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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Will BrookerGary 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 Truth About Lisa JewellAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=BiographyScience Fiction|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the most successful British authors shape of things to come.'' I've never knowingly readheard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Now meet Will BrookerWell, one 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 thousands feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of less successful authors I it is - frankly - quite confidently never have readfrightening. This book starts with Of course, I could research the two meeting each other, as well, possibilities and shows how 2021 drew the two closer probabilities and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about cup cakes, or the words of her latest book she was reciting, conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and her being who could deliver information in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly way I could 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 get-up never commonly worn at terrorist group. Hiding from the author events I get to attend)terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, but pulled Brookerthere is Sam, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Bartheswartime photographer and Abhi, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse outputhotel manager. Brooker decides he'd like nothing more than As Abhi continues to try to follow her through a year care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the published author's lifehotel, working he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to make a success of the latest titlebe cowed by events, and struggling with the next in linekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. JewellAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is 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 resultterrorists.|isbn=1529136024086154742X

|isbn=18011092651529153298|title=The CompanionList of Suspicious Things|author=Lesley ThomsonJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'a punctual man who was inexplicably never on times not what's worrying Miv' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his sons family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Wilburthey've been murdered, for their but to have 'boysdisappeared' day outdoesn't sound quite so frightening. These were always days which appealed more to James than Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to Wilbur and, competing for move the boyfamily 'Down South's attention. When you're from Yorkshire, his motherDown South is a frightening, Annaforeign place, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedbest avoided. The dinner For Miv, the move would never be servedmean leaving her best friend, Sharon, as James and Wilbur are the victims of a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls she'll do anything to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeprevent that. She's feeling not worried about the pressure. You can always tell dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughto anyone.

|isbn=152941363X1398524085|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Nobody knows what the truth is any mores fiftieth birthday party but never turned up.'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis Her children, sons Niall, Paul and much of the Vézère valley Ollie and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')her daughter, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneEtty. They're not just policemen are all worried but - they're both deeply committed to the wellstrangely -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceher husband, Alec, is not. The discovery of an oldShortly afterwards, stolen PeugeotEtty and Greg, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnfind the body of Greg't normally have worried them so much had it not been for the strange bullets father, with Russian letters stamped on the baseDuncan Ackerley, which they found in the carriver. Oh, It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and there was a golf ball too, which didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't belong to the owner of stand the carguilt. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperThe Salter children are not convinced but there's weaponlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?

|isbn=02415424051035906708|title=Meredith AloneDiva|author=Claire AlexanderDaisy Goodwin

|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd ''like'' was born to: Greek parents in factManhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she so nearly doeswas thirteen. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to wear if she's going to catch her train. Then, she canCallas't. She simply can't force herself to leave make it more manageable in the safety of her homeStates. She's fortunate When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she has could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a good friend, Sadie, mother who visits regularly with mercilessly exploited her two children, James and Matilda. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full made no secret of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in preference for her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Handselder sister, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'sJackie.

|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KChristopher Edge|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''Anything can happen Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a birthday party, particularly when place that has the birthday boy is the young Lord nickname of the Manor'The Black Hole'. But when an eerie signal is picked up in All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the early hoursmovie starts, George and his they very quickly realise that something about this new girlfriendfilm format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the vivacious Lady Antonianext, embark can they figure out what on earth is going on a quest ? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to uncover its incredible messagetheir real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets 5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the cat out sea. The call of the bag and deep, the world goes into a state of panicanswering beat in my heart.''

Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached 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 survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and contacted Earth? George any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Antonia find themselves lifted out Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of their privileged lives a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into foreign islands to the world heart of advanced sciencethe smuggler's territory, secret agents.Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and politicians hungry for powerthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Darren ShanJames Sherwood Metts|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Planet Storyland

|summary= SoThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. WeAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're back paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga think of Archibald Loxother, a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world new ways to anotherspend time, called the ''Merge''. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic of his regular disappearancesalong came an awful pandemic. They don't ask too many questions Life was pretty much shut down and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winston, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojoalong with it, all the young guardian, around our world of the Bornmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD1736128426

|author=John Henry PhillipsMatthew Tree|title=The SearchWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryLiterary Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be child's playdifferent from his father, when you're scraping in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thing. This book is a case drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of the titular searchself confidence. And he really hasn't made it easy for So Tim applied himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, and it's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandyhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedset himself high but achievable ambitions. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Fiona LongmuirA G Slatter|title=Looking for EmilyThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Meet Lily'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. She and her mother have I just moved want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a city to town under the protection of the Briar's, a tiny seaside family of witches who protect the town called Edge, and everyone the wider world from said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friendsthe Darklands. It turns out that Though she doesn't have any say in has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the matter, first non-witch to be born into her family for while pretending when phoning home that generations and as such since she was with someone called Emilyyoung, she is unaware her neighbourtraining as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, SamEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, is just about to make herself knownthe town's leader, and in a big wayEllie takes her place beside her. But where does Emily As challenges come from? Wellher way left, right and centre, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the most mundane objectsdead, in some converted houses behind putting her at the heart of a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself 'The Museum maelstrom of Emily'chaos. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum'Reeling from one family secret to another, too, leaving the two girls Ellie must decide who to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding trust and determine whatto do as the Briar witches's behind the intrigue..legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=18399427541803364548

