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|isbn=09897153370241636604|title=Papa on the MoonThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Marco NorthGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Some frogs had gotten into re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the well.'' ''Walter stood waistpin-deep in stripe suit and his background is the fragrant waterEast End, where he was familiar with violence, naked except for poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his beaten leather hat. Long strands CV - but he had been to the London School of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside themEconomics. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and barked down at the strange noise he has a facility with numbers which most of the buckets as he filled themus can only envy.'' How is He also realised that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic most rich people expect poor people to wistful and musingbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, turning on a sixpencecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. And author Marco North Eventually, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts this turned into permanent employment as he means to go ona trader.

|isbn=140639131X1035021803|title=A Practical Present for Philippa PheasantThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Briony May SmithC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Philippa Pheasant was It''tired'' of nearly getting squished as she tried s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to cross the Old Oak RoadEnglish country village where she grew up. She wrote to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get s back now because of a replyrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Philippa wasnFreya's former mentor and Carole't a bird s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to sit back on her tail feathers when there say the least. Arthur was a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of reason why Freya had not been back to the lollipop lady at the school crossing and decided that village: Arthur, she would set up something similar herselffeels, let her down badly. Her uniform and lollipop stick Even though they were both a little amateur in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to start with but be near the benefits were obviousman or pursue the profession she loved. All After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the animals used rebound from the crossing love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and Hedgehog was even trained up to provide a safe path overnightJames have now divorced.

|isbn=000837936XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Last Girl to DieAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Helen FieldsBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to Tobermorycome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, on the Isle I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of Mull, technology in search of a new lifemy lifetime. It was a bit of a change from Las Vegas, I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of developing a social life it is - frankly - until she disappearedquite frightening. The local police demonstrated little interest in Of course, I could research the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) possibilities and Rob the probabilities and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersknows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Brandon, Adriana's twin, was upset I needed people I knew I could trust and surlywho could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3. Four-year-old Luna just knew 5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that she missed her big sisterhas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It took four daysHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, but Sadie found Adriana the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in Mackinnonthe 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 Cavehappened through her photography. She'd been murdered Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and it looked like a ritual killingthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=15098896121529153298|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)List of Suspicious Things|author=Ann CleevesJennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Island1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and Well, they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then. There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept awaymurdered, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagersto have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Ken now has AlzheimerMiv's and heupset because she's a shadow of overheard that her father wants to move the man he used to befamily 'Down South'. Philip Robson now When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a priestfrightening, foreign place, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapelbest avoided. Annie Laidler lives locally For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she provides much of 'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the food: dangers or that her deli is famous in the areaMum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=14736808831398524085|title=The Skeleton KeyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Erin KellyNicci French

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for the rest of my life. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!'' Nell didn't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the s fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''birthday party but never turned up. She'd had no benefit from it - in factHer children, sons Niall, it had made Paul and Ollie and her life precarious and unbelievably challengingdaughter, Etty. I'd better explainare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. ''The Golden Bones'' was a treasure quest book painted Shortly afterwards, Etty and written by Frank and Cora Churcher. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around Greg, find the country. The clues - some body of them quite tortuous - were disguised Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the words and pictures of river. It was an easy assumption for the book - police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and all the parts were discovered except for then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the pelvisguilt. As The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with such quests, some people were obsessive and the theories became more their lives and more outlandishwonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Holly Webb1035906708|title=The Story of GreenriverDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Silken and SedgeWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, for all their differencesNew York, have a lot in commonDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Silken is a girl whose Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father is the Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenriver. Unfortunately she is also a kind of runt figure, and as a result is patronised, and given the most tokenistic tasks when changed it comes to fetching wood and shoring 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the dam upStates. She also stands out When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge sing, but he too, as the son of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him to be Nazi occupation by a bit less feckless mother who mercilessly exploited her and more attentive to class. He, after all, will eventually inherit the job made no secret of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the mosther preference for her elder sister, and from dreaded events like a Dark SpringJackie.|isbn=1510109625

