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|authorisbn=Monica Connell0241636604|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary= Monica Connell went If you were to Nepal bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know thatof someone like Gary Stevenson. She went on a grant A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-supported tripstripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with a relatively specific objectiveviolence, poverty and injustice. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri There was no posh public school on his CV -labut he had been to the London School of Economics. She wasn't Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a mere tourist passing throughfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these He also realised that most rich people expect poor people and how they livedto be stupid. She also went It was his ability at what was, presumablyessentially, a card game which got him an internship with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the eventCitibank. Fortunately Eventually, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and this turned into permanent employment as a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled uptrader.|isbn=1780600429

|isbn=14091816691035021803|title=The MaidensAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Alex MichaelidesC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to get away with them boththe English country village where she grew up. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death 's back now because of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgea request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya'd been brutally stabbed s former mentor and MarianaCarole's niececlose friend, ZoeArthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, had telephoned her in distressto say the least. Tara Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her best friend and she was struggling to copedown badly. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to CambridgeEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, but she caught has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the first fast train from King's Crossprofession she loved. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all After the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastiansplit, she worked in a swimming accident cafe, met and married James (on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death rebound from the love of Zoe's mother her life, who was murdered) and Freya and Mariana's sister, ElizaJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Maisie ChanAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Danny ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is drawhappens after you're eighteen. He creates fantastical comicsWell, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make I must confess that there have been more than a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and few decades of technology in peacemy lifetime. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live I've kept up reasonably well with them, and who will not only be sharing Dannywhat's bedroom advantageous to me but she will also be sleeping on I'm left with the top bunk feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of his bunk bed! Danny it is horrified! - frankly - quite frightening. His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no EnglishOf course, I could research the possibilities and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, the probabilities and showing her around end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the townlatest conspiracy theorist. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, I needed people I knew I could trust and then he even has who could deliver information in a falling out with Raviway I could understand...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|author=Terry MilesSunny Singh|title=RabbitsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary=Welcome to the world of The GameHotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Or should that be Hiding from the gameterrorists who are rampaging through, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heavenkilling everyone on site, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbitsthere is Sam, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard wartime photographer and fast structureAbhi, and to the average person no obvious entry pointhotel manager. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for a certain tribe of people – the fan of residents who are still alive in the conspiracyhotel, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be historians of the gamecowed by events, and have studied amongst many things the most unique keeps on venturing out of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time ither room to try to capture what's differenthappened through her photography. This time Although they only ever talk over the game seems the most dangerousphone, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying they both wait to sort out what the game is doing, see if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might they will be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about rescued before they are discovered by the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..terrorists.|isbn=1529016932086154742X

|authorisbn=C J Carey1529153298|title=WidowlandThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It's April 19531979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, and Adolf Hitlerhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londonfamily, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisthough. Women have been disappearing. For yesWell, they've been murdered, Britain caved in the lead-up but to the World War Two that certainly didnhave 'disappeared' doesn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the mainlandfamily 'Down South'. But this When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is most certainly a different Britainfrightening, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childlessforeign place, the husbandless and the widowsbest avoided. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroineFor Miv, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after allmove would mean leaving her best friend, not every book can be bannedSharon, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before theyshe're stamped ready for reprintll do anything to prevent that. That is She's not worried about the dangers or that her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil HitlerMum's visitstopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=152941198X

|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Louise BeechNicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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 not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=This Is How We Are HumanDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother We tend to her sonthink of Maria Callas as Greek, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantswas born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Sebastian has decided that Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed itto 'Callas's time for him to have sexmake it more manageable in the States. But as an autistic 20 year When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -oldshe was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, that's easier said than done. And it's starting to cause them both problemsJackie. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LChristopher Edge|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him Lucas and his full titlefriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint place that he had has the nickname of 'SecretaryThe Black Hole' at one point. HeAll big movie fans, they's simply Bosner re looking forward to one lots of exciting films, and all. many, many snacks! When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosHowever, as the movie starts, they were called) at a naval establishmentvery quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at But as they lurch from one film genre to the age of twenty-onenext, there was always a way can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to work some fun (think drinking the cinema, and eating) into his day.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Hannah WhittenRachel Greenlaw|title=For the WolfCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=In Red's family, 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the first daughter becomes queendeep, and the second daughter becomes a sacrificeanswering beat in my heart. To Red's misfortune' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, she is the second daughter. Sent alone survives on luring ships into the woods with nothing but rocks and plundering the cape on wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her back, Red knows what is one of the seven who swim out to expect: survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within . But when the woods is Council Watch lays a wolftrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's 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 the one who will decide the fate secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, family secret that lies buried deep in the monsters he keeps contained sea. With only nine days to the woods will be releasedunearth what might save her father, and as her journey takes her from the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so watched streets of foreign islands to the stories go. But when Red enters heart of the woodssmuggler's territory, expecting Mira must be determined to stop at nothing more than to be killed within save the future of her home and the hour, ones she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a manholds most dear.|isbn=03565163690008664730

