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|isbn=178763681X0241636604|title=Knife Skills for BeginnersThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Orlando MurrinGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at If you were to bring up an image of a residential cookery school city banker in Belgravia. He didnyour mind, you't really want re unlikely to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way think of getting both men and women to do what he wantedsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Paul ''somehow'' got A hoodie and jeans replaces the impression that he'd be at pin-stripe suit and his background is the school to assist PaulEast End, who had a broken armwhere he was familiar with violence, but it didn't turn out that waypoverty and injustice. The teaching There was no posh public school on his CV - and but he had been to the problems - are all his ownLondon School of Economics. The one thing Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he hadn't expected was for someone to turn up deadhas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that the police consider He also realised that person most rich people expect poor people to be the prime suspectstupid. It 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.

|authorisbn=Sarah Marsh1035021803|title=A Sign of Her OwnThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=After a bout It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of scarlet fever as a childrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Ellen Lark loses her hearingCarole. Suddenly plunged into a world of silenceFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, everything about her life changesto say the least. Living in a time when Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the use of sign language was seen as something only savages dovillage: Arthur, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip readfeels, but physically restrained from signinglet her down badly. From hereEven though they were in business together as antique hunters, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching not felt able to be near the man or pursue the deaf and using a system called Visible Speechprofession she loved. At After the same timesplit, Bell is working she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on other inventions the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and ideas, Freya and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionageJames have now divorced.|isbn=1035401614

|isbn=1803816759AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The UnravellingAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Will GibsonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45

|summary=It's 2038 and Joe 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a bored cop policing 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 wealthy and peaceful New York Cityfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Joe longs for a bit Some of adventure it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and to get stuck into some the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really gritty crime detectionunderstanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3. But then something goes horribly wrong with 5|genre=Thrillers |summary=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 AI system that now runs everythingterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, making life easier for manythere is Sam, a wartime photographer and riots start Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to spread. Finally, Joe gets try to do some real policing. In care remotely for the aftermath of residents who are still alive in the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Joe is assigned keeps on venturing out of her room to try to bring capture what's happened through her homephotography. Joe isn't Although they only ever talk over the only one trying phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan help her keep safe and tech nerd, is also on they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the caseterrorists. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=15294212841529153298|title=Laying Out the BonesThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Kate WebbJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. In a gully(A woman? I mean, a human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be Lee Gearyhonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, who had disappeared nine years earlierthough. Women have been disappearing. HeWell, they'd ve been a known drug user and had learning disabilitiesmurdered, so it could but to have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn'disappeared' doesn't convincedsound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Geary was When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a towniefrightening, foreign place, so what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? best avoided. There are connections to For Miv, the suicide of Holly Gilbert move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the timeprevent that. Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of She's not worried about the Major Crimes Review Unit (dangers or thather Mum's cold cases stopped talking - to you and me) investigateanyone.

|isbn=05713795591398524085|title=The House of Broken BricksHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Fiona WilliamsNicci French

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four people. Tess HembryCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, fiftieth birthday party but instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of broken bricksnever turned up. Insubstantial as it might lookHer children, it's stood the passage of timesons Niall, storms Paul and floodsOllie and her daughter, Etty. Her are all worried but - strangely - her husband, RichardAlec, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient moneyis not. They have twin boys - Sonny Shortly afterwards, Etty and MaxGreg, find the rainbow twins. Sonnybody of Greg's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. People donIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't believe that they're related, much less twins and stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's an assumption when Max is out little else they can do but get on with his mother that she's his nannytheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15294258671035906708|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)Diva|author=Simon MasonDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=In OxfordWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of Nigerian descentNew York, Balliol educated in December 1923 and always exquisitely dressedonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. D I Ryan Wilkins, son of Ryan and Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father of Ryan, is not. Hechanged it to 'Callas's not any of those thingsto make it more manageable in the States. He's white, originated from 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 trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) mother who mercilessly exploited her and his wardrobe consists mainly made no secret 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 her preference for laughs. Wellher elder sister, you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematicJackie.

