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|isbn=15211298860241636604|title=They Had The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Keith RedfernC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=Greg MasonIt's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the point English country village where he'll warn someone about how much he chargesshe grew up. ItShe's a good job too back now because Greg and Joyce will soon have of a baby request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and theyCarole're both delighteds close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Joyce will be more delighted about Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the baby when village: Arthur, she gets past the morning sicknessfeels, let her down badly. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-Even though they were in-law appears business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to have killed himselfbe near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Stuart's concerned about his sisterAfter the split, Lucyshe worked in a cafe, who's struggling to make ends meet met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her son is not thriving. Lucylife, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasn't in his nature. The police who was murdered) and Freya and the coroner James have accepted that the death was suicide, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil diednow divorced.

|isbn=B0CK3MYJ56AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Ann MacarthurBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It's 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the 1990s and Greg Masonshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you's twenty-eight years oldre eighteen. He used to Well, I must confess that there have been more than a high-flying job few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the city but feeling that it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigatorall getting away from me. 'Shades Some of Cameron Strike', you might be thinkingit is - frankly - quite frightening. Nice bloke Of course, but whereI 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's re talking about or the life experience latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that backs up this profession? has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. On Hiding from the other handterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, he has been asked to look into somethingthe hotel manager. Joyce and Helen As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are half-sistersstill alive in the hotel, or ratherhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, they were until Helen was killed in and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossinghappened through her photography. Joyce - and Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her parents, Oliver keep safe and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come they both wait to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigatesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Katherine Howe1529153298|title=A True AccountThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5

|summary=Hannah Masury It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is living in BostonPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, having they've been sent to live with a family who run an innmurdered, and being made but to work there from a young agehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When Miv's upset because she hears there is 's overheard that her father wants to be a hanging of some pirates in move the town, she decides to go and watchfamily 'Down South'. Enthralled and horrified in equal measureWhen you're from Yorkshire, Hannah finds herself embroiled in Down South is a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious piratesfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She hides awayFor Miv, so that they don't find and kill the move would mean leaving her toobest friend, Sharon, and then to escape them completely she runs away 'll do anything to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boyprevent that. She soon finds herself in 's not worried about the thick of things when there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in dangers or that her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean wavesMum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0861547438

|authorisbn=Tananarive Due1398524085|title=The ReformatoryHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= GracetownCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, Floridasons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. June 1950are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. After a scuffle with a white boy Shortly afterwards, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for BoysEtty and Greg, otherwise known as find the Reformatory. Itbody of Greg's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrorsfather, Duncan Ackerley, haunted by in the boys that have died thereriver. In order It was an easy assumption for the police to survive the school governor make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the help of the schoolguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's ghosts – only little else they have can do but get on with their own motivations..lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1803366532}}

|isbn=14711801581035906708|title=Maybe TomorrowDiva|author=Penny ParkesDaisy Goodwin

|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety We tend to think of a half brick. Jamie's sonMaria Callas as Greek, Bobut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you readNew York, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E December 1923 and sometimes Bo's not fit enough only moved to go to schoolAthens when she was thirteen. Missed shifts or the need Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to be away on time 'Callas' to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put make it more manageable in the wrongStates. It When she was going to come to back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a headmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Harry AllenChristopher Edge|title=Children of the SunBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a North Korean town and she is movie marathon at their local cinema, a talented singerplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Life is hard All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and food many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is difficult to come byvery different, so Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every eveningthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, looking for tree bark and edible grasses can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to supplement the meagre rations of rice cinema, and kimchi at home.to their real lives?|isbn=18051404931839942738

