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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell0241636604|title=LokiThe Trading Game: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodConfession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, so the other gods have decided thereyou's only one thing for it – he must be banishedre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile A hoodie and in jeans replaces the physical form of a middlepin-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant stripe suit and a god in disguise as his parentsbackground is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and Thor has come along as well, injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother London School of the twoEconomics. Loki Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a month facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to redeem be stupid. It was his reputationability at what was, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againessentially, or elsea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to prove it he Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to write the text we read in English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a sentient notebookrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, that is able dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to cry foul of his liesthe village: Arthur, she feels, and judge his progresslet her down badly. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a walk in cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the park..love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.right?|isbn=1406399752

|isbn=0008454442AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Flicker in the DarkAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Stacy WillinghamBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a 'Opening up new patient. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes ways of getting her through thinking about the traumashape of things to come. You see, Chloe knows '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what ithappens after you's like to have a traumatic childhoodre eighteen. Her father is Richard DavisWell, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years agoI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Their bodies have never been found I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but Chloe found some jewellery belonging to I'm left with the girls feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - trophies taken from their bodies frankly - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to the policequite frightening. Dick Davis is in Of course, I could research the possibilities and the Louisiana State Penitentiary probabilities and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the last twenty yearslatest conspiracy theorist. Her mother is I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a care homeway I could understand.

|author=Christopher EdgeSunny Singh|title=Escape RoomHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which The Hotel Arcadia is a character or characters start luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by being trapped in a specific locationterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and have Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to solve problems in order try to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one care remotely for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people the residents who are still alive in such an adventurethe hotel, he forms a bond with the regular second person narrative replaced Sam who refuses to be cowed by the first. Hereevents, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new keeps on venturing out of her room to try to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the gamecapture what's main officeshappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, where their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they're told both wait to see if they will be rescued before they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerdiscovered by the terrorists. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964086154742X

|isbn=17328987311529153298|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsList of Suspicious Things|author=Michael Albanese Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnShe's not what's worrying Miv't believe their luck! s family, though. Women have been disappearing. It began with art suppliesWell, they've been murdered, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children but to have in abundance'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. The BoyMiv's upset because she's delight was in overheard that her father wants to move the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happyfamily 'Down South'. As he grew up and became When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a Manfrightening, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxesforeign place, best avoided. Look carefully at For Miv, the pictures move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and youshe'll see do anything to prevent that one of them has a padlock.. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=B09MN1526W1398524085|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Liz MistryNicci French|rating=45

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's the third murder in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagersfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. DS Nikki Parekh Her children, sons Niall, Paul and DC Sajid Malik Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are amongst the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on the outskirts of Bradfordall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. OnlyShortly afterwards, this timeEtty and Greg, itfind the body of Greg's going to be differentfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. The body appears to Nikki It was an easy assumption for the police to be make that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, Duncan had murdered Charlie and she has a very public meltdown. It isnthen committed suicide when he couldn't Haqib: there are similarities but stand the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied backgroundguilt. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on sick leave for some time with anxiety their lives and depressionwonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1035906708|title=All the White SpacesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents a chance for a fresh start, and the opportunity We tend to live life think of Maria Callas as his authentic self and true genderGreek, without the disapproval and constraints of his but she was born to Greek parents. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guiltin Manhattan, mistrust and grief stalk the party andNew York, when disaster strikes in December 1923 and they are forced only moved to overwinter on land, a menacing presence waits Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is 'Callas' to make it out of 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 Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for all, or risk making the barrenher elder sister, icy landscape his tombJackie.|isbn=1789097835

|author=Dean KoontzChristopher Edge|title=QuicksilverBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yet, Lucas and his friends are all booked in for he's lived in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingmovie marathon at their local cinema, and now is starting a career on a needless magazineplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole's staff. But when this book starts he IS now All big movie fans, they''subject re looking forward to sudden or unpredictable changes lots of mood or mind''exciting films, and many, for something – call it unearthly intuitionmany snacks! However, call it mind-controlas the movie starts, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him they very quickly realise that he go to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortunesomething about this new film format is very different, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn they are swept up and suggest heinto an adventure they couldn's of interest to themt even imagine. Helped But as they lurch from one film genre to escapethe next, he finds his flight can they figure out what on earth is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controlgoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.to their real lives?|isbn=15420198851839942738

