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|isbn=14721270130008551375|title=Agatha Raisin: Hot to TrotWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=M C Beaton and R W GreenNeil Lancaster

|summary=Raisin Investigations had quite Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a bit Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of work on handa tragic accident. The chairman of Philpott Electronics was concerned about his managing directorShe'd looked so happy, Harold Cheesemantoo, who had apparently returned from Australia because his wife did not like it therewhen she posted her intentions on Facebook. This Her friends were relieved as she was unusualjust out of an unpleasant relationship, as his wife but it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died before Cheeseman went to Australiain similar circumstances in the last year. Then there was the Chadwick divorce: Chadwick was convinced that his wifeAll were experienced climbers, Sheraton, was seeing another manproperly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. Mr Gutteridge wanted Raisin Investigations to instal listening devices in None of the staff canteen: he wanted 'what a stupid thing to know what the staff were saying about him and his secretary, who was from Genevado' explanations applied. Apparently, They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the staff called her The Swiss Rollloose.}}{{Frontpage|author=Paul B Preciado|title=Dysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyThen there was |summary=''It is never too late to embrace the murder.revolutionary optimism of childhood''

|isbnauthor=0008420386Samantha Harvey|title=Failosophy: A handbook for when things go wrong|author=Elizabeth DayOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=What do Malcolm GladwellIn 2024, Alain de Botton, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sandé, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes and Andrew Scott have in common? TheySamantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for 've all failed and - more importantly - they've been willing to appear on Elizabeth DayOrbital's podcast to discuss their failures and how life worked out for them afterwards. You'll find , a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the results lives of these discussions 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 ''Failosophy''a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=0571362672295967572X|title=SnowPale Pieces|author=John BanvilleG M Stevens

|genre=Crime (Historical)Literary Fiction|summary=Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'Well, at least you're and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the train is a Wexford mansteam locomotive.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324So said Colonel Osborne when he welcomed DI St John |title=The Devil You Know (pronounced D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'Sinjuns 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 and he') Strafford s prepared to Ballyglass House just before Christmas 1957tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Osborne was master of the Keelmore Hounds This person, he promises, is someone big and had done something memorable with it will be worth the Inniskilling Dragoons at Dunkirkpolice doing what he wants. The niceties had And what he wants is to be established even when there was a Catholic priest dead on transferred to an open prison to serve the library floor with some precious bits remainder of his anatomy missingsentence and to get an early parole date. Strafford was from Roslea at Bunclody Not much to ask, is it? 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 this, along anyone who works with his good-but-shabby suit, marked him out as of Osborneis kept well away from what's class and obviously Protestant. The dead priest was Father Tom Lawless from Scallanstown, who - despite the different religions - was in the habit of spending time at Ballyglass House. His horse was stabled therehappening.

|isbnauthor=1787477630Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Postscript Murders|author=Elly GriffithsVaim

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=When a 90-year-old-woman with a heart condition dies peacefully in her armchair, it really shouldn't be suspicious and that 'All was the view taken by DS Harbinder Kaur until she spoke to Peggy Smithstrange''s carer. Natalka Kolisnyk was adamant that there was more to Peggy's death than met the eye - particularly as she knew that there was no heart condition and that Peggy had worried that she was being followed. Then there was . This haunting phrase encapsulates the fact that Peggy was pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a 'murder consultant' who helped authors with knotty plot lines fictional fishing village in their books: she knew Norway which paradoxically could not feel more about murder than any elderly woman should need to knowreal for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829

|isbn=00083301311035043092|title=The Stolen SistersKilling Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Louise JensenAnn Cleeves|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we 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 new life on Orkney. It''The Stolen Sisters'' s been seven years since we know that twenty-years on heard from a dreadful event they are all healthy adults. Wellhim, theybut he're healthy in the physical senses now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, but Carly has trust issuesas well as Cassie, Leah has OCD and Marie drinksthe daughter of his former partner. TheyWillow're the Sinclair sisters and one day they were all stolen. Carly was thirteen-years-old s also his boss, and she was ''should'' be on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in charge the aftermath of her sistersa storm, the eight-year-old twins. Much as she loved them Carly was desperate to get a text from Dean Malden and her mobile phone held her attentioncan't resist getting involved. Leah and Marie were nattering He'd been battered about the head with a lost ball and Neolithic stone - one of a fleece pair - which had been left outside. The gate wasn't shut properly and Bruno, their boxer dog, escaped. As the three girls went to chase after him they were snatched by two menstolen from a museum.

