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|isbn=19160720380241636604|title=The House in the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)Trading Game: A Confession|author=Allie CresswellGary Stevenson

|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=We meet part If you were to bring up an image of the Talbot family a city banker in Yorkshire in November 1811your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Twenty-seven-yearA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-old Jocelyn Talbot stripe suit and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home at Ecklingtonhis background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the house in the hollowLondon School of Economics. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn Stevenson is well aware of her mother's strengths bright - extremely bright - and weaknesses: ''She is practiced at subterfuge, at concealing, beneath he has a facade facility with numbers which most of respectability, the deplorable truth''us can only envy. Hester is furious about Jocelyn's refusal He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to do as she be stupid. It was his ability at what was asked, essentially, a card game which has precipitated ''got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this violent and unexpected removal''. Then we are told of the birth of turned into permanent employment as a child and, soon after, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshiretrader.

|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1035021803|title=The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=ItAntique Hunter's easy to forget at times that The Naked Don't Fear the Water isn't actually fiction, because it reads very much like a well-paced thriller at times. This is not by any means a criticism, but rather a testament Guide to how well Matthieu Aikins – a Canadian citizen who decided to accompany his friend as a refugee from Afghanistan through Europe – recounts a vast and at times painful journey. There are tense moments and gripping accounts of border crossings which had me on edge the whole way through. But it's written with a haunting and almost lyrical quality that allows the reader to perfectly envisage the environments and people described.|isbn= B09N9157T6}}{{FrontpageMurder|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas EngerC L Miller|titlerating=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)|rating=4.5

|summary=This is It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the third book in a series English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, and Emma Rammrequest for help from her beloved aunt, a crime journalistCarole. In this book we find that when one of BlixFreya's former mentor and Carole's colleaguesclose friend, KovicArthur Crockleford, uncovers a connection between several Oslo casesis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, she tries to contact her superior, Blixsay the least. Before Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she can reach himfeels, howeverlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she is murdered, and Blix's daughter Iselin who shares has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the same apartment, narrowly escapes being murdered tooprofession she loved. We then find ourselves After the split, she worked in a few days later with Blix cafe, met and Rammmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who are being interviewed by the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot was murdered) and killed someone, Freya and Ramm saw it all happenJames have now divorced. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someone?|isbn=1914585003

|authorisbn=Daniel AbrahamAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Age of AshAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary= We meet Alys under ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the most northerly shape of Oldgatethings to come.''s four bridges I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, she has I must confess that there have been more than a knife few decades of technology in her hand and a meeting my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that she dreadsit's all getting away from me. Meanwhile, the City Some of Kithamar it is at a point in the turning of years when the worlds are at their thinnest and all things are possible- frankly - quite frightening. It is Of course, I could research the night between possibilities and the funeral of a Prince probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the coronation of his successorlatest conspiracy theorist. For I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a night the Kithamar is un-ruledway I could understand.|isbn=0356515427

|isbnauthor=1529095522Sunny Singh|title=The Interview|author=C M EwanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Kate Harding The Hotel Arcadia is going for a luxury hotel in an interview 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, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for her dream job at Edge Communications. It's the last interview of residents who are still alive in the day at one of London's newest office buildings hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Edge have fitted keeps on venturing out their part of the building her room to try to be something special. Maggie, Katecapture what's recruitment agenthappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, is keen their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see that Kate approaches the interview in a good state of mind: Kate assumes that this is because Maggie if they will get a decent bonus if Kate gets be rescued before they are discovered by the job - and she has to admit that life has not been easy for her recentlyterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=B097XNMCRK1529153298|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back List of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earner, only to find that Macca, the man he thought he was working with, is dead. His remains would never be found. The delivery is hijacked by Davie and Callum. As the story progresses we'll get to know them quite well.}}{{Frontpage|isbn= B09NDJ77LM|title=Me and My ShadowSuspicious Things|author=Deborah StoneJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'What happens when someone is pushed too far and s not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they begin 've been murdered, but to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that no one loved you? And how far would you go her father wants to be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off move the shadows of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painfamily 'Down South'. When you'' Rachel re from Yorkshire, Down South is in a current conversation with her psychiatristfrightening, foreign place, who pushes her to recall her life from very young childhood onwardsbest avoided. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake For Miv, sometimes even contemptuous of the move would mean leaving herbest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. You can see that it She's not an easy therapeutic relationship. Rachelworried about the dangers or that her Mum'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 claritystopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15294096591398524085|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Elly GriffithsNicci French

