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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 ''dysphoria mundi''. The whole text is 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''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews . Rather than taking this extreme dysphoria as a sign of books about weakness, or mistaking detachment or withdrawal for political paralysis, Preciado urges his readers to be published]]''use dysphoria as your revolutionary platform''.<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|isbn=1804271454}}

|author=Louise CandlishSamantha Harvey|title=The HeightsOrbital

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Ellen doesnIn 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for ''Orbital't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for compact yet profound work that unfolds over a lighting consultation when she spies him single day in the lives of a building across group of astronauts aboard the wayInternational Space Station. There are lots of thingsThrough a narrative lens that mirrors the astronauts' orbital perspective, lots of people, you might Harvey invites readers to see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or our planet in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderwholly new light.|isbn=14711834831529922933

|isbn=0008421714295967572X|title=Mrs MarchPale Pieces|author=Virginia FeitoG M Stevens|rating=4.5

|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel Our unnamed narrator is about to datebegin a train journey with his companion Django. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on Where they're going and what the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done sopurpose of this journey is, is uncertain. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping Django found the bread, 'tickets 'but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerismsfloor somewhere''and has persuaded our narrator to accompany him. Perhaps this would Why not have mattered, except for ? Not much else is clear either - but we are probably in the past as the pair travel to the station by coach and the fact that Johanna train is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchsteam locomotive.''

|authorisbn=John Boyne0008551324|title=The Echo ChamberDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet George CleverleyIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. He Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is self-defined as "one of struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the few television personalities over police where the age body of fifty without a criminal record"missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child This person, he promises, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with someone big and it will be worth the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withpolice doing what he wants. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to save serve the world's homeless with out-remainder of-his sentence and to get an early parole date food. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and a fit young lad doing she's even prepared to do the gay hustle other thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, anyone who works with him is the fact this is bloody funnykept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0857526219

|isbnauthor=0241989094Jon Fosse and Damion Searls (translator) |title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodVaim

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house 'All was strange''... This haunting phrase encapsulates the pervading sense of otherworldliness which permeates this story set in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, LavenderVaim, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful fictional fishing village in Norway which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect paradoxically could not feel more real for them. It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon Jatgeir and we encounter Eline, two of the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living protagonists caught in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorits melancholic current.|isbn=1804271829

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1035043092|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done I can't have been the impossible and unpicked the lock only person who was sad when Inspector Jimmy Perez [[Wild Fire (Shetland, Book 8) by Ann Cleeves|left Shetland]] to the Forgotten Cryptstart a new life on Orkney. It's been seven years since we heard from him, from which the Departed communicate but he's now living with Willow Reeves and their young son, James, as well as Cassie, the Mergedaughter of his former partner. Willow's also his boss, Archie now has and she ''gropshould'' to think about. But before thatbe on maternity leave, but when the body of a popular islander, soirees. Soirees! ArchieStout, much to Inez's amusementis found, in the aftermath of a storm, doesnshe can't even know what one of those isresist getting involved. But he manages to come through He'd been battered about the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter head with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume a Neolithic stone - one of this seriesa pair - which had been stolen from a museum. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbnauthor=B07GZ81J7CThea Lenarduzzi|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and Mended|author=Peter CottonThe Tower|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Meet Fred''How unctuous are the fats of another's life, how dizzying their sugars in our bloodstream''. Well In this compelling novel, actuallyThea Lenarduzzi assumes the identity of T, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklythe protagonist of this tale. But IJust as T'm getting ahead s story is being told, the story of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred second protagonist is unveiled: Annie, the daughter of a snake and even those wealthy family in the 19th century, who died of us who have tuberculosis after being locked in a phobia about snakes are going tower, captures T's imagination. Annie's fate is, above all, an enticing story to warm to himT. He arrived as It is a present story which she consumes avariciously, both in a box with holes so that he could breathe quest for truth and knowledge, and immediately became part in service of the familymyth, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkfable and fantasy. And that was where the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakes.|isbn=1804271799

