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|isbn=B07GZ81J7C0241636604|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Peter CottonGary Stevenson

|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actuallyIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're going unlikely to be meeting Fredthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklystripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. But I'm getting ahead There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about FredEconomics. Fred Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a snake and even those facility with numbers which most of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himcan only envy. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so also realised that he could breathe and immediately became part of the family, most rich people expect poor people to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkbe stupid. And that It was his ability at what was where the problem started, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakesEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1035021803|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'ts twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, as any parent will tell youCarole. But really Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why shouldn't it be? We all have Freya had not been back to learn about our bodily functions just the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as we have antique hunters, she has not felt able to learn about everything else when we are smallbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as After the split, sayshe worked in a cafe, learning about why the sun met and married James (on the moon take turns in rebound from the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1787634493AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Her FaultTomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Andrea MaraBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It had seemed like one ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenthings to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Marissa Irvine had Well, I must confess that there have been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on more than a play datefew decades of technology in my lifetime. She was concerned I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that he didnit't have any friends at his new schools all getting away from me. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob Some of it is - frankly - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterquite frightening. What Of course, I could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at research the possibilities and the house, expecting to meet Jacobprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, m reading someone who didnknows what they't know Jenny re talking about or Jacobthe latest conspiracy theorist. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyI needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Claire NorthSunny Singh|title=Notes from the Burning AgeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingterrorist group. However Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, as with the best novelskilling everyone on site, it wears many masks and its most affecting one there is that of Sam, a new wartime photographer and timely genreAbhi, cli-fi, or climate change fictionthe hotel manager. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced As Abhi continues to try to start anew and live alongside nature without any of care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelshotel, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is he forms a growing unhappiness bond with this limiting worldSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and one group, keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the Brotherhoodphone, aims their friendship grows as Abhi tries to master these processes no matter the cost help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Earthterrorists.|isbn=0356514757086154742X

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1529153298|title=Girls Who LieThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers It's 1979 and crime books before nowMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. You think(A woman? I mean, seeing on the map that wehonestly...) She's not what're set in Akranes, and finding its worrying Miv's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityfamily, that this author is clutching at the few final straws leftthough. Women have been disappearing. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelWell, itthey's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed ve been murdered, but to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen againhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed Miv's upset because she's overheard that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for father wants to move the girl back, and a couple of delighted adoptersfamily 'Down South'. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanWhen you's car was found miles away in a second placere from Yorkshire, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in Down South is a thirdfrightening, even more remote foreign place, best avoided. MeanwhileFor Miv, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionthe move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyshe'll do anything to prevent that. Is She's not worried about the assumption dangers or that is so easy for the reader her Mum's stopped talking - to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xanyone.

|isbn=B0925KS87N1398524085|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Neil LancasterNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the grave - and it took some finding - body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in an overgrown old cemeterythe river. It was a strange thing an easy assumption for Scotland's premier criminal the police to do, but Tam was getting old make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and there were things then committed suicide when he wanted to do. Only, his family didncouldn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - stand the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worryguilt. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldnThe Salter children are not convinced but there't normally go to the police s little else they can do but they weren't certain where get on with their father had been lives and they were worriedwonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1035906708|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary= The Tiny Gestures We tend to think of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I Maria Callas as Greek, but she was intrigued by the plotborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, liked the design of the bookNew York, in December 1923 and thought the author's work sounded interestingonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. From the outset Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If youto 're of a certain vintage, itCallas's hard to read make it more manageable in the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a singStates. When she was back in Athens -song ''supposedly so that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in Nazi occupation by a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've mother who mercilessly exploited her and made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess no secret of dirt and chaos, but her preference for the residents of Maple Streether elder sister, the worst is yet to comeJackie.|isbn=1789098211

|author=Lisa ThompsonChristopher Edge|title=The Small ThingsBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54

