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|isbn=B09BLBP3P80241636604|title=Neville Chamberlain's WarThe Trading Game: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940A Confession|author=Frederic SeagerGary Stevenson

|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to misconceptions about historythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of A hoodie and jeans replaces the early days of World War II from 1939pin-40, known as stripe suit and his background is the ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing HitlerEast End, war breaking outwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and Churchill coming in injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to save the dayLondon School of Economics. Very little time Stevenson is spent on this period in cultural reflections bright - extremely bright - and yethe has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the war played outa trader.

|isbn=07603781341035021803|title=The First-Time GardenerAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not 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 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=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Container Food GardeningFictions that Disrupt|author=Pamela FarleyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Home and FamilyScience Fiction|summary=If you''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've ever thought how good heard it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised said that 'technology' is what happens after you wouldn't know where to startre eighteen. Well, this is the book you needI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. ItI's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, ve kept up reasonably well with what you're going s advantageous to grow, what youme but I'll grow m left with the feeling that it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containerss all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, how you'll water I could research the possibilities and fertilise them the probabilities and you finish end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshootinglatest conspiracy theorist. There's also I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a good glossaryway I could understand. So, is it any good?

{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002Frontpage|author= Eric LaRoccaSunny Singh|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= HorrorThrillers |summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It The Hotel Arcadia is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process themluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'' Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, whether that there is a home invaderSam, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible wartime photographer andAbhi, by the end of hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the storyhotel, beatable. Eric LaRoccahe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like thathappened through her photography. It is a collection of short stories more interested in Although they only ever talk over the horrors of illnessphone, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger 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 harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1529153298|title=Delilah RecoveredThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isnIt't going as planned but things mights 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, just mighthonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, be about to look upthough. Women have been disappearing. Out of work Well, they've been murdered, about but to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountanthave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's job. But itupset because she's not overheard that her father wants to bemove the family 'Down South'. Dee When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is attacked by two men calling themselves witch huntersa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. She survives For Miv, the attack but not unscathedmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things not worried about the dangers or that are not ordinary at all return her Mum's stopped talking - to her and things will never be the sameanyone....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV

|isbn=00084049761398524085|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane CaseyNicci French

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was because of expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closeher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. If you're a regular reader Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of the [[Jane CaseyGreg's Maeve Kerrigan series father, Duncan Ackerley, in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sentence twice Duncan had murdered Charlie and wondered if itthen committed suicide when he couldn's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between t stand the two which seems very, very realguilt. But (The Salter children are not convinced but there's always a 'little else they can do but', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes get on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertaintheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover1035906708|title=The Hidden FiresDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background We tend to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is think of Australian parentageMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in KathmanduManhattan, New York, grew up in the Annapurna December 1923 and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlandonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. I can think of no-one better a combination Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence make it more manageable in the Cairngorms National ParkStates. Merryn walks, not When she was back in Athens - supposedly so much in that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the shadow Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Shepherdher preference for her elder sister, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famouslyJackie.|isbn=1846975751

|author=Alice M RossChristopher Edge|title=The Nowhere ThiefBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth Lucas and her mother run his friends are all booked in for a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has stolen itthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found outAll big movie fans, because she has the ability they're looking forward to leave this worldlots of exciting films, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worldsmany, many snacks! However, where as the sea levels are rising dramatically movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and the buildings they are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunderswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. With eviction imminentBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shopthey figure out what on earth is going on? Well yes, is Will they ever get back to the answercinema, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…and to their real lives?|isbn=18399437691839942738

|isbnauthor=1529504775Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes Compass and Katie HickeyBlade|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to ''I can hear the park and watch song of the red buses drive pastsea. Elsie would race The call of the buses along deep, the side of the park but David couldnanswering beat in my heart.'t - he'd been born with cerebral palsy  Rosevear, a remote and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the toy shop window which would help David - rocks and was happy to use plundering the coins from wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her money box , is one of the seven who swim out to pay for it as cash was tight at homesurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Gradually, David learned But when the Council Watch lays a trap to stand upend the wrecking, use they capture the bus for supportisland's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and walk behind itwith only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. Many decades laterWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, Elsie brought as her journey takes her from the bus, now damaged and rusted, watched streets of foreign islands to the Repair Shopheart of the smuggler's territory, hoping that Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the experts there could make it so that future of her grandchildren could play with ithome and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=1847941834James Sherwood Metts|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearPlanet Storyland

|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of Things have been a bit sticky for the Sparrowhawk''Earthlings. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea AI and Raffy automation have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leoproceeding apace, and Raffy is there with his mum, and often replacing jobs they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house 're paid to do and loving every inch of the placeother tasks that took time to accomplish. But now the house is under threat, Just as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers they were beginning to sell the property get used to a developer as it's becoming more all this technological change and more expensive starting to think of other, new ways to maintainspend time, along came an awful pandemic. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to liveLife was pretty much shut down and, along with it, but if all the many daily social interactions on which they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downdepend so heavily.|isbn=05713487851736128426

|author=Nick BrooksMatthew Tree|title=Promise Boys|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=When the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school is murdered, three boys find themselves called into the police station as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time of his murder. But who killed him, and why, and if any of the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155}}{{Frontpage|author=G K Holloway|title=In the Shadows of CastlesWe'll Never Know

