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|isbn=15420174320008551375|title=The Nidderdale MurdersWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=J R EllisNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot Leanne Wilson's body was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters found at the butts were bottom of a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was Scottish mountain, seemingly the owner result of the moor and a retired judgetragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. James Symonds Her friends were relieved as she was a local landowner and Henry Saunders just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was a bankerliving her best life now. He and Fraser Then it emerged that five other women had known each other since their school daysdied in similar circumstances in the last year. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyAll were experienced climbers, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponproperly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. Rawnsley had None of the 'what a gripe with Fraser: hestupid thing to do'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to payexplanations applied. Other people had reason to comment on FraserThey were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work fora killer on the loose.

|isbnauthor=0241433568Paul B Preciado|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Politics and Society|summary=''Itis never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''s 1930  Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and Megan autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in Spainwhich detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. ItRather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''s unbearably hot the epistemological and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest political crack we are living through, and then he wants to talk to Megan the tension between emancipatory forces and Henry about something seriousconservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. Only it never gets The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that far: which has catalysed this revolution, when Bunny doesndysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''t emerge after . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his siesta his guests find that hereaders to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.|isbn=1804271454

|isbnauthor=1526362759Samantha Harvey|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=What a relief! A book about moneyIn 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for children''Orbital'', with clear explanations a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of what it is, why it matters, how to acquire more a group of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extentastronauts aboard the International Space Station. You might want to go into business, be Through a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts''investor'') and there might be something you reallyorbital perspective, ''really'' want to buy. There's also the possibility of using Harvey invites readers to do good see our planet in the worlda wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=0008378363295967572X|title=One Perfect MorningPale Pieces|author=Pamela CraneG M Stevens|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=A husband Our unnamed narrator is about to have his throat cut in begin a train journey with his own bedcompanion Django. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later Where they're still going and what the best purpose of friendsthis journey is, is uncertain. When they first met they called themselves Django found the tickets ''on the Spicier Girls as a nod floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the famous girl band of past as the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin pair travel to the Homemaker station by coach and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have train is a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldsteam locomotive.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0008551324|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Time to catch you all up with some of my lockdown reading - IIt've been doing so much of it that I'm a bit late s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the party with actual reviewingpolice. Oops! And where better to start than with Neither side likes or has any respect for the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan? Archie other. But Davie Hardie is very down. Hestruggling in prison and he's lost prepared to tell the police where the body of a dear friend recentlymissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, in a tragic accidenthe promises, is someone big and Archie blames himself. He can't face school so it will be worth the police doing what he takes himself for a truanting wander around Londonwants. As he strolls across a footbridge, And what he sees a girl who wants is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suitsto be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. He watches Not much to ask, aghast. What is going onit?|isbn=B086LKBHD6 The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|author=Antony WoottenJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Season of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Vaim

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= Tannash ''All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and her brother Geb are waiting Eline, two of the protagonists caught in great excitement for its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't have been the hunting party led only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by their uncle Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to returnstart a new life on Orkney. They It're hoping for a feast s been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of mammoth meathis former partner. Geb longs for the day he can join Willow's also his uncle Gagba boss, and she ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the other warriors on body of a hunting party and take part popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in their deeds the aftermath of derring-doa storm, she can't resist getting involved. But their father, He'd been battered about the leader head with a Neolithic stone - one of the village, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is powera pair - which had been stolen from a museum.|isbn=1939269679

|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MayThea Lenarduzzi|title= Seven DevilsThe Tower|rating= 45|genre= Science Literary Fiction|summary= Eris is one of ''How unctuous are the foremost operatives fats of the Novantaeanother's life, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit how dizzying their sugars in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for yearsour bloodstream''. Clo In this compelling novel, an ace pilot for Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the Novantaeidentity of T, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effortprotagonist of this tale. Although sheJust as T's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris story is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as being told, the mission commences; aboard story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the ship are three defectors with daughter of a secret that could potentially cripple wealthy family in the Empire19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. ErisAnnie's brother Damoclesfate is, the runner-up heir to the Empireabove all, is plotting an enticing story to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien speciesT. It's is a race against time as the rebels move to put story which she consumes avariciously, both in a stop Damocles' plansquest for truth and knowledge, with millions and in service of lives hanging in the balance…myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=14732311401804271799

