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|isbn=B09XZMCDVF0241636604|title=StoriesThe Trading Game: 13 tantalising talesA Confession|author=Richard F WalkerGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesAutobiography|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 news vendor hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is crying out the headlines in 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 middle London School of the night; Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a wheelchair user loses touch facility with reality when he tries walking around in numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his imagination; 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 stickler request for correct grammar goes 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 time business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the ideal person to have around split, she worked in a lawless village; cafe, met and married James (on the new boy on rebound from the pub football team is very useful with his feetlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and awfully familiar…James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

This collection I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is me but I'm left with the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people. And feeling that ordinary doesnit't mean boring or uninterestings all getting away from me. Form and tone varies so this little treasury Some of short fiction it is never boring - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and youthe probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I're never quite sure m reading someone who knows whatthey's coming nextre 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.

|isbnauthor=1800901232Sunny Singh|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve ColeHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyThrillers |summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a fashion designerterrorist group. Life in Hiding from the rural village where she lived with her family was happyterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, if not prosperousa wartime photographer and Abhi, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the village to offer Hahn residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not bond with Sam who refuses to be missed. Some money changed hands cowed by events, and Hanh was keeps on the mini-bus venturing out of her room to try to Hanoicapture what's happened through her photography. OnlyAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Hanh their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and the other girls were not going they both wait to work in a shop, see if they will be rescued before they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with are discovered by the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard1529153298|title=Emergency|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The summary List of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage Suspicious Things|author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss Jennie Godfrey|rating=4 5|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary= Marianne It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is grievingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly. Traumatised after the death of her sister..) 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 awakes 's overheard that her father wants to find strangemove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volumeforeign place, best avoided. Her GP For Miv, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to move would mean leaving her griefbest friend, recommends Sharon, and she go 'll do anything to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Walesprevent that. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and She's not worried about the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Mariannedangers or that her Mum's memories threaten stopped talking - to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselfanyone.|isbn= 086154112X

|authorisbn=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)1398524085|title=Little DrummerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=35

|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural Paul and Ollie and thrillerher daughter, Etty. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a farare all worried but - strangely -reaching investigation of murderher husband, fraudAlec, and international pharmaceutical dealingsis not. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda Shortly afterwards, Etty and FrolichGreg, who end up working separately on find the case as Gunnarstranda remains body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in Norway whilst Frolich is led the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to Africa as they follow the twists make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and turns of then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the investigationguilt. Gunnarstranda and Frolich The Salter children are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as not convinced but there's little else they are sure that something much bigger, can do but get on with their lives and much more dangerous, is going onwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1914585127

|isbn=00085414771035906708|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!Diva|author=Lauren ChildDaisy Goodwin

|summary=It was Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a hot summer day right movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the beginning nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the summer holidays movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and Clarice Bean was bored:they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Nothing ever happens except for sometimesI can hear the song of the sea... And only on rare-sh occasionsThe call of the deep, which is hardly everthe answering beat in my heart.''

There are seven members 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 Bean family living in the house: Grandad (seven who lives on swim out to survey the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum ruins – rescuing any survivors and Dadany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, Claricethey capture the island's older brother, Kurt leader and younger brother, Minal Cricket. ThereMira's also Marciefather. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who's main claim is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to fame seems to be that guide her, she steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means sets off in search of a family secret that she can't read lies buried deep in the airing cupboardsea. Clarice would love to have someone who listened With only nine days to unearth what might save herfather, rather than wanting as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to talkthe heart of the smuggler's territory, but Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the only one who does that is Granny future of her home and the ones she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=0711266204James Sherwood Metts|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Planet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I Things have recently discovered been a great pleasure: I sit and watch bit sticky for the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basisEarthlings. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food AI and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would automation have been wonderful ifproceeding apace, as a child, Ioften replacing jobs they'd had access re paid to a book such do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as ''The Secret Life they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of Birds''other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. So – what is Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it?, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1737030942Matthew Tree|title=Bag OWe'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker Bittickll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre= AnthologiesLiterary Fiction|summary=SometimesTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, you deserve a treat drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''who had endless crises of self confidence. I first encountered So Tim applied himself to his writing about a year agostudies, when I read cultivated his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse abilities rather than his daydreams and short storiesset himself high but achievable ambitions. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosA G Slatter|title=SeedThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought '' There's a part of as complete embarrassmentsme that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. His grandfather runs an allotmentThis secret magic of my own, and manages all mine, at last. I just want to stink enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the entire world, lies Silverton; a town out under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetablesthe Darklands. His mother somehow combines Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the dual roles of housebound failure first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and hoarder – while as such since she seems to do nothing was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and hasnpotions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't left s cousin Audra becomes the building in years she has still managed to fill it to Briar Witch, the brim with junk. What Martytown's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looksleader, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyand Ellie takes her place beside her. We see him as once again the council threaten As challenges come her way left, right and him centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with evictionthe dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=15290776641803364548

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron1529900360|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After IslaIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's older sister Flora diesfault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, her family struggle Sturgis was reluctant to find ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a way forwardwhile. In particular Finally, it was Robin, IslaDelaware's mum partner, who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able to nudged Milo into asking for helpagain. But actually, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer She knew that the family involvement was something that the chance to have Flora back againman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in robot form. But this won't just be the swimming pool of a look-a-likeremote property in Bel Air. They use all of Flora He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's online history, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possiblenot the Italian. But what will it really mean for which of them was the family, to have Flora backprimary target? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916

|isbn=13985075041529395224|title=Cold ReckoningLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Russ ThomasSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father committed suicide was a GP and for the last sixteen years heRowlands didn's been searching for evidence t want to prove follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that hebeing on-call put on his father's rightlife. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a frozen body vet and was found in Damflask Reservoirconvinced this was the job for him. Before long, there he was a link back to a cold case from 2002at Liverpool University. There didn It hadn't immediately seem to be any connection - as with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case so many students - been his father dream since he was investigating before a child. If anything, he died. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going d wanted to be brought out into the opena professional footballer. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?

|isbn=07278505470861541774|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)A Nye of Pheasants|author=David MarkSteve 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 LeilongIt'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, the brontosaurus school busmaking life easier for many, makes his way through the cityand riots start to spread. Finally, picking up children as he goesJoe gets to do some real policing. Children who live at In the top aftermath of tower blocks donthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't even need the only one trying to go downstairs – they simply climb out save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it 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 window British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and slide down his neckforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. ItHe's perfectd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, isn't so it? What could be have been a more fun way simple case of going to school? misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. There is Geary was a problemtownie, though. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Leilong isn't happy in There are connections to the city: he's always having suicide of Holly Gilbert and to be careful about where he puts his feet two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and – because heDC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending cold cases to you and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymoreme) investigate.

|isbn=303091657X0571379559|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandThe 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 instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of disasters - some broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of which have resulted in death or time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the collapse of a major company delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have left interested parties asking what twin boys - Sonny and Max, the board was doingrainbow twins. Where were 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=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. Occasionally the boards were unaware He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of what was happening shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or they preferred acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to turn a blind eyepolice procedural written for laughs. Well, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityyou're not. 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 mania, two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the South Sea Bubble and even tulip maniacombination works brilliantly well. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littleSometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1529337968Mosby Woods|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=ItThe West isn's July 1948 and Helen Crowther t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is due quite sure how to start work as mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day push for climate action there. A feeling that the NHS nobody is bornin actual charge. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients Imagine then, there was a man with those non-medical problems which affect their healthprecognition. The hardest part of Imagine the job strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be to persuade people that valuable, right? Perhaps the services she offers really are free and most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that they don't have to this man loses this ability. What would governments do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1