|author=Mosby WoodsChristopher Edge|title=A Whirly Man Loses His TurnBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The West isnBlack Hole't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how All big movie fans, they're looking forward to mend this or even if mending it is lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the best course of action. Governments are flailing. A war heremovie starts, a push for climate action there. A feeling they very quickly realise that nobody something about this new film format is in actual charge. Imagine thenvery different, there was a man with precognitionand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Imagine But as they lurch from one film genre to the strategic advantage in this asset; a man who next, can tell you they figure out what will happen given any set of circumstances. That man would be valuable, righton earth is going on? Perhaps Will they ever get back to the most valuable asset in history. Imagine thencinema, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do and to get it backtheir real lives?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R11839942738

|author=Alastair HumphreysRachel Greenlaw|title=LocalCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Travel Teens|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked and cycled all over ''I can hear the song of the worldsea. And then written about itThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. For this book he walked '' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and cycled very close plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to home survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and then wrote about itany treasure that lies within. As he says in his introductionBut when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the book is an attempt island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to share what I have learnt about some big issues save him from death, Mira makes a year exploring bargain with a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and accesswith only coordinates to guide her, agricultureshe sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the food system, rewilding…'' One watched streets of foreign islands to the joys heart 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 wrongsmuggler's territory, that every upside is likely Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to have a downside for somebody save the future of her home and that there are some hard choices aheadthe ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17856336780008664730

|isbnauthor=1805141872James Sherwood Metts|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too Much|author=Rob KeeleyPlanet Storyland

|summary=''Seventeen banks and a jeweller’s Things have been raideda bit sticky for the Earthlings. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows the truth – his Maths teacher, Miss Judson, is really a safecracker! With police AI and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trailautomation have been proceeding apace, Miss Judson often replacing jobs they're paid to do and Ben go on the runother tasks that took time to accomplish. But Al needs them for one last job...'' Goodness me, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage Just as they were beginning to get mixed up with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find out. Luckily for Miss Judson, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of a famous magician who has ambitions used to be as good as his father some day, all this technological change and who thinks Miss Judson is worth saving}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0760381267|title=Verdura: Living a Garden Life|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-Santiago|rating=3.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The most important part starting to think of a garden is the one who enjoys it''. I've 'gardened' in a vagueother, new ways to spend time, indefinite sort of way for more than half a centuryalong came an awful pandemic. I know (most of) the basics but life has changed Life was pretty much shut down and I needed 'projects' rather than a general commitment to gardening. ''Verdura'' , along with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like it, all the answermany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. So, how did it stack up?|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=B0CP95J1CGMatthew Tree|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark LinganeWe'll Never Know

|genre=Science Literary Fiction|summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to go to the party but be different from his interest is piqued by the way it arrived. And it seems like father, a good opportunity to get out drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his room artistic passions all failed miserably and away from the online activities he makes a living atwho had endless crises of self confidence. So he makes Tim applied himself to his way therestudies, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and watching the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefullyset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1454955546A G Slatter|title=Sugarless|author=Nicole M AvenaThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=LifestyleFantasy|summary=''This isnThere't s a diet bookpart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. The This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last thing anyone needs is another diet book. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''

There was Within a timeremote mountain pass, not that long agofar away from the world, when it was thought that sugary food was better 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 you than food with highmagic, Ellie Briar is the first non-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going witch to elevate your cholesterol be born into her family for generations and cause heart disease. Sugar as such since she was young, her training as a carbohydratesteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, so good. ThereEllie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's a problemleader, thoughand Ellie takes her place beside her. Sugar is addictive As challenges come her way left, right and can hijack your brain in much centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the same way heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? WellBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, it isn'tis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=15211298861529900360|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)The Ghost Orchid|author=Keith RedfernJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Greg MasonIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's just beginning fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to get ask for his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargeshelp on difficult cases. ItHis assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn's t need the help of a good job too because Greg and Joyce will soon have psychologist only worked for a baby and theywhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware're both delighteds partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Joyce will be more delighted about She knew that the involvement was something that the baby when man she gets past loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the morning sicknessswimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. Greg He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is approached by married to an old friend whose brother-in-law appears to have killed himselfextremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. StuartHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn's concerned about t want to follow in his sisterfootsteps, Lucy, whoparticularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's struggling to make ends meet life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and her son is not thrivingwas convinced this was the job for him. LucyBefore long, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - it simply wasnwas at Liverpool University. It hadn't in - as with so many students - been his naturedream since he was a child. The police and the coroner have accepted that the death was suicide If anything, but Stuarthe's prepared d wanted to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil diedbe a professional footballer.

