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|isbn=05713658840241636604|title=My Mess is a Bit of LifeThe Trading Game: Adventures in AnxietyA Confession|author=Georgia PritchettGary Stevenson|rating=4.5

|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, even as a childyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. She would worry about whether A hoodie and jeans replaces the monsters under pin-stripe suit and his background is the bed were comfortable: it East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the sort London School of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and far betweenhe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. On a visit He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to a therapist, as an adult, be stupid. when she It was completely unable to speak about his ability at what was wrong , essentially, a card game which got him an internship with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believetrader.

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1035021803|title=The House on the EdgeAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=FaithIt's family home is teetering on twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the edge English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a cliffrequest for help from her beloved aunt, literallyCarole. Is that crack in Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the garden getting bigger? Is least. Arthur was the house starting reason why Freya had not been back to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apartvillage: Arthur, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappearedshe feels, and let her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her beddown badly. So that leaves Faith Even though they were in chargebusiness together as antique hunters, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah she has not felt able to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in be near the man or pursue the cellar? What should profession she do about loved. After the house? Can split, she find worked in 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 cafe, met and married James (on the house? She carries rebound from the weight love of all these worries on her constantlylife, who was murdered) and Freya and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onJames have now divorced.|isbn=1788008626

|isbn=0008269041AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Risk of HarmAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Lucie WhitehouseBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=DCI Robin Lyons ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is back in her native Birmingham what happens after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Metyou're eighteen. She might Well, I must confess that there have been reinstated but the whole episode left more than a nasty taste few decades of technology in her mouthmy lifetime. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parentI've kept up reasonably well with what's home into a rented house advantageous to me but thereI'm left with the feeling that it's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out all getting away from me. Some of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childit is - frankly - quite frightening. He's married to NatalieOf course, now I could research the possibilities and has a young child but hethe probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's still got it re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in for Robina way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1786332388Sunny Singh|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing Hotel Arcadia is superb and completely compellinga luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. The characterisation Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is excellent Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the plot grips you and won't let gohotel manager. So, what's As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the problem? Well, residents who are still alive in the problem is Chrissiehotel, the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years oldhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, small for and keeps on venturing out of her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She's completely cold about room to try to capture what she's done with happened through her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upphotography. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her actions a little later in keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1529153298|title=The Disappearing ActList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= British actress Mia Eliot It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is on the cusp of successPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly.. Great success. If the rumours are true) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, award season is going to treat her wellthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, acknowledging her for her latestthey've been murdered, critically acclaimed productionbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. She Miv's upset because she's going places but sooverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, unfortunatelyforeign place, is best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her partnerbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. And the places he She's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in not worried about the form of his new co-star. Itdangers or that her Mum's a good time for Mia stopped talking - to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuseanyone.|isbn=1471189783

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler1398524085|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil WarCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, a secret plan (codeEtty. are all worried but -named Madrigal) strangely - her husband, Alec, is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642not. As a loyal servant of the King Shortly afterwards, Etty and Head Greg, find the body of the Secret Service, it is RobertGreg's duty to uncover father, Duncan Ackerley, in the details of river. It was an easy assumption for the plan police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and follow then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingguilt. 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=B095HY8SXQ

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1035906708|title=The Jasmine ThroneDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= On the night We tend to think of her sacred burningMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, Princess Malini defies in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her brother and refuses father changed it to step on 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the pyreStates. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was once filled with raised under the Nazi occupation by a community of people mother who got powers from the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magic. Instead mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of reporting her preference for such a gruesome crimeher elder sister, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantJackie.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCChristopher Edge|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a council estate in Kent and place that she had two brothers and two sistershas the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. It seemed All big movie fans, they're looking forward to have been a lovinglots of exciting films, and many, stable family. many snacks! When we first meet herHowever, she can't sleep because her sonas the movie starts, Freddiethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, who's nearly sixteen, hasnand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in byeven imagine. Her husband, TomBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is fast asleep: going on? Will they're moving house in ever get back to the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, thoughcinema, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Joseph KnoxRachel Greenlaw|title=True Crime StoryCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary= Joseph Knox''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsthe answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, has created a new genre with his latest novelremote and partially forgotten island, "True Crime Story"survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from Mira, like her mother before her university halls , is one of residencethe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Split into four partsBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the reader island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is taken through the life secretive and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of with only coordinates to guide her twin sister, other she sets off in search of a family, friends and professionals, such as secret that lies buried deep in the policesea. The various accounts help the reader get With only nine days to know Zoeunearth what might save her father, or at least as her journey takes her from the Zoe she presented watched streets of foreign islands to others. Howeverthe heart of the smuggler's territory, the twists and turns Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the end future of each chapter leave you shocked, confused her home and unsure of what is true or fabricatedthe ones she holds most dear. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=08575277030008664730

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaJames Sherwood Metts|title=No, No, No!Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=They say Things have been a bit sticky for the best picture books are the simplest onesEarthlings. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine AveryAI and automation have been proceeding apace, a Bookbag favourite. often replacing jobs they''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginablere paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. ''NoJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, nonew ways to spend time, no! Okay, okayalong came an awful pandemic. YesLife was pretty much shut down and, you may.'' That's along with it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - many daily social interactions on which they depend so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outsideheavily.|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 ParksFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom temperamentally she adores. Thenmight be happier there, one Mondaybut instead, she went to work and never came home. Marklives in the house on the riverbank, Oli and Seb are shatteredbuilt of broken bricks. WellInsubstantial as it might look, Mark and Seb are but Oliit's sixteen stood the passage of time, storms and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookfloods. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to him growing up complete the delivery rounds - and starting to become independentbring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. SebSonny's only twelve and Leighcolouring reflects his mother's absence hits him hardJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Then Daan JanssenPeople don't believe that they're related, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without tracenanny.

|isbn=14736857451529425867|title=Unbreak Your HeartLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Katie MarshSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of an angry exchange - wellNigerian descent, Simon was angry Balliol educated and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, sonof Ryan and father of Ryan, Jake, off his bikeis not. He wasn't hurt but Jake has historys not any of those things. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''au faitreally'' with your medical acronymshis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadnThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was re being introduced to a few days oldpolice procedural written for laughs. SoWell, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isnyou't looking where theyre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it're drivings problematic.

|author=Louie StowellMosby Woods|title=Otherland|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Myra and Rohan are like Yin and Yang – Myra is loud, bright and hates rules, while Rohan is very polite, serious and worries about the tiniest things. Their only connection? Being born and briefly dying at the same time at the same hospital on Midsummer's day. And so, every year their families get together to celebrate the two's birthday/deathday. But when Rohan's little sister Shilpa is taken by the fairy queen, they must journey to the Otherland, a magical realm full of fairies, vampires, dragons, and Gods. It's going to be the worst night of their lives.|isbn=1788000463}}{{Frontpage|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerWhirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It The West isn't the dominant force it once was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work . Nobody in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief best course of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-Jaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, to solve a case that had haunted him push for thirty yearsclimate action there. The body of a young male was found A feeling that nobody is in the woods but he actual charge. Imagine then, there was never identified and his killer never brought to justicea man with precognition. What if an artist could recreate Imagine the face from the skull and the resulting publicity strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be used to identify valuable, right? Perhaps the young most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this manloses this ability. What would governments do to get it back? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' 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 justice.|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1