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|isbn=19424102550241636604|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Michael PronkoGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it? The hours for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required unlikely to do: you'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction think of bullies someone like Shigeru OnizukaGary Stevenson. When A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even from no posh public school on his family, CV - but there was a mild curiosity as he had been to whether the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he'd jumped from the roof has a facility with numbers which most of the building or been assisted in his descentus can only envy. Gossip revolves around the fact He also realised that he left the roof most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at the exact same spot that an employeewhat was, Mayu Yamaseessentially, had committed suicide some three years earliera card game which got him an internship with Citibank. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimeEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=02414254251035021803|title=The Man Who Died TwiceAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Richard OsmanC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she received the lettergrew up. It came from She's back now because of a man whose body she had helped to pull request for help from the Thames her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and who had never existed but then this Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the sort of conundrum which retired spies have circumstances seem suspicious, to deal with on a regular basissay the least. When she visits Arthur was the sender of reason why Freya had not been back to the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as no surprise that it's someone with whom antique hunters, she has a long professional history - and who used not felt able to be her husbandnear the man or pursue the profession she loved. He's made After the split, she worked in a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the range love of a CCTV camera on a raidher life, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds who was murdered) and Freya and a few death threats. He's James have now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressdivorced.

|authorisbn=Andrew SharpAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Chef, the Bird All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and the BlessingStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to his employer - come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' iswhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, in his mind, the head chef I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of a safari business catering to VIP guests technology in an unnamed African countrymy lifetime. Mozzy is earnest and dedicated I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to his task and he puts me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become possibilities and the head chef of a restaurant in London probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin starthe latest conspiracy theorist. He is thwarted in this ambition by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you I needed people I knew I could trust and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy ways, his uninterest could deliver information in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the housea way I could understand.|isbn=B09926MK8H

|author=Alex FoulkesSunny Singh|title=Rules for VampiresHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) The Hotel Arcadia is a Vampireluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She drinks blood Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, she sleeps during the daykilling everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to travel around, although not all of them remember try to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the night of her hundredth birthnighthotel, she has he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans be cowed by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worseevents, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master keeps on venturing out of the orphanage come back her room to try to haunt capture what's happened through herphotography. So, not Although they only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of ever talk over the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulphone, she has their friendship grows as Abhi tries to do it all while hiding it from help her family. Did I mention vampires keep safe and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are rules for vampires…discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=147119955X086154742X

|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino1529153298|title=The Devil Makes ThreeList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Working all summer in her boarding schoolIt's library 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly.. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school) She's not what's worrying Miv's headmasterfamily, and a man Tess hatesthough. Women have been disappearing. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request Well, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the booksthey've been murdered, scribbled with but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the ugliest insults she can think offamily 'Down South'. They When you're never meant to reach himfrom Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, of coursebest avoided. Her plan is to get For Miv, the move would mean leaving her anger out like thisbest friend, Sharon, and then take them all off before delivering themshe'll do anything to prevent that. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn She't delivered them for s not worried about the dangers or that herMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1789098130

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61398524085|title= Who Needs NappiesHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the latest release body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averyriver. This series of fun picture books aims It was an easy assumption for the police to take make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the pain out of potty training guilt. The Salter children and replace it with some fun. Itare not convinced but there's a worthy aim, as any frustrated parent will tell you. little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B098FFFBH91035906708|title=SnowcubDiva|author=Graham FulbrightDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she and was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her friend are producing a competition entry father changed it to 'Callas' to highlight the way make it more manageable in which human beings exploit the animal worldStates. She gets a great deal of support from When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her family: father Pip Harrison, voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putneypreference for her elder sister, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysJackie.

