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|authorisbn=Dean KoontzB0CK3MYJ56|title=The House at the End of the WorldResponsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann Macarthur

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When It's the 1990s and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have a high-flying job in the city but it wasn't satisfying so he's now set himself up as a private investigator. 'Shades of Cameron Strike', you might be thinking. Nice bloke, but where's the life experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it backs upthis profession? On the other hand, saddle up he has been asked to look into something. Joyce and ride on Helen are half-sisters, or you rather, they were until Helen was killed in what's been written off as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - and her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can retreat 't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall in front of a train. Greg's been asked to investigate.}}{{Frontpage|author=Katherine Howe|title=A True Account|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having been sent to your own private fortress on live with a family who run an island that sits snugly in inn, and being made to work there from a young age. When she hears there is to be a small chain hanging of tiny dots on some pirates in the map town, she decides to go and watch. Enthralled and live out your days horrified in equal measure, Hannah finds herself embroiled in peace and solitudea young boy's death at the hands of two vicious pirates. ThatShe hides away, so that they don't find and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to sea, dressing as a boy and joining the notorious Ned Low's what Katie thought she was doing pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when she shut down there is a mutiny on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waves.|isbn=0861547438}}{{Frontpage|author=Tananarive Due|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old life Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to start afresh on Jacobsix months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's Ladder; a place with a brutal and all would dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have been died there. In order to survive the aforementioned peace school governor and solitude were it not his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the school's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkes|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery store, for a man who's a control freak with all the subtlety of a half brick. Jamie's son, Bo, 'has his problems'. He's asthmatic and the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockmore you read, the neighbouring island more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E and perpetrating all manner of mischief in sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the name of science need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and quite possibly bringing about put in the end of all mankindwrong. It was going to come to a head.|isbn=1662453159

|author=T KingfisherHarry Allen|title=ThornhedgeChildren of the Sun

|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=''You had Ra Eun Seo lives in a right to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella North Korean town and she is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that talented singer. Life is well known hard and well beloved. But whilst there food is a princess trapped in a towerdifficult to come by, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not so Seo and her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadlingfriends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby looking for tree bark and secreted away edible grasses to supplement the land meagre rations of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins rice and cast spellskimchi at home.|isbn=18033642381805140493

|isbnauthor= B0CCCVRSGXEdel Rodriguez|title=Stories 2|author=Richard F WalkerWorm: A Cuban American Odyssey

|genre=Short StoriesGraphic Novels|summary= This is Richard F WalkerWe're in childhood, and we's second volume re in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of short storiesthe country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all. There are thirteen in all and I took something from each Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of themtaking his time away. There isn Our narrator't a single one that doesns family weren't deserve in the happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to be among the others or brings down good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the overall qualityfather being watched and watched, and not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. It can be tricky The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to review short stories without giving too much awayease some of the heat, but in this sultry island country, so Iit remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720}}{{Frontpage|author=K P O'll just pick two Donnell|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to talk about understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and I think they give Renada. Over half-a general flavour-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild.Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herself. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM

|isbn=17876366071838954481|title=The TrapMisper|author=Catherine Ryan HowardKate London|rating=4.5

|summary=ItRyan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's a scene replicated all too often in no doubt about that. He was the early hours of fifteen-year-old holding the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs gun and looking for a way to get homepointing it at DI Kieran Shaw. Some are lucky and manage He pulled the trigger but due to get one the vagaries of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one jury system he was found not guilty of both the outlying villages. The woman all regret murder and the 'taxi problem', particularly in the light manslaughter of 'the missing women'officer. For one young woman, the final stop And so lives must go on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital and collect her - hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before territory she had the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking drawn into a wider investigation - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesback into the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.

|isbn=14059571741035025299|title=A Death at Went to London, Took the PartyDog|author=Amy StuartNina Stibbe

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - Nina Stibbe is dying when we first meet him and Nadine consciously makes no effort returning to call the ambulance he so desperately needsLondon for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. What we donShe's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't know is who the man is or why Nadine prefers all that conducive to have him diewriting, as there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. I'd better give you The other side of the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a little more background so that you can understand what's happeningvery reasonable rent.