|author=Non PrattClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Freya was a beautifulEverything in this book, popular and complex girlhowever sweet or seemingly innocent, loved by many and seemingly stable is steeped in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend anguish and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months awaydistortion. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. SoEven a kiss, when her best friend Sophie receives usually a mysterious parcel from her 5 months aftersymbol of intimacy and closeness, she expects it to contain answers becomes evidence of some kind, but is surprised to find love lost. When the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete strangernarrator cries out internally, ''come over here and then another layer to another person and anotherkiss me, each containing '' it is less an item unique invitation than a desperate attempt to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through confirm her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it allemotional numbness. With each parcel, a new layer The imagined recipient of the story and of Freya this plea is unwrapped Xavier, her ex- and painful truths come partner, a ghost she conjures to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and oldtest her detachment. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=14063669431804271934

|isbn=178089922X0008405026|title=Invisible GirlA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Lisa JewellJane Casey

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'When you wear s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a hoodcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, youUna Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the same body. I're invisibleve never really wanted to think about this.''

Saffyre Maddox Ernaux's work is seventeen-years-old always very candid and beautiful. By her own admissiontone transparent, shebut this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A levelve read. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close Ernaux writes in direct address to her have died and she's now living with sister, however, this letter will never reach her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something Why? Because Annie Ernaux''reallys sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, really bad happened'' to her when she a few months before the vaccine was ten made compulsory in France, and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three 2 years Roan Fours before the author was her therapisteven born. He gently unpeeled The large and instant void created by the layers jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her psychelife, but somehow managed to miss an absence that 'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre she has always felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roanoften denied.|isbn=1804271845

|isbnauthor=1838951067Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersBiography|summary=When we Biographies are often seen as the 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 meet Jim Doylesection of this book, he's about Tolstoy complains to get a shock. Hehis friend Gorky that: 's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman who you write not of real life as it is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning , but of what you yourself imagine it to pay for itbe. Suddenly Whom would it drops help to the floor with the spine splayed upwards. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve Blackknow how I see this tower, is the title. Why is Jim shocked? Wellthat sea, Jim was or that Tartar - ''why should it interest anyone? Of what use isit?'' - the Nothing Man who. Well, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her motherMaxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, and then killed hergiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, her father Chekhov and her seven-year-old sister, AnnaAndreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977

|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds Reed1529077745|title=The Black KidsDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the backdrop body of a man in the 1992 Los Angeles riotspark near Rosebank, a reaction to the absolution of four police officers care home for beating a black troubled teens. The dead man, Rodney King, nearly was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to deathwork a shift the night before but who had never turned up. Told from D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the perspective disappearance of Ashley Bennettone of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritageJosh.|isbn=1471188191

|isbn=0751567426B0FK5LHKD9|title=The Wicked SisterColour of Memory|author=Karen DionneChristopher Bowden|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. SheIt's twenty-six and has been there for fifteen three yearssince we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, convinced that she accidentally killed her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took the gun and killed himself. Her sister, Diana, just twenty-years-old, was left so we were very glad to see a new novel arrive here at the family home, a lodge in the Upper Peninsula wildernessBookbag Towers. RachelLike all Bowden's very bright and although shestories, there's a voluntary patient mystery at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that heart of ''The Colour of Money''. We like this is what she deserves. Perhaps, though, the circumstances are not as she remembersrunning theme in an author's work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.

|isbnauthor=1506909442Olga Tokarczuk|title=House of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's the good of a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murdertitle of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -Mysterythe small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the shift from day to night, however quotidian, causing chaos. But, the constant in that image is the house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonDai Henley

|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, his daughter's defence against a murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'The greatest hatredordinary people do','' He's not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, like it's the greatest virtue and thought of the worst dogs, money he could make that convinces him that this is silenta miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=4.''5|genre=Dystopian Fiction|summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other!

