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|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler0241636604|title=Word MonkeyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5

|summary= It's the first of August in the middle If you were to bring up an image of a cool wet summer city banker in East Anglia. I decided not your mind, you're unlikely to swim at the pool in favour think of going to my beach hutsomeone like Gary Stevenson. The weather closed inA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, rain arrivedwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and I decided not to do that eitherinjustice. When I finished reading this book, I realised it There was because (a) I wanted no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackthe London School of Economics. No spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and his first chapter tells he has a facility with numbers which most of us about his terminal diagnosiscan only envy. There is something very strange about being made He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingbe stupid. It was his ability at what was, and you know he actually is at that pointessentially, because he doesa card game which got him an internship with Citibank. He didEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=0857529625

|isbn=15290776991035021803|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Ann CleevesC L Miller|rating=43.5

|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'Its former mentor and Carole's all bloody peculiarclose friend, isnArthur 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=All Tomorrow't it, Sir?s Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

Well yes, I've heard it said that 'technology' iswhat happens after you're eighteen. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn galeWell, stayed for about I must confess that there have been more than a month and then turned few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the village feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of Greystone, in Devonit is - frankly - quite frightening. Rosco had Of course, I could research the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round possibilities and the world sailor probabilities and all round ''celebrityend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he needed people I knew I could trust and who could be more than deliver information in a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open bookway I could understand. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbnauthor=B0CC9W7GLRSunny Singh|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on The Hotel Arcadia is a snowy beach when luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelineterrorist group. On top of Hiding from the ice was terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a polar bearwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the ice bumped onto residents who are still alive in the sandhotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the icekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Kit was all for making a run for itAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed they both wait to see if they will be taken home on rescued before they are discovered by the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleepterrorists. What else would you do?|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Claire North1529153298|title=House The List of OdysseusSuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre= Literary General Fiction |summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'What could matter more than love?s not what's worrying Miv' The follow-up s family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to the excellent have 'disappeared'doesn'Ithacat sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without s overheard that her husband, who sailed father wants to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for move the throne of the Western Islesfamily 'Down South'. Having survived – politically and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca When you's shoresre from Yorkshire, Queen Penelope Down South is on the brink of a fragile peacefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. One that shatters however with For Miv, the return of Orestesmove would mean leaving her best friend, King of MycenaeSharon, and his sister Elektra, seeking refugeshe'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0356516075

|isbn=15294270451398524085|title=The Girl in the Eagle's TalonsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Karin SmirnoffNicci French

|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''s fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, where the soEtty. are all worried but -farstrangely -untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has her husband, Alec, is not been slow in coming forward. SalanderShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's niece's mother is the latest woman father, Duncan Ackerley, in the area to have vanished without traceriver. It was only with reluctance an easy assumption for the police to make that Salander became her nieceDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's guardian t stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager whothere's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's deathlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B1035906708|title=The Last Person in the WorldDiva|author=Matthew TreeDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph Finns. It was an unusual relationship We tend to think of Maria Callas as Ralph Greek, but she was a boarder and had money born to throw around on a Rolex watchGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, vintage wines in December 1923 and a state-of-the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised only moved to Athens when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintancesshe was thirteen. Finns had no intention of going on Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College make it more manageable in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious universityStates. Before going up, he took up When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his homemother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Clouds Manor in West DorsetJackie.

|author=Dean KoontzChristopher Edge|title=The House at the End of the WorldBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy Lucas and feel that there is no one on your sidehis friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island a place that sits snugly in a small chain has the nickname of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitude'The Black Hole'. ThatAll big movie fans, they's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life re looking forward to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; lots of exciting films, and all would have been many, many snacks! However, as the aforementioned peace movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and solitude were it not for they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the pesky US Government occupying Ringrocknext, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the neighbouring island cinema, and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankind.to their real lives?|isbn=16624531591839942738

|author=T KingfisherRachel Greenlaw|title=ThornhedgeCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=''You had a right to retake your placeI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''

