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|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0241636604|title=The Mystery of HealingTrading Game: A Confession|author=A P McGrathGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Autobiography|summary=We meet Solon If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Pergamon in the second century your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the common era pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he's the physician was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on duty at the munus his CV - but he had been to the games put on for the amusement London School of the populaceEconomics. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a feeling facility with numbers which most of virtue and hones us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his skills: Solon ''wantsability at what was, essentially, a card game which 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 warriors to liveEnglish country village where she grew up. ItShe's quite back now because of a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and when we first see themCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, they're sprinkling gold dust onto is dead and the lions' manes circumstances seem suspicious, to make them look more impressivesay the least. The sagitarii are Arthur was the archers and reason why Freya had not been back to the beastiarii are village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with man or pursue the wild animalsprofession she loved. TodayAfter the split, it's she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the crocodileslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Beatryce ProphecyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in themOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, we are told here. And none I must confess that there have been more so than a few decades of technology in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the freshness and the agelessness feeling that it has in equal proportion's all getting away from me. We start with a group Some of monksit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, possibilities and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on probabilities and biting end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the poor Brotherslatest conspiracy theorist. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one I needed people I knew I could trust and who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King could deliver information in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changeway I could understand. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893

|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSSunny Singh|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikHotel Arcadia

|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=''For The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the bigterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, grownup girls out thereis Sam, the potty masters in traininga wartime photographer and Abhi, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pridehotel manager.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye As Abhi continues to nappies and pull-ups and graduation try to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can care remotely for the flowers, nor residents who are still alive in the fishhotel, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's he forms a big girl now and she wants everyone bond with Sam who refuses to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out Lily|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very illbe cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to give her parents relief shecapture what's been told to stay with happened through her grandma for a few daysphotography. The parents need Although they only ever talk over the relief phone, their friendship grows as Lily's baby sibling is just about Abhi tries to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word of help her parents (keep safe and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need they both wait to see if they will be ousted to get the family back intact, even if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in rescued before they are discovered by the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snaketerrorists.|isbn=1471194833086154742X

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1529153298|title=The Great Dream RobberyList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=MayaIt's father 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a professor who invented an amazing dream machinePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... But something went wrong) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, and now he canthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't wake upsound quite so frightening. Or at least, Miv's upset because she's overheard thather father wants to move the family 'Down South's what Maya has been told. In When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and discovers she'll do anything to prevent that . She's not worried about the only way to save dangers or that her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really...and thereMum's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser caststopped talking -offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xanyone.

|isbn=18004644951398524085|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Emma SmithNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours olds fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, assessing probability at six months oldsons Niall, Paul and comprehending addition Ollie and subtraction at nine months oldher daughter, Etty.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is a strong predictor of later achievementnot. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, double that find the body of literacy skills.Greg'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading storiess father, teaching pen gripsDuncan Ackerley, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start schoolin the river. But do we think It was an easy assumption for the same way about maths, beyond counting? I donpolice to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of mathsstand the guilt. But why The Salter children are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15293793851035906708|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Diva|author=Louise PennyDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=In the Canadian village We tend to think of Three PinesMaria Callas as Greek, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting she was born to get back Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to normalAthens when she was thirteen. The villagers are beginning Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to return to the Bistro and the Auberge. They're visiting each otherCallas's homes and having friends and relatives to staymake it more manageable in the States. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and When she soon proves was back in Athens - supposedly so that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a bit like Vincent Gilbertmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, known in the village as the Asshole SaintJackie.

|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRChristopher Edge|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's the later stages of World War I Lucas and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a young American who place that has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadronnickname of 'The Black Hole'. This company was the first US Aero Squadron All big movie fans, they're looking forward to be trained in Canadalots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the first to be attached to the RAF movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and the first they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to be sent into the skies next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to fight the Germans in active combat. But before that can happencinema, Petrol has and to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=183885410XRachel Greenlaw|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney Compass and Ian RankinBlade