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was some time since expected at her father had remarried but his wife was now keen to do some decorating and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherhusband's belongingsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She was intrigued by the discovery of a picture of her own house: it was an old photographHer children, sons Niall, taken in misty conditions Paul and Ollie and on the back it said 'dawn 1963'her daughter, some years before Ruth was bornEtty. It was before are all worried but - strangely - her parents were marriedhusband, Alec, is not. When she returned to Norfolk she was determined to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the country was in lockdownriver. Ruth and Kate are restricted to It was an easy assumption for the cottage with Ruth attempting police to home school Kate make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and continue with her university teaching dutiesthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The good thing was meeting Zoe, the new tenant from next door whom Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they got to know whilst clapping for carerscan do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=18479418341035906708|title=Atomic HabitsDiva|author=James ClearDaisy Goodwin

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=I've said this before We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but there are some books that you seek outshe was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, some books that you stumble across in December 1923 and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read them, like, right now! only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'Atomic Habits'' to make it more manageable in the States. is When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the last categoryNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WChristopher Edge|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is a popular activistvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Or should we call her a popular influencer But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives? Anyway, Helen is so popular that |isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the United States government has made her its Ambassador song of Wokethe sea. Helen runs all sorts The call of initiatives the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on behalf luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the government, including seven who swim out to survey the Shaming Conference ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Permissible Entertainment Committee - Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'for indoctrinating s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to have it'the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. Ouch!|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=B09D95TRKZJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Wedding Murders|author=Sarah LinleyPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get Things have been a permanent job with bit sticky for the newspaper Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and the case she was covering was her big chanceother tasks that took time to accomplish. It was even more important Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to her than the celebrity wedding she was think of other, new ways to attend the following day with her ex-rock star boyfriendspend time, Matthewalong came an awful pandemic. She Life was leaving her seven-year-old sonpretty much shut down and, Patrick along with her sister, Emma, and heading off to a grand manor house hotel in the North Yorkshire countryside. Daniel Acroydit, television presenter and former member of all the rock band was marrying Vicky and Libby suspected that the wedding wasn't ''quite'' as high-profile as had been suggested as there was no ban many daily social interactions on photos or phoneswhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1838226834Matthew Tree|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=It was one Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of those memories we treasure from our childhoods: an outing with our grandparents. They're there to undo his artistic passions all the good that parents do, so the trips out were always so much funfailed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. A young boy was going So Tim applied himself to the carnival with his Grandadstudies, who told him:cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go of my hand.''|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529135362A G Slatter|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly MacmillanBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=It was '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long drive 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 weekend retreat in Northumbriaworld, right up near lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the Scottish borders town and to make it worse the three husbands had all - wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for one reason or another magic, Ellie Briar is the first non- had witch to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane be born into her family for generations and Ruth had known each other for a long time but Emily as such since she was young, her training as a bit of an outsider. She steward revolved around letters and Paul had married only relatively recently administration rather than spells and she was ten years younger than potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the other two womentown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. The friendship of As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the group went back rare ability to school days. Paul had coached rugby communicate with the dead, putting her at the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupilsheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Mark had married JaneReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and Toby is Ruthdetermine what to do as the Briar witches's husband. And Rob? Welllegacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, Rob's deadis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=gareth_steel1529900360|title=Never Work With AnimalsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Gareth SteelJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I donIt hadn't often begin my reviews with a warning been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to be appropriateask for his help on difficult cases. Stories His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a vetpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's life have proved popular since ''All Creatures Great and Small'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking partner, who nudged Milo into asking forhelp again. As a TV show She knew that the author would argue involvement was something that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismthe man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, as do other similar programmesthough. Gareth Steel says that Two lovers were murdered in the book is not suitable for younger readers and - after reading - I agree with himswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He says that he's written it was the heir to inform an Italian shoe empire and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable she is married to an extremely rich man and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would be best choosing between reading and eatings not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=17876348841529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The HerdSecret Life of a Vet|author=Emily EdwardsSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Our story opens Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in December 2019his footsteps, before most particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come to be doing work experience with a family friend who was a major issuevet and was convinced this was the job for him. We're in Farley County CourtBefore long, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohlihe was at Liverpool University. As they were best friends until just It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a few months ago we know that whatever has happened is major and thatchild. If anything, regardless of the outcome, this is not going he'd wanted to work out well for anyonebe a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs0861541774|title=The Language A Nye of FoodPheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Eliza Acton is DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a poet who has never had the slightest inclination short holiday in Singapore to boil meet up with an eggold ally, Guy Trueman. When tasked with writing Maik was involved in a cookery book, she recruits Ann Kirby, street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a local woman man armed with a troubled home lifeknife - and he killed a Ghurka. Together Initially, they test, craft, refine and reshape he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the world of domestic cookery, reinventing man. Now he could be facing the recipe book death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and changing the face of cookery writing foreverwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1398502227