|author=Stephen FabesThea Lenarduzzi|title=Signs of LifeThe Tower

|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary= I was brought up on maps and first-person narratives ''How unctuous are the fats of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunatelyanother's life, I didnhow dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''t inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was  In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the guts to simply go out and do itprotagonist of this tale. I also didnJust as T't inherit s story is being told, the kind story of steady nervea second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, ability to talk to strangers and basic practicality that would have meant that I would have survived if I had been gifted with the requisite daughter of a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T'bottles imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to T. In order words I'm not the sort of person who will get on It is a bike outside story which she consumes avariciously, both in a London hospital quest for truth and knowledge, and not come home for six yearsin service of myth, fable and fantasy. Fabes did precisely that.|isbn=17881612111804271799

|author=Arvin AhmadiClaire-Louise Bennett|title=How It All Blew UpBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction| summary=18-year-old Amir is American IranianEverything in this book, a Muslimhowever sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and gaydistortion. He struggles with his identityEven a kiss, unable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himusually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, threatening to show his parents photographs becomes evidence of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away..love lost.to Italy! So begins a journey for AmirWhen the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and his familykiss me, where they all discover more about him'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, and who he really isher ex-partner, and who he really wants a ghost she conjures to betest her detachment.|isbn=14714099291804271934

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain0008405026|title=The Readers RoomA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|genreauthor=General FictionJane Casey|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=ViolaineIt's publishing house has had a great success, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptssixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The three people who work in She was never found and the Readers' Room investigation ground to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' to thathalt. As inNow, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own waymother, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accidentHelena, and starts this book coming round from a comaher father are dead in their bed. And, however – despite all urgingInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the author positioning of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What is looked as though it was going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – be an open-and how much -shut case is any of it due to the hit novel? now a complex double murder. And just where Kerrigan is convinced that the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbnauthor=1948124572Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Think Outside the Box|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukThe Other Girl

|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=''Whenever you find a problem <br>''Wherever thereWe were born from the same body. I's a puzzle ve never really wanted to solve <br>''However you get stuck in a sticky situation <br>''Just think outside the boxabout this.''

And so begins Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the latest picture book from Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiukmost intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, this letter will never reach her. ItWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a clarion call to children to use their imaginations few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and 2 years before the author was even born. The large and not logic alone when it comes instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to solving problemsan imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with this giant absence in her life, an absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845

|author=Agnes Ravatn Maxim Gorky and Rosie Hedger Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Seven DoorsReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeBiography|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of Biographies are often seen as the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out form of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood -writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearsless personal. The building he's inherited, meanwhileI think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and which they let out to offers a single mothervibrant, is needed by their adult daughtersubjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, who quite blatantly says Tolstoy complains to its occupant his friend Gorky that: 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'. Nowwrite not of real life as it is, at this stage you may well, if but of 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 interest anyone? Of what use is a genre read, think it?'s going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completelyWell, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyMaxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a subjective account, in case that has any bearing on what happens heregiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at Andreyev in such privileged detail that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedone almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=19131933811804271977

