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|isbn=B09MYXSRV40241636604|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced RabbitTrading Game: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareConfession|author=Cordellya SmithGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=When the world was made, the animals If you were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become to bring up an image of a protectorcity banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see A hoodie and jeans replaces the present ''pin-stripe suit and'' his background is the futureEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Rabbit developed intelligence There was no posh public school on his CV - but, unfortunately, not he had been to the ability to use it wellLondon School of Economics. He liked to trick other animalsStevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He was also jealous which was how he came realised that most rich people expect poor people to be in a race with Turtlestupid. You might think that's not It was his ability at what was, essentially, a fair contest but wait and seecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Things are not always Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as they seem. I'll tell you how it came abouta trader.

|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1035021803|title=Walking on SunshineThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeIt's wife, Pia, who he was with for seventeen twenty years, since Freya Lockwood has diedbeen back to the English country village where she grew up. And whilst he is dealing with his grief She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, so are their best friends, Vicky and ZazaCarole. But Pia left them all some Freya'ruless former mentor and Carole' to follows close friend, Arthur Crockleford, knowing that she was dying is dead and that they would need help the circumstances seem suspicious, to carry on livingsay the least. Whilst some of Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the rules are around practicalities such village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as clearing out her wardrobeantique hunters, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him she has not felt able to take one of their trips awaybe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, and Vicky and Zazashe worked in a cafe, struggling with their grief met and their own married James (on the rebound from the love of her life troubles, decide to drop everything in their own lives, who was murdered) and Freya and go along with himJames have now divorced.|isbn=140593560X

|isbn=1529393930AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Making a LivingAll Tomorrow's Futures: How to Craft Your BusinessFictions that Disrupt|author=Sophie RochesterBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=''Starting a creative business has never been easierOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

I've heard it said that 'If not now, when?technology'is what happens after you' re eighteen. Well, I know must confess that I'm not alone there have been more than a few decades of technology in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesslifetime. ThereI've kept up reasonably well with what's a lot advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of motivation to do so: it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I make more items than we can sensibly use could research the possibilities and the probabilities and there are a lot of end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who have could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been delighted to accept what I make as giftsviolently taken over by a terrorist group. Selling would offset Hiding from the coststerrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, which can be quite considerable there is Sam, a wartime photographer and it could be fun to doAbhi, couldn't it? the hotel manager. But where As Abhi continues to start? What do I need try to think about? Well, care remotely for the first thing anyone residents who is considering turning are still alive in the hotel, he forms a crafting hobby into a business should do is bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to read ''Making a Living'capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Freya Marske1529153298|title=A Marvellous LightThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is nudged into a job in the Civil ServicePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, much but to his chagrinhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the streets of London are threaded with magicfamily 'Down South'. Desperate to remove When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a curse that threatens to swallow himfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, Robin follows Edwin to the countrysidemove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot dangers or that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Islesher Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. |isbn=1529080886

|isbn=02414804421398524085|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition ScienceHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=EmotionallyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, I am a vegansons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Mentallyare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, I am a veganis not. I read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] Shortly afterwards, Etty and was appalled by Greg, find the way body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, I am not a veganthe river. It worked was an easy assumption for a while apart from the odd blip with regard police to cheese but make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then a perfect storm of those events which you hope doncommitted suicide when he couldn't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinstand the guilt. It wasnThe Salter children are not convinced but there't the taste - I know that I s little else they can do but get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in a few spare momentson with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=suppl_stafl1035906708|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversDiva|author=Kim StaflundDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary=SoWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, you've finished writing your book but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and you think the hard work is all done? only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. YouHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas're convinced that all you need to do now is get make it published and the money will start rolling more manageable in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written wordStates. You knew your subject When she was back to front. Now you're going to have to in Athens - supposedly so that she could get to grips with appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy secret of the book in your handsher preference for her elder sister, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to youJackie.

