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|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint 1806344777|title= Ariadne Arthur and the Land of Nimbostratus: Arthur's Able Adventures|author=Rob Keeley|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction For Sharing|summary= This re-telling Arthur dreams of the myth adventures. He looks out of Ariadne his window each day and thinks of all the Minotaur is interesting escapades he could have, the places he could go and unusualthe things he could see. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way His favourite day is Saturday because that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint day his friend Maxine - she of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader booming laugh and silver bangles - comes to really connect with Ariadne as visit. Maxine is a character in her own right rather than just a prop great believer in the heroics power of Theseusimagination. |isbn=1472273869}}

|authorisbn=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne1035043092|title=Monster DoughnutsThe Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappeared, Grace and Danni 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 run the family bakerystart a new life on Orkney. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though sheIt's only ten been seven years oldsince we heard from him, but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, she is a monster hunter! the daughter of his former partner. Monsters have a very sweet toothWillow's also his boss, and Grace uses a number of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder she ''should'' be on themmaternity leave, or tricking them into eating but when the body of a sweet treat that willpopular islander, ultimatelyArchie Stout, be their demise. One dayis found, though, Grace finds herself facing in the aftermath of a cyclops monster called Mr Harrisstorm, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesnshe can't seem to explode as resist getting involved. He'd been battered about the other monsters do, and so things start to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432head with a Neolithic stone - one of a pair - which had been stolen from a museum.

|isbnauthor=0995647895Polly Barton|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceWhat Am I, A Deer?|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=SadiePolly Barton's mother always said debut novel is an intellectually playful yet emotionally exposed work that she was a dreameruses translation as both subject and governing metaphor. The narrator, newly relocated from London to Berlin, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by works translating video games into Japanese through the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves process of localisation, rewriting language until it feels comfortably familiar to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty Sarka new audience. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered Barton treats this as a paradoxical act: arguably, in the gloomstriving for universality, language is endlessly repackaged,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''its originality at risk of disappearing altogether. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail From this, the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under novel opens out into a glass case (it's the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was wider, resonant question: to what extent do we translate ourselves in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a world of dolphinsorder to be understood, piratesaccepted, mermaids and treasure.or loved?|isbn=1804272175

|authorisbn=Kristen O'NealZabriskie1|title=Lycanthropy A Village Where Many Ways Meet: A Story of Belonging and Other Chronic IllnessesCommunity, Rooted in Indigenous Wisdom|author=Stephanie Zabriskie

|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease''Across many African and Indigenous systems, differences in how children learn, sense , Priya has or process the world were not treated as disorders to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for corrected. They were understood as natural variations of human intelligence and awareness, each holding value within the rest of her lifecommunity. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to  This lovely story is a bunch synthesis of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other outthat tradition, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess aroundwhich was carried down through generations by oral retellings. When Brigid—one It shows that a community or society is not made up from interchangeable building blocks of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for human beings but by a whilerange of people with different skills and different personalities, Priya becomes concerned. She decides all contributing to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – whole that combines them all and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthsbenefit of them all.|isbn=1683692349

|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1787333175|title=SlingshotYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=35|genre=TeensPopular Science|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself 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 being lonely. As Hurt}}, a secret illegitimate daughter glorious mixture of insight into the workings of a man with a "real" familythe NHS, she is used humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to not being mental illness and the work of a priority in people's livespsychiatrist. But when she defends a random boy I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence this setting but the laughter is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has directed at a situation rather than a boy in person and it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldis always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=152905818X

|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAMaria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale (Translator)|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeDisappearing Act|rating=4.5

|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news Despite her anonymisation of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husbandplace names and people, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke Stepanova's message in this short work of Omnium, autofiction is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in officeunmistakable. He seeks A novelist named M travels from B (ostensibly Berlin) to protect and guide his three adult children, which the town of F for a literary festival she is easier said than done when none of them wishes to ''be'' guideda guest speaker at. Silverbridge (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known Detoured by his title) erratic train schedules and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run nudged by forces beyond her control, her journey slowly bends toward a traveling circus. Swept up gambling debtsin this series of events, occasionally M eventually offers to step in eye-watering sumsfor a circus performer who has unexpectedly left the show. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - The train functions as a motif of transience and wishes to marry - Frank Tregearimpermanence, while the circus embodies the penniless son reshaping of identity and a poor squireretreat into fantasy, which an impulse that lies at the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos very heart of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their waythe novel form itself.|isbn=1804272329

