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|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=David LagercrantzGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=Dark MusicThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=How far from It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? English country village where she grew up. This does have a wonder-mind at the heart She's back now because of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus of the narrativerequest for help from her beloved aunt, Micaela, is no John Watson MDCarole. SheFreya's former mentor and Carole's a Chilean in the Stockholm policeclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, put on a murder squad as she knows is dead and the prime suspect of oldcircumstances seem suspicious, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside say the stadiumleast. Beppe, Arthur was the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic reason why Freya had not been back to the ref during the closing minutesvillage: Arthur, but refuses to admit anythingshe feels, through days and weeks of interrogationlet her down badly. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up withEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told has not felt able to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, be near the man or pursue the profession she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblesloved. But taken off After the casesplit, she can no longer help solve the crimeworked in a cafe, met and with Rekke married James (on the rebound from the most erratic, irregular kind love of guyher life, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1529413192

|isbn=B0B2N7MVYMAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Calculations of Rational MenAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Daniel GodfreyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=It's 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the 10th shape of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrthings to come. Just to put '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens in context, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in peopleafter you's mindsre eighteen. The world has barely had Well, I must confess that there have been more than a chance to breathe outfew decades of technology in my lifetime. But for Joe Marr, itI've kept up reasonably well with what's not advantageous to me but I'm left with the missile crisis feeling thatit's at the front all getting away from me. Some of his mindit is - frankly - quite frightening. HeOf course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's m reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been convicted of murderviolently taken over by a terrorist group. With Hiding from the current state of medical knowledgeterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, it's hard the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to think otherwise than that care remotely for the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days residents who are still alive in HMP Queenthe hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's Bench, a relatively new prisonhappened through her photography. He's just getting used Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to his roommate, Mervyn, help her keep safe and learning they both wait to see if they will be wary of rescued before they are discovered by the McArthur brothersterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=18469761461529153298|title=The Bone RoadList of Suspicious Things|author=N E SolomonsJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Heather BishopIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, the former Olympic cyclisthonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonthough. Women have been disappearing. She even took their bikes so Well, they could 've been murdered, but to have a few days' break in the regiondisappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. It was a little worrying Miv's upset because she's overheard that he didn't seem exactly pleased her father wants to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in move the hotel roomfamily 'Down South'. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her reactions best friend, Sharon, and her memory were not up to the standard she would need 'll do anything to race againprevent that. Sometimes she couldnShe't be certain s not worried about what she had the dangers or hadnthat her Mum't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfs stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1398524085|title=The Accidental StowawayHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Patch is a little girl who has been passed from one relation to another, until it seems that there is nobody left for Charlotte Salter was expected at her to go tohusband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her father died when she was very youngchildren, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her mother ran awaydaughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. The family lawyerShortly afterwards, after consultation with ‘someone’Etty and Greg, arranges for her to go to a school in Liverpoolfind the body of Greg's father, but on her arrival thereDuncan Ackerley, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipthe river. During a chase with him (when she is both trying It was an easy assumption for the police to get her rollerskate back make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and running away from then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the police!) she winds up guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on the steamship hiding in a lifeboat, with their lives and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=07603798741035906708|title=Super Easy Knitting for BeginnersDiva|author=Carri HammettDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=I learned We tend to knit in the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choicethink of Maria Callas as Greek, it but she was a requirement. Girls learned born to knit Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to embroider and boys did wood and metal workAthens when she was thirteen. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tears: Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to be had 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the skillStates. Nearly seventy years later it's the only thing When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that keeps my hands at all supple. The turning point she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics mother who mercilessly exploited her and some patterns. I've been looking made no secret of her preference for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skillher elder sister, Jackie. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorChristopher Edge|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Alice Eclair. A perfect eye Lucas and very careful hands have made her one his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of Paris's best young cake makers and decorators, making sure her motherThe Black Hole's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! OhHowever, as the movie starts, and a perfect eye and a they very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she quickly realise that something about this new film format is a very competent young spydifferent, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Her first real mission will be But as they lurch from one film genre to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes next, can they figure out what on earth is going on a posh sleeper train ? Will they ever get back to the south of Francecinema, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious hands. But while nobody would have her down as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find the baddytheir real lives?|isbn=18399409561839942738

|isbnauthor=0760379912Rachel Greenlaw|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to be turned into something new survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and usable any treasure that lies within. But when I was in my twentiesthe Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. It would be Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a while before it became bargain with a pleasure rather than wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a chore but Ifamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler've never felt completely s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home with quiltingand the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730}}{{Frontpage|author=James Sherwood Metts|title=Planet Storyland|rating=4. I needed something 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Things have been a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotsbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place re paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to startspend time, along came an awful pandemic. SoLife was pretty much shut down and, how did along with it stack up?, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1788360737Matthew Tree|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander AdamsWe'll Never Know|rating=24.5|genre= Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be politicaldifferent from his father, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sakeself confidence. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists So Tim applied himself to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believesset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1408712172A G Slatter|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyreBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=''Many There's a part of them didn't know each other, one me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of them didn't know anybodymy own, including Jenall mine, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each otherat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. What could possibly go wrong?''

