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|isbn=07112662040241636604|title=The Secret Life 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 Birdsher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Moira Butterfield Benjamin Greenaway and Vivian Mineker Stephen Oram (illustratorEditors)

|genre=Children's Non-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 recently discovered been more than a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers few decades of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without technology in my noticinglifetime. I've established which species feed 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 ground, which pop to probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the feeders for a quick snatch of some food latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who settles could deliver information in for a good munch but way I wish I was more knowledgeablecould 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. It would have been wonderful ifHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, as a childwartime photographer and Abhi, I'd had access the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a book such as ''The Secret Life bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of Birds'her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. So – what is it?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

|isbn=17370309421529153298|title=Bag O'GoodiesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jolly Walker BittickJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre= AnthologiesGeneral Fiction|summary=SometimesIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittickhonestly...) 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'Bag Os upset because she'Goodiess overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. I first encountered his writing about When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a year agofrightening, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]foreign place, a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for their partyingbest avoided. Right nowFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, I didnand she't want a full-length novel, so I turned ll do anything to this anthology of verse and short storiesprevent that. BittickShe's writing has matured not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - and so have his charactersto anyone. Well... most of them!

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1398524085|title=SeedHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary=Marty Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has two parental figures in his lifethe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, and they both might be thought 're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotmentthe movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and manages they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to stink the entire town next, can they figure out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure cinema, and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and hasnBlade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''t left I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the building answering beat in years she has still managed my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to fill it survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the brim with junk. What Martyisland's classmates donleader and Mira't know about this they can draw lines s father. Desperate to save him from how poor Marty always looksdeath, Mira makes a bargain with his one school uniform built from lost property. We see him a wreck survivor who is as charming as once again 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 council threaten sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her and him with evictionfather, and as he celebrates his birthday with 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 gift from his grandfather future of a solitary plant seedher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=15290776640008664730

|author=Sophie CameronJames Sherwood Metts|title=Our Sister, AgainPlanet Storyland

|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle to find Things have been a way forwardbit sticky for the Earthlings. In particularAI and automation have been proceeding apace, Islaoften replacing jobs they's mum who can’t seem re paid to be able do and other tasks that took time to let her daughter goaccomplish. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks Just as they might be able were beginning to get used to help. But actuallyall this technological change and starting to think of other, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer the family the chance new ways to have Flora back againspend time, in robot formalong came an awful pandemic. But this won't just be a look-a-like. They use all of Flora's online historyLife was pretty much shut down and, and interviews along with family and friendsit, and through this data all the many daily social interactions on which they will recreate Flora as closely as possibledepend so heavily. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=17889539161736128426

|isbnauthor=1398507504Matthew Tree|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father committed suicide , a drunk 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. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and for set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the last sixteen years heDead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's been searching a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for evidence however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to prove that heenjoy it for a while.''s right. When  Within a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirremote mountain pass, far away from the world, there was lies Silverton; a link back to town under the protection of the Briar's, a cold case family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from 2002the Darklands. There didn't immediately seem Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerborn 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 death but Adam Tyler senses a link to cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all theretown's a growing sense that leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going rare ability to be brought out into communicate with the dead, putting her at the openheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Perhaps Tyler is going Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to get do as the answers he needs?Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=07278505471529900360|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Ghost Orchid|author=David MarkJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even had time after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for breakfast when the call came throughhis help on difficult cases. A body had been found in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the roots help of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullpsychologist only worked for a while. When he gets to the sceneFinally, it was Robin, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manDelaware's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It would seem She knew that this the involvement was done whilst something that the man was still aliveshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. McAvoy makes Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceremote property in Bel Air. But justice always comes at a cost He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and this time the cost might be she is married to McAvoyan extremely rich man and it's own familynot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1529395224|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delightSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but ' His father was a delightGP and Rowlands didn' is perhaps using t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the expression in a way Istrain that being on-call put on his father'm not familiar s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience witha family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I have to confess my ignorance of the SpanishIt hadn't -language literary tradition as with so forgive my generalisation heremany students - been his dream since he was a child. From the little I have read (in translationIf anything, I donhe't read Spanish) there does seem d wanted to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismprofessional footballer. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0861541774|title= Rebel SkiesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, taken a massive dining hall floating short holiday in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come Singapore to drink and make merry between their conquestsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. However, when Maik was involved in a man named Himura arrives to tell her street brawl - he would later maintain that she is he was facing a Crafter like him, someone man armed with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empireknife - and he killed a Ghurka. He asks her to come with him Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to leave the life of dreary servitude light that suggested that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't he might have any say in planned to murder the matter, because man. Now he could be facing the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a shikigami, diplomatic incident and she is forced to flee out into the worldwouldn't help Danny at all. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590

|author=Patrice LawrenceAlexander McCall Smith|title=NeedleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=BraveThe 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. Charlene Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, the 'heroine' of this piece as Ness is extremely hard planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for some people to like, characters and readers botha while. Kicked Katie is coming out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering a break up with a pleasant yoga tutor, Anniebad boyfriend, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's so jumps at unithe chance to come home to Edinburgh. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, you might perhaps thinkbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the creation of one such item is part of the plot hereIsabel Dalhousie novels, as Charlene is but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a wonder knitterbusiness, and is or in match-making something , but Ness has full of love for confidence in her younger sister – a younger sister sheabilities, and there's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove always her belligerence with a store detective, very helpful (and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... wellrather handsome) neighbour, what exactly happens is not for me to sayWilliam, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...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=SparkIt's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, who and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is an elite pilot with assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the Space Academyonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, barely makes a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it through hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|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 battle alivehuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. His co-pilot was not He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so fortunateit could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Waking from Geary was a coma that lasted yearstownie, so what was he remembers little 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.}}{{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 no physical shape to resume his dutiesJamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. But Earth is under threat Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and he mustfloods. Returned by Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his superiors vegetables, to complete the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt delivery rounds - and to save humanity bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and not just from Max, the alien threats against itrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, but also from its own sins against itselfmuch less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1529425867|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 re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to Willard eithera police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywheresame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage 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 to work out that these candlesmend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for as long as their flames lastclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, make birthday wishes come truethere was a man with precognition. How Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three happen given any set of themcircumstances. That man would be valuable, these should really be used for right? Perhaps the wishes of someone two generations older than themmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=178845202XB0C9SNG8R1