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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)0241636604|title=Red is My HeartThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction Autobiography|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black 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 white jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and read in my house. And so was this onehis background is the East End, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one where he wasfamiliar 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, black bright - extremely bright - and white and redhe 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. Yes It was his ability at what was, he has essentially, a card game which got him an artistic collaborator on internship with Citibank. Eventually, this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasturned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1913547183

|isbn=15291355671035021803|title=One Step Too FarThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Lisa GardnerC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=It's five twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the stag weekendEnglish country village where she grew up. Five She's back now because of them had set out: Tim (the groom) a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and his four groomsmen, ScotCarole's close friend, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy)Arthur Crockleford, Neil is dead and Josh. The first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed circumstances seem suspicious, to wander offsay the least. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it Arthur was decided that Timthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, who was experienced in survival techniquesshe feels, would go for helplet her down badly. When help didn't come Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the remaining three finally made their way back to townprofession she loved. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every yearAfter the split, Tim's fathershe worked in a cafe, Martinmet and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and the four friends Freya and James have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timdivorced.

|authorisbn=Gunnar StaalesenAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Bitter FlowersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Varg Veum ''Opening 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, I must confess that there have been more than a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint few decades of technology in rehab and is now returning to workmy lifetime. However, the quiet job he I've kept up reasonably well with what's supposedly taken on caretaking someoneadvantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing womanall getting away from me. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case Some of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundit is - frankly - quite frightening. Somehow Of course, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what is they're talking about or the link, latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Kia AhankoobSunny Singh|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament of SentinelsHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsThrillers |summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, each with its own strength a wartime photographer and weakenessAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hope they would complement each other and collaboratehotel, creating he forms a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is contained within a magical ring belonging bond with Sam who refuses to one of eight countries led be cowed by Myriad's children events, and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew keeps on venturing out of them and the eight countries went her room to try to warcapture what's happened through her photography. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding Although they only ever talk over the cost of war too highphone, a solution is proposed. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known friendship grows as sentinels, Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to a single combat tournament. The winner see if they will take possession of all the rings and become be rescued before they are discovered by the supreme ruler of Dunivaterrorists.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV086154742X

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps1529153298|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet TomasIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly. Happy to work with his father in the blacksmith..) She's not what's forge, heworrying Miv's almost of the age to become a full apprenticefamily, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly neededthough. Women have been disappearing. Not that there are any dragons Well, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except.'ve been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Strange signals When you're from within the forge furnaceYorkshire, and Down South is a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk insteadfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in the washmove would mean leaving her best friend, that yes dragons do still exist in this worldSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that Tom is rare in . She's not worried about the ability dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with themanyone...|isbn=1839940026

|isbn=15293465411398524085|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley NovelHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elizabeth GeorgeNicci French

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's late July fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Deborah St James is at a meeting with Dominique Shawher daughter, Undersecretary for the school systemEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, a representative from the NHSAlec, Mr Oh from Barnardosis not. Shortly afterwards, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi Etty and Narissa CameronGreg, a filmmaker. It follows on from find the success body of DeborahGreg's book ''London Voices'': father, Duncan Ackerley, in the meeting is river. It was an exploration of easy assumption for the possibility of the idea behind police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the book being used to highlight an area which is causing concern in some communitiesguilt. DeborahThe Salter children are not convinced but there's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian and Somali communities as she relies little else they can do but get on getting the trust of the people she speaks to with their lives and photographswonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1035906708|title=ShadebringerDiva|author=Grayson W HooperDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the US Army during the Vietnam Warnickname of 'The Black Hole'. He All big movie fans, they's not really re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that invested in 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 fight against Communismnext, nor can they figure out what on earth is he particularly interested in a career in going on? Will they ever get back to the militarycinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3. If he5|genre=Teens|summary=''s honest - which Clyde usually isI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, with himself at least - he hasnthe answering beat in my heart.''t got many choices  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and this oneplundering the wrecks. Mira, at leastlike her mother before her, gets him is one of the seven who swim out of 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 rut heisland's in. Heleader and Mira's good father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in training and is quickly put onto search of a non commissioned officer training coursefamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. HeWith 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 chuffed with himselfterritory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondPlanet Storyland

|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be Things have been a friend bit sticky for her in amongst all the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold tasks that took time to the mill-owners by the London workhouse accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to call home. Bess knows there is no all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existencealong came an awful pandemic. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little DotLife was pretty much shut down and, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmalong with it, there might be a glimmer of companionship in all the tired-out mill workersmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X1736128426