|authorisbn=Tania UnsworthB0CKD1L5JL|title=Nowhere IslandRadio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet GilPetr is an orphan. Just twelveRescued by the strange, reclusive Bear, he is so determined to escape brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – forests of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and find a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous carbrief sojourn in human company, and lets it ride him to his future. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives armed with his brother in only a camp pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on an island between a journey through the two directions of a motorwayforest, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusion. Thembroadcasting the strange, wild and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyrarely heard voices he encounters. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080

|isbn=00085300251635866243|title=Murder in the FamilyThe Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Cara HunterKristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=It ''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern that was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home correct, clear, concise, and found the body consistent required a great deal of her stepfathertrial and error, Luke Ryderpatience, in the garden of their West London homeand perseverance. He had an injury on the back of his head '' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which could have happened if heshe'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberatepaid good money. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now The first line of the subject of instructions began: ''InfamousCast off 100 stitches...'', a true-crime show. A group It was clear that no good could come of experts has been brought together to review this - the evidence instructions didn't get any better - and to take (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the investigation furtherrepayment. More to The pattern looked pretty, but the point, theycreator didn're going t have the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to do this live on camera, episode by episodeconnect with her knitters. ThereShe should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.

|author=Judith EagleAdam Baron and Benji Davies|title=The Stolen SongbirdOscar's Lion|rating=43

|summary=Caro's We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother– or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a world-famous whistler, couple of times before he has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingbe ready for school. Her other mother, RonnieBut when he enters his parents' bedroom, all he sees is having to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gama mahoosive male lion on their bed, someone Caro has heard her mother despiseslooking sheepish, she feels frustrated and confused and worriedadmitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics But there are brought benefits to having a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with lion around – it can be shown as an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toounspoken threat to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other month. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryAnd it can shapeshift, as she discovers a painting so he can take it to school and it can get him out of a bird hidden away inside her mumproblem. And it's old suitcasewonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, and all across London a fearsome gang called being much more lax about the Snakes are thieving artworks rules, and terrorising peopleso on. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to CaroOK, it can's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?t work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=05713631480008596751

|isbn=1529195977B0BC3YTCMR|title=None of this is TrueGood Girls Die|author=Lisa JewellAyura Ayira|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=On ''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her 45th fifteenth birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie FairThe Incident happened. Shewas a very bright student, a bit toonerdy if truth be told, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they suffered from vitiligo - people were both born afraid to hug her in St Marycase it's hospitalcontagious. ThatIt's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of not easy being a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselvesblack girl whose skin is 84% white. Josie, She had a crush on the other hand, holds seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her handbag close . Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used In shock, she even allowed him to spending this much money on give her a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after alllift home.

|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck TingleV Castro|title=Camp DamascusThe Haunting of Alejandra

|summary=Love is love; although humans continue ''This was a part of her past that had to stop with her. She would be confused by the one to confront this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy '' At some point during her life, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if she is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans playing parts for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to make it a crime andher own desires, in the USher own future, nearly 700 000 adults have received ither own identity. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrong. Although it For invisible to all but Alejandra, there is both a secular darkness threatening to consume her. More and more she is visited by a religious prejudiceghost, Chuck Tinglea weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps to show the reader the horror lurking withinher wake.|isbn=1803365617

|isbnauthor=1803136383Richard Kadrey|title=Tin Soldiers|author=David ChadwickThe Pale House Devil|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersHorror|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a cloud. What actually happened out there couple of strange detectives! One of them is gossiped about living, you see, and nobody the other is sure exactly what took placeundead, but an act and so one of heroism leading them kills the living, and the other kills the undead. (Only not each other, obviously). They're on a job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice while and disgrace seems find some other work to be keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close 'something' that appears to his chestbe haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, as he always does. and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894

|isbnauthor=B0C7J9D21BHelen Cooper|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J Lewis|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives at The House Taming of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sound, it's a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was born. He's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, it's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with the preparation of anchovies didn't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some money.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=After DeathCat|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleagues. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can ''feel'' everything. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymore.|isbn=1662500467}} {{Frontpage|author=Jamie Littler|title=Arkspire|rating=45

|summary=Two sistersOnce again, Juniper mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and Elodiein case you're seeing a connection, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be chalk and cheesethe names of cheeses. Juniper Anyway, Brie is an eager hunter shunned, scorned and trader in illicit magic, including relics if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from prior major wars left out in the Badlandscheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power And that story-telling will come in handy one of the religious districts of Arkspirenight, perhaps even when he feels all alone and cast out. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to become tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the child top dog in line to inherit the power of mouse community, though, as all the Watcher, others had the closest chance to a ruler the district has, and one of half-inch some cheese while the five major victors in said earlier warcat was distracted. Being trained in But will the story have the magic successful sequel it needs when that only five people can use would definitely change the status of the whole family. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…cheese runs out?|isbn=02415861430571376010

|authorisbn=Thiago de MoraesB0CDZRGT1M|title=Old Gods New TricksSuper Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch

|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes''Got a minute to be amused, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powderentertained, she could almost be thought or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a young goddess of nuisanceflash.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short. But just when she's being ' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – flash fictions in a power-out, even book of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolthem? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn's in t a fixed definition of flash fiction but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internetfor this collection, just author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for our conveniencea three hundred word limit. That's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form about a single page in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the trickstersyour average paperback.|isbn=178845295X