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaClaire-Louise Bennett|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Big Kiss, Bye-Bye |rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'tEverything in this book, however sweet or seemingly innocent, is steeped in anguish and distortion. Even a kiss, usually a symbol of intimacy and closeness, as any parent will tell youbecomes evidence of love lost. But reallyWhen the narrator cries out internally, why shouldn't 'come over here and kiss me,'' it be? We all have is less an invitation than a desperate attempt to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are smallconfirm her emotional numbness. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun asThe imagined recipient of this plea is Xavier, sayher ex-partner, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? a ghost she conjures to test her detachment.|isbn= B098BJZYHH1804271934

|isbn=17876344930008405026|title=All Her FaultA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Andrea MaraJane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It had seemed like 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happensummer night. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that She was never found and the opportunity would arise for investigation ground to a halt. Now, her sonmother, MiloHelena, to go on a play dateand her father are dead in their bed. She was concerned Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that he didn't have any friends at his new schoolmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in What looked as though it was going to be an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob open- and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove -shut case is now a little latercomplex double murder. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at Kerrigan is convinced that the house, expecting to meet Jacobexplanation lies in Rosalie's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jennydisappearance: others (such as Derwent's nannyboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|author=Claire NorthAnnie Ernaux and Alison L. Strayer (translator)|title=Notes from the Burning AgeThe Other Girl

|genre=Science FictionAutobiography|summary=At its core ''Notes From We were born from the Burning Agesame body. I've never really wanted to think about this.'' Ernaux' by Claire North s work is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations always very candid and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Howeverher tone transparent, as with but this raw epistolary text must be one of the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genreintimate accounts I've read. Ernaux writes in direct address to her sister, cli-fihowever, or climate change fictionthis letter will never reach her. NorthWhy? Because Annie Ernaux's novel tells sister died of diphtheria at 6 years old, a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew few months before the vaccine was made compulsory in France, and live alongside nature without any of 2 years before the modern author was even born. The large and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons instant void created by the jarring concept of writing to an imaginary recipient emphasises Ernaux's process of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness reckoning with this limiting worldgiant absence in her life, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthan absence that she has always felt but often denied.|isbn=03565147571804271845

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir Maxim Gorky and Victoria Cribb Bryan Karetnyk (translator)|title=Girls Who LieReminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersBiography|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all Biographies are often seen as the dark corners form of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers life-writing which offers less colour; it can be seen as more objective and crime books before nowless personal. You I think, seeing on the map that we're set in AkranesGorky completely rejects this perspective, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityoffers a vibrant, that this author is clutching at the few final straws leftsubjective yet informed portrait of three of his literary contemporaries. However just because In the first section of this book aims for the usual small-town feel, itTolstoy complains to his friend Gorky that: ''s you write not just in Akranes that our interests lieof real life as it is, but of what you yourself imagine it to be. Six months ago a woman failed Whom would it help to turn up for her date eveningknow how I see this tower, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl backsea, and a couple of delighted adopters. But or that Tartar - why should it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone interest anyone? Of what use was at a high level until is it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman?''s car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. MeanwhileWell, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue Maxim Gorky shows exactly what can be gained from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionsubjective account, giving us access to how he saw Tolstoy, Chekhov and very little maternal feeling Andreyev in her body. Is the assumption such privileged detail that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?almost feels unworthy of it.|isbn=191319373X1804271977

|isbn=B0925KS87N1529077745|title=Dead Man's Grave The Dark Wives (DS Max CraigieD I Vera Stanhope)|author=Neil LancasterAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the grave - and it took some finding - body of a man in an overgrown old cemeterythe park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. It The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to work a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, shift the night before but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to dowho had never turned up. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the grave murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one which said that it shouldn't be opened of the residents, fourteen-year- and his three sons began to worryold Chloe Spencer. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the police death but they werenVera thinks this is unlikely as the girl't certain where their father had been and they were worrieds diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyB0FK5LHKD9|title=The Tiny Gestures Colour of Small FlowersMemory|author=Christopher Bowden|rating=34

|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the authorIt's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of been three years since we last reviewed a certain vintagebook by favourite regular Christopher Bowden, it's hard so we were very glad to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding see a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earliernovel arrive here at Bookbag Towers. They're not quite like Like all the other families (heBowden's an ex rockerstories, shethere's a former beauty queen) but theymystery at the heart of ''ve made some friends and their kids have settled in, and itThe Colour of Money's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up We like this running theme in the park across the way. Itan author's work - take a revolting mess of dirt mystery but give it different flavour and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comeatmosphere each time.|isbn=1789098211

|author=Lisa ThompsonOlga Tokarczuk|title=The Small ThingsHouse of Day, House of Night

