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|authorisbn=Laura Noakes0241636604|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos you're unlikely to her friendsthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. The practice in A hoodie and jeans replaces the home she lives in pin-stripe suit and his background is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgerEast End, and they're all Unfortunates – young people where he was familiar with disabilitiesviolence, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponpoverty and injustice. But Cosima bears There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the tag as London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a surname because nothing else seems facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be known about where she came fromstupid. It was his ability at what was, as the first ever inmateessentially, and unique in having no known family in the outside worlda card game which got him an internship with Citibank. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonEventually, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – this turned into permanent employment as a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutetrader. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059

|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee1035021803|title=Perilous TimesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Hate 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 path of least resistance'' Set . 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 near-distant futuresplit, she worked in a world cafe, met and married James (on the verge rebound from the love of climate collapseher life, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or severalwho was murdered) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the callFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn=0356518523

|authorisbn=Madelaine LucasAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Thirst for SaltAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravitycome.''

Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship I've heard it said that once defined her'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Overlaid with later wisdom Well, the narrator relives the affair with I must confess that there have been more than a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer afterfew decades of technology in my lifetime. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town I've kept up reasonably well with what'Thirst for Salts advantageous to me but I'' details m left with the 24-year-old narratorfeeling that it's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its allgetting away from me. Some of it is -consuming naturefrankly - quite frightening. Of course, how it changed her perspective on both romantic I could research the possibilities and familial relationships the probabilities and how it altered her irrevocablyend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=0861546490

|isbnauthor=1529382823Sunny Singh|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') The Hotel Arcadia is middle-aged and a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on suddenly been violently taken over by a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''terrorist group. Caz's sisterHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Gemmakilling everyone on site, reckons that Pete there is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted Sam, a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket wartime photographer and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedAbhi, the hotel manager. They've not been a couple As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for that long and the trip will residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be an excellent opportunity cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to get try to know him a bit bettercapture what's happened through her photography. MeanwhileAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe their friendship grows as well as their mother who has dementia. It's going Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be good, isn't it?rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Lex Croucher1529153298|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomComIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? But I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful waythough. In this story, Gwen and Arthur Women have been betrothed since disappearing. Well, they were tiny've been murdered, much but to their mutual disgust! have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomMiv's upset because she's only female knight) - something overheard that Art discovers from her private diariesfather wants to move the family 'Down South'. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesfrightening, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each otherforeign place, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsbest avoided. But as their impending wedding draws ever closerFor Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselvesSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or are they destined that her Mum's stopped talking - to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793anyone.

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1398524085|title=One Puzzling AfternoonHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her whole lifedaughter, Etty. are all worried but now she is facing a move as - strangely - her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyhusband, Alec, as Edie is starting to lose her memorynot. HoweverShortly afterwards, Edie is tormented by Etty and Greg, find the memory body of her childhood friendGreg's father, LucyDuncan Ackerley, who went missing over 60 years ago, and in the worry that there river. It was a secret she was keeping an easy assumption for Lucy that somehow might be the thing police to make that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she was t stand the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to herguilt. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about LucyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's disappearance before her move, little else they can do but get on with their lives and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1035906708|title=Thirty Days of DarknessDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry We tend to leave her bottles think of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairMaria Callas as Greek, but she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot was born to Greek parents in the world of crime fictionManhattan, New York, saying he's populist trash in December 1923 and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that moved to Athens when she cannot live up to that accusationwas thirteen. Her publisher duly books original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her flights from Denmark father changed it to 'Callas' to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from make it allmore manageable in the States. Just on When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the point of despairing – about Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her writing, about the people and the lack made no secret of stimulus her preference for her plotelder sister, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615Jackie.

|isbnauthor=1804545600Christopher Edge|title=The Monk|author=Tim SullivanBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=The body Lucas and his friends are all booked in the woods near Bristol was for a nasty shock - movie marathon at their local cinema, a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditchplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. HeAll big movie fans, they'd been savagely beaten. It's a while before D S George Cross re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the Major Crime Unit establish movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is Father Dominic. He'd been missing for a few days very different, and certainly hadnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't asked permission to leave his abbeyeven imagine. As But as they lurch from one film genre to the team gradually unpick next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankercinema, brother, neighbour and friend. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder himto their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Lauren BravoRachel Greenlaw|title=PrelovedCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Women's FictionTeens|summary= Gwen ''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that starts with lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a four trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and ends with an oh-my-God-IMira'm-nearly-fortys father. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bit of bargain with a mid-life crisis. Catharsis wreck survivor who is as charming as he is key secretive and Gwen has decided now is with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the time sea. With only nine days to take back unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her lifefrom 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 the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=13985106290008664730