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one ''I can hear the song of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowsea. DC Jack Laidlaw is on The call of the CID team charged with deep, the investigationanswering beat in my heart. I say '' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the teamisland's leader and Mira' but Laidlaw never really seems s father. Desperate to be save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a part wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of ita family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. He does his own thingWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the truth heart of why Bobby Carterthe smuggler's body was found behind one territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of Glasgow's seedier pubsher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1942410255James Sherwood Metts|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often unpaid'' It's the culture, isn't it? The hours for which youreplacing jobs they're paid are really just a statement of the minimum you'll be required to do: you'll work more hours and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get the job done used to all this technological change and done starting to the satisfaction think of bullies like Shigeru Onizukaother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. When he Life was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or griefpretty much shut down and, even from his familyalong with it, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from all the roof of the building or been assisted in his descent. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount of overtimemany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0241425425Matthew Tree|title=The Man Who Died Twice|author=Richard OsmanWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Best was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a man drunk and chronic underachiever whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had never existed but then this is the sort endless crises of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basisself confidence. When she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that it's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used So Tim applied himself to be her husband. He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raidhis studies, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and a few death threats. He's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Andrew SharpA G Slatter|title=The Chef, the Bird and Briar Book of the BlessingDead|rating=45|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to his employer - isenjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, in his mindfar away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the head chef protection of the Briar's, a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countryfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Mozzy Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is earnest and dedicated the first non-witch to his task and he puts all of himself be born into creating fine cuisine dishes her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the guests dead, putting her at BOD-W safaris but his dream is to become the head chef heart of a restaurant in London or a big American citymaelstrom of chaos. Even Reeling from one family secret to win a Michelin star. He is thwarted in this ambition by his bossanother, Mr Bin (Ben Ellie must decide who to you trust and me) who incurs Mozzydetermine what to do as the Briar witches's disapproval for his scruffy wayslegacy, his uninterest in his guests and - shockeverything they have sacrificed to survive, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the houseis under threat.|isbn=B09926MK8H1803364548

|authorisbn=Alex Foulkes1529900360|title=Rules for VampiresThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Leos fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn' t need the help of a psychologist only worked for short) is a Vampirewhile. She drinks blood Finally, it was Robin, she sleeps during the dayDelaware's partner, and she can Grimwalk (turning who nudged Milo into a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)asking for help again. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on She knew that the involvement was something that the night of her hundredth birthnight, man she has to go out and hunt her first humanloved needed. However The next case did look simple, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanagethough. Oops! And to make things worse, Two lovers were murdered in the ghosts of one swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the orphans heir to an Italian shoe empire and the evil master of the orphanage come back she is married to haunt her. So, an extremely rich man and it's not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost Italian. But which of them was the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each otherprimary target? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X

|authorisbn=Tori Bovalino1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Devil Makes ThreeSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Working all summer in her boarding schoolSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants t want to do — especially follow in his footsteps, particularly when she gets a request for over a hundred books he considered the strain that she has to deliver herselfbeing on-call put on his father's life. What makes it worse is When he was seventeen he took the man opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who requested was a vet and was convinced this was the books: Mr Birchjob for him. The boarding school's headmaster Before long, and a man Tess hateshe was at Liverpool University. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post It hadn't -it notes on each of the books, scribbled as with the ugliest insults she can think ofso many students - been his dream since he was a child. They If anything, he're never meant to reach him, of course. Her plan is d wanted to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for hera professional footballer.|isbn=1789098130

