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|isbn=05713709770241636604|title=The Lock-UpTrading Game: A Confession|author=John BanvilleGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Autobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's six months since re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] pin-stripe suit and Dr Quirke his background is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) the East End, where he was familiar with his daughterviolence, Phoebepoverty and injustice. The worst of There was no posh public school on his grief is over CV - but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and this he has made the already strained relationship between them more difficulta facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a youngIt was his ability at what was, Jewish scholaressentially, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-upcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. At firstEventually, it looked this turned into permanent employment as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicidea trader.

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1035021803|title=The Writing RetreatAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent herEnglish country village where she grew up. She's something back now because of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with request for help from her breakthrough novelbeloved aunt, published when she was barely out of childhoodCarole. Alex Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, a writer-slash-editorArthur Crockleford, is more than a little obsessed with Rozadead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, and is stunned whenshe feels, following a series of unexpected eventslet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she is invited has not felt able to be part 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 month-long writers' retreatlife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=0861544439

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |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) 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 together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. HeAll Tomorrow's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether Futures: Fictions that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{FrontpageDisrupt|author=M R Carey|title=Infinity GateBenjamin 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 GardeningWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=Pamela FarleyA G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Home and FamilyFantasy|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for ' There's a meal – but realised part of me that you wouldn't know where wants to start, keep this is the book you needjust to myself for however long I can. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your This secret magic of my own food, what youall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'re going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil) Within a remote mountain pass, where you'll put these containersfar away from the world, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish lies Silverton; a town under the main part protection of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. ThereBriar's also , a good glossaryfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. SoThough she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar 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 the first non-witch to be born into something primeval within us. It is used her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a way to reflect our darkest emotions steward revolved around letters and how we as humans react administration rather than spells and process thempotions. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big BadWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, whether that is a home invader, a monster or a ghostand Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, it usually something tangible right andcentre, by Ellie uncovers the end of rare ability to communicate with the storydead, beatable. Eric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. It is putting her at the heart of a collection maelstrom of short stories more interested in the horrors of illnesschaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, grief Ellie must decide who to trust and humiliation. Horrors that linger and are harder determine what to defeat than any ''Big Bad'do as the Briar witches'legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1529900360|title=Delilah RecoveredThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isnIt hadn't going as planned been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but things might, just mighthe felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, be about Sturgis was reluctant to look upask for his help on difficult cases. Out His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of work, about to lose her flat, Dee is up a psychologist only worked for an accountant's joba while. But Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's not to be. Dee is attacked by two men calling themselves witch hunterspartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She survives knew that the attack but not unscathedinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman The next case did look simple, living an ordinary lifethough. Slivers Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of memory of things that are not ordinary at all return a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to her an extremely rich man and things will never be it's not the sameItalian....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=00084049761529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jane CaseySion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan a GP and DI Josh Derwent were living together Rowlands didn't want to follow in Jellicoe Close. If you're a regular reader of his footsteps, particularly when he considered the [[Jane Casey's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read strain that sentence twice and wondered if itbeing on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a massive spoiler because there is family friend who was a delicious sexual chemistry between vet and was convinced this was the two which seems veryjob for him. Before long, very realhe was at Liverpool University. But (there's always a 'but', isnIt hadn't there?) Josh has a partner and - as with so many students - been his dream since he dotes on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be was a little rockychild. As for MaeveIf anything, shehe's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than d wanted to be a little uncertainprofessional footballer.