|isbnauthor=1785633074Matthew Tree|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryWe'll Never Know

|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Members of Parliament like us Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to believe that the country is run by politiciansbe different from his father, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of you who are Eton being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmenthad endless crises of self confidence. We are in the privileged position of having access So Tim applied himself to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrishis studies, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but he will certainly be the man to watchachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=B09MYXSRV4A G Slatter|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and Hare|author=Cordellya SmithBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=When '' 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 enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world was made, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the animals were given giftswider world from the Darklands. Bear 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 given strength so that he could become young, her training as a protectorsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the present 'town's leader, and'' the futureEllie takes her place beside her. Rabbit developed intelligence - butAs challenges come her way left, unfortunatelyright and centre, not Ellie uncovers the rare ability to use it wellcommunicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. He liked Reeling from one family secret to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came another, Ellie must decide who to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait trust and see. Things are not always determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they seem. I'll tell you how it came abouthave sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1529900360|title=Walking on SunshineThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's wifefault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Pia, who he Sturgis was with reluctant to ask for seventeen years, has diedhis 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 a while. And whilst he is dealing with his grief Finally, so are their best friendsit was Robin, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some Delaware'rules' to follows partner, knowing who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that she the involvement was dying and something that they would need help to carry on livingthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Whilst some Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him heir to take one of their trips away, an Italian shoe empire and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide she is married to drop everything in their own lives, an extremely rich man and go along with himit's not the Italian.|isbn=140593560X But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=15293939301529395224|title=Making Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Living: How to Craft Your BusinessVet|author=Sophie RochesterSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''Starting Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a creative business has never been easier.GP and Rowlands didn'' ''If not nowt want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when?'' I know he considered the strain that Ibeing on-call put on his father'm not alone in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businesss life. There's a lot When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of motivation to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are doing work experience with a lot of people family friend who have been delighted to accept what I make as giftswas a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Selling would offset the costsBefore long, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun to do, couldnhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't it? - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. But where to start? What do I need to think about? WellIf anything, the first thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is he'd wanted to read ''Making be a Living''professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Freya Marske0861541774|title=A Marvellous LightNye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a job short holiday in the Civil ServiceSingapore to meet up with an old ally, much to his chagrinGuy Trueman. There Maik was involved in a street brawl - he meets Edwin Courcey and learns would later maintain that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove he was facing a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer man armed with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. |isbn=1529080886}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241480442|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau knife - and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=Emotionally, I am he killed a veganGhurka. MentallyInitially, I am he faced a vegan. I read [[How charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by murder the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) foodman. Practically, I am not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from Now he could be facing the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteindeath penalty. It wasn't the taste - I know that I Domenic Jejeune can get plant-based food that tastes just as good do nothing to help as anything plundered any interference from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in another police force could provoke a few spare momentsdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=suppl_staflAlexander McCall Smith|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim StaflundThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary=SoThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, you've finished writing your book run by Ness and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that operating as an alternative to all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling online apps in? Wrong and wrong againproviding a more personal, tailored service. You presumably wrote Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the book because you wanted business, as Ness is planning to - and you had take a talent trip to Canada to get away for delivering the written worda while. You knew your subject back Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to frontEdinburgh. Now you're going And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to have an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to get to grips with 44 Scotland Street and the book supply chainIsabel Dalhousie novels, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first with some new characters who quickly begin to trycharm. ThenKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the book but Ness has full confidence in your handsher abilities, youand there're going s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=13987069060811771741|title=The LostInstaKnits for Baby|author=Simon BeckettMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=The disappearance of Metropolitan police firearms officer, Jonah ColleyMelissa Leapman's young son, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself ''InstaKnits for what had happened. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing and when he woke, Theo had gone. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later heBaby's largely come through it and he's out with his team when he gets gives us a phone call collection of knits from DS Gavin McKinneytoys to blankets. Gavin used to Some will be his best friend but itquick knits - others are of the 's a long , cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time since they've spokenll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - All the projects are attractive, modern and he asks Jonah to meet him at Slaughter Quayuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'Therebut that's no one else I can trust'', he saysme being picky.

