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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM0241636604|title=The Calculations of Rational MenTrading Game: A Confession|author=Daniel Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mind. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of the McArthur brothers.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846976146|title=The Bone Road|author=N E SolomonsGary Stevenson

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Heather BishopIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, the former Olympic cyclist, flew to Bosnia you're unlikely to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. She even took their bikes so they could have a few days' break in A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the regionEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. It There was a little worrying that no posh public school on his CV - but he didn't seem exactly pleased had been to see her: she even wondered if the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he had has a woman in the hotel roomfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Heather had He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions and her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race againbe stupid. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about It was his ability at what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situationswas, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. She didn't entirely trust herselfEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1035021803|title=The Accidental StowawayAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Patch is a little girl who It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been passed from one relation back to another, until it seems that there is nobody left the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her to go tobeloved aunt, Carole. Her father died when she was very youngFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and her mother ran awaythe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. The family lawyerArthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, after consultation with ‘someone’she feels, arranges for let her to go to a school down badly. Even though they were in Liverpool, but on her arrival therebusiness together as antique hunters, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshiphas not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. During a chase with him (when she is both trying to get her rollerskate back and running away from After the police!) split, she winds up on the steamship hiding worked in a lifeboatcafe, met and before she knows it, married James (on the ship has left rebound from the docks love of her life, who was murdered) and she is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0760379874AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Super Easy Knitting for BeginnersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Carri HammettBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsScience Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I learned to knit in the nineteen-fifties: 've heard it wasnsaid that 't a choice, it was a requirementtechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before Well, I realised must confess that there was pleasure to be had have been more than a few decades of technology in the skillmy lifetime. Nearly seventy years later itI've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the only thing feeling that keeps my hands at it's all supplegetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all Of course, I could research the possibilities and the basics probabilities and some patterns. end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people m reading someone whoknows what they'd like to master re talking about or the skilllatest conspiracy theorist. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorSunny Singh|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made her one of Paris's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure her mother's establishment The Hotel Arcadia is a classy affair. Not bad for luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a thirteen year oldterrorist group. OhHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, and a perfect eye wartime photographer and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyAbhi, the hotel manager. Her first real mission will be As Abhi continues to try to chase a traitor across care remotely for the country – working behind residents who are still alive in the scenes on hotel, he forms a posh sleeper train bond with Sam who refuses to the south of Francebe cowed by events, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents keeps on venturing out of her room to try to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handscapture what's happened through her photography. But while nobody would have her down Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as a spy, can she possibly leave behind Abhi tries to help her rookie status keep safe and find they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the baddy?terrorists.|isbn=1839940956086154742X

|isbn=07603799121529153298|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Editors of Quarry BooksJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new It's 1979 and usable when Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I was in my twentiesmean, honestly... ) It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but IShe's not what's worrying Miv've never felt completely at home with quiltings family, though. Women have been disappearing. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotsWell, 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 'Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersDown South'. When you' seemed like re from Yorkshire, Down South is a good frightening, foreign place , best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to startprevent that. So, how did it stack up?She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=17883607371398524085|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of PostmodernismHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alexander AdamsNicci French|rating=25|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the social environment in which he develops’’. Thereforebody of Greg's father, all art must be politicalDuncan Ackerley, even implicitlyin the river. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle It was an easy assumption for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant police to make that art is freer Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when it is art for art’s sakehe couldn't stand the guilt. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s wonder about what Alexander Adams believesreally happened.

|isbn=14087121721035906708|title=The Cliff HouseDiva|author=Chris BrookmyreDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Many We tend to think of them didn't know each otherMaria Callas as Greek, one of them didn't know anybodybut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated herNew York, in December 1923 and two of them definitely hated each otheronly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. What could possibly go wrong?'' ThatHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's the round-up for JenCallas's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying make it more manageable in The Cliff House, hosted by Lauren, and it's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford itStates. She's just sold her muffin business When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about voice - she was raised under the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting Nazi occupation by a little strangely mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of late and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was about. Added to that, he's just about forced preference for her to bring his elder sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, 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 breakJackie.

