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|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF0241636604|title=Just LookingThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Matthew TreeGary Stevenson

|genre=Dystopian FictionAutobiography|summary=It was the summer If you were to bring up an image of 2035 and on a cruise ship city banker in Marseillesyour mind, Jim was celebrating his newyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-found wealth stripe suit and his background is the end of East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his marriage CV - not two celebrations generally found in but he had been to the same sentence by a man! London School of Economics. He's watching the tornado Stevenson is bright - they're more common in Europe these days extremely bright - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation he has a facility with Jean-Pierrenumbers 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 French journalist in his thirtiescard game which got him an internship with Citibank. He writes for Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a relatively new paper, the right-wing trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'La Tribune Gauloises twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya' s former mentor and heCarole's interesting if a little wordy on subjects such close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the difference between 'France' and 'man or pursue the French'profession she loved. His partnerAfter the split, Helenshe worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who's English was murdered) and Freya and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extentJames have now divorced.

|isbn=057137493XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Other HalfAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Charlotte VassellBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=''The room was full Opening up new ways of thinking about the sort shape of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowthings to come.''

I've heard it said that 'The Other Half'technology' is the story of two men, both with what looks like the same surnamehappens after you're eighteen. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to Well, I must confess that there have been more than a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds few decades of technology in Camden Townmy lifetime. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced I've kept up reasonably well with what'Beechams advantageous to me but I'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector m left with the Metropolitan police and feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see itfrankly - quite frightening. The two encounter each other when CaiusOf course, out for a run, stumbles across I could research the possibilities and the body of Clemmie Oprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'Hara, Rupertm reading someone who knows what they's girlfriendre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a bushway I could understand.

|author=Joe ThomasSunny Singh|title=White RiotHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the moment. It takes has suddenly been violently taken over by a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historyterrorist group. Austerity Britain, Hiding from the student riotsterrorists who are rampaging through, Donald Trumpkilling everyone on site, Brexit – so much of what there isSam, a wartime photographer and has beenAbhi, written the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be frothy cowed by events, and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Inevitably ( Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded discovered by the writer the benefit of a more objective viewterrorists.|isbn= 1529423376086154742X

|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett1529153298|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia The List of FaeriesSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=Emily Wilde It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is an expert academic scholar on faerie lorePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, and she has travelled extensivelythough. Women have been disappearing. Well, and researched meticulouslythey've been murdered, but to write her lifehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's work, overheard that her father wants to move the very first encyclopaedia of faeriesfamily 'Down South'. Whilst she When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is brilliant at research and speaking to faeriesa frightening, foreign place, she is not so good with peoplebest avoided. So when she finds herself farFor Miv, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnikmove would mean leaving her best friend, having somehow offended the village matriarchSharon, and she is not sure what she has done, nor how 'll do anything to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackprevent that. Enter Wendell Bambleby, She's not worried about the dangers or that her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to EmilyMum's frustrationstopped talking - to anyone. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120

|isbn=18484584361398524085|title=Just the Nicest CoupleHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Mary KubicaNicci French|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''The whole thing has spiralled out of controls fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, turning into someone I'm is not.''  ''Just Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the Nicest Couplebody of Greg'' is s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayesriver. The connection between It was an easy assumption for the two is police to make that Lily Duncan had murdered Charlie and Nina teach in then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebraguilt. The couples have mixed as a foursome Salter children are not convinced but itthere's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: little else they don't have much in common except can do but get on with their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publiclives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=19145854021035906708|title=Dashboard Elvis is DeadDiva|author=David F RossDaisy Goodwin

|summary=I reviewed David F Ross's book [[ThereWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|ThereCallas's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting to make it more manageable in the States. When she was. It back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a gripping, emotionally wounding read, mother who mercilessly exploited her and rereading my review made no secret of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on ither preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=178563335XChristopher Edge|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary TaylorBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a trainee vicarmovie marathon at their local cinema, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're held when you need looking forward to pick the children up. Her husbandlots of exciting films, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brothermany, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. many snacks! HolthorpeHowever, on as the Norfolk coastmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is a lovely placevery different, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and shethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty yearst even imagine. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on But as they lurch from one film genre to the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they needed. And then Hannah went missing.ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Hadeer ElsbaiRachel Greenlaw|title=The Daughters of IzdiharCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''I can hear the song of the sea. The Daughters call of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more differentdeep, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a society pitted against them. Nehalremote and partially forgotten island, born survives on luring ships into the upper classrocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, wishes is one of the seven who swim out to attend survey the Weaving Academy ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to learn end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to control her abilities and then join the militarysave him from death, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage Mira makes a bargain with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and feels great pressure with only coordinates to provide for guide her , she sets off in search of a family and maintain their reputationsecret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, whilst secretly attending meetings as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the Daughters heart of Izdihar – a group campaigning for womenthe smuggler's rights. Giorgina also happens territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story save the future of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy her home and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstaclesthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565204710008664730

