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|isbn= B09NDJ77LM0241636604|title=Me and My ShadowThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Deborah StoneGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary= ''What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would If you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go were to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off the shadows bring up an image of her past and attempts a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to repair decades worth think of painsomeone like Gary Stevenson.'' Rachel A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is in a current conversation the East End, where he was familiar with her psychiatristviolence, who pushes her poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsthe London School of Economics. But Rachel Stevenson is combative bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with Doctor Blake, sometimes even contemptuous numbers which most of herus can only envy. You can see He also realised that it's not most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an easy therapeutic relationshipinternship with Citibank. Rachel's recall of her life is in remarkable detail. She remembers each minor slight and each major betrayal in perfect detail with absolute and unforgiving clarity Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=15294096591035021803|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Elly GriffithsC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=It was some time 's twenty years since her father had remarried but his wife was now keen Freya Lockwood has been back to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her mother's belongingsthe English country village where she grew up. She was intrigued by the discovery 's back now because of a picture of request for help from her own house: it was an old photographbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, taken in misty conditions is dead and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'circumstances seem suspicious, some years before Ruth was bornto say the least. It Arthur was before the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her parents were marrieddown badly. When she returned to Norfolk Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she was determined has not felt able to find out what was behind be near the photograph but Covid intervened and man or pursue the country was in lockdownprofession she loved. Ruth After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and Kate are restricted to married James (on the rebound from the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate and continue with love of her university teaching duties. The good thing life, who was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom they got to know whilst clapping for carersmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1847941834AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Atomic HabitsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=James ClearBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said this before but there are some books that 'technology' is what happens after you seek out're eighteen. Well, some books I must confess that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'Atomic Habitsm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, 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 they' re talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. is I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in the last categorya way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WSunny Singh|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=Helen The Hotel Arcadia is a popular activist. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway, Helen is so popular luxury hotel in an unnamed city that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokesuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on behalf of the governmentsite, there is Sam, including the Shaming Conference a wartime photographer and Abhi, the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any the residents who are still knew how alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to have it'try to 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. Ouch!|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1529153298|title=The Wedding MurdersList of Suspicious Things|author=Sarah LinleyJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper It's 1979 and the case she was covering was her big chanceMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. It was even more important Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her than the celebrity wedding she was father wants to attend move the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriendfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, Matthewbest avoided. She was For Miv, the move would mean leaving her seven-year-old sonbest friend, Patrick with her sister, EmmaSharon, and heading off she'll do anything to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countrysideprevent that. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of She's not worried about the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected dangers or that the wedding wasn't ''quiteher Mum'' as highs stopped talking -profile as had been suggested as there was no ban on photos or phonesto anyone.

|isbn=18382268341398524085|title=Carried Away With the CarnivalHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ed BoxallNicci French|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It Charlotte Salter was one of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparentsexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. They're there to undo are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the good that parents dobody of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, so in the trips out were always so much funriver. A young boy It was going an easy assumption for the police to the carnival with his Grandad, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, donmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't let go of my handstand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there''s little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15291353621035906708|title=The Long WeekendDiva|author=Gilly MacmillanDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=It We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a long drive born to the weekend retreat Greek parents in NorthumbriaManhattan, New York, right up near the Scottish borders 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 worse more manageable in the three husbands had all States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for one reason or another her voice - had to delay making the trip until she was raised under the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each other for Nazi occupation by a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She mother who mercilessly exploited her and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship made no secret of the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Markher preference for her elder sister, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Well, Rob's deadJackie.

|isbnauthor=gareth_steelChristopher Edge|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Animals and WildlifeConfident Readers|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vet's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great Lucas and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking his friends are all booked in for. As a TV show movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the author would argue that nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All Creaturesbig movie fans, they'' lacked realismre looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says the movie starts, they very quickly realise that the book something about this new film format is not suitable for younger readers very different, and - after reading - I agree with himthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. He says that he's written it But as they lurch from one film genre to inform and provoke thoughtthe next, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivitycan they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eating.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1787634884Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Our story opens ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in December 2019my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before most her, is one of us had even heard of Covid or realised the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to be a major issue. Weend the wrecking, they capture the island're in Farley County Court, where Elizabeth s leader and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash KohliMira's father. As they were best friends until just Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a few months ago we know that whatever has happened wreck survivor who is as charming as he is major secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret thatlies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, regardless as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the outcomeheart of the smuggler's territory, this is not going Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to work out well for anyonesave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Annabel AbbsJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Language of FoodPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Eliza Acton is Things have been a poet who has never had bit sticky for the slightest inclination to boil an eggEarthlings. When tasked with writing a cookery bookAI and automation have been proceeding apace, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home lifeoften replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Together, Just as they testwere beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, craftnew ways to spend time, refine along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing along with it, all the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing forevermany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=13985022271736128426

