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|authorisbn=Amanthi Harris0241636604|title=Beautiful PlaceThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary= Padma, If you were to bring up an image of a young Sri Lankancity banker in your mind, has returned you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the Villa Hibiscus pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the southern coast London School of her home countryEconomics. This Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a place trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she spent grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her formative yearsbeloved aunt, Carole. It Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not a place been back to the village: Arthur, she was born intofeels, but the one she thinks of let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as home. How antique hunters, she came has not felt able to be at near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the Villasplit, how it became her homeshe worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the machinations that have flowed through rebound from the love of her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle , who was murdered) and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past Freya and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the VillaJames have now divorced.|isbn=1784631930

|authorisbn=Nigel BainesAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=A Tricky Kind of MagicAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Cooper loves ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to perform magic trickscome.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. His father was Well, I must confess that there have been more than a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooperfew decades of technology in my lifetime. But sadly CooperI've kept up reasonably well with what's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesnadvantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it't s all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite know who to be, or how to befrightening. And when his dad's prop Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit starts talking to him, he ''holes without reallyunderstanding whether I'' doesn't know m reading someone who knows whatthey's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261re 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.

|isbnauthor=1542037239Sunny Singh|title=Death in Heels|author=Kitty MurphyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Set against the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, ''Death The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Heels'' tells an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friendterrorists who are rampaging through, Robynkilling everyone on site, who there is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be Sam, a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenwartime photographer and Abhi, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae Bhotel manager. As if Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the night could not get any worsehotel, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in he forms a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag communitybond 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 Guardsphone, accept it their friendship grows as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to solve see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=18004652701529153298|title=The Lensky ConnectionList of Suspicious Things|author=Conrad DelacroixJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, itIt's June 1995 1979 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St PetersburgMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother(A woman? I mean, Timur, whose death was drug-relatedhonestly... ) Valeri and TimurShe's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and he's disgusted by not what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: he's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timurworrying Miv's deathfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Within a matter of monthsWell, they've been murdered, his obsession will but to have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. SheMiv's determined to expose any and all corruption - and upset because she's less concerned than she ought overheard that her father wants to be about her own safetymove the family 'Down South'. To herWhen you're from Yorkshire, he's Down South is a good sourcefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For himMiv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, itSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's a way stopped talking - to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possibleanyone.

|isbn=13997022891398524085|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Louise PennyNicci French

|summary=After a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Inspector Jeanher daughter, Etty. are all worried but -Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québecstrangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Gamache had offered help to a young woman after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the murder body of her mother: heGreg'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guys father, Duncan Ackerley, it had always been in the other way aroundriver. Now they're both in It was an easy assumption for the village police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and neither can fathom whatthen committed suicide when he couldn's happeningt stand the guilt. Armand will soon find that The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they're not just in Three Pines can do but in his home get on with their lives and in his lifewonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK1035906708|title=DukkhaDiva|author=Martin HydeDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Sam wakes up chained in a basement. He rails against his captor and the injustice We tend to think of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of courseMaria Callas as Greek, he knows why. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to a retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Recently returning but she was born to join the community Greek parents in his old neighbourhoodManhattan, he knew his past would be hard New York, in December 1923 and only moved to escape Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but he hadnher father changed it to 'Callas't imagined to make it exploding into this new life more manageable in the States. When she was back in quite such Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a violent fashionmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYChristopher Edge|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Frederick (or FredLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, but never Freddy, please) couldna place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole't sleep. A tuneAll big movie fans, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mind. It happened every time he came to visit his grandfather. He hadnthey't really wanted re looking forward to come; after alllots of exciting films, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? many, many snacks! All However, as the movie starts, they do very quickly realise that something about this new film format is tell the time. And time isnvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't good for anything...'' And that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bedeven imagine. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight But as they lurch from one film genre to the clock chimed only six times. next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? There was nothing for it but Will they ever get back to go the cinema, and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clockto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=3756228711Rachel Greenlaw|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans BodmerCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=HistoryTeens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The history call of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pagesdeep, the answering beat in my heart.''