|author=Anna Kemp and David WyattChristopher Edge|title=Into Goblyn WoodBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as a foundling Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a horridmovie marathon at their local cinema, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servant. She'd arrived at the place at that has the same time as Petenickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, and they're inseparably good friends now, until a chance for them both looking forward to escapelots of exciting films, and enter the outside worldmany, many snacks! However, does not go to plan. There had always been the idea of a life idyllic in as the nearby forestsmovie starts, Goblyn Woodthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and a tribe of Wild Children, but none of that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care of a professor at the Natural History Museumthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But life with him is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return as they lurch from one film genre to the Woodsnext, restore her friendship with Pete – and to work can they figure out just what on earth is going on in ? Will they ever get back to the forestcinema, both the light and the shade, and the deathly dark...to their real lives?|isbn=13985038351839942738

|isbnauthor=0241990165Rachel Greenlaw|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It began rather oddly''I can hear the song of the sea. There was a 999 The call suggesting that of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a shot had been fired in an isolated house but remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the call hadn't come from rocks and plundering the householderwrecks. A couple Mira, like her mother before her, is one of PCs went the seven who swim out to make certain survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that everything was alright and it took quite lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a while for the elderly householder trap to answer end the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that wrecking, theycapture the island's leader and Mira'd better come ins father. In the kitchen there was Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a body on the floor: the head had been blown off bargain with a shotgun wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and the corpse was holding with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a knife family secret that lies buried deep in its right handthe sea. Richard Swann told With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the police that he'd heard sounds watched streets of an intruder and had come downstairs foreign islands to investigate. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'the heart of the smuggler' s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and come at him with a knife. Swann had shot him in self-defencethe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author= Kit De WaalJames Sherwood Metts|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and dad/ They may not mean toautomation have been proceeding apace, but often replacing jobs they do” Without Warning 're paid to do and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds other tasks that bind familytook time to accomplish. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years Just as a teenager living in a lower class area they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of Birmingham. Her father is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by 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 other, new ways to her racespend time, her class and her genderalong came an awful pandemic. Her parents loom large Life was pretty much shut down and are written , along with careit, love, and all the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=14722848361736128426

|author=David LagercrantzMatthew Tree|title=Dark MusicWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=How far Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onhis father, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelength. For one, the main focus drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. She's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect being exceptional at any of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, his artistic passions all failed miserably and just outside the stadium. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks who had endless crises of interrogationself confidence. 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 So Tim applied himself to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allhis studies, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the investigation is a shambles. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve the crime, 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..set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1529413192B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMA G Slatter|title=The Calculations Briar Book of Rational Men|author=Daniel Godfreythe Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=It'' There's the 10th a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrmy own, all mine, at last. Just I just want to put what happens in contextenjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in peopleprotection of the Briar's minds, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. The world Though she has barely had always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a chance to breathe outsteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. But for Joe MarrWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, itEllie's not cousin Audra becomes the missile crisis that's at Briar Witch, the front of his mind. Hetown's been convicted of murderleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. With As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard rare ability to think otherwise than that communicate with the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Benchdead, putting her at the heart of a relatively new prisonmaelstrom of chaos. He's just getting used Reeling from one family secret to his roommate, Mervynanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and learning determine what to be wary of do as the McArthur brothersBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=18469761461529900360|title=The Bone RoadGhost Orchid|author=N E SolomonsJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Heather BishopIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the former Olympic cyclisthelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, flew to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriendit was Robin, Delaware's partner, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnonwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She even took their bikes so they could have a few days' break in knew that the region. It involvement was a little worrying something that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see her: the man she even wondered if he had loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a woman remote property in the hotel roomBel Air. Heather had He was the heir to give up competitive cycling after a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions an Italian shoe empire and her memory were not up to the standard she would need is married to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done an extremely rich man and she simply couldnit't cope in difficult situationss not the Italian. She didn't entirely trust herself.But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Accidental StowawaySecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Patch is a little girl who has been passed from one relation to another, until it seems that there is nobody left for her to go toSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Her His father died when she was very young, a GP and her mother ran away. The family lawyer, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges for her to go Rowlands didn't want to a school follow in Liverpoolhis footsteps, but particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on her arrival there, she gets caught up in an adventure his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a little boy called Turo family friend who works on was a steamshipvet and was convinced this was the job for him. During Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a chase with him (when she is both trying child. If anything, he'd wanted to get her rollerskate back and running away from the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in be a lifeboat, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121professional footballer.