|author=Cath HoweJames Sherwood Metts|title=My Life on FirePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Ren's family home is destroyed in Things have been a firebit sticky for the Earthlings. She, her parents, AI and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't automation have any of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardbeen proceeding apace, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where often replacing jobs they can't touch anything, or re paid to do anything, or even eat the foods and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes of their lives, were beginning to display things that are important get used to them all this technological change and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing starting to put in a boxthink of other, and so she finds herself starting new ways to steal thingsspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Small thingsLife was pretty much shut down and, things that people might not really missalong with it, not when all the many daily social interactions on which they have depend so much alreadyheavily. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=18399428351736128426

|isbnauthor=0008517010Matthew Tree|title=Death Under a Little Sky|author=Stig AbellWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and he didn't think there was for Faye eitherwho had endless crises of self confidence. They were still polite So Tim applied himself to each other his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and wished each other well - set himself high but didn't wish to remain married. The perfect solution arrived in the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthur. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to workachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Jennifer SaintA G Slatter|title=AtalantaThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=''I was as worthy as any one There's a part of them. I would get on board me that ship, wants to keep this just to myself for however long I vowedcan. I would take This secret magic of my placeown, not all mine, at last. I just in the name of the goddess. It was want to enjoy it for the sake of my name, tooa while. Atalanta''

Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born Within a daughter rather than remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a son, Atalanta is raised town under the protective eye protection of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into Briar's, a formidable huntress, one family of witches who longs protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for adventure. When magic, Ellie Briar is the opportunity comes – first non-witch to join the Argonautsbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a fierce band of warriorssteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, descendent from Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes Briar Witch, the chance to fight in Artemistown' name s leader, and carve out Ellie takes her own legendary place in historybeside her. What follows is 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 a whirlwind maelstrom of challenges 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and discovery even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and through -shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Atalanta must remember ArtemisDelaware' fatal warning: s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that if the man she marriesloved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it will be her undoing's not the Italian.|isbn=1472292154 But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=152915118X1529395224|title=Pineapple StreetLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Jenny JacksonSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and GeorgianaSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Darley His father was a GP and George are sisters and Sasha is married Rowlands didn't want to their brother Cord. They're Stocktonsfollow in his footsteps, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into particularly when he considered the tribe. The problemstrain that being on-call put on his father's exacerbated when life. When he was seventeen he took the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and Sasha if they'd like to move into was convinced this was the Pineapple Street propertyjob for him. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, a street or so awayBefore long, which they ownhe was at Liverpool University. They wonIt hadn't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, - as with so Sasha and Cord can move straight inmany students - been his dream since he was a child. NominallyIf anything, they had a choice but that wasnhe't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start d wanted to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'be a professional footballer.

|isbn=00085512780861541774|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Neil LancasterSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom of FyrishDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, where she'd been doing her trainingGuy Trueman. She'd been Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a bit of man armed with a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics knife - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadhe killed a Ghurka. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeInitially, Affo he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the age of twelveman. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familyNow he could be facing the death penalty. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a childrendiplomatic incident and wouldn's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to hert help Danny at all.

|author=Emily TeshAlexander McCall Smith|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=''While Earth's children liveThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the Earthbusiness, amongst as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a rare number while. Katie is coming out of survivorsa break up with a bad boyfriend, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – and so jumps at the chance to come home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the world that should have been hersIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. All her life Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, she but Ness has been conditioned to fall full confidence in lineher abilities, to fulfil and there's always her duty very helpful (and ensure that humanity perseveres.rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=03565218341846976596

|isbn=08615440560811771741|title=Twin TruthsInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jacqueline SutherlandMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=Belle and DavidMelissa Leapman's twin daughters are just coming ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to the end of their first term at universityblankets. KitSome will be quick knits - others are of the 's been at Bristol and Jesslong, cosy afternoons in front of the fire's in Exetervariety. It's not only The projects are divided by the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time ll take to complete - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait less than five hours, five to have them all ten hours, ten to herself for a whiletwenty hours and more than twenty hours. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset KitAll the projects are attractive, modern and useable. IvoI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's apparently 'older': he's twentysocial-media-four to Kitworthy projects's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedrooms me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1785633457Dean Koontz|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive WilkinsonThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TravelParanormal|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with Benny is having a preference for slow travelterrifically bad day. As He loses his job, he neared loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his eightieth birthday home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the idea of exploring thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageousvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. In fact So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, it should be a pleasant holiday bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for Clive being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and his wifewill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, JoanBenny, shouldnand Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't it?s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Frederic SeagerAdam Stower|title= Jesus, the Man Murray and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentBun

|genre= Spirituality and ReligionConfident Readers |summary= I was brought up in Murray is supposed to be a family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on humble, tidy and friendly cat, one side who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Welsh Methodist on , well, whatever takes his fancy next of the othertwo. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheistcatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Other This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity playMurray was, to be honest, I didnbut he't think too much about faith or what people did or didns turned up and he't believe.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B092BWWG9YB0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=05713709771529431735|title=The Lock-UpWinter Visitor|author=John BanvilleJames Henry

