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|isbn=17765740280241636604|title=Bumblebee GrumblebeeThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=David ElliottGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=I love If you were to bring up an image of a good board book! city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. ''Bumblebee Grumblebee'' A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is aimed at quite a niche market: it's for the child who still enjoys board books (erEast End, see my first sentence) but has mastered sufficient language skills to have realise that you can ''play'' where he was familiar with words violence, poverty and make something quite different from each oneinjustice. We have There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the elephant who dons a tutu London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and becomes he has a ''balletphant''facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. The buffalo who has had It was his ability at what was, essentially, a bath (complete with yellow duck) and then dries off card game which got him an internship with a hair drier becomes a ''fluffalo''Citibank. The rhinoceros who drops his ice cream cone is a ''crynoceros'' (think about it!) The pelican who sits on his potty changes Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a ''smtrader.......'' OK, let's not go there Some people are eating!

|isbn=B09V1NQ5SX1035021803|title=Death at FriarThe Antique Hunter's InnGuide to Murder|author=Rob KeeleyC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Nat Webber and Tom Barton were in the finals of the Moots to take place at The Honourable Society of FriarIt's Inntwenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. For aspiring barristers, moots test the participantsShe' knowledge s back now because of several areas of law as well as their advocacy skills: it's a great way of getting invaluable practice and of getting yourself noticedrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Tom Freya's former mentor and Nat are from 'a provincial universityCarole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and they're ''almost'' looked the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down on because of thisbadly. The other contestants - Becca Decker-Hamilton and Lucia 'Mouse' Dawes have no such disadvantage and Becca Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has an abundance of confidencenot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Tom's £30 supermarket suit doesn't make him feel any betterAfter the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1529125944AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=City of the DeadAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Jonathan KellermanBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=When you drive large vehicles for a living, you're careful and it's not just Opening up new ways of thinking about the way shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you drive're eighteen. You restrict your alcohol intake and if itWell, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's a trip advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that needs overnight stays you make certain you get your sleep. When youit're taking a removals truck through a residential neighbourhood you head off at 5 as all getting away from me.mSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. when Of course, I could research the roads are quieter, even if you have to wait possibilities and the probabilities and end up when you get to where youdown rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're going. And it was going well until talking about or the men hit something in Westwood Village, an upmarket neighbourhood of Los Angeleslatest conspiracy theorist. The man was stark naked I needed people I knew I could trust and couldn't be identifiedwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Bjorn Natthiko Lindeblad, Caroline Bankeler, Navid Modiiri and Agnes Bromme (Translator)Sunny Singh|title=I May Be WrongHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre= AutobiographyThrillers |summary= When The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the Dalai Lama adds his words to your frontispieceterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, I'm inclined to think it doesn't really matter how the rest of the world responds to your bookhotel manager. I know, having read As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the book residents who are still alive in questionthe hotel, that Lindeblad would disagree he forms a bond with that thoughtSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. He knows (and at core so do I) that it matters very much how the rest of Although they only ever talk over the world responds to this bookphone, because it tells the truth their friendship grows as it is, in Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the early 21st centuryterrorists.|isbn=1526644827086154742X

|isbn=B0949Q1DC11529153298|title=The Patient (A DS Cross thriller)List of Suspicious Things|author=Tim SullivanJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DS George Cross has an autistic spectrum disorder, quite probably AspergerIt's Syndrome1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He can be rude(A woman? I mean, difficult and awkward with people, although ithonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's never intentionalfamily, though. ItWomen have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared's just that he thinks differently and social niceties simply dondoesn't occur to himsound quite so frightening. ThereMiv's a reason why heupset because she's in Bristoloverheard that her father wants to move the family 's Major Crime Unit and itDown South'. When you's that he has re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best conviction rate with casesfriend, Sharon, everand she'll do anything to prevent that. His partner is DS Josie Ottey: she regards Cross with affection (She's not an emotion he would recognise, worried about the dangers or welcome being attached to himself) and even attempts to instil some of those missing social niceties into Crossthat her Mum's behaviourstopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15291516001398524085|title=Give Unto OthersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Donna LeonNicci French