|author=Louie StowellMatthew Tree|title=Loki: A Bad GodWe's Guide to Being Goodll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble againTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile drunk and in the physical form chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, artistic passions all failed miserably and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother who had endless crises of the twoself confidence. Loki has a month So Tim applied himself to redeem his reputationstudies, and get cultivated his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of abilities rather than his lies, daydreams and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the park..set himself high but achievable ambitions.right?|isbn=1406399752B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0008454442A G Slatter|title=A Flicker in The Briar Book of the Dark|author=Stacy WillinghamDead|rating=45|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=It'' There's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davisa 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 medical psychologistremote mountain pass, far away from the world, is completing lies Silverton; a session with town under the protection of the Briar's, a new patientfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Lacey Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes of getting 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 through grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the trauma. You seeBriar Witch, Chloe knows what itthe town's like to have a traumatic childhoodleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Her father is Richard DavisAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging rare ability to communicate with the girls - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard dead, putting her at home and she and her mother handed it to the policeheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and Chloie has had nothing determine what to do with him for as the last twenty years. Her mother Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is in a care homeunder threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1529900360|title=Escape RoomThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=IIt hadn've seen junior variants of the t been Lt Milo Sturgis'Choose Your Own Adventures fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn' format cover escape rooms – t need the process by which help of a character or characters start by being trapped in psychologist only worked for a specific locationwhile. Finally, and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What Iit was Robin, Delaware've not done (alongside experience one for myself – s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by involvement was something that the firstman she loved needed. Here The next case did look simple, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into though. Two lovers were murdered in the game without any swimming pool of their friends, are a team – starting out at remote property in Bel Air. He was the gameheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changernot the Italian. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in which of them was the world of literatureprimary target?|isbn=1788007964

|isbn=17328987311529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for AdultsSecret Life of a Vet|author=Michael Albanese Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleAnimals and Wildlife|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxesSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. He had His father was a box for everything GP and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnRowlands didn't believe their luck! It began with art supplieswant to follow in his footsteps, stuffed toys and particularly when he considered the like: all the things which most children have in abundance. The Boystrain that being on-call put on his father's delight life. When he was in seventeen he took the sense opportunity of order in his room: it made doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him feel happy. As Before long, he grew up and became a Man, was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his life became more complicated and dream since he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxeswas a child. Look carefully at the pictures and youIf anything, he'll see that one of them has d wanted to be a padlock..professional footballer.

|isbn=B09MN1526W0861541774|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Liz MistrySteve Burrows

|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's the third murder close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the space of a few weeks street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagershe killed a Ghurka. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst the first Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on murder the outskirts of Bradfordman. Only, this time, it's going to Now he could be differentfacing the death penalty. The body appears Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to Nikki to be that of her beloved nephew, Haqib, help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and she has a very public meltdown. It isnwouldn't Haqib: there are similarities but the body help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is clad a dating agency in designer clothes Edinburgh, run by Ness and comes from operating as an obviously monied backgroundalternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. What it does mean though Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is that Nikki is going planning to take a trip to Canada to be on sick leave get away for some time a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with anxiety a bad boyfriend, and depressionso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes0811771741|title=All the White SpacesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=HorrorCrafts|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 Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a fresh start, and the opportunity collection of knits from toys to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parentsblankets. However, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines Some will be quick knits - others are of his past and the shadow 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionfire' variety. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk The projects are divided by the party and, when disaster strikes and time they are forced 'll take to overwinter on landcomplete - less than five hours, a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is five to make it out of the Arctic winter aliveten hours, he will have ten to face his demons once twenty hours and for all, or risk making more than twenty hours. All the barrenprojects are attractive, icy landscape his tombmodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.|isbn=1789097835

