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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox0241636604|title=True Crime StoryThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= Joseph KnoxIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, known for you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsbackground is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has created a new genre 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 latest novelability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, "True Crime Story"this turned into permanent employment as a trader. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The story follows Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the disappearance English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Zoe Nolan a request for help from her university halls of residencebeloved aunt, Carole. Split into four parts Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, the reader is taken through the life dead and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sistercircumstances seem suspicious, other family, friends and professionals, such as to say the policeleast. The various accounts help Arthur was the reader get reason why Freya had not been back to know Zoethe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or at least pursue the Zoe profession she presented to othersloved. However After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the twists and turns at rebound from the end love of each chapter leave you shockedher life, confused who was murdered) and Freya and unsure of what is true or fabricatedJames have now divorced. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=No, No, No!All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=They say ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer shape of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favouritethings to come.''

I've heard it said that 'technology'Nois what happens after you're eighteen. Well, NoI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, No!I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they' is based around re talking about or the simplest text imaginablelatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}''No{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, nokilling everyone on site, no! Okaythere is Sam, okay. Yesa wartime photographer and Abhi, you maythe hotel manager.'' That's it! But, like all As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the best picture bookshotel, this tiny snippet of text is he forms a veritable tardis - so much bigger bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the inside that it appears on 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 outsideterrorists.|isbn=1638820457086154742X

|authorisbn=Monica Connell1529153298|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her PhIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister.D (A woman? I mean, honestly. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. ) She went on a grant-supported trip's not what's worrying Miv's family, with a relatively specific objectivethough. Women have been disappearing. She wasn Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-lasound quite so frightening. She wasn Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South't a mere tourist passing through. She went with When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they livedfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She also went For Miv, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in move would mean leaving her mindbest friend, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigmsSharon, and how she'll do anything to keep enough notes and files and photos to help prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of openMum's stopped talking -ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upanyone.|isbn=1780600429

|isbn=14091816691398524085|title=The MaidensHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alex MichaelidesNicci French

|summary=Mariana Charlotte Salter was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She needed to think carefully about what she knew Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and decide how she should proceedher daughter, Etty. Everything are all worried but - or so she thought strangely - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeher husband, Alec, is not. She'd been brutally stabbed Shortly afterwards, Etty and MarianaGreg, find the body of Greg's niecefather, ZoeDuncan Ackerley, had telephoned her in distressthe river. Tara It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been her best friend murdered Charlie and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasnthen committed suicide when he couldn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught stand the first fast train from King's Crossguilt. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of MarianaThe Salter children are not convinced but there's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident little else they can do but get on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been with their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother lives and Mariana's sister, Elizawonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Maisie Chan1035906708|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Danny is eleven years oldWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and what he really, really loves only moved to do is drawAthens when she was thirteen. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. DannyHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw it more manageable in secret and in peacethe States. But then one day his parents tell him they have When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother mother who has come over from China to live with them, mercilessly exploited her and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk made no secret of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing preference for her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths projectelder sister, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..Jackie.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|author=Terry MilesChristopher Edge|title=RabbitsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, Lucas and his friends are all booked in for while it ought to be capitalised to high heavena movie marathon at their local cinema, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it place that has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game nickname of life then'The Black Hole'. Yes All big movie fans, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan they're looking forward to lots of the conspiracyexciting films, 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 to be historians of the gamemany, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boardssnacks! However, for as the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar placesmovie starts, and are still they very short. However quickly realise that something about this time it's new film format is very different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken itand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's ever been – morally and otherwiset even imagine. Unfortunately for K But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, in trying to sort can they figure out what the game on earth is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only going on? Will they ever get back to find out that the line between observing and learning about the gamecinema, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...to their real lives?|isbn=15290169321839942738