|isbnauthor=0008441618Rachel Greenlaw|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as ''I can hear the song of the new head sea. The call of West Burntridge First School: if she didnthe deep, the answering beat in my heart.''t live up to  Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part , is one of the townseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association and But when the funds which they raised were Council Watch lays a considerable benefit trap to end the school. There was one difficultywrecking, though - they were ''devastatingly shockablecapture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with two membersa wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in particularsearch of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, causing problems for as her journey takes her from the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected watched streets of foreign islands to Jothe heart of the smuggler's restrictions on territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Sarah Ann JuckesJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Hunt for the NightingalePlanet Storyland

|summary=Jasper is Things have been a little boy who has some strugglesbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, and whilst weoften replacing jobs they're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotions. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support paid to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, do and writing a book with him, all about birds, other tasks that he can read when he gets scared took time to help him calm downaccomplish. His parents seem completely caught up in their business, and so it is Rosie he always turns Just as they were beginning to. Even though she has gone away get used to University now, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, all this technological change and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak starting to him or when they dothink of other, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems new ways to be rightspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find along with it, all the nightingale and listen to its song, as many daily social interactions on which they do together every Springdepend so heavily.|isbn=13985108901736128426

|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Matthew Tree|title=Red is My HeartWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more accurately – this one wasthan to be different from his father, a drunk and is, black chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and white and redwho had endless crises of self confidence. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideasset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1913547183B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529135567A G Slatter|title=One Step Too Far|author=Lisa GardnerThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=It'' There's five years since the stag weekenda part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Five This secret magic of them had set out: Tim (my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the groom) and his four groomsmenworld, Scotlies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, Miguel (a family of witches who was usually called Miggy), Neil protect the town and Joshthe wider world from the Darklands. The Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first night they had plenty of alcohol - too much really non- and in the night Scot managed witch to wander off. The remaining four searched be born into her family for him in vain generations and it as such since she was decided that Timyoung, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for helpher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When help didnher grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't come s cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the remaining three finally made their way back to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Tim. Every year, Tim's fatherleader, Martinand Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the four friends have been back rare ability to continue communicate with the search although they dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do now acknowledge that as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timhave sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen1529900360|title=Bitter FlowersThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, the quiet job heIt hadn's supposedly taken on caretaking someonet been Lt Milo Sturgis's house quickly turns into a murder investigationfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a mystery around psychologist only worked for a missing womanwhile. Varg finds himself not only investigating these Finally, it was Robin, but also looking into an oldDelaware's partner, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was never foundsomething that the man she loved needed. Somehow The next case did look simple, these disparate cases appear though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to be linked, but what an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel Italian. But which of them was the truthprimary target?|isbn=191319308X

|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Gold Lion and the Tournament Secret Life of Sentinelsa Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsAnimals and Wildlife|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous societySiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Each power is contained within His father was a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's children GP and their descendants. But it Rowlands didn't quite work out like want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain thatbeing on-call put on his father's life. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of them doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the eight countries went to warjob for him. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a solution is proposedchild. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors, known as sentinels If anything, he'd wanted to be a single combat tournamentprofessional footballer. The winner will take possession of all the rings and become the supreme ruler of Duniva.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps0861541774|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Tomas. Happy to work with his father in the blacksmithDCI Domenic Jejeune's forgeclose friend and former colleague, he's almost of the age Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to become a full apprenticemeet up with an old ally, and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly neededGuy Trueman. Not Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that there are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except..he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Strange signals from within the forge furnaceInitially, and he faced a peculiar invite charge of manslaughter but evidence came to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom light that suggested that he might have planned to puzzle over – until it all comes out in murder the man. Now he could be facing the wash, that yes dragons death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in the ability nothing to summon them, share magical attributes, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and ride with them.wouldn't help Danny at all..|isbn=1839940026

|isbnauthor=1529346541Alexander McCall Smith|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James The Perfect Passion Company is at a meeting with Dominique Shawdating agency in Edinburgh, Undersecretary for run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the school system, online apps in providing a representative from the NHSmore personal, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi could come and Narissa Cameronlook after the business, as Ness is planning to take a filmmakertrip to Canada to get away for a while. It follows on from the success of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting Katie is an exploration coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the possibility of the idea behind the book being used chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to highlight an area which is causing concern in Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some communitiesnew characters who quickly begin to charm. DeborahKatie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's uncertain about quite how successful she could be as the problem seems to occur in Nigerian always her very helpful (and Somali communities as she relies on getting the trust of the people she speaks rather handsome) neighbour, William, to and photographs.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y0811771741|title=ShadebringerInstaKnits for Baby|author=Grayson W HooperMelissa Leapman

|genre=FantasyCrafts|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up 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 US Army during the Vietnam War. He's not really that invested in the fight against Communismlong, nor is he particularly interested in a career cosy afternoons in front of the militaryfire' variety. If he The projects are divided by the time they's honest ll take to complete - which Clyde usually isless than five hours, with himself at least - he hasn't got many choices five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and this onemore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, at least, gets him out of the rut hemodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's in. Hesocial-media-worthy projects's good in training and is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training course. Hebut that's chuffed with himselfme being picky.

