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|isbn=0241636604|title=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 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=Alexia CasaleC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Sing if you CanAll Tomorrow't Dances Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=It's hard enough 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're having to navigate a life-changing disability tooeighteen. Well, but I must confess that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage there have been more than a few decades of technology in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her lifemy lifetime. But she comes back fighting, desperate I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to avoid me but I'm left with the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life feeling thatit's as normal as she can possibly manageall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outOf course, I could research the possibilities and just the day-to-day traumas of all probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatelatest conspiracy theorist. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way through instead?|isbn=0571373801I could understand.

|author=Helen PetersSunny Singh|title=Friends and TraitorsHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like the female generations before her. The other Hotel Arcadia is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been removed there away from bomber flight-pathsviolently taken over by a terrorist group. The girls Hiding from the terrorists who are chalk and cheeserampaging through, killing everyone on site, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something there is amissSam, a wartime photographer and first separately and then in combination they realise Abhi, the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'unhotel manager. Midnight deliveries As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are received under cover of secrecystill alive in the hotel, talk is made of meetings he forms a bond with GermansSam who refuses to be cowed by events, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. But surely Although they only ever talk over the girls are wrongphone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the upper class could never be so underhand?terrorists.|isbn=1788004647086154742X

|isbn=02419961041529153298|title=Coming to Find YouThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jane CorryJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=NancyIt's mother 1979 and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murderMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. We first meet Nancy outside the court(A woman? I mean, after Martin receives a life sentencehonestly... ) The barrister tells her that sheShe's received a not what'silent sentences worrying Miv' - shes family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they's not ve been found guilty of anything murdered, but will to have to live with what happened for the rest of her life'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Of course, itMiv's made worse upset because Nancyshe's rich - she inherited five million pounds from overheard that her mother - and father wants to move the papers are making the most of itfamily 'Down South'. When you''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' re from Yorkshire, Down South is one favourite epithet a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She'rich bitchs not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokens stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15294136801398524085|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Martin WalkerNicci French|rating=45

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and BrunoCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's there to see the show with some friendsfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all been very carefully choreographed worried but goes badly wrong when- strangely - her husband, KerquelinAlec, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the scriptnot. LuckilyShortly afterwards, his doctor is there Etty and Greg, find the man is whisked away body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in a helicopterthe river. A local doctor (It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as then committed suicide when hecouldn's a senior government employee, t stand the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped inguilt. One daughter The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaywonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15291963881035906708|title=The TrialDiva|author=Rob RinderDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Grant Cliveden We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and looked up only moved to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar Athens when he she was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileythirteen. ThereHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's just one man to make it more manageable in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in court, charged with Cliveden's murderStates. Knight When she was told back in Athens - supposedly so that the best barrister she could get appropriate training for him her voice - she was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guiltyher preference for her elder sister, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contraryJackie.

|author=Essie FoxChristopher Edge|title=The FascinationBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a setting for historical fiction (matched onlymovie marathon at their local cinema, perhaps, by a place that has the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling itnickname of 'The Black Hole'. There All big movie fans, they's such a glut re looking forward to lots of media set in exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the era movie starts, they very quickly realise that the hallmarks wesomething about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn've come to associate with it are familiar t even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the point of being clichednext, hackneyed even. All this can they figure out what on earth is simply going on? Will they ever get back to illustrate that it would be an easy thing to do poorly. But despite thatthe cinema, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as well.to their real lives?|isbn=19145855261839942738

|author=Andrew CartmelRachel Greenlaw|title=Death in Fine ConditionCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, and the answering beat in particular my heart.'' Rosevear, a series called Sleuth Houndremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. She spends Mira, like her mother before her time hunting , is one of the seven who swim out copies to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that she can sell on for profitlies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, sometimes they capture the island'tweakings leader and Mira' them, s father. Desperate to add valuesave him from death, in somewhat fraudulent ways. One day she discovers Mira makes a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background of bargain with a photograph on wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she can steal it! It's off in search of a next-level step family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her petty crime careerfather, but has she reached too faras her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, and what will happen when Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the owner future of her home and the collection comes looking for their books?ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17890989470008664730

|isbnauthor=1529507987James Sherwood Metts|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Planet Storyland

