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|authorisbn=Nick Brooks0241636604|title=Promise BoysThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary=When If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school pin-stripe suit and his background is murderedthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, three boys find themselves called into poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the police station as suspectsLondon School of Economics. 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. EachIt was his ability at what was, seeminglyessentially, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moorecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and each could have this turned into permanent employment as a 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 there at back to the time English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of his murdera request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. But who killed himFreya'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 whyFreya had not been back to the village: Arthur, and if any of the boys are innocentshe feels, will let her down badly. Even though they be were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to clear their names?be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035003155AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're 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.

|author=G K HollowaySunny Singh|title=In the Shadows of CastlesHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary= We begin after The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the momentous battle in 1066 and terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the day of William of Normandy's coronation as King of England. William's position site, there is not secure Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the new king has many challengeshotel manager. Imposing authority through a coronation is important. And William is right As Abhi continues to try to worry. While care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the previous kinghotel, Haroldhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, is dead and the likelihood keeps on venturing out of more pitched battles is her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk overthe phone, the rebels their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are stirring and much of discovered by the country does not wish to recognise a new overlordterrorists.|isbn=1800422466086154742X

|isbn=00085063371529153298|title=The Garnett GirlsList of Suspicious Things|author=Georgina MooreJennie Godfrey

|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett It's 1979 and poet Richard OMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Leary was all-consumings not what's worrying Miv's family, apparently on both sidesthough. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in loveWomen have been disappearing. Richard was twenty-one and described by MargoWell, they've been murdered, but to have 's mother as disappeared'an older mandoesn't sound quite so frightening. Her parents worried that RichardMiv's upset because she's influence would take overheard that her away from what they felt she could achieve - going father wants to Oxford and having a glittering careermove the family 'Down South'. In the eventWhen you're from Yorkshire, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle of Wight. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become Down South is a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachelfrightening, foreign place, Imogen and Sashabest avoided. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at SandcoveFor Miv, the family home on the Isle of Wightmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Even then the doubts about RichardShe's drinking were never far from Margonot worried about the dangers or that her Mum's mind: ''she would never be able stopped talking - to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left themanyone.

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1398524085|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's 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, is approaching not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the start body of her maternity leave when there is a brutalGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinthe river. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt It was an easy assumption for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure police to make that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just canDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't let stand the case go and she starts to follow every thread to uncover whatguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's actually happening, little else they can do but get on with their lives and the increasingly disturbing worry of just wonder about what might happen nextreally happened.|isbn=1914585577

|isbn=15291259601035906708|title=Unnatural HistoryDiva|author=Jonathan KellermanDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Donny Klement was a photographer. WellWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, it but she was Adonisborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, actuallyNew York, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Three shots were placed neatly through his heart. The PA, Mel Gornick, is distraught and Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware 'Callas' to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets make it more agitated as he tries to establish what's happenedmanageable in the States. Donny had just finished When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a series mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of photographs called ''The Wishers''. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasyher preference for her elder sister, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarsJackie.

|author=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonChristopher Edge|title=Secret Beast Black Hole Cinema Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street

|summary=Jayden's nose is forever Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a bookmovie marathon at their local cinema, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – place that has the phoenixes and unicorns nickname of the world, for example'The Black Hole'. Aisha is addicted All big movie fans, they're looking forward to her new tabletlots of exciting films, and many, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. many snacks! The problemHowever, as their mothers see itthe movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is that very different, and they are never 'out thereswept up into an adventure they couldn' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, Londont even imagine. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, as they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the lurch from one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of film genre to the boatnext, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. can they figure out what on earth is going on? Dare Will they side with Leila, ever get back to the woman on boardcinema, and her relative who to their real lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=02415734831839942738

|isbnauthor=1913839656Rachel Greenlaw|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey DeeCompass and Blade