|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyDean Koontz|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondBad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=There Benny is no mermaid in the millpondhaving a terrifically bad day. That at least is what Bess is telling herself He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Neither will there be Oh, and someone has delivered a friend for her in amongst all the other kidsreally weird, who have had their entire childhoods sold disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the mill-owners by thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the London workhouse they used very last person to call homedeserve all this bad luck. Bess knows there He is no time a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for friendship in Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a hand-bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to-mouth, every man help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for himself kind of existencebeing a good person. But despite herself Bess does find a bit Spike is going to take care of a kindred spirit in the slight little DotBenny, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be Harper (a glimmer of companionship in the tired-waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out mill workerswho exactly they are. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X1662500491

|isbnauthor=1785633074Adam Stower|title=Staggering Hubris|author=Josh BerryMurray and Bun

|genre=HumourConfident Readers |summary=Members of Parliament like us Murray is supposed to believe that the country be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is run by politiciansable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, headed by the Prime minister - well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he''primus inter pares'' (thats a bad magician's for those of you who are Eton cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the governmentregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. We are in the privileged position of having access This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to the memoirs of Rafe Hubrisbe honest, 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 but he will certainly be the man 's turned up and he'll have to watch.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B09MYXSRV4B0C47LV1PC|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareFragility|author=Cordellya SmithMosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=When the world was made, the animals were given gifts. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protector. Water Spider received Can you make a strong web that even fire could not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present ''andYo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the future. Rabbit developed intelligence - butquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, unfortunately, not would it land? The catch is that the ability to use it answer for both could wellbe. He liked to trick other animals. He was also jealous which was how he came to be in a race with Turtle. You might think that's not a fair contest but wait and see. Things are not always as they seemno. I ''Fragility''ll tell you how it came about.is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Giovanna Fletcher1529431735|title=Walking on SunshineThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=MikeIt's wifeFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Pia, who he was with which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for seventeen years, a decade. The return has died. And whilst come about because he is dealing with 's had a letter from his grief, so are their best friends, Vicky and Zaza. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to followex-wife, knowing saying that she was dying 's ill and that they would need help hasn't long to carry on livinglive. Whilst some of the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him stripped to take one of their trips away, and Vicky his underwear and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide sent to drop everything a watery grave in their own lives, and go along with himthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=140593560X Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1529393930Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Making a Living: How to Craft Your Business|author=Sophie RochesterThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=''Starting Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a creative business has never been easierhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs.'' ''If not now Eli lives with his lovely gran, when?'' I know that I'm not alone too – for there is a generation missing in having wondered whether or not I could turn my hobby into a businessthe family. ThereA few short years ago, Eli's a lot of motivation parents were both lost to do so: I make more items than we can sensibly use and there are the titular race, a lot of people who globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have been delighted to accept what I make as giftsnavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Selling would offset This has made the race anathema to the costs, which can be quite considerable and it could be fun pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to doa confession from gran, couldn't it? But where Eli knows his only hope is to start? What do I need dare to think about? Wellenter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the first only thing anyone who is considering turning a crafting hobby into a business should do is to read ''Making a Living''possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Freya Marske178763681X|title=A Marvellous LightKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the Civil Serviceimpression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, much to his chagrinwho had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. There he meets Edwin Courcey The teaching - and learns that the streets of London problems - are threaded with magicall his own. Desperate The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to remove a curse that threatens to swallow himturn up dead. Unfortunately, Robin follows Edwin to he was the countryside, where person who discovered the hedgegrows bristle with incantations body and everyone knows that the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot police consider that threatens the lives of all magicians in person to be the British Islesprime suspect. |isbn=1529080886