|isbnauthor=1788360702Christopher Edge|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised Biography|author=Edzard ErnstBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=BiographyConfident Readers|summary=For over forty yearsLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, Prince Charles a place that has been an ardent supporter the nickname of alternative medicine and complementary therapies'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they''Charlesre looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses as the Prince's opinionsmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, beliefs and aims against the background of the scientific evidencethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage But as they lurch from one film genre to the reputation of a man who next, can they figure out what on earth is proud of his refusal going on? Will they ever get back to apply evidence-basedthe cinema, logical reasoning and to his ambitions.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Will CarverRachel Greenlaw|title=The Daves Next DoorCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on a London tube line''I can hear the song of the sea. As their fates overlapThe call of the deep, the story is told answering beat in backwards order, leading up to the fateful momentmy heart.''|isbn= 1914585186}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529125790|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=In July 2019Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, Jason Mott was mud larking survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the banks wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the River Thames seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when he came across the Council Watch lays a bag of what appeared trap to be human bonesend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu and Saffron Brown Desperate to save him from forensics were there to investigate. The bones were indeed human: death, Mira makes a young woman had been killed by bargain with a blow wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the head many years ago - probably sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as long as twenty-five - but her journey takes her from the bones had not been in watched streets of foreign islands to the river longer than a year. There was no identification but heart of the bag contained vegetationsmuggler's territory, some Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of which was quite unusualher home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Jennifer MasonJames Sherwood Metts|title=Partitions of UnityPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]automation have been proceeding apace, when she investigated often replacing jobs they're paid to do and unravelled a series of disappearancesother tasks that took time to accomplish. In ''Partitions Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of Unity''other, she sets her mind new ways to solving a murder..spend time, along came an awful pandemic.Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF1736128426

|author=Fiona Parashar Matthew Tree|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceLiterary Fiction|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this bookTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out exceptional at any of curiosity. I was at an on-line launch for the book his artistic passions all failed miserably and Fiona’s description who had endless crises of her Vision Days appealed to meself confidence. I wanted to see if there were things in there that I could use 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 So Tim applied himself to see if I could give myself a Vision Dayhis studies, to bring me away from their vision cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and back to my ownset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=103211603XB0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1913750353A G Slatter|title=Britannica's Word The Briar Book of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyDead

|genre=Children's Non-FictionFantasy|summary=''BritannicaThere's Word a part of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all me that you need wants to know about keep this brilliant bookjust to myself for however long I can. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''This secret magic of my own, all mine, tells you how at last. I just want to pronounce enjoy it (for a while.''raz-muh-TAZ Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar'')s, gives you a definition family of witches who protect the town and then includes the word in 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 sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and frequently amusing illustration toopotions. I donWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie't think Is cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town've ever encountered s leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a word which uses maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the letter Z four times before!Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=A C Wise1529900360|title=HookedThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It’s It hadn't been twenty-two years since Captain HookLt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, now going by just ‘James’, has been in NeverlandSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. Living His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a new life in Londonpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, he has never completely escaped his pastwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. But now he senses She knew that the edges of involvement was something that the beast circling around his life in Londonman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face though. Two lovers were murdered in the street with Wendy, he knows that swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the line between this world heir to an Italian shoe empire and Neverland she is growing thin. The beast is finally coming married to get him, an extremely rich man and in it's not the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againItalian.|isbn=1789096839 But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=17873017451529395224|title=ConfidenceLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Denise MinaSion Rowlands

|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=WeSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn're back t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]strain that being on-call put on his father's life. It When he was Anna who'd organised seventeen he took the 'opportunity of doing work experience with a family' holiday: her ex, Hamish, is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with them. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too a vet and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofiaconvinced this was the job for him. It's not Before long before everyone realises that , he was a bad mistakeat Liverpool University. SofiaIt hadn's difficult and t - as with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation so many students - been his dream since he was a lighthousechild. If anything, in a storm - she begins talking about Annahe's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended d wanted to tell the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was right. And this wasn't the right timebe a professional footballer.

