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|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten0241636604|title=For the WolfThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyAutobiography|summary=In RedIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's familyre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, the first daughter becomes queenwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the second daughter becomes London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a sacrificefacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. To Red He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's misfortune, she is the second daughterGuide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her 5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a wolfrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and he Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the one who will decide circumstances seem suspicious, to say the fate of their kingdomleast. If she is Arthur was the reason why Freya had not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained been back to the woods will be releasedvillage: Arthur, she feels, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories golet her down badly. But when Red enters the woods Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, expecting nothing more than she has not felt able to be killed within near the man or pursue the hourprofession she loved. After the split, she finds that worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the legends are lieslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369

|authorisbn=M G LeonardAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=TwitchAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Twitch ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is a boy who loves birdswhat happens after you're eighteen. He keeps pigeons at homeWell, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of his time technology in schoolmy lifetime. But things are about I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on me but I'm left with the run, and feeling that it's possible that the missing bank haul all getting away from me. Some of it is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood- frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the place where Twitch has his secret hide possibilities and that he the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows like what they're talking about or the back of his hand! latest conspiracy theorist. Can Twitch solve the mystery, I needed people I knew I could trust and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1838853804Sunny Singh|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory The Hotel Arcadia is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that he'd hanged himselfhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time Hiding from the occasion terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sisterSam, Melissaa wartime photographer and Abhi, who is dying of anorexiathe hotel manager. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' Abhi continues to try to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of thingscare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even he forms a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping bond with Melissa's husband, JagoSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant venturing out of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem her room to be a curse. In addition try to Melissacapture what's health problemshappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, Megan was deaf their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years they both wait to see if they will be rescued beforethey are discovered by the terrorists. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=02414001201529153298|title=The Girl Who DiedList of Suspicious Things|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CrimeGeneral 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 sheIt'd given up her medical studies s 1979 and retrained as a teacherMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She was thirty years old and money was tight's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Her friendWell, Sarathey've been murdered, showed but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her an advert for a job in Skalar on father wants to move the Langanes Peninsulafamily 'Down South'. There were only ten people in the village but When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Una was For Miv, the only applicant and the job meant that she could let move would mean leaving her flat in Reykjavik andbest friend, hopefullySharon, save some money over and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the winter which dangers or that her contract coveredMum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=18469757191398524085|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Denzil MeyrickNicci French|rating=3.5

|summary=We learn that MI5 Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesnot. But that's LondonShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, isn't it? Whatfind the body of Greg's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportfather, DCI Jim Daley and his colleagueDuncan Ackerley, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for in the airport straight awayriver. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of was an easy assumption for the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of tech which would police to make that possible isnDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't available to stand the paying publicguilt. And why have the man no identification The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on them - or even labels in with their clothes?lives and wonder about what really happened.

|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to Life|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose us. In my case, this is one of the latter. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose 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 now.|isbn=1800461682}}{{Frontpage|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 eccentrichis footsteps, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, 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 was a vet and was convinced this was the job for hours every dayhim. Neither parent is hugely interested in the practicalities of life Before long, he was at Liverpool University. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents that It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384 If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages 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 series. |isbn=B093J9TF73}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky0861541774|title= Shards A Nye 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 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 pagesif mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, Eve Out of Her Ruins a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is one of in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the shortest books I've read strategic advantage in this asset; a long whileman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, but it's one of right? Perhaps the most dramaticvaluable asset in history. It's also told in a way Imagine then, that I can only describe as brutal: this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromantic.back?|isbn=0993009344B0C9SNG8R1