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] February 1991 and Dr Quirke Essex is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughterbitingly cold, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the already strained relationship between them more difficultsurprising. TheyHe're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when d been exiled on the body of Costa del Sol as a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in wanted drug smuggler for a lock-updecade. At firstThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, it looked as though saying that she'd gassed herself but Quirke s ill and hasn't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is convinced that abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it was murder rather than suicide.a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Julia BartzAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Writing RetreatGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the world of publishing knows evening a helper at the namedessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Writers want to be her Eli lives with his lovely gran, agents want to represent hertoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. She A few short years ago, Eli's something parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than bad incident at the eatery leads to a little obsessed with Rozaconfession from gran, and Eli knows his only hope is stunned whento dare to enter what he most hates, following a series with the sole aim the prize of unexpected events, she is invited magic at the end – the only thing to be part of her month-long writers' retreatpossibly save his gran.|isbn=08615444390571382231

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix178763681X|title=Different Knife Skills for BoysBeginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at quite a standard residential cookery school, and is surprised in Belgravia. He didn't really want to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of four with getting both his best buddy from the football team, men and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back women to primary school days togetherdo what he wanted. As theyPaul ''somehow're all fired up, straining ' got the impression that he'd be at the leash only a single-sex school can formto assist Paul, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Antwho had a broken arm, as he doesnbut it didn't know what turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his score is, where his achievements in that regard lieown. He's had a casual relationship, a secret The one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, thing he canhadn't be sureexpected was for someone to turn up dead. And that's mostly because of Unfortunately, he was the person who he's been having discovered the relationship body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the sex withprime suspect.|isbn=1529509491

|author=M R CareySarah Marsh|title=Infinity GateA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fictionAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Not because it's Suddenly plunged into a genre I dislike – nothing world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a hard genre school where she is taught to get right – and when it's badlip read, it's often terriblebut physically restrained from signing. But From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the premise of Infinity Gate had me hookeddeaf and using a system called Visible Speech. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well At the same time, it'd be fantastic. So this Bell is where I sum working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up that premisein a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=03565180431035401614

|isbn=13985095821803816759|title=The FavourUnravelling|author=Nicci FrenchWill Gibson

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when 's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the car crash happenedwealthy and peaceful New York City. It would cause problems Joe longs for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he a bit of adventure and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical schoolget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Liam was But then something goes horribly wrong with the reverse. He just acted ''as if AI system that now runs everything, making life just rolled him over easier for many, and carried him along''riots start to spread. A bit of weed hereFinally, a few drinks there: Joe gets to do some real policing. In the legal effects aftermath of the car crash really didnrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't worry him at allthe only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. The relationship broke up soon after that - What went wrong? Did the system fail or rather, Liam simply didnwas it hacked? And how is Suki't see Jude any more.s kidnapping connected?

|isbn=08570517411529421284|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationLaying Out the Bones|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined It was one of those flash downpours that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found British weather often delivers in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicheatwave. The problem is that In a gully, a human skeleton came to the case has long passed surface and forensic testing proved the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared without a trace in 1962nine years earlier. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with 'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a fifty-year-old simple case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying manof misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's wisht convinced. The situation changes when Geary was a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholictownie, so what was also murdered. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Is there a connection between There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths?which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni0571379559|title=Her Deadly GameThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the life's work 'The House of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed Broken Bricks'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in defence the house on the riverbank, built of his clientsbroken bricks. Along with an indisputable talent for Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the lawpassage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself Richard, struggles to oblivion grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the formerrainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Enter Keera DugganPeople don't believe that they're related, former competitive chess prodigy much less twins 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 there's an assumption when Max is out with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southhis mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1662500181

|authorisbn= Rob Keeley1529425867|title= The Boy Who Disappeared Lost and Other StoriesNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley In 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 back with not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a return trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new tales, each as fun to read as his previous offeringscombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G

|author= Michael GrothausMosby Woods|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn''But fearing something and having t the dominant force it come to pass are two different thingsonce was. And I'm willing Nobody in the West is quite sure how to bet most of what we fear will never happen, mend this or we can take steps to change even if mending it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around is the question best course of identity and acceptanceaction. Of what it means to be humanGovernments are flailing. Of what is real and what is artificialA war here, and whether the development of technology a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is exciting or frighteningin actual charge.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed HitlerImagine then, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating=4there was a man with precognition.5|genre=History|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is Imagine the scrubbing from the popular imagination strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of the early days of World War II from 1939-40circumstances. That man would be valuable, known as right? Perhaps the ''Phoney War''most valuable asset in history. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler, war breaking outImagine then, and Churchill coming in to save the day. Very little time is spent on that this period in cultural reflections and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in man loses this book, ability. What would governments do to get it was of vital significance in how the war played out.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1