|summary=Although Anna has Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at schooltheir local cinema, she feels like she never really fits ina place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Her family don All big movie fans, they't have enough money re looking forward to let her do after school activitieslots of exciting films, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her classmany, Anna is asked to partner hermany snacks! However, but things are complicated because as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new girl, Elliefilm format is very different, is unwell and so canthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't attend school in personeven imagine. Instead But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, she joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the challenge of making friends with someone through a robotcinema, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellietheir real lives?|isbn=17811296491839942738

|isbnauthor=0008350388Rachel Greenlaw|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha UwagbaCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirableI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than the answering beat in my light-skinned counterparts..heart.'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study Rosevear, a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven rocks and nineplundering the wrecks. It was Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who came firstswim 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, with her they capture the island's leader and Mira's father joining them later. The family was hard-workingDesperate to save him from death, principled Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and determined with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that their children would have lies buried deep in the best education possiblesea. There was always a painful awareness With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of money although this did not translate into a shortage foreign islands to the heart of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Oteghasmuggler's territory, education meant a scholarship Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to a private school in London save the future of her home and then a place at New College, Oxfordthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1787631869James Sherwood Metts|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydPlanet Storyland|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the aftermath. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Peck|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got Things have been a bit sticky for the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatEarthlings. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, AI and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''The Special Correspondent Manual''re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Armed with a plucky father, that book, Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped starting to manage a train ride to the Arcticthink of other, new ways to see her scientist mother for the first spend time in yonks, along came an awful pandemic. HoweverLife was pretty much shut down and, this is a train ride along with a differenceit, for all the many daily social interactions on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..which they depend so heavily.|isbn=184812970X1736128426

|author=Darren ShanMatthew Tree|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3We'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Archie, back in London in the world a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of the Bornself confidence. It's not been easy, explaining So Tim applied himself to his foster parents where he's beenstudies, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and cultivated his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done abilities rather than his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower daydreams and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=B093H8DPQZB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0571365884A G Slatter|title=My Mess is a Bit The Briar Book of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchettthe Dead|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyFantasy|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, even as at last. I just want to enjoy it for a childwhile. She would worry about whether '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the monsters world, lies Silverton; a town under the bed were comfortable: it was protection of the sort Briar's, a family of life where if witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she had nothing has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to worry about be born into her family for generations and as such since she would become anxious but such occasions were few was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and far betweenEllie takes her place beside her. On a visit to a therapistAs challenges come her way left, as an adultright and centre, when she was completely unable Ellie uncovers the rare ability to speak about what was wrong communicate with the dead, putting her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is at the heart of a Bit maelstrom of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is the result - or so we are given to believeunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1529900360|title=The House on the EdgeGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=FaithIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's family home is teetering fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the edge help of a cliffpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, literallywho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Is She knew that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is involvement was something that the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's familyman she loved needed. Her dad has disappeared The next case did look simple, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bedthough. So that leaves Faith Two lovers were murdered in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care the swimming pool of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah 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 remote property in Bel Air. He was the cellar? What should heir to an Italian shoe empire and she do about the house? Can she find a way is married to raise enough money to fix an extremely rich man and it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for not the house? She carries the weight Italian. But which of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer them was the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=1788008626primary target?

|isbn=00082690411529395224|title=Risk Letting the Cat Out of Harmthe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Lucie WhitehouseSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in her native Birmingham after her lesshis footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-than-comfortable departure from the Metcall put on his father's life. She might have been reinstated but When he was seventeen he took the whole episode left opportunity of doing work experience with a nasty taste in her mouthfamily friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. She Before long, he was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeat Liverpool University. She and her fifteenIt hadn't -yearas with so many students -old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of been his way to make life difficult for Robin dream since she he was a young child. HeIf anything, he's married d wanted to Natalie, now and has be a young child but he's still got it in for Robinprofessional footballer.

|isbn=17863323880861541774|title=The First Day A Nye of SpringPheasants|author=Nancy TuckerSteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and DCI Domenic Jejeune''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you s close friend and won't let go. So, what's the problem? Wellformer colleague, the problem is ChrissieDanny Maik, the main character. When we first has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet her she's just eight years up with an oldally, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a twostreet brawl -year-old boy. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being he would later maintain that whilst she he was killing facing a man armed with a knife - suffocating - her hands seized upand he killed a Ghurka. There's Initially, he faced a clue charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? death penalty. HasnDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't he been dead for long enough?help Danny at all.