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorJames Sherwood Metts|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe Things have been a bit sticky for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Alice Eclair had often replacing jobs they're paid to prove herself as a spy do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as a master at they were beginning to get used to all things French this technological change and fancy and fondantstarting to think of other, as the only way new ways to save the day involved being spend time, along came an expert baker awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and icer on the French railways. Here, we start on a bateau-mouche in Paris, and even though the espionage isn't a complete success along with it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afoot. And there will never be more feet than at the World's Fair, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower and this time showing all her interwar glories off to the world. Once again Alice will have to present the front to the world of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out cluesmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=18399409721736128426

|author=Amanthi HarrisMatthew Tree|title=Beautiful PlaceWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5

|summary= PadmaTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of her home country. This is a place she spent her formative years. It is not a place she was born into, but the one she thinks his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of as homeself confidence. How she came So Tim applied himself to be at the Villa, how it became her homehis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'' for this gentle and yet subtly violent novel. Padma's present fails to escape her past and much like the musical score of a film, that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at the Villaset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1784631930B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Nigel BainesA G Slatter|title=A Tricky Kind The Briar Book of Magicthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersFantasy|summary=Cooper loves '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to perform myself for however long I can. This secret magic tricksof my own, all mine, at last. His father was I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a magicianremote mountain pass, far away from the world, and named Cooper after lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly CooperBriar's father died suddenly, a family of witches who protect the town and now Cooper doesn't quite know who the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to beborn into her family for generations and as such since she was young, or how to beher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. And when his dadWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's prop rabbit starts talking leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to himcommunicate with the dead, he ''really'' doesn't know putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine whatto do as the Briar witches's going on anymore!legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=14449602611803364548

|isbn=15420372391529900360|title=Death in HeelsThe Ghost Orchid|author=Kitty MurphyJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's drag scenefault 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''Death in Heels'' tells t need the story help of Fi McKinnery and her best frienda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, RobynDelaware's partner, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae Bnudged Milo into asking for help again. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to She knew that the involvement was something that the stage to mock Mae Bman she loved needed. As if the night could not get any worse The next case did look simple, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a gutterremote property in Bel Air. Fi is adamant that Eve He was murdered, yet the drag community, heir to an Italian shoe empire and the Guards, accept it as she is married to an accident. Fi takes extremely rich man and it upon herself to solve 's not the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=18004652701529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Lensky ConnectionSecret Life of a Vet|author=Conrad DelacroixSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at the Serafimov Cemetry in St PetersburgSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. He's a pallbearer for his elder brother, Timur, whose death His father was drug-related. Valeri and Timur's father, Keto, is also a pallbearer GP and heRowlands didn's disgusted by what t want to follow in his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: footsteps, particularly when he's determined to make considered the strain that being on-call put on his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timurfather's deathlife. Within a matter When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of months, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created doing work experience with a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, family friend who was a journalist. She's determined to expose any vet and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safetywas convinced this was the job for him. To herBefore long, hewas at Liverpool University. It hadn's t - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a good sourcechild. For himIf anything, ithe's a way d wanted to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possiblea professional footballer.

|isbn=13997022890861541774|title=A World Nye of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Pheasants|author=Louise PennySteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=After DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a harsh wintershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, the tiny Canadian village of Three Pines is enjoying the arrival of springGuy Trueman. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir of the Sûreté du Québeche killed a Ghurka. Gamache had offered help to Initially, he faced a young woman after the murder charge of her mother: manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he'd been less certain about her charismatic brother. For Jean-Guy, it had always been might have planned to murder the other way aroundman. Now they're both in he could be facing the village and neither can fathom what's happeningdeath penalty. Armand will soon find that theyDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn're not just in Three Pines but in his home and in his lifet help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=B0BHR8KWSKAlexander McCall Smith|title=Dukkha|author=Martin HydeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Sam wakes up chained 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 basementmore personal, tailored service. He rails against his captor Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the injustice of his imprisonment? Why? ''Why?'' But of coursebusiness, he knows whyas Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Sam Katie is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and dirty life by going so jumps at the chance to come home to a retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monkEdinburgh. Recently returning And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to join an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the community Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in his old neighbourhoodrunning a business, or in match-making, he knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadnNess has full confidence in her abilities, and there't imagined it exploding into this new life in quite such s always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a violent fashion.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B09XWSXSKY0811771741|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World ClockInstaKnits for Baby|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiMelissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldnMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby''t sleepgives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. A tuneSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, rather like cosy afternoons in front of the ticking of a clock was playing over and over in his mindfire' variety. It happened every The projects are divided by the time he came they'll take to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted complete - less than five hours, five to come; after allten hours, he's ten now to twenty hours and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymoremore than twenty hours. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do is tell the timeprojects are attractive, modern and useable. And time isnI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 't good for anything...social-media-worthy projects'' And but that was why he was looking at the clock beside the bed. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six timess me being picky. There was nothing for it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clock?

