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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his 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 London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and 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 badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm 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. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=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 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 the residents who are still 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 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.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer SaintChristopher Edge|title=ElektraBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of three women being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who live in the heavily male-dominated world had endless crises of Ancient Greeceself confidence. Cassandra, ClytemnestraSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories and the most extreme furiesset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1472273915B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529149800A G Slatter|title=Things You Can Do: How The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to Fight Climate Change trust and Reduce Wastedetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's 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. All the birds His assertions that there were only open-and animals fled when -shut cases which didn't need the forest fire took hold and most help of them stood and watcheda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, unable to think of anything they could dowho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The tiny hummingbird flew to next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the river and began taking tiny amounts swimming pool of water a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and flying back she is married to drop them into an extremely rich man and it's not the fireItalian. The animals laughed: what good But which of them was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the hummingbirdBag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. And thatHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, really, is particularly when he considered the only way strain that we will solve being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the problem of climate change – by each opportunity of us doing what we canwork experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, however small that might he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to bea professional footballer.

|isbn=17765743380861541774|title=Leilong's Too Long!A Nye of Pheasants|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnSteve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donDCI Domenic Jejeune't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window s close friend and slide down his neck. It's perfectformer colleague, Danny Maik, isn't it? What could be has taken a more fun way of going short holiday in Singapore to school? There is a problemmeet up with an old ally, thoughGuy Trueman. Leilong isn't happy Maik was involved in the city: a street brawl - he's always having to be careful about where would later maintain that he puts his feet was facing a man armed with a knife - and – because he's longer than killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a tennis court – charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he often causes damage without intending might have planned to and traffic regularly gets snarled upmurder the man. The school decides that Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune cando nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't be the bus anymorehelp Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=303091657XAlexander McCall Smith|title=Disaster The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in 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 Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understandbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary=Boards must act Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the best interests of their stakeholders time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and ensure that they more than twenty hours. All the projects are wellattractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-managed worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and financially securehis house gets trashed. This might seem obvious but Oh, and someone has delivered a series of disasters really weird, disturbing coffin- some of which have resulted in death sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the collapse of thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingnice person. Where were they? A really nice person. Occasionally So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the boards were unaware delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of what was happening or Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they preferred are.|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to turn be a blind eyehumble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalitywell, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. The 21st century But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniathe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the South Sea Bubble regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and even tulip maniawhiffs. Over three centuries we seem This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have learned very little.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1529337968B0C47LV1PC|title=In Place of FearFragility|author=Catriona McPhersonMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's July 1948 and Helen Crowther ' joke? And if you could, is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on question should you make it? Or is the day question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the NHS is born. She'll be working answer for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will both could well be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part ... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of the job will be Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to persuade people that emerge from the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of restrictions imposed during the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529431735|title=GalaxyThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, who is an elite pilot with which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Space Academy, barely makes it through Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a battle alivedecade. His co The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma wife, saying that lasted years, he remembers little she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is in no physical shape abducted, stripped to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat underwear and he must. Returned by his superiors sent to a watery grave in the space station, he finds himself amid boot of a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against stolen Ford Sierra. Is it, but also a warning from its own sins against itself. |isbn=B09X3NZ76Wa Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Lissa EvansAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=WishedThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=When things contrive to force Ed Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with in the neighbourhood spinsterish old woman, Miss Filey, for evening a week of half-term, they're not looking forward to ithelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. For one thingEli lives with his lovely gran, she thinks Wi-Fi too – for there is a special brand of biscuitgeneration missing in the family. They donA few short years ago, Eli't particularly take s parents were both lost to Willard either, the new kid next doortitular race, who seems a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to ebulliently take over everything and everywherenavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. But things soon change This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage a bad incident at the eatery leads to work out that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise thatconfession from gran, having used up three of themEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, these should really be used for with the sole aim the wishes prize of someone two generations older than them?magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=178845202X0571382231

|authorisbn=Justyn Edwards178763681X|title=The Great Fox IllusionKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a contest with residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a differenceway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. No singing, no dancing Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workhad a broken arm, and who can attempt to win but it didn't turn out that way. The Great Fox's magical legacy teaching - and the secrets to problems - are all of his tricks! Flick is determined to win, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She is interested in just '' The onething he hadn'' trickt expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the trick body and everyone knows that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find the police consider that trick then she will person to be able to bring her missing father homethe prime suspect.|isbn=1529501946

|author=Jason RohanSarah Marsh|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedSign of Her Own

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Arun and Sam have had little to After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do with Donna, Ellen is sent to a girl at their schoolwhere she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. But things immediately change at From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the start of this extended sprint of deaf and using a novelsystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, when she insists Arunand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It's house has become 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the attention wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of plain-clothes coppers adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that they should bunk off school now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to find out whydo some real policing. And thus an unlikely trio In the aftermath of misfit young heroes the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is formed – Sam also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is really not DonnaSuki's idea kidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of companythose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he is doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the computer buff, Donna seems suicide of Holly Gilbert and to know all two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the criminal ins time. Lockyer and outs DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and survival skillsme) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, and Arun? Wellshe lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his lot vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to find out that all he based bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his family life on isnfather. People don't truebelieve that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father – kidnapped that very morning – of Ryan, is involved not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in something quite unexpectedlime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. But Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how can to mend this disparate trio hope to or even if mending it is the best MI6course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, kidnappersa push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, people ablthat this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1}}