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|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)0241636604|title=Girls Who LieThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners If you were to bring up an image of Iceland have featured a city banker in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You thinkyour mind, seeing on the map that weyou're set in Akranes, unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and finding it's only twenty kilometres from jeans replaces the capital city, that this author pin-stripe suit and his background is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelEast End, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and was never seen againinjustice. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had given her foster care before her mother had asked for been to the girl back, London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a couple facility with numbers which most of delighted adoptersus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use It was his ability at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car what was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six monthsessentially, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. MeanwhileEventually, this narrative is interrupted by turned into permanent employment as a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodytrader. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X

|isbn=B0925KS87N1035021803|title=Dead ManThe Antique Hunter's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Guide to Murder|author=Neil LancasterC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Tam Hardie had It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been determined back to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemeteryEnglish country village where she grew up. It was She's back now because of a strange thing request for Scotlandhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's premier criminal former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to do, but Tam say the least. Arthur was getting old and there were things he wanted the reason why Freya had not been back to dothe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. OnlyEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found she has not felt able to be near the grave - man or pursue the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worryprofession she loved. Tam JuniorAfter the split, Frankie she worked in a cafe, met and Dave wouldn't normally go to married James (on the rebound from the police but they weren't certain where their father had been love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and they were worriedJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=35|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures ''Opening up new ways of Small Flowers had all thinking about the hallmarks shape of something goodthings to come. '' I was intrigued by the plot've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, liked I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the design feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the book, possibilities and thought the authorprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's work sounded interestingre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}}

|author=Sarah LanganSunny Singh|title=Good NeighboursHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of The Hotel Arcadia is a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''terrorist group. Maple Street Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is no Ramsay StreetSam, thougha wartime photographer and Abhi, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbshotel manager. They're one of 18 households on As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved residents who are still alive in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (hotel, he's an ex rocker, she's forms a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and itkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's all going okhappened through her photography. Until it isn't. One hot Although they only ever talk over the phone, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and chaos, but for they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to cometerrorists.|isbn=1789098211086154742X

|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1529153298|title=The Small List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, she feels like she never really fits inhonestly... Her ) She's not what's worrying Miv's family don, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she feels like 's overheard that her life at home is boring in comparison father wants to theirsmove the family 'Down South'. When a new girl joins her classyou're from Yorkshire, Anna Down South is asked to partner hera frightening, but things are complicated because the new girlforeign place, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in personbest avoided. Instead For Miv, she joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robotmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and is she even interesting enough 'll do anything to be a good friend prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649anyone.

|isbn=00083503881398524085|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Otegha UwagbaNicci French

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirables fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, less hireablesons Niall, less intelligent Paul and Ollie and ultimately less valuable than my lighther daughter, Etty. are all worried but -skinned counterparts.strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river.'' ''We Need It was an easy assumption for the police to Talk About Moneymake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there' by Otegha Uwagbas little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin''0|rating=4.7% 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of English Literature GCSE students Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in England study a book by a writer of colour while December 1923 and only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came moved to the UK from Kenya Athens when she was five years oldthirteen. Her sisters were seven and nine. It original surname was her mother who came first, with Kalogeropoulos but her father joining them laterchanged it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. The family When she was hardback in Athens -working, principled and determined supposedly so that their children would have the best education possible. There she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten raised under the family acquired Nazi occupation by a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London mother who mercilessly exploited her and then a place at New Collegemade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, OxfordJackie.

|isbnauthor=1787631869Christopher Edge|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good Lucas and decent life his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the aftermathnickname of 'The Black Hole'. SheAll big movie fans, they's now married re looking forward to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beachlots of exciting films, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billiemany, Lucy's daughter and Finmany snacks! However, as the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficultiesmovie starts, some caused by Nick Poveythey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Danieland they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's partner and so-called best friendt even imagine. Nick and Daniel have a history together But as they lurch from one film genre to the time next, can they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heartthe cinema, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Hannah PeckRachel Greenlaw|title=Kate on the CaseCompass and Blade

