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|authorisbn=Alex Cotter0241636604|title=The House on the EdgeTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the edge If you were to bring up an image of a cliffcity banker in your mind, literallyyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Is that crack in A hoodie and jeans replaces the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as pin-stripe suit and his background is the house seems to be falling apartEast End, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappearedwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and her mum is struggling injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care the London School of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachersEconomics. Is her little brother okay? Why Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he obsessed has a 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 ability at what he claims is was, essentially, a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping ontrader.|isbn=1788008626

|isbn=00082690411035021803|title=Risk of HarmThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lucie WhitehouseC L Miller|rating=43.5

|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, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, Nolike her mother before her, No!'' is based around one of the simplest text imaginableseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'Nos father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, noshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, no! Okayas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, okayMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. Yes, you may|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4.''5|genre=Confident ReadersThat|summary= Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's it! But, like re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all the best picture books, this tiny snippet technological change and starting to think of text is a veritable tardis - so other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much bigger on shut down and, along with it, all the inside that it appears many daily social interactions on the outsidewhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=16388204571736128426

|author=Monica ConnellMatthew Tree|title=Against a Peacock SkyWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported tripbe different from his father, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people drunk and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline chronic underachiever whose dreams of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context being exceptional at any of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files his artistic passions all failed miserably and photos to help her create some greater sense who had endless crises of the experience after the eventself confidence. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness So Tim applied himself to muck-inhis studies, to break her own rules cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1780600429B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1409181669A G Slatter|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Mariana was convinced '' There's a part of me that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely wants to keep this just to get away with them bothmyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. She needed I just want to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceedenjoy it for a while.'' Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the death protection of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and MarianaBriar's niece, Zoea family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her best friend family for generations and as such since she was struggling to copeyoung, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Mariana wasnWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridges cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, but she caught the first fast train from Kingtown's Crossleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Mariana As challenges come her way left, right and Zoe were close and had been made all centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the more so by dead, putting her at the death heart of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earliermaelstrom of chaos. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the death of ZoeBriar witches's mother and Mariana's sisterlegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, Elizais under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Maisie Chan1529900360|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Danny is eleven years old, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and what he reallyeven after Alex recovered, really loves Sturgis was reluctant to do is drawask for his help on difficult cases. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the wordshelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. DannyFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's dadpartner, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the drawingman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! though. At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw Two lovers were murdered in secret and the swimming pool of a remote property in peaceBel Air. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and this surprise turns out she is married to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, an extremely rich man and who will not only be sharing Dannyit's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on not the top bunk Italian. But which 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 her around them was the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get betterprimary target?!|isbn=180078001X

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1529395224|title=RabbitsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Welcome Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the world of The Game. Or should strain that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. Itbeing on-call put on his father'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, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is When he was seventeen he took the game opportunity of life for doing work experience with a family friend who was 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 vet and his bezzies are trying to be historians of was convinced this was the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, job for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar placeshim. Before long, and are still very shorthe was at Liverpool University. However this time it It hadn's differentt - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. This time the game seems the most dangerous If anything, nay lethal, the most broken ithe's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying d wanted to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeedprofessional footballer...|isbn=1529016932

|authorisbn=C J Carey0861541774|title=WidowlandA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's April 1953close friend and former colleague, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to LondonDanny Maik, parading around has taken a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return short holiday in Singapore to the throne of Edward VIII meet up with his wifean old ally, Queen WallisGuy Trueman. For yes, Britain caved Maik was involved in the leada street brawl -up to the World War Two he would later maintain that certainly didn't happen as we know it, he was facing a man armed with a knife - and we are now he killed a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''Ghurka. But this is most certainly Initially, he faced a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down he might have planned to murder the childless, the husbandless and the widowsman. Female literacy is actively discouragedNow he could be facing the death penalty. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately help as any interference from British civilisation, another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before theywouldn're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, t help Danny at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitall.|isbn=152941198X