|author=Catherine SteadmanAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Disappearing ActPerfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= British actress Mia Eliot The Perfect Passion Company is on a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the cusp of successonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Great success. If Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the rumours are truebusiness, award season as Ness is going planning to treat her well, acknowledging her take a trip to Canada to get away for her latesta while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, critically acclaimed productionand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. She's going places but And sobegins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, unfortunatelybringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, is her partner. And thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the places he's going take him towards liesIsabel Dalhousie novels, deceit and but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a pretty young thing business, or in the form of his new comatch-star. Itmaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.hand…|isbn=14711897831846976596

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler0811771741|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary= Set against the backdrop Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the English Civil War'long, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse cosy afternoons in front of the summer of 1642fire' variety. As a loyal servant of The projects are divided by the Kingtime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and Head of more than twenty hours. All the Secret Serviceprojects are attractive, it is Robertmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingme being picky.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|author=Tasha SuriDean Koontz|title=The Jasmine ThroneBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyParanormal|summary= On the night of her sacred burningBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to the pyrehis house gets trashed. She is immediately sent Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was once filled with a community of people who got powers from inside is the mysterious deathless waters. But now the temple thing that has trashed his house! The thing is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruinBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. One day, Malini witnesses He is a girl kill someone with magicnice person. A really nice person. Instead of reporting her So fortunately for such Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a gruesome crimenew friend, Malini claims that the girl saved her a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from an attacker and begs nefarious forces for the girl being a good person. Spike is going to become her own personal maidservanttake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=03565156481662500491

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCAdam Stower|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on Murray is supposed to be a council estate in Kent humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and that she had two brothers sleep and , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two sisters. It seemed to have But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a lovinghyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, stable family. When we first meet her, she and the catflap they both use can't sleep because her sonchuck them out, Freddienot into the regular back garden, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort but into a world of half-promised he'd be in byfrightening adventure and whiffs. Her husbandThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, Tomone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work turned up and he needs his sleep. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Joseph KnoxB0C47LV1PC|title=True Crime StoryFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Joseph KnoxCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". would it land? The story follows catch is that the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceanswer for both could well be.... no. Split into four parts, the reader  ''Fragility'' is taken through set as the life and disappearance city of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sisterPortland, other familyOregon, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get cautiously begins to know Zoe, or at least emerge from the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at restrictions imposed during the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1529431735|title=No, No, No!The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|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. It''Nos February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, No, No!which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He' is based around d been exiled on the simplest text imaginableCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade.  The return has come about because he''Nos had a letter from his ex-wife, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.saying that she's ill and hasn' Thatt long to live. It's it! Buthard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, like all stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the best picture books, this tiny snippet boot of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that stolen Ford Sierra. Is it appears on the outside.|isbn=1638820457a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Monica ConnellAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it Eli is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported tripbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, with and in the evening a relatively specific objectivehelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for Shangri-la. She wasn't there is a mere tourist passing throughgeneration missing in the family. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also wentA few short years ago, presumably, with Eli's parents were both lost to the academic discipline of how to find these things outtitular race, how a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them navigate the world in the context company of her own paradigms, and how a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after pair – but when a bad incident at the event. Fortunately, she also went with eatery leads to a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-inconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to break her own rules and dare to truly connect enter what he most hates, with the people sole aim the prize of magic at the village where she hauled upend – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=17806004290571382231

|isbn=1409181669178763681X|title=The MaidensKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Alex MichaelidesOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. She needed He didn't really want to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had begun with the death a way of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend getting both men and she was struggling women to copedo what he wanted. Mariana wasnPaul 't 'somehow'entirely'got the impression that he' happy about having d be at the school to go to Cambridgeassist Paul, who had a broken arm, but she caught the first fast train from Kingit didn's Crosst turn out that way. Mariana The teaching - and Zoe were close and had been made the problems - are all the more so by the death of Marianahis own. The one thing he hadn's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earliert expected was for someone to turn up dead. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the death of Zoe's mother body and Mariana's sister, Elizaeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.