|title=QuicksilverThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetloses his job, for he's lived in loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a nunreally weird, disturbing coffin-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlingsized object to his home, and now is starting a career on a needless magazineit's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject to sudden possible that whoever or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for something – call Benny it unearthly intuition, call it mind-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him turns out that he go the delivery to his house is a derelict dinernew friend, find a gold coin worth a fortunebad weather friend called Spike, cash the value of it out of his bank and prepare who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for going on the lambeing a good person. And all this Spike is just in time for two going to take care of those typical Men in Black types to turn up Benny, and suggest hewill certainly take care of Benny's of interest to them. Helped to escapeenemies, if he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in control, the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – Benny, and Harper (a whole lot more besideswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15420198851662500491

|isbnauthor=0008441618Adam Stower|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah Stovell|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she didn't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be a house price slump in that part of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association Murray and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the school. There was one difficulty, though - they were ''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, in particular, causing problems for the head. Laura Spence and Kate Monroe objected to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ education.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Ann Juckes|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleBun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jasper Murray is supposed to be a little boy who has some struggleshumble, tidy and whilst we're never told why exactlyfriendly cat, we can see that he has anxiety one who is able to sleep and eat and panic attacks, eat and has difficulty dealing with change sleep and big emotions, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. His big sister, Rosie But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a huge support to himhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, talking him down when things were difficultand the catflap they both use can chuck them out, encouraging himnot into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and writing whiffs. This time round it drops them into a book with himViking land, all about birdswhere a troll hunter is expected – well, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm down. His parents seem completely caught up in their businessone much bigger than Murray was, and so it is Rosie he always turns to. Even though she has gone away to University nowbe honest, she has promised him that she will still be there when but he needs her. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would, s turned up and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take in what they're saying. Nothing seems to be right, and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosie, and if they can find the nightingale and listen ll have to its song, as they do together every Spring.do…|isbn=13985108900008561249

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)B0C47LV1PC|title=Red is My HeartFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And so was this one, although I if you could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and isthe question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, black and white and redwould it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. Yes ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, he has an artistic collaborator on this pieceOregon, and I think it's possible cautiously begins to say not one page lacks emerge from the restrictions imposed during the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183covid pandemic

|isbn=15291355671529431735|title=One Step Too FarThe Winter Visitor|author=Lisa GardnerJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=It's five years since February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the stag weekendmore surprising. Five of them had set out: Tim (He'd been exiled on the groom) and his four groomsmen, Scot, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and JoshCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The first night they return has come about because he's had plenty of alcohol a letter from his ex- too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander off. The remaining four searched for him in vain wife, saying that she's ill and it was decided that Tim, who was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. When help didnhasn't come the remaining three finally made their way back long to town. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign of Timlive. Every year, TimIt's father, Martinhard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and the four friends have been back sent to continue a watery grave in the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Gunnar Staalesen|title=Bitter Flowers|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|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 he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night Alex Bell and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X}}{{Frontpage|author=Kia AhankoobTim McDonagh|title=The Gold Lion and the Tournament Glorious Race of SentinelsMagical Beasts

|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with different powershim, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating evening a dynamic helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and prosperous societyruns. Each power Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is contained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriadgeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's children and their descendants. But it didn't quite work out like that. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and parents were both lost to the eight countries went titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding navigate the world in the cost company of war too high, a solution is proposedmagical beast. Each of This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eight countries will send their greatest warriorseatery leads to a confession from gran, known as sentinelsEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, to a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession with the sole aim the prize of all magic at the rings and become end – the supreme ruler of Dunivaonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV0571382231

|authorisbn=Alastair Chisholm and Eric Deschamps178763681X|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet TomasChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Happy He didn't really want to work with his father in but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the blacksmith's forge, impression that he's almost of d be at the age school to become assist Paul, who had a full apprenticebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and help with the new batch of dragonswords is certainly needed. Not that there problems - are any dragons, of course – they vanished centuries ago. Except.all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Strange signals from within Unfortunately, he was the forge furnace, and a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk instead, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out in person who discovered the wash, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, body and everyone knows that Tom is rare in the ability police consider that person to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with thembe the prime suspect...|isbn=1839940026