|isbn=B0CK3MYJ560861541774|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Ann MacarthurSteve Burrows

|summary=ItDCI Domenic Jejeune's the 1990s close friend and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an oldally, Guy Trueman. He used to have Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a highknife -flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so and he's now set himself up as killed a private investigatorGhurka. 'Shades Initially, he faced a charge of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, manslaughter but where's the life experience evidence came to light that suggested that backs up this profession? On the other hand, he has been asked might have planned to look into somethingmurder the man. Joyce and Helen are half-sisters, or rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossingNow he could be facing the death penalty. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - Domenic Jejeune can't understand what she was doing there - or how she do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could come to fall in front of provoke a train. Gregdiplomatic incident and wouldn's been asked to investigatet help Danny at all.

|author=Katherine HoweAlexander McCall Smith|title=A True AccountThe Perfect Passion Company

|summary=Hannah Masury The Perfect Passion Company is living a dating agency in BostonEdinburgh, having been sent to live with a family who run by Ness and operating as an inn, and being made alternative to work there from all the online apps in providing a young agemore personal, tailored service. When Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she hears there could come and look after the business, as Ness is planning to be take a hanging of some pirates in the town, she decides trip to Canada to go and watchget away for a while. Enthralled Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death so jumps at the hands of two vicious pirateschance to come home to Edinburgh. She hides away, And so that they don't find and kill her toobegins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, and then bringing us to escape them completely she runs away an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to sea, dressing as a boy 44 Scotland Street and joining the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boyIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. She soon finds herself Katie has no experience in the thick of things when there is running a mutiny on boardbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and from there we are caught up in 's always her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=08615474381846976596

|authorisbn=Tananarive Due0811771741|title=The ReformatoryInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary= Gracetown, FloridaMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year Some will be quick knits -old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at others are of the Gracetown School for Boys'long, otherwise known as cosy afternoons in front of the Reformatoryfire' variety. It The projects are divided by the time they's a place with a brutal ll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and dark reputationmore than twenty hours. But All the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrorsprojects are attractive, haunted by the boys modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations..me being picky.|isbn=1803366532}}

|isbnauthor=1471180158Dean Koontz|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny ParkesThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for Benny is having a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brickterrifically bad day. Jamie's sonHe loses his job, Bohe loses his fiancee, 'has and his problems'house gets trashed. HeOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's asthmatic and possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the more you readthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrumvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's He is a frequent flier in the local nice person. A&E and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to schoolreally nice person. Missed shifts or So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the need delivery to be away on time his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to pick Bo up help him since Benny is clearly under attack from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrongnefarious forces for being a good person. It was Spike is going to come to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a headwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Harry AllenAdam Stower|title=Children of the SunMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers |summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she Murray is supposed to be a talented singer. Life is hard humble, tidy and food friendly cat, one who is difficult able to come bysleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so Seo his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every eveningthe catflap they both use can chuck them out, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement not into the meagre rations regular back garden, but into a world of rice frightening adventure and kimchi at homewhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=18051404930008561249

|authorisbn=Edel RodriguezB0C47LV1PC|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyFragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Graphic NovelsLiterary Fiction|summary=WeCan you make a ''Yo birthing person're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happenedjoke? And if you could, and Castrois the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, first thought of as a saviour of would it land? The catch is that the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field answer for allboth could well be.... Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time awayno. Our narrator ''Fragility's family weren't in is set as the happiest city of places here, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and watchedPortland, and not liked for his successful photography businessOregon, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party cautiously begins to ease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains emerge from the kind of heat forcing you out of restrictions imposed during the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720covid pandemic

|author=K P O'Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her 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 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 herself. 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=B0CKRYFRZM}}{{Frontpage|isbn=18389544811529431735|title=The MisperWinter Visitor|author=Kate LondonJames Henry

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereIt's no doubt about thatFebruary 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the more surprising. He was 'd been exiled on the fifteenCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-year-old holding the gun wife, saying that she's ill and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawhasn't long to live. He pulled the trigger but due It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder his underwear and sent to a watery grave in the manslaughter boot of the officera stolen Ford Sierra. And so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and hoping for Is it a quieter life in the countryside but when warning from a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into Spanish gang or a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.problem closer to home?

|isbnauthor=1035025299Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Nina Stibbe Eli is returning to London a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsgeneration missing in the family. SheA few short years ago, Eli's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive parents were both lost to writingthe titular race, as there's always something smallholding happening a globe- as you might expecttrotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. The other side of This has made the race anathema to the decision was sealed pair – but when a room became available (courtesy bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of Deborah Moggach) magic at a very reasonable rentthe end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231

|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL178763681X|title=Radio Free OlympiaKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Jeffrey DunnOrlando Murrin

