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|isbn=00082690410241636604|title=Risk of HarmThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Lucie WhitehouseGary Stevenson

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from to the MetEnglish country village where she grew up. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left 's back now because of a nasty taste in request for help from her mouthbeloved aunt, Carole. She Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who reason why Freya had broken not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her heart nearly twenty years beforedown badly. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has gone out of his way not felt able to make life difficult for Robin since be near the man or pursue the profession she was a young childloved. He's After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married to NatalieJames (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robindivorced.

|isbn=1786332388AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The First Day of SpringAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nancy TuckerBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day Opening up new ways of Springthinking about the shape of things to come.'' was one such occasion. The writing  I've heard it said that 'technology' is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips what happens after you and won't let gore eighteen. So, what's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us I must confess that she's just killed someone - there have been more than a two-year-old boyfew decades of technology in my lifetime. SheI's completely cold about ve kept up reasonably well with what she's done advantageous to me but I'm left with her main memory being the feeling that whilst she was killing it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - suffocating frankly - her hands seized upquite frightening. ThereOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's a clue that Chrissie isnm reading someone who knows what they't completely responsible for her actions a little later in re talking about or the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? latest conspiracy theorist. Hasn't he been dead for long enough?I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Catherine SteadmanSunny Singh|title=The Disappearing ActHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot 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, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the cusp of successhotel manager. Great success. If As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the rumours residents who are truestill alive in the hotel, award season is going he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to treat her wellbe cowed by events, acknowledging and keeps on venturing out of her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. Sheroom to try to capture what's going places but so, unfortunately, is happened through her partnerphotography. And Although they only ever talk over the places he's going take him towards liesphone, deceit their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia they both wait to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the excuseterrorists.|isbn=1471189783086154742X

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler1529153298|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil WarIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, a secret plan (code-named Madrigalhonestly...) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642 She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. As a loyal servant of the King Well, and Head of the Secret Servicethey've been murdered, it is Robertbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's duty overheard that her father wants to uncover move the details of family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the plan move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and follow she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the clues dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kinganyone.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1398524085|title=The Jasmine ThroneHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On the night of Charlotte Salter was expected at her sacred burninghusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Princess Malini defies Paul and Ollie and her brother and refuses to step on to the pyredaughter, Etty. She are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersnot. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown Shortly afterwards, decaying ruin. One dayEtty and Greg, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead find the body of reporting her for such a gruesome crimeGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, Malini claims that in the girl saved her from river. It was an attacker and begs easy assumption for the girl police to become her own personal maidservantmake 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.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BC1035906708|title=The Lies We TellDiva|author=Jane CorryDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sarah Wallace said that We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she grew up on a council estate was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in Kent December 1923 and that only moved to Athens when she had two brothers and two sisterswas thirteen. It seemed Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to have been a loving, stable family'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When we first meet she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her, voice - she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by was raised under the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in Nazi occupation by. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work a mother who mercilessly exploited her and he needs his sleep. He wakesmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someoneJackie.

|author=Joseph KnoxChristopher Edge|title=True Crime StoryBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Joseph Knox, known Lucas and his friends are all booked in for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsa movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance nickname of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence'The Black Hole'. Split into four parts All big movie fans, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes they're looking forward to lots of her twin sisterexciting films, other familyand many, friends and professionalsmany snacks! However, such as the policemovie starts, they very 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 various accounts help But as they lurch from one film genre to the reader next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. Howevercinema, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trustto their real lives?|isbn=08575277031839942738

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaRachel Greenlaw|title=No, No, No!Compass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=They say ''I can hear the best picture books are song of the simplest onessea. And nothing could be truer The call of this latest from Justine Averythe deep, a Bookbag favouritethe answering beat in my heart.''

''NoRosevear, Noa remote and partially forgotten island, No!'' is based around survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the simplest text imaginablewrecks. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' That's it! ButMira, like all the best picture booksher mother before her, this tiny snippet is one of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that it appears on lies within. But when the outside.|isbn=1638820457}}{{Frontpage|author=Monica Connell|title=Against Council Watch lays a Peacock Sky|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= Monica Connell went trap to Nepal to do end the wrecking, they capture the fieldwork for her Phisland's leader and Mira's father.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important Desperate to know that. She went on a grant-supported tripsave him from death, with Mira makes a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went bargain with a fundamental aim of learning about these people wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how only coordinates to find these things outguide her, how to organise them she sets off in her mind, how to "understand" them search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the context of sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her own paradigmsfather, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help as her journey takes her create some greater sense from the watched streets of foreign islands to the experience after heart of the event. Fortunatelysmuggler's territory, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness Mira must be determined to muck-in, stop at nothing to break save the future of her own rules home and to truly connect with the people of the village where ones she hauled upholds most dear.|isbn=17806004290008664730

|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. 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 of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Maisie ChanJames Sherwood Metts|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsPlanet Storyland

|summary=Danny is eleven years old, Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and what he reallyautomation have been proceeding apace, really loves often replacing jobs they're paid to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny and other tasks that took time 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 in secret and in peaceaccomplish. But then one day his parents tell him Just as they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out were beginning to be his grandmother who has come over from China get used to live with them, all this technological change and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk starting to think of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishother, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitternew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated along with his bedroom situationit, and then he even has a falling out with Raviall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X1736128426

