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|isbn=17765728580008551375|title=How Do You Make When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a Baby?tragic accident. She'd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a stupid thing to do' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the loose.}}{{Frontpage|author=Anna Fiske Paul B Preciado|title=Dysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Don Bartlett (translator)Society|summary=''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn=1804271454}}{{Frontpage|author=Samantha Harvey|title=Orbital|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital'', a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of a group of astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933}}{{Frontpage|isbn=295967572X|title=Pale Pieces|author=G M Stevens

|genre=Home and FamilyLiterary Fiction|summary=ItOur unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed re going and told me that she'd get me a book about itwhat the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than Django found the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) and I was told that it wouldntickets 't be discussed any further as it ''wasn't something which nice people talked abouton the floor somewhere''and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. I ''knew'' more, Why not? Not much else is clear either - but was little ''wiser''. Thankfully, times have changedwe are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.

|isbn=15420174320008551324|title=The Nidderdale MurdersDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=J R EllisNeil Lancaster|rating=34.5

|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when 's unusual for anyone from the shoot was held on Hardie family to approach the grouse moor near Niddersgillpolice. The shooters at Neither side likes or has any respect for the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to his friends) was tell the police where the owner body of the moor and a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner missing person is buried and Henry Saunders who was a bankerresponsible for her death. He This person, he promises, is someone big and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: And what he'd sold him wants is to be transferred to an expensive car open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and Fraser was being slow to payget an early parole date. Other people had reason Not much to comment on Fraserask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's attitude even prepared to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and very difficult to work foranyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbnauthor=0241433568Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiVaim|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: heAll was strange''s going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else . This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a fictional fishing village in the houseNorway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, so one two of them must be the killerprotagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829

|isbn=15263627591035043092|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give ItThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeAnn Cleeves

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=What 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 relief! new life on Orkney. A book about moneyIt's been seven years since we heard from him, for childrenbut he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, with clear explanations of what it isJames, why it mattersas well as Cassie, how to acquire more the daughter of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed to get hold of ithis former partner. Your reasons for wanting money donWillow't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into businesss also his boss, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an and she ''investorshould'') and there might be something you reallyon maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the aftermath of a storm, she can''really'' want to buyt resist getting involved. There He's also d been battered about the possibility head with a Neolithic stone - one of using to do good in the worlda pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor=0008378363Thea Lenarduzzi|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneThe Tower|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty yearsour bloodstream''.

MackenzieIn this compelling novel, Robin and Lily met when they all went to Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the same college in Monroevilleidentity of T, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best protagonist of friendsthis tale. When they first met they called themselves Just as T's story is being told, the Spicier Girls as story of a nod to second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the famous girl band daughter of a wealthy family in the day19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Lily would be Adventure SpiceAnnie's fate is, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - wellabove all, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifean enticing story to T. She married OwenIt is a story which she consumes avariciously, her college sweetheart both in a quest for truth and they have a daughterknowledge, Ariaand in service of myth, who's now fifteen-year-oldfable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799

|author=Darren ShanClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Time Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, becomes evidence of love lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to catch you all up with some confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of my lockdown reading this plea is Xavier, her ex- Ipartner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn=1804271934}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the 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 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've been doing so much 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 complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una 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'm a bit late ve never really wanted to the party with actual reviewingthink about this. Oops! And where better to start than with the new series from Bookbag favourite, Darren Shan?''

