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|isbn=02419901650241636604|title=Hope The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to Die (D I Fawley)bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Cara HunterC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=It began rather oddly's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. There was She's back now because of a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the call hadn't come from circumstances seem suspicious, to say the householderleast. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything Arthur was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder reason why Freya had not been back to answer the doorvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. He somewhat reluctantly told them that Even though they'd better come were inbusiness together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. In After the kitchen there was split, she worked in a body cafe, met and married James (on the floor: rebound from the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse love of her life, who was holding a knife in its right hand. Richard Swann told the police that he'd heard sounds of an intruder murdered) and had come downstairs to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'' Freya and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defenceJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn= Kit De WaalAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Without Warning All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Only SometimesStephen Oram (Editors)|rating= 45|genre= AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard itsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, “They f*** you I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean reasonably well with what's advantageous to, me but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and I'm left with the bonds feeling that bind familyit's all getting away from me. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area Some of Birmingham. Her father it is from St- frankly - quite frightening. Kitts in Of course, I could research the Caribbean possibilities and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by the probabilities and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the autobiographylatest conspiracy theorist. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class I needed people I knew I could trust and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, and the kind of anger only who could deliver information in a child can express to their parentsway I could understand.|isbn=1472284836

|author=David LagercrantzSunny Singh|title=Dark MusicHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=How far from the original can The Hotel Arcadia is a book allegedly inspired luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart 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 wavelengthterrorist group. For one, Hiding from the main focus of the narrativeterrorists who are rampaging through, Micaelakilling everyone on site, there is no John Watson MD. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm policeSam, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of oldwartime photographer and Abhi, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumhotel manager. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the ref during residents who are still alive in the closing minuteshotel, but he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to admit anythingbe cowed by events, through days and weeks keeps on venturing out of interrogation. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told room to try to go and see capture what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shambles's happened through her photography. But taken off Although they only ever talk over the casephone, she can no longer their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help solve the crime, her keep safe and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it all. Until, that may they both wait to see if they will be, she manages to stop him in rescued before they are discovered by the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..terrorists.|isbn=1529413192086154742X

|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1529153298|title=The Calculations List of Rational MenSuspicious Things|author=Daniel Jennie Godfrey

|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Just to put what happens in context(A woman? I mean, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindshonestly.. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. ) But for Joe Marr, itShe's not the missile crisis thatwhat's worrying Miv's at the front of his mindfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. HeWell, they's ve been convicted of murdermurdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. With the current state of medical knowledge, itMiv's upset because she's hard overheard that her father wants to think otherwise than that move the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queenfamily 'Down South'. When you's Benchre from Yorkshire, Down South is a relatively new prisonfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. He's just getting used to his roommateFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, MervynSharon, and learning she'll do anything to be wary of prevent that. She's not worried about the McArthur brothersdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=18469761461398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=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. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Bone RoadSalter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=N E SolomonsDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Heather BishopWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, the former Olympic cyclistNew York, flew in December 1923 and only moved to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan MackinnonAthens when she was thirteen. She even took their bikes so they could have a few daysHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' break to make it more manageable in the regionStates. It When she was a little worrying back in Athens - supposedly so that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see she could get appropriate training for her: voice - she even wondered if he had a woman in was raised under the hotel room. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after Nazi occupation by a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but mother who mercilessly exploited her reactions and made no secret of her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfpreference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Judith EagleChristopher Edge|title=The Accidental StowawayBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=Patch is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a little girl who has been passed from one relation to anothermovie marathon at their local cinema, until it seems a place that there is nobody left for her to go tohas the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Her father died when she was very youngAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and her mother ran away. many, many snacks! The family lawyerHowever, after consultation with ‘someone’as the movie starts, arranges for her to go to a school in Liverpoolthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, but on her arrival there, she gets caught and they are swept up in into an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipthey couldn't even imagine. During a chase with him (when she But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is both trying to going on? Will they ever get her rollerskate back and running away from to the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatcinema, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!to their real lives?|isbn=05713631211839942738

|isbnauthor=0760379874Rachel Greenlaw|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''I learned to knit can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in the nineteen-fifties: it wasnmy heart.''t  Rosevear, a choiceremote and partially forgotten island, it was a requirementsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Girls learned Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to knit survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to embroider end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and boys did wood and metal workMira's father. My knitting wa accompanied by Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a lot bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised family secret that there was pleasure to be had lies buried deep in the skillsea. Nearly seventy years later itWith 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's the only thing that keeps my hands territory, Mira must be determined to stop at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all nothing to save the basics future of her home and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skillones she holds most dear. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn=0008664730

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorJames Sherwood Metts|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroublePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Alice EclairThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. A perfect eye AI and very careful hands automation have made her one of Paris's best young cake makers and decoratorsbeen proceeding apace, making sure her motheroften replacing jobs they's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. Oh, re paid to do and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyother tasks that took time to accomplish. Her first real mission will be Just as they were beginning to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train get used to all this technological change and starting to the south think of Franceother, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents new ways to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsspend time, along came an awful pandemic. But while nobody would have her Life was pretty much shut down as a spyand, along with it, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find all the baddy?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=18399409561736128426

|isbnauthor=0760379912Matthew Tree|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be turned into something new different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and usable when I was in my twentieswho had endless crises of self confidence. It would be a while before it became a pleasure So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than a chore his daydreams and set himself high but I've never felt completely at home with quiltingachievable ambitions. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to start. So, how did it stack up?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788360737|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|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 to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. 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 and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.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 goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making lifeeasier for many, and riots start to spread. She'd ''still not found Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the right vocation nor met aftermath of the right manrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn'' and now was t the time only one trying to make save Suki - Dylan, a changeBritish superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. She needed challenges. There was a little trepidation when she applied for What went wrong? Did the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interview, she system fail or was offered the position and it wasnhacked? And how is Suki't long before she was exploring the beautiful city. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly well.s kidnapping connected?

|isbn=15291258981529421284|title=Godmersham Park|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''If it were not for Laying Out 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 the position of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austen. She had no experience of teaching but this was a case of necessity. Until the death of her mother, Anne had a comfortable life and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from 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.}}{{FrontpageBones|author=Lev Parikian |title=Light Rains Sometimes FallKate 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.

|isbnauthor=1398508632Mosby Woods|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo WildeA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=It had been on The West isn't the cards for a while but dominant force it once was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly Nobody in Central Scotland was perhaps not the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best time to startcourse of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by push for climate changeaction there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, Brexit and there was a pandemicman with precognition. Wilde had a few advantages: Imagine the area around her was strategic advantage in this asset; a known habitat with a variety man who can tell you what will happen given any set of terrainscircumstances. She had electricity which allowed her to run a fridgeThat man would be valuable, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuelright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Most importantlyImagine then, she had shelter: that this man loses this was not a plan ability. What would governments do to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1