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|authorisbn=Alison Hughes0241636604|title=FlyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=This is If you were to bring up an image of a very impressive readcity banker in your mind, as it does a lot you're unlikely to think of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles withsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Its focus A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is courtesy of the first-person narration from FlyEast End, a secondary school lad where he was familiar with cerebral palsyviolence, a downpoverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV -onbut he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -herextremely bright -luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and he has a bundle facility with numbers which most of assumptions us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people lay on himexpect poor people to be stupid. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mindIt was his ability at what was, essentially, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away card game which got him an internship with calling him FlyCitibank. Eventually, which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses itthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1525305832

|isbn=37913883981035021803|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and PastriesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Laurel KratochvilaC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=This is probably one of It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the most unusual baking books I've encounteredEnglish country village where she grew up. ItShe's built around 99 recipes back now because of a request for breadshelp from her beloved aunt, brioches and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - and baking - have changed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuriesCarole. We start with the basics - the equipment youFreya'll need (theres former mentor and Carole's nothing extravagant or indulgent) close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the ingredientscircumstances seem suspicious, where to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the author is particularvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. You might Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not have realised that different salts can change felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the flavour split, she worked in a cafe, met and sensation married James (on the tongue rebound from the love of the finished product buther life, apparently, they dowho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Andrew GivlerAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Soul Fraud All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (The Debt Collection Book 1Editors)|rating=45|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan Opening up new ways of thinking about the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years shape of a blissful life in exchange for his soulthings to come.''

Poor Dan! I know've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I know, we shouldnmust confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it't feel sorry for soul-catching demonss all getting away from me. But he really Some of it is a terrible salesman- frankly - quite frightening. He never hits his targets Of course, I could research the possibilities and, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on the dotted line, heprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I's so desperate that he simply forges Mattm reading someone who knows what they's signaturere talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1958204021

|author=Greg James Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the 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 happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Chris Smiththey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=Super GhostThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Paragon City has It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been lucky disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the great Doctor Extraordinaryfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, their very own superhero taking care of thembest avoided. Whenever For Miv, the evil Captain Chaos has come up with another cunning plan (usually involving a giant robot of some description) Doctor Extraordinary has been there to thwart move would mean leaving her mischief best friend, Sharon, and save she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the daydangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|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. But one day the Doctor Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and the Captain her daughter, Etty. are trapped together inside a giant robot that then explodesall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the hero 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 villain are no moreguilt. Or The Salter children are they…?|isbn=0241470536not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B0B7289HKQ1035906708|title=Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and 300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of AmericaDiva|author=Kari LoyaDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary=Kari (that rhymes with ‘sorry’We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, by the way) wanted but she was born to spend some time with his father Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and the period between two jobs seemed like a good time only moved to do itAthens when she was thirteen. The decision Her original surname was made Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia 'Callas' to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of make it - more manageable in 2015the States. They had 73 days to do it When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - slightly less than she was raised under the recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of Nazi occupation by a challenge that it would be for most people mother who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old mercilessly exploited her and he was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer'smade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Christopher BowdenEdge|title=Mr MagentaBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a patient untangling place that has the nickname of a seemingly ordinary woman's lifeThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that nephew Stephen had ever realised something about this new film format is very different, and it seems to him they are swept up into an obligation adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to find it all the next, can they figure out. what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW1839942738

|isbnauthor=1739593901Rachel Greenlaw|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway Compass and Stephen Oram (Editors)Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expectedI can hear the song of the sea. Instead The call of flying carsthe deep, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandmathe answering beat in my heart.''

I've got Rosevear, a couple of confessions to make. I'm not keen remote and partially forgotten island, survives on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories luring ships into the rocks and then forget to return plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the bookruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. There's got to be But when the Council Watch lays a very compelling hook trap to keep me engaged. Then thereend the wrecking, they capture the island's science fiction: far too often itleader and Mira's the technology which takes centre stage along father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with the world-building. It's human beings a wreck survivor who fascinate me: the technology is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the world scape are purely incidentalsea. SoWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, what did I think as her journey takes her from the watched streets of a book foreign islands to the heart of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Wellthe smuggler's territory, I loved itMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1405951184James Sherwood Metts|title=The Girls Who Disappeared|author=Claire DouglasPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Back in November 1998, Olivia Rutherford was driving her three friends home after a night out. As she passed through the darkly-wooded Devil's Corridor, Things have been a figure appeared in bit sticky for the roadEarthlings. Olivia swerved to avoid him AI and the car smashed into a treeautomation have been proceeding apace, leaving her trapped. When she regained consciousness her three friends had disappeared. Ralph Middleton, who lived in the woods helped her before the police often replacing jobs they're paid to do and ambulance arrivedother tasks that took time to accomplish. But what had happened Just as they were beginning to Sally Thorne, Tamsin Cole get used to all this technological change and Hetty Riding? Their disappearance would be yet another mysterious happening in the Stafferbury area starting to think of Wiltshireother, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. It Life was thought of as Avebury's poor relationpretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=3949666079Matthew Tree|title=Noema|author=Dael AkkermanWe'll Never Know