|author=Edel RodriguezRachel Greenlaw|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Graphic NovelsTeens|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in CubaI can hear the song of the sea. The revolution has happened, and Castrocall of the deep, first thought of as a saviour of the countryanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, has proven himself a Communistremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for allplundering the wrecks. WellMira, those hours-long speeches like her mother before her, is one of his were kind of taking his time awaythe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Our narratorBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's family werenleader and Mira't in the happiest of places heres father. Desperate to save him from death, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he would probably be shipped is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to some minor pro-Communism skirmishunearth what might save her father, such as Angola) and her journey takes her from the father being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with streets of foreign islands to the party to ease some heart of the heatsmuggler's territory, but in this sultry island country, it remains Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the kind of heat forcing you out future of her home and the kitchen…ones she holds most dear.|isbn=14746167200008664730

|author=K P O'DonnellJames Sherwood Metts|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Planet Storyland|rating=34.5|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=VL-15, Things have been a prototype robotbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, is desperate often replacing jobs they're paid to understand who she isdo and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined think of other, new ways to continue her father's legacyspend time, building a world where machines along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring along with it , all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, 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 herselfmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM1736128426

|isbnauthor=1838954481Matthew Tree|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-year-old holding the gun drunk and pointing it chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at DI Kieran Shaw. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty any of both the murder his artistic passions all failed miserably and the manslaughter who had endless crises of the officerself confidence. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside set himself high but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedyachievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1035025299A G Slatter|title=Went to London, Took The Briar Book of the Dog|author=Nina StibbeDead|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyFantasy|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to London enjoy it for a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearswhile. She's been at Victoria' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive , a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to writingbe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as therea steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's always something smallholding happening - as you might expectcousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. The other side As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy maelstrom of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rentchaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL1529900360|title=Radio Free OlympiaThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jeffrey DunnJonathan Kellerman

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Petr is an orphan. Rescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he is brought up far from bustling cities felt responsible and busy human societyeven after Alex recovered, in the forests of Washington's Olympic PeninsulaSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. After Bear dies His assertions that there were only open-and -shut cases which didn't need the help of a brief sojourn in human company, and armed with psychologist only worked for a pirate radio transmitterwhile. Finally, Petr goes on a journey through it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the forestman she loved needed. The next case did look simple, broadcasting though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the strange, wild heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and rarely heard voices he encountersit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|isbn=16358662431529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookSecret Life of a Vet|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn''I quickly discovered t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that putting words and numbers being on-call put on a page wasnhis father't enoughs life. Creating When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a pattern that family friend who was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal of trial vet and error, patience, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern was convinced this was the job for which she'd paid good moneyhim. The first line of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitchesBefore long, he was at Liverpool University...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didnhadn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged as with so many students - been his dream since he was a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repaymentchild. The pattern looked prettyIf anything, but the creator didnhe't have the basic knowledge and skills d wanted to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''be a professional footballer.

|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies0861541774|title=Oscar's LionA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We start incredibly bluntlyDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or fatherDanny Maik, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book has taken a couple of times before he has short holiday in Singapore to be ready for schoolmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. But when Maik was involved in a street brawl - he enters his parents' bedroom, all would later maintain that he sees is was facing a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, man armed with a knife - and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two dayskilled a Ghurka. But there are benefits to having Initially, he faced a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat charge of manslaughter but evidence came to the bully light that suggested that ruined a birthday party for Oscar he might have planned to murder the other monthman. And it can shapeshift, so Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can take it do nothing to school and it can get him out of help as any interference from another police force could provoke a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax about the rules, diplomatic incident and so on. OK, it canwouldn't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timehelp Danny at all.|isbn=0008596751

|isbnauthor=B0BC3YTCMRAlexander McCall Smith|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura AyiraThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=''This story The Perfect Passion Company is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be tolddating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid operating as an alternative to hug her all the online apps in case it's contagiousproviding a more personal, tailored service. It's not easy being Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a black girl whose skin is 84% whitewhile. She had Katie is coming out of a break up with a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good bad boyfriend, and so jumps at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor himthe chance to come home to Edinburgh. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: And so begins this was just new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an extensionEdinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She went to his house Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and he raped there's always her. In shockvery helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, she even allowed him to give her lend a lift home.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=V Castro0811771741|title=The Haunting of Alejandra|rating=3.5|genre=Horror|summary=''This was a part of her past that had to stop with her. She would be the one to confront this.'' At some point during her life, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if she is playing parts InstaKnits for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desires, her own future, her own identity. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandra, there is a darkness threatening to consume her. More and more she is visited by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wake.|isbn=1803365617}}{{FrontpageBaby|author=Richard Kadrey|title=The Pale House DevilMelissa Leapman