|authorisbn=Goldy MoldavskyB0GFQ81YQK|title=The Last GirlHow the Sky and the Earth Made People: From the Oral Stories of Malagasy Elders|author=Stephanie Zabriskie|rating=4.5|genre=TeensChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Rachel Chavez is Before people came and joined the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to animals, there was only the brim with sky and the richest children in earth. Everything was quiet until the city – earth and Rachel doesn't belongthe sky began to tal to each other. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in SerbiaFirst, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfortearth created bodies. She struggles to find anyone to connect withAnd then, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Clubsky breathed life into them. A secret society with one aim: pull off These were the best prank in true horror movie style, first humans and they belonged to both earth and sky. And so people lived between sky and soil and they planted and learned and unless someone screamsremembered, you have failedespecially how they came to be. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, When they grew old and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this schooldied, things start their bodies returned to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up the earth and their life returned to the pranks, sky. And that is why the earth and the sky are both revered. Only together can they create human beings. And that is why people begin must pay attention to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too lateand care for, both.|isbn=0755501527

|authorisbn=Polly BartonB0GHPMNF6P|title=Fifty SoundsThe Zookeeper's Dragon: A Magical Modern Fantasy Tale for Grown-Ups|author=Carolyn Mathews

|genre=Politics and SocietyFantasy|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself startsWhen Phil's father unexpectedly dies, with he quits his Canary Wharf finance job to take over the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if running of the world hadnfamily't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nows farm zoo. I may get there later this year, but I am He's not hopeful. And like Bartonexpecting much excitement, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings until he receives an unidentified egg that his new-age stoner uncle Edgar found in respect of the question a cave in the first essayNew Zealand, which and suddenly life is on no longer quite what it seems. Then the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as beingegg hatches into neither a reptile nor a bird, but a dragon! Now he, Edgar, among other thingshis mother Abi, and the sound of zoo''every party where you s part-time café waitress Pearl have to introduce yourself''raise this little bundle of scales and joy, despite having no idea how to actually raise dragons and not being able to tell anyone about it.|isbn=1913097501But this tiny little dragon may show them love and connection in ways they had never before imagined…

|author=Lucy HollandStephanie Zabriskie|title=SistersongHow Maasai Women Spoke to Cows: From the Oral Stories of Maasai Elders

|genre=Literary Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Sistersong ''How Maasai Women Spoke to Cows is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, children’s nonfiction book drawn from the modern retelling oral traditions of folk and fairy talesMaasai elders in Ngorongoro, Tanzania. These stories, for most of us, '' The Maasai are a cornerstone of childhood cattle-herding people and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectivethis story writes down its oral tradition explaining how they came to be so. If handled well these retellings give new life Cattle are status and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow wealth in Maasai culture but this doesn't tell the whole story of the intimate and outdatedsymbiotic connection its people, fleshing out charactersand especially its women, examining relationships have with their cows and re-evaluating for the natural world. The oral tradition retelling the role of many conversations Maasai womenhave had with their cows, does.|isbn=B0G9WTGY6J}}{{Frontpage|author=Livi Michael|title=Elizabeth and Ruth|rating=3. Sistersong 5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=''Elizabeth and Ruth'' is a perfect example work of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing fiction wrought from the characters to come to lifeof the Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell, to feel real and humanbest known for her first novel Mary Barton (1848), most importantly they feel relatable a radical critique of the treatment of the working class published under a pseudonym. The ''Ruth'' from Livi Michael's title appears in her novel as Pasley, a young Irish prostitute who was abandoned as a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live child and finds herself inManchester's New Bailey Prison after a difficult and unjust hand at life. This is a masterpiece of storytelling Set in Manchester between 1839 and 1842, the novel examines the harsh conditions endured by the Victorian working poor and I was captivated from beginning interrogates the extent to endwhich the wealthy (including Gaskell herself) were responsible for addressing these injustices.|isbn=15290390371784633682

|isbnauthor=1529124255Makenna Goodman|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksHelen of Nowhere