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1529077745|title=A Song of IsolationThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=34.5

|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up a career that . D I Vera Stanhope is only beginning called in to hit investigate the heights to retire to murder - but her only clue is the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant disappearance of one of all thingsthe residents, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestryfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but things are starting Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to feel wrong between themJosh. |isbn=1913193365

|authorisbn= Christopher PaoliniB0FK5LHKD9|title= To Sleep in a Sea The Colour of StarsMemory|author=Christopher Bowden|rating= 54|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= On the moon of a distant gas giant, Xenobiologist Kira Navárez is helping with the efforts to make the planet habitable to human life. However, a discovery of an ancient alien bunker under the moonIt's surface leaves her bonded with been three years since we last reviewed a strange alien entity. After the entity bonded to her loses control and kills half the staff of the research station, the United Military Command cruiser Extenuating Circumstances arrives in the system to take Kira in for examination. Things go from bad to worse when the Extenuating Circumstances is attacked and destroyed book by an alien shipfavourite regular Christopher Bowden, and she has so we were very glad to flee to the 61 Cygnus star system. She is revived aboard the freighter Wallfish, crewed by Captain Falconi and see a rag-tag bunch of misfits, and the news is grimnew novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. The same aliens that destroyed the Extenuating Circumstances are now wreaking havoc across Like all of human-occupied spaceBowden's stories, and only there's a mythical weapon known as mystery at the Staff heart of Blue can stop them''The Colour of Money''. As the death toll climbs and more players are introduced into We like this war, Kira slowly begins to realise that she may have had a greater hand running theme in the conflict than she couldan author've possibly imagined…|isbn=1529046505s work - take a mystery but give it different flavour and atmosphere each time.

|author=Carlie SorosiakOlga Tokarczuk|title=My Life as a CatHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=This is ''What's the story good of an alien who has come down to spend some time a world that keeps changing like that? How can one go on earth calmly living as a human. Itin it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, ''House of Day, House of Night''s something that each member in , somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the alien collective is allowed shift from day to donight, for 1 monthhowever quotidian, once they reach a certain agecausing chaos. Leonard comes to earth but gets distracted en routeBut, and so something goes wrong with his arrival and he finds the constant in that instead of landing in Yellowstone Park, ready to work as a park ranger, he image is instead in the body of a cat on the other side of house, stoic against the country! This ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is not what perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a Private Investigator for some time now, and he had planned! should be doing quite well financially. Not only is he in the wrong place and the wrong bodyUnfortunately, he is also in the middle of his daughter's defence against a stormmurder charge drained his savings. His wife, stuck in a tree! Laura, has been trying to persuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. And so he meets OliveThat's what 'ordinary people do', '' He's not been entirely up front about the little girl who rows out in a boat state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to rescue persuade himto take his case, and who names it's the thought of the money he could make that convinces him Leonardthat this is a miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.|isbn=1788006089

|authorisbn= Tahi Saihate1836284683|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it is when I open a place book, it's nothing like I expected it to which we can never returnbe, and it takes me on a wild ride. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel And that is just what happened with ''Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe Big Happy'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is I don't want to ruin a meditation on youth and how similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringscene. Once that's done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn= 1916277101

|author= Andrea StewartSally Rooney|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Intermezzo

|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction |summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to Sally Rooney has studied the throne, a smuggler, chessboard of life and is something of a warrior will fight to find their place in the worldgrandmaster at putting it into words. Lin Her dialogue is the emperor's forgotten daughtergripping and so brilliantly frustrating, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doorsas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to Among the thronemany relationships woven into this story, she vows the central one for readers to show him she unravel is capable of reviving the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Ivan, a dying empire and in secretsocially awkward chess prodigy, she begins to unlock one door after anothercontrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, searching for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magica successful lawyer living in Dublin. Yet Lin is playing Following their father's passing after a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in long battle with cancer, the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her peoplebrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=03565149430571365469

|authorisbn=Sharon Doering1036916375|title=She Lies CloseJust a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= Ava Boone was five ''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years old when she went missing, Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around 6 months agoLiverpool. There has been no sign Some are factual, such as the family history of her sincea sea-going family, and no arrests with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have -been made. And yet It's a book to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Graceto think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is despite the blitz that was a suspect constant factor in AvaMcArdle's disappearanceearly years. As a single mother to two young children, she I's really wishing this sort d never heard of information had come to light parachute mines before - but they moved inwere almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.|isbn=1789094194