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Meet Kate''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, although I got the impression sheanswering beat in my heart.''d rather be  Rosevear, a Catherine – remote and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolpartially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''wrecks. Armed with a plucky fatherMira, that book, and like her mother before her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped one of the seven who swim out to manage survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a train ride trap to end the Arcticwrecking, to see her scientist mother for they capture the first time in yonksisland's leader and Mira's father. HoweverDesperate to save him from death, this is Mira makes a train ride bargain with a difference, for on board wreck survivor who is as charming as he is a greedy-seeming harridan secretive and with only coordinates to guide her cat, she sets off in search of a thief – and two glowing eyesfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, shining as her journey takes her from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. Itwatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=184812970X0008664730

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Planet Storyland

|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of Things have been a bit sticky for the BornEarthlings. It's not AI and automation have been easyproceeding apace, explaining often replacing jobs they're paid to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life do and forgetting about Inez other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and his starting to think of other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestnew ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic.... wellLife was pretty much shut down and, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling along with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayit, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ1736128426

|isbnauthor=0571365884Matthew Tree|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, even as a child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of life where if she his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweenendless crises of self confidence. On a visit So Tim applied himself to a therapist, as an adulthis studies, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Alex CotterA G Slatter|title=The House on Briar Book of the EdgeDead|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Faith'' There's family home is teetering on the edge a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of a cliffmy own, all mine, literallyat last. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting I just want to slope enjoy it for a while.'' Within a little? And as remote mountain pass, far away from the house seems to be falling apartworld, so is Faithlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's , a familyof witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Her dad Though she has disappearedalways wished for magic, and her mum Ellie Briar is struggling the first non-witch to copebe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, barely leaving her bedtraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of When her little brother Noahgrandmother suddenly dies, taking care of her mumEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, feeding everyone, getting Noah to schoolthe town's leader, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachersEllie takes her place beside her. Is As challenges come her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about dead, putting her at the house? Can she find heart of a way maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to raise enough money another, Ellie must decide who to fix it? What's happened trust and determine what to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe hedo as the Briar witches'll come back if she manages legacy, everything they have sacrificed to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantlysurvive, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onis under threat.|isbn=17880086261803364548

|isbn=00082690411529900360|title=Risk of HarmThe Ghost Orchid|author=Lucie WhitehouseJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after her lessAlex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-thanand-comfortable departure from shut cases which didn't need the Methelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouthFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then something that the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of her parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childremote property in Bel Air. He's was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Natalie, now an extremely rich man and has a young child but heit's still got it in for Robinnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=17863323881529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The First Day Secret Life of Springa Vet|author=Nancy TuckerSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasionSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you His father was a GP and wonRowlands didn't let go. Sowant to follow in his footsteps, whatparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the problem? Well, opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the problem is Chrissie, the main characterjob for him. When we first meet her she's just eight years oldBefore long, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boyhe was at Liverpool University. SheIt hadn's completely cold about what she's done t - as with her main memory being that whilst she so many students - been his dream since he was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upa child. ThereIf anything, he's d wanted to be a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0861541774|title=The Disappearing ActA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. SheDCI Domenic Jejeune's going places but soclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, unfortunatelyhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, is her partnerGuy Trueman. And the places Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he's going take him towards lieskilled a Ghurka. Initially, deceit and he faced a pretty young thing in charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the form of his new co-stardeath penalty. It's Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a good time for Mia to escape, diplomatic incident and pilot season in LA provides just the excusewouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1471189783

|author= Christophe MedlerAlexander McCall Smith|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary= Set against The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the backdrop of online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the English Civil Warbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer coming out of 1642. As a loyal servant of break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the Kingchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and Head of the Secret ServiceIsabel Dalhousie novels, it is Robertbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's duty to uncover the details of the plan always her very helpful (and follow the clues rather handsome) neighbour, William, to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the King.lend a hand…|isbn=B095HY8SXQ1846976596