|isbnauthor=1398706906Christopher Edge|title=The Lost|author=Simon BeckettBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officerBlack Hole'. All big movie fans, Jonah Colleythey's young sonre looking forward to lots of exciting films, Theoand many, just about finished himmany snacks! However, particularly as he blamed himself for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he wokemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his homethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Ten years later he's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets a phone call But as they lurch from DS Gavin McKinney. Gavin used one film genre to be his best friend but it's a long time since the next, can they've spoken. figure out what on earth is going on? He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - Will they ever get back to the cinema, and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quay. ''There's no one else I can trust'', he says.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Amanda MasonRachel Greenlaw|title=The Hiding PlaceCompass and Blade

|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, Nell Galilee takes her husband a remote and stepdaughter to Whitbypartially forgotten island, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the name wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place seven who swim out to sort things outsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But therewhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's something not quite right about Elder Housefather. The atmosphere Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is unsettling secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off – and before long Nell starts in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to suspect that she and unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her family arenfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler't alone there…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=18387719640008664730}}

|author=Paul CleaveJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Quiet PeoplePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= I am not Things have been a fan of "bit sticky for the Prologue"Earthlings. Most books are the worse for themAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. In Just as they were beginning to get used to all this case I might make technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an exceptionawful pandemic. We start Life was pretty much shut down and, along with Luca Pittman who is in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not haveit, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into all the back of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, many daily social interactions on which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlydepend so heavily.|isbn=19131939421736128426

|author=Will CarverMatthew Tree|title=Psychopaths AnonymousWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and alsoTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing drunk and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to hear chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of people's misery, his artistic passions all failed miserably and targets for her violent behaviourwho had endless crises of self confidence. Yet she also seems So Tim applied himself to be searching for others who think as she doeshis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornhimself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1913193756B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529418100A G Slatter|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin WalkerThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesFantasy|summary=I'm not usually ' There's a fan part of short stories - me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I find it can. This secret magic of my own, all too easy mine, at last. I just want to put enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am world, lies Silverton; a fan town under the protection of Martin Walkerthe Briar's [[Martin Walker, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the 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 Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the temptation to read ''Brunotown's Challenge'' was hard to resist leader, and I'm rather glad that I didn't even tryEllie takes her place beside her. For those new As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the seriesdead, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to know about who's another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the background Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to why Bruno survive, is in St Denisunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=B09GJW49GF1529900360|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jenny O'BrienJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her son. Hunter It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had diabetes been badly injured but he felt responsible and this even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was controlled by a pump attached reluctant to ask for his stomach, so her overhelp on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be -shut cases which didn't need the help of a good idea psychologist only worked for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likea while. Her friendFinally, Millyit was Robin, had arranged to take her boyfriend, LiamDelaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for a night in a posh hotel but then he dumped her and help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she couldn't get the money backloved needed. The next case did look simple, so Hannah was offered though. Two lovers were murdered in the opportunity to go swimming pool of a remote property in his placeBel Air. She would return home He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to find Ian dead an extremely rich man and five-year-old Hunter missingit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B09GV3WS1Q1529395224|title=Without Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a TraceVet|author=Jane BettanySion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Life hadnSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't been easy for Ruth Prendergast: shewant to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father'd just come through s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a divorce vet and right now it was raining hardconvinced this was the job for him. All she wanted Before long, he was to get back to her new home and settle down for a quiet eveningat Liverpool University. It wasnhadn't going to be though: when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a knife in his chestchild. SheIf anything, he'd no idea who he waswanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=18387748230861541774|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemNye of Pheasants|author=S J BennettSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's 2016 close friend and the Queen's Private Secretaryformer colleague, Danny Maik, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that too much good claret he was facing a man armed with a knife - and too little exercise is putting he killed a strain on his waistbandGhurka. SwimmingInitially, he decides, is the way faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to go and light that suggested that he can use might have planned to murder the Buckingham Palace pool which is how man. Now he came to could be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of facing the pooldeath penalty. There was broken glass - Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a crystal tumbler, by the look diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at it - probably one of the young royals being careless - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled out. Still, it was a shock for Sir Simonall.

|isbnauthor=057136358XAlexander McCall Smith|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was The Perfect Passion Company is a hitmandating agency in Edinburgh, although he didn't think of himself run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in those termsproviding a more personal, tailored service. He saw what he did Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as ''Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a matter of making things tidy''while. I couldn't resist Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the thought that he was an extreme version of Marie Kondochance to come home to Edinburgh. He enjoyed his jobAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, something which occurred bringing us to him when he was in Burma an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with the army ''where he got the chance some new characters who quickly begin to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''charm. He was spending Katie has no experience in running a lot of time with Percy Antrobus business, or in match- who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know the purpose of a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles making, but Ness has full confidence in the ''morning''? It was after Percyher abilities, and there's death that he saw the benefits of taking up always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a job in Spain.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer0811771741|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=AutobiographyCrafts|summary=How Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to summarise blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv 'long, cosy afternoons in a pithy sentence to kick off a review front of his memoir? Do you know, I really donthe fire't think I can.  Dave is an author and an artist. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholicvariety. The son of a Lutheran minister, heprojects are divided by the time they's struggled with a controlling fatherll take to complete - less than five hours, run away five to join the circus (not a metaphor)ten hours, trained horses, painted caravans, designed ten to twenty hours and painted theatre setsmore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and hit rock bottom useable. I perhaps show my age when the bottle took overI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=B0965V3LLN