|author=C J CareyRachel Greenlaw|title=WidowlandCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend I can hear the state funeral song of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to sea. The call of the throne of Edward VIII with his wifedeep, Queen Wallisthe answering beat in my heart. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it' Rosevear, a remote and we are now a protectorate – wellpartially forgotten island, we share enough of survives on luring ships into the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''rocks and plundering the mainland''wrecks. But this is most certainly a different BritainMira, for Nazi-styled phrenologylike her mother before her, and ideas is one of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs the seven who swim out to survey the drudges, ruins – rescuing any survivors and beyond those, right on down any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the childlesswrecking, they capture the husbandless island's leader and the widowsMira's father. Female literacy Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, as charming as he is employed secretive and with the task of bowdlerising classical literature only coordinates to take all encouragement for female emancipation out guide her, she sets off in search of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards family secret that lies buried deep in the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintsea. That is With only nine days to unearth what might save her jobfather, at least, until as her journey takes her from the first emerging signs watched streets of female protest come foreign islands to lightthe heart of the smuggler's territory, with their potential Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to spoil Hitler's visitsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=152941198X0008664730

|author=Louise BeechJames Sherwood Metts|title=This Is How We Are HumanPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Veronica is Things have been a devoted single mother to her sonbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Sebastian - but she canoften replacing jobs they't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided re paid to do and other tasks that it's took time for him to have sexaccomplish. But Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an autistic 20 year-oldawful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, that's easier said than done. And along with it's starting to cause them both problems, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=19131937131736128426

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LMatthew Tree|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet Bosner, or, Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to give him be different from his full titlefather, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointendless crises of self confidence. He's simply Bosner So Tim applied himself to one and all. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosstudies, as they were called) at a naval establishment. The hours could be long cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and he was often working nights set himself high but at the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his dayachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Hannah WhittenA G Slatter|title=For The Briar Book of the WolfDead

|summary=In Red'' There's familya part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, the first daughter becomes queenall mine, and the second daughter becomes at last. I just want to enjoy it for a sacrificewhile. To Red's misfortune' Within a remote mountain pass, she is far away from the second daughter. Sent alone into world, lies Silverton; a town under the woods with nothing but protection of the cape on her backBriar's, Red knows what to expect: within a family of witches who protect the woods is a wolf, town and he is the one who will decide wider world from the fate of their kingdomDarklands. If Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained first non-witch to the woods will be releasedborn into her family for generations and as 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 cousin Audra becomes the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so Briar Witch, the stories gotown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. But when Red enters As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the woods, expecting nothing more than rare ability to be killed within communicate with the hourdead, she finds that putting her at the legends are liesheart of a maelstrom of chaos. The wolf Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is not a monster—he's a manunder threat.|isbn=03565163691803364548

|authorisbn=M G Leonard1529900360|title=TwitchThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and chickenseven after Alex recovered, and even has swallows nesting in Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his bedroom! help on difficult cases. His time spent watching assertions that there were only open-and helping birds is easy compared to that -shut cases which didn't need the help of his time in schoola psychologist only worked for a while. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the runFinally, and itwas Robin, Delaware's possible partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back swimming pool of his hand! a remote property in Bel Air. Can Twitch solve He was the mystery, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and find it's not the missing millionsItalian. But which of them was the primary target?|isbn=1406389374

|isbn=18388538041529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Cursed GirlsSecret Life of a Vet|author=Caro RamsaySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Megan MelvickSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the pond, only to find strain that hebeing on-call put on his father'd hanged himselfs life. Twenty years later she's back home again When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this time was the occasion is no less sadjob for him. She's there to say her final farewells to her sisterBefore long, Melissa, who is dying of anorexiahe was at Liverpool University. As she dies, Melissa whispers It hadn'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have t - as with so many students - been sorry - or his dream since he was it even a question? child. Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with MelissaIf anything, he's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem d wanted to be a curseprofessional footballer. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=02414001200861541774|title=The Girl Who DiedA Nye of Pheasants|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbSteve Burrows

