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|isbn=000837936X0241636604|title=The Last Girl to DieTrading Game: A Confession|author=Helen FieldsGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved If you were to Tobermory, on the Isle bring up an image of Mulla city banker in your mind, in search you're unlikely to think of a new lifesomeone like Gary Stevenson. It A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was a bit of a change from Las Vegasfamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs London School of developing a social life - until she disappearedEconomics. The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother Stevenson is obviously Latino?) bright - extremely bright - and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagershe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Brandon, Adriana's twin, was upset and surly. Four-year-old Luna just knew He also realised that she missed her big sistermost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It took four dayswas his ability at what was, essentially, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cavea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. She'd been murdered and it looked like Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a ritual killingtrader.

|isbn=15098896121035021803|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Ann CleevesC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=It's fifty twenty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat Freya Lockwood has been back to Holy Islandthe English country village where she grew up. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and theyShe've been coming s back now because of a request for a reunion every five years since thenhelp from her beloved aunt, Carole. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too Freya's former mentor and Carole's close to high tide and her car was swept awayfriend, but her younger sisterArthur Crockleford, Louisa, has returned with is dead and the group each year as her husbandcircumstances seem suspicious, Ken, was one of to say the original teenagersleast. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow of Arthur was the man he used reason why Freya had not been back to bethe village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Philip Robson now a priest Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, always gets there early as he likes she has not felt able to have some quiet time alone in be near the man or pursue the chapelprofession she loved. Annie Laidler lives locally After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and she provides much married James (on the rebound from the love of the food: her deli is famous in the arealife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1473680883AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Skeleton KeyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Erin KellyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for Opening up new ways of thinking about the rest shape of my lifethings to come. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!''

Nell didnI't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ve heard it said that 'technology'The Golden Bones'is what happens after you're eighteen. She'd had no benefit from it - Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in fact, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challengingmy lifetime. I'd better explain. ve kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'The Golden Bonesm left with the feeling that it'' was a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churchers all getting away from me. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around the countrySome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in Of course, I could research the words possibilities and pictures of the book - probabilities and all end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the parts were discovered except for the pelvislatest conspiracy theorist. As with such quests, some I needed people were obsessive I knew I could trust and the theories became more and more outlandishwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Holly WebbSunny Singh|title=The Story of GreenriverHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have The Hotel Arcadia is a lot luxury hotel in commonan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Silken is a girl whose father is Hiding from the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she site, there is also Sam, a kind of runt figure, wartime photographer and as a result is patronisedAbhi, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam uphotel manager. She also stands out As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge singresidents who are still alive in the hotel, but he tooforms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, as the son and keeps on venturing out of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him her room to be a bit less feckless and more attentive try to classcapture what's happened through her photography. HeAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe from the wolf that and they both animal species fear wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the most, and from dreaded events like a Dark Springterrorists.|isbn=1510109625086154742X

|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt1529153298|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet HazelIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... For the last nine of her eleven years) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, she has though. Women have been stuck as a foundling in a horriddisappearing. Well, Victorian institutionthey've been murdered, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. She Miv's upset because she'd arrived at s overheard that her father wants to move the place at the same time as Pete, and theyfamily 'Down South'. When you're inseparably good friends nowfrom Yorkshire, until Down South is a chance for them both to escapefrightening, and enter the outside worldforeign place, does not go to planbest avoided. There had always been For Miv, the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forestsmove would mean leaving her best friend, Goblyn WoodSharon, and a tribe of Wild Children, but none of she'll do anything to prevent that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care of a professor at the Natural History Museum. But life with him is She's not anything like what she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to worried about the Woods, restore dangers or that her friendship with Pete – and Mum's stopped talking - to work out just what is going on in the forest, both the light and the shade, and the deathly dark..anyone.|isbn=1398503835

|isbn=02419901651398524085|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Cara HunterNicci French

|summary=It began rather oddly. There Charlotte Salter was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but the call hadn't come from the householdernever turned up. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the doorher daughter, Etty. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come inare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. In Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the kitchen there was a body on the floor: of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the head had been blown off with a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife in its right handriver. Richard Swann told It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when hecouldn'd heard sounds of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigatet stand the guilt. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'Salter children are not convinced but there' s little else they can do but get on with their lives and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defencewonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn= Kit De Waal1035906708|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put itWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, “They f*** you upNew York, your mum in December 1923 and dad/ They may not mean only moved to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of BirminghamAthens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father is from Stchanged it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. Kitts When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Caribbean and her Nazi occupation by a mother is an Irish woman ostracized by who mercilessly exploited her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to made no secret of her race, preference for her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with careelder sister, love, and the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentsJackie.|isbn=1472284836