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''This is a story about some things that happened Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to me about twelve thousand years ago.'' Maya is be different from his father, a young girl living in a hunter-gatherer village during the Mesolithic era. Climate change is occurring, the Sea drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Grass encroaches further his artistic passions all failed miserably and further into Maya's forest homewho had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and food is becoming more and more scarceset himself high but achievable ambitions. What to do? Can the law givers in the federation of villages muster peaceful ways to cope? Can the Traveller, a spiritual figure who interprets the wisdom of All Life, provide solutions? |isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=194241028XA G Slatter|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=''You There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can't put 'good . This secret magic of my own, all mine, at golf' on your tombstone, can you?last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

When we meet Patrick Walsh heWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's outside his , a family's home in of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Azabu district of TokyoDarklands. Though she has always wished for magic, hoping that his key will still work but prepared Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to break in if it doesn't. He's there to remove his daughtersbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, Jenna her training as a steward revolved around letters and Kiri, administration rather than spells and take them back to Honolulupotions. It's a quick day tripWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, with just one purpose in mind. PatrickEllie's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for cousin Audra becomes the past yearBriar Witch, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business hetown's inleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. His wifeAs challenges come her way left, Miyukiright and centre, hasn't been in Wyoming Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with him and is in the process dead, putting her at the heart of divorcing him after photographs sent a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful another, Ellie must decide who to her. Patrick's plan didn't work out trust and he finds himself on determine what to do as the run in Tokyo with the two girlsBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=B09SGWCXQ81529900360|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)Ghost Orchid|author=Neil LancasterJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Fergus Grigor went out It 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 help of a runpsychologist only worked for a while. The lawyer Finally, it was on his honeymoon but his body Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was found dashed to pieces below something that the cliffs at Dunnett Headman she loved needed. Was it suicide The next case did look simple, or did he - for some reason - climb over though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the stone wall heir to an Italian shoe empire and fall she is married to his deathan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target? Or }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then considered the strain that being on-call put on his father'accident' s life. When he was linked to seventeen he took the deaths opportunity of others associated doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Scott Paterson Before long, he was released after a at Liverpool University. It hadn'nott - as with so many students -proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonmentbeen his dream since he was a child. Paterson was Grigor If anything, he's last clientd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=09897153370861541774|title=Papa on the MoonA Nye of Pheasants|author=Marco NorthSteve Burrows

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''Some frogs had gotten into the well.'' ''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant waters close friend and former colleague, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around himDanny Maik, sticky gray pearls has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with tadpoles inside theman old ally, Guy Trueman. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as Maik was involved in a street brawl - he filled them.'' How is would later maintain that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct he was facing a man armed with a knife - and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on he killed a sixpenceGhurka. And author Marco North Initially, who has he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as man. Now he means could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to go onhelp as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=140639131XAlexander McCall Smith|title=A Practical Present for Philippa Pheasant|author=Briony May SmithThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Philippa Pheasant was ''tired'' of nearly getting squished The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as she tried an alternative to cross all the Old Oak Roadonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. She wrote Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to the mayor about the problem but didn't even get away for a replywhile. Philippa wasn't Katie is coming out of a bird to sit back on her tail feathers when there was break up with a problem which needed solving: she saw the benefits of the lollipop lady bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the school crossing and decided that she would set up something similar herselfchance to come home to Edinburgh. Her uniform And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and lollipop stick were both a little amateur the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to start with but the benefits were obviouscharm. All the animals used the crossing 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 Hedgehog was even trained up rather handsome) neighbour, William, to provide lend a safe path overnight.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=000837936X0811771741|title=The Last Girl to DieInstaKnits for Baby|author=Helen FieldsMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana ClarkeMelissa Leapman's family moved ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to Tobermory, on blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the Isle of Mull'long, cosy afternoons in search of a new life. It was a bit front of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappearedfire' variety. The local police demonstrated little interest in projects are divided by the case (could it have been because Adrianatime they's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagersmore than twenty hours. BrandonAll the projects are attractive, Adriana's twin, was upset modern and surlyuseable. FourI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-yearmedia-old Luna just knew worthy projects' but that she missed her big sister. It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave. She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killingme being picky.

