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|isbnauthor=1529379385Paul B Preciado|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyDysphoria Mundi

|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=In ''It is never too late to embrace the Canadian village revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, consisting of Three Pinesarias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, we're post-pandemic: and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the scars are still there but life new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is starting to get back to normalnot considered a sign of political apathy. The villagers are beginning to return Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the Bistro epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the Auberge. Theytension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi're visiting each other's homes and having friends and relatives to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves Covid-19 pandemic as that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to be around - emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a bit like Vincent Gilbertsign of weakness, known in the village or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as the Asshole Saintyour revolutionary platform''.|isbn=1804271454

|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRSamantha Harvey|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerOrbital

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=ItIn 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for 's 'Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the later stages lives of World War I and a group of astronauts aboard the United States has just entered the conflictInternational Space Station. Petrol Petronus is Through a young American who has signed up and joined narrative lens that mirrors the 17 Aero Squadron. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canadaastronauts' orbital perspective, the first Harvey invites readers to be attached to the RAF and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans see our planet in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camela wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=183885410X295967572X|title=The Dark RemainsPale Pieces|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinG M Stevens|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Bobby Carter was Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a lawyer train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and consigliere to one what the purpose of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowthis journey is, is uncertain. DC Jack Laidlaw is on Django found the CID team charged with the investigation. I say tickets ''on the teamfloor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but Laidlaw never really seems we are probably in the past as the pair travel to be a part of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way the station by coach and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubstrain is a steam locomotive.

|isbn=19424102550008551324|title=Tokyo Zangyo The Devil You Know (Detective HiroshiD S Max Craigie)|author=Michael PronkoNeil Lancaster

|summary=''Zangyo: overtime work, often unpaid'' It's unusual for anyone from the culture, isn't it? Hardie family to approach the police. The hours Neither side likes or has any respect for which you're paid are really just a statement of the minimum youother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'll be required to do: you'll work more hours s prepared to get tell the job done and done to police where the satisfaction body of bullies like Shigeru Onizukaa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. When This person, he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in promises, is someone big and it will be worth the way of regret or grief, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to whether he'd jumped from serve the roof remainder of the building or been assisted in his descentsentence and to get an early parole date. Gossip revolves around Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the fact other thing that he left the roof at the exact same spot Hardie demanded - make certain that an employee, Mayu Yamase, had committed suicide some three years earlierDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. She}}{{Frontpage|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was strange''d accused Onizuka ... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of bullying her otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and forcing her to work an unreasonable amount Eline, two of overtimethe protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829

|isbn=02414254251035043092|title=The Man Who Died TwiceKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Richard OsmanAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=Elizabeth Best I can't have been the only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a little surprised when she received the letternew life on Orkney. It came 's been seven years since we heard from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and who had never existed but then this is their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the sort daughter of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basishis former partner. When Willow's also his boss, and she visits the sender of the letter (he's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that itshould''s someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husband. He's made a bad mistake - something to do with a mask being removed within on maternity leave, but when the range body of a CCTV camera on a raidpopular islander, Archie Stout, is found, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds and the aftermath of a few death threatsstorm, she can't resist getting involved. He's now in hiding d been battered about the head with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressNeolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|author=Andrew SharpThea Lenarduzzi|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingTower|rating=45|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy to his employer - is''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in his mindour bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the head chef identity of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countryT, the protagonist of this tale. Mozzy Just as T's story is earnest and dedicated to his task and he puts all being told, the story of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris but his dream a second protagonist is to become unveiled: Annie, the head chef daughter of a restaurant wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in London or a big American citytower, captures T's imagination. Even Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to win a Michelin starT. He It is thwarted a story which she consumes avariciously, both in this ambition by his bossa quest for truth and knowledge, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval for his scruffy waysin service of myth, his uninterest in his guests fable and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the housefantasy. |isbn=B09926MK8H1804271799

