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|authorisbn=Sharon Doering0008551375|title=She Lies CloseWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Ava Boone Leanne Wilson's body was five years old when she went missingfound at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, around 6 months agoseemingly the result of a tragic accident. There has been no sign of her since She'd looked so happy, and no arrests have been made. And yettoo, this book is not about Avawhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. Not really. This book is about Grace Her friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, who has just discovered but it looked like she was living her neighbour best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in her new house is a suspect similar circumstances in Avathe last year. All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 's disappearance. As what a single mother stupid thing to two young children, shedo' explanations applied. They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved ina killer on the loose.|isbn=1789094194

|author=Yara Evans and Luciana BettiPaul B Preciado|title=The Adventures of an Urban Fox: Maggie ArrivesDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Black Cat ''It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and Tabby Cat are minding their autofiction, Preciado expresses his own business hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in their own house when which detachment is not considered a very alarming thing happenssign of political apathy. A creature - a largeRather, dog-like creature - appears in their house. Black Catit is the proportional, always one valid response to take charge''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, challenges this fearsome creature with all and the courage he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... from a rather safe distancetension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The creature whole text is indignant 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 ''Ipangea covidica'm not '. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a dog. Isign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''m a fox!use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn=1511658649 1804271454

|isbnauthor=1712435728Samantha Harvey|title=Jamie's Keepsake|author=Michael GallagherOrbital

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet Alex HannahIn 2024, heSamantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital's just being released from the Southern General Hospital. The nurse thinks he'll come back to visit , a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the other patients but Alex has no intention lives of doing that: he's been there for a year, on group of astronauts aboard the same ward where his brother died and now, with his hair all shorn off, he's going home in his dead brother's clothesInternational Space Station. He wants to get outside and back with his friends: his brother, Forbes, says Through a narrative lens that mirrors the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him that heastronauts's not orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexsee our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman295967572X|title=Solitaire|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break and feels dead to the world. Nothing is interesting. People are stupid and boring. She has one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so she's not a complete loner. She hates a lot of things - including herself. But suddenly, a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout the school. And Michael Holden has appeared and is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involved, but suddenly she is. What does Solitaire want? Who's behind it? Why does it all seem to be linked to Tori? Why does Michael want to be in Tori's life so badly and who is he, really? Things are only getting stranger and darker, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymore.|isbn=9780007559220}}{{FrontpagePale Pieces|author=Natasha Farrant|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkG M Stevens

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this Our unnamed narrator is the story of two children, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want about to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hope. Ben is living on begin a narrowboat on the canal, lying to the police about train journey with his brothercompanion Django. Where they's imminent return from re going and what the battlefields to take care purpose of him. Lotti, meanwhilethis journey is, has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship foruncertain. The day Lotti meets Ben (Django found the day she steals a dog!) is tickets ''on the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each otherfloor somewhere''s family, and undertake a perilous trip has persuaded our narrator to France, accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the boat, to try past as the pair travel to find out the truth of station by coach and the people they both lovetrain is a steam locomotive.|isbn=0571348769

|isbn=14711792730008551324|title=House of CorrectionThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Nicci FrenchNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, sheIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison, on remand. Sheand he's sharing prepared to tell the police where the body of a cell with Michaela, missing person is buried and who's more caring than she first appearswas responsible for her death. She delivers tough love This person, he promises, is someone big and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as it will be worth the whole processes might bepolice doing what he wants. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the body remainder of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations his sentence and to Tabitha's houseget an early parole date. So far as the police are concernedNot much to ask, Tabitha is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the only person who could have killed Rees other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his bloodanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|author=Darren ShanJon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Archibald Lox and the Vote of Alignment Vaim