|author=Louie StowellAlexander McCall Smith|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki Perfect Passion Company is spending a month both dating agency in exile Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the physical form of business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a middle-school kid here on Earthwhile. He's guarded by Katie is coming out of a giant and break up with a god in disguise as his parentsbad boyfriend, and Thor has so jumps at the chance to come along as wellhome to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to be the more suavean Edinburgh we already love, more popular thanks to 44 Scotland Street and more successful brother of the twoIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Loki Katie has no experience in running a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againbusiness, or elsein match-making, and to prove it he but Ness has to write the text we read full confidence in a sentient notebookher abilities, that is able to cry foul of his liesand there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, and judge his progress. But Loki is the kind of god who insists he can do anythingWilliam, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be lend a walk in the park...right?hand…|isbn=14063997521846976596

|isbn=00084544420811771741|title=A Flicker in the DarkInstaKnits for Baby|author=Stacy WillinghamMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a medical psychologist, is completing a session with a new patientcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Lacey is suffering mentally but Chloe has hopes Some will be quick knits - others are of getting her through the trauma. You see'long, Chloe knows what itcosy afternoons in front of the fire's like to have a traumatic childhoodvariety. Her father is Richard Davis, The projects are divided by the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging time they'll take to the girls complete - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and she and her mother handed it to the policemore than twenty hours. Dick Davis is in All the Louisiana State Penitentiary projects are attractive, modern and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for the last twenty yearsuseable. Her mother is in a care homeI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Christopher EdgeDean Koontz|title=Escape RoomThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which Benny is having a character or characters start by being trapped in terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a specific locationreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and have it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to solve problems in order to get their way outdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – So fortunately for Benny it turns out that would require actual friends) the delivery to his house is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventurenew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, with the regular second who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person narrative replaced by the first. Here Spike is going to take care of Benny, Ami and four other tweenagerswill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, all new to each other and booked Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the gameBenny's main offices, where they're told wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=17880079641662500491

|isbnauthor=1732898731Adam Stower|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese Murray and Bun

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers |summary=There was Murray is supposed to be a Boy humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who loved boxesis able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. He had But he's a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: bad magician's cat, so his parents probably couldn't believe their luck! It began with art suppliesfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, stuffed toys and the like: all catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the things which most children have in abundanceregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. The BoyThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's delight was in the sense of order in his room: it made him feel happy. As he grew turned up and became a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt with this by getting bigger and better boxes. Look carefully at the pictures and you'll see that one of them has a padlock...have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B09MN1526WB0C47LV1PC|title=Blood Games (DS Nikki Parekh 4)Fragility|author=Liz MistryMosby Woods