Author Hans Bodmer Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is quite right about one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure thatlies within. He has chosen But when the Council Watch lays a trap to tell us about end the shortwrecking, but explosivethey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, history 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 a family secret that lies buried deep in the Control Data Companysea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, CDC, for whom he worked. Itas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's a fascinating taleterritory, told in a mixture Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of technological summary her home and wry anecdotethe ones she holds most dear. |isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1529356660James Sherwood Metts|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - or, rather, the absence of the noise which was Things have been a constant in New York. Here it was silent and bit sticky for the heat was overwhelmingEarthlings. When she looked out of the window all she could see was the desert. How did she get here? Zoey was house-sitting for Uncle Dan AI and his two Manx cats automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and she remembered other tasks that she'd been out with Franny and Rocco last nighttook time to accomplish. She knew that she'd had quite a lot Just as they were beginning to get used to drink but how could she have got all this technological change and starting to the desert from New York? She had no memory think of getting on a plane but as she thought backother, a memory of sirensnew ways to spend time, flashing lights along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and of being pushed into a car snagged , along with it, all the many daily social interactions on the edge of her mindwhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Christopher GoldenMatthew Tree|title=Road of BonesWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across SiberiaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge being exceptional at any of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, his artistic passions all failed miserably and because he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-maker, doing a recce with his cameraman buddy, John Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some had endless crises of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projectsself confidence. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of a local beautySo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and fetch up at the guide's childhood villageset himself high but achievable ambitions. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1838776184A G Slatter|title=Her Majesty The Briar Book of the Queen Investigates: Murder Most Royal|author=S J BennettDead

|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'The Queen, like the sunrise s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and the tideseven after Alex recovered, Sturgis was generally a reliable way of marking timereluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn'' It seemed to begin as t need the help of a cold. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering psychologist only worked for a couple of days but seemed to be getting betterwhile. HopefullyFinally, it was Robin, the Queen thoughtDelaware's partner, her cold would go the same waywho nudged Milo into asking for help again. She'd probably caught it from one of knew that the involvement was something that the great-grandchildrenman she loved needed. UnfortunatelyThe next case did look simple, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown fluthough. She and the Duke Two lovers were due to go to Sandringham by train that day but murdered in the doctor put his foot downswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He'd have preferred that was the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to be satisfied with the thought that theyan extremely rich man and it'd go by helicopter s not the following dayItalian. It But which of them was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like to disappoint.the primary target?

|authorisbn=Peter Owen Jones1529395224|title=Conversations with NatureLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality Animals and ReligionWildlife|summary= One 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 considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of the comments made when I doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was offered convinced this beautiful book was the job for review him. Before long, he was that itat Liverpool University. It hadn's not very longt - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. Having read the book twice overIf anything, Ihe'm brought back inescapably d wanted to the Spanish proverb that Life may be short, but it is broada professional footballer. In this case I'm brought to the idea that the length of life is not the point; the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deep.|isbn=1912992418

|isbn=19164599430861541774|title=Squeakily BabyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Beth WebbSteve Burrows

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's something they all dread - close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a squeakily babyshort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He's so tired but Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he can't was facing a man armed with a knife - or won't - go to sleep: instead, and he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers to helpkilled a Ghurka. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hushInitially, hush''. Think he faced a charge of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the sound perfectlyman. The mermaids join in - ''la lou, la layNow he could be facing the death penalty...'' And for a moment it seems Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to have worked help as Baby closes his eyes. Then any interference from another police force could provoke a seagull '''shouts''' diplomatic incident and we know exactly whatwouldn's going to happen nextt help Danny at all.

