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|isbn=00084217140241636604|title=Mrs MarchThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Virginia FeitoGary Stevenson

|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=The problem began just after the publication If you were to bring up an image of George Marcha city banker in your mind, you's most successful novel re unlikely to datethink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on A hoodie and jeans replaces the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to pin-stripe suit and his background is the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningEast End, Patricia askedwhere he was familiar with violence, as she poverty and injustice. There was wrapping the bread, ''no posh public school on his CV - but isn't this he had been to the first time London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he's based has a character on you?'' facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. She mentioned He also realised that Johannamost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Perhaps Eventually, this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''turned into permanent employment as a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchtrader.''

|authorisbn=John Boyne1035021803|title=The Echo ChamberAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet George CleverleyIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He is self-defined as "one She's back now because of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she Freya's former mentor and Carole's carrying his childclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withleast. They have three children Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoevershe feels, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallinglet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants she has not felt able to save be near the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing man or pursue the gay hustle thingprofession she loved. Add After the split, she worked in a few other characters – therapistscafe, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and you Freya and James have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldnow divorced. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219

|isbn=0241989094AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Perfect LifeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Nuala EllwoodBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclayshape of things to come. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them.'

ItI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, 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 the same month advantageous to me but now weI're in Wimbledon and we encounter m left with the same young woman, only this time shefeeling that it's job hunting all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and living in her sister, Georgiethe probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's, spare room, where shem reading someone who knows what they's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Darren ShanSunny Singh|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Hotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=SoThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Having done Hiding from the impossible terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and unpicked Abhi, the lock hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the Forgotten Crypthotel, from which the Departed communicate he forms a bond with the MergeSam who refuses to be cowed by events, Archie now has ''grop'' and keeps on venturing out of her room to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much try to Inezcapture what's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those ishappened through her photography. But he manages to come through Although they only ever talk over the fancy party unscathedphone, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the first volume of this seriesterrorists. |isbn=B093J9TF73086154742X

|isbn=B07GZ81J7C1529153298|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Peter CottonJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet FredIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, actuallythey've been murdered, youbut to have 'disappeared' doesn're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklyt sound quite so frightening. But IMiv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'm getting ahead of myself: IDown South'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of For Miv, the familymove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to the extent prevent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And She's not worried about the dangers or that was where the problem started. Fred didnher Mum't have any road sense. Or brakess stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1398524085|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isnCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband'ts 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, as any parent will tell youis not. But really Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, why shouldnfind the body of Greg't it be? We all have s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when we are small. Why shouldnhe couldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why stand the sun guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=17876344931035906708|title=All Her FaultDiva|author=Andrea MaraDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It had seemed like one We tend to think of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her sonMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, MiloNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to go on a play dateAthens when she was thirteen. She Her original surname was concerned that he didnKalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't have any friends at his new schoolto make it more manageable in the States. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School When she was back in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob Athens - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What supposedly so that she could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the house, expecting to meet Jacob's Nazi occupation by a mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyher elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Claire NorthChristopher Edge|title=Notes from the Burning AgeBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=At its core Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'Notes From the Burning Age. All big movie fans, they'' by Claire North is a spy thrillerre looking forward to lots of exciting films, with as and many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. many snacks! However, as with the best novelsmovie starts, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is they very quickly realise that of a something about this new film format is very different, and timely they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelsnext, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There can they figure out what on earth is a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldgoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.their real lives?|isbn=03565147571839942738