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop''Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard dayAI and automation have been proceeding apace, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what often replacing jobs they're worth. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth paid to the people who own them do and the memories other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they hold. No expense appears were beginning to get used to be spared all this technological change and the experts starting to think of other, new ways to spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired result, along came an awful pandemic. Regular viewers know the experts Life was pretty much shut down and they're , along with it, all brilliant at explaining what it is the many daily social interactions on which they're doingdepend so heavily. But how did they start?|isbn=1736128426

|author=Nicole JarvisMatthew Tree|title=A Portrait in ShadowWe'll Never Know

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''I want all of Florence Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to know my name'' Cast out be different from Romehis father, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find a home drunk and where her future can thrive rather than stagnate. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition from the powerful Accademia, the self-proclaimed guardians chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of the healing magics that through paintings have the power to protect the city and its citizens from plagues and curses. The his artistic passions all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art failed miserably and architecture for centuries and guard it above all elsewho had endless crises of self confidence. To themSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and their societyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1803362340B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHA G Slatter|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankBriar Book of the Dead|rating=45|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It'' There's surrounded by a Witching Forest. And the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinespart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The black wood This secret magic of the forest provides heat and warmth, roofs on homesmy own, and even gallowsall mine, if neededat last. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in the village and that is the reason Volushka, I just want to enjoy it for a drunken, self-indulgent, lazy lout of a man is toleratedwhile. }}''

{{Frontpage|isbn=024162343X|title=Stolen History|author=Sathnam Sanghera|rating=5|genre=ChildrenWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's Non, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-Fiction|summary=I was the bad company other people got witch to be born into at school. I her family for generations and as such since she was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of young, her training as a 'god'steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Where was the proof? In history lessonsWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, it was probably worse still. Not too long after Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the end of WWIIBriar Witch, I didn't so much want to learn about the British armytown's successes (leader, and occasional failuresEllie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'right and centre, Ellie uncovers the colonies' as want rare ability to dispute what right communicate with the army had to be there in dead, putting her at the first placeheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Looking backReeling from one family secret to another, I still believe I was right - but I regret that I lacked the maturity Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to approach 'do as the problem' politely. I wish I'd had Sathnam Sanghera's ''Stolen History'Briar witches'legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1529900360|title=Three GracesThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the stateIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-ofand-shut cases which didn't need the-nation novelhelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. There Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's something so utterly compelling about any writer partner, who can catch hold of nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the atmosphere of involvement was something that the day and capture itman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, crafting an image though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of the country as it stands a remote property in one particular momentBel Air. To say that Amanda Craig He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: shemarried to an extremely rich man and it's practically synonymous with not the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointItalian. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues But which of them was the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468Xprimary target?

|isbn=14483093791529395224|title=Flesh and Blood (DS McAvoy 11)Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=David MarkSion Rowlands

|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ItSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's something of a surprise t want to find that you're deadfollow in his footsteps, particularly when you're thinking he considered the strain that you're actually being on-call put on a break with your wife and children, but thathis father's what happened to DS Aector McAvoylife. Whilst When he was relieved to find that seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was still, officially, alive, it a vet and was convinced this was difficult the job for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahhim. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious that someone was tampering with her carBefore long, he was notat Liverpool University. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoyIt hadn's doppelganger t - as with so many students - and not everyone who commented on this been his dream since he was doing so kindlya child. It had always been suspected that Pharoah was sweet on AectorIf anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=09571811670861541774|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk A Nye of Brian LewisPheasants|author=Alan MarshallSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=ArtCrime|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a substandard apartment when you’re on short holiday but this timein Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a couple of pictures on the walls knife - and was completely taken by he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the work of Brian Lewisman. I searched online and Now he could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and be facing the print I wanted was ‘not available’death penalty. Oh, dear - then a few doors down Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from the apartment, I found a gift shop with another police force could provoke a stack of brand new books - diplomatic incident and a framed print of the picture I wantedwouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Simon FoxAlexander McCall Smith|title=DeadlockThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Late one night Graham Blake The Perfect Passion Company is late back from his shift on a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the forceonline apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and then suddenly rings Archielook after the business, demanding he fetch something from 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 secret placebad boyfriend, and join him on so jumps at the runchance to come home to Edinburgh. They get togetherAnd 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 barely with some new characters who quickly begin to smell the whiff of Southern trains when the father is arrestedcharm. Katie has no experience in running a business, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightonor in match-making, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleaguesbut Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and the bearer of there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a whole heap of questions.hand…|isbn=18399444201846976596