|isbn=B09XZMCDVF1529900360|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Richard F WalkerJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'A news vendor is crying out t need the headlines in the middle help of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; psychologist only worked for a stickler while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the ideal person to have around man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with his feet, and awfully familiar…'' This collection swimming pool of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the eclectic readerremote property in Bel Air. Tying them together is He was the idea that remarkable and strange, even miraculous, things can happen heir to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form an Italian shoe empire and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction she is never boring married to an extremely rich man and you're never quite sure whatit's coming nextnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=18009012321529395224|title=Stitched UpLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Steve ColeSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designerSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Life His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in the rural village where she lived with her family was happy, if not prosperoushis footsteps, so particularly when he considered the smartlystrain that being on-dressed man and woman came to call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the village to offer Hahn opportunity of doing work experience with a job in Hanoi it family friend who was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands a vet and Hanh was on convinced this was the mini-bus to Hanoijob for him. OnlyBefore long, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryhe was at Liverpool University. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones It hadn't - as with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfullyso many students -placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? been his dream since he was a child. ItIf anything, he's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Daisy Hildyard0861541774|title=EmergencyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, this crime story is has taken a mixture of police procedural and thrillershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Beginning with the death of a young woman Maik was involved in a carpark, street brawl - he would later maintain that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into he was facing a man armed with a farknife -reaching investigation of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealingshe killed a Ghurka. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich Initially, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to Africa as they follow murder the twists and turns of man. Now he could be facing the investigationdeath penalty. Gunnarstranda and Frolich are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to uncover the truth help as they are sure that something much bigger, any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and much more dangerous, is going onwouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1914585127

|isbnauthor=0008541477Alexander McCall Smith|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=It was The Perfect Passion Company is a hot summer day right at the beginning of the summer holidays dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of operating as an alternative to all the Bean family living online apps in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brotherproviding a more personal, Minal Crickettailored service. There's also Marcie, who's main claim to fame seems to be that Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she steals could come and look after the batteries from Clarice's torchbusiness, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboard. Clarice would love as Ness is planning to have someone who listened take a trip to her, rather than wanting Canada to talk, but the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New Yorkget away for a while. The Bean family Katie is ''different''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0711266204|title=The Secret Life coming out of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit break up with a bad boyfriend, and watch so jumps at the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basischance to come home to Edinburgh. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed And so begins this new story from the groundAlexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, which pop thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the feeders for a quick snatch of Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some food and new characters who settles quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in for running a good munch business, or in match-making, but I wish I was more knowledgeable. It would have been wonderful ifNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, as a childWilliam, I'd had access to lend a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds''. So – what is it?hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=17370309420811771741|title=Bag O'GoodiesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jolly Walker BittickMelissa Leapman

|genre= AnthologiesCrafts|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker BittickMelissa Leapman's ''Bag O'GoodiesInstaKnits for Baby''gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. I first encountered his writing about a year agoSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale cosy afternoons in front of what happens when five young men find a base for their partyingthe fire' variety. Right now, I didnThe projects are divided by the time they't want a fullll take to complete -length novelless than five hours, so I turned five to ten hours, ten to this anthology of verse twenty hours and short storiesmore than twenty hours. Bittick's writing has matured - All the projects are attractive, modern and so have his charactersuseable. Well.I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.. most of them!

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosDean Koontz|title=SeedThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Marty has two parental figures in Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his lifefiancee, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassmentshis house gets trashed. His grandfather runs an allotment Oh, and manages to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure home, and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasnit't left s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the building in years she thing that has still managed trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to fill deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it to turns out that the brim with junk. What Marty's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines delivery to from how poor Marty always lookshis house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, with his one school uniform built who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from lost propertynefarious forces for being a good person. We see him as once again the council threaten her Spike is going to take care of Benny, and him with evictionwill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of Harper (a solitary plant seedwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=15290776641662500491

|author=Sophie CameronAdam Stower|title=Our Sister, AgainMurray and Bun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle Murray is supposed to find be a way forward. In particularhumble, tidy and friendly cat, Isla's mum one who can’t seem to be is able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds onlinesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, she thinks they might be able to help. But actuallywell, it turns out they are part whatever takes his fancy next of an experimental company who offer the family the chance to have Flora back again, in robot formtwo. But this wonhe't just be s a look-a-like. They use all of Florabad magician's online historycat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and interviews with family and friendsthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possiblewhiffs. But what will This time round it really mean for the familydrops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?to do…|isbn=17889539160008561249

|isbn=1398507504B0C47LV1PC|title=Cold ReckoningFragility|author=Russ ThomasMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years he's been searching answer for evidence to prove that he's rightboth could well be.... When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was a link back to a cold case from 2002no. There didn 't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all thereFragility''s a growing sense that is set as the criminality city of Det Supt Stevens is going Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to be brought out into emerge from the open. Perhaps Tyler is going to get restrictions imposed during the answers he needs?covid pandemic

|isbn=07278505471529431735|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Winter Visitor|author=David MarkJames Henry

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnIt't even had time for breakfast when s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the call came throughmore surprising. A body had He'd been found in exiled on the roots of Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hulldecade. When The return has come about because he gets 's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn't long to the scene, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedlive. A young manIt's corpse hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is entangled with abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the roots boot of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyesstolen Ford Sierra. It would seem that this was done whilst the man was still alive. McAvoy makes Is it a warning from a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at Spanish gang or a cost and this time the cost might be problem closer to McAvoy's own family.home?