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family don't have enough money to let her do after school activities, and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison to theirs. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because the new girl, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school in person. Instead, she joins in with What's the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome the challenge good of making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellieworld that keeps changing like that? How can one go on calmly living in it?|isbn=1781129649}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba

The title of this spellbinding work, ''0.7% House of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer Day, House of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.Night'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to , somewhat reflects this notion of shifting realities - the small, subtle changes which govern our lives, like the UK shift from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came firstday to night, however quotidian, with her father joining them latercausing chaos. The family was hard-workingBut, principled and determined the constant in that their children would have image is the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: house, stoic against the ancient diurnal cycle which nonetheless controls how it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxfordis perceived.|isbn=1804271918}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787631869henleyA|title=The Rising TideUltimate Obsession|author=Sam LloydDai Henley

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't Ex-DCI Andy Flood has been easy but she'd built a good Private Investigator for some time now, and decent life in the aftermathhe should be doing quite well financially. She's now married to DanielUnfortunately, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucyhis daughter's daughter and Fin, the child she had with Danieldefence against a murder charge drained his savings. They have financial difficultiesHis wife, some caused by Nick PoveyLaura, Danielhas been trying to persuade him to retire - ''s partner and so-called best friendmaybe go travelling or go on cruises. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a childrenThat's home but itwhat 'ordinary people do','' He's difficult not been entirely up front about the state of their savings. When Jack Durban tries to think that Nick has Danielpersuade him to take his case, it's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or the thought of the money, he could make that convinces him that this is concerneda miscarriage of justice that he really should put right.

|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1836284683|title=Kate on the CaseThe Big Happy|author=David Chadwick|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersDystopian Fiction|summary=Meet KateWell! This is a murder mystery unlike any other! I do love it when I open a book, although it's nothing like I got the impression she'd rather expected it to be , and it takes me on a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at wild ride. And that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, just what happened with ''The Special Correspondent ManualBig Happy''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped I don't want to manage ruin a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother similar experience for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-any of youreading but I'll-miss-them stylehave to at least set the scene. ItOnce that's definitely a case done, I think you should simply experience this wonderfully original story for a new young investigative journalist.yourself..|isbn=184812970X

|author=Darren ShanSally Rooney|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Intermezzo

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction |summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroSally 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, Archieas her characters never quite say exactly what they feel. Among the many relationships woven into this story, back in London in the world of central one for readers to unravel is the Bornfraternal connection—or lack thereof—between Ivan and Peter Koubek. It's not been easyIvan, a socially awkward chess prodigy, explaining to contrasts sharply with his foster parents where he's beenolder brother Peter, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends a successful lawyer living in the Merge, but Archie has done his best..Dublin.. well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big BenFollowing their father's clock tower and except for fiddling passing after a long battle with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awaycancer, the brothers' already strained relationship faces new trials.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0571365469

|isbn=05713658841036916375|title=My Mess is Just a Bit of Life: Adventures in AnxietyLiverpool Lad|author=Georgia PritchettPeter McArdle

|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious''Just a Liverpool Lad '' is a collection of memories and reflections from the years Peter McArdle spent growing up in and around Liverpool. Some are factual, even such as the family history of a childsea-going family, with the docks dominating lives. She would worry about whether Other stories blend seamlessly into the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweenwhat-might-have-been. On It's a visit book to a therapistsettle into and allow your mind to roam across your childhood memories, as an adultto think of simpler times when life seemed less constrained, when she despite the blitz that was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures constant factor in AnxietyMcArdle's early years. I' is d never heard of parachute mines before - but they were almost soundless and could appear after the result all- or so we are given to believeclear was sounded.

