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|isbn=15291963880241636604|title=The TrialTrading Game: A Confession|author=Rob RinderGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Grant Cliveden was If you were to bring up an image of a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and honest jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and looked up to by just about everyonehis background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, so there poverty and injustice. There was no posh public uproar when school on his CV - but he was murdered in plain sight at had been to the Old BaileyLondon School of Economics. There's just one man in the frame for his murder Stevenson is bright - Jimmy Knight extremely bright - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged he has a facility with Cliveden's murdernumbers which most of us can only envy. Knight was told He also realised that the best barrister for him most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupilability at what was, Adam Greenessentially, who eventually represent a card game which got himan internship with Citibank. Knight's determined to plead not guiltyEventually, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrarythis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Essie Fox1035021803|title=The Fascination|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling it. ThereAntique Hunter's such a glut of media set in the era that the hallmarks we've come to associate with it are familiar Guide to the point of being cliched, hackneyed even. All this is simply to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite that, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.|isbn=1914585526}}{{FrontpageMurder|author=Andrew Cartmel|title=Death in Fine ConditionC L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth HoundIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She spends 's back now because of a request for help from her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitbeloved aunt, sometimes Carole. Freya'tweakings former mentor and Carole' thems close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayssay the least. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wallvillage: Arthur, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isfeels, and how she can steal it! let her down badly. It's a next-level step Even though they were in her petty crime careerbusiness together as antique hunters, but she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she reached too farworked in a cafe, met and what will happen when married James (on the owner rebound from the love of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1529507987AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Walker Books Benjamin Greenaway and Sonia Albert Stephen Oram (IllustratorEditors)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair ShopOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I'. Itve heard it said that 's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, theretechnology's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning is what theyhappens after you're wortheighteen. You seeWell, the value is I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what these possessions are worth 's advantageous to me but I'm left with the people who own them and the memories they holdfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. No expense appears to be spared and Of course, I could research the experts spend as much time possibilities and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts probabilities and theyend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I're all brilliant at explaining m reading someone who knows what it is they're doingtalking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But how did they start?I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Nicole JarvisSunny Singh|title=A Portrait in ShadowHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnateterrorist group. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition Hiding from the powerful Accademiaterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the self-proclaimed guardians of hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the healing magics that through paintings have residents who are still alive in the power hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to protect the city be cowed by events, and its citizens from plagues and curseskeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power Although they only ever talk over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To themthe phone, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and change – has no place amongst them and their societythey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1803362340086154742X

|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH1529153298|title=The Grave ListenersList of Suspicious Things|author=William FrankJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=The village It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is isolated and poorPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... It) She's not what's worrying Miv's surrounded by a Witching Forestfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. And Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesfamily 'Down South'. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth When you're from Yorkshire, roofs on homesDown South is a frightening, and even gallowsforeign place, if neededbest avoided. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in For Miv, the village move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that is . She's not worried about the reason Volushka, a drunken, selfdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -indulgent, lazy lout of a man is toleratedto anyone.

|isbn=024162343X1398524085|title=Stolen HistoryHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Sathnam SangheraNicci French

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I Charlotte Salter was the bad company other people got into expected at schoolher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Where was the proof? In history lessonsare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, it was probably worse stillis not. Not too long after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the end body of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British armyGreg's successes (and occasional failuresfather, Duncan Ackerley, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first placeriver. Looking back, I still believe I It was right - but I regret that I lacked an easy assumption for the maturity police to approach make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the problem' politelyguilt. I wish I'd had Sathnam SangheraThe Salter children are not convinced but there's ''Stolen History''little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1035906708|title=Three GracesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary= Few styles We tend to think of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novelMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. There Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day and capture to make it, crafting an image of more manageable in the country as it stands States. When she was back in one particular moment. To say Athens - supposedly so that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such Nazi occupation by a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers preference for social commentary but instead fully realised peopleher elder sister, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesJackie.|isbn= 140871468X