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q60861541774|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! (Everybody Potties!)A Nye of Pheasants|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadSteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= DCI Domenic Jejeune''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Averya street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. This series Initially, he faced a charge of fun picture books aims manslaughter but evidence came to take light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the pain out of potty training children and replace it with some fundeath penalty. It's a worthy aim, Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any frustrated parent will tell you. interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Alexander McCall Smith|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her school's animal rights project leader and younger cousin Katie if she could come and her friend are producing look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a competition entry trip to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldCanada to get away for a while. She gets Katie is coming out of a great deal of support from her family: father Pip Harrisonbreak up with a bad boyfriend, a lecturer and so jumps at Imperial Collegethe chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Londonbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, mother Kate thanks to 44 Scotland Street and her twinthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, Nickbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Kate runs the family Katie has no experience in running a business, a toy shop called Cornucopia or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in Putneyher abilities, which is where we'll meet Racheland there's main always her very helpful (if unsuspectedand rather handsome) source of information: five soft toys.neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn= Angharad Walker0811771741|title= The Ash HouseInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersCrafts|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesnMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby''t know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used gives us a collection of knits from toys to different places and different facesblankets. 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 Some will be quick knits - others are of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores'long, working as a hive cosy afternoons in front of the smouldering shadows of fire' variety. The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered projects are divided by the arrival of the Doctortime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. By All the end of the storyprojects are attractive, lives will be changed forever modern and The Ash House will never be the same againuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1912626977

|author=Yancey WilliamsDean Koontz|title=Crosshairs of the DevilThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski Benny 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 having a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable companyterrifically bad day. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from He loses his stock-in-trade of writing though, so herejob, for he loses his readersfiancee, are his wanderings through and his life's workhouse gets trashed.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark Oh, and the Face of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a word, rich. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on someone has delivered a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on itreally weird, and seadisturbing coffin-witches, and legends of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has sized object to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionshome, and Andreweit's foundling daughter, who washed up out of possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both thing that has trashed his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their islandhouse! The thing is, like it or not.|isbn=1788452372}}{{Frontpage|author=Erling Kagge|title=Walking: One Step At A Time|rating=5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book Benny is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start very last person to deserve all this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minebad luck. In my defence, I will say that as He is a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for turns out that the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about delivery to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge his house is a Norwegian explorer new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has walked been sent to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a thing or two about walkinggood person. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it Spike is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means going to walk. It is a plenitude take care of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page Benny, and I havenwill certainly take care of Benny't counted. In small format paperbacks enemies, if he, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps thenBenny, better thought of as and Harper (a meditation rather than an essaywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=02413577051662500491

|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultAdam Stower|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and nimble friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and quick, for he's a slight boy, eat and although he wants for danger eat and peril sleep and interesting things , well, whatever takes his dad refuses to let him out fancy next of his sightthe two. That But he's because Jacka bad magician's mother knew all about monsterscat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily thenthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, depending on your point but into a world of viewfrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOLtroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, Jack will fluke the ogrebut he's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, turned up and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs have to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...do…|isbn=07555019420008561249

|authorisbn=Keith GrayB0C47LV1PC|title=The ClimbersFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Sully is the best tree climber in the village. He has whatCan you make a ''s known amongst the kids as Yo birthing person'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in townjoke? A new kidAnd if you could, called Nottingham, who clambers up some of is the hardest trees with easequestion should you make it? Suddenly Sully Or is worried that his status the question if you did, would it land? The catch is being threatened, and not only that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer it, might answer for both could well be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, or maybe even all of his friendsOregon, cautiously begins to do so?|isbn=1781129991emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Emma Carroll1529431735|title=The Week at World's EndWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=FirstIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the titlemore surprising. We He're in Worldd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's End Close, had a mediocre set of housesletter from his ex-wife, where Stevie (Vie saying that she's ill and hasn't long to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the roadlive. But we could also be at World It's Endhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries stripped to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, his underwear and not much else is able sent to make a watery grave in the news. That said, Vie has news boot of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedstolen Ford Sierra. Anna has, in no short time, taken Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing problem closer to do with what the Cold War is doing miles awayhome?|isbn=0571364438

