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|isbn=17876349060241636604|title=No Less the DevilThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Stuart MacBrideGary Stevenson

|summary=WeIt'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're in Oldcastle s former mentor and Malcolm 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 troublebusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. HeAfter 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 in an abandoned house Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and heStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''s being threatened by two young peopleOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. One is Alegra (we'll soon learn ' I've heard it said that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugotechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. It seems Well, I must confess that Allegra bought Malcolm there have been more than a new coat few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) me but sheI'm left with the feeling that it'd put a tracking device in s all getting away from me. Some of it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingis - frankly - quite frightening. It wonOf 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't be long before re talking about or the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsI knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Jennifer SaintSunny Singh|title=ElektraHotel 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=Christopher Edge|title=Black 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. The tiny hummingbird flew to She knew that the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into involvement was something that the fireman she loved needed. The animals laughed: what good was that doingnext case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. ''I'm doing He was the best I canheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it'', said s not the hummingbirdItalian. And that, really, is But which of them was the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.primary target?

|isbn=17765743381529395224|title=LeilongLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's Too Long!life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, 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 be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnSteve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning LeilongDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, the brontosaurus school busDanny Maik, makes his way through the cityhas taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, picking up children as Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he goeskilled a Ghurka. Children who live at the top Initially, he faced a charge of tower blocks don't even need manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to go downstairs – they simply climb out of murder the man. Now he could be facing the window and slide down his neckdeath penalty. ItDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's perfectt help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, isn't it? tailored service. What Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could be come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a more fun way of going trip to Canada to school? get away for a while. There Katie is coming out of a break up with a problembad boyfriend, thoughand so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Leilong isn't happy 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 the city: heher abilities, and there's always having her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than lend a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymore.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=303091657X0811771741|title=Disaster InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=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 Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understandfire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonDean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceParanormal|summary=Boards must act in Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and 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 deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the best interests 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 their stakeholders Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and ensure that Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are .|isbn=1662500491}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Stower|title=Murray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well-managed , whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician'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, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and financially securewhiffs. This might seem obvious 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 to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a series ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of disasters Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the 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- some of which have resulted wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in death or the collapse boot of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingstolen Ford Sierra. Where were theyIs it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home? }}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Occasionally Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the boards family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were unaware of what was happening or they preferred both lost to turn the titular race, a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse globe- ignorance or criminalitytrotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. The 21st century This has delivered some major company scandals made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178763681X|title=Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and Randall S Peterson give us women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniabroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the South Sea Bubble and even tulip maniaproblems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Over three centuries we seem Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to have learned very littlebe the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1529337968Sarah Marsh|title=In Place A Sign of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonHer Own|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work After a bout of scarlet fever as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is bornchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthlife changes. The hardest part Living in a time when the use of the job will be sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to persuade people that the services a school where she offers really are free and that they don't have is taught to do anything to qualify for themlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Some of From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has deaf and using a problem of her own which might give her some insightsystem called Visible Speech. Her marriage has never been consummatedAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1803816759|title=GalaxyThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|summary=Spark, who It's 2038 and Joe is an elite pilot with a bored cop policing the Space Academy, barely makes it through wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a battle alivebit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that lasted yearsnow runs everything, making life easier for many, he remembers little and is in no physical shape riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to resume his dutiesdo some real policing. But Earth In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is under threat kidnapped and he mustJoe is assigned to bring her home. Returned by his superiors to Joe isn't the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt only one trying to save humanity Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and not just from the alien threats against ittech nerd, but is also from its own sins against itselfon the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09X3NZ76W1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was one of those 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 doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Lissa EvansFiona 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, she 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 vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to 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 father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=WishedLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When things contrive to force Ed In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, Miss Filey, for a week son of Ryan and father of half-termRyan, theyis not. He're s not looking forward to itany of those things. For one thingHe's white, she thinks Wi-Fi is originated from a special brand trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of biscuitshell suits and trackies. They don't particularly take to Willard either, the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywherere usually in lime green or acid yellow. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage You might wonder if you're being introduced to work out that these candles, a police procedural written for as long as their flames lastlaughs. Well, make birthday wishes come trueyou're not. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three The two men are just different sides of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xsame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Justyn EdwardsMosby Woods|title=The Great Fox IllusionA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest with a differenceWest isn't the dominant force it once was. No singing, no dancing, this show Nobody in the West is looking for magical children! Children who can understand quite sure how magic tricks work, and who can attempt to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - mend this or even if mending it is the secrets to all best course of his tricks! Flick is determined to winaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, but not because she wants to own the tricksa push for climate action there. She A feeling that nobody is interested in just ''one'' trickactual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can find that trick then she tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be able valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to bring her missing father home.get it back?|isbn=1529501946B0C9SNG8R1