|summary=Commissario Guido Brunetti senses that Venice has changedCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The ''pandemia'' stripped the city of its tourists for nearly two years Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and a lot of businesses have closedher daughter, most never to reopenEtty. There's now a cascade of money as life begins again are all worried but even 125- strangely - her husband,000 deaths have Alec, is not put an end to greed. The Mafias have liquidity problems: how on earth are they going to launder all Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the money which is coming their way? Whilst hebody of Greg's thinking about thisfather, Duncan Ackerley, Brunetti encounters someone in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn's seen only occasionally since they were neighbours when he was a childt stand the guilt. Elisabetta Foscarini has a problem and she'd like BrunettiThe Salter children are not convinced but there's advicelittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1035906708|title=WrathDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full We tend to think of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just overMaria Callas as Greek, and he should be free but she was born to do what he wantsGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to go where he wants and with whom he wants, Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in her father changed it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie When she was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying back in Athens - supposedly so that she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of get appropriate training for her ecovoice -warrior parents saying the end of she was raised under the world is already Nazi occupation by a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Wellher preference for her elder sister, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't..Jackie.|isbn=1800900899

|isbnauthor=1635864070Christopher Edge|title=Knit 2 Socks in 1|author=Safiyyah TalleyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=If you've ever started knitting Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a pair place that has the nickname of socks'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, finished the first one and either got bored by the idea they're looking forward to lots of doing the same thing all over againexciting films, or started on the second sock and lost many, many snacks! However, as the first before you finished itmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the book for you. Where next, can they figure out what on earth is it that single socks go to hidegoing on? Safiyyah Talley has developed a system that allows you Will they ever get back to knit two socks in onethe cinema, divide them up and have a perfectly finished pair of socks. Sounds goodto their real lives? It's clever and well-thought-out.|isbn=1839942738

|author=Olivie BlakeRachel Greenlaw|title=The Atlas SixCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Dark''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, sharplike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and highly inquisitiveany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira'The Atlas Six'' s father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes its publishing debut after becoming a Tik-Tok sensationbargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and 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 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.|isbn=15290952390008664730

|isbnauthor=0008384983James Sherwood Metts|title=The Paris Apartment|author=Lucy FoleyPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''Things are not what have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they seem''re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. It was a Friday Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and Jess Hadley was keen starting to get think of other, new ways to her half-brother's flat in Paris. She'd come across from London on Eurostarspend time, courtesy of the money she'd stolen from The Pervert's till in the Copacabana Bar in Brightonalong came an awful pandemic. It wasn't likely that the police would be on to her yet but she'd like to be somewhere safe Life was pretty much shut down and , along with food and drink inside her. She'd phoned Ben and got it, all the address - 12 Rue des Amants - and he told her that the apartment was many daily social interactions on the third floor. She's outside what's obviously a very upmarket building but she hasn't been able to get in touch with Benwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0760373558Matthew Tree|title=Nordic Knits|author=Sue FlandersWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I was so delighted by Sue Flanders' [[Cozy Knits: 30 HatTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, Mitten, Scarf a drunk and Sock Projects from Around the World by Sue Flanders|Cozy Knits]] that I didn't need chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any persuading at of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to pick up her ''Nordic Knits''. This delivers forty-four patterns inspired by textiles and local traditions from Norwayhis studies, Sweden cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Iceland. There are a few sweaters or jackets set himself high but the majority of patterns are for smaller items such as mittens, gloves, hats and bags. All are bright and cheerful and very cosyachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1916072038A G Slatter|title=The House in Briar Book of the Hollow (The Talbot Saga)|author=Allie CresswellDead|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=We meet '' There's a part of the Talbot family in Yorkshire in November 1811me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. Twenty-seven-year-old Jocelyn Talbot and her mother have travelled in some discomfort from their home This secret magic of my own, all mine, at Ecklington, last. I just want to the house in the hollowenjoy it for a while. The two women are angry with each other and Jocelyn is well aware of her mother's strengths and weaknesses:'

