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|isbn=178563335X0241636604|title=Sea DefencesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Hilary TaylorGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's If you were to bring up an image of a trainee vicarcity banker in your mind, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why theyyou're held when you need unlikely to pick the children upthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-yearA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-old Hannah stripe suit and her elder brotherhis background is the East End, Jamiewhere he was familiar with violence, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishionerpoverty and injustice. Thelma's daughterThere was no posh public school on his CV -in-law won't let her see her grandsonbut he had been to the London School of Economics. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond facility with the parish - and she's in awe numbers which most of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty yearsus can only envy. Rachel and Christopher hoped He also realised that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was stormy but it his ability at what was probably what they needed, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. And then Hannah went missingEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Hadeer Elsbai1035021803|title=The Daughters of IzdiharAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'The Daughters s back now because of Izdihara request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' explores the lives of two women who could not be more differents close friend, Arthur Crockleford, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women is dead and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper classcircumstances seem suspicious, wishes to attend say the least. Arthur was the Weaving Academy to learn reason why Freya had not been back to control her abilities and then join the militaryvillage: Arthur, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nicofeels, let her down badly. Giorgina on the other hand did Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure felt able to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of be near the man or pursue the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rightsprofession she loved. Giorgina also happens to be After the split, she worked in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust societycafe, filled with hypocrisy met and cruelty, married James (on the rebound from which blossoms a group the love of admirable women fighting for their rights her life, who was murdered) and Freya and overcoming their personal obstaclesJames have now divorced.|isbn=0356520471

|authorisbn=Sarah Todd TaylorAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]], Alice Eclair had to prove herself as a spy and as a master at all ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things French and fancy and fondant, as the only way to save the day involved being an expert baker and icer on the French railwayscome. Here, we start on a bateau-mouche in Paris, and even though the espionage isn't a complete success ' I've heard it proves to Alice and her handlers said that things are afoot'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. And Well, I must confess that there will never be have been more feet than at 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 Worldfeeling that it's Fairall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, reviving I could research the huge expo that gave the city possibilities and the Eiffel Tower probabilities and this time showing all her interwar glories off to end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the worldlatest conspiracy theorist. Once again Alice will have to present the front to the world of being I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out cluesway I could understand. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=1839940972

|author=Amanthi HarrisSunny Singh|title=Beautiful PlaceHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary= Padma, The Hotel Arcadia is a young Sri Lankan, luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home country. This is suddenly been violently taken over by a place she spent her formative yearsterrorist group. It Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is not Sam, a place she was born intowartime photographer and Abhi, but the one she thinks of as homehotel manager. How she came As Abhi continues to try to be at care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the Villahotel, how it became her homehe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and the machinations that have flowed keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her life photography. Although they only ever since she first arrived there provide talk over the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to escape help her past keep safe and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the Villaterrorists.|isbn=1784631930086154742X

|authorisbn=Nigel Baines1529153298|title=A Tricky Kind The List of MagicSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricksIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. His father was a magician(A woman? I mean, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooperhonestly... ) But sadly CooperShe's not what's worrying Miv's father died suddenlyfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, and now Cooper but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite know who to be, or how to beso frightening. And when his dadMiv's upset because she's prop rabbit starts talking overheard that her father wants to him, he move the family 'Down South'really. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she' doesnll do anything to prevent that. She't know whats not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15420372391398524085|title=Death in HeelsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kitty MurphyNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's drag scenefiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery Paul and Ollie and her best frienddaughter, RobynEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bnot. What is meant to be a night Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queenGreg's father, EveDuncan Ackerley, takes to in the stage to mock Mae Briver. As if It was an easy assumption for the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant police to make that Eve was Duncan had murdered, yet the drag community, Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the Guards, accept it as an accidentguilt. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=18004652701035906708|title=The Lensky ConnectionDiva|author=Conrad DelacroixDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri GrozkyWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry but she was born to Greek parents in St Petersburg. He's a pallbearer for his elder brotherManhattan, TimurNew York, whose death in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was drug-relatedthirteen. Valeri and Timur's Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father, Keto, is also a pallbearer and hechanged it to 's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: heCallas's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's deathit more manageable in the States. Within a matter of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. She's determined to expose any and all corruption When she was back in Athens - and supposedly so that she's less concerned than could get appropriate training for her voice - she ought to be about was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her own safety. To preference for herelder sister, he's a good source. For him, it's a way to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possibleJackie.