|authorisbn=Alexia Casale1732898766|title=Sing if you Can't DanceThe Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)|rating=54|genre=TeensFor Sharing|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that youWhen we first meet Birpus and Bulbus they're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage running for their lives in the middle Forest of a dance performance that was going to change her lifeFine Repute. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid Their greatest fear has come about: the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life thatSour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's as normal as she can possibly manageright behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. Meanwhile there(Please don's a new (cute!t try this at home: it won't end well.) boy in school Fortunately, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the daythey were nearly at Nobby Lob-tololly -day traumas and when a ladder of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigatemoss and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. So even though she can't dance anymoreThey climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.

|authorisbn=Helen Peters1472263936|title=Friends and TraitorsThe Figurine|author=Victoria Hislop|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=England, WW2It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greece. Two young girls are new at the country pile called Stanbrook. One is NancyShe was alone: her mother, destined to be in service all her life it seemsGreek by birth, like had left the female generations before her. The other is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk family home and cheeserefused to return, but Mary and if we hadnHamish (Helena't guessed s parents) felt that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters it would only prove it sobe a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. But something is amiss, and Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first separately of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be a rum family'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecys maid, talk is made of meetings with GermansDina, but was wary - and not only thatfrightened - of her grandfather, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedretired general Stamatis Papagiannis. But surely He was proud of his close connections to the girls are wrong, Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.

|isbnauthor=0241996104Cody Goodfellow|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane CorryVertical|rating=43.5

|summary=NancyThere's mother and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted of their murder. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives a life sentencesomething about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. The barrister tells her that sheWho doesn's received t love a 'silent sentence' - she's not been found guilty of anything but will have to live with what happened for the rest of her life. Of course, it's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds good view from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spoken.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529413680|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Brunoup high, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=One of the main events of after all? Even the Sarlat tourist season drabbest office building is the re-enactment of the liberation of the town from the English in 1370 and Brunosomewhere I's there m intrigued to see the show with some friends. Itget inside if it's all been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters is seriously injured 40 stories tall. So when he departs from the script. Luckily, his doctor is there and the man is whisked away in a helicopter. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders I picked up this book – about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employee, the man people who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby and another, who lives in California, is flying in with some of her father's friends scale tall buildings for a pre-arranged holidayfun – I was instantly intrigued.|isbn= 1803363991

|isbnauthor=1529196388Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=The Trial|author=Rob RinderFinding Bear

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Grant Cliveden was [[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a hero: ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a policeman who stood for all polar bear – that was good she called Bear. Back home, things on the domestic and honest family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and looked up to by just about everyone, so there was public uproar can easily be ignored when he word comes through from the islands Bear was murdered in plain sight at the Old Baileylast left on. There's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight For a bear doing very Bear- y things has been shot and itwounded. Desperate to make sure he's not too long before Knight appears in courtOK, charged with Cliveden's murder. Knight was told she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron in a world of Stag Court Chambers very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and it's Taylor-Cameron dangerous thing – and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent him. Knight's determined to plead not guilty, despite all Taylor-Cameron's recommendations to that the contraryfriendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017

|authorisbn=Essie Fox1804183210|title=The FascinationNo Reserve|author=Felix Francis

|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly overThirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt -romanticised as a setting yet unnamed - came up for historical fiction (matched onlyauction, but Peter Radway, perhapsthe chairman, by hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the Second World War) which has often led to more than a few writers mishandling itbidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. There Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch's such a glut Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of media set the cubicles in the era toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the hallmarks we've come horse had been deliberately bid up to associate with it are familiar to the point of being cliched, hackneyed eventhat figure. All this is simply to illustrate Both were happy that it would be an easy thing to do poorlythey had insurance in place. But despite that The following morning, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did as wellthe horse was dead in its stall.|isbn=1914585526

|author=Andrew CartmelSarah Wilson|title=Death This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in Fine Conditiona fractured world|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in particular a series called Sleuth Hound. She spends her time hunting out copies that which she can sell on for profit, sometimes asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'tweaking' them, I get to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayslove that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this. '' One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the background of a photograph on way I want to. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her drug dealerbook that takes Oliver's living room wall, and so words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she sets pushes us to think about discovering where this collection whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be living. Her answer isan unequivocal ''no, and how she can steal it! we are not''. ItDon't care what you's a next-level step in her petty crime careerre doing, but has she reached too farthinks you (we, and what will happen when I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the owner of the collection comes looking for their books?fact that we are not.|isbn=17890989471785633848

