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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A C Wisehoodie 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=HookedThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It’s been It's twenty two years since Captain HookFreya 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, now going by just ‘James’Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, has to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been in Neverlandback to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Living a new life Even though they were in Londonbusiness together as antique hunters, he she has never completely escaped his pastnot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. But now he senses After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the edges love of the beast circling around his her life in London, 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 when suddenly he finds himself face Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to face come.'' 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 technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the street with Wendy, he knows feeling that the line between this world and Neverland it's all getting away from me. Some of it is growing thin- frankly - quite frightening. The beast is finally coming to get himOf course, I could research the possibilities and in the process will pull Wendy 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 her daughter Jane back into their past once againwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1789096839

|isbnauthor=1787301745Sunny Singh|title=Confidence|author=Denise MinaHotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=We're back The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Denise Mina|Conviction]]a terrorist group. It was Anna Hiding from the terrorists who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her exare rampaging through, Hamishkilling everyone on site, there is now with her best friendSam, Estelle a wartime photographer and her children are living with themAbhi, the hotel manager. Fin (who was married As Abhi continues to try to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna care remotely for the residents who invited his girlfriendare still alive in the hotel, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was he forms a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult and bond with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseSam who refuses to be cowed by events, in a storm - she begins talking about Annaand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's past, including happened through her real name and the rapephotography. This was something which Anna had intended Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess help her keep safe and ten-year-old Lizzie - when they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the time was right. And this wasn't the right timeterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=178763566X1529153298|title=Listen The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) 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's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to Meprevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Tess GerritsenNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=WeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband're in Boston with Amys fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and she wore her newdaughter, buttery-leather pumps Etty. are all worried but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe strangely - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stop. Two months laterhusband, we're with Angela RizzoliAlec, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoliis not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and a keen defender of Greg, find the suburb body of RevereGreg's father, north of BostonDuncan Ackerley, where she livesin the river. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has It was an easy assumption for the time police to watch whatmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's happening in t stand the neighbourhoodguilt. The people who Salter children are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsnot convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=00083956321035906708|title=One Last SecretDiva|author=Adele ParksDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. WellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod she was born to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, usually known as Dora Wulskiin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. If you're thinking of Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, whoCallas's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget make it. Dora is a professional more manageable in all senses of the wordStates. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her income and deals with voice - she was raised under the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as Nazi occupation by a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue mother who mercilessly exploited her and Customsmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=David SolomonsChristopher Edge|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Gavin is being followedLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, seemingly constantly, by a place that has the new (very annoying) girl at schoolnickname of 'The Black Hole'. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl story. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! Because in this instanceHowever, as the girl in question movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is Nikivery different, and she is a galactic princess (nothey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, really, she can they figure out what on earth is!) going on? So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation whereWill they ever get back to the cinema, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Nikitheir real lives?|isbn=08576399351839942738

|author=Alex CotterRachel Greenlaw|title=The Mermaid CallCompass and Blade

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't exist'I can hear the song of the sea. But she also knows they have to exist – at least The call of the deep, the answering beat in the public eyemy heart. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – '' Rosevear, a far northern English resort – without themremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. A hundred years and change agoMira, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidslike her mother before her, but were forced is one of the seven who swim out to return survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to help out with end the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipationwrecking, which helped create they capture the townisland's tourism industry, now faded leader and falling apart but once a feminist success storyMira's father. AliceDesperate to save him from death, Mira makes a girl bargain with a wreck survivor who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one dayis as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, knows she certainly wants mermaids sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to exist – she thinks unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her familyfrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's black sheep died searching for themterritory, or else was just too successful in Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her hunthome and the ones she holds most dear. When the shy, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=18399419010008664730

|isbnauthor=1739805100James Sherwood Metts|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew MarchPlanet Storyland

|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary= ''Loving Things have been a bit sticky for the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew MarchEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went re paid to Dresden do and other tasks that took time to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime in the 1930saccomplish. Fred, a sensitive Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and thoughtful manstarting to think of other, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships Life was pretty much shut down and connections that lasted for a lifetime, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NMatthew Tree|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and a teacher chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and now was the time to make a changewho had endless crises of self confidence. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she So Tim applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewhimself to his studies, she was offered the position cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class set himself high but it went surprisingly wellachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1529125898A G Slatter|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill HornbyThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Historical FictionFantasy|summary=''If it were not There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for the casual dereliction however long I can. This secret magic of the odd gentleman's dutymy own, all mine, there would no women at last. I just want to teach well-bred daughters at allenjoy it for a while.''

Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the position protection of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was the Briar's, a case family of necessitywitches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Until Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the death of first non-witch to be born into her motherfamily for generations and as such since she was young, Anne had her training as a comfortable life steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the householdpotions. When her mother diedgrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her father cast . As challenges come her off way left, right and would have nothing more centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to do communicate with the dead, putting herat 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 the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|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. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of £35 a yearpsychologist only worked for a while. Her maidFinally, it was Robin, AgnesDelaware's partner, would receive nothing but who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was fortunately taken something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in by some neighboursBel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 1529395224|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5

|summary= If you’re Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends GP and Rowlands didn't want to writefollow in his footsteps, then you know particularly when he considered the strain that there are unnumbered types being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of books. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in doing work experience with a family friend who was a random way, some for focussed research, vet and some because they are, broadly speaking, was convinced this was the kind of thing you think you might like to writejob for him. OrBefore long, indeedhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, are actually trying he'd wanted to writebe a professional footballer.|isbn=1783966386

|isbn=07515815770861541774|title=Lying Beside YouA Nye of Pheasants|author=Michael RobothamSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to do itmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who Maik was sent to Rampton, and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid involved in a shed until the police found him. Twenty years street brawl - he would later, Cyrus is maintain that he was facing a man armed with a forensic psychologist knife - and he's been told that his brother is being releasedkilled a Ghurka. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on Initially, he faced a daily basis with the results charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the crime? man. Can Now he bear to have Elias living in could be facing the same house? death penalty. How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=140595115XAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Right from The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the beginningonline apps in providing a more personal, we know this will not turn out welltailored service. Eight days into Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to deliver the superyacht ''Escape'' Canada to Antiguaget away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in so jumps at the Atlanticchance to come home to Edinburgh. Those of 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 crew Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who are left will be cowering quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in fear running a fellow crew member tries to pick them offbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, one by one. Some are already dead. They are three days from shore and there is no way of making contact. But let's go back always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to when all this started, in Southampton.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=13985086320811771741|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635864674|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes InstaKnits for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreBaby|author=Joy HowardMelissa Leapman

|genre=CookeryCrafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's 'Think of it as no-whining dining.'InstaKnits for Baby' We know it's gives us a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just goes collection of knits from toys to show how versatile the tomato isblankets. Then there Some will be quick knits - others are all of the different types'long, not to mention cosy afternoons in front of the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didnfire't lovevariety. IThe projects are divided by the time they'd argue with her there ll take to complete - I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' less than five hours, five to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' ten hours, ten to distinguish them from twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the ones that have obviously just been grown for profitprojects are attractive, modern and useable. Personally, Iperhaps show my age when I wonder about 'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those social-media- and Howard makes good use of these. Sheworthy projects' but that's not at all precious if you get the tasteme being picky.

|isbnauthor=0241989027Dean Koontz|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane CorryThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on loses his fiancee, and his ownhouse gets trashed. His advert was fairly specific: he was Oh, and someone has delivered a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to cook a good steakhis home, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The first thing is, Benny is the very last person who came to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house was Francoiseis a new friend, a French woman in her early twentiesbad weather friend called Spike, who fit the bill perfectly. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a completely different reasongood person. Emily Gentle Spike is Haroldgoing to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's daughter enemies, if he, Benny, and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from Harper (a problem in London. Emilywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madewild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)Adam Stower|title=Tasting SunlightMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=Sally Murray is supposed to be a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spacehumble, tidy and for people to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around herfriendly cat, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss one who is in her forties able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and seems to live alone, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she is, giving her been turned into a room to sleep inhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the space to just be. As catflap they work together on both use can chuck them out, not into the farmregular back garden, but into a closeness develops between world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops theminto a Viking land, becoming where a beautifultroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, powerful friendship.but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=19145851430008561249

|authorisbn=Jennifer MasonB0C47LV1PC|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''A struggling poetry zinejoke? And if you could, a mom-and-pop mobile diner in is the question should you make it? Or is the Northern California redwoodsquestion if you did, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed would it land? The catch is that the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen answer for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life sentence in Alabama, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgiaboth could well be....no.''

This ''Fragility'' is just a sample of set as the cast city of characters and settings in Preposterous. As you can seePortland, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like this...|isbn=B09STS96HSOregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Will Brooker1529431735|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]]It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, one of the most successful British authors Iwhich made Bruce Hopkins've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of return all the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readmore surprising. This book starts with He'd been exiled on the two meeting each other, Costa del Sol as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer togethera wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote return has come about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a because he''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly s had a getletter from his ex-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend)wife, but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole saying that is Jewellshe's diverse outputill and hasn't long to live. Brooker decides heIt'd like nothing more than s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to follow her through a year watery grave in the published author's life, working to make boot of a success of the latest title, and struggling with the next in linestolen Ford Sierra. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is the result.|isbn=1529136024Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1801109265Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Companion|author=Lesley ThomsonGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a punctual man who was inexplicably never on time'' helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and he was - as usual - late to pick up runs. Eli lives with his son, Wilburlovely gran, too – for their 'boys' day out'there is a generation missing in the family. These A few short years ago, Eli's parents were always days which appealed more both lost to James than the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to Wilbur and, competing for navigate the world in the boy's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him company of a roast dinner when he returnedmagical beast. The dinner would never be served, as James and Wilbur are This has made the race anathema to the victims of pair – but when a double stabbing on bad incident at the beach. The case falls eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to DI Toni Kemp enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of Sussex police. She's feeling magic at the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when end – the going gets toughonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=152941363X178763681X|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Martin WalkerOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn''Nobody knows t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what the truth is any morehe wanted. Paul '' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as somehow'JJ'), got the head of detectives for impression that he'd be at the départment of the Dordogneschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. They're not just policemen The teaching - they're both deeply committed to and the wellproblems -being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Franceare all his own. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnone thing he hadn't normally have worried them so much had it not been expected was for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carsomeone to turn up dead. OhUnfortunately, and there he was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner of person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the car. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's weapon. Was there going police consider that person to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=0241542405Sarah Marsh|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5