|genre=HorrorCrafts|summary=Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as Baby'' gives us a couple collection of strange detectives! knits from toys to blankets. One Some will be quick knits - others are of them is living, you see, and the other is undead'long, and so one cosy afternoons in front of them kills the living, and the other kills the undeadfire' variety. (Only not each otherThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, obviously)ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. They're on a job in New York that goes badlyAll the projects are attractive, modern and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other work to keep them goinguseable. But I perhaps show my age when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the I wonder about 'somethingsocial-media-worthy projects' but 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=1803363894me being picky.

|author=Helen CooperDean Koontz|title=The Taming of the CatBad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against catBenny is having a terrifically bad day. In this caseHe loses his job, principally, we have Brie the mousehe loses his fiancee, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeseshis house gets trashed. Anyway, Brie is shunnedOh, scorned andsomeone has delivered a really weird, if you must, mousdisturbing coffin-tracisedsized object to his home, for and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the way thing that has trashed his habits don't match house! The thing is, Benny is the other mice he lives withvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese So fortunately for bedding – he displays Benny it as art and makes stories based on turns out that the visuals on itdelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. And that story-telling Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will come in handy one nightcertainly take care of Benny's enemies, when if he feels all alone , Benny, and cast out. ItHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's almost as if there were another character from fable wild adventure) can figure out who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distractedexactly they are. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=05713760101662500491

|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MAdam Stower|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C WallfischMurray and Bun

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers |summary=''Got a minute Murray is supposed to be amuseda humble, entertainedtidy and friendly cat, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None one who is more than 300 wordsable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. You can read one in But he's a flash.bad magician''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out themes from all , not into the flash fictions in regular back garden, but into a book world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't into a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collectionViking land, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for where a three hundred word limit. Thattroll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's about a single page in your average paperback.turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|isbn=1732898766B0C47LV1PC|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonFragility|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Mosby Woods

|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus theyCan you make a 're running for their lives in 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: question should you make it? Or is the Sour Milk Dragon question if you did, would it land? The catch is chasing themthat the answer for both could well be.... no. He 's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: it wonFragility''t end well.) Fortunatelyis set as the city of Portland, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - and when a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for themOregon, they escaped. They climbed up cautiously begins to emerge from the Tree Wee homes high up in restrictions imposed during the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.covid pandemic

|isbn=14722639361529431735|title=The FigurineWinter Visitor|author=Victoria HislopJames Henry|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud 's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made her first trip to GreeceBruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left He'd been exiled on the family home and refused to Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return, but Mary and Hamish (Helenahas come about because he's parents) felt that it would be had a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in upletter from his ex-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the familywife, saying that she's maid, Dina, but was wary - ill and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannishasn't long to live. He was proud of his close connections It's hard to the Junta and expected his family feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to uphold his values but saw no reason underwear and sent to accommodate thema watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited Is it a warning from her father's Scottish ancestors.a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Cody Goodfellow|title=Vertical|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold Alex Bell and Levi PinfoldTim McDonagh|title=Finding BearThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5

|summary=[[The Last Bear Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Islandvisiting with him, and in the evening a lot further north than many people would venture, helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a polar bear – that she called Beargeneration missing in the family. Back homeA few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost to the titular race, things on a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the domestic and family front are world in the company of a bit advanced, magical beast. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from a bad incident at the islands Bear was last left on. For eatery leads to a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to make sure enter what he's OKmost hates, she and her father return to with the sole aim the Arctic and hope that in a world prize of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing magic at the end – and that the friendship can continueonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=00085820170571382231

|isbn=1804183210178763681X|title=No ReserveKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Felix FrancisOrlando Murrin