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's the third murder in the space of a few weeks and they've all been because of machetes used on teenagers. DS Nikki Parekh and DC Sajid Malik are amongst joke? And if you could, is the first to arrive on the scene at Chellow Dene Reservoir on question should you make it? Or is the outskirts of Bradford. Only, this timequestion if you did, would it's going to land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be different. The body appears to Nikki to be that ... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of her beloved nephewPortland, HaqibOregon, and she has a very public meltdown. It isn't Haqib: there are similarities but cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the body is clad in designer clothes and comes from an obviously monied background. What it does mean though is that Nikki is going to be on sick leave for some time with anxiety and depression.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Ally Wilkes1529431735|title=All the White SpacesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=In post-WWI EnglandIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Jonathan Morgan stows away which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on an Arctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, this adventure represents Costa del Sol as a chance wanted drug smuggler for a fresh startdecade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and the opportunity hasn't long to live life as his authentic self and true gender, without the disapproval and constraints of his parents. However It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Jonathan isn't the only one fleeing the confines of stripped to his past underwear and sent to a watery grave in the shadow boot of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expeditionstolen Ford Sierra. Guilt, mistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a menacing presence waits to prey on their darkness. If Jonathan is to make it out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have problem closer to face his demons once and for all, or risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb.|isbn=1789097835home?

|author=Dean KoontzAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=QuicksilverThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. He's not had Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetwondrous library we start by visiting with him, for he's lived and in the evening a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundlinghelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, and now too – for there is starting a career on a needless magazinegeneration missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject parents were both lost to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind''the titular race, for something – call it unearthly intuition, call it minda globe-control, call it trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a supernatural urge – magical beast. This has demanded of him that he go made the race anathema to the pair – but when a derelict diner, find bad incident at the eatery leads to a gold coin worth a fortuneconfession from gran, cash the value of it out of Eli knows his bank and prepare for going on the lam. And all this only hope is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest he's of interest to them. Helped dare to escape, enter what he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controlmost hates, with the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind sole aim the prize of burgeoning power magic at the end – and a whole lot more besidesthe only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=15420198850571382231

|isbn=0008441618178763681X|title=Other ParentsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Sarah StovellOrlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as the new head of West Burntridge First School: if she Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't live up really want to her retired predecessor there could well be but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a house price slump in that part way of the town. The school had an active Parent Teacher Association getting both men and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit women to the schooldo what he wanted. There was one difficulty, though - they were Paul ''somehow'devastatingly shockable'got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, with two memberswho had a broken arm, in particular, causing but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for the headsomeone to turn up dead. Laura Spence Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and Kate Monroe objected everyone knows that the police consider that person to Jo's restrictions on be the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but that was just a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationprime suspect.

|author=Sarah Ann JuckesMarsh|title=The Hunt for the NightingaleA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Jasper is After a bout of scarlet fever as a little boy who has some struggleschild, and whilst we're never told why exactly, we can see that he has anxiety and panic attacks, and has difficulty dealing with change and big emotionsEllen Lark loses her hearing. His big sister, Rosie, has been a huge support to him, talking him down when things were difficult, encouraging him, and writing Suddenly plunged into a book with himworld of silence, all everything about birds, that he can read when he gets scared to help him calm downher life changes. His parents seem completely caught up Living in their businessa time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and so it Ellen is Rosie he always turns sent to. Even though a school where she has gone away is taught to University nowlip read, she has promised him that she will still be there when he needs herbut physically restrained from signing. But now he can't find Rosie. She hasn't come home when she said she would From here, and she isn't answering her phone. His parents won't speak to him or when they do, he doesn't understand or take ends up in what they're sayinganother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Nothing seems to be right At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and the only way he feels he can find any peace is if he can find Rosieideas, and if they can find the nightingale and listen to its song, as they do together every SpringEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=13985108901035401614