|author=Alex FoulkesClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Rules for VampiresBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (Everything in this book, however sweet or 'Leo' for short) seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a Vampirekiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. She drinks blood, she sleeps during When the daynarrator cries out internally, ''come over here and she can Grimwalk (turning into kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a flock of bats desperate attempt to travel around, although not all confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Nowthis plea is Xavier, on the night of her hundredth birthnightex-partner, a ghost she has conjures to go out and hunt test her first humandetachment. However, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worse, |isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the ghosts of Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of the orphans summer night. She was never found and the evil master of the orphanage come back investigation ground to haunt a halt. Now, hermother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. So Initially, not only does Leo have to team up with it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost positioning of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerful, she has to do it all while hiding it from bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her familyboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Did I mention vampires What looked as though it was going to be an open-and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's a reason why there boss, Una Burt) are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955Xless convinced.

|author=Tori BovalinoAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Devil Makes ThreeOther Girl|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is 'We were born from the last thing Tess Matheson wants same body. I've never really wanted to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfthink about this. What makes it worse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school'' Ernaux's headmaster, work is always very candid and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large requesttone transparent, Tess sticks post-it notes on each but this raw epistolary text must be one of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. Theymost intimate accounts I're never meant to reach him, of courseve read. Her plan is Ernaux writes in direct address to get her anger out like sister, however, thisletter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and then take them all off 2 years before delivering themthe author was even born. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadnThe large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux't delivered them for s process of reckoning with this giant absence in herlife, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=17890981301804271845

|isbnauthor= B09BG8V3Q6|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (Everybody Potties!translator)|authortitle= Justine Avery Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Seema AmjadAndreyev|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingBiography|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is Biographies are often seen as the latest release in form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series you write not of fun picture books aims to take the pain out real life as it is, but of potty training children and replace what you yourself imagine it with some funto be. ItWhom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?'s '. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a worthy aimsubjective account, as any frustrated parent will tell you. giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977

|isbn=B098FFFBH91529077745|title=SnowcubThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Graham FulbrightAnn Cleeves

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel is her school's animal rights project leader and she and her friend are producing A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a competition entry to highlight the way man in which human beings exploit the animal worldpark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. She gets a great deal The dead man was Josh - one of support from her family: father Pip Harrison, the care workers who was due to work a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate and shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her twinonly clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, Nickfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Kate runs Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the family business, a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which death but Vera thinks this is where we'll meet Rachelunlikely as the girl's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toysdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|authorisbn= Angharad WalkerB0FK5LHKD9|title= The Ash HouseColour of Memory|author=Christopher Bowden|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= A It's been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a new boy arrives novel arrive here at The Ash HouseBookbag Towers. He doesnLike all Bowden't know his names stories, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him 's a mystery at the rules heart of ''The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety Colour of Nicenesses set out by the absent HeadmasterMoney''. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as We like this running theme in an author's work - take a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever mystery but give it different flavour and The Ash House will never be the same againatmosphere each time.|isbn=1912626977

|author=Yancey WilliamsOlga Tokarczuk|title=Crosshairs House of the DevilDay, House of Night|rating=4.5

|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski is getting ''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in years andit?'' The title of this spellbinding work, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter''House of Day, finds himself living - or imprisonedHouse of Night'', from Eddie's point somewhat reflects this notion of view shifting realities - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing homesmall, subtle changes which govern our lives, with only a trusty nursing aidelike the shift from day to night, Jenkinshowever quotidian, for palatable companycausing chaos. Nothing But, the constant in that image is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade of writing thoughthe house, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's workstoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=09860316581804271918}} {{Frontpage|authorisbn=Philip ReevehenleyA|title=Utterly Dark and the Face of the DeepUltimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a wordPrivate Investigator for some time now, richand he should be doing quite well financially. There is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a peculiar island called Wildseamurder charge drained his savings. His wife, British but way westLaura, beyond the Scillieshas been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. There are troll That's what 'ordinary people on itdo', and sea-witches, and legends '' He's not been entirely up front about the state of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sailsavings. The current Darks are the Watcher, Andrewe, who has When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in take his head to worry about such local yokel superstitionscase, and Andreweit's foundling daughter, who washed up out the thought of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world money he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of protecting their island, like it or notjustice that he really should put right.|isbn=1788452372

|authorisbn=Erling Kagge1836284683|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.5|genre= LifestyleDystopian Fiction|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved Well! This is a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorrymurder mystery unlike any other! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why).