|author=Louise BeechAlexander McCall Smith|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary=Veronica The Perfect Passion Company is a devoted single mother dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to her sonall the online apps in providing a more personal, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantstailored service. Sebastian Ness has decided that it's time asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for him a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to have sexcome home to Edinburgh. But as And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an autistic 20 yearEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-oldmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, thatand there's easier said than done. And it's starting always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to cause them both problems. lend a hand…|isbn=19131937131846976596

|isbn=B093VPBL5L0811771741|title=Cape Henry HouseInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jolly Walker BittickMelissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Meet Bosner, or, Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosnerblankets. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's merely a hint that he had long, cosy afternoons in front of the nickname fire'Secretary' at one pointvariety. HeThe projects are divided by the time they's simply Bosner ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to one twenty hours and allmore than twenty hours. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosAll the projects are attractive, as they were called) at a naval establishmentmodern and useable. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at the I perhaps show my age of twentywhen I wonder about 'social-media-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his dayworthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Hannah WhittenDean Koontz|title=For the WolfThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyParanormal|summary=In Red's familyBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, the first daughter becomes queenand his house gets trashed. Oh, and the second daughter becomes someone has delivered a sacrifice. To Redreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's misfortunepossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, she Benny is the second daughtervery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Sent alone into So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what delivery to expect: within the woods his house is a wolfnew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, and he who has been sent to help him since Benny is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. If she Spike is not a worthy sacrificegoing to take care of Benny, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods and will be releasedcertainly take care of Benny's enemies, and the fabled kings if he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hourBenny, she and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—heherself roped into Benny's a manwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03565163691662500491

|author=M G LeonardAdam Stower|title=TwitchMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Twitch Murray is supposed to be a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at homehumble, tidy and chickensfriendly cat, one who is able to sleep and even has swallows nesting in eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that fancy next of his time in schoolthe two. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of he's a bad magician's cat, so his life as there is favourite bun has been turned into a dangerous bank robber on the runhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and it's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the regular back garden, but into a world of his hand! frightening adventure and whiffs. Can Twitch solve the mysteryThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and find the missing millions?he'll have to do…|isbn=14063893740008561249

|isbn=1838853804B0C47LV1PC|title=The Cursed GirlsFragility|author=Caro RamsayMosby Woods

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Megan MelvickCan you make a 's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himself. Twenty years later sheYo birthing person's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissajoke? And if you could, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she meanthe question should you make it? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a Or is the question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husbandyou did, Jago, on their wedding daywould it land? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of catch is that the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to answer for both could well be a curse. In addition to Melissa... no. ''Fragility''s health problemsis set as the city of Portland, Megan was deaf and their motherOregon, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=02414001201529431735|title=The Girl Who DiedWinter Visitor|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbJames Henry

|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation It's February 1991 and since then sheEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd given up her medical studies and retrained been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a teacherwanted drug smuggler for a decade. She was thirty years old The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and money was tighthasn't long to live. Her friendIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Sara, showed her an advert for stripped to his underwear and sent to a job watery grave in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulaboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. There were only ten people in the village but Is it a warning from a teacher was required for two children: Spanish gang or 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.problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1846975719Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=We learn that MI5 Eli is having its problems a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's Londonhim, isn't it? What's happening and in Kinloch? When the evening a light aircraft crash lands helper at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scottlovely gran, head off too – for there is a generation missing in the airport straight awayfamily. It soon becomes evident though that A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both occupants lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of the plane were dead before take offa magical beast. How could that be? The sort This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of tech which would make that possible isn't available magic at the end – the only thing to the paying publicpossibly save his gran. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Richard Brook178763681X|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I am Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, and sometimes books choose usresidential cookery school in Belgravia. In my case, this is one He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the lattergetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Not so very long ago, if I had come across this book I Paul ''d have skimmed it, found some of it interesting, but it would not have somehow'hit home' in got the way impression that it does now. I believe it came to me not just because I was likely he'd be at the school to give it a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlyassist Paul, so there is who had a predisposition towards expecting to like the bookbroken arm, even if but it doesndidn't always turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed t expected was for someone to readturn up dead. Unfortunately, right nowhe was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|isbn=1800461682

