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|authorisbn=Katherine Howe0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A True AccountConfession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=Hannah Masury is living If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Bostonyour mind, having been sent you're unlikely to live think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with a family who run an innviolence, poverty and being made to work there from a young ageinjustice. When she hears there is There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to be a hanging the London School of some pirates in the town, she decides to go and watchEconomics. Enthralled Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in he has a young boy's death at the hands facility with numbers which most of two vicious piratesus can only envy. She hides away, so He also realised that they don't find and kill her toomost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, and then to escape them completely she runs away to seaessentially, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boycard game which got him an internship with Citibank. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean wavestrader.|isbn=0861547438

|authorisbn=Tananarive Due1035021803|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. ItAntique Hunter's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order Guide to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe TomorrowMurder|author=Penny ParkesC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man whoIt's a control freak with all twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the subtlety of a half brickEnglish country village where she grew up. JamieShe's son, Boback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, 'has his problems'Carole. HeFreya's former mentor and Carole's asthmatic close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the more you readcircumstances seem suspicious, to say the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrumleast. Sometimes Jamie needs Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to take time off at short notice - the village: Arthur, she's a frequent flier feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in the local A&E and sometimes Bo's business together as antique hunters, she has not fit enough felt able to go to schoolbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Missed shifts or After the need to be away split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on time to pick Bo up the rebound from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It love of her life, who was going to come to a headmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Harry AllenAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Children of the SunAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a talented singerfew decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Life Some of it is hard and food is difficult to come by- frankly - quite frightening. Of course, so Seo I could research the possibilities and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, looking for tree bark the probabilities and edible grasses to supplement end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the meagre rations of rice latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and kimchi at homewho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1805140493

|author=Edel RodriguezSunny Singh|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsThrillers |summary=We're The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in childhood, and we're in Cubaan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. The revolution has happenedHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, and Castrokilling everyone on site, first thought of as a saviour of the countrythere is Sam, has proven himself a Communist, wartime photographer and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. WellAbhi, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time awaythe hotel manager. Our narrator's family weren't As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the happiest of places herehotel, an uncle refusing he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmishcowed by events, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets Although they only ever talk over the couple jobs with the party phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to ease some of see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…terrorists.|isbn=1474616720086154742X

|authorisbn=K P O'Donnell1529153298|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher isPrime Minister. Unfortunately (A woman? I mean, before she could find any answershonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, the world endedthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century laterthey've been murdered, civilisation is starting but to rebuildhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue Miv's upset because she's overheard that her fatherwants to move the family 's legacyDown South'. When you're from Yorkshire, building Down South is a world where machines and humans can live together in harmonyfrightening, foreign place, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down againbest avoided. Craig Anderson For Miv, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, move would mean leaving her determination hasn't diminished in the slightestbest friend, and no errant machineSharon, no savage human tribe and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not even Drexelworried about the dangers or that her Mum's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZMstopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=18389544811398524085|title=The MisperHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kate LondonNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's no doubt about thatfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He was the fifteenHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but -yearstrangely -old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawher husband, Alec, is not. He pulled the trigger but due to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the vagaries body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the jury system he river. It was found not guilty of both an easy assumption for the murder police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the manslaughter of the officerguilt. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside The Salter children are not convinced but when a missing teenager is found on her territory shethere's drawn into a wider investigation - little else they can do but get on with their lives and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedywonder about what really happened.

|isbn=10350252991035906708|title=Went to London, Took the DogDiva|author=Nina StibbeDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsAthens when she was thirteen. SheHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's been at VictoriaCallas's smallholding to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Leicestershire which isn't all Athens - supposedly so that conducive to writing, as there's always something smallholding happening she could get appropriate training for her voice - as you might expect. The other side of she was raised under the decision was sealed when Nazi occupation by a room became available (courtesy mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable renther preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=B0CKD1L5JLChristopher Edge|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey DunnBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities Lucas and busy human societyhis friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, in a place that has the forests nickname of Washington's Olympic PeninsulaThe Black Hole'. After Bear dies All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and a brief sojourn in human companymany, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and armed with only a pirate radio transmitterthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, Petr goes can they figure out what on earth is going on a journey through ? Will they ever get back to the forestcinema, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1635866243Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath Compass and Sarah Walworth Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enoughcan hear the song of the sea. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal The call of trial and error, patiencethe deep, and perseverancethe answering beat in my heart.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy)

A friend recently showed me Rosevear, a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good moneyremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. The first line Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitchesseven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the instructions didnisland't get any better - s leader and (finally) PayPal obliged Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a refund when the seller refused wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she couldn't afford sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the repaymentsea. The pattern looked prettyWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, but as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the creator didnheart of the smuggler't have the basic knowledge and skills s territory, Mira must be determined to enable her stop at nothing to connect with save the future of her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesJames Sherwood Metts|title=Oscar's LionPlanet Storyland|rating=34.5

|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to Things have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book been a couple of times before he has to be ready bit sticky for schoolthe Earthlings. But when he enters his parentsAI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they' bedroom, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, re paid to do and admitting other tasks that he won't be hungry for another two daystook time to accomplish. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown Just as an unspoken threat they were beginning to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it get used to school all this technological change and it can get him out starting to think of a problem. And it's wonderful other, new ways to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intakespend time, being along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much more lax about the rules, shut down and so on. OK, along with it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=00085967511736128426

|isbnauthor=B0BC3YTCMRMatthew Tree|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura AyiraWe'll Never Know

