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|isbn=178607981X1787333175|title=Bad ApplesYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Will DeanBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Tuva Moodyson I was driving up 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 foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side glorious mixture of insight into the road. Wondering if someone needed help she got out workings of the car - NHS, humour and heard the screams from deep inside the forestautobiography. Determining the direction of a sound isn''You Don't easy when you need hearing aids and dampness is causing interference Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but Tuva made her way moved from physical problems to where a woman was holding her coat over mental illness and the body work of a man. He'd been decapitatedpsychiatrist. He I did wonder whether it was Arne Gustav Persson, acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a resident of Visbergperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|author=Lilja SigurdadottirMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=Cold As HellThe Disappearing Act

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary= In a red suitcase as Despite her anonymisation of place names and people, Stepanova's message in this short work of autofiction is unmistakable. A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to the bottom town of F for a fissure in literary festival she is to be a lava fieldguest speaker at. Detoured by erratic train schedules and nudged by forces beyond her control, there is her journey slowly bends toward a bodytraveling circus. And the man Swept up in this series of events, M eventually offers to step in for a circus performer who has put her there has just discovered unexpectedly left the show. The train functions as a motif of transience and impermanence, while the circus embodies the reshaping of identity and a retreat into fantasy, an impulse that he is capable lies at the very heart of killingthe novel form itself.|isbn=19131938881804272329

|authorisbn=Lucy HopeB0GFQ81YQK|title=FledglingHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=BavariaBefore people came and joined the animals, 1900there was only the sky and the earth. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over Everything was quiet until the decades, earth and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods belowsky began to tal to each other. It's an eccentric houseFirst, to host eccentricsthe earth created bodies. And then, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, sky breathed life into them. These were the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermyremembered, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch especially how they came to be. When they grew old and sing opera loudlydied, their bodies returned to the earth and the dying grandma their life returned to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abodesky. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day And that is a cherubwhy the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And if you think such a heavenly arrival that is going why people must pay attention to be a completely great , and wonderful thingcare for, think againboth...|isbn=183994188X

|isbn=1846276772B0GHPMNF6P|title=The End of BiasZookeeper's Dragon: How We Change Our MindsA Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Jessica NordellCarolyn Mathews

|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary=Anyone who is When Phil's father unexpectedly dies, he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the running of the family's farm zoo. He's not expecting much excitement, until he receives an ableunidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in a cave in New Zealand, white man understands bias in that they may and suddenly life is no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from quite what it: it's simply a part of everyday life. White men will always come firstseems. The able will come before Then the disabled. Jobsegg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a dragon! Now he, Edgar, promotionshis mother Abi, higher salaries are and the preserve of the white man. Even when those who wouldnzoo't pass the medical become a s part -time café waitress Pearl have to raise this little bundle of an organisation it's rare that their views are heardscales and joy, that their concerns are acknowledged. It's personally appalling despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but not being able to tell anyone about it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…

|author=Teresa DriscollStephanie Zabriskie|title=Her Perfect FamilyHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|genre=ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The novel begins by introducing you ''How Maasai Women Spoke to GemmaCows is a children’s nonfiction book drawn from the oral traditions of Maasai elders in Ngorongoro, who at first instance appears Tanzania.'' The Maasai are a cattle-herding people and this story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be your average studentso. Cattle are status and wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the intimate and symbiotic connection its people, faced and especially its women, have with their cows and for the familiar horrifying realisation, at natural world. The oral tradition retelling the eleventh hourmany conversations Maasai women have had with their cows, that her graduation outfit is all wrongdoes.|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J}}{{Frontpage|author=Livi Michael|title=Elizabeth and Ruth|rating=3. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''He is not who he says he is…Elizabeth and Ruth''is a work of historical fiction wrought from the life of the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, paving the way best known for the sinister tone that remains throughout the her first novel. In a twist of eventsMary Barton (1848), and after a change radical critique of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst treatment of her graduation ceremonythe working class published under a pseudonym. With Gemma then The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in her novel as Pasley, a coma, what follows is young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a complex whodunit with child and finds herself in Manchester's New Bailey Prison after a list of suspects that continues difficult and unjust hand at life. Set in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and interrogates the extent to grow which the further you readwealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=15420287521784633682