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Rachel Greenlaw|title=Girls Who LieCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all ''I can hear the dark corners song of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthe sea. You thinkThe call of the deep, seeing on the map that weanswering beat in my heart.''re set in Akranes Rosevear, a remote and finding it's only twenty kilometres from partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the capital city, that this author is clutching at rocks and plundering the few final straws leftwrecks. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelMira, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for like her mother before her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with is one of the couple seven who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for swim out to survey the girl back, ruins – rescuing any survivors and a couple of delighted adoptersany treasure that lies within. But it left our three detectives at when the Council Watch lays a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one placetrap to end the wrecking, they capture the womanisland's car was found miles away in a second place, leader and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placeMira's father. MeanwhileDesperate to save him from death, this narrative is interrupted by Mira makes a confessional monologue from bargain with a mother wreck survivor who found herself is as charming as he is secretive and with heavy post-natal depressiononly coordinates to guide her, and very little maternal feeling 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 body. Is from the watched streets of foreign islands to the assumption that is so easy for heart of the reader smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to make stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the right one?ones she holds most dear.|isbn=191319373X0008664730

|isbnauthor=B0925KS87NJames Sherwood Metts|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Tam Hardie had Things have been determined to find a bit sticky for the grave - Earthlings. AI and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotlandautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's premier criminal re paid to do, but Tam was getting old and there other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were things he wanted beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to dospend time, along came an awful pandemic. OnlyLife was pretty much shut down and, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that along with it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worry. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to all the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and many daily social interactions on which they were worrieddepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Emily CritchleyMatthew Tree|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the authorWe's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighboursll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= If you're of a certain vintageTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo drunk and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like his artistic passions all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends failed miserably and their kids have settled in, and it's all going okwho had endless crises of self confidence. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, stickySo Tim applied himself to his studies, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and chaos, set himself high but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comeachievable ambitions.|isbn=1789098211B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Lisa ThompsonA G Slatter|title=The Small ThingsBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison ' There's a part of me that wants to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked keep this just to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so myself for however long I can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge This secret magic of making friends with someone through a robotmy own, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirableall mine, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterpartsat last...'' ''We Need I just want to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study enjoy it for 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 Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the UK wider world from Kenya when the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was five years old. Her sisters were seven young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and ninepotions. It was When her mother who came firstgrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, with and Ellie takes her place beside her father joining them later. The family was hard-workingAs challenges come her way left, principled right and determined that their children would have centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness heart of money although this did not translate into a shortage maelstrom of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedchaos. When Otegha was ten the Reeling from one family acquired a car. For Oteghasecret to another, education meant a scholarship Ellie must decide who to a private school in London trust and then a place at New Collegedetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, Oxfordis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17876318691529900360|title=The Rising TideGhost Orchid|author=Sam LloydJonathan Kellerman

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Lucy Locke's early life It hadn't been easy Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but she'd built a good he felt responsible and decent life in the aftermatheven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. She's now married to Daniel, who coHis assertions that there were only open-owns Lockeand-Povey Marine on Penleith Beachshut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billieit was Robin, LucyDelaware's daughter and Finpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the child man she had with Danielloved needed. They have financial difficultiesThe next case did look simple, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friendthough. Nick and Daniel have Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a history together from remote property in Bel Air. He was the time they both spent in a children's home but heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernednot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1529395224|title=Kate on Letting the CaseCat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a Catherine – GP and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is KateRowlands didn's idolt want to follow in his footsteps, and particularly when he considered the author of our heroinestrain that being on-call put on his father's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''life. Armed When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a plucky father, that book, family friend who was a vet and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to was convinced this was the Arctic, to see her scientist mother job for the first time in yonkshim. HoweverBefore long, this is a train ride he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with a difference, for on board is a greedyso many students -seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in been his dream since he was a blink-and-you'll-miss-them stylechild. ItIf anything, he's definitely a case for d wanted to be a new young investigative journalist.professional footballer..|isbn=184812970X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0861541774|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 A Nye of 3Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanDCI Domenic Jejeune's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroclose friend and former colleague, ArchieDanny Maik, back has taken a short holiday in London Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the world of the Borna street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. It's not been easy Initially, explaining he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to his foster parents where light that suggested that he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in might have planned to murder the Merge, but Archie has done his bestman. Now he could be facing the death penalty... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayt help Danny at all.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0571365884Alexander McCall Smith|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, even run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a childmore personal, tailored service. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort of life where Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she had nothing could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweentake a trip to Canada to get away for a while. On Katie is coming out of a visit break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to a therapistEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, as bringing us to an adultEdinburgh we already love, when she was completely unable thanks to speak about what was wrong 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her it was suggested that she should write it down abilities, and there''My Mess is s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believe.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter0811771741|title=The House on the EdgeInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=FaithMelissa Leapman's family home is teetering on ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the edge of a cliff'long, literally. Is that crack cosy afternoons in front of the garden getting bigger? Is fire' variety. The projects are divided by the house starting time they'll take to slope a little? And as the house seems complete - less than five hours, five to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappearedten hours, ten to twenty hours and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bedmore than twenty hours. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school All the projects are attractive, modern and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachersuseable. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do I perhaps show my age when I wonder about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe hesocial-media-worthy projects'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesnbut that't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping ons me being picky.|isbn=1788008626