|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and she's not left After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her home for 1hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence,214 dayseverything about her life changes. She'd ''like'' to: Living in facta time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes Ellen is sent to wear if a school where she's going is taught to catch her trainlip read, but physically restrained from signing. ThenFrom here, she can't. She simply can't force herself to leave ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James deaf and Matilda. Sadie's using a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sensesystem called Visible Speech. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her catAt the same time, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries Bell is working on other inventions and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRLideas, so you can guess what she does and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'scomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=B09Y451X9K1803816759|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)The Unravelling|author=Richard F WalkerWill Gibson

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= It''Anything can happen at s 2038 and Joe is a birthday party, particularly when bored cop policing the birthday boy is the young Lord wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of the Manoradventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But when an eerie signal is picked up in then something goes horribly wrong with the early hoursAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antoniariots start to spread. Finally, embark on a quest Joe gets to uncover its incredible messagedo some real policing. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets In the cat out aftermath of the bag rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the world goes into only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a state of panicBritish superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case.'' Could it beWhat went wrong? Could Did the system fail or was ithacked? Have aliens reached out and contacted EarthAnd how is Suki's kidnapping connected? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for power.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1529421284|title= Archibald Lox and Laying Out the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= SoIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. We're back In a gully, a human skeleton came to the Merge with surface and forensic testing proved the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shanbody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's saga of Archibald Loxd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a young man who can pick the locks simple case of portals from our world to another, called the ''Merge'misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Since his last adventure Geary was a townie, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the topic suicide of his regular disappearancesHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. They don't ask too many questions Lockyer and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine DC Gemma Broad of visiting Winston, his lock-picking mentor in the Major Crimes Review Unit (that''Merge'' s cold cases to you and showing Kojo, the young guardian, around our world of the Bornme) investigate. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD

|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips0571379559|title=The SearchHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=HistoryLiterary Fiction|summary=Archaeology cannot be child''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's play, when you're scraping roots are in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should Jamaica: temperamentally she might be something happier 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 of instead, she lives in the house on the latterriverbank, as our author promises to locate the topic built of the titular searchbroken bricks. And he really hasn't made Insubstantial as it easy for himself – the search area is a wide one, the target might not exist any more – ohlook, and it's underwaterstood the passage of time, when he cannot divestorms and floods. Latching on Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to a particular Dbring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -Day veteran through helping Sonny and Max, the heroic old manrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that delivered him to Normandythey're related, much less twins and that he was lucky to survive there's an assumption when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim Max is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedout with his mother that she's his nanny. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182

|authorisbn=Fiona Longmuir1529425867|title=Looking for EmilyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Lily. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called EdgeIn Oxford, and everyone from said mother to her teacher there are making demands of Lily that she make new friendstwo D I Wilkins. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she Raymond Wilkins is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself knownof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and in a big wayalways exquisitely dressed. But where does Emily come from? Well D I Ryan Wilkins, Lily used that name because son of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection Ryan and father of the most mundane objectsRyan, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself is not. He'The Museum s not any of Emily'those things. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum He's white, toooriginated from a trailer park, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatbarely educated (reading's behind the intrigue...|isbn=1839942754}} {{Frontpage|isbn=B09XZMCDVF|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F Walker|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=not ''really''A news vendor is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team is very useful with thing) and his feet, and awfully familiar…'' This collection wardrobe consists mainly of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the eclectic reader. Tying them together is the idea that remarkable shell suits and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary peopletrackies. And that ordinary doesn They't mean boring re usually in lime green or uninterestingacid yellow. Form and tone varies so this little treasury of short fiction is never boring and You might wonder if you're never quite sure what's coming next.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1800901232|title=Stitched Up|author=Steve Cole|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted being introduced to be a fashion designerpolice procedural written for laughs. Life in the rural village where she lived with her family was happyWell, if you're not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on The two men are just different sides of the mini-bus to Hanoisame policing coin. Only, Hanh and Sometimes the other girls were not going to work in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factorycombination works brilliantly well. You know those jeans you really wanted: the ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? ItSometimes it's quite possible that Hanh and her co-workers made themproblematic.

|author=Daisy HildyardMosby Woods|title=EmergencyA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|summary=The summary of this book doesnWest isn't come close the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to explaining what mend this or even if mending it is done with the premisebest course of action.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grievingGovernments are flailing. Traumatised after the death of her sisterA war here, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in size and volumeactual charge. Her GPImagine then, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as there was a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Walesman with precognition. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and Imagine the other patients at Nede: strategic advantage in this asset; a metamorphosis man who can tell you what will happen given any set of a kindcircumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm herImagine then, Nede offers her release from that this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itselfman loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn= 086154112X B0C9SNG8R1