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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Hannah PeckGary Stevenson|titlerating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Kate If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the CaseLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he 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 was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Kate, although I got It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the impression English country village where shegrew up. She'd rather be s back now because of a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. For Catherine Rodriguez is KateFreya's former mentor and Carole's idolclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the author of our heroine's favourite possessioncircumstances seem suspicious, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''to say the least. Armed with a plucky fatherArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, that bookshe feels, and let her talking mouse called Rupertdown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she is all equipped to manage a train ride has not felt able to be near the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for man or pursue the first time in yonksprofession she loved. HoweverAfter the split, this is she worked in a train ride with a differencecafe, for met and married James (on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and the rebound from the love of her catlife, a thief – who was murdered) and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-Freya and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist.James have now divorced..|isbn=184812970X

|authorisbn=Darren ShanAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Archibald Lox All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'Mergetechnology'is what happens after you' saga opens with our herore eighteen. Well, Archie, back in London I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in the world of the Bornmy lifetime. It I've kept up reasonably well with what's not been easy, explaining advantageous to his foster parents where heme but I'm left with the feeling that it's beenall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, or slipping back into ordinary life I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and forgetting end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about Inez and his other friends in or the Merge, but Archie has done his best.latest conspiracy theorist... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower I needed people I knew I could trust and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock who could deliver information in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaya way I could understand.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0571365884Sunny Singh|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers |summary=Georgia Pritchett The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has always suddenly been anxiousviolently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, even as a childwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. She would worry about whether As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the monsters under residents who are still alive in the bed were comfortable: it was the sort hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of life where if she had nothing her room to try to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweencapture what's happened through her photography. On a visit to a therapistAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as an adult, when she was completely unable Abhi tries to speak about what was wrong with help her it was suggested that she should write it down keep safe and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the result - or so we are given to believeterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1529153298|title=The House on the EdgeList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=FaithIt's family home 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literallyPrime Minister. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little (A woman? And as the house seems to be falling apart I mean, so is Faithhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bed Women have been disappearing. So that leaves Faith in charge Well, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyonethey've been murdered, getting Noah but to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachershave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can Miv's upset because she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to overheard that her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages father wants to get funding for move the house? She carries family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the weight of all these worries on move would mean leaving her constantlybest friend, Sharon, and she doesn't know how much longer ll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the cliff will hold together, dangers or how long she can keep on keeping onthat her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1788008626

|isbn=00082690411398524085|title=Risk of HarmHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Lucie WhitehouseNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in Charlotte Salter was expected at her native Birmingham after husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her lessdaughter, Etty. are all worried but -thanstrangely -comfortable departure from the Mether husband, Alec, is not. She might have been reinstated but Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the whole episode left a nasty taste body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in her mouththe river. She It was now working an easy assumption for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeguilt. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house The Salter children are not convinced but there's still a difficult situation little else they can do but get on with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. He's married to Natalie, now their lives and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robinwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=17863323881035906708|title=The First Day of SpringDiva|author=Nancy TuckerDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day We tend to think of Spring'' Maria Callas as Greek, but she was one such occasion. The writing is superb born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and completely compellingonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and wonHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 't let go. So, whatCallas's to make it more manageable in the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main characterStates. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her age and voice - she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - was raised under the Nazi occupation by a two-year-old boy. She's completely cold about what she's done with mother who mercilessly exploited her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - and made no secret of her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible preference for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come backelder sister, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?Jackie.

|author=Catherine SteadmanChristopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Disappearing ActBlack Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie 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. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven 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's 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, she 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, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on Things have been a bit sticky for the cusp of successEarthlings. Great success. If the rumours are trueAI and automation have been proceeding apace, award season is going often replacing jobs they're paid to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed productiondo and other tasks that took time to accomplish. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and a pretty young thing in the form starting to think of his other, new co-star. It's a good ways to spend time for Mia to escape, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and pilot season in LA provides just , along with it, all the excusemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=14711897831736128426

|author= Christophe MedlerMatthew Tree|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil WarTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of 1642. As a loyal servant being exceptional at any of the King, his artistic passions all failed miserably and Head who had endless crises of the Secret Serviceself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of the plan cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=B095HY8SXQB0CVFXPGP8

|author=Tasha SuriA G Slatter|title=The Jasmine ThroneBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45

|summary= On the night '' There's a part of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses me that wants to step on keep this just to the pyremyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. She is immediately sent I just want to be imprisoned on enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with Briar's, a community family of people witches who got powers protect the town and the wider world from the mysterious deathless watersDarklands. But now Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the temple is nothing more first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than an overgrownspells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, decaying ruin. One daythe town's leader, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magicand Ellie takes her place beside her. Instead of reporting As challenges come her for such a gruesome crimeway left, right and centre, Malini claims that Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the girl saved dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from an attacker one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and begs for determine what to do as the girl Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to become her own personal maidservantsurvive, is under threat.|isbn=03565156481803364548