|isbnauthor=0008269041Dean Koontz|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehouseThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=DCI Robin Lyons Benny is back in her native Birmingham after her lesshaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-than-comfortable departure from sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the Metvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left He is a nasty taste in her mouthnice person. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeA really nice person. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved So fortunately for Benny it turns out of her parent's home into that the delivery to his house is a rented house but there's still new friend, a difficult situation with her brother Luke bad weather friend called Spike, who has gone out of his way been sent to make life difficult help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for Robin since she was being a young childgood person. HeSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's married to Natalieenemies, if he, Benny, now and has Harper (a young child but hewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's still got it in for Robinwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1786332388Adam Stower|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerMurray and Bun

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and ''The First Day of Spring'' was friendly cat, one such occasion. The writing who is superb able to sleep and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent eat and eat and sleep and , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the plot grips you and won't let gotwo. So, whatBut he's a bad magician's the problem? Wellcat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the problem is Chrissiecatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years oldregular back garden, small for her age but into a world of frightening adventure and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boywhiffs. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's This time round it drops them into a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions Viking land, where a little later in the book: when will Steven come backtroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, she wonders? Hasnbut he't s turned up and he been dead for long enough?'ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Catherine SteadmanB0C47LV1PC|title=The Disappearing ActFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= British actress Mia Eliot Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is on the cusp of success. Great success. If question should you make it? Or is the rumours are truequestion if you did, award season would it land? The catch is going to treat her that the answer for both could well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed productionbe.... no. She ''Fragility''s going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And set as the places he's going take him towards liescity of Portland, Oregon, deceit and a pretty young thing in cautiously begins to emerge from the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just restrictions imposed during the excuse.|isbn=1471189783covid pandemic

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler1529431735|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the backdrop of more surprising. He'd been exiled on the English Civil War, Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642decade. As The return has come about because he's had a loyal servant of the Kingletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and Head of the Secret Service, it is Roberthasn't long to live. It's duty hard to uncover the details of the plan feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and follow the clues sent to uncover one of the most guarded secrets a watery grave in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Tasha SuriAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Jasmine ThroneGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary= On Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the night of her sacred burningwondrous library we start by visiting with him, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on to in the evening a helper at the pyredessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is immediately sent a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to be imprisoned on the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with titular race, a community globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of people who got powers from a magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the mysterious deathless waters. But now pair – but when a bad incident at the temple eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is nothing more than an overgrownto dare to enter what he most hates, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone with the sole aim the prize of magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that at the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for end – the girl only thing to become her own personal maidservantpossibly save his gran.|isbn=03565156480571382231

|isbn=B088YWF5BC178763681X|title=The Lies We TellKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jane CorryOrlando Murrin

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a council estate residential cookery school in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sistersBelgravia. It seemed He didn't really want to have been but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a loving, stable familyway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. When we first meet her, she canPaul ''t sleep because her son, Freddie, whosomehow's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by got the time he sort of half-promised impression that he'd be in by. Her husbandat the school to assist Paul, Tomwho had a broken arm, is fast asleep: theybut it didn're moving house in t turn out that way. The teaching - and the morning but problems - are all his own. The one thing hehadn's still going t expected was for someone to be going to work and he needs his sleepturn up dead. He wakesUnfortunately, though, when Freddie does come in he was the person who discovered the body and overhears him tell his mother everyone knows that the police consider that he's killed someoneperson to be the prime suspect.