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)1803816759|title=Red is My HeartThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=3.54|genre=Literary Science Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black It's 2038 and white Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and read in my housepeaceful New York City. And so was this oneJoe 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, making life easier for many, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasand riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe isassigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, black and white a British superfan and red. Yestech nerd, he has an artistic collaborator is also on this piece, and I think the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was ithacked? And how is Suki's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183kidnapping connected?

|isbn=15291355671529421284|title=One Step Too FarLaying Out the Bones|author=Lisa GardnerKate Webb

|summary=It's five years since was one of those flash downpours that the stag weekendBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. Five of them had set out: Tim (In a gully, a human skeleton came to the groom) surface and his four groomsmen, Scotforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, Miguel (who was usually called Miggy), Neil and Joshhad disappeared nine years earlier. The first night they He'd been a known drug user and had plenty learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of alcohol - too much really - and in the night Scot managed to wander offmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The remaining four searched for him in vain and it Geary was decided that Tima townie, who so what was experienced in survival techniques, would go for help. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? When help didn't come There are connections to the remaining three finally made their way back suicide of Holly Gilbert and to towntwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Scott followed soon after but there was no sign Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of Tim. Every year, Timthe Major Crimes Review Unit (that's father, Martin, cold cases to you and the four friends have been back to continue the search although they do now acknowledge that they're looking for 'remains' rather than for Timme) investigate.

|authorisbn=Gunnar Staalesen0571379559|title=Bitter FlowersThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Varg Veum ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in rehab and is now returning to work. HoweverJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the quiet job he's supposedly taken house on caretaking someonethe riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's house quickly turns into a murder investigationstood the passage of time, storms and a mystery around a missing womanfloods. Varg finds himself not only investigating these Her husband, Richard, but also looking into an oldstruggles to grow his vegetables, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night to complete the delivery rounds - and was never foundto bring in sufficient money. Somehow They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the linkrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308Xthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Kia Ahankoob1529425867|title=The Gold Lion Lost and the Tournament of SentinelsNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powersIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, each with its own strength Balliol educated and weakenessalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, in the hope they would complement each other son of Ryan and collaboratefather of Ryan, creating a dynamic and prosperous societyis not. He's not any of those things. Each power is contained within He's white, originated from a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriadtrailer park, barely educated (reading's children not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and their descendantstrackies. But it didn They't quite work out like thatre usually in lime green or acid yellow. Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of them and the eight countries went You might wonder if you're being introduced to war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, a solution is proposedpolice procedural written for laughs. Each of the eight countries will send their greatest warriors Well, known as sentinels, to a single combat tournamentyou're not. The winner will take possession two men are just different sides of all the rings and become same policing coin. Sometimes the supreme ruler of Dunivacombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=B09MMQJFPV

|author=Alastair Chisholm and Eric DeschampsMosby Woods|title=Dragon Storm: Tomas and IronskinA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet TomasThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. Happy to work with his father Nobody in the blacksmith's forge, he's almost of the age West is quite sure how to become a full apprentice, and help with mend this or even if mending it is the new batch best course of dragonswords is certainly neededaction. Not that there Governments are any dragonsflailing. A war here, of course – they vanished centuries agoa push for climate action there. ExceptA feeling that nobody is in actual charge.Imagine then, there was a man with precognition.. Strange signals from within Imagine the forge furnace, and strategic advantage in this asset; a peculiar invite to become an apprentice clerk insteadman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, are things for Tom to puzzle over – until it all comes out right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in the washhistory. Imagine then, that yes dragons do still exist in this world, and that Tom is rare in the man loses this ability . What would governments do to summon them, share magical attributes, and ride with them...get it back?|isbn=1839940026B0C9SNG8R1