Archie Ernaux's work is always very downcandid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. HeErnaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's lost sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a dear friend recently, few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in a tragic accidentFrance, and Archie blames himself2 years before the author was even born. He canThe large and instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux't face school so he takes himself for a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridge, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men s process of reckoning with this giant absence in white suits. He watchesher life, aghastan absence that she has always felt but often denied. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD61804271845

|author=Antony WoottenMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Season Reminiscences of the Mammoth (BigShorts)Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb Biographies are waiting in great excitement for often seen as the hunting party led by their uncle to returnform of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and less personal. They're hoping for I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a feast vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of mammoth meathis literary contemporaries. Geb longs for In the day he can join first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his uncle Gagba and the other warriors on a hunting party and take part in their deeds friend Gorky that: ''you write not of derring-do. But their fatherreal life as it is, the leader but of the villagewhat you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, thinks that they also need an education; sea, or that knowledge Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is powerit?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=19392696791804271977

|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May1529077745|title= Seven DevilsThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eris is one of A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the foremost operatives body of a man in the Novantaepark near Rosebank, a resistance movement fighting against care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she care workers who was destined due to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack work a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to shift the war effortnight before but who had never turned up. Although she's less than pleased D I Vera Stanhope is called in to discover that investigate the murder - but her former friend Eris only clue is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard disappearance of one of the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damoclesresidents, the runnerfourteen-year-up heir to old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the Empire, death but Vera thinks this is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and unlikely as the last of the free alien species. Itgirl's a race against time as the rebels move diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140Josh.

|authorisbn=Non PrattB0FK5LHKD9|title=Every Little Piece The Colour of My HeartMemory|author=Christopher Bowden

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Freya was It's been three years since we last reviewed a beautifulbook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as so we were very glad to see a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months awaynew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. But one dayLike all Bowden's stories, 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. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to there's a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and at the promise heart of 'treasure' at the end The Colour of it allMoney''. With each parcel, We like this running theme in an author's work - take a new layer of the story mystery but give it different flavour and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and oldatmosphere each time. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943

|isbnauthor=178089922XOlga Tokarczuk|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellHouse of Day, House of Night

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=''When you wear What's the good of a hood, you're invisible.world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?''

Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admissionThe title of this spellbinding work, she's a bit 'House of a boffinDay, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and sheHouse of Night's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something ''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she selfsomewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities -harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psychesmall, subtle changes which govern our lives, but somehow managed like the shift from day to miss that 'something reallynight, however quotidian, really bad'causing chaos. When But, the constant in that image is the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrifthouse, but she retained an interest in Roanstoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838951067henleyA|title=The Nothing ManUltimate Obsession|author=Catherine Ryan HowardDai Henley|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet Jim DoyleEx-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he's about to get a shockshould be doing quite well financially. HeUnfortunately, his daughter's security at defence against a supermarket and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciouslymurder charge drained his savings. She His wife, Laura, has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning been trying to pay for it. Suddenly it drops persuade him to the floor with the spine splayed upwardsretire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. That's what 'ordinary people do','Nothing Man' He' by Eve Black, is s not been entirely up front about the titlestate of their savings. Why is Jim shocked? WellWhen Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, Jim was - it''is'' - s the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author thought of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annamoney he could make that convinces him that this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.

|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds Reed1836284683|title=The Black KidsBig Happy|author=David Chadwick

|genre=Teens Dystopian Fiction|summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel Well! This is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a black manbook, Rodney King, nearly it's nothing like I expected it to death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennettbe, the novel follows her evolution from and it takes me on a silent bystander when confronted wild ride. And that is just what happened with matters ''The Big Happy''. I don't want to ruin a similar experience for any of raceyou reading but I'll have to at least set the scene. Once that's done, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritageI think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn=1471188191

|isbnauthor=0751567426Sally Rooney|title=The Wicked Sister|author=Karen DionneIntermezzo

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary=When we first meet Rachel Cunningham she's an inpatient Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at the Newberry Regional Mental Health Center in Michigan's Upper Peninsulaputting it into words. She's twenty-six Her dialogue is gripping and has been there for fifteen yearsso brilliantly frustrating, convinced that she accidentally killed as her mother when she was eleven-years-old and that her father then took 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 gun fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and killed himselfPeter Koubek. Her sisterIvan, Dianaa socially awkward chess prodigy, just twenty-years-old, was left at the family homecontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a lodge successful lawyer living in the Upper Peninsula wildernessDublin. Rachel's very bright and although sheFollowing their father's passing after a voluntary patient at the Mental Health Center she remains there, feeling that this is what she deserves. Perhaps, thoughlong battle with cancer, the circumstances are not as she remembersbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|isbn=15069094421036916375|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonPeter McArdle