|isbn=07603798740861541774|title=Super Easy Knitting for BeginnersA Nye of Pheasants|author=Carri HammettSteve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime|summary=I learned DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to knit meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the nineteena street brawl -fifties: it wasn't he would later maintain that he was facing a choice, it was man armed with a requirement. Girls learned to knit knife - and to embroider and boys did wood and metal workhe killed a Ghurka. My knitting wa accompanied by Initially, he faced a lot charge of criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that there was pleasure he might have planned to be had in murder the skillman. Nearly seventy years later it's Now he could be facing the only thing that keeps my hands at all suppledeath penalty. The turning point was Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a booklet published by Patons which gave all the basics diplomatic incident and some patterns. Iwouldn've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skillt help Danny at all. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorAlexander McCall Smith|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroubleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Alice EclairThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. A perfect eye and very careful hands have made Ness has asked her one of Paris's best young cake makers younger cousin Katie if she could come and decoratorslook after the business, making sure her mother's establishment as Ness is planning to take a classy affair. Not bad trip to Canada to get away for a thirteen year oldwhile. Oh, and Katie is coming out of a perfect eye and break up with a very careful handler bad boyfriend, and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. Her first real mission will be And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the south of FranceIsabel Dalhousie novels, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents but with some new characters who quickly begin to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handscharm. But while nobody would have Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her down as a spyabilities, can she possibly leave behind and there's always her rookie status very helpful (and find the baddy?rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=18399409561846976596

|isbn=07603799120811771741|title=Super Easy Quilting InstaKnits for BeginnersBaby|author=Editors of Quarry BooksMelissa Leapman

|summary=I learned patchworking Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed toys to be turned into something new and usable when I was in my twentiesblankets. It would Some will be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but Iquick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire've never felt completely at home with quiltingvariety. I needed something a little The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more stylish than my usual buttons or knotstwenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'Super Easy Quilting for Beginnersbut that'' seemed like a good place to starts me being picky. So, how did it stack up?

|isbnauthor=1788360737Dean Koontz|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander AdamsBad Weather Friend|rating=24.5|genre= Politics and SocietyParanormal|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art Benny is not made in having a vacuumterrifically bad day. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which He loses his job, he develops’’loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Therefore Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, all art must be politicaldisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his new book ‘Artivism: house! The Battle for Museum in thing is, Benny is the Era of Postmodernism’ very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is adamant a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that art the delivery to his house is freer when it a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is art clearly under attack from nefarious forces for art’s sakebeing a good person. The recent trend Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (read: left winga waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure)can figure out who exactly they are. 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.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1408712172Adam Stower|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyreMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=''Many of them didn't know each otherMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one of them didn't know anybodywho is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, including Jenwell, one whatever takes his fancy next of them quite possibly hated her, and the two of them definitely hated each other. What could possibly go wrong?'' ThatBut he's the round-up for Jena bad magician's hen party which is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barra. They're all staying in The Cliff Housecat, hosted by Laurenso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and it's the utmost in luxury living but then Jen catflap they both use can afford it. She's just sold her muffin business for millions chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting into a little strangely world of late frightening adventure and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutwhiffs. Added to thatThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, he's just about forced her to bring his sisterwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, Samiraone much bigger than Murray was, whom Jen's never metto be honest, on the trip, on the grounds that shebut he's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months turned up and desperately needs the break.he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1788360702B0C47LV1PC|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyFragility|author=Edzard ErnstMosby Woods

|genre=BiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine and complementary therapies. Can you make a ''Charles, The Alternative PrinceYo birthing person'' critically assesses joke? And if you could, is the Prince's opinionsquestion should you make it? Or is the question if you did, beliefs and aims against would it land? The catch is that the background of the scientific evidenceanswer for both could well be.... 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 . ''Fragility'' is set as the reputation city of a man who is proud of his refusal to apply evidence-basedPortland, Oregon, logical reasoning cautiously begins to his ambitions.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Will Carver1529431735|title=The Daves Next DoorWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a suicide bomber prepares to detonate his vest on wanted drug smuggler for a London tube linedecade. As their fates overlap The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, the story saying that she's ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is told in backwards orderabducted, leading up stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the fateful momentboot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn= 1914585186 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}