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldnChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't have been on really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the rostrum when impression that he'd be at the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auctionschool to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadnit didn't arrived, so he continued his sessionturn out that way. To say that he was shocked when The teaching - and the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal problems - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each otherare all his own. Brian Kitman and Elliot The one thing he hadn'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industryt expected was for someone to turn up dead. Jennings Unfortunately, he was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when person who discovered the two men came in body and their conversation revealed everyone knows that the horse had been deliberately bid up police consider that person to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, be the horse was dead in its stallprime suspect.

|author=Sarah WilsonMarsh|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldA Sign of Her Own

|genre= LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely thisAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life the way I want tochanges. Sarah Wilson Living in a time when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that sent to a school where she acknowledges the source) she pushes us is taught to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be livinglip read, but physically restrained from signing. Her answer is an unequivocal ''noFrom here, we are not''she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. Don't care what you're doingAt the same time, she thinks you (weBell is working on other inventions and ideas, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are notand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=17856338481035401614

|isbn=18399484931803816759|title=A World of DogsThe Unravelling|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeWill Gibson|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that IIt'm s 2038 and Joe is a sucker bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didn't trust a bit of adventure and I've loved most of themto get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. I wish I felt But then something goes horribly wrong with the same about human beings. SoAI system that now runs everything, any book about dogsmaking life easier for many, I'm going and riots start to sit down and devourspread. Then I'm going Finally, Joe gets to go back do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and read it properlyJoe is assigned to bring her home. And so it was with Joe isn''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely t the only one trying to my foursave Suki -legged friendsDylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the case. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself What went wrong? Did the accidental owner of an American Dingo - shesystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.kidnapping connected?

|isbn=14059516801529421284|title=The Safe HouseLaying Out the Bones|author=Cameron WardKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she It was gently nudged into it by her friendone of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, Rupert) a human skeleton came to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of monthssurface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. After the problems sheHe'd been a known drug user and had at worklearning disabilities, so it seemed like just the break she neededcould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. She Geary was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she townie, so what was Jess who was returning he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the country suicide of her birth Holly Gilbert and in need of the space to get over two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the traumatic end of her relationship with Charlestime. A few weeks in Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticketMajor Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=Rachel Harrison0571379559|title=Bad DollsThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horrorThe House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen KingTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, borrowing she lives in the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to house on the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear riverbank, built of the vampires outside! broken bricks. DonInsubstantial as it might look, it't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scaress stood the passage of time, storms and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! floods. But it is creepyHer husband, and I found most of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about womenRichard, living normal livesstruggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and that at least to bring in partsufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakuprainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're related, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party much less twins and a coping there's an assumption when Max is out with griefhis mother that she's his nanny.|isbn=1803363932

|isbn=13941595441529425867|title=Recycling for DummiesLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Sarah WinklerSimon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins.3 barrels Raymond Wilkins is of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfillNigerian descent, it will take between 6 months Balliol educated and 2 years to decomposealways exquisitely dressed. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, D I faced a dilemma: reducingRyan Wilkins, reusing son of Ryan and recycling father of Ryan, is part not. He's not any of my DNAthose things. NEVER throw away anything that might He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'possibly'his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They' come re usually in handy now lime green or in the futureacid yellow. NEVER buy anything You might wonder if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?Well, you' re not. On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty The two men are just different sides of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside binsame policing coin. Yes, I could go searching on Sometimes the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling biblecombination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it'sproblematic.

|author=Lauren St JohnMosby Woods|title=Finding WonderA Whirly Man Loses His Turn

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=RooThe West isn's life has become almost impossibly difficultt the dominant force it once was. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken Nobody in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the corner shop to buy best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a lottery ticketpush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. When asked what other family she hasImagine then, she there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can only name her aunttell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly ofright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. But she has no one elseImagine then, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable auntthat this man loses this ability. Things continue What would governments do to get worse for Roo, 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!back?|isbn=0571376169B0C9SNG8R1