|author=Maisie ChanSarah Marsh|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Danny is eleven years oldAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, and what he really, really loves to do is drawEllen Lark loses her hearing. He creates fantastical comicsSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the wordseverything about her life changes. Danny's dadLiving in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, however, wants Danny Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to concentrate on his mathslip read, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living but physically restrained from drawing! signing. At least Danny has his own roomFrom here, where he can draw she ends up in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on been teaching the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, deaf and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the townusing a system called Visible Speech. Poor DannyAt the same time, stuck Bell is working on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationother inventions and ideas, and then he even has Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a falling out with Ravicomplicated tangle of espionage...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X1035401614

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1803816759|title=RabbitsThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5

|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 2038 and Joe is a slangy term bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, a bit of adventure and to the average person no obvious entry pointget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. A bit like But then something goes horribly wrong with the game of life then. YesAI system that now runs everything, this is the game of making life easier for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracymany, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websand riots start to spread. People like our heroFinally, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possibleJoe gets to do some real policing. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of In the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique aftermath of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and are still very shortJoe is assigned to bring her home. However this time itJoe isn's different. This time t the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in only one trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being playedsave Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and how his loved ones might be kept safetech nerd, he is only to find out that also on the line between observing and learning about case. What went wrong? Did the game, and playing system fail or was it, hacked? And how is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=C J Carey1529421284|title=WidowlandLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's April 1953was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow a human skeleton came to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, surface and watching over forensic testing proved the sanctioned return body to the throne of Edward VIII with his wifebe Lee Geary, Queen Walliswho had disappeared nine years earlier. For yesHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know so it, and we are now could have been a protectorate – well, we share enough simple case of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland'misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. But this is most certainly Geary was a different Britaintownie, 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 to the drudges, and beyond those, right so what was he doing out on down Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the childless, the husbandless suicide of Holly Gilbert 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, two other deaths which were not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards considered suspicious at the party line before they're stamped ready for reprinttime. That is her job, at least, until Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil HitlerMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's visitcold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=152941198X

|authorisbn=Louise Beech0571379559|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Veronica ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a devoted single mother to her sonthe story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, Sebastian - but instead, she can't give him everything he wantslives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Sebastian has decided that Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time for him , storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have sex. But as an autistic 20 yeartwin boys -oldSonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe thatthey're related, much less twins and there's easier said than done. And itan assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's starting to cause them both problemshis nanny. |isbn=1913193713

|isbn=B093VPBL5L1529425867|title=Cape Henry HouseLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Jolly Walker BittickSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet BosnerIn Oxford, orthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, to give him his full titleson of Ryan and father of Ryan, Petty Officer Third Class Bosneris not. We never really find out if he has He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a first name: theretrailer park, barely educated (reading's merely a hint that he had the nickname not ''really'Secretary' at one pointhis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. HeThey's simply Bosner to one and allre usually in lime green or acid yellow. When we first encounter him heYou might wonder if you's exploring his memories of 2008 when he was re being introduced to a greaser on helicopters (or helospolice procedural written for laughs. Well, as they were called) at a naval establishmentyou're not. The hours could be long and he was often working nights but at two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the age of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his daycombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Hannah WhittenMosby Woods|title=For the WolfA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=In RedThe West isn's family, 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 first daughter becomes queenbest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, and the second daughter becomes a sacrificepush for climate action there. To Red's misfortune, she A feeling that nobody is the second daughterin actual charge. Sent alone into the woods Imagine then, there was a man with nothing but precognition. Imagine the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is strategic advantage in this asset; a wolf, and he is the one man who can tell you what will decide the fate happen given any set of their kingdomcircumstances. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will That man would be releasedvaluable, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so right? Perhaps the stories gomost valuable asset in history. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hourImagine then, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a this manloses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=0356516369B0C9SNG8R1