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover0861541774|title=The Hidden FiresA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=54|genre=TravelCrime|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the authorDCI Domenic Jejeune's hinterland is also the background to the book close friend and so it is necessary to understand that contextformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in order Singapore to appreciate the bookmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, Maik was born involved in Kathmandu, grew up in the Annapurna and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland. I can think of noa street brawl -one better he would later maintain that he was facing a combination to give us man armed with a reknife -appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Parkand he killed a Ghurka. Merryn walks Initially, not so much in the shadow he faced a charge of Shepherd, manslaughter but in her spiritevidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. I think Now he could be facing the two would have gotten along famouslydeath penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.|isbn=1846975751

|author=Alice M RossAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Nowhere ThiefPerfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At last there The Perfect Passion Company is new stock a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run online apps in providing a seaside townmore personal, tailored service. Elsbeth knows this because Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she has stolen itcould come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found Katie is coming outof a break up with a bad boyfriend, because she has and so jumps at the ability chance to leave come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this worldnew story from Alexander McCall Smith, and use bringing us to an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours Edinburgh we already love, thanks to enter other worlds, where the sea levels are rising dramatically 44 Scotland Street and the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunder. With eviction imminentIsabel Dalhousie novels, can Elsbeth nab anything but with some new characters who quickly begin to actually generate custom at the shop? charm. Well yesKatie has no experience in running a business, is the answeror in match-making, but the fact Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…hand…|isbn=18399437691846976596

|isbn=15295047750811771741|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)InstaKnits for Baby|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyMelissa Leapman|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to go to the park and watch the red buses drive pastblankets. Elsie would race Some will be quick knits - others are of the buses along the side 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the park but David couldn't - hefire'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficultvariety. One day Elsie spotted a bus in The projects are divided by the toy shop window which would help David time they'll take to complete - and was happy less than five hours, five to use the coins from her money box ten hours, ten to pay for it as cash was tight at hometwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use All the bus for supportprojects are attractive, modern and walk behind ituseable. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, to the Repair Shop, hoping I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with it's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1847941834Dean Koontz|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=LifestyleParanormal|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, some books that you stumble across and some books that drop into your life because you someone has delivered a really MUST read themweird, likedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, right nowand it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! ''Atomic Habits'' The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is in a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the last categorydelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, 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

|author=Natasha FarrantAdam Stower|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story Murray is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is an old houseable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, in the North of Englandwell, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most whatever takes his fancy next of their livesthe two. They are part of But he's a complexbad magician's cat, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with so his mumfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the coveboth use can chuck them out, roaming through not into the treesregular back garden, completely at one with all but into a world of the nature around the house frightening adventure and loving every inch of the placewhiffs. But now the house This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is under threatexpected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as itbe honest, but he's becoming more turned up and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where theyhe're going ll have to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.do…|isbn=05713487850008561249

|authorisbn=Nick BrooksB0C47LV1PC|title=Promise BoysFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=When Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the principal (headmaster) of Urban Promise Prep school question should you make it? Or is murderedthe question if you did, three boys find themselves called into would it land? The catch is that the police station answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as suspects. Each, seemingly, has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been there at the time city of his murder. But who killed himPortland, and whyOregon, and if any of cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|isbn=1035003155covid pandemic

|authorisbn=G K Holloway1529431735|title=In the Shadows of CastlesThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= We begin after It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the momentous battle in 1066 and more surprising. He'd been exiled on the day of William of NormandyCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's coronation as King of England. Williamhad a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's position is not secure ill and the new king has many challengeshasn't long to live. Imposing authority through a coronation It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is important. And William is right abducted, stripped to worry. While the previous king, Harold, is dead his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the likelihood boot of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish to recognise a new overlordstolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1800422466 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=0008506337Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Garnett Girls|author=Georgina MooreGlorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=54|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consuming, apparently on both sidesruns. Margo was just sixteen when they fell Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in lovethe family. Richard was twenty-one and described by MargoA few short years ago, Eli's mother as 'an older man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve were both lost to the titular race, a globe- going trotting adventure where all entrants have to Oxford and having a glittering career. In navigate the event, they eloped and Richard took her away from world in the Isle company of Wighta magical beast. Margo did go This has made the race anathema to Oxford and went on the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to become a well-respected journalist. The couple had three children: Rachelconfession from gran, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at SandcoveEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the family home on sole aim the Isle prize of Wight. Even then magic at the end – the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far from Margo's mind: ''she would never be able only thing to leave him in charge''possibly save his gran. Then Richard left them.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Vanda Symon178763681X|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there is Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a brutal, shocking murder of an expectant woman residential cookery school in DunedinBelgravia. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in the hunt for He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a killer targeting pregnant way of getting both men and women, with all to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the extra pressure impression that entails being pregnant herself. Finding herself put on desk dutieshe'd be at the school to assist Paul, which she rails againstwho had a broken arm, she just canbut it didn't let turn out that way. The teaching - and the case go and she starts problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to follow every thread to uncover what's actually happeningturn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen nextprime suspect.|isbn=1914585577

