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|authorisbn=Richard Brook0241636604|title=Understanding Human NatureThe Trading Game: A User's Guide to LifeConfession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=LifestyleAutobiography|summary= I am If you were to bring up an image of a firm believer that sometimes we choose bookscity banker in your mind, and sometimes books choose usyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. In my case, this A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is one of the latter. Not so very long agoEast End, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interestingwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but it would not have 'hit home' in he had been to the way that it does nowLondon School of Economics. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's ufacility with numbers which most of us can only envy.s.p. is He also realised that most rich people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlyexpect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the bookcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is this turned into permanent employment as a book I needed to read, right nowtrader.|isbn=1800461682

|isbn=B095CY7NBN1035021803|title=Autumn CampThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Barry FowlerC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to be Brianthe English country village where she grew up. She's last campback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. HeFreya'd founded the organisation some four years ago s former mentor and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the time had come circumstances seem suspicious, to hand say the reins to someone elseleast. The obvious person Arthur was Gary, who'd always the reason why Freya had not been back to the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this campvillage: Arthur, she feels, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observelet her down badly. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiserEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, an administrator if you likeshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. He was After the entertainersplit, the person who basked she worked in the spotlight a cafe, met and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did married James (on the organising. He handed rebound from the camp over - love of her life, who was murdered) and then took it back. And Gary determined to Freya and James have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' campnow divorced.

|isbn=194812467XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Farm ShopAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery Benjamin Greenaway and Ema TepicStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the cat decide shape of things to go for a walkcome. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hill, they see a big barn with 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 cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.'

What will 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 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 feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - 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 knows what they buy?'re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=00084049251529153298|title=The Killing KindList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane CaseyNicci French

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but John Webster came as something of a surprisenever turned up. After allHer children, sons Niall, it was Paul and Ollie and her crossdaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely -examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceher husband, Alec, is not. He'd been accused Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of stalking the woman but it didnGreg't take long to establish that - if anything - it was s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the other way aroundriver. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and It was forced an easy assumption for the police to remember make that the police officer at his trial Duncan had told her that this was murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the best chance guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous mancan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=00083955941035906708|title=Both of YouDiva|author=Adele ParksDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one MondayWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she went was born to work and never came home. MarkGreek parents in Manhattan, Oli and Seb are shattered. WellNew York, Mark in December 1923 and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but she put her father changed it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and LeighCallas's absence hits him hardto make it more manageable in the States. Then Daan Janssen, When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wifemother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Kai missing. She too has vanished without traceJackie.

|isbnauthor=1473685745Christopher Edge|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Myra Lucas and Rohan his friends are like Yin all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Yang – Myra is loudmany, many snacks! However, bright and hates rulesas the movie starts, while Rohan they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very politedifferent, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummerthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's dayt even imagine. And so, every year their families get together But as they lurch from one film genre to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa next, can they figure out what on earth is taken by the fairy queen, going on? Will they must journey ever get back to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragonscinema, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their real lives.?|isbn=17880004631839942738

|isbnauthor=walker14Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in 'I can hear the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief song of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief sea. The call of detectives Jalipeauthe deep, known as J-Jthe answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The body Mira, like her mother before her, is one of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought seven who swim out to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from survey the skull ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the resulting publicity be used Council Watch lays a trap to identify end the young man? J-J calls wrecking, they capture the skull island'Oscars leader and Mira' s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and has with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesnfamily secret that lies 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't want s territory, Mira must be determined to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought stop at nothing to justicesave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author= Martha LeighJames Sherwood Metts|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyConfident Readers|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about Things have been a childhood spent in a slightly eccentricbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familyoften replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter Just as he edits the complete correspondence they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauother, new ways to spend time, his life's workalong came an awful pandemic. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the practicalities of life. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that a child does not fully understand but knows is theremany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=18004603841736128426

|author=Darren ShanMatthew Tree|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3We'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the Forgotten Crypt, be different from which the Departed communicate with the Mergehis father, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of those isself confidence. But he manages So Tim applied himself to come through the fancy party unscathedhis studies, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriescultivated 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 myth of Ariadne and The West isn't 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 bakerymost valuable asset in history. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though she's only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet toothImagine then, and Grace uses a number 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 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…it back?|isbn=1848129432B0C9SNG8R1