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|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino0241636604|title=The Devil Makes ThreeTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary= Working all summer If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in her boarding schoolyour mind, you's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants re unlikely to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. What makes it worse A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmasterEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and a man Tess hatesinjustice. As a petty act There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of revenge for making her find Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and deliver such he has a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each facility with numbers which most of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she us can think ofonly envy. They're never meant He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to reach himbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like thisessentially, and then take them all off before delivering thema card game which got him an internship with Citibank. No harm done… Or it would be Eventually, if someone hadn't delivered them for herthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1789098130

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61035021803|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!s back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the latest release in circumstances seem suspicious, to say the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyleast. This series of fun picture books aims Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to take the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some funvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. It's a worthy aim Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, as any frustrated parent will tell youshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=B098FFFBH9AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=SnowcubAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Graham FulbrightBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is her schoolwhat 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 animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing a competition entry advantageous to highlight me but I'm left with the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip HarrisonOf course, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate I could research the possibilities and her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where weprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'll meet Rachelm reading someone who knows what they's main (if unsuspected) source of re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information: five soft toysin a way I could understand.

|author= Angharad WalkerSunny Singh|title= The Ash HouseHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash HouseHotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He doesn't know his name Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, or why he is there but he is used to the systemSam, used to different places a wartime photographer and different facesAbhi, the hotel manager. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out As Abhi continues to try to teach him care remotely for the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by residents who are still alive in the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their choreshotel, working as he forms a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by the arrival events, and keeps on venturing out of the Doctorher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. By the end of Although they only ever talk over the storyphone, lives will be changed forever their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and The Ash House they both wait to see if they will never be rescued before they are discovered by the same againterrorists.|isbn=1912626977086154742X

|authorisbn=Yancey Williams1529153298|title=Crosshairs of the Devil|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade The List of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{FrontpageSuspicious Things|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepJennie 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 Fleming. However, as with in the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of evening a new and timely 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 helper at the modern dessert cafe his gran owns and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)runs. There is a growing unhappiness Eli lives with this limiting worldhis lovely gran, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|isbn=0356514757}}{{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven too – for thinking that all there is a generation missing in the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowfamily. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in AkranesA few short years ago, and finding itEli's only twenty kilometres from parents were both lost to the capital citytitular race, that this author is clutching at a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the few final straws left. However just because world in the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago company of a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen againmagical beast. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with has made the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for race anathema to the girl back, and pair – but when a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives bad incident at the eatery leads to a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenconfession from gran, in one placeEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, sole aim 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 prize of magic at the assumption that is so easy for end – the reader only thing to make the right one?possibly save his gran.|isbn=191319373X0571382231

|isbn=B0925KS87N178763681X|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Knife Skills for 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}}

|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Sarah LanganWill Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Good NeighboursLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= If you're It was one of a certain vintage, it's hard to read those flash downpours that the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding British weather often delivers in a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''heatwave. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street In a gully, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from human skeleton came to the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on surface and forensic testing proved the crescentbody to be Lee Geary, quite new arrivals having moved in a year who had disappeared nine years earlier. They He're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's d been a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends known drug user and their kids have settled inhad learning disabilities, and so it's all going ok. Until it isncould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'tconvinced. One hot Geary was a townie, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the park across suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the waytime. It's a revolting mess of dirt Lockyer and chaos, but for the residents DC Gemma Broad of Maple Street, the worst is yet Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to comeyou and me) investigate.|isbn=1789098211

|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson0571379559|title=The Small ThingsHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Although Anna has friends at school''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she feels like she never really fits lives inthe house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Her family don Insubstantial as it might look, it't have enough money to let her do after school activitiess stood the passage of time, storms and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirsfloods. When a new girl joins her class Her husband, Richard, Anna is asked struggles to partner hergrow his vegetables, but things are complicated because to complete the new girl, Ellie, is unwell delivery rounds - and so can't attend school to bring in personsufficient money. Instead They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, she joins in with the class by using a robotrainbow twins. Can Anna overcome the challenge of making friends with someone through a robot Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649's his nanny.

|isbn=00083503881529425867|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Otegha UwagbaSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is to be seen as less desirableof Nigerian descent, less hireableBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, less intelligent son of Ryan and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterpartsfather of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things..'' He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading'We Need to Talk About Moneys not '' by Otegha Uwagba really''0his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies.7% of English Literature GCSE students They're usually in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanlime green or acid yellow.'' You might wonder if you''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came re being introduced to the UK from Kenya when she was five years olda police procedural written for laughs. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came firstWell, with her father joining them lateryou're not. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have two men are just different sides of the best education possiblesame policing coin. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten Sometimes the family acquired a carcombination works brilliantly well. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, OxfordSometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1787631869Mosby Woods|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadnThe West isn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life in the aftermathdominant force it once was. 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, Nobody in 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 West is quite sure how to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, mend this or money, even if mending it is concernedthe best course of action.}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Peck|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3Governments are flailing.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet KateA war here, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatpush for climate action there. 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, A feeling that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she nobody is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksactual charge. HoweverImagine then, this is there was a train ride man with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from precognition. Imagine the darkness strategic advantage in this asset; a blink-and-man who can tell you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalistwhat will happen given any set of circumstances.That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=184812970XB0C9SNG8R1