ThatWithin 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 round-up town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for Jen's hen party which magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barrabe 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. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by LaurenWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, and itEllie's cousin Audra becomes the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. SheBriar Witch, the town's just sold leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got As challenges come her doubts about way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her what at the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Added Reeling from one family secret to thatanother, he's just about forced her Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jendo as the Briar witches's never metlegacy, on the tripeverything they have sacrificed to survive, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17883607021529900360|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyGhost Orchid|author=Edzard ErnstJonathan Kellerman

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine badly injured but he felt responsible and complementary therapieseven 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''Charlest need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the PrinceDelaware's opinionspartner, beliefs and aims against who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the background of involvement was something that the scientific evidenceman she loved needed. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the reputation swimming pool of a man who remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is proud of his refusal married to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionsan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Will Carver1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Daves Next DoorSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a suicide bomber prepares GP and Rowlands didn't want to detonate follow in his vest footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a London tube linefamily friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. As their fates overlap Before long, the story is told in backwards orderhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, leading up he'd wanted to the fateful momentbe a professional footballer.|isbn= 1914585186}}

|isbn=15291257900861541774|title=The Family RemainsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Lisa JewellSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In July 2019DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Jason Mott Guy Trueman. Maik was mud larking on the banks of the River Thames when involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he came across was facing a man armed with a bag of what appeared to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu knife - and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigatehe killed a Ghurka. The bones were indeed human: Initially, he faced a young woman had been killed by a blow charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but the bones had not been in man. Now he could be facing the river longer than a yeardeath penalty. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualDomenic 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.

|author=Jennifer MasonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Partitions of UnityThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix run by Ness and unintentional detective operating as an alternative to all the online apps in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]providing a more personal, when tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she investigated could come and unravelled look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a series while. Katie is coming out of disappearancesa break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. 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 Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. In ''Partitions of Unity' Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, she sets her mind to solving lend a murder....hand…|isbn=B09LQR9FRF1846976596

|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 0811771741|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosityblankets. I was at an onSome will be quick knits -line launch for others are of the book and Fiona’s description 'long, cosy afternoons in front of her Vision Days appealed to methe fire' variety. I wanted The projects are divided by the time they'll take to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying complete - less than five hours, five to mentor – without committing them ten hours, ten to a full daytwenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrowmodern and useable. I also wanted to see if perhaps show my age when I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me away from their vision and back to my ownbeing picky.|isbn=103211603X

|isbnauthor=1913750353Dean Koontz|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionParanormal|summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' 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 subreally weird, disturbing coffin-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances sized object to Stretch Your Cranium his home, and Tickle Your Humerusit'' which probably tells you all s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that you need has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to know about deserve all this brilliant bookbad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ'')his house is a new friend, gives you a definition and then includes the word in bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a sentence so that you know how it should be usedgood person. You also get an engaging Spike is going to take care of Benny, and frequently amusing illustration too. I donwill certainly take care of Benny't think Is enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=A C WiseAdam Stower|title=HookedMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain HookMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, now going by just ‘James’one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, has been in Neverland. Living a new life in Londonwell, he has never completely escaped whatever takes his pastfancy next of the two. But now he senses the edges of the beast circling around 's a bad magician's cat, so his life in Londonfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendycatflap they both use can chuck them out, he knows that not into the line between this regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and Neverland is growing thinwhiffs. The beast This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is finally coming expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to get himbe honest, but he's turned up and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once again.he'll have to do…|isbn=17890968390008561249

|isbn=1787301745B0C47LV1PC|title=ConfidenceFragility|author=Denise MinaMosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=WeCan you make a 're back in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the Yo birthing person'family' holiday: her exjoke? And if you could, Hamishis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with themthat the answer for both could well be.... Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofiano. It ''Fragility's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, in a storm - she cautiously begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell emerge from the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when restrictions imposed during the time was right. And this wasn't the right time.covid pandemic

|isbn=178763566X1529431735|title=Listen to MeThe Winter Visitor|author=Tess GerritsenJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=WeIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins're in Boston with Amyreturn all the more surprising. When she set out He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that theydecade. The return has come about because he're going to be ruined s had a letter from his ex- and unsafe - in the snow wife, saying thatshe's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere ill and hits her. It doesnhasn't stoplong to live. Two months later, we It're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolis hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a keen defender of watery grave in the suburb boot of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesa stolen Ford Sierra. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.home?

|isbnauthor=0008395632Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Natalya Eli is a busy lad – by day an escortapprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. WellEli lives with his lovely gran, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it too – for there is a nod to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulskigeneration missing in the family. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimpA few short years ago, whoEli's turning tricks parents were both lost to fund a drug habitthe titular race, forget it. Dora is a professional globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in all senses the company of the worda magical beast. She This has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income and deals with made the race anathema to the payments pair – but checks out when a bad incident at the clients eatery leads to see that Dora a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customspossibly save his gran. |isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=David Solomons178763681X|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Gavin is being followed, seemingly constantly, by the new (very annoying) girl Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery schoolin Belgravia. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyHe didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Because in this instance, Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the girl in question is Nikischool to assist Paul, and she is who had a galactic princess (nobroken arm, really, she is!) but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. So what will Gavin do when The one thing he becomes embroiled in a situation wherehadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, potentially, Earth he was the person who discovered the body and everyone on it will knows that the police consider that person to be blown to smithereens, all because of Niki?|isbn=0857639935the prime suspect.

