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|authorisbn=Julia Bartz0241636604|title=The Writing RetreatTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be heryour mind, agents want you're unlikely to represent herthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. She's something of a legend with an impressive A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, if compact, back catalogue of works that started where he was familiar with her breakthrough novelviolence, published when she poverty and injustice. There was barely out no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of childhoodEconomics. Alex, a writer Stevenson is bright -slashextremely bright -editor, is more than and he has a little obsessed facility with Rozanumbers 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, and is stunned whenessentially, following a series of unexpected eventscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreatthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=0861544439

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix1035021803|title=Different for BoysThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherthe English country village where she grew up. As theyShe're all fired up, straining at the leash only s back now because of a single-sex school can formrequest for help from her beloved aunt, the talk in class and out often turns to sexCarole. Which is confusing for AntFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, as he doesn't know what his score isdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, where his achievements in that regard lieto say the least. He's Arthur was the reason why Freya had a casual relationshipnot been back to the village: Arthur, a secret oneshe feels, for several months nowlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, and so she has effectively progressed up not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the ladder headed by 'experienced'split, but whether that's set she worked in stonea cafe, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who he's been having the relationship was murdered) and Freya and the sex withJames have now divorced.|isbn=1529509491

|authorisbn=M R CareyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Infinity GateAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to science fictioncome. Not because '' I've heard itsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you's re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a genre I dislike – nothing few decades of the sorttechnology in my lifetime. My standards are high precisely because it I've kept up reasonably well with what's a hard genre advantageous to get right – and when itme but I's bad, m left with the feeling that it's often terribleall getting away from me. But the premise Some of Infinity Gate had me hookedit is - frankly - quite frightening. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well Of course, itI 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'd be fantasticre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. So this is where I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I sum up that premisecould understand.|isbn=0356518043

|isbnauthor=1398509582Sunny Singh|title=The Favour|author=Nicci FrenchHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It was 2 amThe Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, not long after A levelsa wartime photographer and Abhi, when the car crash happenedhotel manager. It would cause problems As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by keeps on venturing out of her determination room to go try to medical schoolcapture what's happened through her photography. Liam was Although they only ever talk over the reverse. He just acted ''phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if life just rolled him over and carried him along''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of they will be rescued before they are discovered by the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any moreterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=08570517411529153298|title=The Sins List of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationSuspicious Things|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Jennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's determined that Rebecka Martinsson 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitationsWomen have been disappearing. Raimo Koskela Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared without a trace in 1962' doesn't sound quite so frightening. He was the Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: move the problem is that this is a dying manfamily 'Down South's wish. The situation changes when When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a post-mortem establishes that frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Henry PekkariFor Miv, the dead alcoholicmove would mean leaving her best friend, was also murderedSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Is there a connection between She's not worried about the two deaths?dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1398524085|title=Her Deadly GameHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's work 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 not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed Greg'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances s father, Duncan Ackerley, in defence of his clientsthe river. Along with It was an indisputable talent easy assumption for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself police to oblivion make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and inevitably then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the latter was beginning to overshadow the formerguilt. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1662500181

|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author= Rob KeeleyDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. 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 mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a return to place that has the short story format! nickname of 'The Boy Who Disappeared treats us Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to eleven lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new talesfilm format is very different, each and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as fun they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to read as his previous offerings.their real lives?|isbn= B0BVW69N1G1839942738

|author= Michael GrothausRachel Greenlaw|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre= Literary FictionTeens|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different thingsI can hear the song of the sea. And I'm willing to bet most The call of what we fear will never happenthe deep, or we can take steps to change itthe answering beat in my heart.''

''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the question wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of identity the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and acceptanceany treasure that lies within. Of what it means But when the Council Watch lays a trap to be humanend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Of what Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is real secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what is artificialmight 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 determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and whether the development of technology is exciting or frighteningones she holds most dear.|isbn=191458564X0008664730

|isbnauthor=B09BLBP3P8James Sherwood Metts|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940|author=Frederic SeagerPlanet Storyland

|genre=HistoryConfident Readers|summary=Received wisdom Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and simplified narrative automation have been proceeding apace, often lead replacing jobs they're paid to misconceptions about historydo and other tasks that took time to accomplish. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of the early days of World War II from 1939-40other, known as the ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitlernew ways to spend time, war breaking out, and Churchill coming in to save the dayalong came an awful pandemic. Very little time is spent on this period in cultural reflections Life was pretty much shut down and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this bookalong with it, it was of vital significance in how all the war played outmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=0760378134Matthew Tree|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela FarleyWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyLiterary Fiction|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything different from why you should grow your own foodhis father, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers a drunk and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and fertilise them and you finish the main part who had endless crises of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossaryself confidence. SoTim applied himself to his studies, is it any good?}}{{frontpagecultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|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 to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'', whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible and, by the end of the story, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is a collection of short stories more interested in the horrors of illness, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''.B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Amelia Estelle DellosA G Slatter|title=Delilah RecoveredThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45

