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|isbn=15294258670241636604|title=Lost and Never Found (The Trading Game: A D I Wilkins Mystery)Confession|author=Simon MasonGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=In OxfordIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, there are two D I Wilkinsyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Raymond Wilkins A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is of Nigerian descentthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, Balliol educated poverty and always exquisitely dressedinjustice. D I Ryan Wilkins, son There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Ryan Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and father he has a facility with numbers which most of Ryan, is notus can only envy. He's not any of those thingsalso realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. He's whiteIt was his ability at what was, originated from a trailer parkessentially, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a police procedural written for laughscard game which got him an internship with Citibank. WellEventually, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematicthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Mosby Woods1035021803|title=A Whirly Man Loses His TurnThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= The West isnIt't s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the dominant force it once wasEnglish country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Nobody in Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the West is quite sure how circumstances seem suspicious, to mend this or even if mending it is say the best course of actionleast. Governments are flailing. A war here Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, a push for climate action therelet her down badly. A feeling that nobody is Even though they were in actual charge. Imagine thenbusiness together as antique hunters, there was a she has not felt able to be near the man with precognitionor pursue the profession she loved. Imagine After the strategic advantage split, she worked in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuablecafe, right? Perhaps met and married James (on the most valuable asset in history. Imagine thenrebound from the love of her life, that this man loses this abilitywho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1

|authorisbn=Alastair HumphreysAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=LocalAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Travel Science Fiction|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''to share what I have learnt Opening up new ways of thinking about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' One of the joys shape of the book for me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1805141872|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go on the run. But Al needs them for one last job..come.''

Goodness meI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that Miss Judson is there have been more than a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with a bad what's advantageous to me but I'un like Al? Wem left with the feeling that it'll find outs all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Luckily for Miss Judson Of course, I could research the pupil possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, knows what they're talking about or the son of a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who thinks Miss Judson is worth savingcould deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0760381267Sunny Singh|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoHotel Arcadia

|genre=LifestyleThrillers |summary=''The most important part of Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a garden terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the one hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who enjoys it''. I've 'gardened' are still alive in the hotel, he forms a vaguebond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, indefinite sort and keeps on venturing out of way for more than half a centuryher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. I know (most of) Although they only ever talk over the basics but life has changed phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment they both wait to gardening. ''Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the answerterrorists. So, how did it stack up?|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=B0CP95J1CG1529153298|title=Of Ghosts & Broken PromisesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Mark LinganeJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary= RonanIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not entirely sure why he decides what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to go have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the party but his interest is piqued by the way it arrivedfamily 'Down South'. And it seems like a good opportunity to get out of his room and away When you're from the online activities he makes Yorkshire, Down South is a living atfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. So he makes his way there For Miv, dodging the buses move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that make up most of . She's not worried about the traffic and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefullydangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=14549555461398524085|title=SugarlessHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicole M AvenaNicci French

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband''This isn't a diet books fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. The last thing anyone needs Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is another diet booknot. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg'' There was a times father, not that long agoDuncan Ackerley, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat contentin the river. Fat It was an easy assumption for the demon food which was going police to elevate your cholesterol make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so goodthen committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's a problemlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy 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, thoughin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaineStates. Does When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that sound over she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the top? WellNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, it isn'tJackie.

|isbnauthor=1521129886Christopher Edge|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Keith RedfernBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Greg Mason's just beginning to get Lucas and his confidence as an investigator to friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the point where henickname of 'The Black Hole'll warn someone about how much he charges. It's a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have a baby and All big movie fans, they're both delighted. Joyce will be more delighted about the baby when she gets past the morning sickness. Greg is approached by an old friend whose brother-in-law appears looking forward to have killed himself. Stuart's concerned about his sisterlots of exciting films, Lucyand many, who's struggling to make ends meet and her son is not thriving. many snacks! LucyHowever, he saysas the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasnvery different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't in his natureeven imagine. The police and the coroner have accepted that But as they lurch from one film genre to the death was suicidenext, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find can they figure out what happened on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the night Gil died.cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=B0CK3MYJ56Rachel Greenlaw|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann MacarthurCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's 'I can hear the song of the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years oldsea. He used to have a high-flying job The call of the deep, the answering beat in the city but it wasnmy heart.'t satisfying so he's now set himself up as  Rosevear, a private investigatorremote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. 'Shades of Cameron Strike'Mira, you might be thinking. Nice blokelike her mother before her, but where's is one of the seven who swim out to survey the life experience ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that backs up this profession? On lies within. But when the other hand, he has been asked Council Watch lays a trap to look into something. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or ratherend 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 stop at nothing to investigatesave 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. s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The first line of thing is, Benny is the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitchesvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person.'' It was clear So fortunately for Benny it turns out that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with delivery 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 refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repaymentgood person. The pattern looked prettySpike is going to take care of Benny, but the creator didnand will certainly take care of Benny't have the basic knowledge s enemies, if he, Benny, and skills to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook'Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesStower|title=Oscar's LionMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntlyMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, with Oscar hoping one who is able to have his mother – or fathersleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, but mother is more likely – read him whatever takes his very favourite book a couple fancy next of times before he has to be ready for schoolthe two. But when he enters his parents' bedrooms a bad magician's cat, all he sees is so his favourite bun has been turned into a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepishhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it the catflap they both use can be shown as an unspoken threat to chuck them out, not into the bully that ruined regular back garden, but into a birthday party for Oscar the other monthworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. And This time round it can shapeshiftdrops them into a Viking land, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of where a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house troll hunter is expected – not limiting his biscuit intakewell, being one much more lax about the rulesbigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and so on. OK, it canhe't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.ll have to do…|isbn=00085967510008561249

|isbn=B0BC3YTCMRB0C47LV1PC|title=Good Girls DieFragility|author=Ayura AyiraMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''This story joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is not the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for everyoneboth could well be.... no.''