T Kingfisher's latest novella Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is a lovely reimagining one of a fairytale the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that is well known and well belovedlies within. But whilst there is when the Council Watch lays a princess trapped in a towertrap to end the wrecking, sleeping under an eternal enchantmentthey capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Thornhedge Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is not secretive and with only coordinates to guide her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was sets off in search of a new-born baby and secreted away family secret that 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 land heart of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to draw magic from save the future of her veins home and cast spellsthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=18033642380008664730

|isbnauthor= B0CCCVRSGXJames Sherwood Metts|title=Stories 2|author=Richard F WalkerPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary= This is Richard F Walker's second volume of short storiesThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. There are thirteen in all AI and I took something from each of them. There isnautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't a single one re paid to do and other tasks that doesn't deserve took time to be among the others or brings down the overall qualityaccomplish. It can be tricky Just as they were beginning to get used to review short stories without giving too much awayall this technological change and starting to think of other, so I'll just pick two new ways to talk about spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and I think , along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they give a general flavourdepend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1787636607Matthew Tree|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan HowardWe'll Never Know

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It's Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a scene replicated drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all too often in the early hours failed miserably and who had endless crises of the morningself confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions. Drunken revellers spilling out |isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of clubs and looking for the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a way part of me that wants to keep this just to get homemyself for however long I can. Some are lucky and manage to get one This secret magic of the few taxis availablemy own, all mine, at last. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villagesI just want to enjoy it for a while. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem' Within a remote mountain pass, particularly in far away from the light world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of 'the missing womenBriar'. For one young womans, a family of witches who protect the final stop on town and the bus leaves her a long way short of her homewider world from the Darklands. She had intended Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to ring someone to come be born into her family for generations and collect as such since she was young, her - but training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her phonegrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's deadleader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. The bus had driven off before she had As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the chance rare ability to beg communicate with the bus driver to let dead, putting her use hisat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. ThereReeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches's no option but legacy, everything they have sacrificed to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoessurvive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=14059571741529900360|title=A Death at the PartyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Amy StuartJonathan Kellerman

|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine WalshIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's party will not end wellfault 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. The victim His assertions that there were only open- a man and- is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call shut cases which didn't need the ambulance he so desperately needshelp of a psychologist only worked for a while. What we donFinally, it was Robin, Delaware't know is s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him dieshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. I'd better give you Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a little more background so that you can understand whatremote 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 happeningnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1529395224|title=Nowhere IslandLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Meet GilSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Just twelveHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he is so determined to escape considered the care system – strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and find a home was convinced this was the job for himselfhim. He is en route to yet another fostererBefore long, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him to his futurewas at Liverpool University. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives It hadn't - as with so many students - been his brother in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, dream since he was a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusionchild. ThemIf anything, and he'd wanted to be a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyprofessional footballer. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080

|isbn=00085300250861541774|title=Murder in the FamilyA Nye of Pheasants|author=Cara HunterSteve Burrows|rating=4.5

|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and found the body of her stepfatherformer colleague, Luke RyderDanny Maik, has taken a short holiday in the garden of their West London homeSingapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged facing a man armed with his murder a knife - and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', he killed a true-crime showGhurka. A group Initially, he faced a charge of experts has been brought together manslaughter but evidence came to review the evidence and light that suggested that he might have planned to take murder the investigation furtherman. More to Now he could be facing the point, they're going to do this live on camera, episode by episodedeath penalty. There's no dump of the whole box set - Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and no shortage of cliffhangers. Itwouldn's compelling viewingt help Danny at all.

|author=Judith EagleAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Stolen SongbirdPerfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Caro's motherThe 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 world-famous whistlermore personal, tailored service. Ness has failed to return home from asked her recent work trip abroad younger cousin Katie if she could come and is now missing. Her other mother, Ronnielook after the business, as Ness is having planning to take a trip to go up North Canada to take care of her sister who is unwellget away for a while. So who Katie is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay coming out of a break up with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesa bad boyfriend, she feels frustrated and confused and worriedso jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside And so begins this staid old Victorian lady's housenew story from Alexander McCall Smith, along with bringing us to an orphan boyEdinburgh we already love, Albiethanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who is living there tooquickly begin to charm. But she soon finds herself caught up Katie has no experience in running a mysterybusiness, or in match-making, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside but Ness has full confidence in her mumabilities, and there's old suitcasealways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, and all across London to lend a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising people. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?hand…|isbn=05713631481846976596

