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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Natalia Garcia FreireGary 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=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe 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)

|summary= Early comments on this debut novel Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendoushis father, a delightdrunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. I will agree with So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the first – tremendous is no understatement – but Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=''a delightThere' is perhaps using the expression in s a way part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I'm not familiar withcan. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I have just want to confess my ignorance 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 Spanishfirst non-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herewitch 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. From When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the little I have read (in translationBriar Witch, I donthe town't read Spanish) there does seem s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to be communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a tendency towards maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the fantastical – the mystical realismBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat. |isbn=08615419011803364548

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1529900360|title= Rebel SkiesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant It 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. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the Midori, help of a psychologist only worked for a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquestswhile. However Finally, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like himit was Robin, Delaware's partner, someone with the power to form paper who nudged Milo into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empireasking for help again. He asks her to come with him, to leave She knew that the life of dreary servitude involvement was something that is all the man she has knownloved needed. Well The next case did look simple, soon Kurara won't have any say though. Two lovers were murdered in the matter, because swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is forced married to flee out into an extremely rich man and it's not the worldItalian. She joins Himura aboard But which of them was the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590primary target?

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1529395224|title=NeedleLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary=BraveSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Charlene 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'heroine' s 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 piece is extremely hard was the job for some people to likehim. Before long, characters and readers bothhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. Kicked out If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of multiple homes and schools, shePheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorclose friend and former colleague, AnnieDanny Maik, and has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up residence with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in her son Blake's old room while a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. Now hecould 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's t help Danny at uniall.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4. Such 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a tempestuous personality may be dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in need of providing a comfort blanket, you might perhaps thinkmore personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the creation of one such item is part of the plot herebusiness, as Charlene Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a wonder knitter, and while. Katie is making something full coming out of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence break up with a store detectivebad boyfriend, and then force people so jumps at the chance to come home to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantEdinburgh. And then... wellso begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, what exactly happens is not for me bringing us to sayan Edinburgh we already love, only thanks to remark how sharp 44 Scotland Street and pointy those knitting needles can be..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=18009010111846976596

|isbn=14059409800811771741|title=The BirdcageInstaKnits for Baby|author=Eve ChaseMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's the 7th ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the sea at Zennor 'long, cosy afternoons in Cornwallfront of the fire' variety. We donThe projects are divided by the time they't know whose body it is. Four days earlierll take to complete - less than five hours, Florafive to ten hours, Kat ten to twenty hours and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at more than twenty hours. All the request of their fatherprojects are attractive, Charlie Finch, a famous artistmodern and useable. The girls are actually I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'halfbut that''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closes 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. Finch was known for He loses his job, he loses his fecundityfiancee, if not for and his fidelityhouse gets trashed. ItOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's been a long time since possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agothing that has trashed his house! The thing is, at Benny is the time of 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 total eclipsedelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, something happenedwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Kat Spike is going to take care of Benny, and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a victim and itwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's left her very wary of her sisterswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1787634906Adam Stower|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=We're in Oldcastle Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and Malcolm friendly cat, one who is in troubleable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. He's in an abandoned house and But he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that shea bad magician's Allegra Dean-Edwards) 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 Hugowhiffs. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm This time round it drops them into a new coat Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplebe honest, apparently) but shehe'd put a tracking device in it so that she s turned up and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going ll have to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintB0C47LV1PC|title=ElektraFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|summary=Can you make a 'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the story of three women who live in question should you make it? Or is the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandraquestion if you did, Clytemnestra, and Elektra are all bit players in would it land? The catch is that the story of the Trojan Waranswer for both could well be.... no. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often  ''Fragility'' is set as the silent women have city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the most compelling stories and restrictions imposed during the most extreme furies.|isbn=1472273915covid pandemic

|isbn=15291498001529431735|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteThe Winter Visitor|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJames Henry

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling story. All the birds It's February 1991 and animals fled when Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable to think of anything they could domore surprising. The tiny hummingbird flew to He'd been exiled on the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fireCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The animals laughed: what good was return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that doingshe's ill and hasn't long to live. It''I'm doing the best I can''s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, said stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the hummingbirdboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1776574338Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Every morning LeilongEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the brontosaurus school bus, makes evening a helper at the dessert cafe his way through the city, picking up children as he goesgran owns and runs. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – they simply climb out of for there is a generation missing in the window and slide down his neckfamily. ItA few short years ago, Eli's perfectparents were both lost to the titular race, isn't it? What could be a more fun way globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of going to school? There is a problem, thoughmagical beast. Leilong isn't happy in This has made the city: he's always having race anathema to be careful about where he puts his feet and the pair – because he's longer than but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that enter what he can't be most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the bus anymoreonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=303091657X178763681X|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonOrlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureBelgravia. This might seem obvious He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a series way of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the collapse of school to assist Paul, who had a major company broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - have left interested parties asking what and the board was doingproblems - are all his own. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what The one thing he hadn't expected was happening or they preferred for someone to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityup dead. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniaUnfortunately, he was the South Sea Bubble person who discovered the body and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem 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. |isbn=B09X3NZ76WWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1529421284|title=WishedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When things contrive It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to force Ed the surface and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) forensic testing proved the body to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanbe Lee Geary, Miss Fileywho had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, for so it could have been a week simple case of half-termmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, theyso 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're not looking forward s cold cases to ityou and me) 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. For one thingTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand lives in the house on the riverbank, built of biscuitbroken bricks. They donInsubstantial as it might look, it't particularly take s stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to Willard eithergrow his vegetables, to complete the new kid next door, who seems delivery rounds - and to ebulliently take over everything bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and everywhereMax, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. But things soon change when People don't believe that they find some tiny old birthday candles're related, much less twins and manage to work there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that these candlesshe'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, for as long as their flames lastthere 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 of Ryan, make birthday wishes come trueis not. How will He's not any of those things change for . He's white, originated from a second time when they realise thattrailer park, having used up three barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of themshell 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, these should really be used for you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xcombination 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