''She is practiced at subterfugeWithin a remote mountain pass, at concealingfar away from the world, beneath lies Silverton; a facade town under the protection of respectabilitythe Briar's, a family of witches who protect the deplorable truth''town and the wider world from the Darklands. Hester Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is furious about Jocelyn's refusal the first non-witch to do be born into her family for generations and as such since she was askedyoung, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, which has precipitated Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town'this violent s leader, and unexpected removal''Ellie takes her place beside her. Then we are told of As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the birth heart of a child maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust anddetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, soon aftereverything they have sacrificed to survive, Hester Talbot departs, leaving Jocelyn in shame and isolation in Yorkshireis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Matthieu Aikins1529900360|title=The Naked Don't Fear the Water|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It'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 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}}{{FrontpageGhost Orchid|author=Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger|title=Unhinged (Volume 3) (Blix and Ramm)Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=This is the third book in a series of stories featuring Alexander Blix, a police officer, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Emma Rammeven after Alex recovered, a crime journalistSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. In this book we find His assertions that when one there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of Blix's colleagues, Kovic, uncovers a connection between several Oslo cases, she tries to contact her superior, Blixpsychologist only worked for a while. Before she can reach himFinally, howeverit was Robin, she is murdered, and BlixDelaware's daughter Iselin partner, who shares nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the same apartmentman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, narrowly escapes being though. Two lovers were murdered tooin the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. We then find ourselves a few days later with Blix and Ramm, who are being interviewed by He was the National Criminal Investigation Service because Blix has shot heir to an Italian shoe empire and killed someone, she is married to an extremely rich man and Ramm saw it all happen's not the Italian. What had Kovic discovered? And what did Blix and Ramm uncover that led to Blix killing someoneBut which of them was the primary target?|isbn=1914585003

|authorisbn=Daniel Abraham1529395224|title=Age Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of Asha Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyAnimals and Wildlife|summary= We meet Alys under the most northerly of Oldgate's four bridges, Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. she has His father was a knife GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in her hand and a meeting his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that she dreadsbeing on-call put on his father's life. Meanwhile, When he was seventeen he took the City opportunity of Kithamar is at doing work experience with a family friend who was a point in vet and was convinced this was the turning of years when the worlds are job for him. Before long, he was at their thinnest and all things are possibleLiverpool University. It is the night between the funeral of hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a Prince and the coronation of his successorchild. For If anything, he'd wanted to be a night the Kithamar is un-ruledprofessional footballer.|isbn=0356515427

|isbn=15290955220861541774|title=The InterviewA Nye of Pheasants|author=C M EwanSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Kate Harding is going for an interview for her dream job at Edge Communications. ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's the last interview of the day at one of London's newest office buildings close friend and Edge have fitted out their part of the building to be something special. Maggieformer colleague, Kate's recruitment agentDanny Maik, is keen has taken a short holiday in Singapore to see that Kate approaches the interview meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a good state of mind: Kate assumes street brawl - he would later maintain that this is because Maggie will get he was facing a decent bonus if Kate gets the job man armed with a knife - and she has he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to admit light that life has not been easy for her recentlysuggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=B097XNMCRKAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Blood Tide (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Loch Torridon ''is'' the back of beyond: there's not even any light pollution which The Perfect Passion Company is why it was the perfect place to land illegal deliveries of drugs. Jimmy McLeish thought that he was onto a nice little earnerdating agency in Edinburgh, only run by Ness and operating as an alternative to find that Maccaall 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 man he thought he was working withbusiness, as Ness is deadplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. His remains would never be found. The delivery Katie is hijacked by Davie coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and Callumso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. As the And so begins this new story progresses from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh wealready 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'll get s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to know them quite well.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn= B09NDJ77LM0811771741|title=Me and My ShadowInstaKnits for Baby|author=Deborah StoneMelissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'What happens when someone is pushed too far and they begin to lose their grip on reality? How would you cope if you felt that no one loved you? And how far would you go ' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be happy? Accompany Rachel as she tries to shake off quick knits - others are of the shadows 'long, cosy afternoons in front of her past and attempts to repair decades worth of painthe fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'' Rachel is in a current conversation with her psychiatristll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, who pushes her ten to recall her life from very young childhood onwardstwenty hours and more than twenty hours. But Rachel is combative with Doctor Blake All the projects are attractive, sometimes even contemptuous of hermodern and useable. You can see I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that it's not an easy therapeutic relationship. 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 clarityme being picky.