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=''The greatest hatred, like Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the greatest virtue years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the worst dogsfamily history of a sea-going family, is silentwith the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, to think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. I'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 title Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob 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 this enjoyable crime proceduralall, he is from German romantic an aspiring writer Jean Paul. But who are the worst dogs in de Lacey DavidsonEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn's latest novel t gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way she has suggested to the very last Will and carefully plotted pages but you will his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way through. It sounds uncomfortable - but it isn't: it's honestbetter extended.

|authorisbn=Rob Baker1009473085|title=Toubab Tales: The Joys Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Trials of Expat Life in AfricaTom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=TravelPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'"Go ' and that applies to Mali," they said''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. "The music is amazing If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions," they saidthen this isn't the book for you. "And If that's what you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So 're looking for, I diddon't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It'' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologists a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''A what?The Conservative Effect'' I hear you cryis an entirely different beast. Well, an ethnomusicologist studies music It's the seventh book in relation to culture, so rather like a folklorist studies series which looks at the oral impact a government has made and written story traditions relating to co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a cultureseries of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024. |isbn=B089CSNFT7

|author=James PattersonJenny Valentine|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelUs in the Before and After|rating=45

|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornerElk and Mab are best friends, every dayor more than that even, for yearstheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. She is waiting for her parents to come and They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get hereach other's contact details at the time. They left her there when she was just tinyBut then chance brings them back together, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for her, she continues to head back there each day, just in caseinseparable. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin Something has happened though...she has wings, something terrible and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group of other childrentragic, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together now they've made must work through their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualgrief, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children liveand their friendship, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken awaytogether. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=15291200041471196585

|isbn=17857656981787333175|title=Shed No TearsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Caz FrearBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters, the man who would become known as I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here''the roommate killerafter enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, strangled three women in a fortnight. When he was arrested he admitted glorious mixture of insight into the killings. A fourth death was attributed to him - that workings of Holly Kemp - and on occasions, Masters admitted to the killingNHS, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied ithumour and autobiography. He played with ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the police, same elements but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings moved from physical problems to put him away for a long time mental illness and the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp casework of a psychiatrist. There I did wonder whether it was no body and once Masters was murdered acceptable to be looking for humour in prison, no hope of progressing this setting but the case furtherlaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=1473682401Mariana Enriquez|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPhersonA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)Short Stories|summary=Those who were with us at the end Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged disused refrigerators due to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and Mallory is having twinsa crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. When they arrive no one can doubt the charms The circumstances of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There characters are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up so plausible that the chance to look supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistiblesimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS1529934753|title=The Lies You ToldProtest|author=Harriet TyceRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start For a new school. Shelittle while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's left most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the school she loved opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in New York the nick of time, complete with his two wives and now she's going six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an influencer, you tend to Ashams in North Londondo things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a record of the protest. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth Lexi Williams, an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and as proceeded to spray Bruce in the pupils have all been there face, whilst shouting ''foreverStop the War'', they have their established groups. Robin's going It seemed to be part of an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter ongoing series of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York blue- he works for a securities firm - and her motherface' attacks, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barristerbut this was different. That's easier said than done when you've The can had been out of the market place - laced with cyanide, and the country - for more than ten yearsSir Max Bruce was dead.