|isbnauthor=1529125960Sarah Marsh|title=Unnatural History|author=Jonathan KellermanA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Donny Klement was After a bout of scarlet fever as a photographer. Wellchild, it was Adonis, actually, but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - it's past tense as his PA found him dead in his bedEllen Lark loses her hearing. Three shots were placed neatly through his heartSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. The PA, Mel GornickLiving in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is distraught and it falls sent to psychologist Alex Delaware a school where she is taught to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happenedlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Donny had just finished From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a series of photographs system called ''The Wishers''Visible Speech. He'd taken eight homeless people off At the streets same time, Bell is working on other inventions and asked them what they'd really like to be. They were then dressed up as their fantasyideas, photographed and sent on their way with Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a generous gift in dollarscomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson1803816759|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetUnravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=JaydenIt's nose 2038 and Joe is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – bored cop policing the phoenixes wealthy and unicorns peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted adventure and to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out thereget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. The problem, as their mothers see it, is But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that they are never 'out there' themselvesnow runs everything, exploring the outside world of Hackneymaking life easier for many, Londonand riots start to spread. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-mindedFinally, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existedJoe gets to do some real policing. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including In the one Aisha thinks she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew aftermath of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed Joe is assigned to join inbring her home. Dare they side with Leila, Joe isn't the woman on boardonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and her relative who lives as a figure in a paintingtech nerd, and become saviours of is also on the case. What went wrong? Did the unseensystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn=0241573483

|isbn=19138396561529421284|title=Let's Celebrate Being DifferentLaying Out the Bones|author=Lainey DeeKate Webb|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Todd It was excited about spending one of those flash downpours that the weekend with his grandmotherBritish weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, not least because she made a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the best beetle juicebody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He packed two pairs 'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmothermisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. She had promised Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to take him the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to the Friday Night Club two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friendstime. At home, his only friend was his mum Lockyer and he wondered why DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that could be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=17873010360571379559|title=What July KnewThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Emily KochFiona Williams

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's just ten years oldroots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. SheInsubstantial as it might look, it's a carefulstood the passage of time, meticulous childstorms and floods. The care has been taught by her fatherHer husband, Mick HooperRichard, who is not prepared struggles to discuss the death of grow his wife, July's mothervegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and any hint that the conversation is heading that way will lead to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the necessity of a Lessonrainbow twins. Other infractions of Sonny's colouring reflects his requirements also lead to these Lessons and hemother's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visibleJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. JulyPeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's teacher an assumption when Max is concerned and brings up the possibility of abuse out with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has he not? The playground wouldnhis mother that she't have been resurfaced but for hims his nanny.

|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe1529425867|title=Clara Lost and OliviaNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The year In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is 1933of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Olivia are sistersfather of Ryan, twins no less. Identical on the outside but is not, we learn, on the inside. And He's not on stage, eitherany of those things. Because there He's white, originated from a lot that builds a dancertrailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Some things that can be taught They're usually in lime green or learnt – discipline, attention acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to detail – and some thingsa police procedural written for laughs. Well, that you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it'je ne sais quoi'', that dons problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't come from the classroomdominant 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 stage presencewar here, a charmpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a ''joie de vivre''man with precognition. The difference between Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a hard-workerman who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, and a starright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=0861544080B0C9SNG8R1