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|isbn=14087121720241636604|title=The Cliff HouseTrading Game: A Confession|author=Chris BrookmyreGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=''Many If you were to bring up an image of them didn't know each othera city banker in your mind, one of them didnyou't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two re unlikely to think of them definitely hated each othersomeone like Gary Stevenson. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's A hoodie and jeans replaces the roundpin-up for Jen's hen party which stripe suit and his background is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying in The Cliff Housethe East End, hosted by Laurenwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and it's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford itinjustice. She's just sold her muffin business for millions There was no posh public school on his CV - but is staying on he had been to run itthe London School of Economics. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has been acting a little strangely facility with numbers which most of late and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutus can only envy. Added to He also realised that, he's just about forced her most rich people expect poor people to bring be stupid. It was his sisterability at what was, Samiraessentially, whom Jen's never meta card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, on the trip, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=17883607021035021803|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Edzard ErnstC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty It's twenty years, Prince Charles since Freya Lockwood has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapiesback to the English country village where she grew up. She''Charless back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, The Alternative PrinceCarole. Freya'' critically assesses the Princes former mentor and Carole's opinionsclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, beliefs is dead and aims against the background of circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the scientific evidencevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has done considerable damage not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the reputation of split, she worked in a man who is proud cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of his refusal to apply evidence-basedher life, logical reasoning to his ambitionswho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Will CarverAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Daves Next DoorAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= Five strangers ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come together .'' 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 one moment as a suicide bomber prepares my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to detonate his vest on a London tube lineme but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. As their fates overlap Of course, I could research the story is told in backwards order, leading possibilities and the probabilities and end up to down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the fateful momentlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn= 1914585186}}

|isbnauthor=1529125790Sunny Singh|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa JewellHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In July 2019The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Jason Mott was mud larking killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the banks of hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the River Thames when hotel, he came across forms a bag of what appeared bond with Sam who refuses to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu cowed by events, and Saffron Brown from forensics were there keeps on venturing out of her room to try to investigatecapture what's happened through her photography. The bones were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow to Although they only ever talk over the head many years ago - probably phone, their friendship grows as long as twenty-five - but Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bones had not been in the river longer than a year. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1529153298|title=Partitions The List of UnitySuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix It's 1979 and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, when she investigated and unravelled a series of disappearanceshonestly... In ) She's not what'Partitions of Unitys 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 sets 's overheard that her mind father wants to solving move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a murder.frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF

|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 1398524085|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, using this booksons Niall, Paul and being audacious enough to review it? Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Truth is I bought it out Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of curiosityGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. I It was at an on-line launch easy assumption for the book police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed to methen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. I wanted to see if The Salter children are not convinced but there were things in there that I could use 's little else they can do but get on with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying to mentor – without committing them to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrow. I also wanted to see if I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring me away from their vision lives and back to my ownwonder about what really happened.|isbn=103211603X

|isbn=19137503531035906708|title=Britannica's Word of the DayDiva|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word We tend to think of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Stretch Your Cranium Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need only moved to know about this brilliant bookAthens when she was thirteen. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas', tells you how to pronounce make it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes more manageable in the word States. When she was back in a sentence Athens - supposedly so that you know how it should be used. You also she could get an engaging appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and frequently amusing illustration toomade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

|author=A C WiseChristopher Edge|title=HookedBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been Lucas and his friends are all booked in Neverland. Living for a new life in Londonmovie marathon at their local cinema, he a place that has never completely escaped his pastthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. But now he senses the edges All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of the beast circling around his life in Londonexciting films, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in many, many snacks! However, as the street with Wendymovie starts, he knows they very quickly realise that the line between something about this world new film format is very different, and Neverland is growing thinthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. The beast But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is finally coming going on? Will they ever get back to get himthe cinema, and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into to their past once again.real lives?|isbn=17890968391839942738

|isbnauthor=1787301745Rachel Greenlaw|title=Confidence|author=Denise MinaCompass and Blade