|isbnauthor=3756228711Dean Koontz|title=CDC: The happy years with a spectacular IT 'Phenomena'|author=Hans BodmerBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryParanormal|summary=''The history of the development of IT could fill books of several hundred pages.'' Author Hans Bodmer Benny is quite right about thathaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has chosen delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to tell us about his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the shortthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, but explosive, history of Benny is the 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 Control Data Companydelivery to his house is a new friend, CDCa bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for whom he workedbeing a good person. It Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's a fascinating taleenemies, if he, Benny, told in and Harper (a mixture of technological summary and wry anecdotewaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are. |isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1529356660Adam Stower|title=The Sanctuary|author=Emma HaughtonMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=It was the quiet which woke Zoey up - orMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, ratherwell, the absence whatever takes his fancy next of the noise which was two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a constant in New York. Here it was silent hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the heat was overwhelming. When she looked catflap they both use can chuck them out , not into the regular back garden, but into a world of the window all she could see was the desertfrightening adventure and whiffs. How did she get here? Zoey This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was house-sitting for Uncle Dan and his two Manx cats and she remembered that she, to be honest, but he'd been out with Franny s turned up and Rocco last night. She knew that shehe'd had quite a lot to drink but how could she ll have got to the desert from New York? She had no memory 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 the edge of her mind.do…|isbn=0008561249

{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Golden|title=Road of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=The Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. Stretching for over a thousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the worldFragility's most notorious routes. For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above is set as the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge 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, 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 city of our main characters, Felix 'Teig' Teigland, is a film-makerPortland, doing a recce with his cameraman buddyOregon, John Prentiss – who's mostly there cautiously begins to encourage emerge from the project to fruition to claw back some of restrictions imposed during 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 a local beauty, and fetch up at the guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to go awry…|isbn=1803361476covid pandemic

|isbn=18387761841529431735|title=Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Murder Most RoyalThe Winter Visitor|author=S J BennettJames Henry|rating=54

|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'The Queen, like return all the sunrise and the tides, was generally a reliable way of marking timemore surprising. He'' It seemed to begin d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a cold. Hardly surprising, really, as Prince Philip had been suffering wanted drug smuggler for a couple of days but seemed to be getting betterdecade. Hopefully, the Queen thought, her cold would go the same way. SheThe return has come about because he'd probably caught it s had a letter from one of the greathis ex-grandchildren. Unfortunatelywife, it didnsaying that she's ill and hasn't get better and when the doctor called he diagnosed full-blown flulong to live. She and the Duke were due It's hard to go feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to Sandringham by train that day but the doctor put his foot down. He'd have preferred that underwear and sent to a watery grave in the queen have boot of a few days' bed rest before venturing out but had to be satisfied with the thought that they'd go by helicopter the following daystolen Ford Sierra. It was annoying: people would be ready for her today and Her Majesty did not like Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to disappoint.home?

|author=Peter Owen JonesAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Conversations with NatureThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=Spirituality and ReligionConfident Readers|summary= One of Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the comments made when I was offered this beautiful book dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for review was that itthere is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's not very longparents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Having read This has made the book twice over, I'm brought back inescapably race anathema to the Spanish proverb that Life may be shortpair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, but it Eli knows his only hope is broad. In this case I'm brought to dare to enter what he most hates, with the idea that sole aim the length prize of life is not magic at the point; end – the point is its depth. Peter Owen Jones dives deeponly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=19129924180571382231

|isbn=1916459943178763681X|title=Squeakily BabyKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Beth WebbOrlando Murrin

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a squeakily babyresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Hedidn's so tired t really want to but he can't - or won't - go celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to sleep: instead, do what he just lies on his blanket and wanted. Paul ''wailssomehow''. The sea offers to help. It rocks Baby gently and got the waves sing impression that he''hushd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, hush'but it didn't turn out that way. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach The teaching - and you have the sound perfectlyproblems - are all his own. The mermaids join in - one thing he hadn''la lou, la lay...'' And t expected was for a moment it seems someone to have worked as Baby closes his eyesturn up dead. Then a seagull '''shouts''' Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and we know exactly what's going everyone knows that the police consider that person to happen nextbe the prime suspect.

