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|authorisbn= Kay Chronister0241636604|title= Desert CreaturesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian FictionAutobiography|summary= With If you were to bring up an image of a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanitycity banker in your mind, postyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it stripe suit and his background is a robotic takeoverthe East End, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaustwhere he was familiar with violence, this genre is a way for humans poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to cathartically experience their most existential fearsthe London School of Economics. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a new work facility with numbers which most of post-apocalyptic fiction us can only envy. He also realised that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity todaymost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It is 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 shocking novel that still manages to find hopetrader.|isbn=1803364998

|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler1035021803|title=Word MonkeyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the first English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of August in 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 middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglialeast. I decided Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hutvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. The weather closed Even though they were inbusiness together as antique hunters, rain arrived, and I decided she has not felt able to do that eitherbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. When I finished reading this bookAfter the split, I realised it was because (she worked in a) I wanted to finish reading this book cafe, met and married James (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alertson the rebound from the love of her life, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – murdered) and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, Freya and you know he actually is at that point, because he doesJames have now divorced. He did.|isbn=0857529625

|isbn=1529077699AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Ann CleevesBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?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 DeathThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=34|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Michael MaceIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, 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 accidentwhich made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. Finding himself in He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has wanted drug smuggler for 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 colleaguesdecade. As The return has come about because he recovers 's had a letter from his sensesex-wife, he realises saying that there is something different about him; he can she's ill and hasn'feel'' everythingt long to live. It''Everything''s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?}}

|author=Jamie LittlerAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=ArkspireThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|summary=Two sistersEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, Juniper and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and cheeseruns. Juniper Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is an eager hunter and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out a generation missing in the Badlandsfamily. Elodie is intent on getting closer A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to power in one of the religious districts of Arkspiretitular race, perhaps even a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to become navigate the child world in line to inherit the power company of a magical beast. This has made the Watcher, race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the closest eatery leads to a ruler the district hasconfession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, and one of with the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained in sole aim the prize of magic that only five people can use would definitely change at the status of end – the whole familyonly thing to possibly save his gran. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=02415861430571382231

|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes178763681X|title=Old Gods New TricksKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet TrixieChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Forever He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting into scrapes, larks both men and adventures involving flooding women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school aircon with fart powderto assist Paul, she could almost be thought who had a young goddess of nuisance. But just when shebroken arm, but it didn's being told t turn out that by her oneway. The teaching -lastand the problems -chance-giving headteacher, the world changesare all his own. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolThe one thing he hadn's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just t expected was for our convenience's sake)someone to turn up dead. Trixie, luckilyUnfortunately, realises what has happened – he was the ancient Gods have taken person who discovered the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people body and everyone knows that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth police consider that have past form in stealing from person to be the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersprime suspect.|isbn=178845295X

|author=Alexia CasaleSarah Marsh|title=Sing if you Can't DanceA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate After a bout of scarlet fever as a life-changing disability toochild, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of a dance performance that was going to change silence, everything about her lifechanges. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid Living in a time when the pity staresuse of sign language was seen as something only savages do, and desperate to get back Ellen is sent to a life that's as normal as school where she can possibly manageis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy From here, she ends up in another schoolstudying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort outBell is working on other inventions and ideas, and just the day-to-day traumas Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigateespionage. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=05713738011035401614

|authorisbn=Helen Peters1803816759|title=Friends and TraitorsThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One It's 2038 and Joe is Nancy, destined to be in service all her life it seems, like a bored cop policing the female generations before herwealthy and peaceful New York City. The other is Sidney, Joe longs for a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk bit of adventure and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it soto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something is amissgoes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, and first separately and then in combination they realise riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover aftermath of secrecy, talk the rioting global pop star Suki is made of meetings with Germans, kidnapped and not Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only thatone trying to save Suki - Dylan, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedBritish superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. But surely the girls are What went wrong, and ? Did the upper class could never be so underhandsystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn=1788004647

|isbn=02419961041529421284|title=Coming to Find YouLaying Out the Bones|author=Jane CorryKate Webb

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted It was one of their murderthose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. We first meet Nancy outside In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the courtbody to be Lee Geary, after Martin receives a life sentencewho had disappeared nine years earlier. The barrister tells her that sheHe's received d been a 'silent sentence' - she's not known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been found guilty a simple case of anything misadventure but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her lifeDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Of courseGeary was a townie, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are making connections to the most suicide of itHolly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet s cold cases to you and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokenme) investigate.

|isbn=15294136800571379559|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief The House of Police Novel)Broken Bricks|author=Martin WalkerFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=One ''The House of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season Broken Bricks'' is the re-enactment story of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Brunofour people. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there to see , but instead, she lives in the house on the show with some friendsriverbank, built of broken bricks. ItInsubstantial as it might look, it's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, stood the man playing one passage of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the scripttime, storms and floods. LuckilyHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his doctor is there vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and the man is whisked away to bring in a helicoptersufficient money. A local doctor (They have twin boys - Sonny and friend of Bruno) wonders about Max, the rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his chances of survival but - as hemother's a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped inJamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. One daughter lives nearby People don't believe that they're related, much less twins and another, who lives in California, there's an assumption when Max is flying in out with some of her fatherhis mother that she's friends for a pre-arranged holidayhis nanny.

|isbn=15291963881529425867|title=The TrialLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Rob RinderSimon Mason

|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and honest always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and looked up to by just about everyonefather of Ryan, so there was public uproar when he was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileyis not. ThereHe's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and itnot any of those things. He's not too long before Knight appears in courtwhite, originated from a trailer park, charged with Clivedenbarely educated (reading's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of Stag Court Chambers shell suits and ittrackies. They's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himre usually in lime green or acid yellow. KnightYou might wonder if you's determined re being introduced to plead a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's recommendations to the contraryproblematic.

|author=Essie FoxMosby Woods|title=The FascinationA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as a setting for historical fiction (matched only, perhaps, by West isn't the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling dominant force itonce was. There's such a glut of media set Nobody in the era that the hallmarks we've come West is quite sure how to associate with mend this or even if mending it are familiar to is the point best course of being cliched, hackneyed evenaction. 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 wellGovernments are flailing.|isbn=1914585526}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrew Cartmel|title=Death in Fine Condition|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fictionA war here, and in particular a series called Sleuth Houndpush for climate action there. She spends her time hunting out copies A feeling that she can sell on for profit, sometimes 'tweaking' them, to add value, nobody is in somewhat fraudulent waysactual charge. One day she discovers Imagine then, there was a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in the background of this asset; a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wall, and so she sets about discovering where this collection is, and how she man who can steal it! It's a next-level step in her petty crime career, but has she reached too far, and tell you what will happen when the owner given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the collection comes looking for their booksmost valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=1789098947B0C9SNG8R1