|isbn=178763566X0861541774|title=Listen to MeA Nye of Pheasants|author=Tess GerritsenSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=WeDCI Domenic Jejeune're s close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Boston Singapore to meet up with Amyan old ally, Guy Trueman. When she set out for university this morning it Maik was involved in a spring day and she wore her new, butterystreet brawl -leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows he would later maintain that they're going to be ruined he was facing a man armed with a knife - and unsafe - in the snow that's now falling. As she crosses the road, he killed a car comes out of nowhere and hits her. It doesn't stopGhurka. Two months later Initially, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and he faced a keen defender charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesman. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has Now he could be facing the time death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to watch whathelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in t help Danny at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsall.

|isbnauthor=0008395632Alexander McCall Smith|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Natalya The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an escortalternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. WellNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it as Ness is planning to take a nod trip to her Serbian heritageCanada to get away for a while. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking Katie is coming out of 'escort' as being a polite description of break up with a prostitutebad boyfriend, run by a pimp, who's turning tricks and so jumps at the chance to come home to fund a drug habit, forget itEdinburgh. Dora is a professional in all senses of the word. She has And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an agentEdinburgh we already love, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income thanks to 44 Scotland Street and deals with the payments Isabel Dalhousie novels, but checks out the clients with some new characters who quickly begin to see that Dora is going to be safecharm. Dora describes herself as Katie has no experience in running a selfbusiness, or in match-employed clairvoyant to Her Majestymaking, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's Revenue always her very helpful (and Customs. rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=David Solomons0811771741|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Gavin is being followedMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, seemingly constantly, by cosy afternoons in front of the new (very annoying) girl at schoolfire' variety. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Because in this instance, All the girl in question is Nikiprojects are attractive, modern and she is a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) useable. So what will Gavin do I perhaps show my age when he becomes embroiled in a situation where, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Niki?|isbn=0857639935I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Alex CotterDean Koontz|title=The Mermaid CallBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't existBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. But she also knows they have Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to exist – at least in his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the public eyevery last person to deserve all this bad luck. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – He is a far northern English resort – without themnice person. A hundred years and change agoreally nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsa bad weather friend called Spike, but were forced to return who has been sent to help out with the Great War efforthim since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. They also showed female emancipationSpike is going to take care of Benny, which helped create the townand will certainly take care of Benny's tourism industryenemies, if he, Benny, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success story. Alice, Harper (a girl waitress slash Private Investigator who stumbles finds herself roped into VivienBenny's gran's tourist shop one day, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful in her huntwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. 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=18399419011662500491

|isbnauthor=1739805100Adam Stower|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of war|author=Andrew MarchMurray and Bun

|genre=BiographyConfident Readers |summary= ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparentsMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went is able to Dresden to teach in the early days sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the Nazi regime in the 1930stwo. Fred But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a sensitive hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and thoughtful manthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, had some vague ideas but into a world of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the frightening adventure and whiffs. This time. Fred's attempts round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful be honest, but he did make friendships 's turned up and connections that lasted for a lifetime. he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B0B575J99NB0C47LV1PC|title=Beneath the PorticoesFragility|author=Brooke AdamsMosby Woods

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and Can you make a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was 'Yo birthing person'comfortable'' but she longed for something more in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met the right man'' and now was joke? And if you could, is the time to question should you make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for it? Or is the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewquestion if you did, she was offered the position and would it wasn't long before she was exploring land? The catch is that the beautiful cityanswer for both could well be... There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529125898|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''If it were not for the casual dereliction of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.''

Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up ''Fragility'' is set as the position city of governess Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until emerge from the death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from restrictions imposed during the household. When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a year. Her maid, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighbours.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 1529431735|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary= If you’re It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a writer yourselfdecade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends saying that she's ill and hasn't long to write, then you know that there are unnumbered types of bookslive. Some you read for fun It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some stripped to his underwear and sent to learn from a watery grave in a random way, some for focussed research, and some because they are, broadly speaking, the kind boot of thing you think you might like to writea stolen Ford Sierra. Or, indeed, are actually trying Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to write.|isbn=1783966386home?