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=This third and final book in the first volume of Darren Shan's new 'All was strange'Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie ... 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 Inez make it almost all the way to the Cuckoo's NestEline, where two of the Vote of Alignment will be heldprotagonists caught in its melancholic current. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1804271829

|isbn=00083147211035043092|title=Truth Be ToldThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Kia AbdullahAnn Cleeves

|summary=The Hadids are an I can''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for t have been the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to thank and this prompts start a phone call in returnnew life on Orkney. There are two sons of the familyIt's been seven years since we heard from him, seventeen-year-old Kamran but he's now living with Willow Reeves and sixteen-year-old Adamtheir young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. Their motherWillow's also his boss, Sofia, regrets that and she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamranshould'' trips off be on maternity leave, but when the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort body of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoola popular islander, Archie Stout, where they boardis found, despite in the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park homeaftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. Kamran has He'd been battered about the head with a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was rapedNeolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor=1509889515Thea Lenarduzzi|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)Tower|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Just as T's story is being told, the story of a second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. |isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Ann CleevesClaire-Louise Bennett|title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in the blizzardanguish and distortion. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seatcloseness, particularly as the car door had been left openbecomes evidence of love lost. Vera took When the boy and drove to the nearest habitation. She narrator cries out internally, ''thoughtcome over here and kiss me,'' it would be the village but it was Brockburnis less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited ex- and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannouncedpartner, particularly as they seemed a ghost she conjures to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstancestest her detachment.|isbn=1804271934

|isbn=02414254410008405026|title=The Thursday Murder ClubA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Richard OsmanJane Casey|rating=4.5

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She used to be a nurse was never found and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth investigation ground to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed outhalt. Details of where Now, her mother, Helena, and how her father are exchanged and Joyce confirms that dead in their bed. Initially, it would have taken looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about forty-five minutes the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubcomplex double murder. They meet each Thursday Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as you might have guessedDerwent's boss, Una Burt) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Villageare less convinced.

|isbnauthor=1948124440Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukThe Other Girl

|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=The second book in Justine Avery''We were born from the same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's Wonders series work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the perfect antidote most intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to long summer days with bored children - orher sister, indeedhowever, as wethis letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux've found recentlys sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic is rolling across and 2 years before the worldauthor was even born. What do you do when every book has been read The large and every toy has been played instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning withthis giant absence in her life, repurposed, and played with again?an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845

|author= Samira AhmedMaxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title= MadReminiscences of Tolstoy, Bad Chekhov and Dangerous to KnowAndreyev|rating= 3.5|genre=TeensBiography|summary=''In Biographies are often seen as the end, we all become stories'' Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially artform of life-lovers, but Khayyam writing which offers less colour; it can't relax be seen as more objective and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicagoless personal. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre DumasI think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, Khayyam finds herself on and offers a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumasvibrant, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byronsubjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. As In the two teenagers travel the city they first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not only discover themselvesof real life as it is, but uncover the true story of the woman and what you yourself imagine it to be. Whom would it help to know how I see this tower, that sea, or that Tartar - why should it was interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. 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 that should never have been forgottenalmost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=03490035561804271977

|authorisbn=Alice Oseman1529077745|title=LovelessThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Georgia is a teenager who's embarking on her first year A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of university and is in a desperate struggle to figure herself out. She's always been man in love with love. With the idea of lovepark near Rosebank, the idea of falling madly a care home for someone and finding blisstroubled teens. But The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the reality for her has always been different. She's never night before but who had a crush. She's never been kissedturned up. And she's desperate D I Vera Stanhope is called in to feel something and fall for someone. But when investigate the murder - but her only clue is the opportunity presents itself in any kind disappearance of one of realthe residents, tangible and physical way fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for her - shethe death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's disgusted by diary makes itclear that she adored Josh. But isn't She knows that what she's supposed has to find Chloe to want? Isn't that discover what everyone is supposed happened to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?|isbn=000824412XJosh.

|isbn=B086LLRZFHB0FK5LHKD9|title=Archibald Lox and the Empress The Colour of SuanpanMemory|author=Darren ShanChristopher Bowden|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=ArchieIt's second foray into 'the Merge' opens with been three years since we last reviewed a book by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, so we were very glad to see a fantastic vistanew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. All of the BornLike all Bowden's most famous buildings and monuments - Big Ben, the Taj Mahal,  the Eiffel Tower - are collected togetherstories, joined by those clever Merge vines. But there's no time to waste in admiration: Archie is carrying an urgent cry for help from Inez to a venerable locksmith called Winstonmystery at the heart of ''The Colour of Money''.Winston is a darling but is afraid to help - what is to be done? Despite yearning to go home and worry for his foster parents, Archie feels We like this running theme in an obligation to take Winstonauthor's place. And so Archie embarks on work - take a new, mystery but give it different flavour and even more dangerous, adventure...atmosphere each time.

