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|authorisbn=Simon Fox0241636604|title=DeadlockThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Late one night Graham Blake If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is late back from his shift on the forceEast End, and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding where he fetch something from a secret placewas familiar with violence, poverty and join him on the runinjustice. They get together, There was no posh public school on his CV - but barely begin he had been to smell the whiff London School of Southern trains when the father Economics. Stevenson is arrestedbright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightonessentially, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleaguescard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and the bearer of this turned into permanent employment as a whole heap of questionstrader.|isbn=1839944420

|authorisbn=Shalini Boland1035021803|title=The Silent BrideAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heavenIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. He is everything she has been searching She's back now because of a request for; handsome, accomplished, cleverhelp from her beloved aunt, funny; total and utter husband-materialCarole. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautifulFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, successfulArthur Crockleford, confident… is dead and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and circumstances seem suspicious, to say the wedding is planned and setleast. When Arthur was the much-anticipated day arrivesreason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, Alice is walked 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 aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as profession she surveys loved. After the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bridesplit, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the man at rebound from the altar islove of her life, who is waiting for her to become his wifewas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1662507089

|authorisbn=Mark EdwardsAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Keep Her SecretAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph shape of things to encapsulate the joy she come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is feeling in this momentwhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to the rockface me but I'm left with just the snagged strap feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowit is - frankly - quite frightening. Convinced she is going to dieOf course, Helena must purge herself of I could research the possibilities and the shocking secret she has been keeping probabilities and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Just moments later their heroic, I needed people I knew I could trust and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops who could deliver information in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helenaa way I could understand.|isbn=166250893X

|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTSunny Singh|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers |summary=''Bill and Amanda are living The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a semi-detached houseterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom wartime photographer and disappointmentAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, when Terry and Fiona – glamoroushe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks keeps on life, the couples befriend each other and life appears venturing out of her room to try to improve for both pairscapture what's happened through her photography. But all is not what it seems Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and their increasingly interconnected relationships they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are fated for tragedydiscovered by the terrorists.''|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17876360031529153298|title=The Girls List of SummerSuspicious Things|author=Katie BishopJennie Godfrey

|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she 's 1979 and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) Rachel wasnShe't exactly innocent but she wass not what's worrying Miv's family, perhapsthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, naivethey've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to take an interest in hermove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, she was flattered rather than warybest avoided. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and by she'll do anything to prevent that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on She's not worried about the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked dangers or partiedthat her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15291353891398524085|title=The FallHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Gilly MacmillanNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning Charlotte Salter was expected at the county fair before she returned homeher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. There was no sign of Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her husband daughter, Etty. are all worried but opera was playing on the state-ofstrangely -the-art music system installed in The Glass Barnher husband, Alec, is not. TheyShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'd not been s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula river. It was an easy assumption for long and were still getting used the police to all the high-tech systems Tom make that Duncan had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other murdered Charlie and didnthen committed suicide when he couldn't work as reliably as they shouldstand the guilt. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool can do but get on with a wound to his headtheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Alan Parks1035906708|title=To Die in JuneDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death We tend to think of a homeless man on the streetsMaria Callas as Greek, suddenly starts but she was born to feel like something more sinister as another body is discoveredGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and then anotheronly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but all her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the more States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so because his own father is a downthat she could get appropriate training for her voice -and-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At she was raised under the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with Nazi occupation by a move to a different police station, mother who mercilessly exploited her and the arrival there made no secret of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missingpreference for her elder sister, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundJackie. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784

|author=Laura NoakesChristopher Edge|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, Cosima Unfortunatea place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Or ratherAll big movie fans, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond 're looking forward to in the ledgerlots of exciting films, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiesmany, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. many snacks! But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came fromHowever, as the first ever inmatemovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and unique in having no known family in the outside worldthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes But as they lurch from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want film genre to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But whynext, and can they figure out what does that body entailon earth is going on? And could it possibly bring Cos closer Will they ever get back to the past she has so little link withcinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=00085790591839942738

|author=Thomas D LeeRachel Greenlaw|title=Perilous TimesCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyTeens|summary= ''Hate is I can hear the path song of least resistancethe sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