|author=Robin StevensAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityPerfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=May Wong The Perfect Passion Company is a long way from her family dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in Hong Kongproviding a more personal, tailored service. She’s stuck in Ness has asked her schoolyounger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, Deepdean, and desperate as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get awayfor a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and do something useful to help end so jumps at the war and chance to get come hometo Edinburgh. She just knows that she would make the perfect spy! And when she finds herself turned away by the Ministryso begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, she takes matters into her own handsbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, along with a boy she meets outside thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the MinistryIsabel Dalhousie novels, Ericbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. They both go undercover Katie has no experience in running a large country housebusiness, pretending to be evacueesor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in an attempt to prove that someone her abilities, and there is passing secrets to the Nazis. But there is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imagined's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, and suddenly they find themselves in the middle of a murder sceneWilliam, with even more to try to unravel and solve.lend a hand…|isbn=02414298621846976596

|isbn=19196350170811771741|title=A Thief to Catch a KillerInstaKnits for Baby|author=Kitt TownsendMelissa Leapman

|genre=TeensCrafts|summary= Solomon Klyne isnMelissa Leapman't s ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a bad ladcollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, so why is he running around London committing a series cosy afternoons in front of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? Youthe fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll have take to wait complete - less than five hours, five to get an answer ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the second question because projects are attractive, modern and useable. I avoid spoilersperhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4. But I5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it'll answer s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the first one: very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his grandmother.house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help 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=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1398515388Adam Stower|title=The Boy and the Dog|author=Seishu Hase Murray and Alison Watts (translator)Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=First of allMurray is supposed to be a humble, it was the earthquaketidy and friendly cat, deep in the ocean floor, which created the tsunami one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and this, in turnwell, caused whatever takes his fancy next of the nuclear meltdowntwo. The result was complete and utter devastation. The deaths were uncountableBut he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the loss of livelihoods was widespread. The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the list of priorities regular back garden, but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered into a dog outside a convenience storeworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. He wasn't This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a dog person troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but the convenience store ownerhe's comment that turned up and he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa 'll have to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped in.do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1529153050B0C47LV1PC|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022Fragility|author=Tim BensonMosby Woods

|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Seeking some light relief from Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the current political turmoil which question should you make it? Or is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sportthe question if you did, I was nudged towards would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''BritainFragility's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through is set as the year: city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Who can imagine what there will be to come in restrictions imposed during the 2023 edition?covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529431735|title=The Dark RoomWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=What if you knew someone was deadIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, because youwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in wanted drug smuggler for a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storydecade. He is an The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-crime reporter for a newspaperwife, and since leaving journalism hesaying that she's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film ill and develops them in his own dark room at homehasn't long to live. One of these photographs turns out It's hard to show the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agofeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and who he ''thought'' he had watched die sent to a watery grave in front the boot of him one night in a hotelstolen Ford Sierra. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because of Is it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happeneda warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=154203535X

|author=Natasha Hastings Alex Bell and Alex T SmithTim McDonagh|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54

|summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in its sleep.'' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on evening a helper at the completely iced-over river, like our heroine Thomasina's father with dessert cafe his gingerbread gran owns and confectionery shopruns. Thomasina will be working the Fair Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – but her twin brother won't, as he dies for there is a generation missing in Chapter Onethe family. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt forA few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – and her bedglobe-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyes, more or less – trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the four years since, eithercompany of a magical beast. But into This has made the race anathema to the dark, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powers, and pair – but when a willingness bad incident at the eatery leads to help Thomasina. Not a confession from gran, Eli knows his only can hope is to dare to enter what he introduce her to most hates, with the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using sole aim the river surface prize of magic at night for no the end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world – the only thing to its corepossibly save his gran.|isbn=00084960560571382231

|authorisbn=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams 178763681X|title=The Book of Hope Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Politics and Society Crime|summary= The done thing is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to read but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a book all the way through before you sit down of getting both men and women to review itdo what he wanted. I’m making an exception here Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing bookwho had a broken arm, I want to capture but it as it hits medidn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. And it is hitting me The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. This beautiful book has me in tears Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect. |isbn=024147857X