|author=M G LeonardJames Sherwood Metts|title=TwitchPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Twitch is Things have been a boy who loves birdsbit sticky for the Earthlings. He keeps pigeons at home, AI and chickensautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His other tasks that took time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolaccomplish. But things are about Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change for Twitch in all aspects and starting to think of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the runother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and , along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, the place where Twitch has a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his secret hide artistic passions all failed miserably and that he knows like the back who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterystudies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and find the missing millions?set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1406389374B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1838853804A G Slatter|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Megan Melvick'' There's earliest memory is a part of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down me that wants to keep this just to the pondmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, only at last. I just want to find that heenjoy it for a while.'d hanged himself. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the occasion is no less sad. SheBriar's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, a family of witches who is dying of anorexiaprotect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. As Though she dieshas always wished for magic, Melissa whispers 'sorry' Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to Megan but what did be born into her family for generations and as such since she mean? There were lots of thingswas young, minor her training as a steward revolved around letters and major crueltiesadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with MelissaEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's husbandleader, Jagoand Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a cursemaelstrom of chaos. In addition Reeling from one family secret to Melissa's health problemsanother, Megan was deaf Ellie must decide who to trust and their motherdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, Betheverything they have sacrificed to survive, had left suddenly three years beforeis under threat. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=02414001201529900360|title=The Girl Who DiedGhost Orchid|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Una It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was not thriving in Reykjavik: reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then sheRobin, Delaware'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teachers partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was thirty years old and money was tightsomething that the man she loved needed. Her friend, SaraThe next case did look simple, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulathough. There Two lovers were only ten people murdered in the village but swimming pool of a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedremote property in Bel Air. Una He was the only applicant heir to an Italian shoe empire and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik is married to an extremely rich man and, hopefully, save some money over it's not the winter Italian. But which her contract covered.of them was the primary target?

|isbn=18469757191529395224|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Denzil MeyrickSion Rowlands

|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. But thatHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn's Londont want to follow in his footsteps, isn't it? Whatparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's happening in Kinloch? life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley vet and his colleaguewas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayhe was at Liverpool University. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take offhadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isnIf anything, he't available d wanted to the paying publicbe a professional footballer. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|authorisbn=Richard Brook0861541774|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I am DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a firm believer street brawl - he would later maintain that sometimes we choose books, he was facing a man armed with a knife - and sometimes books choose ushe killed a Ghurka. In my caseInitially, 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 he faced a charge of it interesting, manslaughter but it would not have 'hit home' in the way that it does now. I believe it evidence came to me not just because I was likely light that suggested that he might have planned to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's umurder the man.s Now he could be facing the death penalty.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomly, so there is Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a predisposition towards expecting to like the book, even if it doesndiplomatic incident and wouldn't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowhelp Danny at all.|isbn=1800461682

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNAlexander McCall Smith|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=It was The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be Brian's last campall the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the time had come business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to hand the reins Canada to someone elseget away for a while. The obvious person was GaryKatie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, who'd always been the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as so jumps at the leader and he'd just be there chance to come home to observeEdinburgh. The problem with And so begins this was that Gary wasn't really new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an organiserEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, an administrator if you likebut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. He was the entertainerKatie has no experience in running a business, the person who basked or in the spotlight and made things fun match- so Brian stepped making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and did the organising. He handed the camp over - there's always her very helpful (and then took it back. And Gary determined rather handsome) neighbour, William, to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' camp.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=194812467X0811771741|title=The Farm ShopInstaKnits for Baby|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicMelissa Leapman

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a walkcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons 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 front of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outside. Itfire's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsvariety. There The projects are sheep and ducks and cowsdivided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, goats and chickensfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and even some micemore than twenty hours. Excited All the projects are attractive, Kirelle modern and Sam go shoppinguseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky. What will they buy?

|isbnauthor=0008404925Dean Koontz|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane CaseyBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of Benny is having a surpriseterrifically bad day. After allHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceand his house gets trashed. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it didn't take long to establish s possible that - if anything - it whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the other way aroundvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as He is a threat and was forced to remember nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the police officer at delivery to his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to put Webster away help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a long time: good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he was , Benny, and Harper (a very dangerous manwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=0008395594Adam Stower|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=You could Murray is supposed to be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband a humble, tidy and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Thenfriendly cat, one Monday, she went who is able to work sleep and never came home. Mark, Oli eat and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark eat and Seb are but Oli's sixteen sleep and at , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the stage where he thinks boredom is his best looktwo. HeBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a bit off with Leigh for hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a while but she put it down to him growing up world of frightening adventure and starting to become independentwhiffs. SebThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's only twelve turned up and Leighhe's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1473685745B0C47LV1PC|title=Unbreak Your HeartFragility|author=Katie MarshMosby Woods

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked SimonCan you make a ''Yo birthing person''s sonjoke? And if you could, Jakeis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, off his bikewould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be... He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - thatno. 's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not 'Fragility'au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, is set as the left side city of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. SoPortland, Oregon, Simon has every right cautiously begins to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|author=Louie Stowell|title=Otherland|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their lives.|isbn=1788000463}}{{Frontpage|isbn=walker141529431735|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Winter Visitor|author=Martin WalkerJames Henry