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Todd was excited about spending ''I can hear the weekend with his grandmothersong of the sea. The call of the deep, not least because she made the best beetle juiceanswering beat in my heart. He packed two pairs of dungarees '' Rosevear, a remote and his favourite hat partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and then gathered together his button collection plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to show his grandmothersurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She had promised to take him But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the Friday Night Club at wrecking, they capture the local community centre island's leader and Todd was pleased about this Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he wanted is secretive and with only coordinates to make new friends. At homeguide her, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why she sets off in search of a family secret that could belies buried deep in the sea. Grandma thought that it With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be because he looked differentdetermined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1787301036James Sherwood Metts|title=What July Knew|author=Emily KochPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years old. She's Things have been a careful, meticulous childbit sticky for the Earthlings. The care has AI and automation have been taught by her fatherproceeding apace, Mick Hooper, who is not prepared often replacing jobs they're paid to discuss the death of his wife, July's mother, do and any hint other tasks that the conversation is heading that way will lead took time to the necessity of a Lessonaccomplish. Other infractions Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of his requirements also lead other, new ways to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visiblespend time, along came an awful pandemic. July's teacher is concerned Life was pretty much shut down and brings up the possibility of abuse , along with it, all the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for himmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Lucy AsheMatthew Tree|title=Clara and OliviaWe'll Never Know

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that ''je ne sais quoi'', that don't come different from the classroom. A stage presencehis father, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. The difference between a hard-workerSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and a starset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=0861544080B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0008454493A G Slatter|title=All The Briar Book of the Dangerous Things|author=Stacy WillinghamDead|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Isabelle Drake hasn't really slept ' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for a year - wellhowever long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off at last. I just want to enjoy it for a momentwhile. It's now ' Within a year since her sonremote mountain pass, Masonfar away from the world, was stolen from his bed in lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the middle Briar's, a family of witches who protect the night town and Izzy the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and particularly about her relief in the morning when as such since she thought he was sleeping inyoung, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. In that year sheWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's done everything she could to raise awareness about cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the casetown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. She does interviews As challenges come her way left, right and when we meet hercentre, she's just been Ellie uncovers the rare ability to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentation. On communicate with the plane backdead, she's approached by putting her at the heart of a podcaster, Waylon Spencermaelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who points out that she could do a podcast to trust and get determine what to so many more people than she could by giving speeches do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to a few hundred people at conferencessurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene1529900360|title=Fritz and KurtThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's actually a cold case unit fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there are just two were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of them doing the joba psychologist only worked for a while. LockyerFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's not unduly worriedpartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something better. It was a bit Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's remote property in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoBel Air. She's keen He was the heir to see him an Italian shoe empire and she is married to tell him that the an extremely rich man everyone thought sheand it'd murdered - but s not the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesItalian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF1529395224|title=Just LookingLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Matthew TreeSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Dystopian FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was the summer of 2035 a GP and on a cruise ship Rowlands didn't want to follow in Marseilleshis footsteps, Jim was celebrating his newparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-found wealth and the end of call put on his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! Hefather's watching life. When he was seventeen he took the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation opportunity of doing work experience with Jean-Pierre, a French journalist in his thirtiesfamily friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. He writes for a relatively new paperBefore long, the righthe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students -wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and been his dream since he's interesting if was a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'child. His partnerIf anything, Helen, whohe's English and Jewish, keeps him in check d wanted to some extentbe a professional footballer.

|isbn=057137493X0861541774|title=The Other HalfA Nye of Pheasants|author=Charlotte VassellSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune''The room was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two mens close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, both has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with what looks like the same surnamean old ally, Guy Trueman. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to Maik was involved in a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a catered-man armed witha knife -butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'Beecham'. Caius Beauchamp is he killed a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racialGhurka. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when CaiusInitially, out for he faced a run, stumbles across charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfriendman. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his partyNow he could be facing the death penalty. She was dead under Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a bushdiplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Joe ThomasAlexander McCall Smith|title=White RiotThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Knee-jerk observations Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture look after the spirit of the moment. It takes business, as Ness is planning to take a truly talented writer trip to be able Canada to capture the zeitgeist get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britainbreak up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the student riotschance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, Donald Trumpbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, Brexit – so much of what isthanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, and but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has beenno experience in running a business, written or in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena match-making, but Ness has been proven by time to be frothy full confidence in her abilities, and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably there's always her very helpful (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this naturerather handsome)neighbour, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of William, to lend a more objective view.hand…|isbn= 15294233761846976596