|isbnauthor=1399702289Christopher Edge|title=A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=After Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a harsh wintermovie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the tiny Canadian village nickname of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of spring'The Black Hole'. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québec. many, many snacks! Gamache had offered help to a young woman after However, as the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guythis new film format is very different, it had always been the other way aroundand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Now But as they're both in lurch from one film genre to the village and neither next, can fathom they figure out what's happening. on earth is going on? Armand will soon find that Will they're not just in Three Pines but in his home ever get back to the cinema, and in his life.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=B0BHR8KWSKRachel Greenlaw|title=Dukkha|author=Martin HydeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=Sam wakes up chained ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in a basementmy heart. He rails against his captor and the injustice of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?''

But of courseRosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, he knows whysurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Sam Mira, like her mother before her, is an erstwhile drug dealer one of the seven who escaped this down swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and dirty life by going Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a retreat wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and emerging as with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a neophyte Buddhist monkfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Recently returning With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to join the community in his old neighbourhoodheart of the smuggler's territory, he knew his past would Mira must be hard determined to stop at nothing to escape but he hadn't imagined it exploding into this new life in quite such a violent fashionsave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYJames Sherwood Metts|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Frederick (or FredThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, but never Freddy, please) couldnoften replacing jobs they't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock was playing over re paid to do and over in his mind. It happened every other tasks that took time he came to visit his grandfatheraccomplish. He hadn't really wanted Just as they were beginning to get used to come; after allthis technological change and starting to think of other, he's ten now new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and , along with it, all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymorethe many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the timell Never Know|rating=4. And time isn't good for anything...''5|genre=Literary FictionAnd that was why he was looking |summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the clock beside the bedany of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six times. There was nothing for it but So Tim applied himself to go his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and find grandad - set himself high but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=3756228711A G Slatter|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans BodmerBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=HistoryFantasy|summary=''The history of the development There's a part of IT could fill books me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of several hundred pagesmy own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

Author Hans Bodmer is quite right about that. He has chosen to tell us about Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the shortworld, but explosivelies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, history a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Control Data CompanyDarklands. Though she has always wished for magic, CDCEllie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, for whom he workedher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. ItWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's a fascinating talecousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, told in putting her at the heart of a mixture maelstrom of technological summary chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and wry anecdotedetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat. |isbn=1803364548

|isbn=15293566601529900360|title=The SanctuaryGhost Orchid|author=Emma HaughtonJonathan Kellerman|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=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 the quiet reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which woke Zoey up - or, rather, didn't need the absence help of the noise which was a constant in New Yorkpsychologist only worked for a while. Here Finally, it was silent and the heat was overwhelmingRobin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. When she looked out of She knew that the window all she could see involvement was something that the desertman she loved needed. How The next case did she get here? Zoey look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was house-sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she remembered that she'd been out with Franny is married to an extremely rich man and Rocco last night. She knew that sheit'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she have got to s not the desert from New York? Italian. She had no memory But which of getting on a plane but as she thought back, a memory of sirens, flashing lights and of being pushed into a car snagged on them was the edge of her mind.primary target?

|authorisbn=Christopher Golden1529395224|title=Road Letting the Cat Out of Bonesthe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=HorrorAnimals and Wildlife|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Stretching for over His father was a thousand miles across SiberiaGP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, it's one of particularly when he considered the worldstrain that being on-call put on his father's most notorious routeslife. For months When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of the year it's doing work experience with a family friend who was a spread of sheet ice suspended above vet and was convinced this was the permafrost surrounding itjob for him. Before long, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dusthe was at Liverpool University. I donIt hadn't think google streetview updates it very often. Built because Stalin wanted - as with so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because many students - been his dream since he wanted to give too many people a lesson, it legendarily cost was a life every metre it coverschild. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that's a bit rich, for one of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' TeiglandIf anything, 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 of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. They pick up their oh-so-chatty local guide, gain the company of wanted to be a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood villageprofessional footballer. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476