|author=Olga 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 title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night'', somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the 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=1408712288henleyA|title=Still Life (DCI Karen Pirie)Ultimate Obsession|author=Val McDermidDai Henley

|summary=It was the middle of February and bitterly cold when a fishing boat out of St Monans pulled a body out the Firth of Forth instead of a lobster pot. It fell to Ex-DCI Charlie Todd and DS Daisy Mortimer to investigate and it didn't take too long to establish that the man was Paul Allard, ostensibly Andy Flood has been a FrenchmanPrivate Investigator for some time now, but in reality James Auld of Edinburghand he should be doing quite well financially. A decade earlier heUnfortunately, his daughter's gone missing when he was the prime suspect in the disappearance and possible defence against a murder of charge drained his brothersavings. His wife, prominent civil servantLaura, Iain Auldhas been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. DCI Karen PirieThat's what 'ordinary people do', as head of Police Scotland Historic Crimes Unit, had '' He's not been entirely up front about the last person state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to review the take his case, it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him that this is a couple miscarriage of years earlier and it seemed sensible to bring her into the case at an early stagejustice that he really should put right.

|authorisbn= Adrian Tchaikovsky1836284683|title= The Doors of EdenBig Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating= 4.5|genre=Science Dystopian Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel Well! This is gigantica murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, in every sense of the wordit's nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. "Epic" And that is a word thatjust what happened with ''The Big Happy''. I don's thrown around t want to ruin a lot these days, similar experience for any of you reading but if a book ever earned I'll have to at least set the name it's this onescene. ItOnce that's a doorstopper full of big ideasdone, and at times it almost felt too big I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for my brainyourself.|isbn=1509865888

|author=Will CarverSally Rooney|title=Hinton Hollow Death TripIntermezzo

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary= Hinton Hollow, population 5,120. It sounds like one Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of those signs you see on improbably wide highways in America's mid-west, but this particular Hinton Hollow life and is something of a small town in Berkshiregrandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, Englandas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Detective Sergeant Pace grew up hereAmong the many relationships woven into this story, until something happened and he ran away the central one for readers to unravel is the cityfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. HeIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father's running away again…only this time evil is following him and is going to touch just about everyone in townpassing after a long battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=19131933060571365469

|authorisbn=Jacqueline Wilson1036916375|title=Love FrankieJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle|rating=4.5|genre=TeensAutobiography|summary= Frankie ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is nearly fourteena 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, with the docks dominating lives. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been diagnosed with MS when . It's a book to settle into and allow your dad has decided mind to leave her for another woman, when roam across your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedchildhood memories, and, above all to think of simpler times when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Ohlife seemed less constrained, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs despite the blitz that he might fancy you was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. I'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and you don't fancy him backcould appear after the all-clear was sounded.}}

Poor Frankie! {{Frontpage|isbn= 0857535897 1836285493|title=The 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 all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended.

|isbn=17765728581009473085|title=How Do You Make a Baby?The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anna Fiske Anthony Seldon and Don Bartlett Tom Egerton (translatorEditors)

|genre=Home Politics and FamilySociety|summary=ItSometimes it's more than sixty years since I asked how babies were made. My mother was deeply embarrassed and told me that she'd get me simpler to explain a book about by describing what it. A couple of days later I was handed a pamphlet (which delivered nothing more than the basics, in clinical language which had never been used in our house before) ''isn't'' and I was told that it wouldnapplies to ''t be discussed any further as it The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''wasn. If you't something re looking for an easy read which nice people talked will deliver the inside story aboutwhat ''really''happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. I If that's what you'knewre looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon' mores book, but was little {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''wiserThe Conservative Effect''is an entirely different beast. ThankfullyIt's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-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 nation when the coalition took over in 2010, times have changedthe changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.