|authorisbn=Shalini Boland0811771741|title=The Silent BrideInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Alice and Seth are Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a match made in heavencollection of knits from toys to blankets. He is everything she has been searching for; handsome, accomplished, cleverSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, funny; total and utter husband-material. She is all he could possibly want cosy afternoons in a wife; beautiful, successful, confident… and so front of the inevitable proposal is eagerly accepted by Alice and the wedding is planned and setfire' variety. When The projects are divided by the muchtime they'll take to complete -anticipated day arrivesless than five hours, Alice is walked down the aisle by her fatherfive to ten hours, beaming with pride ten to twenty hours and excitement as she surveys more than twenty hours. All the congregation – their friends assembled to celebrate this joyful day projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when Seth turns to face his approaching bride, AliceI wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's world implodes because she has absolutely no idea who the man at the altar is, who is waiting for her to become his wifeme being picky.|isbn=1662507089

|author=Mark EdwardsDean Koontz|title=Keep Her SecretThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary= Matthew Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and Helena are in Icelandsomeone has delivered a really weird, rekindling their university romance some twentydisturbing coffin-odd years after they first met. sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The alien-landscape of thing is, Benny is the lava fields and black beaches very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is breath-taking and Helena seems intent on getting a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the perfect photograph delivery to encapsulate the joy she his house is feeling in this momenta new friend, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a 500 foot drop to certain death belowgood person. Convinced she Spike is going to dietake care of Benny, Helena must purge herself and will certainly take care of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panickedBenny's enemies, cryptic declaration to Matthew. Just moments later their heroicif he, and frankly very well preparedBenny, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about HelenaHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=166250893X1662500491

|isbnauthor=B0BYF82CXTAdam Stower|title=Semi-Detached|author=Deborah StoneMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=''Bill and Amanda are living in Murray is supposed to be a semi-detached househumble, stuck in a depressing rut of boredom tidy and disappointmentfriendly cat, when Terry one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and Fiona – glamorous, successful and very much in love – move in well, whatever takes his fancy next doorof the two. Despite their different outlooks on life But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the couples befriend each other and life appears to improve for catflap they both pairs. But all is use can chuck them out, not what it seemsinto the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and their increasingly interconnected relationships are fated for tragedywhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1787636003B0C47LV1PC|title=The Girls of SummerFragility|author=Katie BishopMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=It was Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen question if you did, would it land? The catch is that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the islandanswer for both could well be. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly Macmillan|rating=4no.5|genre=Crime|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 in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work Fragility'' is set 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 the city of moneyPortland, too. EventuallyOregon, Nicole found Tom dead in cautiously begins to emerge from the swimming pool with a wound to his head.restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Alan Parks1529431735|title=To Die in JuneThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry

|summary=What first seems like It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man more surprising. He'd been exiled on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister Costa del Sol as another body is discovered, and then anothera wanted drug smuggler for a decade. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so The return has come about because he's had a letter from his own father is a down-andex-out alcoholic, with no fixed abodewife, saying that she's ill and he has been for yearshasn't long to live. At the same time as facing these possible murdersIt's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, Harry is also dealing with a move stripped to his underwear and sent to a different police station, and watery grave in the arrival there boot of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundstolen Ford Sierra. 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 onIs it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?|isbn=1805300784

|author=Laura NoakesAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the home she lives wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in is for the girls to just be named by evening a helper at the number they correspond to in the ledger, dessert cafe his gran owns and they're all Unfortunates – young people runs. Eli lives with disabilitieshis lovely gran, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upontoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. But Cosima bears A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the tag as titular race, a surname because nothing else seems globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to be known about where she came from, as navigate the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family world in the outside worldcompany of a magical beast. During This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a daring escapade bad incident at the eatery leads to steal some posh cakes a confession from the kitchen one afternoongran, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems Eli knows his only hope is to want dare to adopt all enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the girls for only thing to possibly save his Institutegran. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=00085790590571382231