|author=David LagercrantzChristopher Edge|title=Dark MusicBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=34|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=How far from the original can Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind movie marathon at the heart of what little investigating is going ontheir local cinema, but there is not a lot place that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, has the main focus nickname of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD'The Black Hole'. SheAll big movie fans, they's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect re looking forward to lots of oldexciting films, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchand many, and just outside the stadium. many snacks! BeppeHowever, as the suspectmovie starts, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anythingthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, through days and weeks of interrogationthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think But as they can judge Micaela lurch from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) are told one film genre to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allthe next, she can only smirk when he says Beppe they figure out what on earth is innocent and the investigation is a shambles. going on? But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve Will they ever get back to the crimecinema, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, 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...their real lives?|isbn=15294131921839942738

|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMRachel Greenlaw|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=It's 'I can hear the 10th song of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrthe sea. Just to put what happens in contextThe call of the deep, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh answering beat in peoplemy heart.''s minds Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The world has barely had a chance Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to breathe outsurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But for Joe Marrwhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, itthey capture the island's not the missile crisis thatleader and Mira's at the front of his mindfather. He's been convicted Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a 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 murdera family 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 current state watched streets of medical knowledge, it's hard foreign islands to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queenheart of the smuggler's Benchterritory, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used Mira must be determined to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning stop at nothing to be wary save the future of her home and the McArthur brothersones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1846976146James Sherwood Metts|title=The Bone Road|author=N E SolomonsPlanet Storyland

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Heather Bishop, Things have been a bit sticky for the former Olympic cyclistEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, flew often replacing jobs they're paid to Bosnia do and other tasks that took time to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonaccomplish. She even took their bikes so Just as they could have a few days' break in the region. It was a little worrying that he didn't seem exactly pleased were beginning to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel room. Heather had get used to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions all this technological change and her memory were not up starting to the standard she would need think of other, new ways to race againspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done Life was pretty much shut down and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herself, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Judith EagleMatthew Tree|title=The Accidental StowawayWe'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Patch is a little girl who has been passed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from one relation to another, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go to. Her his father died when she was very young, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and her mother ran awaywho had endless crises of self confidence. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges for her So Tim applied himself to go to a school in Liverpoolhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipachievable ambitions. During a chase with him (when she is both trying to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboat, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0760379874A G Slatter|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsFantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I learned just want to knit in the nineteen-fifties: enjoy it wasnfor a while.''t  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a choicetown under the protection of the Briar's, it was a requirementfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Girls learned Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to knit be born into her family for generations and to embroider as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and boys did wood administration rather than spells and metal workpotions. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised that there was pleasure to be had in When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the skill. Nearly seventy years later ittown'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 only thing that keeps my hands dead, putting her at all supple. The turning point was the heart of a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics and some patternsmaelstrom of chaos. I've been looking for something simple Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to recommend trust and determine what to people whodo as the Briar witches'd like legacy, everything they have sacrificed to master the skillsurvive, is under threat. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor1529900360|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Alice EclairIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. A perfect eye His assertions that there were only open-and very careful hands have made her one -shut cases which didn't need the help of Parisa psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's best young cake makers and decoratorspartner, making sure her mother's establishment is a classy affairwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Not bad for a thirteen year oldShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. OhThe next case did look simple, and though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyproperty in Bel Air. Her first real mission will be to chase a traitor across the country – working behind He was the scenes on a posh sleeper train heir to the south of France, an Italian shoe empire and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents is married to creep into an extremely rich man and it's not the country from getting into nefarious handsItalian. But while nobody would have her down as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find which of them was the baddyprimary target?|isbn=1839940956

|isbn=07603799121529395224|title=Super Easy Quilting for BeginnersLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Editors of Quarry BooksSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned Siôn Rowlands fell into something new veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and usable Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when I 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 family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was in my twentiesat Liverpool University. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but Ihadn've never felt completely at home t - as with quilting. I needed something so many students - been his dream since he was a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knotschild. If anything, he''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like d wanted to be a good place to startprofessional footballer. So, how did it stack up?