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=We're back in 'I can hear the song of the world sea. The call of podcasters Anna and Finthe deep, whom we first met the answering beat in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]my heart. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her ex Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Hamishsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, is now with like her mother before her best friend, Estelle is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and her children are living with themany treasure that lies within. Fin (who was married But when the Council Watch lays a trap to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriendend the wrecking, Sofia. Itthey capture the island's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofialeader and Mira's difficult 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 everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseonly coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a storm - she begins talking about Anna's pastfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, including as her journey takes her real name and from the rape. This was something which Anna had intended watched streets of foreign islands to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when heart of the time was right. And this wasnsmuggler't s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the right timefuture of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=178763566XJames Sherwood Metts|title=Listen to Me|author=Tess GerritsenPlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=We're in Boston with AmyThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day AI and she wore her newautomation have been proceeding apace, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that often replacing jobs they're going paid to be ruined - do and unsafe - in the snow other tasks that's now fallingtook time to accomplish. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and hits her. It doesn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother starting to think of Detective Jane Rizzoliother, and a keen defender of the suburb of Reverenew ways to spend time, north of Boston, where she livesalong came an awful pandemic. Nothing gets past her Life was pretty much shut down and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sisteralong with it, she has all the time to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0008395632Matthew Tree|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksWe'll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. WellTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of 'escort' as being a polite description exceptional at any of a prostitute, run by a pimp, his artistic passions all failed miserably and who's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget it. Dora is a professional in all senses had endless crises of the wordself confidence. She has an agent, ElspethSo Tim applied himself to his studies, who takes 30% of her income cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and deals with the payments set himself high but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customsachievable ambitions. |isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=David SolomonsA G Slatter|title=A BeginnerThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' 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. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's Guide leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to Ruling communicate with the Galaxydead, 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 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

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Gavin is being followedIt 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't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, seemingly constantlyDelaware's partner, by who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the new (very annoying) girl at schoolinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyThe next case did look simple, though. Because Two lovers were murdered in this instance, the girl swimming pool of a remote property in question is Niki, Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation where, potentially, Earth married to an extremely rich man and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because 's not the Italian. But which of Nikithem was the primary target?|isbn=0857639935

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Mermaid CallSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids donSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't exist. But she also knows they have want to exist – at least follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the public eyestrain that being on-call put on his father's life. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a far northern English resort – without themvet and was convinced this was the job for him. A hundred years and change agoBefore long, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced to return to help out with the Great War efforthe was at Liverpool University. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the townIt hadn's tourism industry, now faded and falling apart but once t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a feminist success storychild. AliceIf anything, he'd wanted to be a girl who stumbles into Vivienprofessional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's gran's tourist shop one dayclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, knows she certainly wants mermaids has taken a short holiday in Singapore to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for themmeet up with an old ally, or else Guy Trueman. Maik was just too successful involved in her hunta street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. When the shyInitially, doubting Thomasina he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that is Vivien collides with he might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901death penalty. 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=1739805100Alexander McCall Smith|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew MarchThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=BiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= ''Loving The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the Enemy'' tells online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparentsbusiness, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went as Ness is planning to take a trip to Dresden Canada to teach in the early days get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the Nazi regime in the 1930schance to come home to Edinburgh. Fred And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, a sensitive bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and thoughtful manthe Isabel Dalhousie novels, had but with some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in Europe at the time. Fredher abilities, and there's attempts always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for lend a lifetime. hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B0B575J99N0811771741|title=Beneath the PorticoesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Brooke AdamsMelissa Leapman

|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girlMelissa Leapman's school in York. It was ''comfortableInstaKnits for Baby'' but she longed for something more in lifegives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. SheSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met long, cosy afternoons in front of the right manfire'' and now was variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to make a change. She needed challengescomplete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. There was a little trepidation when she applied for All the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewprojects are attractive, she was offered the position modern and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful cityuseable. There were some natural doubts before her first class I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but it went surprisingly wellthat's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1529125898Dean Koontz|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill HornbyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionParanormal|summary=''If Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's dutypossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, there would no women Benny is the very last person to teach well-bred daughters at deserve allthis bad luck.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen He is a nice person. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessityA really nice person. Until So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the death of her motherdelivery to his house is a new friend, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from the householdnefarious forces for being a good person. When her mother diedSpike is going to take care of Benny, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity will certainly take care of £35 a year. Her maidBenny's enemies, if he, AgnesBenny, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighboursand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Lev Parikian Adam Stower|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallMurray and Bun