|authorisbn=Thomas D Lee178763681X|title=Perilous TimesKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=34|genre= FantasyCrime|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 ''somehow''Hate is got the path of least resistanceimpression that he'' Set in d be at the near-distant futureschool to assist Paul, in who had a world on the verge of climate collapsebroken arm, Britain is in great perilbut it didn't turn out that way. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save teaching - and the day and rescue what little remainsproblems - are all his own. What no The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer police consider that person to be the callprime suspect.|isbn=0356518523

|author=Madelaine LucasSarah Marsh|title=Thirst for SaltA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= ''LoveAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, I'd readEllen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living in a time when the use of sign language was supposed seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to be a light and weightless feelingschool where she is taught to lip read, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told physically restrained from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined hersigning. Overlaid with later wisdom From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the narrator relives the affair with deaf and using a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer aftersystem called Visible Speech. Set against At the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming naturesame time, how it changed her perspective Bell is working on both romantic other inventions and familial relationships ideas, and how it altered her irrevocablyEllen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=08615464901035401614

|isbn=15293828231803816759|title=The Last PassengerUnravelling|author=Will Dean|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|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 to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she doesn'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 dementia. It's going to be good, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveGibson

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Who knew It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the 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 AI system that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestlyruns everything, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this storymaking life easier for many, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tinyriots start to spread. Finally, much Joe gets to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is in love with Bridget (assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the kingdom's only female knight) one trying to save Suki - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing Dylan, a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesBritish superfan and tech nerd, creating is also on the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentscase. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, What went wrong? Did the system fail or are they destined to live a lie their whole liveswas it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn=1526651793

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1529421284|title=One Puzzling AfternoonLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb|rating=4.5

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the same small town for almost her whole lifea heatwave. In a gully, but now she is facing a move as her son wants human skeleton came to move to another house the surface and bring Edie forensic testing proved the body to live with his familybe Lee Geary, as Edie is starting to lose her memorywho had disappeared nine years earlier. However, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years agoHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, and the worry that there was so it could have been a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be the thing that reveals the truth simple case of what happened all that time agomisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high streetGeary was a townie, just as she so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets suicide of memories coming back Holly Gilbert and to hertwo other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more Lockyer and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover DC Gemma Broad of the truth about LucyMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's disappearance before her move, cold cases to you and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)0571379559|title=Thirty Days The House of DarknessBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers Literary Fiction|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author ''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsfour people. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she flukes her way into a public argument with lives in the latest hot shot in house on the world riverbank, built of crime fictionbroken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, saying heit's populist trash stood the passage of time, storms and only writing what anyone could writefloods. Cue Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the bet that she cannot live up delivery rounds - and to that accusationbring in sufficient money. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to IcelandThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Just on the point of despairing – about her writingPeople don't believe that they're related, about the people much less twins and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that the landladyshe's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615his nanny.

|isbn=18045456001529425867|title=The MonkLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Tim SullivanSimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol was a nasty shock - a monk strapped to a chair In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and dumped in a ditchfather of Ryan, is not. He'd been savagely beatens not any of those things. It He's white, originated from a while before D S George Cross trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominictrackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. HeYou might wonder if you'd been missing re being introduced to a police procedural written for a few days and certainly hadnlaughs. Well, you't asked permission to leave his abbeyre not. As The two men are just different sides of the team gradually unpick same policing coin. Sometimes the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been combination works brilliantly well-loved as an investment banker, brother, neighbour and friend. HeSometimes it'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faiths problematic. Why would someone savagely murder him?

|author=Lauren BravoMosby Woods|title=PrelovedA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary= Gwen The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is pressing her middle-aged bosom on the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a big number push for climate action there. A feeling that starts with nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a four and ends man with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortyprecognition. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue Imagine the toss - Gwen finds herself having strategic advantage in this asset; a bit man who can tell you what will happen given any set of a mid-life crisiscircumstances. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the time most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to take get it back her life'?|isbn=1398510629B0C9SNG8R1