|isbnauthor=1408712415Ariel Saramandi|title=Cry Baby|author=Mark BillinghamPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=It's June 1996 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 football's European Championships are about slavery to start in Londonexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. DS Tom Thorne is having a nightmare and it's Saramandi describes the country at one he has regularly. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he stage as ''knewrotting'' that a man was guilty, but didn't take any action until the man'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. It's a happy combination in that blunt yet apt metaphor for the boys are devoted to each other and - despite differences in systemic decay brought about by the where malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and how they live - the women are best friendsgovernmental dysfunction. The boys are seven-year-old and they play on the swings Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, charting the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate Wood. Josh was the one doing various diseases afflicting the hiding - but he returned tearfully to the women: Kieron never came to find him and now he can't find Kieronisland state.|isbn=1804271616

|isbnauthor=B08CHJLNBSPekka Harju-Autti|title=Capturing Emilia|author=Brooke AdamsLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=34|genre=Women's FictionFantasy|summary=HeIt's Charles Devereauxthe eighteenth century, thirty-eight a time of discovery and a partner at Wickham JonesBritain is expanding its foreign trade. Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the Mayfair letting agentsAndaman Islands in his endeavour. She's EmiliaAlong with his son, twenty-ninePeter, librarian and archivist in the heritage library next door. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like thattheir cat, Michi, which leave you dependent they set off on someone else's philosophies, a perilous voyage to something a little deeperthese faraway lands. Charles is more of a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardianislands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the islanders''. They're obviously not at all compatibleleader, Aarav, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: it's obvious is keen to his friendsestablish good relations. 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?|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|isbnauthor=1504321383Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again|author=Louisa PatemanLili is Crying

|genre=AutobiographyLiterary Fiction|summary=''You can't be happy First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and fulfilled sentences from their proper position on your own. You are not complete until you find a man''. This was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believe. It wasn't unkind: it was simply the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for herpage and positions them elsewhere, disjointed, truncated. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where Like the girl (she's usually fairly young) is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries lives of her so that characters, they can live happily ever after. Few girls are lucky enough to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have children. It was a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is a choice''often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675

|isbnauthor=1787301435Tom Percival|title=Dark Waters|author=G R HallidayThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road Will's life is difficult, in Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear multitude of being caught speedingways. When He is bullied because he has 'the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked wrong shoes', he has the steering wheel wrong shoes because his dad can't work and hit a tree. When she came round after doesn't have enough money for even the accident she couldnmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't work out where she because he lost his job at the college, wasworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, but it obviously wasnand Will't a conventional hospitals life seems bleak in every direction. She'd made her first mistake some time agoAnd yet, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for he still has a long timetiny amount of hope. She'd made it He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when she chose to have her father buy her he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a pale blue BMW M4long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Suzanne CollinsSylvie Cathrall|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refined, charming, and one of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow family. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games begins, Coriolanus and other students of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is his chance to prove himself to the world and secure his place in the Capitol for good. But when he is assigned There are few greater joys than a tribute with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances of winning (both for her and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself book which lives up to be a spark in his world, in a way he could never have imaginedcompelling premise. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for her life in the arena - but behind the scenes, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world And this is one of the Capitol, Coriolanus is fighting for his life toothem. Will she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=07023001790356522776

|authorisbn=Sakinu Ahronglong1786482126|title=Hunter SchoolThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= The flyleaf Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to this little collection tells us that it is hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a work of fictiondoorway. That's possibly misleading There was no skull. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all up, Was this a ritual killing or whether it is as the blurb goes on to say ''recollectionsmurder? Inevitably, folklore and autobiographical stories''Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It feels like the latter. It feels like the stories he tells about his experiences 's difficult as a childRuth knows, as an adolescentbut Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as an adult are real and truea result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. But memory Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth 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 shouldprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1999791282

|author=Kat EllisGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Harrow LakeThe Accidentals

|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan NoxThis collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out magical elements and stealing from charming in its residents. But when she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail gentle portrayal of blood, nature and her father dying in his studyhuman relationships. And so, while he recoversGuadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana stories structured by a wisdom that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But appears to want to teach us something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully 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 Lakeworld.|isbn=02413970491804271470