|summary=Una 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 not thriving involved in Reykjavik: it a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any explanation interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and since then shewouldn'd given up her medical studies t help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and retrained operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a teachermore personal, tailored service. She was thirty years old Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and money was tight. Her friendlook after the business, Sara, showed her an advert as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulawhile. There were only ten people in the village but Katie is coming out of a teacher was required for two children: break up with a salary would be paid bad boyfriend, and accommodation providedso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Una was And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the only applicant Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and the job meant that she could let there's always her flat in Reykjavik very helpful (andrather handsome) neighbour, hopefullyWilliam, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=18469757190811771741|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Denzil MeyrickMelissa Leapman|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to awkward placesblankets. But thatSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's Londonlong, isncosy afternoons in front of the fire't it? variety. WhatThe projects are divided by the time they's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airportll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, DCI Jim Daley ten to twenty hours and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awaymore than twenty hours. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of All the plane were dead before take offprojects are attractive, modern and useable. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that possible isn't available to the paying publics me being picky. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?

|author=Richard BrookDean Koontz|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary= I am Benny is having a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and sometimes books choose ushis house gets trashed. In my caseOh, this is one of the latter. Not so very long agoand someone has delivered a really weird, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed itdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, found some of and it interesting, but it would not have 'hit home' in s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the way thing that it does nowhas trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely to give it He is a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's unice person.s.p A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlya new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, so there who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a predisposition towards expecting good person. Spike is going to like the booktake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, even if it doesnhe, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't always turn s wild adventure) can figure out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right nowwho exactly they are.|isbn=18004616821662500491

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNAdam Stower|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=It was Murray is supposed to be Brian's last camp. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he was leaving school a humble, tidy and the time had come to hand the reins to someone else. The obvious person was Garyfriendly cat, one who'd always been the fun element of the camps is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as well, whatever takes his fancy next of the leader and two. But he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasns a bad magician't really an organisers cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, an administrator if you like. He was and the entertainercatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and did the organisingwhiffs. He handed the camp over - and then took This time round it back. And Gary determined drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to have his revenge. This should have been be honest, but he's turned up and he'his'' camp.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=194812467XB0C47LV1PC|title=The Farm ShopFragility|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicMosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam the cat decide to go for Can you make a walk. Kirelle ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is dressed for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies and Sam the question should you make it? Or is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of the hillquestion if you did, they see a big barn with a sign outside. It's a farm shop! But this would it land? The catch is a farm shop with a difference: all that the stallholders and customers are farmyard animalsanswer for both could well be... There are sheep and ducks and cows, goats and chickens, and even some mice. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shoppingno.

|isbn=00084049251529431735|title=The Killing KindWinter Visitor|author=Jane CaseyJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencemore surprising. He'd been accused of stalking exiled on the woman but it didnCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way aroundlive. Soon Ingrid never seemed It's hard to be free of John Webster feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and then she came sent to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that watery grave in the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a long time: he was Spanish gang or a very dangerous man.problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0008395594Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Both The Glorious Race of You|author=Adele ParksMagical Beasts

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went to work in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and never came homeruns. MarkEli lives with his lovely gran, Oli and Seb are shatteredtoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. WellA few short years ago, Mark and Seb are but OliEli's sixteen and at parents were both lost to the stage titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where he thinks boredom is his best lookall entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. He's been This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bit off with Leigh for bad incident at the eatery leads to a while but she put it down confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to him growing up and starting dare to become independent. Seb's enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports thing to possibly save his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracegran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1473685745178763681X|title=Unbreak Your HeartKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Katie MarshOrlando Murrin

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|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 Simon's son, Jake, off his bikeChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He wasndidn't hurt really want to but Jake has historycelebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. He has HLHS - thatPaul 's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not 'somehow'au fait'got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn' with your medical acronymst turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. When The one thing he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he expected was a few days oldfor someone to turn up dead. SoUnfortunately, Simon has every right he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're drivingthe prime suspect.

|author=Louie StowellSarah Marsh|title=OtherlandA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loudAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very politeEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, serious and worries everything about the tiniest thingsher life changes. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same Living in a time at when the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And souse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, every year their families get together Ellen is sent to celebrate the two's birthday/deathdaya school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen From here, they must journey to she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Otherland, deaf and using a magical realm full of fairiessystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, vampires, dragonsBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of their livesespionage.|isbn=17880004631035401614

|isbn=walker141803816759|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Unravelling|author=Martin WalkerWill Gibson