The title of this enjoyable crime proceduralI do love it when I open a book, is from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidsonit's latest novel nothing like I expected it to be, and for whom it takes me on a wild ride. And that is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way just what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to the very last and carefully plotted pages ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all I'll have to at least set the way throughscene. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: itOnce that's honestdone, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.

|author=Rob BakerSally Rooney|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys Intermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction |summary=Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and Trials is something of Expat Life a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in AfricaDublin. Following their father's passing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1036916375|title=Just a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle

|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary=''"Go to MaliJust a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a sea-going family," they saidwith the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. "The music is amazing It's a book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories," they said. "And you get ten hours to think of sunshine every daysimpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years." So I did'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.''}}

{{Frontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Baker Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an ethnomusicologistaspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn''A what?'' I hear you cry. Wellt gone unnoticed by his headteacher, an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation to cultureMrs Howarth, so rather like a folklorist studies the oral and written story traditions relating she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a culturecouple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended. |isbn=B089CSNFT7

|authorisbn=James Patterson1009473085|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=Hawk has been waiting Sometimes 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 same street corner, every day, book for yearsyou. She is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was just tiny, and although sheIf that's almost certain that they are never coming back what you're looking for her, she continues to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isnI don't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingsthink Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, and can fly! be bettered for those tumultuous years. Since she was abandoned sheIt's been living with a group of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own compelling read and together theyshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. 've made their own family'The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, thereIt's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a mysterious childgovernment has made and co-killer who has been brought to editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the prison next door to where nation when the children livecoalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken awaythe situation in 2024. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004

|isbnauthor=1785765698Jenny Valentine|title=Shed No Tears|author=Caz FrearUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersElk and Mab are best friends, the man who would become known as 'the roommate killer'or more than that even, strangled three women their friendship is a once in a fortnightlifetime connection. When he was arrested he admitted They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the killingstime. A fourth death was attributed to him - that of Holly Kemp - and on occasions, Masters admitted to the killing, But then he denied it - then admitted itchance brings them back together, then denied itand they are inseparable. He played with the police Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings to put him away for a long time and the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp case. There was no body now they must work through their grief, and once Masters was murdered in prisontheir friendship, no hope of progressing the case furthertogether.|isbn=1471196585

|isbn=14736824011787333175|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Catriona McPhersonBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)Popular Science|summary=Those who were with us at the end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald I was engaged tempted to Mallory Dunnoch. Theyread ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay're now married and Mallory s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the charms workings of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry the NHS, humour and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilverautobiography. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and HughYou Don't Have to be Mad... Dandy '' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into work of a problem at the Cramond ferry when psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was offered acceptable to them twice before, be looking for humour in this setting but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house laughter is directed at Gilverton seems irresistiblea situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSMariana Enriquez|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceA Sunny Place for Shady People

|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left the school she loved in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever''Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, they have their established groups. Robin's going achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Wellurban planning mishap, over an overcrowded homeless shelter and a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York crime- he works for a securities firm ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerall within Argentina. That's easier said than done when you've been out The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the market place - and the country - for more than ten yearssupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230

|isbn=14087124151529934753|title=Cry BabyThe Protest|author=Mark BillinghamRob Rinder

|summary=ItFor a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's June 1996 and football's European Championships are about most famous living artist, was not going to start show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in Londonthe nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. DS Tom Thorne is having Being an influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a nightmare and it's one he has regularlyrecord of the protest. It relates to Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a case spray can of blue paint from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that under a man was guiltychair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, but didnwhilst shouting ''t take any action until Stop the manWar''s wife and three children had been murdered and the man had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Josh. Itseemed to be part of an ongoing series of 's a happy combination in that the boys are devoted to each other and blue- despite differences in the where and how they live - the women are best friendsface' attacks, but this was different. The boys are seven-year-old can had been laced with cyanide, and they play on the swings in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh Sir Max Bruce was the one doing the hiding - but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kierondead.

