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|isbn=14483093790241636604|title=Flesh The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=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 Blood (DS McAvoy 11)jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=David MarkC L Miller

|summary=It's something twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a surprise to find that you're deadrequest for help from her beloved aunt, particularly when youCarole. Freya're thinking that yous former mentor and Carole're actually on a break with your wife s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and childrenthe circumstances seem suspicious, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoysay the least. Whilst he Arthur was relieved the reason why Freya had not been back to find that he was stillthe village: Arthur, officiallyshe feels, alivelet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the partially clad man who'd dashed rebound from her flat in the early hours love of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carlife, who was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - murdered) and Freya and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on AectorJames have now divorced.

|isbn=0957181167AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Blue Skies and Boat TripsAll Tomorrow's Futures: The Norfolk of Brian LewisFictions that Disrupt|author=Alan MarshallBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=ArtScience Fiction|summary=There are few positive ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things which can be to come.'' I've heard it said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timethat 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking must confess that there have been more closely at than a couple few decades of pictures on technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the walls feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewisquite frightening. Of course, I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book research the possibilities and the print probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I wanted was ‘not available’'m reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a framed print of the picture way I wantedcould understand.

|author=Simon FoxSunny Singh|title=DeadlockHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Late one night Graham Blake The Hotel Arcadia is late back a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from his shift the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the forcesite, and then suddenly rings Archiethere is Sam, demanding he fetch something from a secret placewartime photographer and Abhi, and join him on the runhotel manager. They get together, but barely begin As Abhi continues to try to smell care remotely for the whiff of Southern trains when residents who are still alive in the father is arrestedhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, leaving Archie and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the late express to Brightonphone, toting a tin his father was determined their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep away from his colleagues, safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bearer of a whole heap of questionsterrorists.|isbn=1839944420086154742X

|author=Shalini Boland|title=The Silent Bride|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and set. When the much-anticipated day arrives, Alice is walked down the aisle by her father, beaming with pride and excitement as she surveys the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day and when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wife.|isbn=1662507089}}{{Frontpage|author=Mark Edwards1529153298|title=Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields and black beaches is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge List of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0BYF82CXT|title=Semi-DetachedSuspicious Things|author=Deborah StoneJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you'Bill and Amanda are living in a semi-detached housere from Yorkshire, stuck in Down South is a depressing rut of boredom and disappointmentfrightening, when Terry and Fiona – glamorousforeign place, successful and very much in love – move in next doorbest avoided. Despite their different outlooks on life For Miv, the couples befriend each other move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and life appears she'll do anything to improve for both pairsprevent that. But all is She's not what it seems, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedyworried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.''

|isbn=17876360031398524085|title=The Girls of SummerHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Katie BishopNicci French

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It Charlotte Salter was the summer when Rachel Evans expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandup. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she wasHer children, perhapssons Niall, naivePaul and Ollie and her daughter, so when thirty-fourEtty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in herhusband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, she was flattered rather than waryfind the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach an easy assumption for the police to her make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and by that time she was obsessed by himthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on the island with their lives and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partiedwonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15291353891035906708|title=The FallDiva|author=Gilly MacmillanDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign We tend to think of her husband Maria Callas as Greek, but opera she was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed born to Greek parents in The Glass Barn. They'd not been Manhattan, New York, in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long December 1923 and were still getting used only moved to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted uponAthens when she was thirteen. Some of them fought with each other and didnHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead make it more manageable in the swimming pool with a wound to his headStates.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die When she was back in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for detective Harry McCoy, but all her voice - she was raised under the more so because his own father is Nazi occupation by a down-mother who mercilessly exploited her and-out alcoholic, with made no fixed abode, and he has been secret of her preference for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police station, and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missingelder 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 Ghurka. Initially, he faced a ditchcharge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the man. HeNow he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn'd been savagely beatent help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4. It's 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 while before D S George Cross more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the Major Crime Unit establish that this business, as Ness is Father Dominicplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. He'd been missing for Katie is coming out of a break up with a few days bad boyfriend, and certainly hadn't asked permission so jumps at the chance to come home to leave his abbeyEdinburgh. As 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 team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been wellIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-loved as an investment bankermaking, brotherbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, neighbour and friend. Hethere'd also been s always her very wealthy but had given it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder him?helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo0811771741|title=PrelovedInstaKnits 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.''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=CrimeAbandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Atalanta is raised under which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the protective eye of more surprising. He'd been exiled on the goddess Athemis and fashioned into Costa del Sol as a formidable huntress, one who longs wanted drug smuggler for adventurea decade. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, The return has come about because he's had a fierce band of warriorsletter from his ex-wife, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemissaying that she' name s ill and carve out her own legendary place in historyhasn't long to live. What follows It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a whirlwind watery grave in the boot of challenges and discovery and through a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal a warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=152915118XAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=''Pineapple Street'' Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the story of three women: Sashawondrous library we start by visiting with him, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and Sasha is married to their brother Cordruns. They're StocktonsEli lives with his lovely gran, only Sasha isn't too – for there is a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into generation missing in the tribefamily. The problemA few short years ago, Eli's exacerbated when parents were both lost to the clan matriarchtitular race, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to move into navigate the Pineapple Street propertyworld in the company of a magical beast. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized This has made the race anathema to another property, the pair – but when a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any of bad incident at the furniture eatery leads to a confession from Pineapple Streetgran, so Sasha and Cord can move straight in. NominallyEli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, they had a choice but that wasn't with the sole aim the prize of magic at the reality. Darley and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'end – the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it only thing to 'the GD'possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=0008551278178763681X|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=Neil LancasterOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5

