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|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0241636604|title=Emergency|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage Trading Game: A Confession|author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss Gary Stevenson|rating=4 .5|genre=Literary Fiction Autobiography|summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death If you were to bring up an image of her sistera city banker in your mind, she awakes you're unlikely to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size pin-stripe suit and volume. Her GPhis background is the East End, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her griefwhere he was familiar with violence, recommends she go poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Walesthe London School of Economics. Yet something strange Stevenson is happening to Marianne bright - extremely bright - and the other patients at Nede: he has a metamorphosis 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 kindcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her Eventually, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at turned into permanent employment as a terrible price: that of identity itselftrader.|isbn= 086154112X

|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1035021803|title=Little DrummerThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=Part of It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the Oslo Detectives series, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural and thrillerEnglish country village where she grew up. Beginning with the death She's back now because of a young woman in a carparkrequest for help from her beloved aunt, that looks very much like an overdoseCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation of murderArthur Crockleford, fraudis dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, and international pharmaceutical dealingsto say the least. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, who end up working separately on the case let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led antique hunters, she has not felt able to Africa as they follow be near the twists and turns of man or pursue the investigationprofession she loved. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious After the split, chasing down the truth she worked in increasingly difficulta cafe, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover met and married James (on the rebound from the truth as they are sure that something much biggerlove of her life, who was murdered) and much more dangerous, is going onFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1914585127

|isbn=0008541477AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Clarice BeanAll Tomorrow's Futures: Scram!Fictions that Disrupt|author=Lauren ChildBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=It was a hot summer day right at ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the beginning shape of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored:things to come.''

I've heard it said that 'technology'Nothing ever is what happens except for sometimesafter 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. And only on rareSome of it is - frankly -sh occasionsquite frightening. Of course, which is hardly ever.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 There |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 seven members of 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 Bean family living residents who are still alive in the house: Grandad (hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who lives refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on the ground floor because heventuring out of her room to try to capture what's wobbly)happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, Mum their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Dad, Claricethey 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 older brother, Kurt 1979 and younger brotherMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, Minal Crickethonestly... ) ThereShe's also Marcienot what's worrying Miv's family, whothough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's main claim to fame seems to be that upset because she steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means overheard that she canher father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you't read in the airing cupboardre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Clarice For Miv, the move would love to have someone who listened to mean leaving herbest friend, rather than wanting to talkSharon, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York'll do anything to prevent that. The Bean family is ''differentShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=07112662041398524085|title=The Secret Life of BirdsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Nicci French

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisher daughter, Etty. An hour can pass without my noticingare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. I've established which species feed from the groundShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, which pop to find the feeders for a quick snatch body of some food and who settles Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablethe river. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had access to a book such as 'murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Secret Life of Birds'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. So – what is it?

|isbn=17370309421035906708|title=Bag ODiva|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 'GoodiesCallas' 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=Jolly Walker BittickChristopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|genre= AnthologiesConfident Readers|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat Lucas and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about friends are all booked in for a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]movie marathon at their local cinema, a rollicking tale place that has the nickname of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying'The Black Hole'. Right nowAll big movie fans, I didnthey't want a full-length novel, so I turned re looking forward to this anthology lots of verse exciting films, and short stories. many, many snacks! BittickHowever, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn's writing has matured - and so have his characterst even imagine. Well... most of them!But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosRachel Greenlaw|title=SeedCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Marty has two parental figures ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in his lifemy heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentsplundering the wrecks. His grandfather runs an allotmentMira, like her mother before her, and manages to stink is one of the entire town seven who swim out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines survey the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder ruins – while she seems to do nothing rescuing any survivors and hasn't left any treasure that lies within. But when the building in years she has still managed to fill it 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

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years heIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been searching for evidence to prove that badly injured but he's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirfelt responsible and even after Alex recovered, there Sturgis was a link back reluctant to a cold case from 2002ask for his help on difficult cases. There His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerneed the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case his father was investigating before he dieddid look simple, though. Above all there's Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a growing sense that remote property in Bel Air. He was the criminality of Det Supt Stevens heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is going married to be brought out into an extremely rich man and it's not the openItalian. Perhaps Tyler is going to get But which of them was the answers he needsprimary target?

|isbn=07278505471529395224|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=David MarkSion 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 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=Steve Burrows

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnDCI Domenic Jejeune't even had time for breakfast when the call came throughs close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. A body had been found Maik was involved in the roots of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. When Initially, he gets faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than man. Now he could have imaginedbe facing the death penalty. A young manDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's corpse t 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 entangled with a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the roots of online apps in providing a newly-fallen tree – more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. It would seem that this was done whilst Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the man was still alivechance to come home to Edinburgh. McAvoy makes a promise 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 victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. But justice always comes at Katie has no experience in running a cost business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and this time the cost might be to McAvoythere's own family.always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire0811771741|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrafts|summary= Early comments on this debut novel Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delighttoys to blankets. I Some will agree with be quick knits - others are of the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' is perhaps using long, cosy afternoons in front of the expression in a way Ifire'm not familiar withvariety. I have The projects are divided by the time they'll take to confess my ignorance of the Spanishcomplete -language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereless than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. From All the little projects are attractive, modern and useable. I have read (in translation, perhaps show my age when I donwonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realisms me being picky. |isbn=0861541901