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Petr is an orphanChef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. Rescued by He didn't 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 strangeimpression that he'd be at the school to assist Paul, reclusive Bearwho had a broken arm, he is brought up far from bustling cities but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and busy human society, in the forests of Washingtonproblems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn's Olympic Peninsulat expected was for someone to turn up dead. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human companyUnfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through everyone knows that the forest, broadcasting police consider that person to be the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encountersprime suspect.

|isbnauthor=1635866243Sarah Marsh|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth A Sign of Her Own|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on After a bout of scarlet fever as a page wasn't enoughchild, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Creating a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required Suddenly plunged into a great deal world of trial and errorsilence, patience, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good moneyeverything about her life changes. The first line of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with Living in a refund time when the seller refused use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she couldn't afford the repaymentis taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signing. The pattern looked prettyFrom here, but she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the creator didn't have the basic knowledge deaf and skills to enable her to connect with her knittersusing a system called Visible Speech. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=1035401614

|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies1803816759|title=Oscar's LionThe Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or father, but mother It's 2038 and Joe is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple bored cop policing the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of times before he has adventure and to be ready for schoolget stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But when he enters his parents' bedroomthen something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepishmaking life easier for many, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two daysriots start to spread. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar aftermath of the other month. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to school and it can get him out of a problembring her home. And itJoe isn's wonderful t the only one trying to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intakesave Suki - Dylan, being much more lax about the rulesa British superfan and tech nerd, and so is also onthe case. OK, What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it canhacked? And how is Suki't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751s kidnapping connected?

|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR1529421284|title=Good Girls DieLaying Out the Bones|author=Ayura AyiraKate Webb

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels It was three weeks short one of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happenedthose flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in a heatwave. She was In a very bright studentgully, a bit too nerdy if truth human skeleton came to the surface and forensic testing proved the body to be toldLee Geary, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagiouswho had disappeared nine years earlier. ItHe's not easy being d been a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson simple case of misadventure but never thought he would notice herDI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. Then he did: Lavender Geary was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring a townie, so what was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? She went There are connections to his house the suicide of Holly Gilbert and he raped herto two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the time. In shock, she even allowed him Lockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to give her a lift homeyou and me) investigate.

|authorisbn=V Castro0571379559|title=The Haunting House of AlejandraBroken Bricks|author=Fiona Williams|rating=3.5|genre=HorrorLiterary Fiction|summary=''This was a part The House of her past that had to stop with herBroken Bricks'' is the story of four people. She would Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but instead, she lives in the house on the one to confront thisriverbank, built of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, it'' At some point during her lifes stood the passage of time, Alejandra lost herselfstorms and floods. She feels as if she is playing parts for others in her life – her Her husband , Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds - and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desiresbring in sufficient money. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, her own future, her own identitythe rainbow twins. Sonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing People don't believe that there is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandrathey're related, much less twins and there 's an assumption when Max is a darkness threatening to consume her. More and more out with his mother that she is visited by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wake's his nanny.|isbn=1803365617

|authorisbn=Richard Kadrey1529425867|title=The Pale House DevilLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Ford and Neuland In Oxford, there are a couple two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is ofNigerian descent, well, guys for hire Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I guessRyan Wilkins, though really the way I thought son of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One Ryan and father of them is living, you seeRyan, and the other is undead, and so one not. He's not any of them kills the living, and the other kills the undeadthose things. He's white, originated from a trailer park, barely educated (Only reading's not each other, obviously''really'' his thing)and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're on a job usually in New York that goes badly, 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 goinglime green or acid yellow. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the You might wonder if you'something' that appears re being introduced to be haunting a wealthy gentlemanpolice procedural written for laughs. Well, you's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot re not. The two men are just different sides of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that theythe same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894s problematic.

|author=Helen CooperMosby Woods|title=The Taming of the CatA Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against catThe West isn't the dominant force it once was. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case you're seeing a connection, they live Nobody in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem West is quite sure how to be mend this or even if mending it is the names best course of cheesesaction. Governments are flailing. AnywayA war here, Brie a push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is shunnedin actual charge. Imagine then, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives there was a man withprecognition. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on Imagine the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come strategic advantage in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable this asset; a man who had had to can tell stories to keep themselves aliveyou what will happen given any set of circumstances. This makes Brie That man would be valuable, right? Perhaps the top dog most valuable asset in the mouse communityhistory. Imagine then, though, as all the others had the chance that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel get it needs when that cheese runs outback?|isbn=0571376010B0C9SNG8R1