|genre=Animals and WildlifeConfident Readers |summary= If you’re Murray is supposed to be a writer yourselfhumble, or an aspiring writertidy and friendly cat, or someone one who pretends is able to writesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, then you know that there are unnumbered types whatever takes his fancy next of booksthe two. Some you read for fun But he's a bad magician's cat, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in so his favourite bun has been turned into a random way, some for focussed researchhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and some because the catflap they areboth use can chuck them out, broadly speakingnot into the regular back garden, the kind but into a world of thing you think you might like to writefrightening adventure and whiffs. OrThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, indeedone much bigger than Murray was, are actually trying to write.be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=17839663860008561249

|isbn=0751581577B0C47LV1PC|title=Lying Beside YouFragility|author=Michael RobothamMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday. Voices told him to do Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it. Only two people survived ? Or is the carnage - Eliasquestion if you did, who was sent to Rampton, and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until would it land? The catch is that the police found himanswer for both could well be.... no. Twenty years later, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and he ''Fragility''s been told that his brother is being released. Can Cyrus forgive set as the sinner whilst having city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to live on a daily basis with emerge from the results of restrictions imposed during the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?covid pandemic

|isbn=140595115X1529431735|title=A Stranger on BoardThe Winter Visitor|author=Cameron WardJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Right from the beginningIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, we know this will not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht which made Bruce Hopkins''Escape'' to Antigua, return all 300 tonnes and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlanticmore surprising. Those of He'd been exiled on the crew who are left will be cowering in fear Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by onedecade. Some are already dead. They are three days The return has come about because he's had a letter from shore his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and there is no way of making contacthasn't long to live. But letIt's go back hard to feel any sympathy when all this startedHopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in Southamptonthe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1398508632Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo WildeGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=It had been on the cards for Eli is 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 busy lad – by day an apprentice in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to wondrous library we startby visiting with him, and in the evening a world where helper at the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changedessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, Brexit and too – for there is a pandemicgeneration missing in the family. Wilde had a A few advantages: short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the area around her was titular race, a known habitat with globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a variety of terrainsmagical beast. She had electricity which allowed her This has made the race anathema to run the pair – but when a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had bad incident at the eatery leads to a car - and fuel. Most importantlyconfession from gran, she had shelter: this was not a plan Eli knows his only hope is to dare to ''live'' wild just enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to live off its producepossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1635864674178763681X|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes Knife Skills for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreBeginners|author=Joy HowardOrlando Murrin

|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn''Think t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of it as no-whining dininggetting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul '' We know itsomehow''s a fruit rather than a vegetable but got the fact impression that so many people get confused just goes he'd be at the school to show how versatile the tomato is. Then there are all the different typesassist Paul, who had a broken arm, not to mention the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she but it didn't loveturn out that way. I'd argue with her there The teaching - I have no affection for and the ones you find in the supermarket problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown t expected was for flavour' someone to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profitturn up dead. PersonallyUnfortunately, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get be the tasteprime suspect.

|isbnauthor=0241989027Sarah Marsh|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-in help as he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on his own. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke A Sign of the ability to cook a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. The first person who came to the house was Francoise, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectly. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about the advert: she was there for a completely different reason. Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in London. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been made.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward (translator)|title=Tasting SunlightHer Own|rating=43.5

|summary=Sally is After a bout of scarlet fever as a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants spacechild, and for people to stop questioning Ellen Lark loses herhearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, tiptoeing around everything about herlife changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and trying Ellen is sent to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who school where she is in her forties and seems taught to live alonelip read, but physically restrained from signing. Liss is unlike any other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as From here, she is, giving her a room to sleep ends up in, another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and the space to just beusing a system called Visible Speech. As they work together on At the farmsame time, a closeness develops between themBell is working on other inventions and ideas, becoming and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a beautiful, powerful friendshipcomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=19145851431035401614