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Alex Bell and Tom de FrestonTim McDonagh|title=Julia and the SharkThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=JuliaEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from in the evening a helper at the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a summer, generation missing in the far NE of the Scottish islandsfamily. Here be VikingsA few short years ago, that kind Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of Scottish islanda magical beast. Dad is going This has made the race anathema to be automating the lanternpair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, which Eli knows his only hope is his specialist thingto dare to enter what he most hates, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt with the sole aim the prize of magic at the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone end – until she suddenly finds company one nightthe only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=15101077890571382231

|authorisbn=Freya Sampson178763681X|title=The Last LibraryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=I am always Chef Paul Delamare took a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly teaching job at the thought 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 residential cookery school in a bun, 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 Belgravia. He didn't immediately throw the book out really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the window, because I found I was interested in June, getting both men and why she lived as she didwomen to do what he wanted. Her mum used to Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home school to take care of her mumassist Paul, as well as taking on who had a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years agobroken arm, she is still working there, still eating her mumbut it didn's favourite takeaway meal, t turn out that way. The teaching - and still reading her mumthe problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's old bookst expected was for someone to turn up dead. June is stuck Unfortunately, but little does she know, everything in her life is about he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the changeprime suspect.|isbn=183877369X

|isbnauthor=0008370982Sarah Marsh|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice FeeneyA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her After a weekend away in bout of scarlet fever as a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husbandchild, Adam, isn't so keen on the ideaEllen Lark loses her hearing. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's Suddenly plunged into a screenwriter and he's never shy world of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with silence, everything about herlife changes. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with Living in a time when the dogs, many use of whom have been abusedsign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is never easytaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Still - From here, 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 ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the passenger seat - deaf and then doing using a system called Visible Speech. At the same thing to come back time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a couple complicated tangle of days laterespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone1803816759|title=The Great SilenceUnravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of whoIt's who – although Johnstone does 2038 and Joe is a good job of bringing bored cop policing the backstory in without being heavy handed about itwealthy and peaceful New York City. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname of Joe longs for a family bit of undertakers. Undertakers adventure and private investigatorsto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Dorothy is But then something goes horribly wrong with the matriarch – Californian by birth AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and instinctriots start to spread. Finally, she married a scot and ended up helping Joe gets to run do some real policing. In the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in aftermath of the family for generations. Recently widowed rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, Joe is haunted by assigned to bring her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisonerhome. And grandJoe isn't the only one trying to save Suki -daughter is about to graduate with Dylan, a first-class physics degree British superfan and join tech nerd, is also on the academic staff next termcase.|isbn=1913193837What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=19015149781529421284|title=There's a Problem With DadLaying Out the Bones|author=Carlos AlbaKate Webb

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and he can't really understand whyforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's always done everything he ought to: steady workerd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, husband and father - and so it could have been a father who was always there for school plays and sports dayssimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. So why is he never quite in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such Geary was a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does townie, so what was he make so many breath-taking gaffesdoing out on Salisbury Plain alone? It's almost become a cliche these days There are connections to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the symptoms time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of Aspergerthe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's Syndrome: high-functioning autismcold cases to you and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish0571379559|title=The HeightsHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. She Tess Hembry's on siteroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him lives in a building across the wayhouse on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. There are lots Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of thingstime, lots of peoplestorms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, you might see when you look out across Londonto complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, but this isnthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't one Ellen expected believe that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsthey're related, much less twins and Ellen knows this for a fact, because there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she had a hand in 's his murdernanny.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=00084217141529425867|title=Mrs MarchLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Virginia FeitoSimon Mason

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to dateIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done soRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morningD I Ryan Wilkins, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the breadson of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He''but isn't this the first time hes not any of those things. He's based white, originated from a character on you?trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerismsreally''his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a weakpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchyou're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it''s problematic.

|author=John BoyneMosby Woods|title=The Echo ChamberA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Meet George CleverleyThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. He Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age best course of fifty without action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a criminal record"push for climate action there. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife A feeling that nobody is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her within actual charge. They have three childrenImagine then, who are there was a sad-sack man with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a girl man who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-can tell you what will happen given any set of-date foodcircumstances. That man would be valuable, and a fit young lad doing right? Perhaps the gay hustle thingmost valuable asset in history. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyersImagine then, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldthis man loses this ability. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.would governments do to get it back?|isbn=0857526219B0C9SNG8R1