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter1836285493|title=The House on the EdgeDouble Life of a Wheelchair User|author=Rob Keeley|rating=45

|summary=Faith's family home Will is teetering on the edge a keen player of video games, a cliffconscientious student, literallya slightly annoying brother and a supportive friend. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apartBut most of all, so he is Faith's familyan aspiring writer. Her dad has disappearedEnglish is his favourite lesson at his school, Marlowe Park, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bedone at which he excels. So that leaves Faith in chargeThis hasn't gone unnoticed by his headteacher, taking care of her little brother NoahMrs Howarth, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah and she has suggested to school, Will and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is his mum that he obsessed with what he claims is spends a couple of afternoons a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find week at a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantlydifferent school, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold togetherStation Road, or how long she can keep on keeping onwhere his ability might be better extended.|isbn=1788008626

|isbn=00082690411009473085|title=Risk of HarmThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Lucie WhitehouseAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePolitics and Society|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her lessSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-than2024 -comfortable departure from the Met14 Wasted Years?''. She might have been reinstated but If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouthinside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. She was now working If that's what you're looking for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty , I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years before. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parentIt's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who has gone out of his way thinks Johnson should return to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childpolitics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. HeIt's married to Nataliethe seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, now the changes that occurred and has a young child but he's still got it the situation in for Robin2024.

|isbnauthor=1786332388Jenny Valentine|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - Elk and ''The First Day of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is superb and completely compellinga once in a lifetime connection. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and wonThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't let go. So, whatget each other's contact details at the problem? time. WellBut then chance brings them back together, the problem is Chrissieand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years oldand now they must work through their grief, small for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boytheir friendship, together. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?|isbn=1471196585

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1787333175|title=The Disappearing ActYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary= British actress Mia Eliot 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 on Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the cusp workings of success. Great success. If the rumours are trueNHS, award season is going humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed productionbe Mad... She's going places ' promised the same elements but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit moved from physical problems to mental illness and a pretty young thing in the form work of his new co-stara psychiatrist. It's a good time I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for Mia to escape, and pilot season humour in LA provides just this setting but the excuselaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.|isbn=1471189783

|author= Christophe MedlerMariana Enriquez|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretSunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=Historical FictionShort Stories|summary= Set against the backdrop 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 the English Civil Wardisused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a secret plan (codecrime-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. As a loyal servant The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the King, and Head of the Secret Service, it is Robert's duty to uncover the details of the plan and follow the clues to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingsupernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ1803511230

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1529934753|title=The Jasmine ThroneProtest|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= On For a little while, it looked as though Sir Max Bruce, the night of her sacred burningcountry's most famous living artist, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on was not going to show up for the opening of his retrospective at the pyreRoyal Academy. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on Still, he arrived in the Hirana: nick of time, complete with his two wives and six children, one of whom filmed what happened. Being an ancient temple influencer, you tend to do things like that, but it was fortunate that there was once filled with a community record of people who got powers from the mysterious deathless watersprotest. But now Lexi Williams, an intern at the temple is nothing more than an overgrownRA, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses grabbed a girl kill someone with magic. Instead spray can of reporting her for such blue paint from under a gruesome crimechair and proceeded to spray Bruce in the face, Malini claims that whilst shouting ''Stop the girl saved her from War''. It seemed to be part of an attacker ongoing series of 'blue-face' attacks, but this was different. The can had been laced with cyanide, and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantSir Max Bruce was dead.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCAriel Saramandi|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryPortrait of an Island on Fire|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers In this powerful collection of essays, Saramandi seeks to intradermally dissect the sociopolitical fabric of Mauritius, tunneling deep into the wounds left by colonialism and two sisters. It seemed slavery to have been a loving, stable familyexpose how these legacies still shape modern life. When we first meet her, she canSaramandi describes the country at one stage as ''rotting't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home a blunt yet apt metaphor for the systemic decay brought about by the time he sort malignant forces of half-promised he'd be in by. Her husbandracism, Tompatriarchy, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work environmental degradation and he needs his sleepgovernmental dysfunction. He wakesEach essay in this collection serves as a kind of diagnostic, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonecharting the various diseases afflicting the island state.|isbn=1804271616

|author=Joseph KnoxPekka Harju-Autti|title=True Crime StoryLoveVortex and the Drakor's Curse