|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom 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 Fyrish, where she'd been doing her traininggetting both men and women to do what he wanted. ShePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd been be at the school to assist Paul, who had a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadproblems - are all his own. ThatThe one thing he hadn's quite an achievement t expected was for someone with her background: you seeto turn up dead. Unfortunately, Affo came he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to Scotland from Albania be the prime suspect.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Marsh|title=A Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=After a bout of scarlet fever as Afrodita Dushku at the age a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of twelvesilence, everything about her life changes. She was rescued Living in a time when she the use of sign language was carrying seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a kilo of drugs school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and three years later she's happy with her foster familyusing a system called Visible Speech. There's just one cloud At the same time, Bell is working on her horizon: her little sisterother inventions and ideas, Melodi is and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to hercomplicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Emily Tesh1803816759|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4.5

|summary=''While EarthIt's children live, 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the EarthAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, amongst a rare number of survivorsand riots start to spread. Finally, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – Joe gets to do some real policing. In the home aftermath of the last scraps of humanity – rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and trained relentlessly Joe is assigned to avenge bring her people and home. Joe isn't the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned only one trying to fall in linesave Suki - Dylan, to fulfil her duty a British superfan and ensure that humanity perseverestech nerd, is also on the case.|isbn=0356521834What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=08615440561529421284|title=Twin TruthsLaying Out the Bones|author=Jacqueline SutherlandKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Belle It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and David's twin daughters are just coming forensic testing proved the body to the end of their first term at universitybe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. KitHe's d been at Bristol a known drug user and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've had learning disabilities, so it could have been away from their parents for any length a simple case of time - misadventure but theyDI Matt Lockyer wasn've also been apart from each othert convinced. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for Geary was a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with hertownie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to upset Kittwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Ivo's apparently 'older': heLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's twenty-four cold cases to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroomyou and me) investigate.

|isbn=17856334570571379559|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges The House of England by Electric CarBroken Bricks|author=Clive WilkinsonFiona Williams

|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history ''The House of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travelBroken Bricks'' is the story of four people. As he neared his eightieth birthday Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the idea of exploring house on the edges riverbank, built of England in an electric car was not totally outrageousbroken bricks. In fact Insubstantial as it might look, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive 's stood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his wifevegetables, Joanto complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, shouldnthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't it?believe that they're related, much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Frederic Seager1529425867|title= Jesus, the Man Lost and the Myth: Never Found (A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentD I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre= Spirituality and ReligionCrime|summary= In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I was brought up in Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the othertrailer park, nobody barely educated (reading's not ''really discussed religion '' his thing) and the adults around me ranged from lapsed 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 agnostic to atheista police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. Other than The two men are just different sides of the odd church wedding or baptism or same policing coin. Sometimes the school nativity play, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didncombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it't believes problematic.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y

|isbnauthor=0571370977Mosby Woods|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=ItThe West isn's six months since t the dramatic events which we read about dominant force it once was. Nobody in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke the West is now back in Dublin and living (quite sure how to mend this or even if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his grief mending it is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficultbest course of action. Governments are flailing. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of A war here, a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is found in a lock-upactual charge. At firstImagine then, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it there was murder rather than suicidea man with precognition.}}{{Frontpage|author=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone Imagine the strategic advantage in the world this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of publishing knows the namecircumstances. Writers want to That man would be hervaluable, agents want to represent herright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compactImagine then, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhoodthis man loses this ability. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited What would governments do to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.get it back?|isbn=0861544439B0C9SNG8R1