|author=Amanda MasonDean Koontz|title=The Hiding PlaceBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorParanormal|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent lifeBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to Whitbyhis home, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name of Elder House. She hopes that and it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere possible that whoever or whatever was inside is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect the thing that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|author=Paul Cleave|title=has trashed his house! The Quiet People|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= I am not a fan of "thing is, Benny is the Prologue"very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Most books are the worse for them He is a nice person. In this case I might make an exception A really nice person. We start with Luca Pittman So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is in clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a hurrygood person. He has Spike is going to hurry because he has children that he should not havetake care of Benny, and when will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind himBenny, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badlyare.|isbn=19131939421662500491

|author=Will CarverAdam Stower|title=Psychopaths AnonymousMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=Maeve Murray is supposed to be a high functioning alcoholichumble, drinking continuously tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and also, curiouslywell, addicted to attending numerous AA groupswhatever takes his fancy next of the two. She is also But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the groups to find targets...targets for sexual encountersregular back garden, targets to feed her desire to hear but into a world of people's misery, frightening adventure and targets for her violent behaviourwhiffs. Yet she also seems This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be searching for others who think as she doeshonest, and when shebut he's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups she decides to set turned up her own, hoping and he'll have to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.do…|isbn=19131937560008561249

|isbn=1529418100B0C47LV1PC|title=Bruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne TalesFragility|author=Martin WalkerMosby Woods

|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=ICan you make a ''m not usually a fan of short stories - I find Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it all too easy to put ? Or is the book down between stories and forget to pick question if you did, would it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so land? The catch is that the temptation to read answer for both could well be.... no. ''BrunoFragility's Challenge'' was hard to resist and I'm rather glad that I didn't even try. For those new to is set as the seriescity of Portland, Oregon, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need cautiously begins to know about who's who and emerge from the restrictions imposed during the background to why Bruno is in St Denis.covid pandemic

|isbn=B09GJW49GF1529431735|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)The Winter Visitor|author=Jenny O'BrienJames Henry

|summary=Hannah Thomas was having her first night away from her sonIt'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 wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Hunter The return has come about because he's had diabetes and this was controlled by a pump attached to letter from his stomach, so her overex-protectiveness was understandablewife, but her fiance, Ian, was pestering her to get married and saying that she thought it would be a good idea for him to find out what parenting was 's ill and hasn'really'' liket long to live. Her friendIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Milly, had arranged stripped to his underwear and sent to take her boyfriend, Liam, for a night watery grave in the boot of a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldn't get the money back, so Hannah was offered the opportunity to go in his placestolen Ford Sierra. She would return Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missing.?