|isbn=15291959770811771741|title=None of this is TrueInstaKnits for Baby|author=Lisa JewellMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a crowd collection of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fairknits from toys to blankets. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only Some will be quick knits - others are Alix and Josie birthday twinsof the 'long, they were both born cosy afternoons in St Maryfront of the fire's hospitalvariety. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, The projects are in divided by the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst time they're not ''exactly'' rowdyll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, they're enjoying themselvesten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Josie, on All the other handprojects are attractive, holds her handbag close to her tummy modern and you get the sense that Walter's not too happyuseable. HeI perhaps show my age when I wonder about 's not used to spending this much money on a meal social-media- worthy projects' but it is Josiethat's birthday after allme being picky.

|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck TingleDean Koontz|title=Camp DamascusThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorParanormal|summary=Love Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is love; although humans continue the very last person to be confused by deserve all this sentimentbad luck. Gay conversion therapy He is ongoinga nice person. The UK government ruled A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out plans that the delivery to make it his house is a crime andnew friend, in the USa bad weather friend called Spike, nearly 700 000 adults have received itwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Although it Spike is both a secular going to take care of Benny, and a religious prejudicewill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, Chuck Tingleif he, in his new horrorBenny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps to show the reader the horror lurking withins wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1803136383Adam Stower|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David ChadwickMurray and Bun

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of Murray is supposed to be a cloud. What actually happened out there humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is gossiped about able to sleep and nobody is sure exactly what took placeeat and eat and sleep and, well, but an act whatever takes his fancy next of heroism leading to the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and disgrace seems to be the consensuscatflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. Wat himself This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is keeping his cards close expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to his chestbe honest, as but he always does. 's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=B0C7J9D21BB0C47LV1PC|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)Fragility|author=A J LewisMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=When we first meet our heroCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, his name is Ettore and he lives at the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The House of Beautiful Swallowscatch is that the answer for both could well be.... no. Idyllic as this might sound, it ''s a bordello and EttoreFragility's mother died when he was born. He's not been short is set as the city of mothersPortland, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century AmalfiOregon, it's difficult cautiously begins to obtain decent employment. The stint working with emerge from the restrictions imposed during the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529431735|title=After Death|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{FrontpageThe Winter Visitor|author=Jamie Littler|title=ArkspireJames Henry

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Two sisters, Juniper It's February 1991 and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper Essex is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magicbitingly cold, including relics from prior major wars left out in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the Badlandsmore surprising. Elodie is intent He'd been exiled on getting closer to power in one of the religious districts of ArkspireCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, perhaps even saying that she's ill and hasn't long to become the child in line live. It's hard to inherit the power of the Watcherfeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, the closest stripped to his underwear and sent to a ruler the district has, and one of the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained watery grave in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status boot of the whole familya stolen Ford Sierra. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143home?

|author=Thiago de MoraesAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, larks and adventures involving flooding in the school aircon evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with fart powderhis lovely gran, she could almost be thought too – for there is a young goddess of nuisancegeneration missing in the family. But just when sheA few short years ago, Eli's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, parents were both lost to the world changes. Suddenlytitular race, practically everything electronic stops working – a powerglobe-out, even of electric cars, hits not just trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the town the school's world in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake)company of a magical beast. Trixie, luckily, realises what This has happened made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the ancient Gods have taken the power of power eatery leads to a confession from us. And so she begins her epic questgran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to gather all enter what he most hates, with the people that can steal it back – namely sole aim the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from prize of magic at the Gods, ie end – the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=178845295X0571382231

|authorisbn=Alexia Casale178763681X|title=Sing if you Can't DanceKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary=ItChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn's hard enough t really want to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle way of a dance performance that was going getting both men and women to change her lifedo what he wanted. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid Paul ''somehow'' got the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life impression thathe's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's d be at the school to assist Paul, who had a new (cute!) boy in schoolbroken arm, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort but it didn't turn out, that way. The teaching - and just the day-toproblems -day traumas of are all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatehis own. So even though she canThe one thing he hadn't dance anymoreexpected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, might she he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801the prime suspect.