|isbn=B088YWF5BC1529900360|title=The Lies We TellGhost Orchid|author=Jane CorryJonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that she Alex Delaware had two brothers been badly injured but he felt responsible and two sisterseven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. It seemed to have been His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a loving, stable familywhile. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her sonFinally, Freddieit was Robin, whoDelaware's nearly sixteenpartner, hasn't come home by who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in byman she loved needed. Her husbandThe next case did look simple, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house though. Two lovers were murdered in the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleepswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and overhears him tell his mother that heit's killed someonenot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1529395224|title=True Crime StoryLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a new genre with GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his latest novelfootsteps, "True Crime Story". The story follows particularly when he considered the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residencestrain that being on-call put on his father's life. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through When he was seventeen he took the life and disappearance opportunity of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other doing work experience with a family, friends friend who was a vet and professionals, such as was convinced this was the policejob for him. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe Before long, or he was at least the Zoe she presented to othersLiverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. However If anything, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedhe'd wanted to be a professional footballer. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0861541774|title=No, No, No!A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. DCI Domenic Jejeune''Nos close friend and former colleague, NoDanny Maik, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. ''Nohas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, no, no! Okay, okayGuy Trueman. Yes, you may Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka.'' That's it! But Initially, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet he faced a charge of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the inside that it appears on man. Now he could be facing the outsidedeath penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1638820457

|author=Monica ConnellAlexander McCall Smith|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to Nepal to do all the fieldwork for her Ph.D. online apps in social anthropologyproviding a more personal, tailored service. I think it Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is important planning to know that. She went on take a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking to Canada to get away for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing throughwhile. She went Katie is coming out of a break up with a fundamental aim of learning about these people bad boyfriend, and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with so jumps at the academic discipline of how chance to find these things out, how come home to organise them in her mindEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, how bringing us to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigmsan Edinburgh we already love, and how thanks to keep enough notes and files 44 Scotland Street and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. FortunatelyIsabel Dalhousie novels, she also went but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muckbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence inher abilities, to break and there's always her own rules very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up.lend a hand…|isbn=17806004291846976596

|isbn=14091816690811771741|title=The MaidensInstaKnits for Baby|author=Alex MichaelidesMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to get away with them bothblankets. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought Some will be quick knits - had begun with the death others are of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niecelong, Zoe, had telephoned her cosy afternoons in distressfront of the fire' variety. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't The projects are divided by the time they''entirely'' happy about having ll take to go complete - less than five hours, five to Cambridgeten hours, but she caught the first fast train from King's Crossten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by All the death of Mariana's husbandprojects are attractive, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earliermodern and useable. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of ZoeI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects's mother and Marianabut that's sister, Elizame being picky.

|author=Maisie ChanDean Koontz|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Danny Benny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is drawhaving a terrifically bad day. He creates fantastical comicsloses his job, whilst he loses his fiancee, and his best friend Ravi adds the wordshouse gets trashed. Danny's dadOh, howeverand someone has delivered a really weird, wants Danny disturbing coffin-sized object to concentrate on his mathshome, and forget about it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawingthing that has trashed his house! At least Danny has his own roomThe thing is, where he can draw in secret and in peaceBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. But then one day his parents tell him they have He is a surprise nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for him, and this surprise Benny it turns out that the delivery to be his grandmother house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has come over been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from China nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to live with themtake care of Benny, and who will not only be sharing Dannycertainly take care of Benny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishenemies, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitterif he, and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationBenny, and then he even has Harper (a falling waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out with Raviwho exactly they are...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X1662500491

|author=Terry MilesAdam Stower|title=RabbitsMurray and Bun

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers |summary=Welcome Murray is supposed to the world of The Game. Or should that be the gamea humble, tidy and friendly cat, for while it ought one who is able to be capitalised to high heavensleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. It But he's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowsbad magician's cat, it so his favourite bun 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 the game of life for been turned into a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, Khyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the gamecatflap they both use can chuck them out, and have studied amongst many things not into the most unique of high score boardsregular back garden, for the lists but into a world of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, frightening adventure and are still very shortwhiffs. However this This time round it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerousdrops them into a Viking land, nay lethalwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for Kone much bigger than Murray was, in trying to sort out what the game is doingbe honest, if itbut he's even being played, turned up and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only 'll have to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...do…|isbn=15290169320008561249

|authorisbn=C J CareyB0C47LV1PC|title=WidowlandFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londonjoke? And if you could, parading around a bit, and watching over is the sanctioned return to question should you make it? Or is the throne of Edward VIII with his wifequestion if you did, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in would it land? The catch is that the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – answer for both could well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on be.... no. ''the mainlandFragility''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas set as the city of female purposePortland, has put all of that gender into a caste systemOregon, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs cautiously begins to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately emerge from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until restrictions imposed during the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198Xcovid pandemic