|isbnauthor=B08CHJLNBSAriel Saramandi|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke Adams|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=He's Charles Devereaux, thirty-eight and a partner at Wickham Jones, the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved Portrait of an Island on from new age books like that, which leave you dependent on someone else's philosophies, to something a little deeper. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''. They're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious to his friends. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by Charles's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? The relationship's obviously a non-starter, isn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1504321383|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa PatemanFire

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=''You can't be happy 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 fulfilled on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up slavery to believeexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. It wasn't unkind: it was simply Saramandi describes the adults in her life advising her country at one stage as to what they thought would be best for her. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''withoutrotting'' , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the expectation that they will marry malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and have childrengovernmental dysfunction. It was Each essay in this collection serves as a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616

|isbnauthor=1787301435Pekka Harju-Autti|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse

|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down It's the private road in Glen Turrit. It was eighteenth century, a long road through some breath-taking scenery time of discovery and she could push the car to Britain is expanding its limits without fear of being caught speedingforeign trade. When Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the blond child stepped out Andaman Islands in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel his endeavour. Along with his son, Peter, and hit their cat, Michi, they set off on a treeperilous voyage to these faraway lands. When she came round after The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the accident she couldnislanders't work out where she wasleader, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time agoAarav, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious is keen to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|author=Suzanne CollinsHelene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesLili is Crying

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Coriolanus Snow First published in 1953 in French, this novel is refined, charming, and one of a timeless text which wrenches the only surviving members hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the affluent Snow familypage and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. But their world was destroyed by Like the warlives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete. Their riches gone|isbn=1804271675}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintainedin a multitude of ways. As He is bullied because he has 'the 10th Hunger Games beginswrong shoes', Coriolanus he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and other students of the Academy become doesn't have enough money for even the first Mentors most basic of the tributes in the games. This is things like food, and his chance to prove himself to the world and secure dad can't work because he lost his place in job at the Capitol for good. But when he is assigned college, was working a tribute with no hope cash-in- hand job on a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her building site and for him) are gonehad an accident. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself to be a spark in Throw into that mix the fact that his worldmum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a way he could never have imaginedtiny amount of hope. As the Games commence He is good at art, Lucy Gray fights for her life in and clings to the arena - but behind the scenesmoments of joy when he is drawing, in that feel like a light at the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world end of the Capitola long, Coriolanus is fighting for his life toodark tunnel. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001791398527122

|author=Sakinu AhronglongSylvie Cathrall|title=Hunter SchoolA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyScience Fiction|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is There are few greater joys than a work of fiction. That's possibly misleading. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all book which lives up, or whether it is as the blurb goes on to say ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical stories''. It feels like the latter. It feels like the stories he tells about his experiences as a child, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and truecompelling premise. But memory And this is a fickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people shouldone of them.|isbn=19997912820356522776

|authorisbn=Kat Ellis1786482126|title=Harrow LakeThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When we first meet 17Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -yearthe site was going to hold seventy-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City five 'luxury' apartments - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentswhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. But when she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, There was no skull. Was this a trail of bloodritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and her father dying in his studyDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. And so It's difficult as Ruth knows, while he recoversbut Nelson doesn't, that she is sent off to live pregnant with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served his child as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales result of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lolaone night they spent together some three months ago. But with every passing hour Her condition will be obvious before long, secrets long buried come painfully not least because Ruth is prone to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakesudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=0241397049

|author= Helly ActonGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title= The ShelfAccidentals|rating= 4.5|genre= Women's FictionShort Stories|summary= When we meet Amy, she's This collection was truly enchanting in a relationship all senses of the word: spellbinding with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnershipits fantastical, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change himmagical elements and charming in its gentle portrayal of nature and human relationships. AhGuadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her stories structured by a wisdom that appears to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going want to get down on one knee? Was teach us something about the work (and the wait) worth it?world.|isbn=18387708791804271470