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright studentTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, drunk and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy chronic underachiever whose dreams of being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good exceptional at math any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and Reggie asked if she would tutor himwho had endless crises of self confidence. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went So Tim applied himself to his house studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift homeset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=V CastroA G Slatter|title=The Haunting Briar Book of Alejandrathe Dead|rating=3.5|genre=HorrorFantasy|summary=''This was There's a part of her past me that had wants to keep this just to stop with hermyself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. She would be the one I just want to confront thisenjoy it for a while.''

At some point during her lifeWithin a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, Alejandra lost herselfa family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. She feels as if Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is playing parts the first non-witch to be born into her family for others in generations and as such since she was young, her life – training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her husband grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her children – without ever giving any thought to place beside her. As challenges come her own desiresway left, right and centre, her own futureEllie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her own identity. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrongat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. For invisible Reeling from one family secret to all but Alejandraanother, there is a darkness threatening Ellie must decide who to consume her. More trust and more she is visited by a ghostdetermine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with watereverything they have sacrificed to survive, who leaves distress in her wakeis under threat.|isbn=18033656171803364548

|authorisbn=Richard Kadrey1529900360|title=The Pale House DevilGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Ford It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and Neuland are a couple ofeven after Alex recovered, well, guys Sturgis was reluctant to ask for hire I guess, though really his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the way I thought help of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! psychologist only worked for a while. One of them is livingFinally, you seeit was Robin, and the other is undeadDelaware's partner, and so one of them kills who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the living, and the other kills involvement was something that the undeadman she loved needed. (Only not each otherThe next case did look simple, obviously)though. They're on Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a job remote property in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to Bel Air. He was the West coast heir to try an Italian shoe empire and she is married to lay low for a while an extremely rich man and find some other work to keep them goingit's not the Italian. But when a young woman called Tilda hires which of them to kill was the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894primary target?

|authorisbn=Helen Cooper1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Taming Secret Life of the Cata Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against catSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. In this caseHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, principally, we have Brie particularly when he considered the mouse, up against Gorgonzola strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the cat – and in case you're seeing opportunity of doing work experience with a connection, they live in family friend who was a cheese shop vet and therefore all was convinced this was the names used here seem to be the names of cheesesjob for him. AnywayBefore long, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, moushe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students -tracised, for the way been his habits don't match the other mice dream since he lives withwas a child. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – If anything, he displays it as art 'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and makes stories based on the visuals on itformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. And Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that storyhe was facing a man armed with a knife -telling will come in handy one night, when and he feels all alone and cast outkilled a Ghurka. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to tell stories light that suggested that he might have planned to keep themselves alivemurder the man. This makes Brie Now he could be facing the top dog in the mouse community, though, death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010

|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MAlexander McCall Smith|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C WallfischThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=''Got The Perfect Passion Company is a minute dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to be amusedall the online apps in providing a more personal, entertainedtailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None as Ness is more than 300 words. You can read one in planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a flashwhile.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give Katie is coming out of a flavour of break up with a fully rounded little bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to draw out themes from all 44 Scotland Street and the flash fictions Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction business, or in match-making, but that for this collectionNess has full confidence in her abilities, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. Thatand there's about always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a single page in your average paperback.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=17328987660811771741|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonInstaKnits for Baby|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Melissa Leapman

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus theyMelissa Leapman's ''re running InstaKnits for their lives in the Forest Baby'' gives us a collection of Fine Reputeknits from toys to blankets. Their greatest fear has come about: Some will be quick knits - others are of the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind themlong, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please doncosy afternoons in front of the fire't try this at home: it won't end wellvariety.) Fortunately, The projects are divided by the time they were nearly at Nobby Lob'll take to complete -lolly - and when a ladder of moss less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and vines was lowered for them, they escapedmore than twenty hours. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in All the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Weesprojects are attractive, Nester Nook modern and Granny Crannyuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1472263936Dean Koontz|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to GreeceBenny is having a terrifically bad day. She was alone: her motherHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, Greek by birthand his house gets trashed. Oh, had left the family home and refused someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to returnhis home, but Mary and Hamish (Helenait's parents) felt possible that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents whoever or understanding her Greek heritagewhatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visitsHe is a nice person. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis PapagiannisA really nice person. He was proud of his close connections to So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Junta and expected his family delivery to uphold his values but saw no reason house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to accommodate themhelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. His prejudices included HelenaSpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's red hair enemies, if he, Benny, and green eyes - inherited from her fatherHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's Scottish ancestorswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Cody GoodfellowAdam Stower|title=VerticalMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary= ThereMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesna bad magician't love s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a good view from up highhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, after all? Even not into the drabbest office building regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is somewhere I'm intrigued expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to get inside if itbe honest, but he's 40 stories tall. So when I picked turned up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.and he'll have to do…|isbn= 18033639910008561249