|author=Joseph KnoxSarah Marsh|title=True Crime StoryA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created After a bout of scarlet fever as a new genre with his latest novelchild, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from Ellen Lark loses her university halls of residencehearing. Split Suddenly plunged into four partsa world of silence, the reader is taken through the everything about her life and disappearance of Zoe through changes. Living in a time when the eyes use of her twin sistersign language was seen as something only savages do, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get Ellen is sent to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe a school where she presented is taught to otherslip read, but physically restrained from signing. However From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the twists deaf and turns at using a system called Visible Speech. At the end of each chapter leave you shockedsame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, confused and unsure Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of what is true or fabricatedespionage. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=08575277031035401614

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1803816759|title=No, No, No!The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=They say the best picture books are It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the simplest oneswealthy and peaceful New York City. And nothing could be truer Joe longs for a bit of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favouriteadventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. ''NoBut then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, Nomaking life easier for many, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginableand riots start to spread. ''No, no, no! OkayFinally, okayJoe gets to do some real policing. Yes, you mayIn the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home.Joe isn'' That's it! Butt the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, like all the best picture booksa British superfan and tech nerd, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger also on the inside that case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it appears on the outside.|isbn=1638820457hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Monica Connell1529421284|title=Against a Peacock SkyLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do It was one of those flash downpours that the fieldwork for her Ph.D. British weather often delivers in social anthropologya heatwave. I think it is important to know that. She went on In a grant-supported tripgully, with a relatively specific objectivehuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. She wasn He't d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't a mere tourist passing throughconvinced. She went with Geary was a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also wenttownie, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things so what was he doing out, how to organise them in her mind, how on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to "understand" them in the context suicide of her own paradigms, Holly Gilbert and how to keep enough notes two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and files and photos to help her create some greater sense DC Gemma Broad of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to break her own rules you and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upme) investigate.|isbn=1780600429

|isbn=14091816690571379559|title=The MaidensHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Alex MichaelidesFiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. She needed to think carefully about what Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she knew and decide how might be happier there, but instead, she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with lives in the death of Tara Hampton house on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeriverbank, built of broken bricks. SheInsubstantial as it might look, it'd been brutally stabbed s stood the passage of time, storms and Mariana's niecefloods. Her husband, Richard, Zoestruggles to grow his vegetables, had telephoned her to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in distresssufficient money. Tara had been her best friend They have twin boys - Sonny and she was struggling to copeMax, the rainbow twins. Mariana wasnSonny't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from Kings colouring reflects his mother's CrossJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of MarianaPeople don't believe that they's husbandre related, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoemuch less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother and Marianathat she's sister, Elizahis nanny.

|authorisbn=Maisie Chan1529425867|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Danny In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is eleven years oldof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and what he reallyfather of Ryan, really loves to do is drawnot. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words's not any of those things. DannyHe's dadwhite, howeveroriginated from a trailer park, wants Danny to concentrate on barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his maths, thing) and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in peacelime green or acid yellow. But then one day his parents tell him they have You might wonder if you're being introduced to a surprise police procedural written for himlaughs. Well, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will you're not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on . The two men are just different sides of the top bunk of his bunk bed! same policing coin. Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around Sometimes the towncombination works brilliantly well. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with RaviSometimes it's problematic...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|author=Terry MilesMosby Woods|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 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}}{{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=WidowlandWhirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=ItThe West isn's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend t the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over dominant force it once was. Nobody in the sanctioned return West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the throne best course of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisaction. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we Governments are now a protectorate – wellflailing. A war here, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, push for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of climate action there. A feeling that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy nobody is actively discouragedin actual charge. And in this puritanical existenceImagine then, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed there was a man with precognition. Imagine the task strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can circumstances. That man would be bannedvaluable, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards right? Perhaps the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintmost valuable asset in history. That is her jobImagine then, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.get it back?|isbn=152941198XB0C9SNG8R1