|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett0811771741|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her lifeMelissa Leapman's work, the very first encyclopaedia ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking knits from toys to faeries, she is not so good with peopleblankets. So when she finds herself farSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, far North cosy afternoons in front of the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended fire' variety. The projects are divided by the village matriarchtime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, she is not sure what she has donefive to ten hours, nor how ten to redeem herself twenty hours and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackmore than twenty hours. Enter Wendell BamblebyAll the projects are attractive, her dashingly handsome modern and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emilyuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's frustrationme being picky. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120

|isbnauthor=1848458436Dean Koontz|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=''The whole thing Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has spiralled out of controldelivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'and it' s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. thing that has trashed his house! The connection between the two thing is, Benny is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebravery last person to deserve all this bad luck. The couples have mixed as He is a foursome but it's not a regular thingnice person. A really nice person. Christian So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a market research analyst and Jake 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 neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wivesgood person. Lily hasn't said anything yetSpike is going to take care of Benny, but sheand will certainly take care of Benny's pregnant. She has enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesnwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publics wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1914585402Adam Stower|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F RossMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=I reviewed David F RossMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's book [[Therea bad magician's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a couple world of years back frightening adventure and remember being absolutely floored by how powerful and affecting whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was. It was a gripping, emotionally wounding readto be honest, but he's turned up and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not he'll have lavished enough praise on it.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=178563335XB0C47LV1PC|title=Sea DefencesFragility|author=Hilary TaylorMosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheCan you make a 's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. ThelmaYo birthing person's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpejoke? And if you could, on is the Norfolk coast, question should you make it? Or is a lovely placethe question if you did, but Rachel would it land? The catch is struggling to develop a real bond with that the parish - and sheanswer for both could well be.... no. ''s in awe Fragility'' is set as the city of the vicarPortland, GailOregon, but then she's been doing cautiously begins to emerge from the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on restrictions imposed during the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Hadeer Elsbai1529431735|title=The Daughters of IzdiharWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Drawing inspiration from EgyptIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'return all the more surprising. He'The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores d been exiled on the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against themdecade. Nehal The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, born into the upper class, wishes saying that she's ill and hasn't long to attend the Weaving Academy live. It's hard to learn feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to control her abilities his underwear and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have sent to a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of watery grave in the Daughters boot of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rightsstolen Ford Sierra. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is Is it a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, warning from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful The Glorious Race of SpyingMagical Beasts

|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]visiting with him, Alice Eclair had to prove herself as a spy and as in the evening a master helper at all things French and fancy and fondant, as the only way to save the day involved being an expert baker dessert cafe his gran owns and icer on the French railwaysruns. HereEli lives with his lovely gran, we start on too – for there is a bateau-mouche generation missing in Paris, and even though the espionage isn't a complete success it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afootfamily. And there will never be more feet than at the WorldA few short years ago, Eli's Fairparents were both lost to the titular race, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower and this time showing a globe-trotting adventure where all her interwar glories off entrants have to navigate the worldin the company of a magical beast. Once again Alice will have This has made the race anathema to present the front pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the world sole aim the prize of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out clues. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that magic at the end – the enemy just cannot be allowed only thing to smuggle out…possibly save his gran.|isbn=18399409720571382231

|authorisbn=Amanthi Harris178763681X|title=Beautiful PlaceKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= Padma, Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a young Sri Lankan, has returned to the Villa Hibiscus on the southern coast of her home countryresidential cookery school in Belgravia. This is He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a place she spent her formative yearsway of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. It is not a place she was born into, but Paul ''somehow'' got the one she thinks of as home. How she came to impression that he'd be at the Villaschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, how but it became her home, didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the machinations that have flowed through her life ever since she first arrived there provide the ''score'problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn' t expected was for this gentle and yet subtly violent novelsomeone to turn up dead. Padma's present fails to escape her past Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and much like everyone knows that the musical score of a film, police consider that strand weaves its way through everything that happens at person to be the Villaprime suspect.|isbn=1784631930

|author=Nigel BainesSarah Marsh|title=A Tricky Kind Sign of MagicHer Own|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricksAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. His father Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a magicianschool where she is taught to lip read, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooperbut physically restrained from signing. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenlyFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to beusing a system called Visible Speech. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to himAt the same time, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going Bell is working on anymore!other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=14449602611035401614

|isbn=15420372391803816759|title=Death in HeelsThe Unravelling|author=Kitty MurphyWill Gibson