|authorisbn=Yara Evans and Luciana Betti1836285493|title=The Adventures Double Life of an Urban Fox: Maggie Arrivesa Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=45

|summary=Black Cat Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and Tabby Cat are minding their own business in their own house when a very alarming thing happenssupportive friend. A creature - a largeBut most of all, dog-like creature - appears in their househe is an aspiring writer. Black CatEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, always Marlowe Park, and one at which he excels. This hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to take charge, challenges this fearsome creature with all the courage Will and his mum that he can muster. Tabby Cat backs him.... from spends a couple of afternoons a rather safe distance. The creature is indignant - ''I'm not week at a dogdifferent school, Station Road, where his ability might be better extended. I'm a fox!''|isbn=1511658649

|isbn=17124357281009473085|title=Jamie's KeepsakeThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Michael GallagherAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=When we first meet Alex Hannah, heSometimes it's just being released from the Southern General Hospitalsimpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. The nurse thinks heIf you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn'll come back to visit t the other patients but Alex has no intention of doing book for you. If that: he's been there what you're looking for a year, on the same ward where his brother died and nowI don't think Anthony Seldon's book, with his hair all shorn off{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, hecan be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's going home in his dead brothera compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect''s clothesis an entirely different beast. He wants to get outside It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and back with his friendsco-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: his brothera series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, Forbes, says that the fresh air will do him good and his mother tells him changes that he's not to mention TB occurred and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alexthe situation in 2024.

|author=Alice OsemanJenny Valentine|title=SolitaireUs in the Before and After|rating=45

|summary= Victoria Spring has returned to Year 12 following Christmas break Elk and feels dead to the world. Nothing Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is interesting. People are stupid and boringa once in a lifetime connection. She has They meet as children one real friend; the rest are just people she sits near so sheday on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's not a complete loner. She hates a lot of things - including herselfcontact details at the time. But suddenlythen chance brings them back together, a blog called Solitaire has arrived and is pulling pranks throughout the schoolthey are inseparable. And Michael Holden Something has appeared happened though, something terrible and is showing up everywhere in Tori's life. Tori doesn't know (or care) why she's involvedtragic, 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 henow they must work through their grief, really? Things are only getting stranger and darkertheir friendship, and only one thing is certain – Tori isn't bored anymoretogether.|isbn=97800075592201471196585

|authorisbn=Natasha Farrant1787333175|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Set in England in I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the aftermath workings of World War One, this is the story of two childrenNHS, Lotti humour and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but donautobiography. ''You Don't want Have to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hopebe Mad... Ben is living on a narrowboat on '' promised the canal, lying same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the police about his brother's imminent return from the battlefields to take care work of hima psychiatrist. Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and is back at home; I did wonder whether it's a beautiful house that belongs was acceptable to her be looking for humour in this setting but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals laughter is directed at a dog!) is the beginning of situation rather than a deep, person and powerful friendship. It sees them become each other's family, it is always delivered with empathy and undertake a perilous trip to France, in the boat, to try to find out the truth of the people they both loveunderstanding.|isbn=0571348769

|isbnauthor=1471179273Mariana Enriquez|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchA Sunny Place for Shady People

|summary=When we first meet Tabitha HardyFor a little while, sheit looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the country's most famous living artist, was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, he arrived in prisonthe nick of time, on remand. She's sharing a cell complete with Michaelahis two wives and six children, who's more caring than she first appearsone of whom filmed what happened. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her Being an influencer, you tend to have do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was a shower, unpleasant as record of the whole processes might beprotest. And how did Tabitha get here? WellLexi Williams, on 21 December an intern at the body RA, grabbed a spray can of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to spray Bruce in her garden shed by Andrew Kanethe face, who was helping with whilst shouting ''Stop the renovations War''. It seemed to Tabithabe part of an ongoing series of 's houseblue-face' attacks, but this was different. So far as the police are concernedThe can had been laced with cyanide, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she Sir Max Bruce was covered in his blooddead.