|isbnauthor=1448309379Christopher Edge|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)|author=David MarkBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=3.54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's something of Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a surprise to find place that youhas the nickname of 're deadThe Black Hole'. All big movie fans, particularly when youthey're thinking that you're actually on a break with your wife looking forward to lots of exciting films, and childrenmany, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoy. many snacks! Whilst he was relieved to find that he was stillHowever, officiallyas the movie starts, alivethey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed But as they lurch from her flat in one film genre to the early hours of next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carcinema, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on Aector.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=0957181167Rachel Greenlaw|title=Blue Skies Compass and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan MarshallBlade|rating=3.5|genre=ArtTeens|summary=There are few positive things which ''I can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this timehear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in trying to avoid looking at my heart.'' Rosevear, a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the walls - rocks and was completely taken by plundering the work wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Brian Lewisthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. I searched online But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and could with only find ‘used’ versions coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of this book and a family secret that lies buried deep in the print I wanted was ‘not available’sea. OhWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, dear - then a few doors down as her journey takes her from the apartmentwatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, I found a gift shop with a stack Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of brand new books - her home and a framed print of the picture I wantedones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Simon FoxJames Sherwood Metts|title=DeadlockPlanet Storyland

|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on Things have been a bit sticky for the force, Earthlings. AI and then suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret placeautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and join him on the runother tasks that took time to accomplish. They Just as they were beginning to get together, but barely begin used to all this technological change and starting to smell the whiff think of Southern trains when the father is arrestedother, leaving Archie on the late express new ways to Brightonspend time, toting a tin his father along came an awful pandemic. Life was determined to keep away from his colleaguespretty much shut down and, along with it, and all the bearer of a whole heap of questionsmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=18399444201736128426

|author=Shalini BolandMatthew Tree|title=The Silent BrideWe'll Never Know|rating=34.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Alice and Seth are Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a match made in heaven. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, clever, funny; total drunk and utter husband-material. She is chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all he could possibly want in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… failed miserably and so the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setwho had endless crises of self confidence. 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 So Tim applied himself to face his approaching bridestudies, Alice's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become cultivated his abilities rather than his wifedaydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1662507089B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Mark EdwardsA G Slatter|title=Keep Her SecretThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland'' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. The alien-landscape '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the lava fields town and black beaches the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is breaththe first non-taking witch to be born into her family for generations and Helena seems intent on getting as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the perfect photograph to encapsulate Briar Witch, the joy she is feeling in this momenttown's leader, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and Helena finds herself clinging centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the rockface with just dead, putting her at the snagged strap heart of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowmaelstrom of chaos. Convinced she is going Reeling from one family secret to dieanother, Helena Ellie must purge herself of decide who to trust and determine what to do as the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panickedBriar witches' legacy, cryptic declaration everything they have sacrificed to Matthew. Just moments later their heroicsurvive, 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 Helenaunder threat.|isbn=166250893X1803364548

|isbn=B0BYF82CXT1529900360|title=Semi-DetachedThe Ghost Orchid|author=Deborah StoneJonathan Kellerman

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis'Bill s fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Amanda are living in even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a semi-detached housewhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, stuck though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a depressing rut 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's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of boredom the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and disappointmentRowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when Terry and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in next door. Despite their different outlooks he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life, . When he was seventeen he took the couples befriend each other opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and life appears to improve was convinced this was the job for both pairshim. But all is not what it seems Before long, and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedyhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=17876360030861541774|title=The Girls A Nye of SummerPheasants|author=Katie BishopSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she wasformer colleague, perhapsDanny Maik, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started has taken a short holiday in Singapore to take meet up with an interest in herold ally, she was flattered rather than waryGuy Trueman. It Maik was quite involved in a while before street brawl - he would later maintain that he made any sort was facing a man armed with a knife - and he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of physical approach manslaughter but evidence came to her and by light that suggested that time she was obsessed by himhe might have planned to murder the man. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on Now he could be facing the island death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and in particular in the bar where wouldn't help Danny at all the girls either worked or partied.

