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|authorisbn=M G Leonard0241636604|title=TwitchThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Twitch is If you were to bring up an image of a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at homecity banker in your mind, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared you're unlikely to that think of his time in schoolsomeone like Gary Stevenson. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his life as there background is a dangerous bank robber on the runEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and it's possible that injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the missing bank haul London School of Economics. Stevenson is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide bright - extremely bright - and that he knows like the back 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 hand! ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Can Twitch solve the mysteryEventually, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=18388538041035021803|title=The Cursed GirlsAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Caro RamsayC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Megan MelvickIt's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfEnglish country village where she grew up. Twenty years later sheShe's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sadnow because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya's former mentor and Carole's there close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say her final farewells the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to her sisterthe village: Arthur, Melissashe feels, who is dying of anorexialet her down badly. As Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' has not felt able to Megan but what did be near the man or pursue the profession she mean? loved. There were lots of thingsAfter the split, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even she worked in a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jagocafe, met and married James (on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant the rebound from the love of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problemsher life, Megan who was deaf murdered) and Freya and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeJames have now divorced. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=0241400120AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Girl Who DiedAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Ragnar Jonasson Benjamin Greenaway and Victoria CribbStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given 'Opening up her medical studies and retrained as a teachernew ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. She was thirty years old and money was tight'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Her friendWell, Sara, showed her an advert for I must confess that there have been more than a job few decades of technology in Skalar on my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the Langanes Peninsulafeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. There were only ten people in Of course, I could research the possibilities and the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid probabilities and accommodation providedend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Una was the only applicant I needed people I knew I could trust and the job meant that she who could let her flat deliver information in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covereda way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1846975719Sunny Singh|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickHotel Arcadia

|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=We learn The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that MI5 has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is having its problems 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 environmental terrorists supergluing themselves Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to awkward placescapture what's happened through her photography. But thatAlthough 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=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's London1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, isnhonestly...) She't it? Whats not what's worrying Miv's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportfamily, DCI Jim Daley and his colleaguethough. Women have been disappearing. Well, Acting DI Brian Scottthey've been murdered, head off for the airport straight awaybut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. It soon becomes evident though Miv's upset because she's overheard that both occupants of her father wants to move the plane were dead before take offfamily 'Down South'. How could that be? When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. The sort of tech which For Miv, the move would make that possible isnmean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she't available ll do anything to the paying publicprevent that. And why have She's not worried about the man no identification on them dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - or even labels in their clothes?to anyone.

|authorisbn=Richard Brook1398524085|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and sometimes books choose usOllie and her daughter, Etty. In my caseare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, this is one of the latternot. Not so very long ago Shortly afterwards, if I had come across this book IEtty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd have skimmed its father, found some of it interestingDuncan Ackerley, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does nowriver. I believe it came to me not just because I It was likely an easy assumption for the police to give it a favourable review [ make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn''full disclosure t stand the guilt. The BookbagSalter children are not convinced but there's u.s.p. is that people chose little else they can do but get on with their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowlives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1800461682

|isbn=B095CY7NBN1035906708|title=Autumn CampDiva|author=Barry FowlerDaisy Goodwin

|summary=It was We tend to be Brian's last camp. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since think of Maria Callas as Greek, but he she was leaving school born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and the time had come only moved to hand the reins to someone elseAthens when she was thirteen. The obvious person Her original surname was Gary, whoKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'd always been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader and heCallas'd just be there to observemake it more manageable in the States. The problem with this When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that Gary wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you like. He she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the entertainer, the person Nazi occupation by a mother who basked in the spotlight mercilessly exploited her and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' campno secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=194812467XChristopher Edge|title=The Farm Shop|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Kirelle Lucas and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go his friends are all booked in for a walkmovie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. 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 All big movie fans, they walk 're looking forward to the top lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the hillmovie starts, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But very quickly realise that something about this new film format is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders very different, and customers they are farmyard animalsswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. There are sheep and ducks and cows But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, goats and chickenscan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping.to their real lives? What will they buy?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0008404925Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something ''I can hear the song of a surprisethe sea. After allThe call of the deep, it was her cross-examination of the answering beat in my heart.'victim' which saved him from  Rosevear, a lengthy prison sentenceremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. He'd been accused Mira, like her mother before her, is one of stalking the woman but it didn't take long seven who swim out to establish survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that - if anything - it was lies within. But when the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed Council Watch lays a trap to be free of John Webster end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and then she came Mira's father. Desperate to see save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as a threat charming as he is secretive and was forced with only coordinates to remember guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the police officer at his trial had told sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her that this was from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the best chance theysmuggler'd had s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous mansave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=0008395594James Sherwood Metts|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=You could be forgiven Things have been a bit sticky for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoresthe Earthlings. Then, one Monday, she went to work AI and never came home. Markautomation have been proceeding apace, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Olioften replacing jobs they's sixteen re paid to do and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookother tasks that took time to accomplish. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down Just as they were beginning to get used to him growing up all this technological change and starting to become independentthink of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Seb's only twelve Life was pretty much shut down and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessmanalong with it, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without traceall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1473685745Matthew Tree|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - wellTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Simon was angry a drunk and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those chronic underachiever whose dreams of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side being exceptional at any of his heart hadn't developed properly artistic passions all failed miserably and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldwho had endless crises of self confidence. SoTim applied himself to his studies, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're drivingcultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Louie StowellA G Slatter|title=OtherlandThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud'' 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, bright and hates rulesall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while Rohan is very polite.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, serious a family of witches who protect the town and worries about the tiniest thingswider world from the Darklands. Their only connection? Being Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummeras such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's day. And socousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, every year their families get together to celebrate the twotown's birthday/deathdayleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the fairy queen, they must journey rare ability to communicate with the Otherlanddead, putting her at the heart of a magical realm full maelstrom of fairies, vampires, dragonschaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and Gods. Itdetermine what to do as the Briar witches's going legacy, everything they have sacrificed to be the worst night of their livessurvive, is under threat.|isbn=17880004631803364548

