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|isbn=13996130731786482126|title=Moral InjuriesThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Christie WatsonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551375|title=When Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on Leanne Wilson's body was found at the first day bottom of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter Scottish mountain, seemingly the result of a centurytragic accident. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitiousShe'd looked so happy, too, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeonshe 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. Laura is a perfectionist All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and a trauma doctorsensible people. Anjali is the free spirit None of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at what a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going stupid thing to end in tragedy. We dondo't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequencesexplanations applied. Twenty-five years later They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involveda killer on the loose.

|isbnauthor=0241636604Paul B Preciado|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary StevensonDysphoria Mundi

|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary=If you were ''It is never too late to bring up an image embrace the revolutionary optimism of a city banker in your mindchildhood''  Through this hybrid text, you're unlikely to think consisting of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his background is the East Endown hybrid self, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the London School new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of Economicspolitical apathy. Stevenson Rather, it is bright - extremely bright - the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and he has a facility with numbers conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which most Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the backdrop of us can only envy. He also realised the Covid-19 pandemic as that most rich people expect poor people which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to be stupid. It was his ability at what wasemerge on a global scale, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibankor as ''pangea covidica''. Eventually, Rather than taking this turned into permanent employment extreme dysphoria as a tradersign of weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=1804271454

|author=Leanne EganSamantha Harvey|title=Lover BirdsOrbital

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=When new girlIn 2024, Isabel, moves to LouSamantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for 's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, and thatOrbital's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in the lives of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any group of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabelastronauts aboard the International Space Station. Through a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, and wanting Harvey invites readers to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?see our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=000862657X1529922933

|isbn=1009473085295967572X|title=The Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024Pale Pieces|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)G M Stevens

|genre=Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes it's simpler Our unnamed narrator is about to explain begin a book by describing what it ''isn't'train journey with his companion Django. Where they' re going and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''what the purpose of this journey is, is uncertain. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver Django found the inside story about what tickets ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If thatfloor somewhere's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{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 has persuaded our narrator to politicsaccompany him. ''The Conservative Effect'' Why not? Not much else is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book clear either - but we are probably in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this past as the most important. This book follows pair travel to the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred station by coach and the situation in 2024train is a steam locomotive.

|authorisbn=Max Boucherat0008551324|title=The Last Life of Lori MillsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening sheIt's got unusual for anyone from the house Hardie family to herself – no neighbour approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her lonesomedeath. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fortThis person, she has one main intentionhe promises, is someone big and that it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to log on be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to Voxminerask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the world-building, critterother thing that Hardie demanded -collecting game make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is a hit in Lorikept well away from what's worldhappening.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=Vaim|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''All was strange''... But first Lori has This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Vaim, a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesnfictional fishing village in Norway which paradoxically could not feel more real for Jatgeir and Eline, two of the protagonists caught in its melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035043092|title=The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=I can't find herself entirely 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 her ownOrkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and then she finds something even more spookytheir young son, James, as well as Cassie, the daughter of his former partner. For the server Willow's also his boss, and she and her bestie and nobody else ''should '' be able to enter shows signs on maternity leave, but when the body of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screena popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, and her safe place in the game has aftermath of a storm, she can't resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been doctored – well, where is stolen from a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482museum.

|author=Fyodor DostoyevskyThea Lenarduzzi|title=White NightsThe Tower

|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction|summary=As always ''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in Dostoyevskyour 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 character work 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 sublime, above all, an enticing story to T. One It is never left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and temperaments with remarkable clarityfantasy. |isbn=02416197851804271799

|isbnauthor=0008385068Claire-Louise Bennett|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy FoleyBig Kiss, Bye-Bye