Erligg Kagge is I do love it when I open a Norwegian explorer who has walked book, it's nothing like I expected it to the South Polebe, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows it takes me on a thing or two about walkingwild ride. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it And that is instead a thoughtful exploration of just what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no happened with ''The Big Happy'contents' page and . I havendon't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only want to ruin a few pages longsimilar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the scene. Perhaps thenOnce that's done, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essayI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn=0241357705

|author=Ian Mark and Louis GhibaultSally Rooney|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersIntermezzo

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction |summary=Meet JackSally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble Her dialogue is gripping and quickso brilliantly frustrating, for he's a slight boyas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, and although he wants the central one for danger readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightPeter Koubek. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monstersIvan, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily thena socially awkward chess prodigy, depending on your point of viewcontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, passing after a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunterlong battle with cancer, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginnersbrothers''..already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=07555019420571365469

|authorisbn=Keith Gray1036916375|title=The ClimbersJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle

|summary=Sully Will is the best tree climber in the village. He has what's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kidkeen player of video games, called Nottinghama conscientious student, who clambers up some a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully all, he is worried that an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his status is being threatenedschool, Marlowe Park, and not only thatone at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that his chance to name the finalhe spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, unnamed big tree in the park by being the first to conquer itStation Road, where his ability might be snatched from his handsbetter extended. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991

|authorisbn=Emma Carroll1009473085|title=The Week at World's EndConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=FirstSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the titlebook for you. We If that's what you're in Worldlooking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's End Closebook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the roadpolitics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. But we could also be at World It's End, because something taking the seventh book in a great chunk of series which looks at the fun away is impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offmost important. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce This book follows the risk well-established format: a series of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make experts from various fields review the news. That said, Vie has news state of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, the nation when the coalition took over in no short time2010, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind changes that occurred and the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risksituation in 2024. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonJenny Valentine|title=Julia Us in the Before and the SharkAfter|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=JuliaElk and Mab are best friends, our pre-teen heroineor more than that even, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home friendship is a once in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the Scottish islandstime. Here be VikingsBut then chance brings them back together, that kind of Scottish islandand they are inseparable. Dad is going to be automating the lantern Something has happened though, which is his specialist thingsomething terrible and tragic, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Juliaand now they must work through their grief, welland their friendship, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nighttogether.|isbn=15101077891471196585

|authorisbn=Freya Sampson1787333175|title=The Last LibraryYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=I am always a little nervous was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to start a story about a libraryHurt}}, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at glorious mixture of insight into the thought workings of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bunNHS, humour and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didnautobiography. ''You Don't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used Have to be a librarian at Mad...'' promised the village library, same elements but when she got sick, June gave up on going moved from physical problems to University mental illness and stayed at home to take care the work of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she laughter is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, directed at a situation rather than a person and still reading her mum's old books. June it is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the changealways delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=183877369X

|isbnauthor=0008370982Mariana Enriquez|title=Rock Paper Scissors|author=Alice FeeneyA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=Amelia Wright Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isn't so keen paranormal plots on the idea. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under straingritty realities: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy her settings include an abandoned field full of making it clear disused refrigerators due to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with heran urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogs, many The circumstances of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in characters are so plausible that the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a couple of days latersimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230

|authorisbn=Doug Johnstone1529934753|title=The Great SilenceProtest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=For those whoa little while, like meit looked as though Sir Max Bruce, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of whocountry's who – although Johnstone does a good job most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of bringing his retrospective at the backstory Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in without being heavy handed about itthe nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature Being an influencer, though it sounds as though it ought you tend to bedo things like that, but it is merely the surname of was fortunate that there was a family record of undertakersthe protest. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is Lexi Williams, an intern at the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctRA, she married grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a scot chair and ended up helping proceeded to run spray Bruce in the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in face, whilst shouting ''Stop the family for generationsWar''. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisonerbut this was different. And grand-daughter is about to graduate The can had been laced with a first-class physics degree cyanide, and join the academic staff next termSir Max Bruce was dead.|isbn=1913193837