|author=Terry MilesMatthew Tree|title=RabbitsWe'll Never Know

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Welcome Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to the world of The Game. Or should that be the gamedifferent from his father, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, 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 has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, drunk and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game chronic underachiever whose dreams of life then. Yes, this is the game being exceptional at any of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, 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 game, artistic passions all failed miserably and have studied amongst many things the most unique who had endless crises 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 it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwiseself confidence. Unfortunately for K, in trying So Tim applied himself to sort out what the game is doinghis studies, if it's even being played, and how cultivated his abilities rather than his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing daydreams and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1529016932B0CVFXPGP8

|author=C J CareyA G Slatter|title=WidowlandThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler' There's schedule includes going a part of me that wants to Moscow keep this just to attend the state funeral myself for however long I can. This secret magic of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming my own, all mine, at last. I just want to London, parading around enjoy it for a while.'' Within a bitremote mountain pass, and watching over far away from the sanctioned return to world, lies Silverton; a town under the throne protection of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didnBriar't happen as we know its, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough family of witches who protect the same blood as town and the Germanic peoples on ''wider world from the mainland''Darklands. But this Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is most certainly a different Britain, the first non-witch to be born into her family for Nazi-styled phrenologygenerations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and ideas of female purposeadministration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, has put all of that gender into a caste systemEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudgestown's leader, and beyond thoseEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right on down to the childlessand centre, Ellie uncovers the husbandless and rare ability to communicate with the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existencedead, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with putting her at the task heart of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out a maelstrom of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately chaos. Reeling from British civilisationone family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and so they just get a hefty tweak towards determine what to do as the party line before theyBriar witches're stamped ready for reprint. That is her joblegacy, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come everything they have sacrificed to lightsurvive, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitis under threat.|isbn=152941198X1803364548

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1529900360|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother 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 reluctant to her son, Sebastian ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and- but she canshut cases which didn't give him everything he wantsneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Sebastian has decided that Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's time partner, who nudged Milo into asking for him to have sexhelp again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. But as an autistic 20 year-old The next case did look simple, that's easier said than donethough. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. And He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's starting to cause not the Italian. But which of them both problems. |isbn=1913193713was the primary target?

|isbn=B093VPBL5L1529395224|title=Cape Henry HouseLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jolly Walker BittickSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class BosnerSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. We never really find out if he has His father was a first name: thereGP and Rowlands didn's merely a hint that t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he had considered the nickname 'Secretary' at one point. Hestrain that being on-call put on his father's simply Bosner to one and alllife. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories was seventeen he took the opportunity of 2008 when he doing work experience with a family friend who was a greaser on helicopters (or helos, as they were called) at a naval establishmentvet and was convinced this was the job for him. The hours could be Before long and , he was often working nights but at the age of twentyLiverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students -one, there been his dream since he was always a way child. If anything, he'd wanted to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daybe a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten0861541774|title=For the WolfA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=In RedDCI Domenic Jejeune's familyclose friend and former colleague, the first daughter becomes queenDanny Maik, and the second daughter becomes has taken a sacrifice. To Red's misfortuneshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, she is the second daughterGuy Trueman. Sent alone into the woods Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, knife - and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomkilled a Ghurka. If she is not Initially, he faced a worthy sacrifice, the monsters charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he keeps contained might have planned to murder the woods will be released, and the fabled kings man. Now he keeps hostage will never could be returned—or so facing the stories godeath penalty. But when Red enters the woods, expecting Domenic Jejeune can do nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not help as any interference from another police force could provoke a monster—hediplomatic incident and wouldn's a mant help Danny at all.|isbn=0356516369

|author=M G LeonardAlexander McCall Smith|title=TwitchThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Twitch The Perfect Passion Company is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at homedating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and chickensoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, and even tailored service. Ness has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and helping birds look after the business, as Ness is easy compared planning to take a trip to Canada to that of his time in schoolget away for a while. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects Katie is coming out of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the runchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and it's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in Aves Woodmatch-making, the place where Twitch but Ness has his secret hide full confidence in her abilities, and that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterythere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, and find the missing millions?to lend a hand…|isbn=14063893741846976596

|isbn=18388538040811771741|title=The Cursed GirlsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Caro RamsayMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Megan MelvickMelissa Leapman's earliest memory is ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down knits from toys to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfblankets. Twenty years later she's back home again and this time Some will be quick knits - others are of the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sisterlong, Melissa, who is dying cosy afternoons in front of anorexiathe fire' variety. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorryThe projects are divided by the time they' ll take to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry complete - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husbandless than five hours, Jagofive to ten hours, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem ten to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County twenty hours and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a cursemore than twenty hours. In addition to Melissa's health problemsAll the projects are attractive, Megan was deaf modern and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeuseable. Would she come back for her elder daughterI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241400120|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then shesocial-media-worthy projects'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covered's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1846975719Dean Koontz|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil Meyrick|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying public. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?}}{{Frontpage|author=Richard Brook|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeBad 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 ''gropreally'' his thing) 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 think abouta police procedural written for laughs. But before that Well, soireesyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez Sometimes it's amusement, doesnproblematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even know what one if mending it is the best course of those action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody isin actual charge. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathedImagine then, even after an uncomfortable encounter there was a man with Kurtisprecognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in the first volume of history. Imagine then, that this man loses this seriesability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B093J9TF73B0C9SNG8R1