|isbn=18387761840861541774|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalA Nye of Pheasants|author=S J BennettSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The Queens close friend and former colleague, like the sunrise and the tidesDanny Maik, was generally has taken a reliable way of marking time.'' It seemed short holiday in Singapore to begin as a coldmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering for Maik was involved in a couple of days but seemed to be getting better. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold street brawl - he would go the same way. She'd probably caught it from one of the greatlater maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -grandchildrenand he killed a Ghurka. UnfortunatelyInitially, it didn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flu. She and the Duke were due faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to go light that suggested that he might have planned to Sandringham by train that day but murder the doctor put his foot downman. He'd have preferred that the queen have a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to Now he could be satisfied with facing the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following daydeath penalty. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and Her Majesty did not like to disappointwouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Peter Owen JonesAlexander McCall Smith|title=Conversations with NatureThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Spirituality and ReligionGeneral Fiction|summary= One of The 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. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for review was that it's not very longa while. Having read Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the book twice overchance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, I'm brought back inescapably thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Spanish proverb that Life may be shortIsabel Dalhousie novels, but it is broadwith some new characters who quickly begin to charm. In this case I Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there'm brought s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to the idea that the length of life is not the point; the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deep.lend a hand…|isbn=19129924181846976596

|isbn=19164599430811771741|title=Squeakily InstaKnits for Baby|author=Beth WebbMelissa Leapman

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, thereMelissa Leapman's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or wonInstaKnits for Baby't - go to sleep: instead, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers gives us a collection of knits from toys to helpblankets. It rocks Baby gently and Some will be quick knits - others are of the waves sing ''hushlong, hush''. Think cosy afternoons in front of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectlyfire' variety. The mermaids join in projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - ''la louless than five hours, five to ten hours, la lay..ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours.'' And for a moment it seems to have worked as Baby closes his eyesAll the projects are attractive, modern and useable. Then a seagull I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects''shouts''' and we know exactly whatbut that's going to happen nextme being picky.

|author=Robin StevensDean Koontz|title=The Ministry of Unladylike ActivityBad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=May Wong Benny is having a long way from her family in Hong Kongterrifically bad day. She’s stuck in her schoolHe loses his job, Deepdeanhe loses his fiancee, and desperate to get awayhis house gets trashed. Oh, and do something useful someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to help end the war his home, and to get home. She just knows it's possible that she would make whoever or whatever was inside is the perfect spything that has trashed his house! And when she finds herself turned away by the MinistryThe thing is, she takes matters into her own hands, along with a boy she meets outside Benny is the Ministry, Ericvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. They both go undercover in He is a large country nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his houseis a new friend, pretending to be evacueesa bad weather friend called Spike, in an attempt who has been sent to prove that someone there help him since Benny is passing secrets to the Nazisclearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But there Spike is a lot more going on in Elysium Hall than either them have imaginedto take care of Benny, and suddenly they find themselves in the middle will certainly take care of a murder sceneBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, with even more to try to unravel and solveHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=02414298621662500491

|isbn=1919635017|title=A Thief to Catch a Killer|author=Kitt Townsend|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Solomon Klyne isn't a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing a series of robberies? And how did he learn to crack safes? You'll have to wait to get an answer to the second question because I avoid spoilers. But I'll answer the first one: for his grandmother...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=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

|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''Matt has a terrible lifet the dominant force it once was. Seriously—it's awful. It Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a blissful life push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in exchange for his soulactual charge.'' Poor Dan! I knowImagine then, I know, we shouldn't feel sorry for soul-catching demonsthere was a man with precognition. But he really is Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a terrible salesmanman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. He never hits his targets andThat man would be valuable, when he fails to get even Matt to sign on right? Perhaps the dotted linemost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, he's so desperate that he simply forges Matt's signaturethis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1958204021B0C9SNG8R1