|isbnauthor=0241480442Sarah Marsh|title=Healthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian CopienA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryGeneral Fiction|summary=EmotionallyAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, I am a veganEllen Lark loses her hearing. MentallySuddenly plunged into a world of silence, I am a veganeverything about her life changes. I read [[How to Love Animals Living in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and time when the use of sign language was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practicallyseen as something only savages do, I am not Ellen is sent to a veganschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. It worked for a while apart from From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the odd blip with regard to cheese but then deaf and using a perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based proteinsystem called Visible Speech. It wasn't At the taste - I know that I can 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 same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a few spare momentscomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=suppl_stafl1803816759|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book LoversThe Unravelling|author=Kim StaflundWill Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceScience Fiction|summary=So, youIt've finished writing your book s 2038 and you think Joe is a bored cop policing the hard work is all done? You're convinced wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that all you need to do now is get it published runs everything, making life easier for many, and the money will riots start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written wordspread. You knew your subject back Finally, Joe gets to frontdo some real policing. Now you're going to have to get to grips with In the book supply chain, which even parts aftermath of the publishing industry believe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to be wrong but itbring her home. Joe isn's too difficult t the only one trying to change save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and no one wants to be tech nerd, is also on the first to trycase. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of What went wrong? Did the book in your hands, you're going to have to work out system fail or was it hacked? And how to sell it - because it ''isSuki'' going to be down to you.s kidnapping connected?

|isbn=13987069061529421284|title=The LostLaying Out the Bones|author=Simon BeckettKate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=The disappearance It was one of Metropolitan police firearms officerthose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, Jonah Colley's young sona human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, Theo, just about finished him, particularly as he blamed himself for what who had happeneddisappeared nine years earlier. He'd fallen asleep in the park whilst Theo was playing been a known drug user and when he wokehad learning disabilities, Theo had goneso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. It cost him his marriage and his home. Ten years later he's largely come through it and Geary was a townie, so what was he's doing out with his team when he gets a phone call from DS Gavin McKinney. on Salisbury Plain alone? Gavin used There are connections to be his best friend but it's a long time since they've spoken. He's obviously in some difficulty now - Jonah can hear it in his voice - the suicide of Holly Gilbert and he asks Jonah to meet him two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at Slaughter Quaythe time. ''ThereLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's no one else I can trust'', he sayscold cases to you and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Amanda Mason0571379559|title=The Hiding Place|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and stepdaughter to Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by the name House of Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out. But there's something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and before long Nell starts to suspect that she and her family aren't alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{FrontpageBroken Bricks|author=Paul Cleave|title=The Quiet PeopleFiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= I am not a fan ''The House of "Broken Bricks'' is the Prologue"story of four people. Most books Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the worse for themriverbank, built of broken bricks. In this case I Insubstantial as it might make an exceptionlook, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. We start with Luca Pittman who is Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in a hurrysufficient money. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not They have, twin boys - Sonny and when he hurriesMax, when he bundles things into the back of rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his car father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this there's an assumption when Max is New Zealand and out with his mother that is not how they do things there, he takes a riskshe's his nanny. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942

|authorisbn=Will Carver1529425867|title=Psychopaths AnonymousLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholicIn Oxford, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsthere are two D I Wilkins. She Raymond Wilkins is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing 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 of people's miseryNigerian descent, Balliol educated and targets for her violent behaviouralways exquisitely dressed. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and when she's unable to find like-minded people in any father of the groups she decides to set up her ownRyan, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is bornnot.|isbn=1913193756}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529418100|title=Bruno He's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=I'm not usually a fan any of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walkerthose things. He's [[Martin Walkerwhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to read not ''Brunoreally's Challenge'' was hard to resist his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and Itrackies. They'm rather glad that I didnre usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you't even tryre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. For those new to the seriesWell, thereyou's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about whore not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's who and the background to why Bruno is in St Denisproblematic.

|isbnauthor=B09GJW49GFMosby Woods|title=Buried Lies (Gaby Darin Book 5)|author=Jenny O'BrienA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Hannah Thomas The West isn't the dominant force it once was having her first night away from her son. Hunter had diabetes and Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this was controlled by a pump attached to his stomach, so her over-protectiveness was understandable, but her fiance, Ianor even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, was pestering her to get married and she thought it would be a good idea push for him to find out what parenting was ''really'' likeclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Her friendImagine then, Milly, had arranged to take her boyfriend, Liam, for there was a night man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a posh hotel but then he dumped her and she couldn't get the money backman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, so Hannah was offered right? Perhaps the opportunity to go most valuable asset in his placehistory. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. She What would return home governments do to find Ian dead and five-year-old Hunter missing.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1