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of police Bruno Courreges had adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the idea which he thought might help his bossAI system that now runs everything, chief of detectives Jalipeaumaking life easier for many, known as J-Jand riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty yearsdo some real policing. The body In the aftermath of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and his killer never brought Joe is assigned to justicebring her home. What if an artist could recreate Joe isn't the face from the skull only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the resulting publicity be used to identify the young mancase. What went wrong? J-J calls Did the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees system fail or was it every time he leaves his office: he doesnhacked? And how is Suki't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.s kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn= Martha Leigh1529421284|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 Laying Out 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}}{{FrontpageBones|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|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 It was one of those is. But he manages to come through flash downpours that the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed British weather often delivers in the first volume of this seriesa heatwave. |isbn=B093J9TF73}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago In a gully, 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 a 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 skeleton came to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he surface and forensic testing proved the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears body to be recent Architect activityLee Geary, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlightwho had disappeared nine years earlier. As he He'd been a known drug user 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 Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Eleven years agohad learning disabilities, so it could have been a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit simple case of going out for a run late at nightmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she Geary was out she would meet up with a mantownie, grateful for the unquestioning affection so what was he gave her. doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband There are connections to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman the suicide of Holly Gilbert and her six-year-old daughter disappearedto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula Lockyer and she'd seemed to be under some strain for DC Gemma Broad of the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared Major Crimes Review Unit (that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe s cold cases to you and there was no point in looking for herme) investigate.

|authorisbn=Nicolas Bouvier0571379559|title=The Japanese ChroniclesHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary= It never does to start a review ''The House of a book with a quote from Broken Bricks'' is the blurbstory of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but sometimes instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's unavoidablestood the passage of time, storms and floods. Le Monde reviewed this book Her husband, at some pointRichard, with struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the words ''what delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiecerainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother' It is precisely thats Jamaican heritage. A masterpiece in the sense of the craft as well as the art of writingMax takes after his father. I People don'm going to hesitate to call it t believe that they'travel writingre related, much less twins and there' because this s an assumption when Max is as much a history of Japan, a mythology-primer for the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling in the countryout with his mother that she's his nanny. |isbn=1906011044

|authorisbn=Genevieve Gornichec1529425867|title=The Witch's Heart|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Lost and Never Found (A modern and approachable reimagining of the Norse myths that centres around a witch named Angrboda. She hides in a forest at the edge of the nine worlds, remembering nothing of her past life but that fact that she was survived burnt at the stake three times because of Odin's wrath. Her attempts to live in peace, however, are quickly thwarted when Loki shows up with her literal heart—the one that was cut from her chest before she was tied to the stake—and refuses to leave her alone. After an initial period of mistrust, Angrboda begins to fall for Loki's charms, and the two start an unusual family made of up a half-dead daughter, a son that's a wolf, and another son that's a snake.|isbn=1789097061}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788549759|title=The Distant DeadD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Lesley ThomsonSimon Mason

|summary=It was December 1940 In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, sonof Ryan and father of Ryan, William, at home with her parentsis not. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame He's not any of illegitimacythose things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life barely educated (and Williamreading'snot ''really'' his thing) on 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 being introduced to a better footingpolice procedural written for laughs. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancéWell, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family you're not. The two men are just different sides of the following weeksame policing coin. Later, her body would be found in Sometimes the bombed-out home where he had taken hercombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1529407249Mosby Woods|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It The West isn't the dominant force it once was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a cop but she was hopefulpush for climate action there. They'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea A feeling that nobody is in Newport, Long Islandactual charge. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was openedImagine then, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell there was there a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a couple man who can tell you what will happen given any set of other officerscircumstances. Danny took one look, turnedThat man would be valuable, walked to right? Perhaps the open window and jumped to his death from the fourth floormost valuable asset in history. Eighteen months laterImagine then, Erin that this man loses this ability. What would be on trial for her husband's murder.governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1