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|isbn=18051418720241636604|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too MuchTrading Game: A Confession|author=Rob KeeleyGary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Seventeen banks re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows jeans replaces the truth – pin-stripe suit and his Maths teacherbackground is the East End, Miss Judsonwhere he was familiar with violence, is really a safecracker! With police poverty and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the runLondon School of Economics. But Al needs them for one last job 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..'' Goodness me It was his ability at what was, essentially, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up card game which got him an internship with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find outCitibank. Luckily for Miss Judson Eventually, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of this turned into permanent employment as a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth savingtrader.

|isbn=07603812671035021803|title=Verdura: Living a Garden LifeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoC L Miller

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'The most important part s back now because of a garden request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the one man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who enjoys itwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

I've heard it said that 'technology'gardenedis what happens after you' in a vaguere eighteen. Well, indefinite sort of way for I must confess that there have been more than half a centuryfew decades of technology in my lifetime. I know (most of) the basics 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but life has changed and I needed 'projectsm left with the feeling that it' rather than a general commitment to gardenings 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'Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like re talking about or the answerlatest conspiracy theorist. So, how did it stack up?I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B0CP95J1CGSunny Singh|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark LinganeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides The Hotel Arcadia is a 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 Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to go try to care remotely for the party but his interest is piqued by residents who are still alive in the way it arrived. And it seems like hotel, he forms a good opportunity bond with Sam who refuses to get be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of his her room and away from to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way therephone, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and watching they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefullyterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=14549555461529153298|title=SugarlessThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Nicole M AvenaJennie Godfrey

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=It''This isn't a diet books 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv' There was a times family, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat contentthough. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart diseaseWomen have been disappearing. Sugar was a carbohydrate Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so goodfrightening. ThereMiv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a problemfrightening, foreign place, thoughbest avoided. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much For Miv, the same way as drugs like heroin move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and cocaineshe'll do anything to prevent that. Does She's not worried about the dangers or that sound over the top? Well, it isnher Mum'ts stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15211298861398524085|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Keith RedfernNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Greg MasonCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargesfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's a good job too because Greg Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Joyce will soon have a baby Ollie and they're both delightedher daughter, Etty. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brotherare all worried but -instrangely -law appears to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sisterher husband, LucyAlec, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. LucyShortly afterwards, he saysEtty and Greg, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasnfind the body of Greg't s father, Duncan Ackerley, in his naturethe river. The It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide, guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but Stuartthere's prepared to pay Greg to find out little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened on the night Gil died.

|isbn=B0CK3MYJ561035906708|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)Diva|author=Ann MacarthurDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's the 1990s Lucas and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a high-flying job in place that has the city but it wasnnickname of 't satisfying so heThe Black Hole's now set himself up as a private investigator. All big movie fans, they'Shades re looking forward to lots of Cameron Strike'exciting films, and many, you might be thinking. Nice blokemany snacks! However, but where's as the life experience movie starts, they very quickly realise that backs something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up this professioninto an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? On Will they ever get back to the other handcinema, he has been asked and to look their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into somethingthe rocks and plundering the wrecks. Joyce Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Helen are half-sisters, or ratherany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they were until Helen was killed in whatcapture the island's leader and Mira's been written off father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall sets off in front search of a trainfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. GregWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's been asked territory, Mira must be determined to investigatestop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Katherine HoweJames Sherwood Metts|title=A True AccountPlanet Storyland

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having Things have been sent to live with a family who run an innbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and being made other tasks that took time to work there from a young ageaccomplish. When she hears there is Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to be a hanging think of some pirates in the townother, she decides new ways to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measurespend time, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious piratesalong came an awful pandemic. She hides away, so that they don't find Life was pretty much shut down and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to seaalong with it, dressing as a boy and joining all the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny many daily social interactions on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waveswhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=08615474381736128426

|author=Tananarive DueMatthew Tree|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. It'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 to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the schoolWe's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkesll Never Know

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery storeTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, for a man drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who's a control freak with all the subtlety had endless crises of a half brickself confidence. Jamie's sonSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Bo, 'has cultivated his abilities rather than his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, 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 daydreams and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a headset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Harry AllenA G Slatter|title=Children The Briar Book of the SunDead

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in '' There's a North Korean 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 enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, 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 be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a talented singersteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Life is hard When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and food is difficult to Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come byher way left, so Seo right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her friends Nari and Min go foraging every eveningat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, looking for tree bark Ellie must decide who to trust and edible grasses determine what to supplement do as the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at homeBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=18051404931803364548

|authorisbn=Edel Rodriguez1529900360|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=WeIt hadn're in childhoodt been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault 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. His assertions that there were only open-and we-shut cases which didn're in Cubat need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. The revolution has happenedFinally, and Castroit was Robin, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a CommunistDelaware's partner, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field who nudged Milo into asking for allhelp again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. WellThe next case did look simple, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time awaythough. Our narrator's family weren't Two lovers were murdered in the happiest swimming pool of places here, an uncle refusing to be a remote property in Bel Air. He was the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off heir to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) an Italian shoe empire and the father being watched and watched, she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned uponthe Italian. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some But which of them was the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720primary target?