|author=Robin StevensSarah Marsh|title=The Ministry A Sign of Unladylike ActivityHer Own|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=May Wong is After a bout of scarlet fever as a long way from child, Ellen Lark loses her family in Hong Konghearing. She’s stuck in Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her school, Deepdean, and desperate to get away, and do something useful to help end the war and to get homelife changes. She just knows that she would make the perfect spy! And Living in a time when she finds herself turned away by the Ministryuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, she takes matters into her own hands, along with Ellen is sent to a boy school where she meets outside the Ministryis taught to lip read, Ericbut physically restrained from signing. They both go undercover in a large country house, pretending to be evacueesFrom here, she ends up in an attempt to prove that someone there is passing secrets to another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Nazisdeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. But there At the same time, Bell is a lot more going working on in Elysium Hall than either them have imaginedother inventions and ideas, and suddenly they find themselves Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in the middle a complicated tangle of a murder scene, with even more to try to unravel and solveespionage.|isbn=02414298621035401614

|isbn=19196350171803816759|title=A Thief to Catch a KillerThe Unravelling|author=Kitt TownsendWill Gibson

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Solomon Klyne isnIt't s 2038 and Joe is a bad lad, so why is he running around London committing bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a series bit of robberies? And how did he learn adventure and to crack safes? You'll have get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to wait spread. Finally, Joe gets to get an answer do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to the second question because I avoid spoilersbring her home. But IJoe isn'll answer t the first only one: for his grandmother..trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case.What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=13985153881529421284|title=The Boy and Laying Out the DogBones|author=Seishu Hase and Alison Watts (translator)Kate Webb

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=First It was one of all, it was those flash downpours that the earthquake, deep British weather often delivers in the ocean floora heatwave. In a gully, which created a human skeleton came to the tsunami surface and thisforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, in turn, caused the nuclear meltdownwho had disappeared nine years earlier. The result was complete He'd been a known drug user and utter devastationhad learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. The deaths were uncountableGeary was a townie, and the loss of livelihoods so what was widespread. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? The fact that many pets were separated from their owners came far down There are connections to the list suicide of priorities but - six months after Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered a dog outside a convenience storetime. He wasn't a dog person but Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the convenience store ownerMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa cold cases to open his car door you and Tamon the dog jumped inme) investigate.

|isbn=15291530500571379559|title=Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2022The House of Broken Bricks|author=Tim BensonFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons The House of 2022Broken Bricks''is the story of four people. Sharp eyes will have noted that weTess Hembry're not yet through s roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the year: riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022passage of time, storms and floods. Who can imagine what there will be Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to come bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the 2023 edition?rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Lisa Gray1529425867|title=The Dark RoomLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=What if you knew someone was deadIn Oxford, because you'd watched them die several years agothere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place Balliol educated and time? always exquisitely dressed. This D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is what happens to Leonard in this storynot. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaper, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls not any of film and develops them in his own dark room at homethose things. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene of He's white, originated from a young woman he met some years agotrailer park, and who he barely educated (reading's not ''thoughtreally'' he had watched die in front his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of him one night shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a hotelpolice procedural written for laughs. HeWell, you'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes 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 happened?|isbn=154203535Xs problematic.

|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithMosby Woods|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The West isn''The River Thames had frozen to death t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in its sleep.'' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the completely iced-over river, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread and confectionery shopbest course of action. Governments are flailing. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won'tA war here, as he dies in Chapter One. It was a tragedy she feels no small guilt push for, and which has made her father a sullen, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyes, more or less – climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in the four years since, eitheractual charge. But into the dark, frosted London comes InigoImagine then, there was a man with supreme magical powers, and a willingness to help Thomasinaprecognition. Not only can he introduce her to Imagine the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using the river surface at night for no end of mystical beasts and characters and their happenings, but he has strategic advantage in this asset; a unique proposal for Thomasina, which man who can tell you what will shake her world to its corehappen given any set of circumstances.|isbn=0008496056}}{{Frontpage|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams |title=The Book of Hope |rating=5|genre=Politics and Society |summary= The done thing is to read a book all That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the way through before you sit down to review itmost valuable asset in history. I’m making an exception hereImagine then, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading that this man loses this amazing book, I want ability. What would governments do to capture get it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. back?|isbn=024147857XB0C9SNG8R1