|isbnauthor=8409290103Makenna Goodman|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeHelen of Nowhere

|summary=TwentyIt could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise -onea hard-yearto-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his fathercareer and his relationship, cotton-broker AO Lowryembodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the former owner of the countryside house he asked 's considering, Helen represents a volta in his accountant, Mr Patricklife, her past tied to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancehis potential fresh start. Patrick sent The realtor who shows the money regularly and a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between protagonist around the two although we hear more house shares stories about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasnHelen, and describes her as ''t an entity that Lowry senior didnis pure consciousness, beyond form't care for his son, it was that he didn't care to have him . Although she lives in this country where he might be a danger to his wife and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get an assisted living facility now, Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the young man on his waysense are not altogether innocuous.|isbn=1804272205

|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)B0GCB1MQ7D|title=The Rabbit FactorWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Meet HenriI have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings'celebrities', hethere's perfect for his job in frequently a book they might or might not have written, which might or might not tell the insurance company – until they decide hetrue story. It's not often that you find a team-memberbook that gives the full backstory, and rarely do you discover a memoir where the telling is so perfect that theyyou'd prefer everyone to be all open-planll go back and reread paragraphs and sentences, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingjust for the pleasure the words give. This ''Why My Mother Went Away'' is when he finds his brother has diedone of those rare exceptions. It's the story of how a boy from the Midlands, born at the beginning of the Second World War, having would become a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channelProfessor of Psychology at Dundee University. In fact, and has left Henri everythinghe was one of the founders of the department.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Cooper|title=Discord|rating= 3. Unfortunately 5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Discord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or otherwiseideas) that 'everything'  The principal example of discord within the novel, as with most instances of discord, is easily located. The two protagonists of the novel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Rebekah is just an adventure parkuptight, traditional and nothing elseno-nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as a precocious saxophonist, oozing with talent and charm. The two, predictably, don't always see eye to eye, their approaches different and Evie'YouMeFuns progressive views at odds with Rebekah's conservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of fragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will' s life is so not what Henri wants to occupy his minddifficult, but in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he perks up a little when has 'the wrong shoes', he sees huge holes in has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the finances – it runs most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a steady moneycash-in-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out hand job on a building site and the amount vanishedhad an accident. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on Throw into that mix the scene to explain fact that missing money – ithis mum and dad are separated, and Will's been turned into life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henritiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the activities moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..long, dark tunnel.|isbn=191319387X1398527122

|isbnauthor=1471179311Edward W Said|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchRepresentations of the Intellectual

|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Tess, a teacher and Jason, a headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out Edward Said's ''Representations of the family home and Jason Intellectual'' is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in less a strict theory of what was the family home intellectuals are and another in the flat she shares with her mothermore a passionate argument for what they should be. It ''seemed'' to be working well until Said clearly rejects the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing comfortable image of the intellectual as a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she was unlikely detached expert speaking only to have heard in either homeother specialists. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to Instead, he insists on the intellectual as a therapist for helppublic figure, often awkward, abrasive, then her doctor and finally the police but no one will take what she has unpopular, who speaks truth to say seriouslypower even when it is inconvenient or risky.|isbn=1804272248

|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=14711966151786482126|title=IcedThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Felix FrancisElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling headBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -first down the threesite was going to hold seventy-quarterfive 'luxury' apartments -mile Cresta Run, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourwhen they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. He There was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf - that's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with the saddling of the horsesDCI Harry Nelson. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him and he swore difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that he'd never go back to itshe is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. But when he sees that something suspicious Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is going on, Miles can't help but look for answers, even when it puts him in dangerprone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=147228612X0008551375|title=The Late Train to Gipsy HillWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Alan JohnsonNeil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We all know people like Gary NelsonLeanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of a Scottish mountain, although we probably havenseemingly the result of a tragic accident. She't taken much notice of themd looked so happy, too, when she posted her intentions on Facebook. They live quietHer friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, uneventful lives and stay mostly under 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 radarlast year. In a city like LondonAll were experienced climbers, that's quite easy - properly equipped for what they were doing and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himsensible people. The highlight None of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love what a stupid thing to ask her for a date but he doesndo't have the courage. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his helpexplanations applied. Before long he finds himself They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is certain there's a killer on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan policeloose.

|author=Claire McGowanPaul B Preciado|title=I Know YouDysphoria Mundi|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=''Then:It is never too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down.