|author=Helen PetersSarah Marsh|title=Friends and TraitorsA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=EnglandAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, WW2Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is NancySuddenly plunged into a world of silence, destined to be in service all everything about her life it seems, like the female generations before herchanges. The other Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is Sidney, a girl from sent to a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from bomber flight-pathssigning. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it so. But something is amissFrom here, and first separately and then she ends up in combination they realise another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Lord Evesham must be deaf and using a rum 'unsystem called Visible Speech. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecyAt the same time, talk Bell is made of meetings with Germansworking on other inventions and ideas, and not only that, Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a local Spitfire factory has been attackedcomplicated tangle of espionage. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=17880046471035401614

|isbn=02419961041803816759|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)Unravelling|author=Martin WalkerWill Gibson

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season It's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the re-enactment wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 adventure and Bruno's there to see the show with get stuck into some friendsreally gritty crime detection. It's all been very carefully choreographed but But then something goes badly horribly wrong whenwith the AI system that now runs everything, Kerquelinmaking life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the man playing one aftermath of the main characters rioting global pop star Suki is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there kidnapped and the man Joe is whisked away in a helicopterassigned to bring her home. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - as he's Dylan, a senior government employeeBritish superfan and tech nerd, is also on the man who runs Frenchelon - case. What went wrong? Did the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, system fail or was it hacked? And how is flying in with some of her fatherSuki's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.kidnapping connected?

|isbn=15291963881529421284|title=The TrialLaying Out the Bones|author=Rob RinderKate Webb

|summary=Grant Cliveden It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a hero: heatwave. In a policeman who stood for all that was good gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and honest and looked up forensic testing proved the body to by just about everyonebe Lee Geary, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileywho had disappeared nine years earlier. ThereHe's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - d been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so itcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn's not too long before Knight appears in courtt convinced. Geary was a townie, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight so what was told that he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron suicide of Stag Court Chambers Holly Gilbert and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. KnightLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's determined cold cases to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contraryyou and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Essie Fox0571379559|title=The FascinationHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= ''The Victorian era House of Broken Bricks'' 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 itstory of four people. There Tess Hembry's such a glut of media set roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the era that house on the hallmarks weriverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it've come to associate with it are familiar to s stood the point passage of being clichedtime, hackneyed evenstorms and floods. All this is simply Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to illustrate that it would be an easy thing complete the delivery rounds - and to do poorlybring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. But despite Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe thatthey're related, something about it still grabs me – much less twins and something about this bookthere's description did as wellan assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1914585526

|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1529425867|title=Death in Fine ConditionLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5

|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and in particular a series called Sleuth Houndalways exquisitely dressed. She spends her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitD I Ryan Wilkins, sometimes 'tweaking' themson of Ryan and father of Ryan, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent waysis not. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in the background He's not any of those things. He's white, originated from a photograph on her drug dealertrailer park, barely educated (reading's living room wall, not ''really'' his thing) and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and how she can steal it! trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. ItYou might wonder if you's re being introduced to a next-level step in her petty crime careerpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, but has she reached too far, and what will happen when you're not. The two men are just different sides of the owner of same policing coin. Sometimes the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.

|isbnauthor=1529507987Mosby Woods|title=The Repair Shop Craft Book|author=Walker Books and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair Shop'West isn't the dominant force it once was. It's my go-Nobody in the West is quite sure how to programme when I want to be cheered upmend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments are flailing. After A war here, a hard daypush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthwas a man with precognition. You see, Imagine the value is strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what these possessions are worth to the people who own them and the memories they holdwill happen given any set of circumstances. No expense appears to That man would be spared and valuable, right? Perhaps the experts spend as much time and effort as is required most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts and they're all brilliant at explaining what get it is they're doing. But how did they startback?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1