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had more surprising. He'd been exiled on the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known Costa del Sol as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him wanted drug smuggler for thirty yearsa decade. The body of return has come about because he's had a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and his killer never brought hasn't long to justicelive. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and the resulting publicity be used sent to identify a watery grave in the young man? boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want problem closer to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.home?

|author= Martha LeighAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Invisible Ink: A Family Memoir|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, his life's work. Her mother is a concert pianist 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 a child does not fully understand but knows is there.|isbn=1800460384}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 The Glorious Race of 3Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=So. Having done Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the impossible wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and unpicked in the lock to evening a helper at the Forgotten Cryptdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, from which too – for there is a generation missing in the Departed communicate with the Mergefamily. A few short years ago, Archie now has ''grop'Eli' s parents were both lost to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archiethe titular race, much a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one navigate the world in the company of those isa magical beast. But he manages This has made the race anathema to come through the fancy party unscathedpair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, even after an uncomfortable encounter with KurtisEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume sole aim the prize of this seriesmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=B093J9TF730571382231

|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|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 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=1848458428178763681X|title=Local Woman MissingKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Mary KubicaOrlando Murrin

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Eleven years ago, Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a man regularly came home residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and lame excuses as women to why do what he was late - againwanted. His wife was in Paul ''somehow'' got the habit of going out for a run late impression that he'd be at night. It was the only time she school to assist Paul, who had for herself when she a broken arm, but it didn't have to look after her baby turn out that way. The teaching - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for and the unquestioning affection he gave herproblems - are all his own. The locality one thing he hadn't expected was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband for someone to look after her disabled babyturn up dead. Ten days laterUnfortunately, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey he was a birth doula the person who discovered the body and she'd seemed everyone knows that the police consider that person to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for herprime suspect.

|author=Nicolas BouvierSarah Marsh|title=The Japanese ChroniclesA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It never does to start After a review bout of scarlet fever as a book with a quote from the blurbchild, but sometimes it's unavoidableEllen Lark loses her hearing. Le Monde reviewed this book Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, at some point, with the words ''what the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely thateverything about her life changes. A masterpiece Living in a time when the sense use of the craft sign language was seen as well as the art of writing. I'm going something only savages do, Ellen is sent to hesitate a school where she is taught to call it 'travel writing' because this is as much a history of Japanlip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a mythology-primer for system called Visible Speech. At the Japanese culture as it same time, Bell is a personal response to living working on other inventions and ideas, and travelling Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the countrya complicated tangle of espionage. |isbn=19060110441035401614

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec1803816759|title=The Witch's HeartUnravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary= A modern It's 2038 and approachable reimagining of Joe is a bored cop policing the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrbodawealthy and peaceful New York City. She hides in Joe longs for a forest at the edge bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the nine worldsAI system that now runs everything, remembering nothing of her past making life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wratheasier for many, and riots start to spread. Her attempts to live in peace, howeverFinally, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied Joe gets to do some real policing. In the stake—and refuses aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to leave bring her alonehome. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for LokiJoe isn's charms, and t the two start an unusual family made of up a halfonly one trying to save Suki -dead daughterDylan, a son that's a wolfBritish superfan and tech nerd, and another son thatis also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's a snake.|isbn=1789097061kidnapping connected?

|isbn=17885497591529421284|title=The Distant DeadLaying Out the Bones|author=Lesley ThomsonKate Webb

|summary=It was December 1940 one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had gone out for the evening disappeared nine years earlier. He'with her friend Idad been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn' leaving her three-year-old son, Williamt convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at home with her parentsthe time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for House of Broken Bricks'' is the family than the shame story of illegitimacyfour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but Maple had high hopes instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of putting her life (and Williambroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's) on a better footingstood the passage of time, storms and floods. She was going Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to meet her wellcomplete the delivery rounds -and tobring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -do fiancéSonny and Max, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following weekrainbow twins. LaterSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, her body would be found in the bombed-much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out home where he had taken herwith his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=15294072491529425867|title=The Perfect LieLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Jo SpainSimon Mason

|summary=It was July 2019 In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Erin was happyalways exquisitely dressed. She D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Danny father of Ryan were planning , is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a few days away: thattrailer park, barely educated (reading's always a dangerous not ''really'' his thing to do when ) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're married being introduced to a cop but she was hopefulpolice procedural written for laughs. They Well, you'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Islandre not. The knock on two men are just different sides of the door was insistent and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officerssame policing coin. Danny took one look, turned, walked to Sometimes the open window and jumped to his death from the fourth floorcombination works brilliantly well. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandSometimes it's murderproblematic.

|isbnauthor=1523092734Mosby Woods|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortWhirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space the West is quite sure how to live mend this or even if mending it is the life best course of choosing unapologetically and bravelyaction. It is to live the life you've always wantedGovernments are flailing.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at A war here, a time when violence against women push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is much in the newsactual charge. Imagine then, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my deskthere was a man with precognition. Now - to be clear - Imagine the strategic advantage in this book is not asset; a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effectiveman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, but discussion at right? Perhaps the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''most valuable asset in history. I've always thought Imagine then, that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own spaceman loses this ability. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women What would realise that we are not just an easy target governments do to be used to prove that they are big men.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1