Through this hybrid text, consisting of arias, letters, essays and autofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, and brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to the new generation, a new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a sign of political apathy. Rather, it is the proportional, valid response to ''the epistemological and political crack we are living through, and the tension between emancipatory forces and conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''Now:dysphoria mundi'' Rachel . The whole text is out for framed against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to emerge on a global scale, or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a walk with her dogsign of weakness, Brandyor mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, when she comes across a body in the woodsPreciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.|isbn=15420199741804271454

|isbnauthor=1529148251Samantha Harvey|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapeIn 2024, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling Samantha Harvey won the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.Booker Prize for '' Before you start reading Orbital''Misfits'' you need to be , a compact yet profound work that unfolds over a single day in a certain frame the lives of mind. You're not going to read a book group of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within the television industry at astronauts aboard the Edinburgh TV FestivalInternational Space Station. You might be ''reading'' Through a narrative lens that mirrors the book but you need to ''listen'astronauts' orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to the words as though you're see our planet in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingwholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=0008433631295967572X|title=Next of KinPale Pieces|author=Kia AbdullahG M Stevens

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=It was Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a train journey with his companion Django. Where they're going and what the sort purpose of thing that happened every daythis journey is, although not to Leila Syedis uncertain. SheDjango found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere''d never driven her nephew, Max, and has persuaded our narrator to school before accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - but his father, Andrew Hanson, had rung her we are probably in a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max to school but he'd been called into work and the delay in getting there could lead past as the pair travel to financial losses. As the school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could station by coach and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her car. On the way Leila took train is a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at risksteam locomotive.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0008551324|title=Everybody Toots! The Devil You Know (Everybody Potties!D S Max Craigie)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1784165263|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisNeil Lancaster

|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be home to make his lunch approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for one othe other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'clock on s prepared to tell the dot, despite police where the fact that she body of a missing person is buried and who was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letresponsible for her death. If she didn't get homeThis person, he promises, there would is someone big and it will be troubleworth the police doing what he wants. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined And what he wants is to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick transferred to be understandingan open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Elizat think so and she's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about even prepared to leave: he wanted do the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=17847427751035043092|title=A Change of Circumstance The Killing Stones (Simon SerraillerJimmy Perez)|author=Susan HillAnn Cleeves

|summary=Drugs hadnI can't really have been that much of a problem in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of time. They still werethe only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to start a great extentnew life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as young well as nine were being recruited to transport Cassie, the drugs daughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldnshe ''should''t be on maternity leave, but when the correct one) body of a popular islander, Archie Stout, is found, in the person who was running him but he certainly wouldnaftermath of a storm, she can't know anything resist getting involved. He'd been battered about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch head with a few Neolithic stone - one of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upa pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor=B09FS89KX9Thea Lenarduzzi|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope PottsThe Tower|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into ''How unctuous are the final year fats of her veterinary degree and - three years later - was still working at BBanother's dinerlife, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. In this compelling novel, Thea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, the protagonist of this tale. Bob - Just as T's story is being told, the owner - regarded her fondlystory of a second protagonist is unveiled: he was Annie, the daughter of a good boss. Hollie had moved wealthy family in with her boyfriendthe 19th century, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well who died of tuberculosis after being locked in his careera tower, captures T's imagination. Hollie wasnAnnie't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of s fate is, above all he wanted her , an enticing story to leave her job at the dinerT. Then there was the fact that he would be violentIt is a story which she consumes avariciously, both to her in a quest for truth and knowledge, and in service of myth, fable and to other peoplefantasy. |isbn=1804271799