|isbn=15295079871839948493|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookA World of Dogs|author=Walker Books Carlie Sorosiak and Sonia Albert (Illustrator)Luisa Uribe|rating=4.5

|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I love 'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I'The Repair Shopve never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. It's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered upwish I felt the same about human beings. After a hard daySo, any book about dogs, thereI's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning what they're worthm going to sit down and devour. You see, the value is in what these possessions are worth Then I'm going to the people who own them go back and the memories they holdread it properly. No expense appears And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to be spared and the experts spend as much time and effort as is required to achieve the desired resultmy four-legged friends. Regular viewers know Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the experts and theyaccidental owner of an American Dingo - she're all brilliant at explaining what it is they're doings learned quite a lot about dogs since then. But how did they start?

|authorisbn=Nicole Jarvis1405951680|title=A Portrait in ShadowThe Safe House|author=Cameron Ward|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=''I want all of Florence Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives caretake a luxury property in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find the Australian outback for a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnatecouple of months. But as some as After the problems she enters Florentine society 'd had at work, it seemed like just the break she faces great opposition from needed. She was no longer a data analyst for the powerful Accademia, Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who was returning to the self-proclaimed guardians country of her birth and in need of the healing magics that through paintings have the power space to protect get over the city and its citizens from plagues and cursestraumatic end of her relationship with Charles. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket. To them, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble and change – has no place amongst them and their society.|isbn=1803362340

|isbnauthor=B0BVDC2VWHRachel Harrison|title=The Grave Listeners|author=William FrankBad Dolls

|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=The village is isolated and poor. It's surrounded by been some time since I've read any horror. I had a Witching Forest. And couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition books from a boy I fancied at school and its blossom provides herbal medicines. The black wood scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the forest provides heat vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scares, and warmth, roofs on homesI didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and even gallows, if needed. The fear I found most of being buried alive is an existential superstition in that feeling came from the village fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that is at least in part, the reason Volushkahorrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a drunkennew dieting app, self-indulgent, lazy lout of going to a hen party and a man is toleratedcoping with grief. |isbn=1803363932

|isbn=024162343X1394159544|title=Stolen HistoryRecycling for Dummies|author=Sathnam SangheraSarah Winkler

|genre=Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=I was the bad company other people got into at school''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence 3 barrels of a oil.'' 'god'Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down. Where was the proof? In history lessons'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it was probably worse stillwill take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. Not too long after the end of A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWIIbaby, I didnfaced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''t so much want to learn about the British armypossibly's successes (and occasional failures, but we didn't dwell on those) come in handy now or in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the army had to purpose. Almost everything can be there in used one more time and any purchase must pass the first place. test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' Looking backOn the other hand, I still believe suspected I was right guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - but I regret that I lacked the maturity to approach 'm looking at you) and dropping it in the problem' politelykerbside bin. Yes, I wish could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I'd had Sathnam Sanghera'needed was a recycling bible.s ''Stolen History''.

|author=Amanda CraigLauren St John|title=Three GracesFinding Wonder|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-of-the-nation novel. ThereRoo's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the atmosphere of night by the day and capture it, crafting an image of police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the country as it stands in one particular momentcorner shop to buy a lottery ticket. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who sheknows her dad didn's practically synonymous with the genre t think very highly of contemporary social fiction at this point. She But she has such a gift no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for weaving Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the ongoing issues middle of the day nowhere and then bursts into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.flames! Poor Roo!|isbn= 140871468X0571376169

|isbn=14483093791448309743|title=Flesh and Blood The Devil Stone (DS McAvoy 11DCI Christine Caplan)|author=David MarkCaro Ramsay|rating=3.54

|summary=It's something In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of a surprise to find that you're deadScotland, particularly when you're thinking that you're actually on five members of a break with your wife and children, but that's what happened to DS Aector McAvoywealthy family are found murdered. Whilst he was relieved to find The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that he was still, officially, aliveif the stone is removed from Otterburn House, it was difficult for Detective Superintendent Trish Pharoahdeath will follow. Her protegee - McAvoy - was still alive The only suspects are known Satanists but the partially clad man who'd dashed from her flat in the early hours of the morning when it was obvious many ways, that someone was tampering with her car, was not. Thor Ingolfsson was Aector McAvoy's doppelganger - and not everyone who commented on this was doing so kindly. It had always been suspected an easy conclusion given that Pharoah was sweet on Aectortwo of them 'discovered' the body.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0957181167|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of Brian Lewis|author=Alan Marshall|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when you’re on holiday but this timehe disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of pictures on the walls - and was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewis. I searched online and could only find ‘used’ versions of this book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Oh, dear - then a few doors down from the apartment, I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and a framed print of the picture I wanted'shadow' him.