|isbnauthor=B095CY7NBNSarah Marsh|title=Autumn Camp|author=Barry FowlerA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5

|summary=It was to be Brian's last campAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. He'd founded Living in a time when the organisation some four years ago and had done all the organisation since but he use of sign language was leaving seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school and the time had come where she is taught to hand the reins to someone elselip read, but physically restrained from signing. The obvious person was GaryFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who'd always has been teaching the fun element of the camps and Brian had said that on this camp, Gary should act as the leader deaf and he'd just be there to observeusing a system called Visible Speech. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organiserAt the same time, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainerBell is working on other inventions and ideas, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in and did the organising. He handed the camp over - and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been ''his'' campa complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=194812467X1803816759|title=The Farm ShopUnravelling|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicWill Gibson

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Kirelle It's 2038 and her best friend Sam Joe is a bored cop policing the cat decide to go wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a walkbit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Kirelle is dressed But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for all weathers in her bright yellow wellies many, and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever in his smart grey fur coatriots start to spread. As they walk Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the top aftermath of the hill, they see a big barn with a sign outsiderioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. ItJoe isn's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all t the stallholders and customers are farmyard animals. There are sheep and ducks and cowsonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, goats a British superfan and chickenstech nerd, and even some miceis also on the case. Excited, Kirelle and Sam go shopping. What will they buywent wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=00084049251529421284|title=The Killing KindLaying Out the Bones|author=Jane CaseyKate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a surpriseheatwave. After allIn a gully, it was her cross-examination of a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencebody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been accused a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of stalking the woman misadventure but it didnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't take long to establish that - if anything - it convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was the other way around. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Soon Ingrid never seemed There are connections to be free the suicide of John Webster Holly Gilbert and then she came to see him as a threat two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and was forced to remember that DC Gemma Broad of the police officer at his trial had told her Major Crimes Review Unit (that this was the best chance they'd had s cold cases to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous manyou and me) investigate.

|isbn=00083955940571379559|title=Both The House of YouBroken Bricks|author=Adele Parks|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=OtherlandFiona Williams

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Myra and Rohan ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are like Yin in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she 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 Yang – Myra is loudfloods. Her husband, bright and hates rulesRichard, while Rohan is very politestruggles to grow his vegetables, serious to complete the delivery rounds - and worries about the tiniest thingsto bring in sufficient money. Their only connection? Being born They have twin boys - Sonny and briefly dying at Max, the same time at the same hospital on Midsummerrainbow twins. Sonny's day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the twocolouring reflects his mother's birthday/deathdayJamaican heritage. But when RohanMax takes after his father. People don's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, t believe that they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons're related, much less twins and Gods. Itthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's going to be the worst night of their liveshis nanny.|isbn=1788000463

|isbn=walker141529425867|title=The Coldest Case Lost and Never Found (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Martin WalkerSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his bossNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, chief son of detectives JalipeauRyan and father of Ryan, known as J-Jis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' 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 solve a case that had haunted him police procedural written for thirty yearslaughs. Well, you're not. The body two men are just different sides of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justicesame policing coin. What if an artist could recreate Sometimes the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? combination works brilliantly well. J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees Sometimes it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justices problematic.

|author= Martha LeighMosby Woods|title= Invisible Ink: A Family MemoirWhirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 54|genre= BiographyLiterary Fiction|summary= Martha Leigh begins her book talking about a childhood spent The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in a slightly eccentric, immediately recognisable upper middle class English family. Her father the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is a Cambridge don, forever clacking away on his typewriter as he edits the complete correspondence best course of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseauaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, his life's work. Her mother is a concert pianist who practises push for hours every dayclimate action there. Neither parent A feeling that nobody is hugely interested in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the practicalities strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of lifecircumstances. There is love That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in the house but also darker undercurrents history. Imagine then, that a child does not fully understand but knows is therethis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1800460384B0C9SNG8R1