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|authorisbn=Lauren St John0241636604|title=Finding WonderThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=RooIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's life has become almost impossibly difficultre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Her mum died when she A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was youngfamiliar with violence, poverty and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead injustice. There was no posh public school on his way CV - but he had been to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticketLondon School of Economics. When asked what other family she Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has, she a facility with numbers which most of us can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly ofenvy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. But she has no one elseIt was his ability at what was, essentially, and so off she goes to live a card game which got him an internship with her unreliable auntCitibank. Things continue to get worse for RooEventually, this turned into permanent employment as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169a trader.

|isbn=14483097431035021803|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Caro RamsayC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=In 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 Cronchie on a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the West coast of Scotlandcircumstances seem suspicious, five members of a wealthy family are found murderedto say the least. The only item missing from Arthur was the home is reason why Freya had not been back to the Devil Stonevillage: myth says that if 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 stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will followprofession she loved. The only suspects are known Satanists but After the split, she worked in many waysa cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, thatwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's an easy conclusion given Futures: Fictions that two of them Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary='discovered' Opening up new ways of thinking about the bodyshape of things to come. The Senior Investigating Office '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearswhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'shadowm left with the feeling that it' hims all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end 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 needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author= Kay ChronisterSunny Singh|title= Desert CreaturesHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Dystopian FictionThrillers |summary= With The Hotel Arcadia is a world luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanitySam, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeoverwartime photographer and Abhi, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaustthe hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, this genre is he forms a way for humans bond with Sam who refuses to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' be cowed by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to find hopesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1803364998086154742X

|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler1529153298|title=Word MonkeyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= It's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I decided mean, honestly...) She's not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hutwhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. The weather closed inWell, rain arrivedthey've been murdered, and I decided not but to do that eitherhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When I finished reading this book, I realised it was Miv's upset because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want she's overheard that her father wants to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, move the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler family 'wasDown South' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and you know he actually is at she'll do anything to prevent that point, because he does. He didShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0857529625

|isbn=15290776991398524085|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ann CleevesNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=''ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all bloody peculiarworried but - strangely - her husband, isn't itAlec, Sir?'' Well yes, it isnot. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn galeShortly afterwards, stayed for about a month Etty and then turned upGreg, naked and deadfind the body of Greg's father, in a small boatDuncan Ackerley, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devonriver. Rosco It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor murdered Charlie and all round ''celebrity'then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' The Salter children are not convinced but as wethere'll find out, he could be more than a s little bit close else they can do but get on with money their lives and his background isn't exactly an open bookwonder about what really happened. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR1035906708|title=On the Beach: The Winter VisitorDiva|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning We tend to wonder whether it think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was better born to be at homeGreek parents in Manhattan, bored but warmNew York, or frozen cold in December 1923 and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach only moved to Athens when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelineshe was thirteen. On top of the ice Her original surname was a polar bear. As Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the iceStates. Kit When she was all back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear her voice - she was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on raised under the bus and given Nazi occupation by a good meal mother who mercilessly exploited her and somewhere to sleepmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. What else would you do?

|author=Claire NorthChristopher Edge|title=House of OdysseusBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre= Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary= Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent Black Hole''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus All big movie fans, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues they're looking forward to rule without her husbandlots of exciting films, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for many, many snacks! However, as the throne of the Western Islesmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Having survived – politically and physical – But as they lurch from one film genre to the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shoresnext, Queen Penelope can they figure out what on earth is going on ? Will they ever get back to the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenaecinema, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.to their real lives?|isbn=03565160751839942738

|isbnauthor=1529427045Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for exampleI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''.

Lisbeth Salander has headed north to Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the small town wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the area have sparked Council Watch lays a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salandertrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's nieceleader and Mira's mother father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is the latest woman secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the area to have vanished without tracesea. It was With only with reluctance that Salander became nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her niecefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the part Salander played in her father's deathones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|isbnauthor=B0CCCPJJ5BJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew TreePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our narrator was Things have been a scholarship day boy at bit sticky for the London-based public school where he met Ralph FinnsEarthlings. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder AI and had money automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to throw around on a Rolex watch, vintage wines do and a state-of-the-art sound systemother tasks that took time to accomplish. Both Just as they were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends beginning to get used to all this technological change and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention starting to think of going on other, new ways to Universityspend time, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious universityalong came an awful pandemic. Before going upLife was pretty much shut down and, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his homealong with it, Clouds Manor in West Dorsetall the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|author=Dean KoontzMatthew Tree|title=The House at the End of the WorldWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your sideTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, you can either suck it up, saddle up a drunk and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of tiny dots on the map his artistic passions all failed miserably and live out your days in peace and solitudewho had endless crises of self confidence. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life So Tim applied himself to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockhis studies, the neighbouring island cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankindset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1662453159B0CVFXPGP8

|author=T KingfisherA G Slatter|title=ThornhedgeThe Briar Book of the Dead

|summary=''You had There's a right part of me that wants to retake your placekeep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

T KingfisherWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's latest novella is , a lovely reimagining family of a fairytale that is well known witches who protect the town and well belovedthe wider world from the Darklands. But whilst there Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a princess trapped in a towersteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, sleeping under an eternal enchantmentthe town's leader, Thornhedge is not and Ellie takes her place beside her story. InsteadAs challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, our protagonist is Toadlingputting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby to trust and secreted away determine what to do as the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to draw magic from her veins and cast spellssurvive, is under threat.|isbn=18033642381803364548

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX1529900360|title=Stories 2The Ghost Orchid|author=Richard F WalkerJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary= This is Richard F WalkerIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's second volume of short storiesfault 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. There are thirteen in all His assertions that there were only open-and I took something from each -shut cases which didn't need the help of thema psychologist only worked for a while. There isn Finally, it was Robin, Delaware't a single one s partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that doesn't deserve to be among the others or brings down man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the overall qualityswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. It can be tricky He was the heir to review short stories without giving too much away, so I'll just pick two an Italian shoe empire and she is married to talk about an extremely rich man and I think they give a general flavourit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=17876366071529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The TrapSecret Life of a Vet|author=Catherine Ryan HowardSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morningSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for His father was a way to get home. Some are lucky GP and manage Rowlands didn't want to get one of follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus strain that will only go as far as one of the outlying villagesbeing on-call put on his father's life. The woman all regret When he was seventeen he took the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light opportunity of 'doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the missing women'job for him. For one young womanBefore long, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her homehe was at Liverpool University. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her It hadn't - as with so many students - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use been hisdream since he was a child. ThereIf anything, he's no option but d wanted to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesbe a professional footballer.

|isbn=14059571740861541774|title=A Death at the PartyNye of Pheasants|author=Amy StuartSteve Burrows

|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine WalshDCI Domenic Jejeune's party will not end wellclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. The victim Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to call murder the ambulance he so desperately needsman. What we don't know is who Now he could be facing the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him diedeath penalty. I'd better give you Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a little more background so that you can understand whatdiplomatic incident and wouldn's happeningt help Danny at all.

|author=Tania UnsworthAlexander McCall Smith|title=Nowhere IslandThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet GilThe 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 more personal, tailored service. Just twelveNess has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, he as Ness is so determined planning to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find take a home trip to Canada to get away for himselfa while. He Katie is en route coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to yet another fosterercome home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, when he jumps into bringing us to an anonymous carEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and lets it ride him the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to his futurecharm. That future seems to be Katie has no experience in running a business, or in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – match-making, but that someone lives with his brother Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a camp on an island between collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the two directions 'long, cosy afternoons in front of a motorwaythe fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough ten to provide for their safety twenty hours and seclusionmore than twenty hours. ThemAll the projects are attractive, modern and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyuseable. 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=1804540080I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=0008530025Dean Koontz|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara HunterThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CrimeParanormal|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London homeBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He had an injury on the back of loses his head which could have happened if job, he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating loses his fiancee, and his face had taken was obviously deliberatehouse gets trashed. Twenty years laterOh, no one and someone has been charged with delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his murder home, and it's now possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the subject of ''Infamous''thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a true-crime shownice person. A group of experts really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been brought together sent to review the evidence and to take the investigation furtherhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. More to the point, they're Spike is going to do this live on cameratake care of Benny, episode by episode. Thereand will certainly take care of Benny's no dump of the whole box set - enemies, if he, Benny, and no shortage of cliffhangers. ItHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's compelling viewingwild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Judith EagleAdam Stower|title=The Stolen SongbirdMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Caro's mother, Murray is supposed to be a world-famous whistlerhumble, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad tidy and is now missing. Her other motherfriendly cat, Ronnie, is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So one who is going able to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated sleep and eat and eat and confused sleep and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boywell, Albie, who is living there toowhatever takes his fancy next of the two. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of he's a bird hidden away inside her mumbad magician's old suitcasecat, and all across London so his favourite bun has been turned into a fearsome gang hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the Snakes are thieving artworks regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and terrorising peoplewhiffs. Is the painting somehow linked This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to the gang? And what has happened to Carobe honest, but he's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=05713631480008561249

|isbn=1529195977B0C47LV1PC|title=None of this is TrueFragility|author=Lisa JewellMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=On her 45th birthdayCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in is the question should you make it? Or is the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. Shequestion if you did, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out would it land? The catch is that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were the answer for both born in St Mary's hospitalcould well be.... no. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they 're not 'Fragility'exactly'' rowdyis set as the city of Portland, they're enjoying themselves. JosieOregon, on cautiously begins to emerge from the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get restrictions imposed during the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.covid pandemic

|isbn=18033651101529431735|authortitle=Chuck TingleThe Winter Visitor|titleauthor=Camp DamascusJames Henry|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Love It's February 1991 and Essex is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it a crime andbitingly cold, in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received itmore surprising. Although it is both He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a secular and decade. The return has come about because he's had a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in letter from his new horrorex-wife, saying that she's ill and hasn'Camp Damascus't long to live. It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, peels back stripped to his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the skin boot of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to show the reader the horror lurking within.home?