|isbnauthor=1529135389Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanPerfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long Edinburgh, run by Ness and were still getting used operating as an alternative to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upononline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Some of them fought with each other Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and didn't work look after the business, as reliably as they shouldNess is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. It had all come about through Katie is coming out of a break up with a ten-million-pound lottery win bad boyfriend, and they were still getting used so jumps at the chance to having that sort of money, toocome home to Edinburgh. EventuallyAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, Nicole found Tom dead in thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the swimming pool Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a wound 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 his head.lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Alan Parks0811771741|title=To Die in JuneInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=What first seems like Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the unfortunate'long, accidental death cosy afternoons in front of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then anotherfire' variety. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all The projects are divided by the more so because his own father is a down-andtime they'll take to complete -out alcoholicless than five hours, with no fixed abodefive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and he has been for yearsmore than twenty hours. At All the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to a different police stationprojects are attractive, modern and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be founduseable. Something feels wrong I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media- not just with the woman’s story worthy projects' but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784that's me being picky.

|author=Laura NoakesDean Koontz|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Meet Number OneBenny is having a terrifically bad day. Or ratherHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Cosima Unfortunateand his house gets trashed. Or ratherOh, just Cos and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to her friends. The practice in the his home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and theyit're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities s possible that whoever or suchlike whatever was inside is the thing that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. has trashed his house! But Cosima bears The thing is, Benny is the tag as a surname because nothing else seems very last person to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside worlddeserve all this bad luck. During He is a daring escapade nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonhis house is a new friend, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to want to adopt all the girls help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for his Institutebeing a good person. But whySpike is going to take care of Benny, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=00085790591662500491

|author=Thomas D LeeAdam Stower|title=Perilous TimesMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre= FantasyConfident Readers |summary= ''Hate Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the path of least resistancetwo. But he's a bad magician' Set in s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the near-distant futureregular back garden, in but into a world on the verge of climate collapsefrightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, Britain where a troll hunter is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to save the day be honest, but he's turned up and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.he'll have to do…|isbn=03565185230008561249

|authorisbn=Madelaine LucasB0C47LV1PC|title=Thirst for SaltFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=54

|summary= Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'Love, I'd readjoke? And if you could, was supposed to be a light and weightless feelingis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, but I had always longed would it land? The catch is that the answer for gravity''both could well be.... no.

Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for SaltFragility'' details is set as the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lovercity of Portland, depicting its all-consuming natureOregon, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|isbn=15293828231529431735|title=The Last PassengerWinter Visitor|author=Will DeanJames Henry|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers It'Cazs February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with Petereturn all the more surprising. TheyHe're off d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''decade. CazThe return has come about because he's sisterhad a letter from his ex-wife, Gemma, reckons saying that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasnshe't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket s ill and she doesnhasn't know whether she's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit better. Meanwhile, Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has dementialive. It's going hard to be goodfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, isn't stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is ita warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Lex CroucherAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was Eli is a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlybusy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, it lifted my spirits and in the evening a most delightful wayhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you seeEli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in love with Bridget (the kingdomfamily. A few short years ago, Eli's only female knight) parents were both lost to the titular race, a globe- something that Art discovers from her private diariestrotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. And then This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesbad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, creating Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the subterfuge sole aim the prize of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=15266517930571382231

