he and his allies bounce Reeling from star system one family secret to star systemanother, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police Ellie must decide who to trust and rich slaversdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, he slowly begins everything they have sacrificed to realise that the real war survive, is only just getting started…under threat.|isbn=15290518861803364548

|isbn=18484584281529900360|title=Local Woman MissingThe Ghost Orchid|author=Mary KubicaJonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven years agoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, a man regularly came home Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his wife with lipstick marks help on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againdifficult cases. His wife was in assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the habit help of going out a psychologist only worked for a run late at nightwhile. It Finally, it was the only time she had for herself when she didnRobin, Delaware't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a mans partner, grateful who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the unquestioning affection he gave herman she loved needed. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a tracenext case did look simple, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babythough. Ten days later, Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappearedremote property in Bel Air. Meredith Dickey He was a birth doula the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she'd seemed is married to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - an extremely rich man and it appeared that she'd committed suicides not the Italian. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, But which of them was safe and there was no point in looking for her.the primary target?

|authorisbn=Nicolas Bouvier1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Japanese ChroniclesSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary= It never does to start Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a review of a book with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes itGP and Rowlands didn's unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this bookt want to follow in his footsteps, at some point, with particularly when he considered the words ''what the old master craftsmen would strain that being on-call a masterpiece.put on his father'' It is precisely thats life. A masterpiece in When he was seventeen he took the sense opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the craft as well as the art of writingjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I It hadn'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is t - as much with so many students - been his dream since he was a history of Japanchild. If anything, he'd wanted to be a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the countryprofessional footballer. |isbn=1906011044

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec0861541774|title=The Witch's HeartA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= A modern DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a witch named Angrbodashort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. She hides Maik was involved in a forest at the edge of the nine worldsstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, remembering nothing he faced a charge of her past life manslaughter but evidence came to light that fact suggested that she was survived burnt at he might have planned to murder the stake three times because of Odin's wrathman. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to Now he could be facing the stake—and refuses to leave her alonedeath penalty. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a son that's a wolf, diplomatic incident and another son thatwouldn's a snaket help Danny at all.|isbn=1789097061

|isbnauthor=1788549759Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was December 1940 The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for operating as an alternative to all the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, Williamonline apps in providing a more personal, at home with her parentstailored service. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the family than the shame of illegitimacybusiness, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a better footingwhile. She was going Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to meet her well-come home to-do fiancéEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, hoping bringing us to persuade him an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to come 44 Scotland Street and meet her family the following weekIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. LaterKatie has no experience in running a business, her body would be found or in the bombedmatch-out home where he had taken making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her.very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=15294072490811771741|title=The Perfect LieInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jo SpainMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatMelissa Leapman's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married InstaKnits for six months and life was good with Baby'' gives us a decent apartment by collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the sea 'long, cosy afternoons in Newport, Long Islandfront of the fire' variety. The knock on projects are divided by the door was insistent and when it was opened, Dannytime they's partnerll take to complete - less than five hours, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one lookfive to ten hours, turned, walked ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the open window projects are attractive, modern and jumped to his death from the fourth flooruseable. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's murderme being picky.

|isbnauthor=1523092734Dean Koontz|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyParanormal|summary=''She brings Benny is having a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her lifeterrifically bad day. Again He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and again his house gets trashed. Oh, and again.'' (Alma Derrickssomeone has delivered a really weird, former CMOdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, Cirque du Soleil RSD) and it''To claim space s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. thing that has trashed his house! It The thing is, Benny is the very last person to live the life you've always wanteddeserve all this bad luck.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at He is a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''nice person. A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskreally nice person. Now - So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to be clear - this book his house is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effectivenew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, but discussion at the moment seems who has been sent to be about how women can be ''protected''help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. I've always thought that women need Spike is going to rise above thistake care of Benny, to be people who donand will certainly take care of Benny't need protections enemies, if he, Benny, people and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that exactly they are big men.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Darren ShanAdam Stower|title=Archibald Lox Murray and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, Archiewell, back in London in the world whatever takes his fancy next of the Borntwo. It But he's a bad magician's not been easycat, explaining to so his foster parents where he's favourite bun has beenturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, or slipping not into the regular back garden, but into ordinary life a world of frightening adventure and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Mergewhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, but Archie has done his best.... where a troll hunter is expected – well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's clock tower turned up and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.'ll have to do…|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0008561249

|isbn=0008444501B0C47LV1PC|title=The Answer to EverythingFragility|author=Luke KennardMosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Life Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should have been good you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for Emilyboth could well be. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was a speech therapist. We.. no. 'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isnFragility't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one of her children is set as it's the only way city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to get him to sleep emerge from the restrictions imposed during the night. Arthur 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.covid pandemic

|isbn=02419851371529431735|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Winter Visitor|author=Cara HunterJames Henry|rating=54

|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 Newson, the local MPabducted, stripped to his underwear and Professor Fisher is sent to a big name watery grave in Artificial Intelligencethe boot of a stolen 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?