|authorisbn=Louise Beech1529431735|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica It's February 1991 and Essex is a devoted single mother to her sonbitingly cold, Sebastian - but she canwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He't give him everything he wantsd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Sebastian The return has decided that itcome about because he's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 yearhad a letter from his ex-oldwife, saying thatshe's easier said than doneill and hasn't long to live. And it It's starting hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to cause them both problemsa watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. |isbn=1913193713 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Twitch Eli is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at homebusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his bedroom! His time spent watching gran owns and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolruns. But things are about to change Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on generation missing in the runfamily. A few short years ago, and itEli's possible that parents were both lost to the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch company of a magical beast. 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 secret hide and that only hope is to dare to enter what he knows like most hates, with the sole aim the back prize of his hand! Can Twitch solve magic at the mystery, and find end – the missing millions?only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=14063893740571382231

|isbn=1838853804178763681X|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Megan Melvick'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 she's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back Knife Skills for her elder daughter's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241400120|title=The Girl Who DiedBeginners|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbOrlando Murrin

|summary=Una was not thriving Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had committed suicide without leaving any explanation a way of getting both men and since then shewomen to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd given up her medical studies and retrained as be at the school to assist Paul, who had a teacherbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. She was thirty years old The teaching - and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulaproblems - are all his own. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher The one thing he hadn't expected was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedsomeone to turn up dead. Una Unfortunately, he was the only applicant person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the job meant police consider that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over person to be the winter which her contract coveredprime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1846975719Sarah Marsh|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickA Sign of Her Own

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. But that's LondonSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, isn't it? everything about her life changes. What's happening Living in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airporttime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, DCI Jim Daley and his colleagueEllen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awaybut physically restrained from signing. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the plane were dead before take offdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available to At the paying public. And why have the man no identification same time, Bell is working on them - or even labels other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in their clothes?a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Richard Brook1803816759|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary= I am It's 2038 and Joe is a firm believer that sometimes we choose books, bored cop policing the wealthy and sometimes books choose uspeaceful New York City. In my case, this is one Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the latterAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Not so very long agoFinally, if I had come across this book I'd have skimmed it, found Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of it interesting, but it would not have 'hit the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn' in t the way that it does now. I believe it came only one trying to me not just because I was likely to give it save Suki - Dylan, a favourable review [ ''full disclosure The Bookbag's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlyBritish superfan and tech nerd, so there is a predisposition towards expecting to like also on the case. What went wrong? Did the book, even if system fail or was it doesnhacked? And how is Suki't always turn out that way'' ] – but also because it is a book I needed to read, right now.|isbn=1800461682s kidnapping connected?

|isbn=B095CY7NBN1529421284|title=Autumn CampLaying Out the Bones|author=Barry FowlerKate Webb

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was to be Brian's last campone of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. He'd founded In a gully, a human skeleton came to the organisation some four years ago surface and had done all forensic testing proved the organisation since but he was leaving school and the time body to be Lee Geary, who had come to hand the reins to someone elsedisappeared nine years earlier. The obvious person was Gary, whoHe'd always been the fun element of the camps a known drug user and Brian had said that on this camplearning disabilities, Gary should act as the leader and he'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't really an organiser, an administrator if you likeconvinced. He Geary was the entertainera townie, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organising. what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? He handed There are connections to the camp over - suicide of Holly Gilbert and then took it back. And Gary determined to have his revengetwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. This should have been Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that''his'' camps cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=194812467X0571379559|title=The Farm ShopHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Devon Avery, Justine Avery and Ema TepicFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Kirelle and her best friend Sam ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the cat decide to go for a walkstory of four people. Kirelle is dressed for all weathers Tess Hembry's roots are in her bright yellow wellies and Sam is perfectly turned out as ever Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in his smart grey fur coat. As they walk to the top of house on the hillriverbank, they see a big barn with a sign outsidebuilt of broken bricks. It Insubstantial as it might look, it's a farm shop! But this is a farm shop with a difference: all stood the stallholders passage of time, storms and customers are farmyard animalsfloods. There are sheep Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and ducks to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and cowsMax, goats and chickens, and even some micethe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Excited People don't believe that they're related, Kirelle much less twins and Sam go shoppingthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. What will they buy?

|isbn=00084049251529425867|title=The Killing KindLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Jane CaseySimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of a surpriseNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. After allD I Ryan Wilkins, it was her cross-examination son of Ryan and father of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentenceRyan, is not. He'd been accused s not any of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way aroundthose things. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as He's white, originated from a threat trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance theywardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'd had re being introduced to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008395594|title=Both of You|author=Adele Parks|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven police procedural written for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adoreslaughs. ThenWell, one Monday, she went to work and never came homeyou're not. Mark, Oli and Seb The two men are shatteredjust different sides of the same policing coin. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at Sometimes the stage where he thinks boredom is his best lookcombination works brilliantly well. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put Sometimes 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 traceproblematic.

|isbnauthor=1473685745Mosby Woods|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie MarshA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of an angry exchange - wellaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise a push for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bikeclimate action there. He wasn't hurt but Jake has historyA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' Imagine then, there was a man with your medical acronymsprecognition. When he was born, Imagine the left side strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days oldcircumstances. SoThat man would be valuable, Simon has every right ? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1