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|isbn=B098FFFBH90241636604|title=SnowcubThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Graham FulbrightGary Stevenson

|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=FourteenIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-yearstripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -old Rachel but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is her school's animal rights project leader and she bright - extremely bright - and her friend are producing he has a competition entry facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to highlight the way in be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which human beings exploit got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the animal worldEnglish country village where she grew up. She gets 's back now because of a great deal of support request for help from her family: father Pip Harrisonbeloved aunt, a lecturer at Imperial CollegeCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, LondonArthur Crockleford, mother Kate is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her twindown badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, Nickshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Kate runs After the family businesssplit, she worked in a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putneycafe, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main met and married James (if unsuspectedon the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) source of information: five soft toysand Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Angharad WalkerAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= The Ash HouseAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 5|genre= Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary= A ''Opening up new boy arrives at The Ash Houseways of thinking about the shape of things to come. He doesn't know his name' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, or why he is I must confess that there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faceshave been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to teach him me but I'm left with the rules of The Ash Housefeeling that it's all getting away from me. These rules centre on a variety Some of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmasterit is - frankly - quite frightening. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores Of course, working as a hive in I could research the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by possibilities and the arrival of probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the Doctorlatest conspiracy theorist. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever I needed people I knew I could trust and The Ash House will never be the same againwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1912626977

|author=Yancey WilliamsSunny Singh|title=Crosshairs of the DevilHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski The Hotel Arcadia is getting a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on in years site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer andAbhi, despite his strenuous objections and thanks the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to his daughtercare remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, finds himself living - or imprisonedhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, from Eddieand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's point of view - in room 315 of happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkinsphone, for palatable company. Nothing is going their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing though, so here, for his readers, safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are his wanderings through his life's workdiscovered by the terrorists.|isbn=0986031658086154742X}}

|authorisbn=Philip Reeve1529153298|title=Utterly Dark and the Face The List of the DeepSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a wordIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, richhonestly. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea..) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, British but way west, beyond the Scilliesthough. Women have been disappearing. There are troll people on it Well, and sea-witchesthey've been murdered, and legends of but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching 'Down South'. When you're from even further westYorkshire, where no ship dare sailDown South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. The current Darks are the Watcher For Miv, Andrewe, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Landsmove would mean leaving her best friend, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionsSharon, and Andreweshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's foundling daughter, who washed up out of not worried about the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like it dangers or notthat her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1788452372

|authorisbn=Erling Kagge1398524085|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turnedup. Her children, sons Niall, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minePaul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. In my defenceare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole Shortly afterwards, the North Pole Etty and Greg, find the summit body of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. HoweverGreg's father, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeysDuncan Ackerley, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walkin the river. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and I haventhen committed suicide when he couldn't countedstand the guilt. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705

|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1035906708|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, for he's a slight boyNew York, in December 1923 and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses only moved to let him out of his sightAthens when she was thirteen. That Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's because JackCallas's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her – voice - she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke was raised under the ogre's death, Nazi occupation by a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, mother who mercilessly exploited her and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting made no secret of her preference for Beginners''..her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=0755501942

|author=Keith GrayChristopher Edge|title=The ClimbersBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Sully is the best tree climber Lucas and his friends are all booked in the village. He for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has what's known amongst the kids as nickname of 'reachThe Black Hole'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, called Nottinghammany snacks! However, who clambers up some of as the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried movie starts, they very quickly realise that his status something about this new film format is being threatenedvery different, and not only that, that his chance they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to name the finalnext, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottinghamthey figure out what on earth is going on? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to do sotheir real lives?|isbn=17811299911839942738

|author=Emma CarrollRachel Greenlaw|title=The Week at World's EndCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=First''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the titleanswering beat in my heart. We're in World's End Close Rosevear, a mediocre set of housesremote and partially forgotten island, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with survives on luring ships into the family dog rocks and with the boy over plundering the roadwrecks. But we could also be at World's EndMira, like her mother before her, because something taking a great chunk is one of the fun away is seven who swim out to survey the fact ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries Council Watch lays a trap to reduce end the risk of nuclear missiles offshorewrecking, they capture the island's leader and not much else Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is able secretive and with only coordinates to make the news. That saidguide her, Vie has news she sets off in search of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding family secret that lies buried deep in their coal shedthe sea. Anna hasWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, in no short time, taken a strong interest in as her journey takes her from the American airforce base behind watched streets of foreign islands to the Close, said sheheart of the smuggler'd locate something she wanted and leaves territory, failed Mira must be determined to leave, and implied her life was stop at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what save the future of her home and the Cold War is doing miles away?ones she holds most dear.|isbn=05713644380008664730