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=We know straight away It could be argued that there's going the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to be -place feeling that something in your life is not quite right. The protagonist, a body. It's disgraced professor on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town brink of Clearwater losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a force which is seductive, radical and it's new year's dayunnerving: Helen. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to The connection between Helen and the previous Septemberprotagonist is indirect yet intimate. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - sheAs the former owner of the countryside house he's lived there since her teens and nowconsidering, Helen represents a volta in her mid-thirtieshis life, she's returned to her home town past tied to livehis potential fresh start. Her husbandThe realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, Graham, works in Singapore and she and describes her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friendan entity that is pure consciousness, Anna Robinsonbeyond form''. Although she lives in an assisted living facility now, is still in Clearwater and she Helen has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the class Matilda will be joiningsense are not altogether innocuous. It's perfect!|isbn=1804272205

|authorisbn=Sarah SultoonB0GCB1MQ7D|title=The SourceWhy My Mother Went Away|author=Alan Kennedy|rating=2.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=1996I have often wondered how prominent people came to hold their positions. Essex With 'celebrities', there's frequently a book they might or might not have written, which might or might not tell the true story. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in It's not often that you find a disenfranchised town dominated by book that gives the full backstory, and rarely do you discover a military basememoir where the telling is so perfect that you'll go back and reread paragraphs and sentences, struggling to care just for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingethe pleasure the words give. ''Why My Mother Went Away'' is one of those rare exceptions. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats It's the story of how a boy from the Midlands, and offers an exclusive invitation to army partiesborn at the beginning of the Second World War, things start to look would become a little less bleak.Professor of Psychology at Dundee University.In fact, he was one of the founders of the department.|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6AJeremy Cooper|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeDiscord|rating=43.5

|summary=Plantagenet PalliserDiscord: a lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) The principal example of discord within the Duke novel, as with most instances of Omniumdiscord, is the prime minister easily located. The two protagonists of a coalition government but he's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopeznovel, Rebekah Rosen and Evie Bennet, are as different as they come. Lopex Rebekah is exotic an uptight, traditional and no- some describe him nonsense composer close to retirement, while Evie is a force of nature, bounding onto the musical scene as Jewisha precocious saxophonist, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows oozing with talent and Lopez is not going to explaincharm. The ladies of societytwo, predictably, even Palliserdon's own wifet always see eye to eye, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position of having to support his wifetheir approaches different and Evie's actions when Lopez loses a by-election. The Dukeprogressive views at odds with Rebekah's payment conservative leaning. However, something connects them beyond just their musical project: a sort of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt himfragile alliance formed within the clamour.|isbn=1804272264

|isbnauthor=1787332098Tom Percival|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Edward Said's 'When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions 'Representations of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.Intellectual'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows is less a strict theory of what intellectuals are and more a passionate argument for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat..what they should be.) and I much prefer my elephants in Said clearly rejects the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for comfortable image of the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude intellectual as a detached expert speaking only to animals - and I consider myself an animal loverother specialists. If I had to choose between Instead, he insists on the company of humans and the company of animalsintellectual as a public figure, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheeseoften awkward, eggsabrasive, chicken and fish and I needed unpopular, who speaks truth to either do so without guilt power even when it is inconvenient or change my choicesrisky. I suspected that making |isbn=1804272248}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the decision would not be comfortableLuminous 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

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass1786482126|title=The High HouseJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to pass on its genetic material with hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. However Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favourDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Today It's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parentsdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' parents did not seem to think t, that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a she is pregnant with his child and living in as a world on result of the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrassone night they spent together some three months ago. This is Her condition will be obvious before long, not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This least because Ruth is the life our children and their children will have prone to livesudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1800750072

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan0008551375|title=Madame BurovaWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Leanne Wilson's body was found at the bottom of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, ImeldaScottish mountain, seemingly the third generation result of Madame Burova, 'a tragic accident. She'Tarot-Readerd looked so happy, Palmist and Clairvoyant''too, to use when she posted her family's sea-front boothintentions on Facebook. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campHer friends were relieved as she was just out of an unpleasant relationship, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time it looked like she was living her best life now. Then it emerged that five other women had died in similar circumstances in the family stalllast year. We also see her on her last dayAll were experienced climbers, fifty years later, in possession properly equipped for what they were doing and sensible people. None of the 'what a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiestupid thing to do' explanations applied. Just who They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is she, and who delivered certain there's a killer on the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xloose.

|author= Jonathan StroudPaul B Preciado|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneDysphoria Mundi|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensPolitics and Society|summary= Scarlett McCain ''It is an outlawnever too late to embrace the revolutionary optimism of childhood''  Through this hybrid text, rejecting the draconian conformity consisting of the Surviving Towns arias, letters, essays and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britainautofiction, Preciado expresses his own hybrid self, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws brings forth a new sensorium as an offering to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Brownethe new generation, a dark boy with dark powers and new feeling mechanism in which detachment is not considered a darker pastsign of political apathy. With mysterious militiamen hunting them downRather, they plan to flee it is the proportional, valid response to ''the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlifeepistemological and political crack we are living through, and the cannibalistic Tainted tension between emancipatory forces and all conservative resistances that characterize our present'' which Preciado calls ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is framed against the horrors backdrop of postthe Covid-apocalyptic society 19 pandemic as that which has catalysed this revolution, when dysphoria began to reach the Free Islesemerge on a global scale, but will they be any more accepted there or as ''pangea covidica''. Rather than they are in the rest taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of Britain?weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to ''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''. |isbn=14063948151804271454