|isbnauthor=1542017432Jenny Valentine|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R EllisUs in the Before and After|rating=35|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It was Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a Friday once in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner of the moor and a retired judgelifetime connection. James Symonds was They meet as children one day on a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other since their school days's contact details at the time. The fourth member was Gideon RawnsleyBut then chance brings them back together, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Riponand they are inseparable. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car Something has happened though, something terrible and Fraser was being slow to pay. Other people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeepertragic, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to now they must work forthrough their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbn=02414335681787333175|title=Eight DetectivesYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Alex PavesiBenji Waterhouse

|genre=Crime (Historical)Popular Science|summary=ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'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: heafter enjoying Adam Kay's going first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to have Hurt}}, a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and Henry about something seriousautobiography. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn''You Don't emerge after his siesta his guests find that heHave to be Mad...'s been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the house, so one work of them must a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the killerlaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=1526362759Mariana Enriquez|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeA Sunny Place for Shady People

|genre=Children's Non-FictionShort Stories|summary=What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it Mariana Enriquez writes horror that isdisturbingly real, why it matters, how to acquire more achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of it (nope - robbing banks is out) and what you can do with it when you've managed disused refrigerators due to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money don't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into businessan urban planning mishap, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') overcrowded homeless shelter and there might be something you really, ''really'' want to buya crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. There's also the possibility The circumstances of using to do good in her characters are so plausible that the worldsupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230

|isbn=00083783631529934753|title=One Perfect MorningThe Protest|author=Pamela CraneRob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A husband is about For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to have show up for the opening of his throat cut retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in the nick of time, complete with his own bedtwo wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. MackenzieBeing an influencer, Robin and Lily met when they all went you tend to the same college in Monroevilledo things like that, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still but it was fortunate that there was a record of the best of friendsprotest. When they first met they called themselves Lexi Williams, an intern at the Spicier Girls as RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a nod chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the famous girl band of face, whilst shouting ''Stop the dayWar''. Lily would It seemed to be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie part of an ongoing series of 'blue- wellface' attacks, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own lifebut this was different. She married OwenThe can had been laced with cyanide, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldSir Max Bruce was dead.

|author=Darren ShanAriel Saramandi|title=Archibald Lox and the Bridge Between WorldsPortrait of an Island on Fire

|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=Time In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to catch you all up with some intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of my lockdown reading - IMauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting've been doing so much of it that I'm , a bit late to blunt yet apt metaphor for the party with actual reviewing. Oops! And where better to start than with systemic decay brought about by the new series from Bookbag favouritemalignant forces of racism, Darren Shan? Archie is very down. He's lost a dear friend recently, in a tragic accidentpatriarchy, environmental degradation and Archie blames himselfgovernmental dysfunction. He can't face school so he takes himself for Each essay in this collection serves as a truanting wander around London. As he strolls across a footbridgekind of diagnostic, he sees a girl who is being pursued by some murderous-looking men in white suits. He watches, aghastcharting the various diseases afflicting the island state. What is going on?|isbn=B086LKBHD61804271616

|author=Antony WoottenPekka Harju-Autti|title=Season of LoveVortex and the Mammoth (BigShorts)Drakor's Curse

|summary= Tannash and her brother Geb are waiting Will's life is difficult, in great excitement for the hunting party led by their uncle to return. They're hoping for a feast multitude of mammoth meatways. Geb longs He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the day most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he can join lost his uncle Gagba and job at the other warriors college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a hunting party building site and take part had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in their deeds every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of derring-dohope. But their father He is good at art, and clings to the leader moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the villageend of a long, thinks that they also need an education; that knowledge is powerdark tunnel.|isbn=19392696791398527122

|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MaySylvie Cathrall|title= Seven DevilsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating= 45|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, There are few greater joys than a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined book which lives up 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 a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effortcompelling premise. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on And this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last one of the free alien speciesthem. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=14732311400356522776

|authorisbn=Non Pratt1786482126|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Freya Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16going to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old student, complete with best friend and when they discovered the promise bones of the end of GCSEs just months awaya child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But one day Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, on January 1st, she justDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So It's difficult as Ruth knows, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months afterbut Nelson doesn't, that she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to pregnant with his child as 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 the promise result of 'treasure' at the end of it allone night they spent together some three months ago. With each parcel Her condition will be obvious before long, a new layer of the story and of Freya not least because Ruth is unwrapped - and painful truths come prone to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and oldsudden bouts of sickness. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?|isbn=1406366943

|isbnauthor=178089922XGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa JewellThe Accidentals|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersShort Stories|summary=''When you wear a hoodThis collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old magical elements and beautiful. By her own admission, she's a bit charming in its gentle portrayal of a boffin, doing nature and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A levelhuman relationships. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something ''reallyprecisely, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for stories structured by a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed wisdom that appears to want to miss that 'teach us something really, really bad'. When about the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roanworld.|isbn=1804271470