|isbn=walker141529900360|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Ghost Orchid|author=Martin WalkerJonathan Kellerman

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Dayneshadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies s fault that chief of police Bruno Courreges Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the idea which he thought might help his bossof a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, chief of detectives Jalipeauit was Robin, known as J-JDelaware's partner, to solve a case who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that had haunted him for thirty yearsthe man she loved needed. The body next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a young male remote property in Bel Air. He was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought heir to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull Italian shoe empire and the resulting publicity be used she is married to identify the young an extremely rich man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' 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 justices not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1529395224|title= Invisible InkLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: A Family MemoirThe Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating= 3.5|genre= BiographyAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Martha Leigh begins her book talking about His father was a childhood spent GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge donhis footsteps, forever clacking away on his typewriter as particularly when he edits considered the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jeanstrain that being on-Jacques Rousseau, call put on his lifefather's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work. Her mother is experience with a concert pianist family friend who practises for hours every day. Neither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of life. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that was a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox vet and was convinced this was the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4job for him.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt Before long, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think abouthe was at Liverpool University. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn It hadn't even know what one of those is- as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. But If anything, he manages 'd wanted to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesbe a professional footballer. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky0861541774|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories A Nye of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1848458428|title=Local Woman MissingPheasants|author=Mary KubicaSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven years agoDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a man regularly came home short holiday in Singapore to his wife meet up with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - againan old ally, Guy Trueman. His wife Maik was involved 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 have to look after her baby street brawl - but when she he would later maintain that he was out she would meet up facing a man armed with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection knife - and he gave herkilled a Ghurka. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappearedInitially, seemingly without he faced a trace, leaving her husband charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to look after her disabled babymurder the man. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to Now he could be under some strain for facing the last couple of weeks or sodeath penalty. Her body was eventually found in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a seedy motel - it appeared that shediplomatic incident and wouldn'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for hert help Danny at all.

|author=Nicolas BouvierAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Japanese ChroniclesPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It never does The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to start Canada to get away for a review while. Katie is coming out of a book break up with a quote from bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidablechance to come home to Edinburgh. Le Monde reviewed And so begins this booknew story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, at some pointthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely thatsome new characters who quickly begin to charm. A masterpiece Katie has no experience in the sense of the craft as well as the art of writing. I'm going to hesitate to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much running a history of Japanbusiness, a mythologyor in match-primer for the Japanese culture as it is making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a personal response to living and travelling in the country. hand…|isbn=19060110441846976596

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec0811771741|title=The Witch's HeartInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=FantasyCrafts|summary= A modern and approachable reimagining Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrbodaknits from toys to blankets. She hides in a forest at the edge Some will be quick knits - others are of the nine worlds'long, remembering nothing cosy afternoons in front of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odinfire's wrathvariety. Her attempts to live in peace, however, The projects are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to divided by the stake—and refuses time they'll take to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrustcomplete - less than five hours, Angrboda begins five to fall for Loki's charmsten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the two start an unusual family made of up a halfprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-dead daughter, a son thatworthy projects's a wolf, and another son but that's a snakeme being picky.|isbn=1789097061

|isbnauthor=1788549759Dean Koontz|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonBad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old sonBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, Williamhe loses his fiancee, at home with her parentsand his house gets trashed. The boy thought that Maple was Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his sister - home, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was better for inside is the family than thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a better footingnice person. She was going A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to meet her well-to-do fiancéhis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, hoping who has been sent to persuade help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to come take care of Benny, and meet her family the following week. Laterwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, her body would be found in the bombed-and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out home where he had taken herwho exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1529407249Adam Stower|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=It was July 2019 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Erin was happy, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: thatBut he's always a dangerous thing to do when youbad magician're married to s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newportcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, Long Islandbut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. The knock on the door was insistent and when This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was opened, Dannyto be honest, but he's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the open window up and jumped he'll have to his death from the fourth floor.do… Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1523092734B0C47LV1PC|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming SpaceFragility|author=Eliza Van CortMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.Yo birthing person'' (Alma Derricksjoke? And if you could, former CMOis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, Cirque du Soleil RSD)would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no.