|isbnauthor=0751581577Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Lying Beside You|author=Michael RobothamThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Elias Haven murdered Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his parents gran owns and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthdayruns. Voices told him to do it. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who was sent to Rampton, and Eli lives with his thirteen-year-old brotherlovely gran, Cyrus, who hid too – for there is a generation missing in a shed until the police found himfamily. Twenty A few short years laterago, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and heEli's been told that his brother is being releasedparents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Can Cyrus forgive This has made the sinner whilst having race anathema to live on the pair – but when a daily basis bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the results sole aim the prize of magic at the crime? Can he bear end – the only thing to have Elias living in the same house? How will possibly save his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=140595115X178763681X|title=A Stranger on BoardKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Cameron WardOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Right from the beginning, we know this will not turn out wellChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Eight days into the trip He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to deliver the superyacht do what he wanted. Paul ''Escapesomehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to Antiguaassist Paul, all 300 tonnes who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlanticproblems - are all his own. Those of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear a fellow crew member tries The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to pick them off, one by one. Some are already turn up dead. They are three days from shore Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and there is no way of making contact. But let's go back everyone knows that the police consider that person to when all this started, in Southamptonbe the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1398508632Sarah Marsh|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo WildeA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=It had been on the cards for After a bout of scarlet fever as a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning child, Ellen Lark loses her year of eating only wild foodhearing. The end Suddenly plunged into a world of Novembersilence, particularly everything about her life changes. Living in Central Scotland a time when the use of sign language was perhaps not the best time seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to start, in a world school where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate changeshe is taught to lip read, Brexit and a pandemicbut physically restrained from signing. Wilde had a few advantages: From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the area around her was deaf and using a known habitat with a variety of terrainssystem called Visible Speech. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridgeAt the same time, freezer Bell is working on other inventions and dehydrator. She had a car - ideas, and fuel. Most importantly, she had shelter: this was not Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its producecomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=16358646741803816759|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreThe Unravelling|author=Joy HowardWill Gibson

|genre=CookeryScience Fiction|summary=''Think of it as no-whining dining.'' We know itIt's 2038 and Joe is a fruit rather than bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a vegetable but bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the fact AI system that so now runs everything, making life easier for many people get confused just goes , and riots start to show how versatile the tomato isspread. Then there are all the different typesFinally, not Joe gets to mention do some real policing. In the aftermath of the cultivars - rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and you begin Joe is assigned to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasnbring her home. Joe isn't met the only one she didn't love. I'd argue with her there trying to save Suki - I have no affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. PersonallyDylan, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - British superfan and Howard makes good use of thesetech nerd, is also on the case. SheWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's not at all precious if you get the taste.kidnapping connected?

|isbn=02419890271529421284|title=We All Have Our SecretsLaying Out the Bones|author=Jane CorryKate Webb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|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 It was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke one of those flash downpours that the ability to cook British weather often delivers in a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsheatwave. The first person who In a gully, a human skeleton came to the house was Francoise, a French woman in her early twentiessurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who fit the bill perfectlyhad disappeared nine years earlier. She got the job He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but Francoise didnDI Matt Lockyer wasn't know about the advert: she convinced. Geary was there for a completely different reason. townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Emily Gentle is Harold's daughter There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and she came to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in Londontwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. EmilyLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration cold cases to you and a complaint had been mademe) investigate.

|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Ewald Arenz Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and Rachel Ward floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (translatorA D I Wilkins Mystery)|titleauthor=Tasting SunlightSimon Mason

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Sally In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is a teenager who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinicof Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. She just wants space D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and for people to stop questioning herfather of Ryan, tiptoeing around her, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live alonenot. Liss is unlike He's not any other adult Sally has ever metof those things. She just accepts Sally as she is He's white, giving her originated from a room to sleep intrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and the space trackies. They'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're not. The two men are just bedifferent sides of the same policing coin. As they work together on Sometimes the farm, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshipcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn=1914585143

|author=Jennifer MasonMosby Woods|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell MysteryA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The West isn''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-and-pop mobile diner t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the 2004 Olympicsbest course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a women's track coach with a yen push for bullwhipsclimate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a billionaire man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a state-man who can tell you what will happen given any set of-the-art S&M dungeon, a circumstances. That man serving a life sentence in Alabamawould be valuable, an enigmatic signature, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...'' This is just a sample of right? Perhaps the cast of characters and settings most valuable asset in Preposteroushistory. As you can seeImagine then, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of that this mystery story goes like man loses thisability...What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B09STS96HSB0C9SNG8R1