|isbnauthor=1509889612Dean Koontz|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on Benny is having a weekend retreat to Holy Islandterrifically bad day. Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since thenhis house gets trashed. There was Oh, and someone has delivered a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to high tide his home, and her car it's possible that whoever or whatever was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, inside is the thing that has returned with the group each year as her husbandtrashed his house! The thing is, Ken, was one of Benny is the original teenagersvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's He is a shadow of nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the man he used delivery to be. Philip Robson now his house is a new friend, a priestbad weather friend called Spike, always gets there early as he likes who has been sent to have some quiet time alone in the chapelhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Annie Laidler lives locally Spike is going to take care of Benny, and she provides much will certainly take care of the food: her deli is famous in the areaBenny'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=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1473680883Adam Stower|title=The Skeleton Key|author=Erin Kelly|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''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 fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit from it - in fact, it had made her life precarious Murray and unbelievably challenging. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' was a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churcher. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around the country. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in the words and pictures of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvis. As with such quests, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandish.}}{{Frontpage|author=Holly Webb|title=The Story of GreenriverBun

|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Silken Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and Sedgefriendly cat, for all their differencesone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, have a lot in common. Silken is a girl whose father is the Master Builder well, whatever takes his fancy next of what might be the finest beaver lodge on the Greenrivertwo. Unfortunately she is also But he's a kind of runt figurebad magician's cat, and as so his favourite bun has been turned into a result is patronisedhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and given the most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam up. She also stands catflap they both use can chuck them out for , not into the unique artistic ability to sing. Otters like Sedge singregular back garden, but he too, as the son into a world of the lady of the holt, has pressure on him to be a bit less feckless frightening adventure and more attentive to classwhiffs. HeThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, after allwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the mostone much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and from dreaded events like a Dark Spring.he'll have to do…|isbn=15101096250008561249

|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David WyattB0C47LV1PC|title=Into Goblyn WoodFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven years, she has been stuck as Can you make a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institution, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servant. She'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, and they're inseparably good friends nowYo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, until a chance for them both to escape, and enter is the outside world, does not go to plan. There had always been question should you make it? Or is the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forestsquestion if you did, Goblyn Wood, and a tribe of Wild Children, but none of would it land? The catch is that comes to pass, as Hazel finds herself in the care of a professor at the Natural History Museumanswer for both could well be.... no. But life with him  ''Fragility'' is not anything like what she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to set as the Woodscity of Portland, restore her friendship with Pete – and Oregon, cautiously begins to work out just what is going on in emerge from the forest, both restrictions imposed during the light and the shade, and the deathly dark...|isbn=1398503835covid pandemic

|isbn=02419901651529431735|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)The Winter Visitor|author=Cara HunterJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from s February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the householdermore surprising. A couple of PCs went to make certain that everything was alright and it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them that they'd better come in. In the kitchen there was a body been exiled on the floor: the head had been blown off with Costa del Sol as a shotgun and the corpse was holding wanted drug smuggler for a knife in its right handdecade. Richard Swann told the police The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that heshe'd heard sounds of an intruder s ill and had come downstairs hasn't long to investigatelive. The ignorant young lout had called him ''Grandad'It' s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and come at him with sent to a watery grave in the boot of a knifestolen Ford Sierra. Swann had shot him in self-defence.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author= Kit De WaalAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating= 4|genre= AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put itEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind familyruns. This book Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a memoir focussing on generation missing in the author’s formative family. A few short years as ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a teenager living globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in a lower class area the company 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 manmagical beast. This intersectionality plays has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a large role in bad incident at the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to her raceenter what he most hates, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, and the kind sole aim the prize of anger magic at the end – the only a child can express thing to their parentspossibly save his gran.|isbn=14722848360571382231

|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz178763681X|title=Dark MusicKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34

|summary=How far from the original can Chef Paul Delamare took a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind teaching job 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 wavelengthresidential cookery school in Belgravia. For one, the main focus He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDgetting both men and women to do what he wanted. ShePaul ''somehow''s a Chilean in got the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows impression that he'd be at the prime suspect of oldschool to assist Paul, in a case where a referee of who had a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the matchbroken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and just outside the stadiumproblems - are all his own. Beppe, the suspect, The one thing he hadn't expected was drunkenly antagonistic for someone to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationturn up dead. When some disreputable coppers (Unfortunately, he was the kind person who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, discovered the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe body and how she might dress – everyone knows that kind) are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent 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, police consider that may person to be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempt..prime suspect.|isbn=1529413192

|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMSarah Marsh|title=The Calculations A Sign of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyHer Own|rating=3.5