|summary= We meet Dee at '' There's a point when her life isn't going as planned but things might, part of me that wants to keep this just might, be about to look upmyself for however long I can. Out This secret magic of workmy own, about all mine, at last. I just want to lose her flat, Dee is up enjoy it for an accountanta while.'s job. But it' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's not to be, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Dee Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is attacked by two men calling themselves the first non-witch huntersto 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. She survives When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the attack but not unscathed. Briar Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She, the town's just an ordinary womanleader, living an ordinary lifeand Ellie takes her place beside her. Slivers As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of memory a maelstrom of things that are not ordinary at all return chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to her trust and things will never be determine what to do as the same...Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV1803364548

|isbn=00084049761529900360|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Ghost Orchid|author=Jane CaseyJonathan Kellerman|rating=54

|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close. If youhadn're a regular reader of the [[Jane Caseyt been Lt Milo Sturgis's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read fault that sentence twice Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and wondered if it's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems veryeven after Alex recovered, very realSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. But (His assertions that therewere only open-and-shut cases which didn's always t need the help of a psychologist only worked for a 'but'while. Finally, it was Robin, isnDelaware't there?) Josh has a s partner and he dotes on her son, even if 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. Two lovers were murdered in the relationship with Melissa can be swimming pool of a little rockyremote property in Bel Air. As for Maeve, He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and sheis married to an extremely rich man and it's just come out not the Italian. But which of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertain.them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Hidden FiresSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TravelAnimals and Wildlife|summary= It is always about the book, not the writerSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, but there are times particularly when he considered the authorstrain that being on-call put on his father's hinterland is also life. When he was seventeen he took the background to the book opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate was convinced this was the bookjob for him. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentageBefore long, he was born in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlandat Liverpool University. I can think of noIt hadn't - as with so many students -one better been his dream since he was a combination child. If anything, he'd wanted to give us be a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Parkprofessional footballer. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famously.|isbn=1846975751

|authorisbn=Alice M Ross0861541774|title=The Nowhere ThiefA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=At last there is new stock DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the impoverished yet overa street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in he killed a seaside townGhurka. Elsbeth knows this because she has stolen it. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found outInitially, because she has the ability he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to leave this world, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours light that suggested that he might have planned to enter other worlds, where murder the sea levels are rising dramatically and man. Now he could be facing the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunderdeath penalty. With eviction imminent, Domenic Jejeune can Elsbeth nab anything do nothing to actually generate custom help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at the shop? Well yes, is the answer, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…|isbn=1839943769all.

|isbnauthor=1529504775Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyPerfect Passion Company

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Elsie The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and her little brother David loved to go operating as an alternative to all the park online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and watch look after the red buses drive pastbusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Elsie would race the buses along the side Katie is coming out of the park but David couldn't - he'd been born a break up with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficult. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - bad boyfriend, and was happy to use so jumps at the coins from her money box chance to pay for it as cash was tight at come hometo Edinburgh. GraduallyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, David learned bringing us to stand upan Edinburgh we already love, use thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the bus for supportIsabel Dalhousie novels, and walk behind itbut with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Many decades laterKatie has no experience in running a business, Elsie brought the busor in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, now damaged and rustedthere's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to the Repair Shop, hoping that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=18479418340811771741|title=Atomic HabitsInstaKnits for Baby|author=James ClearMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrafts|summary=IMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire've said this before but there variety. The projects are some books that you seek outdivided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, some books that you stumble across ten to twenty hours and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themmore than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, like, right now! modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'Atomic Habitsbut that'' is in the last categorys me being picky.

|author=Natasha FarrantDean Koontz|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=This story Benny is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''having a terrifically bad day. Ravenwood is an old houseHe loses his job, in the North of Englandhe loses his fiancee, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their liveshis house gets trashed. They are part of Oh, and someone has delivered a complexreally weird, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leodisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and Raffy it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is there with the thing that has trashed his mumhouse! The thing is, and they are living together as Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a familynice person. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the placeA really nice person. But now So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is under threata new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, as Leo who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under pressure attack from his other two brothers to sell the property to nefarious forces for being a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintaingood person. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're Spike is going to livetake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, but if they'll even be togetherhe, Benny, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=05713487851662500491

|author=Nick BrooksAdam Stower|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, Murray 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 CastlesBun

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers |summary= We begin after the momentous battle in 1066 Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and on , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the day of William of Normandytwo. But he's coronation as King of England. Williama bad magician's position is 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 secure into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and the new king has many challengeswhiffs. Imposing authority through This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a coronation troll hunter is important. And William is right to worry. While the previous kingexpected – well, Haroldone much bigger than Murray was, is dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is overto be honest, the rebels are stirring but he's turned up and much of the country does not wish he'll have to recognise a new overlord.do…|isbn=18004224660008561249

|isbn=0008506337B0C47LV1PC|title=The Garnett GirlsFragility|author=Georgina MooreMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=General Literary Fiction|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 MargoCan you make a 's mother as 'an older manYo birthing person'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she joke? And if you could achieve - going to Oxford and having a glittering career. In , is the question should you make it? Or is the eventquestion if you did, they eloped and Richard took her away from would it land? The catch is that the Isle of Wightanswer for both could well be. Margo did go to Oxford and went on to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, the family home on the Isle of Wight. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''no.

