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|authorisbn= Christophe Medler0241636604|title=MadrigalThe Trading Game: A Closely Guarded SecretConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary= Set against the backdrop If you were to bring up an image of the English Civil War, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse city banker in the summer your mind, you're unlikely to think of 1642someone like Gary Stevenson. As a loyal servant of A hoodie and jeans replaces the King, pin-stripe suit and Head of his background is the Secret ServiceEast End, it is Robert's duty where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to uncover the details London School of the plan Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and follow the clues to uncover one he has a facility with numbers which most of the us can only envy. He also realised that most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingrich 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.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1035021803|title=The Jasmine ThroneAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the night English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her sacred burningbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Princess Malini defies her brother Arthur Crockleford, is dead and refuses the circumstances seem suspicious, to step on say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the pyrevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. She is immediately sent Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be imprisoned on near the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from man or pursue the mysterious deathless watersprofession she loved. But now After the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One daysplit, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead of reporting her for such she worked in a gruesome crimecafe, Malini claims that met and married James (on the girl saved her rebound from an attacker and begs for the girl to become love of her own personal maidservantlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BCAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Lies We TellAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jane CorryBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Sarah Wallace ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. It seemed to Well, I must confess that there have been more than a loving, stable familyfew decades of technology in my lifetime. When we first meet her, she canI't sleep because her son, Freddie, whove kept up reasonably well with what's nearly sixteen, hasnadvantageous to me but I't come home by m left with the time he sort feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of halfit is -promised he'd be in byfrankly - quite frightening. Her husbandOf course, Tom, is fast asleep: 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're moving house in talking about or the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleeplatest conspiracy theorist. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonea way I could understand.

|author=Joseph KnoxSunny Singh|title=True Crime StoryHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has created suddenly been violently taken over by a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"terrorist group. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan Hiding from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken terrorists who are rampaging through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other familykilling everyone on site, there is Sam, friends a wartime photographer and professionalsAbhi, such as the policehotel manager. The various accounts help the reader get As Abhi continues to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented try to others. However, care remotely for the twists and turns at residents who are still alive in the end of each chapter leave you shockedhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, confused and unsure keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}}{{Frontpage|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=No, No, No!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginables happened through her photography. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' That's it! But, like all Although they only ever talk over the best picture booksphone, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on 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

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had surface and forensic testing proved the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeaubody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known as J-Jdrug user and had learning disabilities, to solve so it could have been a simple case that had haunted him for thirty yearsof misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The body of Geary was a young male townie, so what was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull suicide of Holly Gilbert and the resulting publicity be used to identify two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the young man? time. J-J calls Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the skull 'OscarMajor Crimes Review Unit (that' s cold cases to you 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 justiceme) investigate.

|authorisbn= Martha Leigh0571379559|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating= 5|genre= BiographyLiterary Fiction|summary= ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent Tess Hembry's roots are in a slightly eccentricJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, immediately recognisable upper middle class English familyshe lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her father is a Cambridge donhusband, Richard, forever clacking away on struggles to grow his typewriter as he edits the vegetables, to complete correspondence of the philosopher Jeandelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -Jacques RousseauSonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his lifemother's workJamaican heritage. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises for hours every dayMax takes after his father. Neither parent People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is hugely interested in the practicalities of life. There is love in the house but also darker undercurrents out with his mother that a child does not fully understand but knows is thereshe's his nanny.|isbn=1800460384

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529425867|title=Archibald Lox Lost and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=SoIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Having done the impossible Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Cryptfather of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from which the Departed communicate with the Mergea trailer park, Archie now has barely educated (reading's not 'grop'really' to think about' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. But before that, soirees They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Soirees! Archie, much You might wonder if you're being introduced to Inez's amusementa police procedural written for laughs. Well, doesnyou't even know what one re not. The two men are just different sides of those isthe same policing coin. But he manages to come through Sometimes the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriescombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyMosby Woods|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=1848458428|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he The West isn't the dominant force it once was late - again. His wife was Nobody 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 West is quite sure how to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for mend this or even if mending it is the unquestioning affection he gave herbest course of action. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled babyGovernments are flailing. Ten days laterA war here, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain push for the last couple of weeks or soclimate action there. Her body was eventually found A feeling that nobody is in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicideactual charge. She left a note saying that her daughterImagine then, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.}}{{Frontpage|author=Nicolas Bouvier|title=The Japanese Chronicles|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= It never does to start a review of a book man with a quote from the blurb, but sometimes it's unavoidableprecognition. Le Monde reviewed this book, at some point, with the words ''what Imagine the old master craftsmen would call a masterpiece.'' It is precisely that. A masterpiece strategic advantage 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 asset; a history man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Japancircumstances. That man would be valuable, a mythology-primer for right? Perhaps the Japanese culture as it is a personal response to living and travelling most valuable asset in the countryhistory. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1906011044B0C9SNG8R1