|isbn=17883607370861541774|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era A Nye of PostmodernismPheasants|author=Alexander AdamsSteve Burrows|rating=24|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a vacuumstreet brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that ‘’Every man… contributes he might have planned to modifying murder the social environment in which man. Now he develops’’. Therefore, all art must could be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in facing the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sakedeath penalty. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists Domenic Jejeune can do nothing 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 help as any interference from another police force could provoke a more globalist diplomatic incident and progressive regime. Or wouldn't help Danny at least that’s what Alexander Adams believesall.

|isbnauthor=1408712172Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyrePerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Many of them didn't know each other, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each other. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's the round-up for Jen's hen party which The Perfect Passion Company is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying a dating agency in The Cliff HouseEdinburgh, hosted run by Lauren, Ness and it's operating as an alternative to all the utmost online apps in luxury living but then Jen can afford itproviding a more personal, tailored service. She's just sold Ness has asked her muffin younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business for millions but , as Ness is staying on planning to take a trip to run itCanada to get away for a while. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting Katie is coming out of a break up with a little strangely of late bad boyfriend, and wouldn't explain so jumps at the chance to come home to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutEdinburgh. Added And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to thatan Edinburgh we already love, he's just about forced her thanks to bring his sister44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, Samirabut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, whom Jen's never metor in match-making, on the tripbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, on the grounds that sheand there's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months always her very helpful (and desperately needs the break.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=17883607020811771741|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Edzard ErnstMelissa Leapman

|genre=BiographyCrafts|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. Melissa Leapman's ''Charles, The Alternative PrinceInstaKnits for Baby'' critically assesses gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the Prince's opinionslong, beliefs and aims against the background cosy afternoons in front of the scientific evidencefire' variety. There The projects are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to divided by the reputation of a man who is proud of his refusal time they'll take to apply evidencecomplete -basedless than five hours, five to ten hours, logical reasoning ten to his ambitionstwenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author=Will CarverDean Koontz|title=The Daves Next DoorBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as Benny is having a suicide bomber prepares terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to detonate his vest on 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 very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a London tube linenice person. A really nice person. As their fates overlap, So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the story delivery to his house is told in backwards ordera new friend, leading up a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the fateful momenthelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn= 19145851861662500491}}

|isbnauthor=1529125790Adam Stower|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa JewellMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=In July 2019, Jason Mott was mud larking on the banks of the River Thames when he came across a bag of what appeared Murray is supposed to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu a humble, tidy and Saffron Brown from forensics were there friendly cat, one who is able to investigatesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. The bones were indeed human: But he's a young woman had bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been killed by turned into a blow to hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but the bones had catflap they both use can chuck them out, not been in into the river longer than regular back garden, but into a yearworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. There This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was no identification , to be honest, but the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusual.he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Jennifer MasonB0C47LV1PC|title=Partitions of UnityFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Here at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled Can you make a series of disappearances. In ''Partitions of UnityYo birthing person''joke? And if you could, she sets her mind to solving a murderis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be....no.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 1529431735|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, It's February 1991 and being audacious enough to review it? Truth Essex is I bought it out of curiositybitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. I was at an He'd been exiled on-line launch the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for the a decade. book The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and Fiona’s description of her Vision Days appealed hasn't long to melive. I wanted It's hard to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to mentor – without committing them his underwear and sent to a full day, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrowwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. I also wanted to see if I could give myself Is it a Vision Day, to bring me away warning from their vision and back a Spanish gang or a problem closer to my own.|isbn=103211603Xhome?

|isbnauthor=1913750353Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Britannica's Word The Glorious Race of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyMagical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Britannica's Word of Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the Day'' has evening a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant bookruns. It starts on January 1st Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli''Razzmatazz'', tells you how s parents were both lost to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ'')the titular race, gives you a definition and then includes globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the word world in the company of a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration toomagical beast. I don't think I've ever encountered This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a word which uses confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the letter Z four times before!only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=A C Wise178763681X|title=HookedKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in NeverlandBelgravia. Living He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a new life in London, way of getting both men and women to do what he has never completely escaped his pastwanted. But now Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he senses 'd be at the edges of school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the beast circling around problems - are all his life in London, and when suddenly own. The one thing he finds himself face hadn't expected was for someone to face in the street with Wendyturn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the line between this world and Neverland is growing thin. The beast is finally coming police consider that person to get him, and in be the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againprime suspect.|isbn=1789096839

|isbnauthor=1787301745Sarah Marsh|title=Confidence|author=Denise MinaA Sign of Her Own