|isbnauthor=1529504767Sarah Marsh|title=The Christmas Doll (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Susan was very young when she was evacuated from London in 1939 and nervous After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about how she would be greeted when she got to her final destinationlife changes. She needn't have worried though as she went to Living in a time when the home use of Mr and Mrs Russellsign language was seen as something only savages do, who couldn't have been kinder Ellen is sent to her. She even had her own room - all a school where she is taught to herselflip read, but physically restrained from signing. Gradually From here, she relaxed ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and began to enjoy her lifeusing a system called Visible Speech. She'd help Mrs Russell with At the baking same time, Bell is working on other inventions and when it came to Christmas Eve Susan ideas, and Mr Russell put the decorations on the Christmas tree. The best surprise happened the following morningEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)1803816759|title=Red as BloodThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, all It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the evidence seems wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to point towards her having been kidnappedget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact But then something goes horribly wrong with the policeAI system that now runs everything, so instead he enlists the help of Aroramaking life easier for many, a financial investigatorand riots start to spread. She manages Finally, Joe gets to persuade Flosi that they will need do some real policing. In the help aftermath of the police, rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating Joe is assigned to bring her sister’s disappearancehome. Together, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, Joe isn't the only one trying not to arouse the suspicion of anyonesave Suki - Dylan, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might bea British superfan and tech nerd, yet is also on the more they uncover, case. What went wrong? Did the more confusing things become.|isbn=1914585321system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=08615419951529421284|title=Wolf PackLaying Out the Bones|author=Will DeanKate Webb

|summary=The story began when Tuva Moodyson drove her Hilux pickup truck on the road north It was one of Visberg. She sees blood on those flash downpours that the road and British weather often delivers in a creature on its side near the pine treesheatwave. It will turn out to be Bronco, In a Swedish Elkhoundgully, who has been attacked by a wolf. Tuva takes Bronco and his owner, Bengt Nyberg, human skeleton came to the vet. Bronco didn't make it but on surface and forensic testing proved the way, Nyberg told Tuva that he was out looking for his niece, twenty-year-old Elsa Nybergbody to be Lee Geary, who had gone missingdisappeared nine years earlier. SheHe'd been working at Rose Farm a known drug user and Moodysonhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's journalist's instincts t convinced. Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are soon brought connections to the foresuicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Rose Farm is now home to a group Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of survivalists but back in 1987 the then owner, Johan Svenson murdered his wife, Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and his two eldest children and then killed himself. His newborn child, just four weeks old survivedme) investigate. Does this have any connection to the disappearance of Elsa Nyberg?

|authorisbn=Alison Hughes0571379559|title=FlyThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=This ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is a very impressive readthe story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it does a lot might look, it's stood the passage of what mainstream teen time, storms and tween fiction still struggles withfloods. Its focus is courtesy of the first-person narration from FlyHer husband, Richard, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsystruggles to grow his vegetables, a downto complete the delivery rounds -onand to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleanerSonny and Max, a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on himthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. First People don't believe that they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind're related, then they decide hemuch less twins and there's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away an assumption when Max is out with calling him Fly, which isnhis mother that she't s his real name, but everybody just uses itnanny.|isbn=1525305832

|isbn=37913883981529425867|title=New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches Lost and PastriesNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Laurel KratochvilaSimon Mason

|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=This In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is probably one of the most unusual baking books Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D IRyan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He've encountereds not any of those things. ItHe's built around 99 recipes for breadswhite, originated from a trailer park, brioches barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and baking - have changed in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuriestrackies. We start with the basics - the equipment youThey'll need (there's nothing extravagant re usually in lime green or indulgent) and the ingredients, where the author is particularacid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not have realised that . The two men are just different salts can change sides of the flavour and sensation on same policing coin. Sometimes the tongue of the finished product but, apparently, they docombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|author=Andrew GivlerMosby Woods|title=Soul Fraud (The Debt Collection Book 1)A Whirly Man Loses His Turn

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