|author=John GwynneClaire-Louise Bennett|title=The Shadow Of The GodsBig Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is the first installment steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of the Bloodsworn Sagaintimacy and closeness, set in the era becomes evidence of love lost. When the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnaroknarrator cries out internally, when the Gods have battled ''come over here and their bones lie scattered for all kiss me,'' it is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to seeconfirm her emotional numbness. This story The imagined recipient of this plea is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genreXavier, with mythical creaturesher ex-partner, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together ghost she conjures to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battletest her detachment.|isbn=03565142181804271934

|isbn=B09HTWX47X0008405026|title=Endless ObsessionA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Dai HenleyJane Casey|rating=45

|summary=It's some sixteen years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly a DCI in nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the Met but now investigation ground to a well-respected private investigatorhalt. He's married to LauraNow, her mother, Helena, formerly his DS and her father are dead in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratorytheir bed. FloodInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown something about the nest, Pippa to Australia, from where she has very little contact with positioning of the family, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and Gemma to married lifeher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. She's had mental problems since she What looked as though it was abducted many years ago but Andy going to be an open-and Laura hope that married life will provide the support she needs-shut case is now a complex double murder. Flood's business Kerrigan is going well and convinced that was why he felt able to turn down the case of Lisa Black.}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night explanation lies in a shopping trolley, and sheRosalie's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her disappearance: others (such as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and itDerwent's only fair, is the general opinionboss, for the occupants Una Burt) are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..less convinced.|isbn=1529416973

|isbnauthor=B08Z8BMZ7HAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Mystery of Healing|author=A P McGrathOther Girl

|genre=Crime (Historical)Autobiography|summary=''We meet Solon in Pergamon in were born from the second century of the common era and hesame body. I's the physician on duty at the munus - the games put on for the amusement of the populaceve never really wanted to think about this. The remuneration isn't high ' Ernaux's work is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the work gives the doctor a feeling of virtue and hones his skills: Solon most intimate accounts I''wants'' the warriors ve read. Ernaux writes in direct address to liveher sister, however, this letter will never reach her. ItWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's quite sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a spectacle: few months before the magistri are the charge hands vaccine was made compulsory in France, and when we first see them, they're sprinkling gold dust onto 2 years before the lions' manes to make them look more impressiveauthor was even born. The sagitarii are the archers large and instant void created by the beastiarii are the condemned criminals who are going jarring concept of writing to fight for their lives an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of reckoning with the wild animals. Todaythis giant absence in her life, it's the crocodilesan absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=1804271845

|author=Kate DiCamillo Maxim Gorky and Sophie BlackallBryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=The Beatryce ProphecyReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=''Stories have joy Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and surprises in them'', we are told hereless personal. And none more so than in I think that Gorky completely rejects this wondrous storyperspective, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with offers a group vibrant, subjective yet informed portrait of monks, the Order three of his literary contemporaries. In the Chronicles first section of Sorrowingthis book, and the demonic goat Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that loves nothing more than upending: ''you write not of real life as it is, trampling on and biting the poor Brothersbut of what you yourself imagine it to be. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach Whom would it help to a homeless girlknow how I see this tower, that sea, one who has survived some trauma or that has blocked her past Tartar - why should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. Well, Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King in his castlesubjective account, desperate giving us access to find the girlhow he saw Tolstoy, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne Chekhov and cause great change. Who foretold Andreyev in such privileged detail that revolution but the Order one almost feels unworthy of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?it.|isbn=15295008931804271977

|isbn=B09FFJF8YS1529077745|title=You Can't Wear Panties! The Dark Wives (No More Nappies!D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Justine Avery and Kate Zhoidik|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pride.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye to nappies and pull-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's a big girl now and she wants everyone to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out LilyAnn Cleeves