|isbnauthor=1529409659Dean Koontz|title=The Locked Room (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It was some time since her father had remarried but Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his wife was now keen house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to do some decorating his home, and Dr Ruth Galloway volunteered to clear out her motherit's belongings. She possible that whoever or whatever was intrigued by inside is the discovery of a picture of her own thing that has trashed his house: it was an old photograph! The thing is, taken in misty conditions and on Benny is the back it said 'dawn 1963', some years before Ruth was bornvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. It was before her parents were marriedA really nice person. When she returned So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to Norfolk she was determined his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to find out what was behind the photograph but Covid intervened and the country was in lockdownhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Ruth and Kate are restricted Spike is going to the cottage with Ruth attempting to home school Kate take care of Benny, and continue with her university teaching duties. The good thing was meeting Zoewill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, the new tenant from next door whom and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they got to know whilst clapping for carersare.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1847941834Adam Stower|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearMurray and Bun

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers |summary=IMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician've said this before but there are some books that you seek s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, some books that you stumble across not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and some books that drop whiffs. This time round it drops them into your life because you really MUST read thema Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, liketo be honest, right now! but he's turned up and he'Atomic Habits'' is in the last category.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B09MSC981WB0C47LV1PC|title=The Woke IliadFragility|author=George BoreasMosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Helen Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is a popular activist. Or the question should we call her a popular influenceryou make it? Or perhaps a popular franchise owneris the question if you did, would it land? Anyway, Helen The catch is so popular that the United States government has made her its Ambassador of Wokeanswer for both could well be.... no. Helen runs all sorts  ''Fragility'' is set as the city of initiatives on behalf of the governmentPortland, Oregon, including cautiously begins to emerge from the Shaming Conference and restrictions imposed during the Permissible Entertainment Committee - ''for indoctrinating and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how to have it''. Ouch!covid pandemic

|isbn=B09D95TRKZ1529431735|title=The Wedding MurdersWinter Visitor|author=Sarah LinleyJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Libby Steele was hoping to get a permanent job with the newspaper It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the case she was covering was her big chancemore surprising. It was even more important to her than He'd been exiled on the celebrity wedding she was to attend the following day with her Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-rock star boyfriendwife, Matthewsaying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. She was leaving her seven-year-old son, Patrick with her sister, EmmaIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and heading off sent to a grand manor house hotel watery grave in the North Yorkshire countrysideboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Daniel Acroyd, television presenter and former member of 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 on photos Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or phones.a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1838226834Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Carried Away With the Carnival|author=Ed BoxallThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=It was one of those memories Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we treasure from our childhoods: an outing start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with our grandparentshis lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. They A few short years ago, Eli're there s parents were both lost to undo the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the good that parents do, so world in the trips out were always so much funcompany of a magical beast. A young boy was going This has made the race anathema to the carnival with pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his Grandadonly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, who told him: ''It'll be brilliant, just remember, don't let go with the sole aim the prize of my handmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.''|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1529135362178763681X|title=The Long Weekend|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It was a long drive to the weekend retreat in Northumbria, right up near the Scottish borders and to make it worse the three husbands had all - Knife Skills for one reason or another - had to delay making the trip until the Saturday morning. Jane and Ruth had known each other for a long time but Emily was a bit of an outsider. She and Paul had married only relatively recently and she was ten years younger than the other two women. The friendship of the group went back to school days. Paul had coached rugby at the school where Mark, Toby and Rob were pupils. Mark had married Jane, and Toby is Ruth's husband. And Rob? Well, Rob's dead.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=gareth_steel|title=Never Work With AnimalsBeginners|author=Gareth SteelOrlando Murrin