|isbnauthor=B09GV3WS1QAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Without a Trace|author=Jane BettanyThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Life hadn't been easy Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for Ruth Prendergast: she'd just come through there is a divorce and right now it was raining hardgeneration missing in the family. All she wanted was A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to get back the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to her new home and settle down for navigate the world in the company of a quiet eveningmagical beast. It wasn't going This has made the race anathema to be though: the pair – but when she went into her bedroom she found a dead man on her bed with bad incident at the eatery leads to a knife in confession from gran, Eli knows his chest. She'd no idea who only hope is to dare to enter what he wasmost hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1838774823178763681X|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: A Three Dog ProblemKnife Skills for Beginners|author=S J BennettOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=It's 2016 and the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Simon Holcroft has decided that too much good claret and too little exercise is putting Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a strain on his waistbandresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Swimming, he decides, is the He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to go and do what he can use wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the Buckingham Palace pool which is how impression that he came to 'd be there early one morning and discovered the body of Cynthia Harris at the side of the pool. There was school to assist Paul, who had a broken glass - a crystal tumblerarm, by the look at but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - probably one of and the young royals being careless problems - and it looked as though Mrs Harris had slipped and cut herself so badly that she had bled outare all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. StillUnfortunately, it he was a shock for Sir Simonthe person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=057136358XSarah Marsh|title=April in Spain|author=John BanvilleA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Terry Tice was After a bout of scarlet fever as a hitmanchild, although he didn't think of himself in those termsEllen Lark loses her hearing. He saw what he did as ''Suddenly plunged into a matter world of making things tidy''silence, everything about her life changes. I couldn't resist Living in a time when the thought that he use of sign language was an extreme version of Marie Kondo. He enjoyed his jobseen as something only savages do, something which occurred Ellen is sent to him when he was in Burma with the army ''a school where he got the chance she is taught to kill a lot of the little yellow fellows and had a fine old time''lip read, but physically restrained from signing. He was spending a lot of time with Percy Antrobus - From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who couldn't understand why Terry didn't know has been teaching the purpose of deaf and using a swizzle stick - surely he wouldn't drink champagne with bubbles in the ''morning''? system called Visible Speech. It was after Percy's death that he saw At the benefits of taking same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a job in Spaincomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Dave Letterfly Knoderer1803816759|title=Speedy: Hurled Through HavocThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary=How It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to summarise get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life of Dave Letterfly Knodererv in a pithy sentence easier for many, and riots start to kick off a review of his memoir? Do you knowspread. Finally, I really don't think I canJoe gets to do some real policing.  Dave In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is an author kidnapped and an artistJoe is assigned to bring her home. An inspirational speaker and a professional horseman. And a recovering alcoholic. The son of a Lutheran minister, heJoe isn's struggled with a controlling fathert the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, run away to join the circus (not a metaphor), trained horses, painted caravans, designed British superfan and painted theatre setstech nerd, and hit rock bottom when is also on the bottle took overcase.|isbn=B0965V3LLNWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Tade Thompson1529421284|title=Far From Laying Out the Light of HeavenBones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Michelle 'Shell' Campion is fulfilling her lifelong dream It was one of going to space. As first officer aboard those flash downpours that the sleeper ship Ragtime, bound for the world of Bloodroot, she will essentially be British weather often delivers in a babysitter for the ship's AI captainheatwave. However In a gully, when she wakes up at a human skeleton came to the end of her trip to find dozens of her passengers butchered surface and forensic testing proved the Ragtimebody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's AI almost non-responsived been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, she begins to realise that her first mission wonso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't be going as smoothly as she hoped it wouldconvinced. Down Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Bloodroot, disgraced investigator Rasheed Fin Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and his android partner Salvo are sent up to discover exactly what went wrong on two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the Ragtimetime. Meanwhile, former astronaut Lockyer and friend DC Gemma Broad of Shellthe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's father Lawrence Biz takes a shuttle cold cases to Bloodroot, half-alien daughter in tow, to see why the Ragtime has gone quiet, leaving behind the politicking you and bureaucracy of Space Station Lagosme) investigate. What the five of them discover on the Ragtime has ramifications not just for Bloodroot, but potentially the entirety of human space…|isbn=0356514323

|authorisbn=Rob Keeley0571379559|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating= 45|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrotsTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, broccolishe lives in the house on the riverbank, cabbage and auberginesbuilt of broken bricks. When her friends at school turn up their noses Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, Lily is keen to explain how good they are for you storms and how nice to eatfloods. One day Her husband, poor Lily gets tricked by JordanRichard, who tells her that carrots struggles to grow on trees. Infuriatedhis vegetables, Lily checks with to complete the teacher, who explains that fruits grow on trees delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and vegetables, like carrotsMax, grow in the groundrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her People don't believe that they're related, Miss!" much less twins and everyone laughs at poor Lilythere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbn=178607981X1529425867|title=Bad ApplesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Will DeanSimon Mason

|summary=Tuva Moodyson was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the roadNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Wondering if someone needed help she got out D I Ryan Wilkins, son of the car - Ryan and heard the screams from deep inside the forestfather of Ryan, is not. Determining the direction He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a sound isntrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They't easy when re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way 're being introduced to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manpolice procedural written for laughs. HeWell, you'd been decapitatedre not. He was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident The two men are just different sides of Visbergthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Lilja SigurdadottirMosby Woods|title=Cold As HellA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= In a red suitcase as The West isn't the bottom of a fissure dominant force it once was. Nobody in a lava field, there is a body. And the man who has put her there has just discovered that he West is capable of killing.|isbn=1913193888}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Hope|title=Fledgling|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, quite sure how to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know mend this or even if mending it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby best course of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abodeaction. Governments are flailing. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something elseA war here, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherubpush for climate action there. And if you think such a heavenly arrival A feeling that nobody is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think againin actual charge...|isbn=183994188X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846276772|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds|author=Jessica Nordell|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Anyone who is not an ableImagine then, white there was a man understands bias with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: it's simply this asset; a part of everyday life. 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 wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end can tell you what will happen given any set of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedcircumstances.}}{{Frontpage|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to That man would be your average studentvaluable, faced with right? Perhaps the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot most valuable asset in the midst of her graduation ceremonyhistory. With Gemma Imagine then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues this man loses this ability. What would governments do to grow the further you read.get it back?|isbn=1542028752B0C9SNG8R1