|isbnauthor=1529125790Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Family Remains|author=Lisa JewellGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In July 2019Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Jason Mott was mud larking on and in the banks of evening a helper at the River Thames when he came across a bag of what appeared to be human bonesdessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu and Saffron Brown from forensics were Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there to investigateis a generation missing in the family. The bones A few short years ago, Eli's parents were indeed human: a young woman had been killed by a blow both lost to the head many years ago titular race, a globe- probably as long as twenty-five - but trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the bones had not been world in the river longer than company of a yearmagical beast. There was no identification This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the bag contained vegetationeatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, some with the sole aim the prize of which was quite unusualmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Jennifer Mason178763681X|title=Partitions of UnityKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Here Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at Bookbag Towers, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix and unintentional detective a residential cookery school in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]], when she investigated and unravelled Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a series way of disappearancesgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. In Paul ''Partitions of Unitysomehow''got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, she sets her mind to solving who had a murderbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way.The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.|isbn=B09LQR9FRF

|author=Fiona Parashar Sarah Marsh|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary= So what am I doing reading this bookAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, using this book, and being audacious enough to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosityEllen Lark loses her hearing. I was at an on-line launch for the book and Fiona’s description Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her Vision Days appealed to melife changes. I wanted to see if there were things Living in there that I could a time when the use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to mentor – without committing them a school where she is taught to a full daylip read, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrowbut physically restrained from signing. I also wanted to see if I could give myself From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a Vision Daysystem called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, to bring me away from their vision and back to my ownEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=103211603X1035401614

|isbn=19137503531803816759|title=Britannica's Word of the DayThe Unravelling|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=''BritannicaIt's Word of 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the Day'' has wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances bit of adventure and to Stretch Your Cranium get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need riots start to know about this brilliant bookspread. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz''Finally, tells you how Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to pronounce it (bring her home. Joe isn''razt the only one trying to save Suki -muh-TAZ'')Dylan, gives you a definition British superfan and then includes tech nerd, is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the word in a sentence so that you know system fail or was it hacked? And how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I donis Suki't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!s kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=A C Wise1529421284|title=HookedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It’s It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been twenty-two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’a known drug user and had learning disabilities, has so it could have been in Neverlanda simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Living Geary was a new life in Londontownie, so what was he has never completely escaped his past. doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? But now he senses There are connections to the edges suicide of the beast circling around his life in London, Holly Gilbert and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendy, he knows that two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the line between this world and Neverland is growing thintime. The beast is finally coming to get him, Lockyer and in DC Gemma Broad of the process will pull Wendy Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and her daughter Jane back into their past once againme) investigate.|isbn=1789096839

|isbn=17873017450571379559|title=ConfidenceThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Denise MinaFiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=We're back in 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the world story of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]four people. It was Anna whoTess Hembry'd organised the 'family' holidays roots are in Jamaica: her extemperamentally she might be happier there, Hamishbut instead, is now with her best friendshe lives in the house on the riverbank, Estelle and her children are living with thembuilt of broken bricks. Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and Insubstantial as it was Anna who invited his girlfriendmight look, Sofia. Itit's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistakestood the passage of time, storms and floods. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, in a storm to complete the delivery rounds - she begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rapeto bring in sufficient money. This was something which Anna had intended to tell the girls - twelve-tearThey have twin boys -old Jess Sonny and ten-year-old Lizzie - when Max, the time was rightrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. And this wasnPeople don't the right timebelieve that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=178763566X1529425867|title=Listen to MeLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Tess GerritsenSimon Mason

|summary=We're in Boston with AmyIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. When she set out for university this morning it was a spring day Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and she wore her newalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out son of the library she knows that they're going to be ruined - Ryan and unsafe - in the snow thatfather of Ryan, is not. He's now fallingnot any of those things. As she crosses the road He's white, originated from a car comes out trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of nowhere shell suits and hits hertrackies. It doesn They't stopre usually in lime green or acid yellow. Two months later You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, weyou're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzoli, and a keen defender not. The two men are just different sides of the suburb of Revere, north of Boston, where she livessame policing coin. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has Sometimes the time to watch whatcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicionsproblematic.

|isbn=0008395632|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele Parks|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Natalya is an escort. Well, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimp, who's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget it. Dora is a professional in all senses of the word. She has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. }}{{Frontpage|author=David SolomonsMosby Woods|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyWhirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Gavin is being followed, seemingly constantly, by The West isn't the new (very annoying) girl at schooldominant force it once was. Only Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is not your typical boy meets girl storythe best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. Because A feeling that nobody is in this instanceactual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the girl strategic advantage in question is Niki, and she is this asset; a galactic princess (no, really, she is!) So man who can tell you what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in a situation wherehistory. Imagine then, potentially, Earth and everyone on that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Nikiback?|isbn=0857639935B0C9SNG8R1