Set in the near-distant futureRosevear, in a world remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the verge of climate collapsewrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, Britain is in great perilone of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. The British Isles desperately needs But when the Council Watch lays a hero (or several) trap to save end the wrecking, they capture the day island's leader and rescue what little remainsMira's father. What no one expected was Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that one lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the Knights heart of the Round Table would answer smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the callones she holds most dear.|isbn=03565185230008664730

|author=Madelaine LucasJames Sherwood Metts|title=Thirst for SaltPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''LoveThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, Ioften replacing jobs they'd read, was supposed re paid to be a light do and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship other tasks that once defined hertook time to accomplish. Overlaid with later wisdomJust as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – new ways to its sorrowful end the summer afterspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship Life was pretty much shut down and, along with her older loverit, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective the many daily social interactions on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablywhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=08615464901736128426

|isbnauthor=1529382823Matthew Tree|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanWe'll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Pete. They're off on a cruise Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemmabe different from his father, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his suit pocket artistic passions all failed miserably and she doesn't know whether she's relieved or disappointedwho had endless crises of self confidence. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity So Tim applied himself to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhilehis studies, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementiacultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. It's going to be good, isn't it?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Lex CroucherA G Slatter|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=TeensFantasy|summary=Who knew '' There's a part of me that what wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I really needed just want to read right now was enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlytown under the protection of the Briar's, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful wayfamily of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. In this storyThough she has always wished for magic, Gwen Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and Arthur have been betrothed as such since they were tinyshe was young, much to their mutual disgust! Gwenher training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, you seeEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomtown's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, creating Ellie uncovers the subterfuge of falling in love rare ability to communicate with each otherthe dead, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. But Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as their impending wedding draws ever closerthe Briar witches' legacy, will everything they find a way in which they can both truly be themselveshave sacrificed to survive, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?is under threat.|isbn=15266517931803364548

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529900360|title=One Puzzling AfternoonThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house he felt responsible and bring Edie even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to live with ask for his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memoryhelp on difficult cases. However, Edie is tormented by His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the memory help of her childhood frienda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, Lucyit was Robin, Delaware's partner, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping nudged Milo into asking for Lucy help again. She knew that somehow might be the thing involvement was something that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agoman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. After 'seeing' Lucy Two lovers were murdered in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets swimming pool of memories coming back to hera remote property in Bel Air. And yet as she remembers He was the past, heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is forgetting more married to an extremely rich man and more in her day to day lifeit's not the Italian. Will she uncover But which of them was the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone foreverprimary target?|isbn=1804181250

|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1529395224|title=Thirty Days Letting the Cat Out of Darknessthe Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=Thrillers Animals and Wildlife|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Sorry His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot follow in the world of crime fictionhis footsteps, saying particularly when heconsidered the strain that being on-call put on his father's populist trash life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and only writing what anyone could writewas convinced this was the job for him. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusationBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a wintry month away from it allchild. Just on the point of despairing – about her writingIf anything, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladyhe's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615d wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=18045456000861541774|title=The MonkA Nye of Pheasants|author=Tim SullivanSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=The body DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the woods near Bristol Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a nasty shock street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a monk strapped to man armed with a chair knife - and dumped in he killed a ditchGhurka. He'd been savagely beaten. It's Initially, he faced a while before D S George Cross and charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicman. He'd been missing for a few days and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeyNow he could be facing the death penalty. As the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as an investment banker, brother, neighbour any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and friend. Hewouldn'd also been very wealthy but had given it t help Danny at all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?

|author=Lauren BravoAlexander McCall Smith|title=PrelovedThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a big number that starts with a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortycollection of knits from toys to blankets. Having been made unexpectedly redundant Some will be quick knits - any HR officer worth their salt would argue others are of the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit 'long, cosy afternoons in front of a mid-life crisisthe fire' variety. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to take back her lifetwenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that'|isbn=1398510629s me being picky.

|author=Cath HoweDean Koontz|title=My Life on FireThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Ren's family home Benny is destroyed in having a fireterrifically bad day. SheHe loses his job, her parentshe loses his fiancee, and her little brother lose everythinghis house gets trashed. She doesn't have any of her clothesOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, or any of her special little knickdisturbing coffin-knacks from her cupboardsized object to his home, and now she is living at her grandmotherit's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house where they can't touch anything! The thing is, or do anything, or even eat Benny is the foods they normally eatvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. When she goes back to school she discovers So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the class are doing delivery to his house is a special art projectnew friend, creating boxes of their livesa bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to display things that are important to them and show who they are as help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But Ren has nothing Spike is going to put in a boxtake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and so she Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they have so much alreadyare. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=18399428351662500491

|isbnauthor=0008517010Adam Stower|title=Death Under a Little Sky|author=Stig AbellMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side who is able to sleep and eat and eat and he didn't think there was for Faye either. They were still polite to each other sleep and wished each other , well - but didn't wish to remain married, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. The perfect solution arrived in the form of But he's a legacy from Jakebad magician's Uncle Arthur. He'd cat, so his favourite bun has been left turned into a secluded property in hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the hamlet catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - frightening adventure and enough money whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to live there without the need be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to work.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Jennifer SaintB0C47LV1PC|title=AtalantaFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary=Can you make a ''I was as worthy as any one of them. I Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would get on board it land? The catch is that ship, I vowedthe answer for both could well be... I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, toono. Atalanta''

Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta ''Fragility'' is raised under set as the protective eye city of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntressPortland, Oregon, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – cautiously begins to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent emerge from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes restrictions imposed during the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154covid pandemic

|isbn=152915118X1529431735|title=Pineapple StreetThe Winter Visitor|author=Jenny JacksonJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'Pineapple Street'' is return all the story of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgianamore surprising. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother CordHe'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. TheyThe return has come about because he're Stocktonss had a letter from his ex-wife, only Sasha isnsaying that she't a Stockton by birth so she isns ill and hasn't readily accepted into the tribelong to live. The problemIt's exacerbated hard to feel any sympathy when the clan matriarchHopkins is abducted, Tilda, asks Cord stripped to his underwear and Sasha if they'd like sent to move into a watery grave in the Pineapple Street propertyboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another property, Is it a warning from a street Spanish gang or so away, which they own. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start problem closer 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'.?

|isbnauthor=0008551278Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the bottom of Fyrishwondrous library we start by visiting with him, where she'd been doing her trainingand in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She'd been Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading for generation missing in the national squadfamily. ThatA few short years ago, Eli's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeparents were both lost to the titular race, Affo came a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at navigate the world in the age company of twelvea magical beast. She was rescued This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster family. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterbad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Melodi Eli knows his only hope is in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herdare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=Emily Tesh178763681X|title=Some Desperate GloryKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul 'While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear ussomehow'' Following got the destruction of impression that he'd be at the Earthschool to assist Paul, amongst who had a rare number of survivorsbroken arm, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the world that should have been hersproblems - are all his own. All her life, she has been conditioned The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to fall in lineturn up dead. Unfortunately, to fulfil her duty he was the person who discovered the body and ensure everyone knows that the police consider that humanity perseveresperson to be the prime suspect.|isbn=0356521834

|isbnauthor=0861544056Sarah Marsh|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline SutherlandA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end After a bout of their first term at universityscarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in ExeterSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. It's not only Living in a time when the first time they've been away from their parents for any length use of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can school where she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come is taught to lip read, but doesn't want to upset Kitphysically restrained from signing. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that From here, she can cope with thatends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. And they'll be sharing At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a bedroomcomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=17856334571803816759|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric CarThe Unravelling|author=Clive WilkinsonWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary=Clive Wilkinson has It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a history bit of travelling by unconventional means adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with a preference the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for slow travelmany, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. As he neared his eightieth birthday In the idea aftermath of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageousrioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. In factJoe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive British superfan and his wifetech nerd, Joan, shouldnis also on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki't its kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Frederic Seager1529421284|title= Jesus, Laying Out the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentBones|author=Kate Webb

|genre= Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= I It was brought up one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a family where religion played little or no partheatwave. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on In a gully, a human skeleton came to the other, nobody really discussed religion surface and forensic testing proved the adults around me ranged from lapsed body to agnostic to atheistbe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, I didnso it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't think too much about faith or convinced. Geary was a townie, so what people did or didnwas he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? 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't believes cold cases to you and me) investigate.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y

|isbn=05713709770571379559|title=The Lock-UpHouse of Broken Bricks|author=John BanvilleFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=It''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess Hembry's six months since the dramatic events which we read about roots are in [[April Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughterthe house on the riverbank, Phoebebuilt of broken bricks. The worst Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the passage of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened time, storms and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficultfloods. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a youngHer husband, Jewish scholarRichard, Rosa Jacobsstruggles to grow his vegetables, is found to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in a locksufficient money. They have twin boys -upSonny and Max, the rainbow twins. At firstSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, it looked as though shemuch less twins and there'd gassed herself but Quirke s an assumption when Max is convinced out with his mother that it was murder rather than suicideshe's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1529425867|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, Lost and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{FrontpageNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for BoysSimon Mason

|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolIn Oxford, 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 there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is one of four with both his best buddy from the football teamNigerian descent, Balliol educated and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetheralways exquisitely dressed. As they're all fired upD I Ryan Wilkins, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can formson of Ryan and father of Ryan, the talk in class and out often turns to sexis not. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesnHe't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lies not any of those things. He's had a casual relationshipwhite, originated from a secret onetrailer park, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by barely educated (reading's not ''really'experienced', but whether thathis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They's set re usually in stonelime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, he canyou't be surere not. And that's mostly because The two men are just different sides of who hethe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's been having the relationship and the sex withproblematic.|isbn=1529509491

|author=M R CareyMosby Woods|title=Infinity GateA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= IThe West isn'm annoyingly picky when t the dominant force it comes once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to science fiction. Not because mend this or even if mending it's a genre I dislike – nothing is the best course of the sortaction. My standards Governments are high precisely because it's flailing. A war here, a hard genre to get right – and when it's badpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, it's often terriblethere was a man with precognition. But Imagine the premise strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of Infinity Gate had me hookedcircumstances. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done wellThat man would be valuable, it'd be fantasticright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. So Imagine then, that this man loses this is where I sum up that premiseability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=0356518043B0C9SNG8R1