|author=Darren ShanAriel Saramandi|title=Archibald Lox and the Vote Portrait of Alignment an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=This third 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 final book in slavery to expose how these legacies still shape modern life. Saramandi describes the first volume of Darren Shancountry at one stage as 's new 'rotting'Archibald Lox'' series sees Archie and Inez make it almost all , a blunt yet apt metaphor for the way to systemic decay brought about by the Cuckoo's Nestmalignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Each essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, where charting the various diseases afflicting the Vote of Alignment will be heldisland state. But how will they get in?|isbn=B086LLWP4V1804271616

|isbnauthor=0008314721Pekka Harju-Autti|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia AbdullahLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=54|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=The Hadids are an It''effortful'' familys the eighteenth century, a time of discovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Flowers are Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent for to the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call Andaman Islands in returnhis endeavour. There are two sons of the familyAlong with his son, Peter, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mothertheir cat, SofiaMichi, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam they set off on a perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than islanders'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton schoolleader, where they boardAarav, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed is keen to be going well until the night when he was rapedestablish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3

|isbnauthor=1509889515|title=The Darkest Evening Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (D I Vera Stanhopetranslator)|authortitle=Ann CleevesLili is Crying

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=It was First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took timeless text which wrenches the wrong turning hearts of its readers just as she drove home in Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the blizzard. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning page and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seatpositions them elsewhere, disjointed, particularly as the car door had been left open. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitationtruncated. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, Like the ancestral home lives of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannouncedcharacters, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstancesare often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=1804271675

|isbnauthor=0241425441Tom Percival|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard OsmanWrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=The first member Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroftways. She used to be a nurse and He is thus bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the perfect person wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a person who has been stabbed to bleed outbuilding site and had an accident. Details of where Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and how dad are exchanged separated, and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if sheWill'd received prompt medical helps life seems bleak in every direction. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was And yet, he still has a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clubtiny amount of hope. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in He is good at art, and clings to the Jigsaw Room moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagethe end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1948124440Sylvie Cathrall|title=What Wonders Await Outdoors|author=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=The second There are few greater joys than a book in Justine Avery's Wonders series is the perfect antidote which lives up to long summer days with bored children - or, indeed, as we've found recently, for those long lockdown days when an awful pandemic a compelling premise. And this is rolling across the worldone of them. What do you do when every book has been read and every toy has been played with, repurposed, and played with again?|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn= Samira Ahmed1786482126|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to KnowThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating= 34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=''In Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the end, we all become storiessite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' Spending apartments - when they discovered the summer in Paris sounds like bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a dream for most peopleritual killing or murder? Inevitably, especially art-loversDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Khayyam canNelson doesn't relax and stop thinking about the mess , that she left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter is pregnant with his child as a descendant result of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumasone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgottensickness.|isbn=0349003556

|author=Alice OsemanGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=LovelessThe Accidentals|rating=4.5|genre=TeensShort Stories|summary= Georgia is a teenager who's embarking on her first year This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of university the word: spellbinding with its fantastical, magical elements and is charming in a desperate struggle to figure herself out. She's always been in love with love. With the idea its gentle portrayal of love, the idea of falling madly for someone nature and finding blisshuman relationships. But the reality for her has always been different. She's never had a crush. She's never been kissed. And she's desperate to feel something Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and fall for someone. But when the opportunity presents itself in any kind of realprecisely, tangible and physical way for her - she's disgusted stories structured by it. But isn't a wisdom that what she's supposed appears to want? Isn't that what everyone is supposed to do? How come everyone else can do it? Why can't she?teach us something about the world.|isbn=000824412X1804271470