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|authorisbn= Rob Keeley0241636604|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley 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 pin-stripe suit and his background is back the East End, where he was familiar with a return violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats London 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 eleven new talesbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, each this turned into permanent employment as fun a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to read as his previous offeringsMurder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|isbnsummary= B0BVW69N1GIt'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.

|authorisbn= Michael GrothausAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre= Literary Science Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change itcome.''

I've heard it said that 'Beautiful Shining Peopletechnology'is what happens after you' revolves around the question re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of identity and acceptancetechnology in my lifetime. Of 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 means to be humanis - frankly - quite frightening. Of what is real course, I could research the possibilities and what is artificial, 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 development of technology is exciting or frighteninglatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=191458564X

|isbnauthor=B09BLBP3P8Sunny Singh|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic SeagerHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=HistoryThrillers |summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about historyThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. One such is the scrubbing Hiding from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, known as the ''Phoney War''hotel manager. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, war breaking outhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Churchill coming in keeps on venturing out of her room to try to save capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the day. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections and yetphone, their friendship grows as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the war played outterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=07603781341529153298|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food GardeningList of Suspicious Things|author=Pamela FarleyJennie Godfrey

|genre=Home and FamilyGeneral Fiction|summary=If youIt've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden s 1979 and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to startMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, this is the book you needhonestly... ) ItShe's not what's comprehensive: youworrying Miv'll cover everything from why you should grow your own foods family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, what youthey're going ve been murdered, but to grow, what youhave 'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where youdisappeared'll put these containers, how youdoesn'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshootingt sound quite so frightening. ThereMiv's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?}}{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002|author= Eric LaRocca|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way upset because she's overheard that her father wants to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a move the family 'Down South'Big Bad'. When you're from Yorkshire, whether that Down South is a home invaderfrightening, a monster or a ghostforeign place, it usually something tangible andbest avoided. For Miv, by the end of the storymove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, beatableand she'll do anything to prevent that. Eric LaRocca She's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in worried about the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors dangers or that linger and are harder her Mum's stopped talking - to defeat than any ''Big Bad''anyone.

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1398524085|title=Delilah Recovered|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, just might, be about to look up. Out of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountant's job. But it's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunters. She survives the attack but not unscathed. Witch huntersHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return to her and things will never be the same....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404976|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|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 Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the increasingly disturbing worry Bag: The Secret Life of just what might happen nexta Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|isbnsummary=1914585577Siôn 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.

|isbn=15291259600861541774|title=Unnatural HistoryA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jonathan KellermanSteve 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 Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but itdidn's actually a cold case unit t turn out that way. The teaching - and there the problems - are just two of them doing the joball his own. LockyerThe one thing he hadn's not unduly worriedt expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of something betterscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. It was Suddenly plunged into a bit world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a shock time when he got the phone call use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from Hedy Lambert: signing. From here, she's ends up in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agousing a system called Visible Speech. She's keen to see him At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decadesEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=B0BQXSYYTF1803816759|title=Just LookingThe Unravelling|author=Matthew TreeWill Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=It'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 AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one 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?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421284|title=Laying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the summer of 2035 and on British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a cruise ship in Marseillesgully, Jim was celebrating his new-found wealth a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the end of his marriage - not two celebrations generally found in the same sentence by a man! body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's watching the tornado - they're more common in Europe these days - that's keeping the cruise ship in port d been a known drug user and falls into conversation with Jean-Pierrehad learning disabilities, so it could have been a French journalist in his thirtiessimple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. He writes for Geary was a relatively new papertownie, the right-wing ''La Tribune Gauloise'' and so what was he's interesting if a little wordy doing out on subjects such as Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the difference between 'France' suicide of Holly Gilbert and 'to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the French'time. His partner, Helen, whoLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's English cold cases to you and Jewish, keeps him in check to some extentme) investigate.

|isbn=057137493X0571379559|title=The Other HalfHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Charlotte VassellFiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=''The room was full House of Broken Bricks'' is the sort story of four people . Tess Hembry''Tatler'' thinks you should knows 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'' ''The Other Half'' is s stood the story passage of two mentime, both with what looks like the same surnamestorms and floods. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir Her husband, Richard, struggles to a baronetcy and grow his thirtieth birthday party is a cateredvegetables, to complete the delivery rounds -with-butler event at McDonalds and to bring in Camden Townsufficient money. Think Bollinger They have twin boys - Sonny and cocaineMax, the rainbow twins. His surname is pronounced Sonny'Beechams colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racialMax takes after his father. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across the body of Clemmie OPeople don't believe that they'Harare related, Rupertmuch less twins and there's girlfriend. Rupert thought an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she was being deliberately late for 's his party. She was dead under a bushnanny.

|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1529425867|title=White RiotLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics In Oxford, there's are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always the danger exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations Ryan and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit father of the momentRyan, is not. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist He's not any of a particular event or era of political historythose things. Austerity Britain He's white, the student riotsoriginated from a trailer park, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of what is, shell suits and has been, written trackies. They're usually in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful lime green or incisiveacid yellow. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature)laughs. Well, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question you're not. The two men are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded just different sides of the writer same policing coin. Sometimes the benefit of a more objective viewcombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn= 1529423376

|author=Heather FawcettMosby Woods|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her lifeThe West isn's work, t the very first encyclopaedia of faeriesdominant force it once was. Whilst she Nobody in the West is brilliant at research and speaking quite sure how to faeries, she mend this or even if mending it is not so good with peoplethe best course of action. Governments are flailing. So when she finds herself farA war here, far North a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in the small village of Hrafvsnikactual charge. Imagine then, having somehow offended there was a man with precognition. Imagine the village matriarch, she is not sure strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what she has donewill happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on right? Perhaps the right trackmost valuable asset in history. Enter Wendell BamblebyImagine then, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emily's frustrationthat this man loses this ability. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnikwould governments do to get it back?|isbn=0356519120B0C9SNG8R1