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=We're back in the world After a bout of podcasters Anna and Finscarlet fever as a child, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]Ellen Lark loses her hearing. It was Anna who'd organised the 'family' holiday: her exSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, Hamish, is now with everything about her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with themlife changes. Fin (who Living in a time when the use of sign language was married seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to Estelle) a school where she is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriendtaught to lip read, Sofia. It's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistakebut physically restrained from signing. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseFrom here, she ends up in a storm - she begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess deaf and ten-year-old Lizzie - when the time was rightusing a system called Visible Speech. And this wasn't At the right same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=178763566X1803816759|title=Listen to MeThe Unravelling|author=Tess GerritsenWill Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=WeIt're in Boston with Amys 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. When she set out Joe longs for university this morning it was a spring day bit of adventure and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - and unsafe - in get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the snow AI system that's now fallingruns everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. As she crosses In the road, a car comes out aftermath of nowhere the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and hits Joe is assigned to bring herhome. It doesnJoe isn't stop. Two months later, we're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolithe only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, and a keen defender of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she lives. Nothing gets past her British superfan and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsaktech nerd, is in California, looking after his sister, she has also on the case. What went wrong? Did the time to watch whatsystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.kidnapping connected?

|isbn=00083956321529421284|title=One Last SecretLaying Out the Bones|author=Adele ParksKate Webb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Natalya is an escort. Well, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: It was one of those flash downpours that's her professional name but it is the British weather often delivers in a nod to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulskiheatwave. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being In a polite description of a prostitutegully, run by a pimphuman skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, whohad disappeared nine years earlier. He's turning tricks to fund d been a known drug habituser and had learning disabilities, forget so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Dora is Geary was a professional in all senses townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the wordtime. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients to see Major Crimes Review Unit (that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue cold cases to you and Customsme) investigate.

|authorisbn=David Solomons0571379559|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Gavin ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is being followed, seemingly constantly, by the new (very annoying) girl at school. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyof four people. Because in this instance, the girl Tess Hembry's roots are in question is Niki, and Jamaica: temperamentally she is a galactic princess (nomight be happier there, reallybut instead, she is!) So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled lives in a situation where, potentially, Earth and everyone the house on it will be blown to smithereensthe riverbank, all because built of Niki?|isbn=0857639935}}{{Frontpage|author=Alex Cotter|title=The Mermaid Call|rating=3broken bricks.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don Insubstantial as it might look, it't exist. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in s stood the public eye. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – a far northern English resort – without thempassage of time, storms and floods. A hundred years and change agoHer husband, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaidsRichard, but were forced struggles to return grow his vegetables, to help out with complete the Great War effortdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They also showed female emancipationhave twin boys - Sonny and Max, which helped create the townrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's tourism industry, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success storyJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. AlicePeople don't believe that they're related, a girl who stumbles into Vivienmuch less twins and there's gran's tourist shop one day, knows an assumption when Max is out with his mother that 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 hunthis nanny. 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=1839941901

|isbn=17398051001529425867|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of warLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Andrew MarchSimon Mason

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary= In 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, is not. He's not any of those things. He'Loving the Enemys white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' tells the quite extraordinary story his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of author Andrew Marchshell suits and trackies. They's grandparents, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went to Dresden to teach in the early days of the Nazi regime re usually in the 1930slime green or acid yellow. Fred, You might wonder if you're being introduced to a sensitive and thoughtful manpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, had some vague ideas you're not. The two men are just different sides of "building bridges" which may guard against the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at same policing coin. Sometimes the timecombination works brilliantly well. Fred Sometimes it's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a lifetimeproblematic.

|isbnauthor=B0B575J99NMosby Woods|title=Beneath the Porticoes|author=Brooke AdamsA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Elizabeth Miller The West isn't the dominant force it once was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more Nobody in life. She'd ''still not found the right vocation nor met West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the right man'' and now was the time to make best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a changepush for climate action there. She needed challengesA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. There Imagine then, there was a little trepidation when she applied for man with precognition. Imagine the professoressa job strategic advantage in Bolognathis asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. After a telephone interviewThat man would be valuable, she was offered right? Perhaps the position and it wasn't long before she was exploring the beautiful citymost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. There were some natural doubts before her first class but What would governments do to get it went surprisingly well.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1