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and on the day chronic underachiever whose dreams of William being exceptional at any of Normandy's coronation as King his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of England. William's position is not secure and the new king has many challenges. Imposing authority through a coronation is importantself confidence. And William is right So Tim applied himself to worry. While the previous kinghis studies, Harold, is dead cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlordset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1800422466B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=0008506337A G Slatter|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina MooreBriar Book of the Dead

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sides. Margo was just sixteen when they fell in love. Richard was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that RichardThere's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle part of Wight. Margo did go me that wants to Oxford and went on keep this just to become a well-respected journalistmyself for however long I can. The couple had three children: RachelThis secret magic of my own, all mine, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wightlast. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able I just want to leave him in chargeenjoy it for a while.''.

Then Richard Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left them, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, 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 what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529900360|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the start help of her maternity leave when there is a brutalpsychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinwho nudged Milo into asking for help again. Suddenly She knew that the involvement was something that the man she finds herself embroiled loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the hunt for swimming pool of a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfremote property in Bel Air. Finding herself put on desk duties, which she rails against, she just can't let He was the case go heir to an Italian shoe empire and she starts is married to follow every thread to uncover whatan extremely rich man and it's actually happening, and not the increasingly disturbing worry Italian. But which of just what might happen next.|isbn=1914585577them was the primary target?

|isbn=15291259601529395224|title=Unnatural HistoryLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jonathan KellermanSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows

|summary=Donny Klement was DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a photographershort holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Well, it Maik was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he got Danny but whichever was facing a man armed with a knife - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartand he killed a Ghurka. The PAInitially, Mel Gornick, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as light that suggested that he tries might have planned to establish what's happenedmurder the man. Donny had just finished a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''Now he could be facing the death penalty. He'd taken eight homeless people off the streets and asked them what they'd really like Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to be. They were then dressed up help as their fantasy, photographed any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarswouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of Silver a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Streetand the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Confident ReadersCrafts|summary=JaydenMelissa Leapman's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns collection of the world, for exampleknits from toys to blankets. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might Some will be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they quick knits - others are never 'out there' themselves, exploring of the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousinlong, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many cosy afternoons in front of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks shefire's seen on a bit of local footagevariety. The crew of projects are divided by the boattime they'll take to complete - less than five hours, including a living gargoylefive to ten hours, are tasked with saving the rare critters – ten to twenty hours and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join inmore than twenty hours. Dare they side with Leila, All the woman on boardprojects are attractive, modern and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1913839656Dean Koontz|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey DeeThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingParanormal|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his grandmotherfiancee, not least because she made the best beetle juiceand his house gets trashed. He packed two pairs of dungarees Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his favourite hat home, and then gathered together it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his button collection house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to show his grandmotherdeserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. She had promised to take him to So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted delivery to make his house is a new friendsfriend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. At homeSpike is going to take care of Benny, his only friend was his mum and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he wondered why that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1787301036Adam Stower|title=What July Knew|author=Emily KochMurray and Bun|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 Murray is supposed to be a carefulhumble, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hoopertidy and friendly cat, one who is not prepared able to discuss the death of his wifesleep and eat and eat and sleep and, July's motherwell, and any hint that whatever takes his fancy next of the conversation is heading that way will lead to the necessity of a Lessontwo. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and But he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visible. Julya bad magician's teacher is concerned cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and brings up the possibility of abuse with catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the head regular back garden, but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to the schoolbe honest, has but he's turned up and he not? The playground wouldn't ll have been resurfaced but for him.to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Lucy AsheB0C47LV1PC|title=Clara and OliviaFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=The year Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is 1933. The placethe question should you make it? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on Or is the outside but notquestion if you did, we learn, on would it land? The catch is that the insideanswer for both could well be... And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancerno. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that  ''je ne sais quoiFragility''is set as the city of Portland, that don't come Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the classroom. A stage presence, a charm, a ''joie de vivre''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=00084544931529431735|title=All the Dangerous ThingsThe Winter Visitor|author=Stacy WillinghamJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIt't really slept for a year - wells February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, apart from which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He'd been exiled on the odd occasion when she lost track of time or drifted off Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a momentdecade. ItThe return has come about because he's now had a year since her son, Mason, was stolen letter from his bed in the middle of the night and Izzy is consumed with guilt ex-wife, saying that she heard nothing 's ill and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping inhasn't long to live. In that year sheIt's done everything she could hard to raise awareness about the case. She does interviews and feel any sympathy when we meet herHopkins is abducted, she's just been stripped to his underwear and sent to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationwatery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. On the plane back, she's approached by Is it a warning from a podcaster, Waylon Spencer, who points out that she could do Spanish gang or a podcast and get problem closer to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.home?