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include TremendousEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a delighthelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. I will agree Eli lives with the first his lovely gran, too – tremendous for there is no understatement – but a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a delight' is perhaps using globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the expression world in the company of a way I'm not familiar withmagical beast. I have This has made the race anathema to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From pair – but when a bad incident at the little I have read (in translationeatery leads to a confession from gran, I don't read Spanish) there does seem Eli knows his only hope is to dare to be a tendency towards enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the fantastical end – the mystical realismonly thing to possibly save his gran. |isbn=08615419010571382231

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin178763681X|title= Rebel SkiesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as Chef Paul Delamare took a servant on the Midori, teaching job at a massive dining hall floating residential cookery school in the sky where soldiers Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the Empire come getting both men and women to drink and make merry between their conquestsdo what he wanted. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that she is a Crafter like him, someone with he'd be at the power school to form paper into whatever she desires – assist Paul, who had a power sought after all across the Empirebroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. He asks her to come with him, to leave The teaching - and the life of dreary servitude that is problems - are all she has knownhis own. Well, soon Kurara won The one thing he hadn't have any say in expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the matter, because person who discovered the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, body and she is forced everyone knows that the police consider that person to flee out into be the worldprime suspect. 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 LawrenceSarah Marsh|title=NeedleA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Brave. Charlene, the 'heroine' After a bout of this piece is extremely hard for some people to likescarlet fever as a child, characters and readers bothEllen Lark loses her hearing. Kicked out Suddenly plunged into a world of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorsilence, Annie, and has taken up residence in everything about her son Blake's old room while he's at unilife changes. Such a tempestuous personality may be Living in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and time when the creation of one such item is part use of the plot here, sign language was seen as Charlene is a wonder knittersomething only savages do, and Ellen is making something full of love for her younger sister – sent to a younger sister school where she's allowed contact with no moreis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorantusing a system called Visible Speech. And then... well At the same time, what exactly happens Bell is not for me to sayworking on other inventions and ideas, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=18009010111035401614

|isbn=14059409801803816759|title=The BirdcageUnravelling|author=Eve ChaseWill Gibson

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the 7th of January 2019 wealthy and we know that peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a body has been pulled out bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the sea at Zennor in Cornwall. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlierAI system that now runs everything, Floramaking life easier for many, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the request aftermath of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistthe rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. The girls are actually ''half'Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki -sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly close. Finch was known for his fecundityDylan, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoBritish superfan and tech nerd, at is also on the time of case. What went wrong? Did the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren system fail or was a victim and ithacked? And how is Suki's left her very wary of her sisters.kidnapping connected?

|isbn=17876349061529421284|title=No Less Laying Out the DevilBones|author=Stuart MacBrideKate Webb

|summary=We're It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in Oldcastle a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and Malcolm is in troubleforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's in an abandoned house d been a known drug user and hehad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's being threatened by two young peoplet convinced. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm Geary was a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peopletownie, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. It won't be long before Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the police realise Major Crimes Review Unit (that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going 's cold cases to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsyou and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint0571379559|title=ElektraThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45

|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of three women who live four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the heavily male-dominated world house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of Ancient Greecetime, storms and floods. Cassandra Her husband, ClytemnestraRichard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and Elektra are all bit players to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the story of the Trojan Warrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us People don't believe that often the silent women have the most compelling stories they're related, much less twins and the most extreme furiesthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=15291498001529425867|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change Lost and Reduce WasteNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. All the birds Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and animals fled when the forest fire took hold always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and most father of them stood and watchedRyan, unable to think is not. He's not any of anything they could dothose things. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and began taking tiny amounts his wardrobe consists mainly of water shell suits and flying back to drop them into the firetrackies. The animals laughed: what good was that doingThey're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you'I'm doing re not. The two men are just different sides of the best I can'', said same policing coin. Sometimes the hummingbirdcombination works brilliantly well. And that, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might beSometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1776574338Mosby Woods|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Every morning Leilong, The West isn't the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesdominant force it once was. Children who live at Nobody in the top of tower blocks don't West is quite sure how to mend this or even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out if mending it is the best course of the window and slide down his neckaction. Governments are flailing. It's perfectA war here, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a problem, thoughman with precognition. Leilong isn't happy Imagine the strategic advantage in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than this asset; a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled upman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. The school decides that he can't That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the bus anymoremost valuable asset in history.Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1