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldB0C47LV1PC|title=Finding BearFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, April had been on Bear Islandis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – it land? The catch is that she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect answer for her, and so can easily both could well be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he.. no. ''Fragility''s OKis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, she and her father return cautiously begins to emerge from the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that restrictions imposed during the friendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017covid pandemic

|isbn=18041832101529431735|title=No ReserveThe Winter Visitor|author=Felix FrancisJames Henry

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldnIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He't have d been exiled on the rostrum when the colt - Costa del Sol as yet unnamed - came up a wanted drug smuggler for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his sessiona decade. To say that The return has come about because he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal 's had a letter from his ex- but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman wife, saying that she's ill and Elliot hasn'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industryt long to live. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets It's hard to feel any sympathy when the two men came in Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up sent to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance a watery grave in placethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Sarah WilsonAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre= LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the one wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer his lovely gran, too – for there is ''This! Precisely thisa generation missing in the family.'' IA few short years ago, Eli'm lucky enough s parents were both lost to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have tonavigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges This has made the source) she pushes us race anathema to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want pair – but when a bad incident at the best life that we could be living. Her answer eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care to dare to enter what you're doinghe most hates, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the fact that we are notonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=17856338480571382231

|isbn=1839948493178763681X|title=A World of DogsKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeOrlando Murrin|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a sucker for dogsresidential cookery school in Belgravia. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I He didn't trust really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and I've loved most of themwomen to do what he wanted. I wish I felt Paul ''somehow'' got the same about human beings. Soimpression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, any book about dogswho had a broken arm, Ibut it didn'm going to sit down t turn out that way. The teaching - and devourthe problems - are all his own. Then IThe one thing he hadn'm going t expected was for someone to go back and read it properlyturn up dead. And so it Unfortunately, he was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider that person to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself be the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since thenprime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1405951680Sarah Marsh|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron WardA Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, actually she was gently nudged Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple world of monthssilence, everything about her life changes. After Living in a time when the problems use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she'd had at workis taught to lip read, it seemed like just the break she neededbut physically restrained from signing. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police From here, she ends up in London: she was Jess another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who was returning to has been teaching the country of her birth deaf and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charlesusing a system called Visible Speech. A few weeks in At the Otway Ranges same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in Victoria sounded like just the ticketa complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Rachel Harrison1803816759|title=Bad DollsThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson

|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horror2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. I had Joe longs for a couple bit of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school adventure and scaring myself half silly to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with them to the point AI system that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night now runs everything, making life easier for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scaresmany, and I didn't have riots start to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepyspread. Finally, and I found most Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and that at least in part, Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, only one trying a new dieting appto save Suki - Dylan, going to a hen party British superfan and a coping with grieftech nerd, is also on the case.|isbn=1803363932What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=13941595441529421284|title=Recycling for DummiesLaying Out the Bones|author=Sarah WinklerKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=''Recycling It was one ton of plastic can save up those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core the surface and forensic testing proved the body to landfillbe Lee Geary, it will take between 6 months and 2 who had disappeared nine years to decomposeearlier. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As He'd been a just-post-WWII babyknown drug user and had learning disabilities, I faced so it could have been a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part simple case of my DNAmisadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in Geary was a townie, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the purposetime. Almost everything can be used one more time Lockyer and any purchase must pass the test DC Gemma Broad of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming Major Crimes Review Unit (that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at s cold cases to youand me) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bibleinvestigate.s

|authorisbn=Lauren St John0571379559|title=Finding WonderThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult'The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Her mum died when Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she was youngmight be happier there, but instead, and now she finds herself awoken lives in the middle house on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the night by the police banging on her door passage of time, storms and floods. Her husband, Richard, struggles to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on grow his way vegetables, to complete the corner shop delivery rounds - and to buy a lottery ticketbring in sufficient money. When asked what other family she hasThey have twin boys - Sonny and Max, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didnthe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother't think very highly ofs Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. But she has no one elsePeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and so off she goes to live there's an assumption when Max is out with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when his mother that 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=0571376169his nanny.

|isbn=14483097431529425867|title=The Devil Stone Lost and Never Found (DCI Christine CaplanA D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Caro RamsaySimon Mason|rating=4.5

|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of ScotlandOxford, five members of a wealthy family there are found murderedtwo D I Wilkins. The only item missing from the home Raymond Wilkins is the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn Houseof Nigerian descent, death will followBalliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many waysD I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, thatis not. He's an easy conclusion given that two not any of them those things. He'discovereds white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading' the bodys not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you'shadowre not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it' hims problematic.

|author= Kay ChronisterMosby Woods|title= Desert CreaturesA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Literary Fiction|summary= With a world that The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid the best course of water or a nuclear holocaustaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, this genre is a way push for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fearsclimate action there. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the fears most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, that exist for humanity todaythis man loses this ability. It is a shocking novel that still manages What would governments do to find hope.get it back?|isbn=1803364998B0C9SNG8R1