|author= Angharad WalkerChristopher Edge|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}}{{Frontpage|author=Yancey Williams|title=Crosshairs of the DevilBlack Hole Cinema Club|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 of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep|rating=5

|summary=In Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a wordmovie marathon at their local cinema, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond place that has the Scilliesnickname of 'The Black Hole'. There are troll people on it All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and sea-witchesmany, and legends of many snacks! However, as the Dark family movie starts, they very quickly realise that has to keep watch for magical islands something about this new film format is very different, and their monster approaching from they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even further west, where no ship dare sailimagine. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has But as they lurch from one film genre to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Landsnext, his brother can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will who lives in London with too much science in his head they ever get back to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himselfcinema, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting to their island, like it or not.real lives?|isbn=17884523721839942738

|author=Erling KaggeRachel Greenlaw|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre= LifestyleTeens|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much ''I loved a book is evidenced by can hear the number song of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minesea. In my defence, I will say that as a reader The call of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased cornersthe deep, 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)answering beat in my heart.''

Erligg Kagge is Rosevear, a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Poleremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the North Pole rocks and plundering the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walkingwrecks. HoweverMira, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeyslike her mother before her, it is instead a thoughtful exploration one of what it means the seven who swim out to walksurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. It is But when the Council Watch lays a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contentstrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island' page s leader and I havenMira't counteds father. In small format paperbackDesperate to save him from death, each essay Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a few pages longfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Perhaps thenWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, better thought as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of as a meditation rather than an essaythe smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=02413577050008664730

|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultJames Sherwood Metts|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersPlanet Storyland

|summary=Meet JackThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble AI and quickautomation have been proceeding apace, for heoften replacing jobs they's a slight boy, re paid to do and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses other tasks that took time to let him out of his sightaccomplish. That's because Jack's mother knew Just as they were beginning to get used to all about monsters, this technological change and look what happened starting to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point think of viewother, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLnew ways to spend time, Jack will fluke the ogre's deathalong came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunteralong with it, 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 for Beginners''..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=07555019421736128426

|author=Keith GrayMatthew Tree|title=The ClimbersWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his status is being threatenedfather, a drunk and not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by chronic underachiever whose dreams of being the first to conquer it, might be snatched from exceptional at any of his handsartistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him So Tim applied himself to his best friendstudies, or maybe even all of cultivated his abilities rather than his friends, to do so?daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1781129991B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Emma CarrollA G Slatter|title=The Week at World's EndBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=First, the title. We're in World' There's End Close, a mediocre set part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of housesmy own, all mine, where Stevie (Vie at last. I just want to her friends) finds fun only with enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the family dog and with world, lies Silverton; a town under the boy over protection of the road. But we could also be at WorldBriar's End, because something taking a great chunk family of witches who protect the fun away is town and the fact that wider world from the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offDarklands. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreThough she has always wished for magic, and not much else Ellie Briar is able the first non-witch to make the news. That saidbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, Vie has news of her own – Anna, training as a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Anna hasWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, in no short timeEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Closetown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, said she'd locate something she wanted right and leavecentre, failed Ellie uncovers the rare ability to leavecommunicate with the dead, and implied putting her life was at riskthe heart of a maelstrom of chaos. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do with what as the Cold War Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is doing miles away?under threat.|isbn=05713644381803364548

|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston1529900360|title=Julia and the SharkThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=JuliaIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, our preSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from -shut cases which didn't need the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers help of a psychologist only worked for a summerwhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, in who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the far NE of involvement was something that the Scottish islandsman she loved needed. Here be VikingsThe next case did look simple, that kind though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of Scottish islanda remote property in Bel Air. Dad is going He was the heir to be automating the lantern, which an Italian shoe empire and she is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind married to hunt an extremely rich man and it's not the elusive Greenland sharkItalian. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Freya Sampson1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Last LibrarySecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I am always Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a little nervous GP and Rowlands didn't want to start a story about a libraryfollow in his footsteps, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at particularly when he considered the thought of the incoming cardiganstrain that being on-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses call put on a chain stereotypes! In this story, his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the main character, June, does put her hair in opportunity of doing work experience with a bun, and she does own family friend who was a cat (called Alan Bennett), vet and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating was convinced this was the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the windowjob for him. Before long, because I found I he was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to Liverpool University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, . It hadn't - as well as taking on with so many students - been his dream since he was a job as library assistant at the local librarychild. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there If anything, still eating her mumhe's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changed wanted to be a professional footballer.|isbn=183877369X