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley178763681X|title=One Puzzling AfternoonKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the same small town for almost her whole life, Belgravia. He didn't really want to but now she is facing celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a move as her son wants to move to another house way of getting both men and bring Edie women to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memorydo what he wanted. However, Edie is tormented by Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the memory of her childhood friend, Lucyschool to assist Paul, who went missing over 60 years agohad a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth of what happened problems - are all that time agohis own. After The one thing he hadn'seeing' Lucy in the high street, just as she t expected was the last time she saw her, she starts for someone to find pockets of memories coming back to herturn up dead. And yet as she remembers Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the past, she is forgetting more body and more in her day everyone knows that the police consider that person to day lifebe the prime suspect. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250

|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Sarah Marsh|title=Thirty Days A Sign of DarknessHer Own

|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=Hannah presents After a bout of scarlet fever as an unlikeablea child, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsEllen Lark loses her hearing. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way Suddenly plunged into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fictionsilence, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writeeverything about her life changes. Cue Living in a time when the bet that use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she cannot live up is taught to that accusationlip read, but physically restrained from signing. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to IcelandFrom here, where she is put ends up for in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a wintry month away from it allsystem called Visible Speech. Just At the same time, Bell is working on the point of despairing – about her writingother inventions and ideas, about the people and the lack Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…espionage.|isbn=19145856151035401614

|isbn=18045456001803816759|title=The MonkUnravelling|author=Tim SullivanWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair and dumped in a ditch. He'd been savagely beaten. It's 2038 and Joe is a while before D S George Cross bored cop policing the wealthy and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicpeaceful New York City. He'd been missing Joe longs for a few days bit of adventure and certainly hadn't asked permission to leave his abbeyget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. As But then something goes horribly wrong with the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear AI system that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankernow runs everything, making life easier for many, brotherand riots start to spread. Finally, neighbour Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and friendJoe is assigned to bring her home. HeJoe isn'd t the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also been very wealthy but had given on the case. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it all up for his faith. Why would someone savagely murder himhacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo1529421284|title=PrelovedLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary= Gwen is pressing her middle-aged bosom on It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a big number that starts with gully, a four human skeleton came to the surface and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortyforensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. Having He'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Geary was a mid-life crisistownie, so what was 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. Catharsis is key Lockyer and Gwen has decided now is DC Gemma Broad of the time Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to take back her life'|isbn=1398510629you and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Cath Howe0571379559|title=My Life on FireThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Ren's family home 'The House of Broken Bricks'' is destroyed in a fire. She, her parents, and her little brother lose everythingthe story of four people. She doesnTess Hembry't have any of her clothess roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardbut instead, and now she is living at her grandmother's lives in the house where they can't touch anythingon the riverbank, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eatbuilt of broken bricks. When she goes back to school she discovers that Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the class are doing a special art project, creating boxes passage of their livestime, to display things that are important to them storms and show who they are as a personfloods. But Ren has nothing Her husband, Richard, struggles to put in a boxgrow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and so she finds herself starting to steal thingsbring in sufficient money. Small thingsThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, things the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that people might not really missthey're related, not much less twins and there's an assumption when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds Max is out what with his mother that she is doing?|isbn=1839942835's his nanny.

|isbn=00085170101529425867|title=Death Under a Little SkyLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Stig AbellSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=The marriage had run its courseIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadnHe't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly s not on Jakeany of those things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's side not ''really'' his thing) and he didnhis wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They't think there was re usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for Faye eitherlaughs. They were still polite to each other and wished each other well - but didnWell, you't wish to remain marriedre not. The perfect solution arrived in two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurcombination works brilliantly well. HeSometimes it'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to works problematic.

|author=Jennifer SaintMosby Woods|title=AtalantaA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54

|summary=The West isn''I t the dominant force it once was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just Nobody in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta West is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – quite sure how to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes 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 mend this or even if she marries, mending it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152915118X|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is the story best course of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgianaaction. Darley and George Governments are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cordflailing. They're StocktonsA war here, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribepush for climate action there. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street propertyA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another propertyImagine then, there was a street or so away, which they ownman with precognition. They won't need Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight most valuable asset inhistory. NominallyImagine then, they had a choice but that wasn't the realitythis man loses this ability. Darley and Georgiana start What would governments do to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use get it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'.back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1