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary= Joseph KnoxIt's the eighteenth century, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance time of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residencediscovery and Britain is expanding its foreign trade. Split into four partsCaptain Julius Hawthorne, an experienced Scottish sea captain, the reader is taken through sent to the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sisterAndaman Islands in his endeavour. Along with his son, other familyPeter, friends and professionalstheir cat, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know ZoeMichi, or at least the Zoe she presented they set off on a perilous voyage to othersthese faraway lands. However, the twists The islands are beautiful and stunning in their scenery and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shockedislanders' leader, Aarav, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedkeen to establish good relations. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703B0DS1VGHH3

|author=Justine Avery Helene Bessette and Naday MeldovaKate Briggs (translator)|title=No, No, No!Lili is Crying|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=They say the best picture books are First published in 1953 in French, this novel is a timeless text which wrenches the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer hearts of this latest its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is based around their proper position on the simplest text imaginable. ''Nopage and positions them elsewhere, nodisjointed, no! Okay, okaytruncated. Yes, you may.'' That's it! But, like all Like the best picture bookslives of her characters, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outsidethey are often left tragically incomplete.|isbn=16388204571804271675

|author=Monica ConnellTom Percival|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. Will's life is difficult, in social anthropologya multitude of ways. I think it He is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported tripbullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', with a relatively specific objective. She wasnhe has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't a hippy wanderer looking have enough money for Shangri-la. She wasneven the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a mere tourist passing through. She went with cash-in-hand job on a fundamental aim of learning about these people building site and how they livedhad an accident. She also went, presumably, with Throw into that mix the academic discipline of how to find these things outfact that his mum and dad are separated, how to organise them and Will's life seems bleak in her mindevery direction. And yet, how to "understand" them in the context he still has a tiny amount of her own paradigmshope. He is good at art, and how clings to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense the moments of the experience after the event. Fortunatelyjoy when he is drawing, she also went with that feel like a sense light at the end of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-inlong, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled updark tunnel.|isbn=17806004291398527122

|isbnauthor=1409181669Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|summary=Mariana Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed going to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything hold seventy- or so she thought five 'luxury' apartments - had begun with when they discovered the death bones of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgea child beneath a doorway. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distressThere was no skull. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to CambridgeInevitably, but she caught the first fast train from King's CrossDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of MarianaIt's husbanddifficult as Ruth knows, Sebastianbut Nelson doesn't, in that she is pregnant with his child as a swimming accident on Naxos result of the one night they spent together some fourteen three months earlierago. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizasickness.

|author=Maisie ChanGuadalupe Nettel and Rosalind Harvey (Translator)|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Accidentals

|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates This collection was truly enchanting in all senses of the word: spellbinding with its fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, magical elements and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw charming in secret its gentle portrayal of nature and in peacehuman relationships. But then one day his parents tell him they have Guadalupe Nettel writes intelligently and precisely, her stories structured by a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out wisdom that appears to be his grandmother who has come over from China want to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on teach us something about the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..world.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X1804271470

|authorisbn=Terry Miles0008551375|title=RabbitsWhen Shadows Fall (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. ItLeanne Wilson's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like body was found at the game bottom of life then. Yesa Scottish mountain, this is seemingly the game result of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracytragic accident. She'd looked so happy, the computer gametoo, the hack from the darkest when she posted her intentions on Facebook. Her friends were relieved as she was just out of webs. People like our heroan unpleasant relationship, K, named 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 least Kafkaesque manner possiblelast year. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game All were experienced climbers, properly equipped for what they were doing and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists sensible people. None of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken itwhat a stupid thing to do's ever been – morally and otherwiseexplanations applied. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game They were all alone when they died: DS Max Craigie is doing, if itcertain there's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about a killer on the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed.loose..|isbn=1529016932