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=A Tattoo on my BrainThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Alzheimer's Eli is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by this cruel diseasevisiting with him, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like in the evening a statue over time affected helper at the elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you dessert cafe his gran owns and your dignityruns. This Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is what makes Daniel Gibbsa generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli' memoir so admirables parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Daniel Gibbs This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is a neurologist who was diagnosed to dare to enter what he most hates, with Alzheimers and has documented the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''gran.|isbn=11088389360571382231

|isbn=1635862353178763681X|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Rachel CorryOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. I couldnHe didn't really believe it, mainly because Iwant to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow''d always thought got the impression that youhe'd need more equipment than be at the average home was likely school to be able to contain assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but I was intriguedit didn't turn out that way. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally The teaching - a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and she could see how the sandal was constructedproblems - are all his own. Then she realised that she couldnThe one thing he hadn't afford expected was for someone to replace all her shoesturn up dead. Could she combine these two facts to create a new Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted everyone knows that the police consider that person to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was bornbe the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1787332098Sarah Marsh|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=''When we do think about animalsAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, we break them down Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into species and groups: cowsa world of silence, dogs, foxes, elephants and so oneverything about her life changes. And we assign them places Living in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions a time when the use of wild animals stay out theresign language was seen as something only savages do, ''somewhereEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to arguebut physically restrained from signing. I meanFrom here, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - deaf and I consider myself an animal loverusing a system called Visible Speech. If I had to choose between At the company of humans same time, Bell is working on other inventions and the company of animalsideas, 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 cheese, eggs, 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 comfortableEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1803816759|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins It's 2038 and Joe is one a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the shortest books I've read in a long whileAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, but it's one Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the most dramaticrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. ItJoe isn's also told in t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing British superfan and pulls very few punchestech nerd, is also on the descriptions stark and unromanticcase.|isbn=0993009344What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?}}

|isbn=02419851371529421284|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Laying Out the Bones|author=Cara HunterKate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, called there by Jancis Appleby a human skeleton came to see the Principalsurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, Professor Hilary Reynoldswho had disappeared nine years earlier. There He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been an accusation a simple case of sexual assault by a professor on a studentmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. When Fawley arrived he Geary was almost cross: a townie, so what was the alleged perpetrator he doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victimout on Salisbury Plain alone? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' There are connections to the 'victim' suicide of Holly Gilbert and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencetime. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes Lockyer and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When DC Gemma Broad of the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to be ''very'' publicyou and me) investigate.

|isbn=07535583780571379559|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Greg McKeownFiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=''The marginal return House of working harder was, in fact, negative.Broken Bricks'' Thatis the story of four people. Tess Hembry's what happened to Patrick McGinnisroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. ItInsubstantial as it might look, it's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to stood the company he worked forpassage of time, struggling throughstorms and floods. Her husband, even when he was illRichard, only struggles to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%grow his vegetables, he had lost his health to complete the delivery rounds - and his job had little valueto bring in sufficient money. He made a bargain with God; if he survivedThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, he would make some changesthe rainbow twins. He did survive and came through stronger - and richerSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. There is, you see, a different way: People don't believe that they'great things are not reserved for those who bleedre related, for those who almost break.much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=14711814051529425867|title=NighthawkingLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Russ ThomasSimon Mason

|summary=Sheffield's [http://wwwIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins.sbg Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed.org D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you He'd like to visit) are an oasis s not any of calm in whatthose things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's otherwise thought not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discoveredshell suits and trackies. It had obviously been buried They're usually in one of the beds but who would have started lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to dig her up? It had been in the earth a police procedural written for months and could have been undiscovered for yearslaughs. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the twoWell, very rare, gold aurei on her eyesyou're not. DCI Diane Jordan is The two men are just different sides of the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbanisame policing coin. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leaveSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that heSometimes it's not fully recovered from his injuriesproblematic.

|author= Jennifer Saint Mosby Woods|title= Ariadne A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Literary Fiction |summary= This re-telling of The West isn't the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusualdominant force it once was. Jennifer Saint presents Nobody in the story in a way that West is sympathetic quite sure how to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative mend this or even if mending it is told predominantly through the viewpoint best course of Ariadneaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, spanning from her childhood to her deatha push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, allowing there was a man with precognition. Imagine the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character strategic advantage in her own right rather than just this asset; a prop in the heroics man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Theseuscircumstances. |isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne|title=Monster Doughnuts|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedThat man would be valuable, Grace and Danni have been left to run right? Perhaps the family bakery. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reasonmost valuable asset in history...even though she's only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on themImagine then, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisethis man loses this ability. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harris, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesn't seem to explode as the other monsters What would governments do, and so things start to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432}}{{Frontpageit back?|isbn=0995647895|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita Joice|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was a dreamer, her mind never on what she should 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. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphins, pirates, mermaids and treasure.B0C9SNG8R1