|isbnauthor=1529346541Sarah Marsh|title=Something to Hide: An Inspector Lynley Novel|author=Elizabeth GeorgeA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's late July and Deborah St James is at After a bout of scarlet fever as a meeting with Dominique Shaw, Undersecretary for the school systemchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a representative from the NHSworld of silence, Mr Oh from Barnardos, someone from Orchid House whose name she didn't catch but would later turn out to be Zawadi and Narissa Cameron, a filmmakereverything about her life changes. It follows on from Living in a time when the success use of Deborah's book ''London Voices'': the meeting sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is an exploration of the possibility of the idea behind the book being used sent to highlight an area which a school where she is causing concern in some communitiestaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Deborah's uncertain about quite how successful From here, she could be as ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the problem seems to occur in Nigerian deaf and Somali communities as she relies using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on getting the trust other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the people she speaks to and photographsespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=B09Q3P283Y1803816759|title=ShadebringerThe Unravelling|author=Grayson W HooperWill Gibson

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Clyde Robbins signs up for the US Army during the Vietnam War. HeIt's not really that invested in the fight against Communism, nor 2038 and Joe is he particularly interested in a career in bored cop policing the militarywealthy and peaceful New York City. If he's honest - which Clyde usually isJoe 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 now runs everything, with himself at least - he hasn't got making life easier for many choices , and this one, at leastriots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets him out to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rut he's inrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. HeJoe isn's good in training t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is quickly put onto a non commissioned officer training coursealso on the case. HeWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's chuffed with himself.kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1529421284|title=The Mermaid in Laying Out the MillpondBones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=There is no mermaid It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herselfa heatwave. Neither will there be In a friend for her in amongst all the other kidsgully, who have had their entire childhoods sold a human skeleton came to the mill-owners by surface and forensic testing proved the London workhouse they used body to call homebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in He'd been a hand-to-mouthknown drug user and had learning disabilities, every man for himself kind so it could have been a simple case of existencemisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. But despite herself Bess does find Geary was a bit townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of a kindred spirit in Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal time. Lockyer and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer DC Gemma Broad of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely Major Crimes Review Unit (that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049Xs cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=17856330740571379559|title=Staggering HubrisThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Josh BerryFiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter paresThe House of Broken Bricks'' (thatis the story of four people. Tess Hembry's for those of you who roots are Eton and Oxbridge educated) in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the reality is that house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it''prime'' movers are s stood the special advisers - passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the SPADS delivery rounds - who are the driving force behind the governmentand to bring in sufficient money. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe HubrisThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watchPeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=B09MYXSRV41529425867|title=Otter's Coat: The Real Reason Turtle Raced Rabbit: Lost and Never Found (A Cherolachian Tortoise and HareD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Cordellya SmithSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When the world was madeIn Oxford, the animals were given giftsthere are two D I Wilkins. Bear was given strength so that he could become a protectorRaymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Water Spider received a strong web that even fire could D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not burn. Owl had excellent sight so that he could see the present He''and'' the futures not any of those things. Rabbit developed intelligence - butHe's white, unfortunatelyoriginated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not the ability to use it well''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. He liked to trick other animalsThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. He was also jealous which was how he came You might wonder if you're being introduced to be in a race with Turtlepolice procedural written for laughs. You might think thatWell, you's re not a fair contest but wait and see. Things The two men are not always as they seemjust different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. ISometimes it'll tell you how it came abouts problematic.

|author=Giovanna FletcherMosby Woods|title=Walking on SunshineA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=MikeThe West isn's wife, Pia, who he t the dominant force it once was with for seventeen years, has died. And whilst he Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is dealing with his grief, so the best course of action. Governments are their best friendsflailing. A war here, Vicky and Zazaa push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. But Pia left them all some 'rules' to followImagine then, knowing that she there was dying and that they would need help to carry on livinga man with precognition. Whilst some of Imagine the rules are around practicalities such as clearing out her wardrobe, another one that Mike discovers one day encourages him to take one strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of their trips awaycircumstances. That man would be valuable, and Vicky and Zaza, struggling with their grief and their own life troubles, decide to drop everything right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in their own liveshistory. Imagine then, and go along with himthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=140593560XB0C9SNG8R1