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SSamantha Harvey|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalOrbital|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down In 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''againOrbital''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just a compact yet profound work that little bit further when unfolds over a single day in the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was lives of a group of astronauts aboard the instigatorInternational Space Station. And then he gets into trouble at school and Through a narrative lens that mirrors the teachers donastronauts't believe him when he tries orbital perspective, Harvey invites readers to explain what happenedsee our planet in a wholly new light.|isbn=1529922933

|isbn=B00474HVX4295967572X|title=Phineas ReduxPale Pieces|author=Anthony TrollopeG M Stevens|rating=4.5

|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved Our unnamed narrator is about to begin a paying position he fell out train journey with those who provided his income companion Django. Where they're going and returned to Ireland where he married Marywhat the purpose of this journey is, his childhood sweetheartis uncertain. He was fortunate Django found the tickets ''on the floor somewhere'' and has persuaded our narrator to get a job in Cork (or Dublin accompany him. Why not? Not much else is clear either - recollections may vary) and seemed settled into a life of domesticity. To bring Finn back, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges but we are probably in London the past as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time pair travel to allow the move to be possiblestation by coach and the train is a steam locomotive.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0008551324|title=The Other EmilyDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's unusual for anyone from the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has Hardie family to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveapproach the police. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at nightNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. HeBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's paying for contact with prepared to tell the man he thinks police where the only suspect, body of a lifer nowmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, who went a bit Hannibal Lecterhe promises, is someone big and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordit will be worth the police doing what he wants. David And what he wants is trying to pry be transferred to an open prison to serve the connection between the murderer remainder of his sentence and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availget an early parole date. HeNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into even prepared to do the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his loveother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958

|author=Charlie CarrollThea Lenarduzzi|title=The LipTower

|summary=''Melody Janie RoweHow unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream' even '. 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 name story of a second protagonist is evocative of…probably unveiled: Annie, the daughter of whatever we want it a wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of tuberculosis after being locked in a tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to beT. It is a story which she consumes avariciously, both in a quest for truth and maybe that's the pointknowledge, and in service of myth, fable and fantasy. To me the name sings |isbn=1804271799}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire-Louise Bennett|title=Big Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Everything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of English folk musicintimacy and closeness, but even in my use becomes evidence of that word Englishlove lost. When the narrator cries out internally, ''come over here and kiss me, I know I'm putting ' it is less an emmet take on thingsinvitation than a desperate attempt to confirm her emotional numbness. And Melody Janie Rowe The imagined recipient of this plea is antiXavier, her ex-emmetpartner, a ghost she conjures to test her detachment. |isbn=15293341791804271934

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll0008405026|title=The Day A Stranger in the Screens Went BlankFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Stella and It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her familybed one summer night. They're just innocently trying She was never found and the investigation ground to have a Sunday evening halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in togethertheir bed. Initially, watching it looks like a film – using three different screens straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to watch three different thingsbe 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, mind – when Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Annie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=The Other Girl|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=''We were born from the same body. I'poofve never really wanted to think about this.'' everything goes blank. And it Ernaux's not just their homework is always very candid and her tone transparent, but this raw epistolary text must be one of the entire south-western village of Mouseholemost intimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, and not just thathowever, either, but the whole country, if not worldthis letter will never reach her. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping theyWhy? Because Annie Ernaux're first to get s sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a screen backfew months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and not what they were constantly doing on them 2 years beforethe author was even born. Toasters can toastThe large and instant void created by the 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 TVs cannot do the V part often denied.|isbn=1804271845}}{{Frontpage|author=Maxim Gorky and Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Reminiscences of their jobTolstoy, Chekhov and no computer Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Biographies are often seen as the form of life-writing which offers less colour; it can show its computationsbe seen as more objective and less personal. You might I think that Gorky completely rejects this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such perspective, and offers a Luddite experience against their willvibrant, but nosubjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. For In the family finally remember Stellafirst section of this book, Tolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: 's grandma'you write not of real life as it is, and see if they can get across country but of what you yourself imagine it to herbe. Hence Whom would it help to know how I see this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just tower, thatsea, a slapstick roador that Tartar -trip comedywhy should it interest anyone? Of what use is it?''. And more than thatWell, too – for it's Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a slapsticksubjective account, high-dramagiving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart Chekhov and Andreyev in such privileged detail that kids one almost feels unworthy of all ages will loveit.|isbn=14711968871804271977