|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason1803816759|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=It''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-s 2038 and-pop mobile diner in the Northern California redwoods, Joe is a 400-meter hurdler who just missed bored cop policing the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for bullwhips, a billionaire bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with a state-of-the-art S&M dungeonAI system that now runs everything, a man serving a making life sentence in Alabamaeasier for many, an enigmatic signatureand riots start to spread. Finally, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia.Joe gets to do some real policing.In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home.Joe isn'' This is just t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a sample of the cast of characters British superfan and settings in Preposterous. As you can seetech nerd, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like thisis also on the case...|isbn=B09STS96HSWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Will Brooker1529421284|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], It was one of those flash downpours that the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readweather often delivers in a heatwave. Now meet Will BrookerIn a gully, one of a human skeleton came to the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with surface and forensic testing proved the two meeting each otherbody to be Lee Geary, as well, and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer togetherwho had disappeared nine years earlier. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a He''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly d been a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brookerknown drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a professor simple case of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewellmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's diverse outputt convinced. Brooker decides Geary was a townie, so what was he'd like nothing more than doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to follow her through a year in the published author's life, working to make a success suicide of the latest title, Holly Gilbert and struggling with to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the next in linetime. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agrees. And this is Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the resultMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=1529136024

|isbn=18011092650571379559|title=The CompanionHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Lesley ThomsonFiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''a punctual man who was inexplicably never on timeThe House of Broken Bricks'' and he was - as usual - late to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'is the story of four people. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyTess Hembry's attentionroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, his motherbut instead, Annashe lives in the house on the riverbank, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedbuilt of broken bricks. The dinner would never be servedInsubstantial as it might look, as James and Wilbur are it's stood the victims passage of a double stabbing on time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the beachdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policeThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. SheSonny's feeling the pressurecolouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. You can always tell - 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 shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets tough's his nanny.

|isbn=152941363X1529425867|title=To Kill a Troubadour Lost and Never Found (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Martin WalkerSimon Mason

|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth is any moreIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins.'' Bruno Courrèges Raymond Wilkins is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, the head son of detectives for the départment of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being Ryan and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery father of an oldRyan, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it is not been for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the car. Oh, and there was a golf ball too, which didnHe't belong to the owner s not any of the carthose things. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniperHe's weapon. Was there going to be an attempt to kill someonewhite, or were the detectives being pushed in originated from a certain direction?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241542405|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire Alexander|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and shetrailer park, barely educated (reading's not left her home for 1,214 days. She'd 'really'like'his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They' to: re usually in fact, she so nearly doeslime green or acid yellow. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes to wear You might wonder if sheyou's going re being introduced to catch her traina police procedural written for laughs. ThenWell, she canyou'tre not. She simply can't force herself to leave The two men are just different sides of the safety of her homesame policing coin. She's fortunate that she has a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and MatildaSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sadie's a cardiac nurse and full of sound common sense. In fact Sometimes 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 her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'sproblematic.

|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KMosby Woods|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F WalkerA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn''Anything can happen at a birthday party, particularly when t the birthday boy is the young Lord of the Manordominant force it once was. But when an eerie signal is picked up Nobody in the early hours, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest West is quite sure how to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out of the bag and the world goes into a state of panic.'' Could mend this or even if mending it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into is the world best course of advanced science, secret agentsaction.and politicians hungry for powerGovernments are flailing.}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell: Archibald Lox seriesA war here, book 7 |rating=4a push for climate action there.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= SoA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. We're back to the Merge Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the first chapter strategic advantage in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald Lox, this asset; a young man who can pick the locks tell you what will happen given any set of portals from our world to another, called the ''Merge''circumstances. Since his last adventureThat man would be valuable, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on right? Perhaps the topic of his regular disappearancesmost valuable asset in history. They don't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into a fairly peaceful routine of visiting WinstonImagine then, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojo, the young guardian, around our world of the Bornthat this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn= B09Z2MTCZDB0C9SNG8R1