|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I donChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't often begin my reviews with really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems way of getting both men and women to be appropriatedo what he wanted. Stories of a vet Paul 's life have proved popular since 'somehow'All Creatures Great and Small'got the impression that he' d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not the companion volume you've been looking for. As a TV show the author would argue t turn out that ''All Creatures'' lacked realism, as do other similar programmesway. Gareth Steel says that The teaching - and the book is not suitable for younger readers and problems - after reading - I agree with himare all his own. He says that The one thing hehadn's written it t expected was for someone to inform and provoke thoughtturn up dead. Unfortunately, particularly amongst aspiring vets. It deals with some uncomfortable he was the person who discovered the body and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although there are occasions when you would everyone knows that the police consider that person to be best choosing between reading and eatingthe prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1787634884Sarah Marsh|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=Our story opens in December 2019After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, before most Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of us had even heard silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to be a major issueschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. We're From here, she ends up in Farley County Court, where Elizabeth another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony and Ash Kohliusing a system called Visible Speech. As they were best friends until just a few months ago we know that whatever has happened At the same time, Bell is major working on other inventions and thatideas, regardless and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the outcome, this is not going to work out well for anyoneespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Annabel Abbs1803816759|title=The Language of FoodUnravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=54|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton It's 2038 and Joe is a poet who has never had bored cop policing the slightest inclination wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to boil an eggget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. When tasked But then something goes horribly wrong with writing a cookery bookthe AI system that now runs everything, she recruits Ann Kirbymaking life easier for many, a local woman with a troubled home lifeand riots start to spread. TogetherFinally, they test, craft, refine Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and reshape Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the world of domestic cookeryonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, reinventing the recipe book a British superfan and changing tech nerd, is also on the face of cookery writing forevercase.|isbn=1398502227What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1529421284|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet LokiIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. The trickster god has got into trouble again In a gully, so a human skeleton came to 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 surface and in forensic testing proved the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earthbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's guarded by d been a giant known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother simple case of the twomisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Loki has Geary was a month to redeem his reputationtownie, and get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it so what was he has doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul suicide of his lies, Holly Gilbert and judge his progressto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. But Loki is Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to be a walk in the parkyou and me) investigate...right?|isbn=1406399752

|isbn=00084544420571379559|title=A Flicker in the DarkThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Stacy WillinghamFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=It's May 2019 and Dr Chloe Davis, a medical psychologist, 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is completing a session with a new patientthe story of four people. Lacey is suffering mentally Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but Chloe has hopes instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of getting her through the traumabroken bricks. You seeInsubstantial as it might look, Chloe knows what it's like to have a traumatic childhoodstood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her father is husband, Richard Davis, the man who murdered six girls some twenty years ago. Their bodies have never been found but Chloe found some jewellery belonging struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the girls delivery rounds - trophies taken from their bodies - tucked away in a cupboard at home and she and her mother handed it to the policebring in sufficient money. Dick Davis is in the Louisiana State Penitentiary They have twin boys - Sonny and Chloie has had nothing to do with him for Max, the last twenty yearsrainbow twins. Her 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 there's an assumption when Max is in a care homeout with his mother that she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1529425867|title=Escape RoomLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I've seen junior variants Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationNigerian descent, Balliol educated and have to solve problems in order to get their way outalways exquisitely dressed. What D I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventureRyan Wilkins, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami son of Ryan and four other tweenagersfather of Ryan, all new to each other and booked into the game without is not. He's not any of their friendsthose things. He's white, are originated from a team – starting out at the gametrailer park, barely educated (reading's main officesnot ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, where theyyou're told they and their quest for not. The Answer two men are a world-changerjust different sides of the same policing coin. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite Sometimes the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1732898731Mosby Woods|title=The Boy Who Loved Boxes: A Children's Book for Adults|author=Michael Albanese Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=There was a Boy who loved boxes. He had a box for everything and he was meticulous about storage: his parents probably couldnThe West isn't believe their luck! It began with art supplies, stuffed toys and the like: all the things which most children have in abundancedominant force it once was. The Boy's delight was Nobody in the sense West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of order action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in his room: it made him feel happyactual charge. As he grew up and became Imagine then, there was a Man, his life became more complicated and he dealt man with this by getting bigger and better boxesprecognition. Look carefully at Imagine the pictures and strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you'll see that one what will happen given any set of them has a padlockcircumstances.That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1