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=ItEverything 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, ''s midsummer on the Dorset coast come over here and guests gather at kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. The Manorimagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, her ex-partner, 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 their opening weekend 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 splendid celebrations her father are promiseddead in their bed. ItInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's all headed up by Francesca Meadowssomething about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. The Manor What looked as though it was her ancestral home going to be an open-and she-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's converted it into an impressive retreat for 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 wealthy same body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux's work is always very candid and famousher tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the most intimate accounts I've read. Her husbandErnaux writes in direct address to her sister, however, Owenthis letter will never reach her. Why? Because Annie Ernaux's sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a few months before the vaccine was the architect made compulsory in France, and work is still ongoing on parts of 2 years before the siteauthor was even born. The heat is oppressive large and amongst instant void created by the guests jarring concept of writing to an 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are enemies often seen as well the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as friendsmore objective and less personal. Old scores are going I think that Gorky completely rejects this perspective, and offers a vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. In the first section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''you write not of real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be settled and . 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 it won?'t '. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be long before gained from a body is foundsubjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that one almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=1804271977

|authorisbn=James Baldwin1529077745|title=Giovanni's RoomThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves

|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the narrator David, an American body of a man living in Paristhe park near Rosebank, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay barcare home for troubled teens. While David is engaged The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to Hella, work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is travelling called in Spain, to investigate the real tension in murder - but her only clue is the novel arises not from his infidelity but from disappearance of one of the deeper conflict within himselfresidents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. It Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is Davidunlikely as the girl's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovannishe has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|isbn=0141186356

|isbn=B0DGDJRHYDB0FK5LHKD9|title=Nowhere ManThe Colour of Memory|author=Deborah StoneChristopher Bowden

|summary=In It's been three years since we last reviewed a quiet suburban house, Patrick is making his final plans. A meticulous manbook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, he makes sure of every preparation, down so we were very glad to the last detailsee a new novel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. Some last reflections, and then he says goodbye to his wifeLike all Bowden's stories, there's a mystery at the world, and his lifeheart of ''The Colour of Money''. ItWe like this running theme in an author's horribly sad. At work in her shop, his wife Diana is fending off yet another phone call about her ageing - take a mystery but give it different flavour and ailing mother, who needs extricating from yet another accident. It will be a while before Diana realises what Patrick has doneatmosphere each time.

|author=Virginie DespentesOlga Tokarczuk|title=King Kong TheoryHouse 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=henleyA|title=Ultimate Obsession|author=Dai Henley

|genre=Autobiography Crime|summary=''King Kong Theory'' is Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been a hard-hitting memoir Private Investigator for some time now, and feminist manifestohe should be doing quite well financially. Unfortunately, which can be seen as his daughter's defence against a call murder charge drained his savings. His wife, Laura, has been trying to arms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its corepersuade him to retire - ''maybe go travelling or go on cruises. Originally written in French That's what 'ordinary people do', '' He's not been entirely up front about the book is a collection state of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through their savings. When Jack Durban tries to persuade him to take his case, it's the complex prism thought of her varied life: from rape to sex work and pornography. Though these discussions are intertwined, their placement within the book can feel somewhat disjointed, money he could make that convinces him that this is a reflection miscarriage of their original form as independent essaysjustice that he really should put right.|isbn=191309734X

|authorisbn=James Baldwin1836284683|title=Giovanni's RoomThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick

|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction |summary=Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, it's nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on a wild ride. And that is just what happened with 'Giovanni's RoomThe Big Happy'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged I don't want to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity ruin a similar experience for any of you reading but from I'll have to at least set the deeper conflict within himselfscene. It is DavidOnce that's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovannidone, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.|isbn=0141186356