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonJames Sherwood Metts|title=Julia and the SharkPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has Things have been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers a bit sticky for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islandsEarthlings. Here be VikingsAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that kind of Scottish islandtook time to accomplish. Dad is going Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to be automating the lanternthink of other, which is his specialist thingnew ways to spend time, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkalong came an awful pandemic. And JuliaLife was pretty much shut down and, wellalong with it, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15101077891736128426

|author=Freya SampsonMatthew Tree|title=The Last LibraryWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=I am always a little nervous Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to start a story about a librarybe different from his father, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the thought any of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, his artistic passions all failed miserably and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out who had endless crises of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she didself confidence. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home So Tim applied himself to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway mealhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, set himself high but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changeachievable ambitions.|isbn=183877369XB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0008370982A G Slatter|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice FeeneyThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home '' There's a part of me that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotlandwants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Her husbandThis secret magic of my own, Adamall mine, isnat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'t so keen on ' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the idea. Like Ameliaworld, he knows that their marriage has been lies Silverton; a town under strain: hethe protection of the Briar's , a screenwriter family of witches who protect the town and he's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to adapt be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than with spells and potions. When her. Ameliagrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with cousin Audra becomes the dogsBriar Witch, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - shethe town's won the weekend awayleader, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in and Ellie takes her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam place beside her in the passenger seat - . As challenges come her way left, right and then doing centre, Ellie uncovers the same thing rare ability to come back communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a couple maelstrom of days laterchaos.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 under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone1529900360|title=The Great SilenceGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=For those whoIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, like me, havenSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't come across need the Skelfs beforehelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, I'll risk a quick synopsis of whoDelaware's partner, who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the backstory in without being heavy handed about itman she loved needed. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature The next case did look simple, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely . Two lovers were murdered in the surname swimming pool of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigatorsremote property in Bel Air. Dorothy is He was the matriarch – Californian by birth heir to an Italian shoe empire and instinct, she is married a scot to an extremely rich man and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in it's not the family for generationsItalian. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join But which of them was the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837primary target?

|isbn=19015149781529395224|title=There's Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Problem With DadVet|author=Carlos AlbaSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and he canRowlands didn't really understand why. Hewant to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's always done everything life. When he ought to: steady worker, husband and father - and was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a father family friend who was always there a vet and was convinced this was the job for school plays and sports dayshim. So why is Before long, he never quite in tune with those around him? was at Liverpool University. Why does he upset people? Why is someone It hadn't - as with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breathstudents -taking gaffes? been his dream since he was a child. ItIf anything, he's almost become a cliche these days d wanted to suggest that someone who is be a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismprofessional footballer.

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0861541774|title=The HeightsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellen doesnDCI Domenic Jejeune't expect s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see Kieran meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that day. She's on site, visiting he was facing a client for man armed with a lighting consultation when she spies him in knife - and he killed a building across the wayGhurka. There are lots of things Initially, lots he faced a charge of people, you might see when you look out across London, manslaughter but this isn't one Ellen expected evidence came to light that suggested that day or in fact he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1471183483

|isbnauthor=0008421714Alexander McCall Smith|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He The Perfect Passion Company is self-defined a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as "one of an alternative to all the few television personalities over the age of fifty without online apps in providing a criminal record"more personal, tailored service. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she's carrying his childcould come and look after the business, but then his author wife as Ness is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. They have three children, who are Katie is coming out of a sad-sack break up with absolutely no social skills whatsoevera bad boyfriend, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants bringing us to save the world's homeless with out-of-date foodan Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Add Katie has no experience in running a few other characters – therapistsbusiness, or in match-making, lawyersbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, random transgender types – that all have two and there's always her very different connections to his life, helpful (and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even morerather handsome) neighbour, howeverWilliam, is the fact this is bloody funny.to lend a hand…|isbn=08575262191846976596

|isbn=02419890940811771741|title=The Perfect LifeInstaKnits for Baby|author=Nuala EllwoodMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and sheMelissa Leapman's viewing ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a house in Goringcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits -on-Thames and telling others are of the estate agent about her three children'long, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit cosy afternoons in front of a handful which is why shethe fire's making this trip on her ownvariety. The house would be perfect for them. It's projects are divided by the same month but now wetime they're in Wimbledon ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and we encounter more than twenty hours. All the same young womanprojects are attractive, only this time shemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgiesocial-media-worthy projects's, spare room, where shebut that's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorme being picky.

|author=Darren ShanDean Koontz|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=SoBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Having done the impossible Oh, and unpicked the lock someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Forgotten Cryptthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, from which Benny is the Departed communicate with very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Mergedelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, Archie now who has ''grop'' been sent to think abouthelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But before that Spike is going to take care of Benny, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inezand will certainly take care of Benny's amusementenemies, doesn't even know what one of those is. But if he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with KurtisBenny, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=B093J9TF731662500491

|isbnauthor=B07GZ81J7CAdam Stower|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished Murray and Mended|author=Peter CottonBun