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri0811771741|title=The Jasmine ThroneInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=FantasyCrafts|summary= On the night Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses knits from toys to step on to the pyreblankets. She is immediately sent to Some will be imprisoned on quick knits - others are of the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community 'long, cosy afternoons in front of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersfire' variety. But now The projects are divided by the temple is nothing time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than an overgrown, decaying ruintwenty hours. One day All the projects are attractive, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with magicmodern and useable. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservant's me being picky.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCDean Koontz|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on Benny is having a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sistersterrifically bad day. It seemed to have been a lovingHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, stable familyand his house gets trashed. When we first meet herOh, she can't sleep because her sonand someone has delivered a really weird, Freddiedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, whoand it's nearly sixteenpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, hasn't come home by Benny is the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in byvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. Her husbandSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, Toma bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he needs his sleep. He wakes, thoughBenny, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that heHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's killed someonewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Joseph KnoxAdam Stower|title=True Crime StoryMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary= Joseph KnoxMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, known for whatever takes his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsfancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has created been turned into a new genre with his latest novelhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, "True Crime Story". The story follows not into the disappearance regular back garden, but into a world of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residencefrightening adventure and whiffs. Split This time round it drops them into four partsa Viking land, the reader where a troll hunter is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sisterexpected – well, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoeone much bigger than Murray was, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. Howeverbe honest, the twists but he's turned up and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?he'll have to do…|isbn=08575277030008561249

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaB0C47LV1PC|title=No, No, No!Fragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=They say Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the best picture books are question should you make it? Or is the simplest ones. And nothing question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite.... no.

''No, No, No!Fragility'' is based around set as the simplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okaycity of Portland, okay. YesOregon, you may.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on cautiously begins to emerge from the inside that it appears on restrictions imposed during the outside.|isbn=1638820457covid pandemic

|author=Monica Connell|title=Against a Peacock Sky|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal 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 trip, 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 and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up.|isbn=1780600429}}{{Frontpage|isbn=14091816691529431735|title=The MaidensWinter Visitor|author=Alex MichaelidesJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders It's February 1991 and looked likely to get away with them bothEssex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton He'd been exiled on the Paradise nature reserve in CambridgeCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. SheThe return has come about because he'd been brutally stabbed and Marianas had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend ill and she was struggling hasn't long to copelive. Mariana wasnIt't ''entirely'' happy about having s hard to go feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana his underwear and Zoe were close and had been made all sent to a watery grave in the more so by the death boot of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierstolen Ford Sierra. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Maisie ChanAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=Danny Eli is eleven years olda busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and what he really, really loves to do is drawin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. He creates fantastical comicsEli lives with his lovely gran, whilst his best friend Ravi adds too – for there is a generation missing in the wordsfamily. DannyA few short years ago, Eli's dad, however, wants Danny parents were both lost to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawingtitular race, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, globe-trotting adventure where he can draw all entrants have to navigate the world in secret and in peacethe company of a magical beast. But then one day his parents tell him they have This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a surprise for himconfession from gran, and this surprise turns out Eli knows his only hope is to be his grandmother who has come over from China dare to live enter what he most hates, with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk sole aim the prize 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 magic at the end – the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with only thing to possibly save his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..gran.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X0571382231

|authorisbn=Terry Miles178763681X|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, 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 a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately Knife Skills for K, in trying 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 indeed...|isbn=1529016932}}{{FrontpageBeginners|author=C J Carey|title=WidowlandOrlando Murrin