|author=Jeremy Dronfield Alex Bell and David Ziggy GreeneTim McDonagh|title=Fritz and KurtThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=We Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurthim, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping evening a helper at the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir dessert cafe his gran owns and at a vocational schoolruns. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as there is a light switchgeneration missing in the family. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to HitlerA few short years ago, Eli's willparents were both lost to the titular race, and instead of having a national vote globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to keep navigate the Nazis out, invite them world in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the round-ups company of Jewsa magical beast. These in their turn leave This has made the race anathema to the younger Kurt pair – but when a bad incident at home with his mother and sisters anxious the eatery leads to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the USa confession from gran, while Fritz and Eli knows his father are, unknown initially only hope is to dare to each otherenter what he most hates, packed off on with the same train to Buchenwald and sole aim the stone quarry there. And us wondering how prize of magic at the titular event for end – the adult variant of all this could come about…only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=024156574X0571382231

|isbn=1529421241178763681X|title=Stay BuriedKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Kate WebbOrlando Murrin|rating=54

|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's actually t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a cold case unit way of getting both men and there are just two of them doing the jobwomen to do what he wanted. LockyerPaul 's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: shesomehow''s probably capable of something better. It was a bit of a shock when got the impression that he got 'd be at the phone call from Hedy Lambert: sheschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it didn's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder t turn out that way. The teaching - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agothe problems - are all his own. SheThe one thing he hadn's keen t expected was for someone to see him turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and to tell him everyone knows that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out police consider that person to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesthe prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=B0BQXSYYTFSarah Marsh|title=Just Looking|author=Matthew TreeA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary=It was the summer After a bout of 2035 and on scarlet fever as a cruise ship in Marseilleschild, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth and the end Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found silence, everything about her life changes. Living in the same sentence by a man! He's watching time when the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierreuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a French journalist in his thirtiesschool where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. He writes for a relatively new paperFrom here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' deaf and he's interesting if using a little wordy on subjects such as the difference between 'France' and 'the French'system called Visible Speech. His partnerAt the same time, HelenBell is working on other inventions and ideas, who's English and Jewish, keeps him Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in check to some extenta complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=057137493X1803816759|title=The Other HalfUnravelling|author=Charlotte VassellWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It''The room was full s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should knowAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing.'' ''The Other Half'' is In the story aftermath of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp rioting global pop star Suki is the heir to a baronetcy kidnapped and his thirtieth birthday party Joe is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Townassigned to bring her home. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'BeechamJoe isn'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with t the Metropolitan police and is bionly one trying to save Suki -racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when CaiusDylan, out for a runBritish superfan and tech nerd, stumbles across is also on the body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupertcase. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bush.kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529421284|title=White RiotLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger It was one of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes those flash downpours that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the momentBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. It takes In a gully, a truly talented writer human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be able to capture the zeitgeist of Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a particular event or era simple case of political historymisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Austerity Britain, the student riots Geary was a townie, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, and has been, written in was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the immediate aftermath suicide of these phenomena has been proven by time Holly Gilbert and to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately two other deaths which were not particularly powerful or incisiveconsidered suspicious at the time. Inevitably ( Lockyer and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction DC Gemma Broad of this nature), the best writing about current political events is Major Crimes Review Unit (that which is written when the events in question are no longer current 's cold cases to you and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective viewme) investigate.|isbn= 1529423376

|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett0571379559|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia The House of FaeriesBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her life's work, the very first encyclopaedia story of faeriesfour people. Whilst Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she is brilliant at research and speaking to faeriesmight be happier there, but instead, she is not so good with peoplelives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. So when she finds herself farInsubstantial as it might look, far North in it's stood the small village passage of Hrafvsniktime, storms and floods. Her husband, having somehow offended the village matriarchRichard, she is not sure what she has donestruggles to grow his vegetables, nor how to redeem herself complete the delivery rounds - and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackto bring in sufficient money. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome They have twin boys - Sonny and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedlyMax, all charm and delightthe 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 to Emilyless twins and there's frustration. But why an assumption when Max is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on out with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120his mother that she's his nanny.

|isbn=18484584361529425867|title=Just the Nicest CoupleLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Mary KubicaSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of controlIn Oxford, turning into someone there are two D I'm notWilkins.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' Raymond Wilkins is the story of two couples: Christian Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and Lily Scottalways exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Nina and Jake Hayesfather of Ryan, is not. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebraHe's not any of those things. The couples have mixed as He's white, originated from a foursome but ittrailer park, barely educated (reading's not a regular ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they donThey't have much re usually in common except their wiveslime green or acid yellow. Lily hasnYou might wonder if you't said anything yetre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, but sheyou's pregnantre not. She has a lengthy history The two men are just different sides of miscarriages so she doesnthe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge publics problematic.

|isbnauthor=1914585402Mosby Woods|title=Dashboard Elvis is Dead|author=David F RossA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=I reviewed David F RossThe West isn's book [[There's Only One Danny Garvey by David F Ross|There's Only One Danny Garvey]] a couple of years back and remember being absolutely floored by t the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how powerful and affecting to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there wasa man with precognition. It was Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a grippingman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, emotionally wounding readright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, and rereading my review of it my main takeaway was that I might not have lavished enough praise on this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1