Lavender Daniels was three weeks short ''Fragility'' is set as the city of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright studentPortland, a bit too nerdy if truth be toldOregon, and suffered cautiously begins to emerge from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case itthe restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529431735|title=The Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It's contagiousFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. ItHe's not easy being d been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a black girl whose skin is 84% whitedecade. She The return has come about because he's had a crush on seventeenletter from his ex-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math wife, saying that she's ill and Reggie asked if she would tutor himhasn't long to live. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his house underwear and he raped hersent to a watery grave in the boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. In shock, she even allowed him Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to give her a lift home.?

|author=V CastroAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Haunting Glorious Race of AlejandraMagical Beasts|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=''This was Eli is a part of her past that had to stop busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with herhim, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. She would be Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the one to confront thisfamily. A few short years ago, Eli'' At some point during her life, Alejandra s parents were both lost herself. She feels 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 titular race, her own future, her own identitya globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible This has made the race anathema to all the pair – but Alejandrawhen a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, there Eli knows his only hope is a darkness threatening to consume her. More and more she is visited by a ghostdare to enter what he most hates, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wakethe sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=18033656170571382231

|authorisbn=Richard Kadrey178763681X|title=The Pale House DevilKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Ford and Neuland are Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really the want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way I thought of them through getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and impression that he'd be at the other is undeadschool to assist Paul, and so one of them kills the livingwho had a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the other kills the undeadproblems - are all his own. (Only not each other, obviously)The one thing he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. They're on a job in New York that goes badlyUnfortunately, and so they head out to he was the person who discovered the West coast to try to lay low for a while body and find some other work to keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill everyone knows that the 'something' police consider that appears person 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=1803363894the prime suspect.

|author=Helen CooperSarah Marsh|title=The Taming A Sign of the CatHer Own

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Once againAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, mice are pitched against catEllen Lark loses her hearing. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing Suddenly plunged into a connectionworld of silence, they live everything about her life changes. Living in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be time when the names use of cheeses. Anywaysign language was seen as something only savages do, Brie Ellen is sent to a school where she is shunnedtaught to lip read, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives withbut physically restrained from signing. They nibble From here, she ends up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alivehas been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. This makes Brie the top dog in At the mouse communitysame time, thoughBell is working on other inventions and ideas, as all the others had the chance to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distractedand Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=05713760101035401614

|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M1803816759|title=Super Short Stories: Flash FictionThe Unravelling|author=Mark C WallfischWill Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesScience Fiction|summary=It''Got s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a minute bit of adventure and to be amusedget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, entertainedmaking life easier for many, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super shortand riots start to spread. None is more than 300 wordsFinally, Joe gets to do some real policing. 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 In the aftermath of a fully rounded little story if that story the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try assigned to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collectionBritish superfan and tech nerd, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limitis also on the case. ThatWhat went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's about a single page in your average paperback.kidnapping connected?

|isbn=17328987661529421284|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonLaying Out the Bones|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Kate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're running for their lives It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in the Forest of Fine Reputea heatwave. Their greatest fear has come about: In a gully, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing thembody to be Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. He's right behind them, spewing hotd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please don't try this at home: so it woncould have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't end wellconvinced.) FortunatelyGeary was a townie, they so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the suicide of Holly Gilbert and to two other deaths which were nearly not considered suspicious at Nobby Lob-lolly - the time. Lockyer and when a ladder DC Gemma Broad of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook you and Granny Crannyme) investigate.

|isbn=14722639360571379559|title=The FigurineHouse of Broken Bricks|author=Victoria HislopFiona Williams

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. She was aloneTess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: her mothertemperamentally she might be happier there, Greek by birthbut instead, had left she lives in the family home and refused to returnhouse on the riverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, but Mary and Hamish (Helenait's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritagestood the passage of time, storms and floods. Her trip husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the family apartment delivery rounds - and to bring in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visitssufficient money. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary They have twin boys - Sonny and frightened - of her grandfatherMax, retired general Stamatis Papagiannisthe rainbow twins. He was proud of Sonny's colouring reflects his close connections to the Junta and expected mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate themfather. His prejudices included HelenaPeople don't believe that they're related, much less twins and there's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her fatheran assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's Scottish ancestorshis nanny.

|authorisbn=Cody Goodfellow1529425867|title=VerticalLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= ThereIn Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and father of Ryan, is not. He's something about tall buildings that just captures my imaginationnot any of those things. Who doesn He't love s white, originated from a good view from up hightrailer park, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere Ibarely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you'm intrigued re being introduced to get inside if a police procedural written for laughs. Well, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedproblematic.|isbn= 1803363991

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMosby Woods|title=Finding BearA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear IslandWest 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 best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war here, a lot further north than many people would venturepush for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, and finding there was a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship man with a polar bear – that she called Bearprecognition. Back home, things on Imagine the domestic and family front are strategic advantage in this asset; a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so man who can easily tell you what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would 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's OKvaluable, she and her father return to right? Perhaps the Arctic and hope that most valuable asset in a world of very white and very dangerous thingshistory. Imagine then, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continuethis man loses this ability.What would governments do to get it back?|isbn=0008582017B0C9SNG8R1