|isbn=00083709820861541774|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice Feeney|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen on the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy A Nye of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with her. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days later.}}{{FrontpagePheasants|author=Doug Johnstone|title=The Great SilenceSteve Burrows

|summary=For those whoDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, like meDanny Maik, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk has taken a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory short holiday in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought Singapore to bemeet up with an old ally, it is merely the surname of Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a family of undertakers. Undertakers knife - and private investigatorshe killed a Ghurka. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct Initially, she married he faced a scot and ended up helping charge of manslaughter but evidence came to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm light that suggested that had been in he might have planned to murder the family for generationsman. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer Now he could be facing the death penalty. Swedish by nationality. Scottish Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – force could provoke a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree diplomatic incident and join the academic staff next termwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1913193837

|isbnauthor=1901514978Alexander McCall Smith|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Life The Perfect Passion Company is different for George Lovelace a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and he can't really understand whyoperating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. He's always done everything he ought Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to: steady worker, husband and father - and take a father who was always there trip to Canada to get away for school plays and sports daysa while. So why Katie is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone coming out of a break up with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress bad boyfriend, and so jumps at work or the chance to relate come home to his colleagues? Edinburgh. Why does he make And so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to suggest that someone 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who is quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a little different is 'on the spectrum'business, or in match-making, but George Lovelace Ness has all the symptoms of Aspergerfull confidence in her abilities, and there's Syndrome: high-functioning autism.always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0811771741|title=The HeightsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Ellen doesnMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby''t expect gives us a collection of knits from toys to see Kieran that dayblankets. She Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's on sitelong, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him cosy afternoons in a building across front of the wayfire' variety. There The projects are lots of thingsdivided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, lots of peopleten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, you might see modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when you look out across London, I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but this isnthat't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murders me being picky.|isbn=1471183483

|isbnauthor=0008421714Dean Koontz|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to dateBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to either be reading his home, and it 's possible that whoever or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to whatever was inside is the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on thing that particular morninghas trashed his house! The thing is, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping Benny is the bread, ''but isn't very last person to deserve all this the first time he's based bad luck. He is a character on you?'' nice person. She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''A really nice person. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the fact that Johanna delivery to his house is the whore of Nantes - ''a weaknew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, plainwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, detestableand will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, patheticif he, unlovedBenny, unloveable wretchand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.''|isbn=1662500491

|author=John BoyneAdam Stower|title=The Echo ChamberMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=Meet George Cleverley. He Murray is self-defined as "supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"two. He starts this book But he's a bit worried when his mistress tells him shebad magician's carrying cat, so his childfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with and the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three childrencatflap they both use can chuck them out, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoevernot into the regular back garden, but into a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in Viking land, where a few other characters troll hunter is expected – therapistswell, lawyersone much bigger than Murray was, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his lifebe honest, but he's turned up and you he'll have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.do…|isbn=08575262190008561249

|isbn=0241989094B0C47LV1PC|title=The Perfect LifeFragility|author=Nuala EllwoodMosby Woods

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=In August 2018 we meet Can you make a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the estate agent about her three childrenquestion if you did, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. would it land? The boys are a bit of a handful which catch is why she's making this trip on her ownthat the answer for both could well be.... The house would be perfect for themno.