|authorisbn=K P O'Donnell1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=VL-15, Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a prototype robot, is desperate GP and Rowlands didn't want to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answersfollow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over halfstrain that being on-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her call put on his father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down againlife. Craig Anderson, leader When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a group of salvagers called vet and was convinced this was the Exhumersjob for him. Before long, has he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his entire life turned upside down when dream since he unearths was a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfchild. Even after being buried for 65 years If anything, her determination hasnhe'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=B0CKRYFRZMd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=18389544810861541774|title=The MisperA Nye of Pheasants|author=Kate LondonSteve Burrows

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's no doubt about thatclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He Maik was the fifteeninvolved in a street brawl -yearhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawhe killed a Ghurka. He pulled the trigger Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but due evidence came to the vagaries of the jury system light that suggested that he was found not guilty of both the might have planned to murder and the manslaughter of the officerman. And so lives must go onNow he could be facing the death penalty. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory shewouldn's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedyt help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1035025299Alexander McCall Smith|title=Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Nina Stibbe The Perfect Passion Company is returning a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to London for all the online apps in providing a sabbatical more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after being the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for twenty yearsa while. She's been Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at Victoria's smallholding the chance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writingher abilities, as and there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The other side of the decision was sealed when a room became available her very helpful (courtesy of Deborah Moggachand rather handsome) at neighbour, William, to lend a very reasonable rent.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL0811771741|title=Radio Free OlympiaInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jeffrey DunnMelissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Petr is an orphanMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Rescued by Some will be quick knits - others are of the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society'long, cosy afternoons in front of the forests of Washingtonfire's Olympic Peninsulavariety. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human companyThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through more than twenty hours. All the forestprojects are attractive, broadcasting the strange, wild modern and rarely heard voices he encountersuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1635866243Dean Koontz|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CraftsParanormal|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on Benny is having a page wasn't enoughterrifically bad day. Creating a pattern that was correctHe loses his job, clearhe loses his fiancee, conciseand his house gets trashed. Oh, and consistent required someone has delivered a great deal of trial and errorreally weird, patiencedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and perseverance.it'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line of s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear thing that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. has trashed his house! The pattern looked prettything is, but Benny is the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills very last person to enable her to connect with her knittersdeserve all this bad luck. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Adam Baron and Benji Davies|title=Oscar's Lion|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother He is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for schoolnice person. A really nice person. But when he enters So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his parents' bedroom, all he sees house is a mahoosive male lion on their bednew friend, looking sheepisha bad weather friend called Spike, and admitting that he won't be hungry who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for another two daysbeing a good person. But there are benefits Spike is going to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshifttake care of Benny, so he can and will certainly take it to school and it can get him out care of a problem. And itBenny's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intakeenemies, if he, being much more lax about the rulesBenny, and so on. OK, it canHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't work a dimmer switch but it s wild adventure) can give Oscar a wonderful timefigure out who exactly they are.|isbn=00085967511662500491

|isbnauthor=B0BC3YTCMRAdam Stower|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura AyiraMurray and Bun

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=''This story Murray is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was supposed to be a very bright studenthumble, a bit too nerdy if truth be toldtidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagiouseat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. ItBut he's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math into a world of frightening adventure and Reggie asked if she would tutor himwhiffs. She readily agreed: tutoring This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went , to his house be honest, but he's turned up and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him 'll have to give her a lift home.do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=V CastroB0C47LV1PC|title=The Haunting of AlejandraFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''This was a part of her past joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that had to stop with herthe answer for both could well be.... She would be the one to confront thisno.''

At some point during her life, Alejandra lost herself. She feels ''Fragility'' is set as if she is playing parts for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desiresthe city of Portland, her own futureOregon, her own identity. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible cautiously begins 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=1803365617emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=Richard Kadrey1529431735|title=The Pale House DevilWinter Visitor|author=James Henry

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Ford It's February 1991 and Neuland are a couple ofEssex is bitingly cold, well, guys for hire I guess, though really which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the way I thought of them through more surprising. He'd been exiled on the book was Costa del Sol as a couple of strange detectives! wanted drug smuggler for a decade. One of them is living, you seeThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-wife, saying that she's ill and the other is undead, and so one of them kills the living, and the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously)hasn't long to live. TheyIt're on a job in New York that goes badlys hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and so they head out sent to a watery grave in the West coast to try to lay low for boot of a while and find some other work to keep them goingstolen Ford Sierra. But when Is it a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting warning from a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering Spanish gang or a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894problem closer to home?