|author=Ashley Hickson-LovenceSally Rooney|title=Wild EastIntermezzo

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction |summary=Written in verseSally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is gripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has the central one for readers to move to Norwich unravel is the fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and start at Peter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a mostly white schoolsuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. The move is initiated by RonnyFollowing their father's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety passing after a tragic eventlong battle with cancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1036916375|title=Just a Liverpool Lad|author=Peter McArdle|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, such as the family history of a new townsea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. Other stories blend seamlessly into the what-might-have-been. It's a new schoolbook to settle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, and keep himself out to think of troublesimpler times when life seemed less constrained, despite the blitz that was a constant factor in McArdle's early years. He listens to music constantlyI'd never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the all-clear was sounded.}} {{Frontpage|isbn= 1836285493|title=The Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and has always dreamed of being a rappersupportive friend. But nowmost of all, in this new 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 teacher encourages him headteacher, Mrs Howarth, and she has suggested to be part Will and his mum that he spends a couple of afternoons a poetry writing workshop group andweek at a different school, slowlyStation Road, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your wordswhere his ability might be better extended.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=16358668471009473085|title=The Lavender CompanionConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Jessica Dunham Anthony Seldon and Terry Barlin VesciTom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=ItSometimes it's strange, the things simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that make applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you 're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''immediatelyreally'' feel that happened on certain occasions, then this is isn't the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender CompanionIf that's what you're looking for, I visited the authordon't think Anthony Seldon's [https://wwwbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there It's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepagecompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally'The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. (ThereIt's a recipe in the seventh book, in a series which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book and I was told to make follows the well-established format: a mess series of it. Notes experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down changes that occurred and the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book alreadysituation in 2024.

|author=Onyi NwabineliMariana Enriquez|title=Allow Me A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=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 disused refrigerators due to Introduce Myselfan urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529934753|title=The Protest|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the worldcountry's most famous living artist, thanks was not going to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social mediashow up for the opening of his retrospective at the Royal Academy. Still, where she posted every step he arrived in the nick of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals time, complete with his two wives andsix children, basically, monetary gainone of whom filmed what happened. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying Being an influencer, you tend to regain her confidence and to get her life backdo things like that, suing her step-mother to take down but it was fortunate that there was a record of the content about herprotest. Anuri is battling alcoholismLexi Williams, failing an intern at the RA, grabbed a spray can of blue paint from under a chair and proceeded to start her PhDspray Bruce in the face, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing sowhilst shouting ''Stop the War''. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus It seemed to be part of an ongoing series of Ophelia's online empireblue-face' attacks, but this was different. Can she save her sisterThe can had been laced with cyanide, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873Sir Max Bruce was dead.

|author=David ChadwickAriel Saramandi|title=Headload Portrait of Napalman Island on Fire

|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary= ItIn this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, 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''s September 1973 in Hicks, Californiaa blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the malignant forces of racism, patriarchy, environmental degradation and governmental dysfunction. Hicks is Each essay in this collection serves as a Mojave desert town kind of diagnostic, charting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616}}{{Frontpage|author=Pekka Harju-Autti|title=LoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's the eighteenth century, a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours time of LA discovery and Las Vegas both a significant drive awayBritain is expanding its foreign trade. Not much happens Captain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, is sent to the Andaman Islands in Hickshis endeavour. A silver mine Along with his son, Peter, and their cat, Michi, they set off on a defence contractor perilous voyage to these faraway lands. The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and the main local employers but otherwiseislanders' leader, there's not much of note other than dive bars Aarav, is keen to establish good relations.|isbn=B0DS1VGHH3}}{{Frontpage|author=Helene Bessette and Joshua treesKate Briggs (translator)|title=Lili is Crying|rating=4. Life 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=First published in 1953 in French, this novel is quieta timeless text which wrenches the hearts of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewhere, until..disjointed, truncated.Like the lives of her characters, they are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn= B0D321VJ761804271675

|isbnauthor=1786482126Guadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsAccidentals

|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house This collection was truly enchanting in Norwich - all senses of the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working word: spellbinding with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'tits fantastical, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|author=Joan Didion|title=The Year of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This book is Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief she endured following her husband's sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and necessary resource to help people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion magical elements and makes them utterly normal, lends them a human face to wear.|isbn=0007216858}}{{Frontpage|author=Alba de Cespedes |title=Forbidden Notebook|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and learns about herself charming in the most intimate and revealing ways.|isbn=1782278222}}{{Frontpage|author=Ottessa Moshfegh|title=My Year its gentle portrayal of Rest nature and Relaxation|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in factprecisely, her solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=1784707422}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'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 and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of stories structured by a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. 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 wisdom that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739526910|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town appears to recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''}}{{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 want 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's teach us something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspiciousworld. 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=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=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. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. 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As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=18469765371804271470