|author=Alex CotterSarah Marsh|title=The Mermaid CallA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't existAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in the public eyeSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – Living in a far northern English resort – without them. A hundred years and change agotime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced Ellen is sent to return a school where she is taught to help out with the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the town's tourism industrylip read, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success storyphysically restrained from signing. Alice, a girl who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one dayFrom here, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful ends up in her huntanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. When At the shysame time, doubting Thomasina that Bell is Vivien collides with the exuberantworking on other inventions and ideas, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in water – will they find?a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=18399419011035401614

|isbn=17398051001803816759|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of warThe Unravelling|author=Andrew March|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary= ''Loving the Enemy'' tells the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime in the 1930s. Fred, a sensitive and thoughtful man, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at the time. Fred's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a lifetime. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0B575J99N|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsWill Gibson

|genre=Women's Science Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four It's 2038 and Joe is a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New YorkCity. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something more in life. She'd ''still not found goes horribly wrong with the right vocation nor met the right man'' and AI system that now was the time to make a change. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied runs everything, making life easier for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewmany, she was offered the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful cityriots start to spread. There were Finally, Joe gets to do some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly wellreal policing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529125898|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''If it were not for In the casual dereliction aftermath of the odd gentleman's duty, there would no women rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to teach well-bred daughters at allbring her home.Joe isn'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-t the only one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park trying to take up the position of governess to twelvesave Suki -year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the death of her motherDylan, Anne had a comfortable life British superfan and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from tech nerd, is also on the householdcase. When her mother died, her father cast her off and would have nothing more to do with her. No explanation What went wrong? Did the system fail or 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.it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 1529421284|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary= If you’re It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a writer yourselfheatwave. In a gully, or an aspiring writera human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, or someone who pretends to writehad disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, then you know that there are unnumbered types so it could have been a simple case of booksmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Some you read for fun, some for distraction, some for vicarious emotion, some to learn from in Geary was a random waytownie, some for focussed research, and some because they so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are, broadly speaking, connections to the kind suicide of thing you think you might like Holly Gilbert and to writetwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Or, indeed, are actually trying Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to writeyou and me) investigate.|isbn=1783966386

|isbn=07515815770571379559|title=Lying Beside YouThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Michael RobothamFiona Williams

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthday''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. Voices told him to do Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Only two people survived the carnage - EliasHer husband, Richard, who was sent struggles to Ramptongrow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and his thirteento bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -year-old brotherSonny and Max, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until the police found himrainbow twins. Twenty years laterSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist much less twins and hethere's been told an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his brother is being releasednanny. Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?

|isbn=140595115X1529425867|title=Lost and Never Found (A Stranger on BoardD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Cameron WardSimon Mason

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Right from the beginningIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, we know this will is not turn out well. Eight days into the trip to deliver the superyacht He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Escapereally'' to Antigua, all 300 tonnes his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and six decks will be floundering without power trackies. They're usually in the Atlanticlime green or acid yellow. Those of the crew who are left will be cowering in fear You might wonder if you're being introduced to a fellow crew member tries to pick them offpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, one by oneyou're not. Some The two men are already deadjust different sides of the same policing coin. They are three days from shore and there is no way of making contactSometimes the combination works brilliantly well. But letSometimes it's go back to when all this started, in Southamptonproblematic.

|isbn=1398508632|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=1635864674Mosby Woods|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy HowardA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=CookeryLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''Think of t the dominant force it as no-whining diningonce was.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but Nobody in the fact that so many people get confused just goes West is quite sure how to show how versatile mend this or even if mending it is the tomato isbest course of action. Then there Governments are all the different types, not to mention the cultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't loveflailing. I'd argue with her there - 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. PersonallyA war here, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of thesepush for climate action there. She's not at all precious if you get the taste.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241989027|title=We All Have Our Secrets|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for live-A feeling that nobody is in help as he was failing to cope at Willowmead House on his ownactual charge. His advert was fairly specific: he was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability to cook a good steakImagine then, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fads. The first person who came to the house there was Francoise, a French woman in her early twenties, who fit the bill perfectlyman with precognition. She got the job but Francoise didn't know about Imagine 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 strategic advantage in London. Emily's this asset; 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 Sunlight|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Sally is a teenager man who has run away from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and for people to stop questioning her, 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 alone. Liss is unlike can tell you what will happen given any other adult Sally has ever metset of circumstances. She just accepts Sally as she isThat man would be valuable, giving her a room to sleep right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in, and the space to just behistory. As they work together on the farmImagine then, a closeness develops between them, becoming a beautiful, powerful friendshipthat this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1914585143B0C9SNG8R1