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going Murray is supposed to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is a snake able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and even those , well, whatever takes his fancy next of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himthe two. He arrived as But he's a present in bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a box with holes so that he could breathe hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and immediately became part of the family, to the extent that catflap they would take Fred out with both use can chuck them when they went out for , not into the regular back garden, but into a walkworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. And that This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was where the problem started. Fred didn, to be honest, but he's turned up and he't ll have any road sense. Or brakes.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaB0C47LV1PC|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Fragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Can potty training ever be joyousyou make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? It often isn'tAnd if you could, as any parent will tell is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you. But reallydid, why shouldn't would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are small. Why shouldn... no. ''Fragility''t potty training be as much fun is set asthe city of Portland, sayOregon, learning about why the sun and cautiously begins to emerge from the moon take turns in restrictions imposed during the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHcovid pandemic

|isbn=17876344931529431735|title=All Her FaultThe Winter Visitor|author=Andrea MaraJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which sometimes happenmade Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Marissa Irvine had He'd been hoping that exiled on the opportunity would arise Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for her son, Milo, to go on a play datedecade. She was concerned that The return has come about because he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home s had a letter from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob ex- and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Onlywife, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacobsaying that she's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didnill and hasn't know Jenny or Jacoblong to live. The phone number sheIt'd been given for Jenny was not recogniseds hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Claire NorthAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Notes from the Burning AgeThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=At its core ''Notes From Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the Burning Age'' wondrous library we start by Claire North is a spy thriller, visiting with as many double crosseshim, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingin the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. However, as Eli lives with the best novelshis lovely gran, it wears many masks and its most affecting one too – for there is that of a new and timely genre, cli-figeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, or climate change fiction. NorthEli's novel tells of parents were both lost to the titular race, a world devastated by climate change globe-trotting adventure where humans all entrants have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of navigate the world in the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons company of mass destruction, intensive farming)a magical beast. There is This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldconfession from gran, and one groupEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter end – the cost only thing to the Earthpossibly save his gran.|isbn=03565147570571382231

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)178763681X|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. 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 woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy Knife Skills for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0925KS87N|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Beginners|author=Neil LancasterOrlando Murrin

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it Chef Paul Delamare took some finding - a teaching job at a residential cookery school in an overgrown old cemeteryBelgravia. It was a strange thing for ScotlandHe didn's premier criminal t really want to do, but Tam was celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting old both men and there were things women to do what he wanted to do. Only, his family didnPaul ''somehow't hear from him again after he'd said got the impression that he'd found be at the grave - the one which said that school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it shouldndidn't be opened turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his three sons began own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to worryturn up dead. Tam JuniorUnfortunately, Frankie he was the person who discovered the body and Dave wouldn't normally go everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worriedprime suspect.

|author=Emily CritchleySarah Marsh|title=The Tiny Gestures A Sign of Small FlowersHer Own|rating=3.5

|summary= The Tiny Gestures After a bout of Small Flowers had all scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the hallmarks use of sign language was seen as something goodonly savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. I was intrigued by the plot From here, liked she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the design of deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the booksame time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promisingEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 19114270911035401614}}

|authorisbn=Sarah Langan1803816759|title=Good NeighboursThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= If youIt're s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of a certain vintage, it's hard adventure and to read get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''AI system that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streetnow runs everything, thoughmaking life easier for many, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbsriots start to spread. They're one of 18 households on the crescentFinally, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierJoe gets to do some real policing. They're not quite like all In the aftermath of the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and their kids have settled in, and it's all going okJoe is assigned to bring her home. Until it Joe isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summerthe only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt British superfan and chaostech nerd, but for is also on the residents of Maple Street, case. What went wrong? Did the worst system fail or was it hacked? And how is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1529421284|title=The Small ThingsLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers ina heatwave. Her family don't have enough money In a gully, a human skeleton came to let her do after school activities, the surface and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison forensic testing proved the body to theirsbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. When He'd been a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner herknown drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so canDI Matt Lockyer wasn't attend school in personconvinced. Instead Geary was a townie, she joins in with the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the challenge suicide of making friends with someone through a robot, Holly Gilbert and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649you and me) investigate.

|isbn=00083503880571379559|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Otegha UwagbaFiona Williams

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman The House of Broken Bricks'' is to the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be seen as less desirablehappier there, less hireablebut instead, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students she lives in England study a book by a writer the house on the riverbank, built of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanbroken bricks.'' Insubstantial as it might look, it''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to s stood the UK from Kenya when she was five years oldpassage of time, storms and floods. Her sisters were seven husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and nineto bring in sufficient money. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hardThey have twin boys -workingSonny and Max, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possiblerainbow twins. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a carMax takes after his father. For OteghaPeople don't believe that they're related, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London much less twins and then a place at New College, Oxfordthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=17876318691529425867|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good Lost 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|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although Never Found (A D I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for 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...|isbn=184812970X}}{{FrontpageWilkins Mystery)|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Simon Mason

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, ArchieBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, back in London in the world son of Ryan and father of the BornRyan, is not. It He's not been easyany of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, explaining to his foster parents where hebarely educated (reading's been, or slipping back into ordinary life not ''really'' his thing) and forgetting about Inez his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and his other friends trackies. They're usually in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben. Sometimes it's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayproblematic.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0571365884Mosby Woods|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a childThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. She would worry about whether Nobody in the monsters under the bed were comfortable: West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it was is the sort best course of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweenaction. Governments are flailing. On A war here, a visit to a therapist, as an adultpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, when she there was completely unable to speak about what was wrong a man with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a Bit man who can tell you what will happen given any set of a Life: Adventures circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to believe.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1