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon1529431735|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd It's February 1991 and Essex is approaching bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the start of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman in Dunedinmore surprising. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in He'd been exiled on the hunt Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a killer targeting pregnant women, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfdecade. Finding herself put on desk dutiesThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, which saying that she rails against, she just can's ill and hasn't let the case go and she starts long to follow every thread to uncover whatlive. It's actually happeninghard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the increasingly disturbing worry boot of just what might happen nexta stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1914585577 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1529125960Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Unnatural History|author=Jonathan KellermanThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Donny Klement was Eli is a photographer. Wellbusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his bedgran owns and runs. Three shots were placed neatly through Eli lives with his heartlovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. The PAA few short years ago, Mel Gornick, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish whatEli's happened. Donny had just finished parents were both lost to the titular race, a series globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of photographs called ''The Wishers''a magical beast. He'd taken eight homeless people off This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the streets and asked them eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasyhe most hates, photographed and sent on their way with a generous gift in dollarsthe sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson178763681X|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in Chef Paul Delamare took a book, which means he knows teaching job at a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for exampleresidential cookery school in Belgravia. Aisha is addicted He didn't really want to her new tablet, where she can see videos but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of anything that might be out theregetting both men and women to do what he wanted. The problem, as their mothers see it, is Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that they are never he'out there' themselves, exploring d be at the outside world of Hackneyschool to assist Paul, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying who had a science-mindedbroken arm, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jaydenbut it didn's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existedt turn out that way. For many of those mythological creatures The teaching - and the problems - are real, including the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footageall his own. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to join inturn up dead. Dare they side with LeilaUnfortunately, he was the woman on board, and her relative person who lives as a figure in a painting, discovered the body and become saviours of everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the unseen?|isbn=0241573483prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1913839656Sarah Marsh|title=Let's Celebrate Being Different|author=Lainey DeeA Sign of Her Own

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmotherAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, not least because she made the best beetle juiceEllen Lark loses her hearing. He packed two pairs Suddenly plunged into a world of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmothersilence, everything about her life changes. She had promised to take him to Living in a time when the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd use of sign language was pleased about this seen as he wanted something only savages do, Ellen is sent to make new friendsa school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. At homeFrom here, his only friend was his mum she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and he wondered why that could beusing a system called Visible Speech. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked differentAt the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=17873010361803816759|title=What July KnewThe Unravelling|author=Emily KochWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 sheIt's just ten years old2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. She's Joe longs for a carefulbit 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, meticulous childand riots start to spread. The care has been taught by her father, Mick HooperFinally, who is not prepared Joe gets to discuss do some real policing. In the death aftermath of his wife, July's mother, the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and any hint that the conversation Joe is heading that way will lead assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the necessity of only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements British superfan and tech nerd, is also lead to these Lessons and he's not even careful about whether or not on the injuries are visiblecase. JulyWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's teacher is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he notkidnapping connected? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced but for him.

|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe1529421284|title=Clara and OliviaLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The year is 1933It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. The place? Sadler He's Wells. Ballerinas Clara d been a known drug user and Olivia are sistershad learning disabilities, twins no lessso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Identical Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the outside but suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not, we learn, on considered suspicious at the insidetime. And not on stage, either. Because there Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention cold cases to detail – you and some things, that me) investigate.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379559|title=The House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''je ne sais quoiThe House of Broken Bricks''is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, that donbut instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it't come from s stood the classroompassage of time, storms and floods. A stage presence Her husband, a charmRichard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, a the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother'joie de vivres Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they'. The difference between a hard-workerre related, much less twins and a starthere's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=0861544080

|isbn=00084544931529425867|title=All the Dangerous ThingsLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Stacy WillinghamSimon Mason

|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnIn 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't really slept for a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track s not any of time or drifted off for a momentthose things. ItHe's now white, originated from a year since her sontrailer park, Mason, was stolen from barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his bed in the middle wardrobe consists mainly of the night shell suits and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in the morning when she thought he was sleeping trackies. They're usually inlime green or acid yellow. In that year sheYou might wonder if you's done everything she could re being introduced to raise awareness about the casea police procedural written for laughs. She does interviews and when we meet herWell, sheyou's re not. The two men are just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationdifferent sides of the same policing coin. On Sometimes the plane back, shecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's approached by problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a podcasterpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, Waylon Spencerthere was a man with precognition. Imagine the 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 most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, who points out that she could this man loses this ability. What would governments do a podcast and to get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to a few hundred people at conferences.it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1