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|isbn=18387748230241636604|title=Her Majesty the Queen InvestigatesThe Trading Game: A Three Dog ProblemConfession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability 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=S J BennettC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=It's 2016 and twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the QueenEnglish country village where she grew up. She's Private Secretaryback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting a strain on his waistbandCarole. SwimmingFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, he decidesArthur Crockleford, is the way to go dead and he can use the Buckingham Palace pool which is how he came circumstances seem suspicious, to be there early one morning and discovered say the body of Cynthia Harris at least. Arthur was the side of reason why Freya had not been back to the poolvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There was broken glass - a crystal tumblerEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, by she has not felt able to be near the look at it - probably one of man or pursue the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that profession she had bled outloved. StillAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, it who was a shock for Sir Simonmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=057136358XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=April in SpainAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=John BanvilleBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was a hitman, although he didn't think 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of himself in those termsthings to come. He saw what he did as ''a matter of making things tidy I've heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I couldn't resist the thought must confess that he was an extreme version there have been more than a few decades of Marie Kondotechnology in my lifetime. He enjoyed his job, something which occurred I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to him when he was in Burma me but I'm left with the army feeling that it''where he got s all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the chance to kill a lot of possibilities and the little yellow fellows probabilities and had a fine old timeend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - I needed people I knew I could trust and who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles could deliver information in the ''morning''? It was after Percy's death that he saw the benefits of taking up a job in Spainway I could understand.

|author=Dave Letterfly KnodererSunny Singh|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers |summary=How to summarise the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a pithy sentence to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, I really don't think I can.  Dave there is an author Sam, a wartime photographer and an artistAbhi, the hotel manager. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he's struggled forms a bond with a controlling fatherSam who refuses to be cowed by events, run away and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to join capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the circus (not a metaphor)phone, trained horses, painted caravans, designed their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and painted theatre sets, and hit rock bottom when they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bottle took overterrorists.|isbn=B0965V3LLN086154742X

|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529153298|title=Far From the Light The List of HeavenSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=Michelle It'Shell' Campion s 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacePrime Minister. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime (A woman? I mean, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be a babysitter for the shiphonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's AI captainfamily, though. However Women have been disappearing. Well, when she wakes up at the end of her trip they've been murdered, but to find dozens of her passengers butchered and the Ragtimehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's AI almost non-responsive, upset because she begins to realise 's overheard that her first mission wonfather wants to move the family 'Down South't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. When you're from Yorkshire, Down on BloodrootSouth is a frightening, foreign place, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimebest avoided. Meanwhile For Miv, former astronaut and the move would mean leaving her best friend of Shell's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in towSharon, and she'll do anything to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosprevent that. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications She's not just for Bloodroot, but potentially worried about the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1398524085|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrotsHer children, broccolisons Niall, cabbage Paul and auberginesOllie and her daughter, Etty. When are all worried but - strangely - her friends at school turn up their noseshusband, Alec, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you and how nice to eatnot. One day Shortly afterwards, poor Lily gets tricked by JordanEtty and Greg, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriated, Lily checks with find the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees and vegetablesbody of Greg's father, like carrotsDuncan Ackerley, grow in the groundriver. Jordan says, "I did try It was an easy assumption for the police to tell her, Miss!" make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and everyone laughs at poor Lilywonder about what really happened.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbn=178607981X1035906708|title=Bad ApplesDiva|author=Will DeanDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the roadStates. Wondering if someone needed help When she got out of the car was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - and heard the screams from deep inside the forest. Determining she was raised under the direction of Nazi occupation by a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids mother who mercilessly exploited her and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made no secret of her way to where a woman was holding preference for her coat over the body of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav Perssonelder sister, a resident of VisbergJackie.

|author=Lilja SigurdadottirChristopher Edge|title=Cold As HellBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= In Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a red suitcase place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the bottom cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of a fissure the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a lava fieldremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, there 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 bodytrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. And the man Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who has put is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her there has just discovered , she sets off in search of a family secret that he is capable lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of killingher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=19131938880008664730

|author=Lucy HopeJames Sherwood Metts|title=FledglingPlanet Storyland

|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is Things have been a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over sticky for the decadesEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. Itoften replacing jobs they's an eccentric house, re paid to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, do and so onother tasks that took time to accomplish. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and a passion for the long-standing family hobby starting to think of taxidermyother, a woman who does nothing but quibblenew ways to spend time, kvetch along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassiealong with it, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again..many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=183994188X1736128426

|isbnauthor=1846276772Matthew Tree|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell'll Never Know