''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life youFragility've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in set as the newscity of Portland, Oregon, ''A Women's Guide cautiously begins to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at emerge from the restrictions imposed during the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If 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.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529431735|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in d been exiled on the world of the BornCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. It The return has come about because he's not been easyhad a letter from his ex-wife, explaining to his foster parents where hesaying that she's been, or slipping back into ordinary life ill and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his besthasn't long to live.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben It's clock tower hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock sent to a watery grave in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaythe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0008444501Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Life should have been good for EmilyEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She had a Eli lives with his lovely husbandgran, Steven, who was too – for there is a speech therapistgeneration missing in the family. WeA few short years ago, Eli'll pass over s parents were both lost to the fact that they rarely speak titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to each other and don't even sleep navigate the world in the same bedcompany of a magical beast. It isn't so much that Emily This has left made the marital bed as that she's sharing race anathema to the pair – but when a bed with one of her children as it's bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only way hope is to get him dare to sleep during enter what he most hates, with the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing 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 ownpossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=0241985137178763681X|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Cara HunterOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=DI Adam FawleyChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's team got t really want to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had been an accusation a way of sexual assault by a professor on a studentgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before theyPaul ''somehow''d even got the details from the victim? The problem was impression that Caleb Morgan ''was'he' d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn'victim' t turn out that way. The teaching - and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherproblems - are all his own. Just The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligenceturn up dead. She has an eight-year-old sonUnfortunately, buys her wine by he was the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes person who discovered the body and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When everyone knows that the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going police consider that person to be ''very'' publicthe prime suspect.

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerSarah Marsh|title=A Tattoo on my BrainSign of Her Own

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Alzheimer's is After a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense bout of selfscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as have manysomething only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Your memories From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and personality worn away like using a statue over system called Visible Speech. At the same time affected , Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the elementswealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. It seems as if nature wants But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that final victory over you now runs everything, making life easier for many, and your dignityriots start to spread. This Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is what makes Daniel Gibbsassigned to bring her home. Joe isn' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers British superfan and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo tech nerd, is also on my Brainthe case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki''.|isbn=1108838936s kidnapping connected?

|isbn=16358623531529421284|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopLaying Out the Bones|author=Rachel CorryKate Webb

|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=A sandal-making workshop? It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. I couldn't really believe itIn a gully, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the average home was likely body to be able to contain but I was intriguedLee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - He'd been a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair known drug user and had come apart and she learning disabilities, so it could see how the sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldnhave been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't afford to replace all her shoesconvinced. Could she combine these two facts to create Geary was a new and worthwhile crafttownie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She showed quite a few people her first pair There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pairtwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. A new career was bornLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=17873320980571379559|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Henry ManceFiona Williams

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=''When we do think about animalsThe House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, we break them down into species and groups: cowsshe lives in the house on the riverbank, dogsbuilt of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, foxesit's stood the passage of time, elephants storms and so onfloods. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates Her husband, dogs on sofasRichard, foxes in rubbish binsstruggles to grow his vegetables, elephants to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in zoos, sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and millions of wild animals stay out thereMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'somewheret believe that they're related,much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriess his nanny.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I was going to argueWilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4. I mean5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, cows there are for cheese (two D I couldn't consider eating red meatWilkins...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake Raymond Wilkins is of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and I consider myself an animal loveralways exquisitely dressed. If D I had to choose between the company Ryan Wilkins, son of humans Ryan and the company father of animalsRyan, I would probably choose the animalsis not. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctantHe's not any of those things. I eat cheeseHe's white, eggsoriginated from a trailer park, chicken barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and fish his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and I needed trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to either do so without guilt or change my choicesa police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. I suspected that making Sometimes the decision would not be comfortablecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Ananda DeviMosby Woods|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=At not The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins if mending it is one of the shortest books I've read in a long while, but it's one best course of the most dramaticaction. Governments are flailing. It's also told in A war here, a way push for climate action there. A feeling that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromanticnobody is in actual charge.|isbn=0993009344}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstImagine then, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by was a professor on a studentman with precognition. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was Imagine the alleged perpetrator doing strategic advantage in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is this asset; a big name is Artificial Intelligenceman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. She has an eight-year-old sonThat man would be valuable, buys her wine by right? Perhaps the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersmost valuable asset in history. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipmentImagine then, that this man loses this is going ability. What would governments do to be ''very'' public.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1