|isbn=19131935271529077745|title=Bound The Dark Wives (Detective Sam ShephardD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Vanda SymonAnn Cleeves

|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the murder body of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliff. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced to watch man in the murderpark near Rosebank, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned a care home from an evening outfor troubled teens. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalnever turned up. His companyD I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of the residents, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed ''vitaminfourteen-year-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that kind of thing'', Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as Hendersonthe girl's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explaineddiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|isbnauthor=1529109116Olga Tokarczuk|title=Call Me Red: A ShepherdHouse of Day, House of Night|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''What's Journeythe 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=1836284683|title=The Big Happy|author=Hannah JacksonDavid Chadwick

|genre=LifestyleDystopian Fiction|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of Well! This is a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.''murder mystery unlike any other!

The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. HeI do love it when I open a book, it's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants nothing like I expected it to do: he knows that he'll be , and it takes me on a farmerwild ride. ItAnd that is just what happened with 's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although sheThe Big Happy''d always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientistI don' and she was well on her way t want to achieving this when her life changed on ruin a family holiday similar experience for any of you reading but I'll have to at least set the Lake Districtscene. She saw a lamb being born and, although Once that'Hannah Jacksons done, farmer' lacked the kudos of her I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitionstory for yourself.

|isbnauthor=0857527231Sally Rooney|title=Dog Days|author=Ericka WallerIntermezzo|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=George Dempsey Sally Rooney has studied the chessboard of life and is exceedingly angrysomething of a grandmaster at putting it into words. It's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died Her dialogue is gripping and it's the first time that she's let him down. He's lostso brilliantly frustrating, bereft without as her ( he ''needs his wife, like a snail needs its shell'')characters never quite say exactly what they feel. He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on Among the doorstepmany relationships woven into this story, he'd much rather have a good row with someone. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared central one for readers to contradict him when he told her that unravel is the dog wasn't stayingfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. Now he's lumbered Ivan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, contrasts sharply with his older brother Peter, a dog he doesnsuccessful lawyer living in Dublin. Following their father't want and s passing after a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Bettylong battle with cancer, who wonthe brothers't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themalready strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=0571365469

|isbn=B003UH99X41836285493|title=The Eustace DiamondsDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Anthony TrollopeRob Keeley

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come to regret Will is a keen player of video games, a conscientious student, a slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. But most of all, he is an aspiring writer. English is his favourite lesson at his marriage but school, Marlowe Park, and one at which he didnexcels. This hasn't live long enough for this to become a problem. After gone unnoticed by his deathheadteacher, his wifeMrs Howarth, Lizzie - still only in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over has suggested to her husband's executors. She was adamant Will and his mum that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although the precise circumstances he spends a couple of the giving varied from telling to telling. Lady Eustace was not afternoons a woman to whom truth meant week at a great deal. All that was important to her nowdifferent school, she maintainedStation Road, was her son. And, of course, her diamondswhere his ability might be better extended.

|isbn=15290473151009473085|title=The LamplightersConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Emma StonexAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)

|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them both, he said, If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of them.inside story about what ''really'' In 1972happened on certain occasions, fifteen miles off then this isn't the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from book for you. The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in If that's what you'the frigid pause between Christmas and New Yearre looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. Jory Martin had taken out It's a relief keeper, compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the waveletsThe Conservative Effect'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rockis an entirely different beast. It was broken into 's the next day, but there was no sign of seventh book in a series which looks at the men. The table was set for impact a meal for two government has made and co- and editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the clocks were stopped at 8most important.45. Contact with This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the light had not been possible as coalition took over in 2010, the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to changes that occurred and the mensituation in 2024.

|author=Mary H K ChoiJenny Valentine|title=YolkUs in the Before and After

|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that's her charm. June, on the other handeven, their friendship is a complete contrast to Jayneonce in a lifetime connection. She They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don's a typical older sister: shet get each other's smartcontact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, thinks she knows it alland they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicestragic, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sicknow they must work through their grief, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come their friendship, together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 03490036961471196585