|summary=It's the 10th After a bout of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in contextscarlet fever as a child, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindsEllen Lark loses her hearing. The Suddenly plunged into a world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marrof silence, it's not the missile crisis that's at the front of his mindeverything about her life changes. He's been convicted of murder. With Living in a time when the current state use of medical knowledgesign language was seen as something only savages do, it's hard Ellen is sent to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought a school where she is taught to lip read, but Joe Marr physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, been teaching the deaf and using a relatively new prisonsystem called Visible Speech. He's just getting used to his roommateAt the same time, MervynBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and learning to be wary Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of the McArthur brothersespionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=18469761461803816759|title=The Bone RoadUnravelling|author=N E SolomonsWill Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Heather BishopIt's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, the former Olympic cyclistmaking life easier for many, flew and riots start to Bosnia spread. Finally, Joe gets to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan Mackinnondo some real policing. She even took their bikes so they could have a few days' break in In the aftermath of the regionrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. It was a little worrying that he didnJoe isn't seem exactly pleased to see her: she even wondered if he had a woman in the hotel room. Heather had only one trying to give up competitive cycling after save Suki - Dylan, a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but her reactions British superfan and her memory were not up to tech nerd, is also on the standard she would need to race againcase. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had What went wrong? Did the system fail or hadnwas it hacked? And how is Suki't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herself.s kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1529421284|title=The Accidental StowawayLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Patch is a little girl who has been passed from It was one relation to another, until it seems of those flash downpours that there is nobody left for her to go tothe British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Her father died when she was very youngIn a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and her mother ran awayforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The family lawyerHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, after consultation with ‘someone’, arranges for her to go to so it could have been a school in Liverpool, simple case of misadventure but on her arrival thereDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a townie, she gets caught up in an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works so what was he doing out on a steamship. Salisbury Plain alone? During a chase with him (when she is both trying There are connections to get her rollerskate back the suicide of Holly Gilbert and running away from to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboat, time. Lockyer and before she knows it, DC Gemma Broad of the ship has left the docks Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and she is an accidental stowaway!|isbn=0571363121me) investigate.

|isbn=07603798740571379559|title=Super Easy Knitting for BeginnersThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Carri HammettFiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I learned to knit in ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the nineteen-fifties: it wasn't a choice, it was a requirementstory of four people. Girls learned to knit and to embroider and boys did wood and metal work. My knitting wa accompanied by a lot of criticism and quite a few tearsTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: it was a long time before I realised that temperamentally she might be happier there was pleasure to be had , but instead, she lives in the skillhouse on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Nearly seventy years later Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the only thing that keeps my hands at all supplepassage of time, storms and floods. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the basics delivery rounds - and some patternsto bring in sufficient money. IThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny've been looking for something simple to recommend to people whos colouring reflects his mother'd like to master the skills Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. So, how did People don't believe that they'Super Easy Knitting For Beginnersre related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she' work out?s his nanny.

|authorisbn=Sarah Todd Taylor1529425867|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! Lost and Never Found (A Recipe for TroubleD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Alice EclairIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. A perfect eye Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and very careful hands have made her one always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Paris's best young cake makers Ryan and decoratorsfather of Ryan, making sure her mother's establishment is a classy affairnot. Not bad for a thirteen year oldHe's not any of those things. OhHe's white, and originated from a perfect eye trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and a very careful handler his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spytrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Her first real mission will be You might wonder if you're being introduced to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train to the south police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of France, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handssame policing coin. But while nobody would have her down as a spy, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find Sometimes the baddy?|isbn=1839940956combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=0760379912Mosby Woods|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed to be turned into something new and usable when I The West isn't the dominant force it once was in my twenties. It would be a while before it became a pleasure rather than a chore but I've never felt completely at home with quilting. 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 Nobody in the Era of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art West is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes quite sure how to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, mend this or 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 if mending it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend the best course 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 regimeaction. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believesGovernments are flailing.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1408712172|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris Brookmyre|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Many of them didn't know each otherA war here, one of them didn't know anybody, including Jen, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each othera push for climate action there. What could possibly go wrong?'' That's the round-up for Jen's hen party which A feeling that nobody is to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barrain actual charge. They're all staying in The Cliff HouseImagine then, hosted by Lauren, and it's there was a man with precognition. Imagine the utmost strategic advantage in luxury living but then Jen this asset; a man who can afford it. She's just sold her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got her doubts about the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely tell you what will happen given any set of late and wouldn't explain to her what the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutcircumstances. Added to thatThat man would be valuable, he's just about forced her to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jen's never met, on right? Perhaps the tripmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakthis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1