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise the extent Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to which they suffer be different from it: it's simply his father, a part drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of everyday life. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve being exceptional at any of the white man. Even when those his artistic passions all failed miserably and who wouldn't pass the medical become a part had endless crises of an organisation it's rare that their views are heardself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias set himself high but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Teresa DriscollA G Slatter|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=The novel begins by introducing you '' There's a part of me that wants to Gemmakeep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, who at first instance appears last. I just want to be your average studentenjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, faced with far away from the familiar horrifying realisationworld, at lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the eleventh hourBriar's, that her graduation outfit is all wronga family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. SuddenlyThough she has always wished for magic, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He Ellie Briar is not who he says he is…'', paving the way first non-witch to 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 spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the sinister tone that remains throughout Briar Witch, the noveltown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. In a twist of eventsAs challenges come her way left, right and after a change of outfitcentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, Gemma is shot in putting her at the midst heart of her graduation ceremonya maelstrom of chaos. With Gemma then in a comaReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow do as the further you readBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=15420287521803364548

|isbn=84092901031529900360|title=If OnlyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Matthew TreeJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been sent abroad by his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: badly injured but he asked his accountant, Mr Patrickfelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ensure that the young man got ask for his help on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancedifficult cases. Patrick sent the money regularly His assertions that there were only open-and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior shut cases which didn't care need the help of a psychologist only worked for his sona while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that he didn't care to have him the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in this country where he might be the swimming pool of a danger remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to his wife an extremely rich man and other childrenit's not the Italian. The alcohol problem But which of them was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.primary target?

|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Rabbit FactorSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|summary=Meet Henri. With DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, he's perfect for his job Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a teamstreet brawl -member, he would later maintain that they'd prefer everyone to be all openhe was facing a man armed with a knife -plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having killed a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing elseGhurka. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind Initially, but he perks up faced a little when charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans might have been made out and planned to murder the amount vanishedman. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on Now he could be facing the scene death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to explain that missing money – it's been turned into help as any interference from another police force could provoke a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, diplomatic incident and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=191319387X

|isbnauthor=1471179311Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchPerfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=TessThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, a teacher run by Ness and Jason, operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a headmastermore personal, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home and Jason is now married to Emilytailored service. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who Ness has asked her bedroom in what was the family home younger cousin Katie if she could come and another in look after the flat she shares with her motherbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. It ''seemed'' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing Katie is coming out of a woman falling from break up with a tall building bad boyfriend, and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely so jumps at the chance to have heard in either come hometo Edinburgh. Her behaviour deteriorated And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and there were problems at nursery schoolthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Tess turns to Katie has no experience in running a therapist for helpbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, then and there's always her doctor very helpful (and finally the police but no one will take what she has rather handsome) neighbour, William, to say seriously.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=14711966150811771741|title=IcedInstaKnits for Baby|author=Felix FrancisMelissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Miles Pussett used to be Benny is having a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he now gets loses his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runfiancee, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourand his house gets trashed. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin- thatsized object to his home, and it's high-class horseracing on possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the frozen lake and against thing that has trashed his better judgement he gets talked into helping with house! The thing is, Benny is the saddling of the horsesvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore So fortunately for Benny it turns out that he'd never go back the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to ithelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But when he sees that something suspicious Spike is going onto take care of Benny, Miles canand will certainly take care of Benny't help but look for answerss enemies, if he, Benny, even when it puts him in dangerand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=147228612XAdam Stower|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonMurray and Bun

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonMurray is supposed to be a humble, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quiettidy and friendly cat, uneventful lives one who is able to sleep and stay mostly under eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the radartwo. In But he's a city like London, thatbad magician's quite easy - cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himwhiffs. The highlight of his day This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to work on the train each morning: be honest, but he'd love to ask her for a date but s turned up and he doesn't ll have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Claire McGowanB0C47LV1PC|title=I Know YouFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Then:Yo birthing person'' Casey returns from a walk with joke? And if you could, is the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel question should you make it? Or is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woods.|isbn=1542019974}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529148251|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela Coel|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapequestion if you did, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalisewould it land? It's as though I were telling The catch is that the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itanswer for both could well be.... no.''

Before you start reading ''MisfitsFragility'' you need to be in a certain frame is set as the city of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festival. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the words as though you're in restrictions imposed during the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writing.covid pandemic

|isbn=00084336311529431735|title=Next of KinThe Winter Visitor|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not to Leila Syed. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risk.}}{{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)James Henry

|summary=Martin CurranIt's wifeFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one owhich made Bruce Hopkins'clock on return all the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letmore surprising. If she didnHe't get home, there would be trouble. There was some excuse: Martin was d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a paraplegic and confined to wanted drug smuggler for a wheelchair, but don't be too quick to be understandingdecade. He was also a very unpleasant person: The return has come about because he once told Eliza ''you're good at being s had a disappointmentletter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. All this was in ElizaIt's mind hard to feel any sympathy when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannouncedHopkins is abducted, at the flat just as Eliza was about stripped to leave: he wanted the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road his underwear and he was desperate sent to get a watery grave in before the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it was advertised as being available.a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1784742775Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=A Change The Glorious Race of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillMagical Beasts|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Drugs hadn't really been that much of Eli is a problem busy lad – by day an apprentice in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still werethe wondrous library we start by visiting with him, to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport the drugs and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldn't be the correct one) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch evening a few of helper at the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher up.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree dessert cafe his gran owns and - three years later - was still working at BB's dinerruns. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good boss. Hollie had moved in Eli lives with her boyfriendhis lovely gran, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well too – for there is a generation missing in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all he wanted her to leave her job at the dinerfamily. Then there was the fact that he would be violentA few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to her and to other people.}}{{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Sagatitular race, set in a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the era of the Vikings world in the shadow company of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to seea magical beast. This story is has made the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice race anathema to the genrepair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This Eli knows his only hope is a thick bookto dare to enter what he most hates, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlepossibly save his gran.|isbn=03565142180571382231