|author=Helen CooperAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Taming Glorious Race of the CatMagical Beasts|rating=3.54

|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we have Brie the mousestart by visiting with him, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing the evening a connection, they live in a cheese shop helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheesesruns. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he Eli lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese his lovely gran, too – for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on there is a generation missing in the visuals on itfamily. And that story-telling will come in handy one nightA few short years ago, when he feels all alone and cast out. ItEli's almost as if there parents were another character from fable who had had to tell stories both lost to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse communitytitular race, though, as a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the others had world in the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distractedcompany of a magical beast. But will This has made the story have race anathema to the successful sequel it needs pair – but when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch|rating=4.5|genre=Short Stories|summary=''Got a minute bad incident at the eatery leads to be amuseda confession from gran, entertained, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None Eli knows his only hope is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give 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 out themes from all dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the flash fictions in a book prize of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collection, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about a single page in your average paperbackmagic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=1732898766178763681X|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Orlando Murrin

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in the Forest of Fine Repute. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing themBelgravia. Hedidn's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrilst really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. (Please donPaul ''somehow'' got the impression that he't try this d be at home: the school to assist Paul, who had a broken arm, but it wondidn't end wellturn out that way.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby LobThe teaching -lolly and the problems - and when a ladder of moss and vines are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was lowered for them, they escapedsomeone to turn up dead. They climbed up to Unfortunately, he was the Tree Wee homes high up in person who discovered the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook body and Granny Crannyeveryone knows that the police consider that person to be the prime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1472263936Sarah Marsh|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopA Sign of Her Own|rating=3.5

|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made After a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her first trip to Greecehearing. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left the family home and refused to returnSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding everything about her Greek heritagelife changes. Her trip to the family apartment Living in up-market Kolonaki would be a time when the first use of several annual visits. She grew sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dinalip read, but was wary - and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannisphysically restrained from signing. He was proud of his close connections to From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the Junta deaf and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate themusing a system called Visible Speech. His prejudices included Helena's red hair At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestorsideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Cody Goodfellow1803816759|title=VerticalThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= ThereIt's 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something about tall buildings goes horribly wrong with the AI system that just captures my imaginationnow runs everything, making life easier for many, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Who doesnJoe isn't love the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a good view from up highBritish superfan and tech nerd, after allis also on the case. What went wrong? Even Did the drabbest office building system fail or was it hacked? And how is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if itSuki's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991kidnapping connected?

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold1529421284|title=Finding BearLaying Out the Bones|author=Kate Webb

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Geary, April who had disappeared nine years earlier. He'd been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would ventureknown drug user and had learning disabilities, and finding so it could have been a ridiculously unexpected simple case of misadventure but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called BearDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Back homeGeary was a townie, things so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the domestic suicide of Holly Gilbert and family front are a bit advanced, but to two other deaths which were not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from considered suspicious at the islands Bear was last left ontime. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot Lockyer and wounded. Desperate to make sure heDC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's OK, she and her father return cold cases to the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – you and that the friendship can continueme) investigate.|isbn=0008582017

|isbn=18041832100571379559|title=No ReserveThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Felix FrancisFiona Williams|rating=45|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Thirty-''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldnpeople. Tess Hembry't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auctions roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but Peter Radwayinstead, she lives in the house on the chairmanriverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, hadnit't arriveds stood the passage of time, so he continued his sessionstorms and floods. To say that he was shocked when Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal delivery rounds - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each otherand to bring in sufficient money. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were wellThey have twin boys -known Sonny and respected in Max, the racing industryrainbow twins. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figureSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Both were happy People don't believe that they had insurance in place. The following morning're related, the horse was dead in its stallmuch less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Sarah Wilson1529425867|title=This One Wild Lost and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldNever Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely thisalways exquisitely dressed.'' D I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and precious life the way I want tofather of Ryan, is not. Sarah Wilson is equally luckyHe's not any of those things. In her book that takes OliverHe's words as her title white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (though I canreading't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to think about whether we really s not ''arereally'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be livinghis thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we are not'They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. Don't care what You might wonder if you're doingbeing introduced to a police procedural written for laughs. Well, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's effing furious about the fact that we are notproblematic.|isbn=1785633848

|isbnauthor=1839948493Mosby Woods|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeWhirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=In The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the interests best course of full disclosureaction. Governments are flailing. A war here, I must tell you that I'm a sucker push for dogsclimate action there. In nearly eight decadesA feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, I've never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most there was a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of themcircumstances. I wish I felt That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the same about human beingsmost valuable asset in history. SoImagine then, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devourthat this man loses this ability. Then I'm going What would governments do to go get it back and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since then.?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1