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Lily isA man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, or was, or has been, very ill, and to give her parents relief she's been told to stay with her grandma a care home for a few daystroubled teens. The parents need dead man was Josh - one of the relief as Lily's baby sibling is just about care workers who was due to be born – work a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to do with. But on tracking back home for word investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra one of her parentsthe residents, and the babefourteen-inyear-arms, already installedold Chloe Spencer. These devilish interlopers need to be ousted to get Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the family back intact, even if itgirl's not the family Lily wants – and all diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snakefind Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|isbn=1471194833

|author=Greg James and Chris SmithOlga Tokarczuk|title=The Great Dream RobberyHouse of Day, House of Night

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Maya''What's father is the good of a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongworld that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?'' The title of this spellbinding work, and now he can't wake up. Or at least'House of Day, thatHouse of Night''s what Maya has been told. In a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new friend, and discovers that somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the only way shift from day to save her dad may be by being asleepnight, however quotidian, causing chaos. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really...and there's everything from llamas and bananasBut, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offsthe constant in that image is the house, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it is perceived.|isbn=024147051X1804271918

|isbn=18004644951836284683|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsThe Big Happy|author=Emma SmithDavid Chadwick

|genre=Children's Non-Dystopian Fiction|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.''Well! This is a murder mystery unlike any other!

Did you know this? I didndo love it when I open a book, it't! How about: ''Maths ability s nothing like I expected it to be, and it takes me on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double wild ride. And that of literacy skills.is just what happened with ''The Big Happy'' . I didndon't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children want to ruin a good start in literacy - similar experience for any of you reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start schoolbut I'll have to at least set the scene. But do we think the same way about mathsOnce that's done, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialyou should simply experience this wonderfully original story for yourself.

|isbnauthor=1529379385Sally Rooney|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyIntermezzo

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction |summary=In Sally Rooney has studied the Canadian village chessboard of Three Pines, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life and is something of a grandmaster at putting it into words. Her dialogue is starting to get back to normalgripping and so brilliantly frustrating, as her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. The villagers are beginning to return Among the many relationships woven into this story, the central one for readers to unravel is the Bistro fraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and the AubergePeter Koubek. Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a successful lawyer living in Dublin. They're visiting each otherFollowing their father's homes and having friends and relatives to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - passing after a bit like Vincent Gilbertlong battle with cancer, known in the village as the Asshole Saintbrothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|isbn= B09F4CTKJR1836285493|title= Flights for FreedomThe Double Life of a Wheelchair User|author= Steven BurgauerRob Keeley|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's the later stages Will is a keen player of World War I video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and the United States has just entered the conflicta supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. Petrol Petronus English is a young American who has signed up his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and joined the 17 Aero Squadronone at which he excels. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in Canadahasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, Mrs Howarth, the first and she has suggested to be attached to the RAF Will and the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combat. But before his mum that can happenhe spends a couple of afternoons a week at a different school, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith CamelStation Road, where his ability might be better extended.

|isbn=183885410X1009473085|title=The Dark RemainsConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=William McIlvanney Anthony Seldon and Ian RankinTom Egerton (Editors)|rating=3.5|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=Bobby Carter was Sometimes it's simpler to explain a lawyer book by describing what it ''isn't'' and consigliere that applies to one of the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgow''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. DC Jack Laidlaw is If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the CID team charged with the investigationbook for you. I say If that's what you'on the teamre looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon' but Laidlaw never really seems to s book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a part of itcompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. He does his own thing, goes his own way and ''The Dark RemainsConservative Effect''is an entirely different beast. It' uncovers 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 truth most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one experts from various fields review the state of Glasgow's seedier pubsthe nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.

|isbnauthor=1942410255Jenny Valentine|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workElk and Mab are best friends, often unpaid'' It's the cultureor more than that even, isn't it? their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. The hours for which you're paid are really just They meet as children one day on a statement of the minimum youtrip out but unfortunately they don'll be required to do: yout get each other'll work more hours to get the job done and done to s contact details at the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukatime. When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or griefBut then chance brings them back together, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentand they are inseparable. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee Something has happened though, Mayu Yamasesomething terrible and tragic, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to now they must work an unreasonable amount of overtimethrough their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585