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the story wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of Fi McKinnery adventure and her best friendto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, Robynmaking life easier for many, who is about and riots start to debut as drag queen Mae Bspread. What is meant Finally, Joe gets to be a night do some real policing. In the aftermath of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to mock Mae Bbring her home. As if Joe isn't the night could not get any worseonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi British superfan and tech nerd, is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet also on the drag community, and case. What went wrong? Did the Guards, accept system fail or was it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=18004652701529421284|title=The Lensky ConnectionLaying Out the Bones|author=Conrad DelacroixKate Webb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Major Valeri Grozky, it's June 1995 and he's at It was one of those flash downpours that the Serafimov Cemetry British weather often delivers in St Petersburga heatwave. He's In a pallbearer for his elder brothergully, Timura human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, whose death was drug-relatedwho had disappeared nine years earlier. Valeri and TimurHe's father, Keto, is also d been a pallbearer known drug user and he's disgusted by what his son had become. Valeri thinks differently: helearning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's determined to make his own stand against organised crime and avenge Timur's deatht convinced. Within Geary was a matter of monthstownie, his obsession will have cost him his marriage to Marisha and created a dubious link with Natassja Petrovskaya, a journalist. so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She's determined There are connections to expose any the suicide of Holly Gilbert and all corruption - and she's less concerned than she ought to be about her own safetytwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. To her, heLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's a good source. For him, it's a way cold cases to get information published, which wouldn't otherwise be possibleyou and me) investigate.

|isbn=13997022890571379559|title=A World The House of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Gamache)Broken Bricks|author=Louise PennyFiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=After a harsh winter, the tiny Canadian village ''The House of Three Pines Broken Bricks'' is enjoying the arrival story of springfour people. But something is worrying Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Inspector Jean-Guy Beauvoir 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 might look, it's stood the Sûreté du Québecpassage of time, storms and floods. Gamache had offered help Her husband, Richard, struggles to a young woman after grow his vegetables, to complete the murder of her mother: he'd been less certain about her charismatic brotherdelivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. For JeanThey have twin boys -GuySonny and Max, it had always been the other way aroundrainbow twins. Now theySonny're both in the village and neither can fathom whats colouring reflects his mother's happeningJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Armand will soon find People don't believe that they're not just in Three Pines but in related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his home and in mother that she's his lifenanny.

|isbn=B0BHR8KWSK1529425867|title=DukkhaLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Martin HydeSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Sam wakes up chained in a basementIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He rails against his captor and the injustice 's not any of his imprisonment? Why? those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''Why?really'' But his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of course, he knows whyshell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going You might wonder if you're being introduced to a retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monkpolice procedural written for laughs. Recently returning to join the community in his old neighbourhood Well, he knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadnyou't imagined re not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it exploding into this new life in quite such a violent fashion's problematic.

|isbnauthor=B09XWSXSKYMosby Woods|title=Maestro Orpheus and the World Clock|author=Robert Penee and Joanne GrodzinskiA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Frederick (or Fred, but never Freddy, please) couldnThe West isn't sleep. A tune, rather like the ticking of a clock dominant force it once was playing over and over . Nobody in his mind. It happened every time he came the West is quite sure how to visit his grandfather. He hadn't really wanted to come; after all, he's ten now and all those old clocks don't appeal to him anymore. ''Who needs old clocks anyway? All they do mend this or even if mending it is tell the timebest course of action. Governments are flailing. And time isn't good A war here, a push for anythingclimate action there.A feeling that nobody is in actual charge.Imagine then, there was a man with precognition.'' And that was why he was looking at Imagine the clock beside strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the bedmost valuable asset in history. It was nearly twelve o'clock but at midnight the clock chimed only six timesImagine then, that this man loses this ability. There was nothing for What would governments do to get it but to go and find grandad - but where was he? And why had all the clocks stopped at twelve o'clockback?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1