|isbnauthor=1803136383Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David ChadwickThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in Vietnam under something of the evening a cloudhelper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. What actually happened out Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took placea generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, but an act of heroism leading Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to be navigate the world in the consensuscompany of a magical beast. Wat himself This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is keeping his cards close to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his chest, as he always doesgran. |isbn=0571382231

|isbn=B0C7J9D21B178763681X|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)Knife Skills for Beginners|author=A J LewisOrlando Murrin|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at The House of Beautiful Swallowsa residential cookery school in Belgravia. Idyllic as this might sound, itHe didn's t really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a bordello way of getting both men and Ettore's mother died when women to do what he was bornwanted. HePaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he's not been short of mothersd be at the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work turn out that way. The teaching - and bastards the problems - are considered bad luck on fishing boatsall his own. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it The one thing he hadn't expected was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitorssomeone to turn up dead. He Unfortunately, he was even saving some moneythe person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.

|author=Dean KoontzSarah Marsh|title=After DeathA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary= Michael MaceAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Head Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of Securitysilence, at everything about her life changes. Living in a top secret biological research facilitytime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is among 55 people who die when sent to a virus school where she is released in a bio-hazard accidenttaught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuaryFrom here, covered she ends up in plastic, he another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at been teaching the shrouded bodies of his dead friends deaf and former colleaguesusing a system called Visible Speech. As he recovers his sensesAt the same time, he realises that there Bell is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymoreworking on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=16625004671035401614}}

|authorisbn=Jamie Littler1803816759|title=ArkspireThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Two sisters, Juniper It's 2038 and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and cheesepeaceful New York City. Juniper is an eager hunter Joe longs for a bit of adventure and trader in illicit magic, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlandsto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of But then something goes horribly wrong with the religious districts of ArkspireAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, perhaps even and riots start to become the child in line spread. Finally, Joe gets to inherit do some real policing. In the power aftermath of the Watcher, rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the closest only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a ruler the district hasBritish superfan and tech nerd, and one of is also on the five major victors in said earlier warcase. Being trained in What went wrong? Did the magic that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, system fail or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes1529421284|title=Old Gods New TricksLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet TrixieIt was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. Forever getting into scrapesIn a gully, larks a human skeleton came to the surface and adventures involving flooding forensic testing proved the school aircon with fart powderbody to be Lee Geary, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisancewho had disappeared nine years earlier. But just when sheHe's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacherd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – so it could have been a power-out, even simple case of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in misadventure but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenienceDI Matt Lockyer wasn's sake)t convinced. TrixieGeary was a townie, luckily, realises so what has happened – was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the ancient Gods have taken suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the power of power from ustime. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the people Major Crimes Review Unit (that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods 's cold cases to you and so on known as the trickstersme) investigate.|isbn=178845295X

|authorisbn=Alexia Casale0571379559|title=Sing if you Can't DanceThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but thatThe House of Broken Bricks''s what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle story of a dance performance that was going to change her lifefour people. But Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she comes back fightingmight be happier there, desperate to avoid but instead, she lives in the house on the pity staresriverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, and desperate to get back to a life thatit's as normal as she can possibly managestood the passage of time, storms and floods. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in schoolHer husband, Richard, her music A Level performance piece struggles to try grow his vegetables, to sort out, and just complete the daydelivery rounds -and tobring in sufficient money. They have twin boys -day traumas of all Sonny and Max, the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigaterainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. So even though she canPeople don't dance anymorebelieve that they're related, might much less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Helen Peters1529425867|title=Friends and Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|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 is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. 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 amiss, and first separately Lost and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241996104|title=Coming to Find YouNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Jane CorrySimon Mason

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Nancy's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brotherIn Oxford, Martinthere are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, has been convicted of their murderBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. We first meet Nancy outside the courtD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, after Martin receives a life sentenceis not. The barrister tells her that she's received a 'silent sentence' - sheHe's not been found guilty any of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her lifethose things. Of course, itHe's made worse because Nancywhite, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's rich - she inherited five million pounds from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. not ''Farmhouse slaughter daughterreally'' is one favourite epithet his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'rich bitchre being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokens problematic.

|isbnauthor=1529413680Mosby Woods|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerWhirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=One of The West isn't the main events of dominant force it once was. Nobody in the Sarlat tourist season West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the re-enactment best course of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Bruno's there to see the show with some friendsaction. It's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured when he departs from the scriptGovernments are flailing. LuckilyA war here, his doctor is a push for climate action there and the man . A feeling that nobody is whisked away in a helicopteractual charge. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's Imagine then, there was a senior government employee, the man who runs Frenchelon - with precognition. Imagine the military has stepped strategic advantage in. One daughter lives nearby and another, this asset; a man who lives in California, is flying in with some can tell you what will happen given any set of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holidaycircumstances.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529196388|title=The Trial|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Grant Cliveden was a hero: a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyoneThat man would be valuable, so there was public uproar when he was murdered right? Perhaps the most valuable asset in plain sight at the Old Baileyhistory. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight - and it's not too long before Knight appears in courtImagine then, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himthis man loses this ability. Knight's determined What would governments do to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to the contrary.get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1