|isbn=B09HTWX47X178763681X|title=Endless ObsessionKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Dai HenleyOrlando Murrin

|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a DCI residential cookery school in the Met but now a well-respected private investigatorBelgravia. Hedidn's married t really want to Laura, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a forensics laboratoryway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. FloodPaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown d be at the nest, Pippa school to Australiaassist Paul, from where she has very little contact with the familywho had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and Gemma the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to married lifeturn up dead. She's had mental problems since she Unfortunately, he was abducted many years ago but Andy the person who discovered the body and Laura hope everyone knows that married life will provide the support she needs. Flood's business is going well and police consider that was why he felt able person to turn down be the case of Lisa Blackprime suspect.

|author=Peter PapathanasiouSarah Marsh|title=The StoningA Sign of Her Own

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=In After a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonbout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a teacher has been transported across town at night world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a shopping trolleytime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and she's been taped Ellen is sent to a tree and school where she's had rocks bowled at her as if is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she were ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the world's tallest cricket stumpsdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. When she's discovered by At the town gossip everyonesame time, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place Bell is reluctantly home to. An arson attack working on that shows the feeling – other inventions and it's only fairideas, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival a complicated tangle of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..espionage.|isbn=15294169731035401614

|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H1803816759|title=The Mystery of HealingUnravelling|author=A P McGrathWill Gibson

|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in the second century of the common era and heIt's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for the amusement of the populace. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor a feeling bit of virtue adventure and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to liveget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. It's quite a spectacle: But then something goes horribly wrong with the magistri are the charge hands and when we first see themAI system that now runs everything, they're sprinkling gold dust onto the lions' manes to make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going to fight making life easier for their lives with the wild animals. Todaymany, it's the crocodiles.}}{{Frontpage|author=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall|title=The Beatryce Prophecy|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in them'', we are told hereriots start to spread. And none more so than in this wondrous storyFinally, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportionJoe gets to do some real policing. We start with a group of monks, In the Order aftermath of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on and biting the poor BrothersJoe is assigned to bring her home. Things change drastically when Joe isn't the beast takes a totally maternal approach only one trying to a homeless girlsave Suki - Dylan, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castleBritish superfan and tech nerd, desperate to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat also on the throne and cause great changecase. Who foretold that revolution but What went wrong? Did the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowingsystem fail or was it hacked? But And how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyoneis Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn=1529500893

|isbn=B09FFJF8YS1529421284|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)Laying Out the Bones|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation 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 the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out LilyWebb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Lily is, or It wasone of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, or has been, very ill, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to give her parents relief shebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been told to stay with her grandma for a few dayssimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The parents need Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the relief as Lily's baby sibling is just about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already suicide of Holly Gilbert and wants nothing to do withtwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. But on tracking back home for word of her parents ( Lockyer and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra DC Gemma Broad of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get the family back intact, even if itMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's not the family Lily wants – and all she has cold cases to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse you and Snakeme) investigate.|isbn=1471194833

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith0571379559|title=The Great Dream RobberyHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maya's father 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is a professor who invented an amazing dream machinethe story of four people. But something went wrong Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, and now he can't wake upbuilt of broken bricks. Or at least Insubstantial as it might look, thatit's what Maya has been toldstood the passage of time, storms and floods. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friendHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleepbring in sufficient money. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams They have twin boys - Sonny and reality collide...reallyMax, the rainbow twins. 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 everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xan assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=18004644951529425867|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Emma SmithSimon Mason

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the wombIn Oxford, being aware there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of quantities at seven hours oldNigerian descent, assessing probability at six months oldBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldfather of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'Maths ability on entry re being introduced to school is a strong predictor of later achievementpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, double that you're not. The two men are just different sides of literacy skillsthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it''s problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary FictionI didn|summary= The West isn't know the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this either! I think most parents or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are aware flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that giving your children a good start nobody is in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen gripsactual charge. Imagine then, singing rhymes - gives children there was a solid foundation when they start schoolman with precognition. But do we think Imagine the same way about maths, beyond counting? I don't think we do, strategic advantage in part because so many this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of us are afraid of mathscircumstances. But why are weThat man would be valuable, right? Most of us use maths Perhaps the most valuable asset in daily life without realising and it follows history. Imagine then, that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1