|author=Tade ThompsonDean Koontz|title=Far From the Light of HeavenThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion Benny is fulfilling her lifelong dream of going to spacehaving a terrifically bad day. As first officer aboard the sleeper ship Ragtime He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, bound for the world of Bloodrootand his house gets trashed. Oh, she will essentially be and someone has delivered a babysitter for the ship's AI captain. Howeverreally weird, when she wakes up at the end of her trip disturbing coffin-sized object to find dozens of her passengers butchered his home, and the Ragtimeit's AI almost non-responsivepossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, she begins Benny is the very last person to realise deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that her first mission won't be going as smoothly as she hoped it would. Down on Bloodrootthe delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin and his android partner Salvo are who has been sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on the Ragtimehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Meanwhile Spike is going to take care of Benny, former astronaut and friend will certainly take care of ShellBenny's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle to Bloodrootenemies, half-alien daughter in towif he, to see why the Ragtime has gone quietBenny, leaving behind the politicking and bureaucracy of Space Station LagosHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=03565143231662500491

|author=Rob KeeleyAdam Stower|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!Murray and Bun|rating= 4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers |summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrots, broccoliMurray is supposed to be a humble, cabbage tidy and aubergines. When her friends at school turn up their nosesfriendly cat, Lily one who is keen able to explain how good they are for you sleep and eat and how nice to eatand sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. One day But he's a bad magician's cat, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordanso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, who tells her that carrots grow on trees. Infuriatedand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, Lily checks with not into the teacherregular back garden, who explains that fruits grow on trees but into a world of frightening adventure and vegetableswhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, like carrotswhere a troll hunter is expected – well, grow in the ground. Jordan saysone much bigger than Murray was, "I did try to tell herbe honest, Miss!" but he's turned up and everyone laughs at poor Lily.he'll have to do…|isbn= B09HHN541V0008561249

|isbn=178607981XB0C47LV1PC|title=Bad ApplesFragility|author=Will DeanMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up Can you make a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the side of question should you make it? Or is the road. Wondering question if someone needed help she got out of you did, would it land? The catch is that the car - and heard the screams from deep inside the forestanswer for both could well be.... no. Determining the direction of a sound isn ''Fragility''t easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way to where a woman was holding her coat over set as the body city of a man. He'd been decapitated. He was Arne Gustav PerssonPortland, Oregon, a resident of Visberg.cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir1529431735|title=Cold As HellThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary= In It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a red suitcase as the bottom of wanted drug smuggler for a fissure in decade. The return has come about because he's had a lava fieldletter from his ex-wife, there saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a body. And watery grave in the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable boot of killinga stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1913193888 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Lucy HopeAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=FledglingThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene Eli is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit busy lad – by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's day an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so apprentice in the wondrous library shelving system is not as we'd know itstart by visiting with him, and in the roof is retractable, there is evening a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and so onruns. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier Eli lives with PTSD and his lovely gran, too – for there is a passion for generation missing in the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy. A few short years ago, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and Eli's parents were both lost to the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassietitular race, a young lass who has globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to do all navigate the world in the maintenance company of this bizarre machine-like abodea magical beast. Oh This has made the race anathema to the pair – 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 bad incident at the eatery leads to a heavenly arrival confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is going to be a completely great and wonderful dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing, think again..to possibly save his gran.|isbn=183994188X0571382231

|isbn=1846276772178763681X|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jessica NordellOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Anyone who is not an able, white man understands bias Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply a part of everyday lifeBelgravia. White men will always come first. The able will come before the disabled. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldnHe didn't pass the medical become really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a part way of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling getting both men and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.}}{{Frontpage|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you women to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrongdo what he wanted. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating Paul ''He is not who he says he is…somehow'', paving the way for got the sinister tone impression that remains throughout he'd be at the novel. In a twist of eventsschool to assist Paul, and after who had a change of outfitbroken arm, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects but it didn't turn out that continues to grow the further you readway.|isbn=1542028752}}{{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=TwentyThe teaching -oneand the problems -year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by are all his father, cotton-broker AO Lowry: own. The one thing he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick hadn't expected was for someone to send him a monthly allowanceturn up dead. Patrick sent Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the money regularly body and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between everyone knows that the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't police consider that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, it was that he didn't care person to have him in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his wayprime suspect.