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ItChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going t really want to Moscow to attend the state funeral but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, getting both men and watching over the sanctioned return women to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisdo what he wanted. For yes, Britain caved in Paul ''somehow'' got the lead-up to the World War Two impression that certainly didnhe't happen as we know itd be at the school to assist Paul, and we are now who had a protectorate – wellbroken arm, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on 'but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the mainland''problems - are all his own. But this is most certainly a different Britain, The one thing he hadn't expected was for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs someone to the drudges, and beyond thoseturn up dead. Unfortunately, right on down to he was the childless, person who discovered the husbandless body and everyone knows that 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 police consider that person to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintprime suspect. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X

|author=Louise BeechSarah Marsh|title=This Is How We Are HumanA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5

|summary=Veronica is After a bout of scarlet fever as a devoted single mother to child, Ellen Lark loses her sonhearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wantsabout her life changes. Sebastian has decided that it's Living in a time for him when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to have sexa school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. But as an autistic 20 year-old From here, that's easier said than doneshe ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. And it's starting to cause them both problems At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. |isbn=19131937131035401614

|isbn=B093VPBL5L1803816759|title=Cape Henry HouseThe Unravelling|author=Jolly Walker BittickWill Gibson

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=Meet Bosner, or, to give him his full title, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: thereIt's merely 2038 and Joe is a hint that he had bored cop policing the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointwealthy and peaceful New York City. He's simply Bosner Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to one get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and allriots start to spread. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was a greaser on helicopters (or helosFinally, as they were called) at a naval establishmentJoe gets to do some real policing. The hours could be long In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and he was often working nights but at Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the age of twentyonly one trying to save Suki -oneDylan, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking British superfan and eating) into his daytech nerd, is also on the case.What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten1529421284|title=For Laying Out the WolfBones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In Red's familya gully, a human skeleton came to the first daughter becomes queen, surface and forensic testing proved the second daughter becomes a sacrificebody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. To Red He's misfortuned been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is so it could have been a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate simple case of their kingdommisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. If she is not Geary was a worthy sacrificetownie, the monsters so what was he keeps contained doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the woods will be released, suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories gotime. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the hour, she finds Major Crimes Review Unit (that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a mancold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=0356516369

|authorisbn=M G Leonard0571379559|title=TwitchThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Twitch ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a boy who loves birdsthe story of four people. He keeps pigeons at homeTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, and chickensbut instead, and even has swallows nesting she lives in his bedroom! the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. His Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time spent watching , storms and helping birds is easy compared floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to that of grow his time vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in schoolsufficient money. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the runfather. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and itthere's possible that the missing bank haul an assumption when Max is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has out with his secret hide and mother that he knows like the back of she's his hand! Can Twitch solve the mystery, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374nanny.

|isbn=18388538041529425867|title=The Cursed GirlsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Caro RamsaySimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pondNigerian descent, only to find that he'd hanged himselfBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Twenty years later she's back home again D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and this time the occasion father of Ryan, is no less sadnot. SheHe's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying not any of anorexiathose things. As she diesHe's white, originated from a trailer park, Melissa whispers barely educated (reading's not ''really'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of things, minor shell suits and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - trackies. They're usually in lime green or was it even a question? acid yellow. Was she asking You might wonder if Megan was sorry you're being introduced to a police procedural written for sleeping with Melissalaughs. Well, you's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? re not. The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant two men are just different sides of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a cursesame policing coin. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Would she come back for her elder daughterSometimes it's funeral?problematic.

|isbnauthor=0241400120Mosby Woods|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Una The West isn't the dominant force it once was not thriving . Nobody in Reykjavik: the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacheris the best course of action. She was thirty years old and money was tightGovernments are flailing. Her friendA war here, Sara, showed her an advert a push for a job climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsulaactual charge. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher Imagine then, there was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation providedman with precognition. Una was the only applicant and Imagine the job meant that she could let her flat strategic advantage in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract coveredthis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846975719|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil Meyrick|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's LondonThat man would be valuable, isn't itright? What's happening Perhaps the most valuable asset in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scotthistory. Imagine then, head off for the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take offthis man loses this ability. How could that be? The sort of tech which What would make that possible isn't available governments do to the paying public. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothesget it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1