It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time sheFragility's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie'sis set as the city of Portland, spare roomOregon, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529431735|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done the impossible It's February 1991 and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptEssex is bitingly cold, from which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Departed communicate with more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Merge, Archie now Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she'grop's ill and hasn' t long to think about. But before that, soireeslive. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez It's amusementhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages stripped to his underwear and sent to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed a watery grave in the first volume boot of this seriesa stolen Ford Sierra. |isbn=B093J9TF73 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=B07GZ81J7CAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter CottonThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Meet FredEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. WellEli lives with his lovely gran, actuallytoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, youEli're going s parents were both lost to be meeting Fredthe titular race, a globe-Fred for reasons which will become trotting adventure where all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead entrants have to navigate the world in the company of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fredmagical beast. Fred is This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a snake and even those of us who have bad incident at the eatery leads to a phobia about snakes are going confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to warm dare to him. He arrived as a present in a box enter what he most hates, with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part the sole aim the prize of magic at the family, end – the only thing to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakespossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova178763681X|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn'treally want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, as any parent will tell you. But reallywho had a broken arm, why shouldnbut it didn't it be? We turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are smallhis own. Why shouldn The one thing he hadn't potty training be as much fun asexpected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, say, learning about why he was the person who discovered the sun body and everyone knows that the moon take turns in police consider that person to be the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHprime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1787634493Sarah Marsh|title=All A Sign of Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraOwn|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It had seemed like one After a bout of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her son, Milo, to go on a play datelife changes. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School Living in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, time when Marissa arrived at the houseuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, expecting Ellen is sent to meet Jacob's mothera school where she is taught to lip read, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacobbut physically restrained from signing. The phone number From here, she'd ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been given for Jenny was not recognisedteaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannyAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Claire North1803816759|title=Notes from the Burning AgeThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=At its core It''Notes From s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the Burning Age'' by Claire North is wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a spy thrillerbit 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, with as making life easier for many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingriots start to spread. HoweverFinally, as with Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the best novels, it wears many masks rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and its most affecting Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one is that of trying to save Suki - Dylan, a new British superfan and timely genre, cli-fitech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or climate change fiction. Northwas it hacked? And how is Suki's novel tells kidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced human skeleton came to start anew the surface and live alongside nature without any of forensic testing proved the modern body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelshad learning disabilities, weapons so it could have been a simple case of mass destruction, intensive farming)misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. There is Geary was a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldtownie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and one group, to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the cost Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to the Earthyou and me) investigate.|isbn=0356514757

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)0571379559|title=Girls Who LieThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=35|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners ''The House of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that weBroken Bricks'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 leftstory of four people. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, itTess Hembry's not just roots are in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with lives in the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for house on the girl backriverbank, and a couple built of delighted adoptersbroken bricks. But Insubstantial as it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until might look, it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second placestood the passage of time, storms and nowfloods. Her husband, after six monthsRichard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the body has been discovered, delivery rounds - and to bring in a thirdsufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, even more remote placethe rainbow twins. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a Sonny's colouring reflects his mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xshe's his nanny.

|isbn=B0925KS87N1529425867|title=Dead Man's Grave Lost and Never Found (DS Max CraigieA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Neil LancasterSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemeteryfather of Ryan, is not. It was a strange thing for ScotlandHe's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and there were not any of those things he wanted to do. OnlyHe's white, originated from a trailer park, his family didnbarely educated (reading's not 't hear from him again after he'd said that hereally'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - his thing) and his three sons began wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to worrya police procedural written for laughs. Tam JuniorWell, Frankie and Dave wouldnyou't normally go to re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the police but they werencombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it't certain where their father had been and they were worrieds problematic.

|author=Emily CritchleyMosby Woods|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=34|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all West isn't the hallmarks of something gooddominant force it once was. I was intrigued by Nobody in the plot, liked West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the design best course of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interestingaction. From the outset it all looked incredibly promisingGovernments are flailing. So what on earth went wrong A war here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''push for climate action there. A feeling that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''nobody is in actual charge. Maple Street is no Ramsay StreetImagine then, though, Arlo and Gertie live there was a world apart from the Melbourne suburbsman with precognition. They're one of 18 households on Imagine the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved strategic advantage in this asset; a year earlierman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. They're not quite like all That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled most valuable asset in, and it's all going okhistory. Until it isn't. One hotImagine then, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the waythat this man loses this ability. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet What would governments do to come.get it back?|isbn=1789098211B0C9SNG8R1