|isbnauthor=1901514978Ariel Saramandi|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=General FictionPolitics and Society|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and he canslavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting't really understand why. He's always done everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and father - and a father who was always there blunt yet apt metaphor for school plays the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and sports daysgovernmental dysfunction. So why is he never quite Each essay in tune with those around him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such this collection serves as a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on kind of diagnostic, charting the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all various diseases afflicting the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismisland state.|isbn=1804271616

|author=Louise CandlishPekka Harju-Autti|title=The HeightsLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. SheIt's on sitethe eighteenth century, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the waytime of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. There are lots of thingsCaptain Julius Hawthorne, lots of peoplean experienced Scottish sea captain, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or is sent to the Andaman Islands in fact any other dayhis endeavour. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsAlong with his son, Peter, and Ellen knows this for a facttheir cat, Michi, because she had they set off on a hand perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in his murdertheir scenery and the islanders' leader, Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=1471183483B0DS1VGHH3

|isbnauthor=0008421714Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoLili is Crying

|summary=The problem began just after First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the publication hearts of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the breadand positions them elsewhere, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johannadisjointed, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''truncated. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for Like the fact that Johanna is the whore lives of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unlovedher characters, unloveable wretchthey are often left tragically incomplete.''|isbn=1804271675

|author=John BoyneTom Percival|title=The Echo ChamberWrong Shoes

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet George CleverleyWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is self-defined as "one of bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the few television personalities over wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the age most basic of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when things like food, and his mistress tells him shedad can's carrying his child, but then t work because he lost his author wife is getting her kicks with job at the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three childrencollege, who are was working a sadcash-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, in-hand job on a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingbuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the worldand Will's homeless with out-of-date foodlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, and he still has a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingtiny amount of hope. Add in a few other characters – therapists He is good at art, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections and clings to his lifethe moments of joy when he is drawing, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to feel like a light at the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even moreend of a long, however, is the fact this is bloody funnydark tunnel.|isbn=08575262191398527122

|isbnauthor=0241989094Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=In August 2018 we meet There are few greater joys than a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing book which lives up to a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclaycompelling premise. The boys are a bit And this is one of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them. It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1786482126|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the impossible and unpicked the lock site was going to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has hold seventy-five 'luxury'grop'' to think aboutapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But before that Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, soireesDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez It's amusementdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't even know what , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one of those night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is. But he manages prone to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume sudden bouts of this seriessickness. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbnauthor=B07GZ81J7CGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter CottonThe Accidentals

|genre=For SharingShort Stories|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become This collection was truly enchanting in all too obvious very quickly. But I'm getting ahead senses of myselfthe word: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred is a snake spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and even those charming in its gentle portrayal of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himnature and human relationships. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and immediately became part of the familyprecisely, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for her stories structured by a walk. And wisdom that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.}}{{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn't, as any parent will tell you. But really, why shouldn't it be? We all have appears to learn about our bodily functions just as we have want to learn teach us something about everything else when we are smallthe world. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHH1804271470

|isbn=17876344930008551375|title=All Her FaultWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Andrea MaraNeil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It had seemed like one Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of those serendipitous events which sometimes happena tragic accident. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her sonShe'd looked so happy, Milotoo, to go when she posted her intentions on a play dateFacebook. She Her friends were relieved as she was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in just out of an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Onlyunpleasant relationship, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number but it looked like she'd been given for Jenny was not recognisedliving her best life now. Milo Then it emerged that five other women had disappeareddied in similar circumstances in the last year. And so had Jenny's nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thrillerAll were experienced climbers, with as many double crosses, interrogations properly equipped for what they were doing and night time escapes as Le Carre or Flemingsensible people. However, as with None of the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of what a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced stupid thing to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (readdo' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There DS Max Craigie is certain there's a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, killer on the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthloose.|isbn=0356514757