|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Sarah Marsh|title=The Rabbit FactorA Sign of Her Own

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Henri. With After a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not bout of scarlet fever as a team-memberchild, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingEllen Lark loses her hearing. This is when he finds his brother has died, having Suddenly plunged into a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channelworld of silence, and has left Henri everythingabout her life changes. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' sent to a school where she is so not what Henri wants taught to occupy his mindlip read, but he perks physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up a little when he sees huge holes in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the finances – it runs at deaf and using a steady money-moving pacesystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, despite some desultory staff Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities complicated tangle of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..espionage.|isbn=191319387X1035401614

|isbn=14711793111803816759|title=The UnheardUnravelling|author=Nicci FrenchWill Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Tess, It's 2038 and Joe is a teacher bored cop policing the wealthy and Jason, peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out bit of the family home adventure and Jason is now married to Emilyget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was But then something goes horribly wrong with the family home AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and another in the flat she shares with her motherriots start to spread. It ''seemed'' Finally, Joe gets to be working well until do some real policing. In the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing aftermath of a woman falling from a tall building the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely Joe is assigned to have heard in either bring her home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a therapist for helpBritish superfan and tech nerd, then her doctor and finally is also on the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslycase.What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=14711966151529421284|title=IcedLaying Out the Bones|author=Felix FrancisKate Webb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Miles Pussett used It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past the surface and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down forensic testing proved the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runbody to be Lee Geary, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourwho had disappeared nine years earlier. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake d been a known drug user and against his better judgement had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he gets talked into helping with doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the saddling suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the horsestime. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him Lockyer and he swore DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that he'd never go back s cold cases to it. But when he sees that something suspicious is going on, Miles can't help but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangeryou and me) investigate.

|isbn=147228612X0571379559|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan Johnson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We all know people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken much notice of them. They live quiet, uneventful lives and stay mostly under the radar. In a city like London, that's quite easy - and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore him. The highlight House of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire McGowan|title=I Know You|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel 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 ManifestoBroken Bricks|author=Michaela CoelFiona Williams

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? ItThe House of Broken Bricks''s as though I were telling is the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itstory of four people. Tess Hembry'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to s roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in a certain frame the house on the riverbank, built of mindbroken bricks. You Insubstantial as it might look, it're not going to read a book s stood the passage of essays or a self-help booktime, storms and floods. You're going Her husband, Richard, struggles to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture grow his vegetables, to professionals within complete the television industry at delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the Edinburgh TV Festivalrainbow twins. You might be Sonny's colouring reflects his mother'reading'' the book but you need to ''listens Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don'' to the words as though yout believe that they're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away related, much less twins and youthere'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writings an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=00084336311529425867|title=Next of KinLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Kia AbdullahSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was the sort In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of thing that happened every dayNigerian descent, although not to Leila SyedBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. She'd never driven her nephewD I Ryan Wilkins, Max, to school before but his son of Ryan and fatherof Ryan, Andrew Hanson, had rung her in a panicis not. 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 lossess not any of those things. As the school was only five minutes out of LeilaHe's waywhite, could she drop him off? Of courseoriginated from a trailer park, she could barely educated (reading's not ''really'' 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're being introduced to a sleeping Max was duly strapped into police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the back of her carsame policing coin. On Sometimes 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 riskcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaMosby Woods|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)A Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesnThe West isn't find them irresistibly funnythe dominant force it once was. Funny Nobody in the West is quite sure how to talk about and joke aboutmend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody isin actual charge. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In classImagine then, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laughthere was a man with precognition. At Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell youwhat will happen given any set of circumstances. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmlyThat man would be valuable, with right? Perhaps the familiar humour attachedmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, explains that tooting is perfectly normalthis man loses this ability. Everybody does What would governments do to get it: ''Everybody Toots''!back?|isbn= B09C2RVJ2WB0C9SNG8R1