|author= Ann Sei LinDean Koontz|title= Rebel SkiesThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensParanormal|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Benny is having a servant on the Midoriterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquestshis house gets trashed. However Oh, when and someone has delivered a man named Himura arrives really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to tell her his home, and it's possible that she whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is a Crafter like him, someone with Benny is the power very last person to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after deserve all across the Empirethis bad luck. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has knowna nice person. A really nice person. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the matter, because the Midori delivery to his house is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as new friend, a shikigamibad weather friend called Spike, and she who has been sent to help him since Benny is forced to flee out into the worldclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose Spike is going to hunt down shikigamitake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a whole world of waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure awaits her…) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=14063995901662500491

|author=Patrice LawrenceAdam Stower|title=NeedleMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary=Brave. CharleneMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, the 'heroine' of this piece one who is extremely hard for some people able to likesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, characters and readers bothwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheBut he's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Anniebad magician's cat, and so his favourite bun has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such been turned into a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps thinkhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the creation of one such item is part of catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the plot hereregular back garden, as Charlene is but into a wonder knitter, world of frightening adventure and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no morewhiffs. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with This time round it drops them into a store detectiveViking land, and then force people to give her two days off schoolwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... wellone much bigger than Murray was, what exactly happens is not for me to saybe honest, only but he's turned up and he'll have to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...do…|isbn=18009010110008561249

|isbn=1405940980B0C47LV1PC|title=The BirdcageFragility|author=Eve ChaseMosby Woods

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a ''Yo birthing person's ' joke? And if you could, is the 7th of January 2019 and we know question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwallanswer for both could well be... We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistno. The girls are actually  ''halfFragility''-sisters and their dates is set as the city of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundityPortland, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoOregon, at cautiously begins to emerge from the time of restrictions imposed during the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisters.covid pandemic

|isbn=17876349061529431735|title=No Less the DevilThe Winter Visitor|author=Stuart MacBrideJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle s February 1991 and Malcolm Essex is in troublebitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He's in an abandoned house and d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) ill and Hugohasn't long to live. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat 's hard to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, apparently) but she'd put stripped to his underwear and sent to a tracking device watery grave in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.home?

|author=Jennifer SaintAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=ElektraThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary='Elektra' Eli is a busy lad – by Jennifer Saint tells day an apprentice in the story of three women who live wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greecefamily. Cassandra A few short years ago, ClytemnestraEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, and Elektra are a globe-trotting adventure where all bit players entrants have to navigate the world in the story company of a magical beast. This has made the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often race anathema to the silent women have 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 he most compelling stories and hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the most extreme furiesonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=14722739150571382231

|isbn=1529149800178763681X|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsOrlando Murrin

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a telling storyresidential cookery school in Belgravia. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of them stood getting both men and watched, unable women to think of anything they could dowhat he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water teaching - and flying back to drop them into the fireproblems - are all his own. The animals laughed: what good one thing he hadn't expected was that doingfor someone to turn up dead. ''I'm doing Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the best I can''prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, said the hummingbirdEllen Lark loses her hearing. And thatSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, reallyeverything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the only way that we will solve deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the problem same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might beespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=17765743381803816759|title=Leilong's Too Long!The Unravelling|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnWill Gibson

|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Every morning Leilong, It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goeswealthy and peaceful New York City. Children who live at the top Joe longs for a bit of tower blocks don't even need adventure and to go downstairs – they simply climb out of get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the window AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and slide down his neckriots start to spread. It's perfectFinally, isn't it? What could be a more fun way Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of going the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to school? There is a problem, thoughbring her home. Leilong Joe isn't happy in the city: he's always having only one trying to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than save Suki - Dylan, a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to British superfan and traffic regularly gets snarled uptech nerd, is also on the case. The school decides that he canWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki't be the bus anymore.s kidnapping connected?

|isbn=303091657X1529421284|title=Disaster 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 Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understandsuicide 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=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonFiona Williams

|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary=Boards must act in ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the best interests story of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially securefour people. This Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might seem obvious be happier there, but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted instead, she lives in death or the collapse house on the riverbank, built of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingbroken bricks. Where were they? Occasionally Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the boards were unaware passage of what was happening or they preferred time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to turn a blind eyegrow his vegetables, leaving watchers wondering which was worse to complete the delivery rounds - ignorance or criminalityand to bring in sufficient money. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown They have twin boys - Sonny and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniaMax, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip maniarainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littlePeople 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.

|isbn=15293379681529425867|title=In Place of FearLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Catriona McPhersonSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's July 1948 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 Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS father of Ryan, is bornnot. SheHe'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with s not any of those non-medical problems which affect their healththings. The hardest part He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free shell suits and that they dontrackies. They't have re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to do anything to qualify a police procedural written for themlaughs. Some Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insightsame policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Her marriage has never been consummatedSometimes it's problematic.

|author=Mark LinganeMosby Woods|title=GalaxyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary=Spark, who The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is an elite pilot with the Space Academybest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, barely makes it through a battle alivepush for climate action there. His co-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma A feeling that lasted years, he remembers little and nobody is in no physical shape to resume his dutiesactual charge. But Earth is under threat and he mustImagine then, there was a man with precognition. Returned by his superiors to Imagine the space stationstrategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from right? Perhaps the alien threats against itmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, but also from its own sins against itselfthat this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B09X3NZ76WB0C9SNG8R1