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'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].''' <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> '''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}

|isbn=15069094421786482126|title=The Worst Dogs: A Progressive Murder-MysteryJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Matthew de Lacey DavidsonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'The greatest hatredt, like that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the greatest virtue and the worst dogsone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is silentprone to sudden bouts of sickness.''}}{{Frontpage|author=Joan Didion|title=The title Year of this enjoyable crime procedural, Magical Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This book is from German romantic writer Jean Paul. But who are Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the worst dogs in de Lacey Davidsongrief she endured following her husband's latest novel sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and for whom is the hatred? This mystery will last all the way necessary resource to the very last and carefully plotted pages but you will be thinking about unwarranted hatred all the way throughhelp people feel less alone. It sounds uncomfortable Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self- but it isn't: it's honestpity, denial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, lends them a human face to wear.|isbn=0007216858

|author=Rob BakerAlba de Cespedes |title=Toubab Tales: The Joys and Trials of Expat Life in AfricaForbidden Notebook

|genre=TravelLiterary Fiction|summary=''"Go to MaliThis Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist," they said. "The music is amazingValeria Cossati," they said. "And you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So I did.'' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. ''A what?'' I hear you cry. Wellpurchases her forbidden notebook, an ethnomusicologist studies music and learns about herself in relation to culture, so rather like a folklorist studies the oral most intimate and written story traditions relating to a culturerevealing ways. |isbn=B089CSNFT71782278222

|author=James PattersonOttessa Moshfegh|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelMy Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=43|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Hawk has been waiting on At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the same street cornerfragility of human relationships; at worst, every day, for years. She it is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was just tinythe cynical, predictable and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for her, she continues to head back there each day, just in caseslightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingsThis unlikely heroine, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group of other childrenslim, all attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualworld, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought but resolves not to the prison next door to where the children livelose sleep over it: in fact, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family has been taken awaysolution lies in her hibernation. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=15291200041784707422

|isbn=17857656980008551324|title=Shed No TearsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Caz FrearNeil Lancaster

|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters, It's unusual for anyone from the man who would become known as 'Hardie family to approach the roommate killer', strangled three women in a fortnightpolice. When he was arrested he admitted Neither side likes or has any respect for the killingsother. A fourth death was attributed But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to him - that tell the police where the body of Holly Kemp - a missing person is buried and on occasionswho was responsible for her death. This person, Masters admitted to the killing, then he denied it - then admitted itpromises, then denied is someone big and itwill be worth the police doing what he wants. He played with And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the police, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings remainder of his sentence and to put him away for a long time and the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp caseget an early parole date. There was no body Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing she's even prepared to do the case furtherother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=14736824011739526910|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Catriona McPhersonGlen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=Those who were ''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Living with us an unexpected housemate at the end his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying reconnecting with Dandy and Hugheverything he has lost. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec OsborneBut as those tentative plans falter, had not taken he becomes swept up the chance to look into in a problem at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice beforelocal world of unlikely friendships, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistiblemobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities.''

|isbn=B07WWSCGVS0008405026|title=The Lies You ToldA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Harriet TyceJane Casey

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isnIt't happy about having s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to start a new schoolhalt. SheNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's left something about the positioning of the school she loved in New York bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and now she's her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to Ashams in North Londonbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. ItKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's very upmarket; places are rare disappearance: others (such as hensDerwent' teeth and as s boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the pupils have all been there ''forever''case alongside her sidekick, they have their established groupsthe AI detective Lock. RobinIt's going to be an outsidertheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. And why But when there is this happening? Well, over a matter of second body found crucified a few days her parents' marriage fell apartlater, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Andrew Spence is staying Will they be able to solve the case in New York - he works for a securities firm - time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and her mother, Sadie Roperpotentially, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country - for more than ten years.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=14087124151529077745|title=Cry BabyThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Mark BillinghamAnn Cleeves

|summary=It's June 1996 and football's European Championships are about to start A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in London. DS Tom Thorne is having the park near Rosebank, a nightmare and it's one he has regularlycare home for troubled teens. It relates to a case from ten years earlier when he ''knew'' that a The dead man was guilty, but didn't take any action until Josh - one of the man's wife and three children had been murdered and care workers who was due to work a shift the man night before but who had killed himself. Cat Coyne and Maria Ashton are with their sons Kieron and Joshnever turned up. It's a happy combination D I Vera Stanhope is called in that to investigate the boys are devoted to each other and murder - despite differences in but her only clue is the where and how they live - disappearance of one of the women are best friends. The boys are sevenresidents, fourteen-year-old and they play on the swings in the park and then dash off to play hide and seek in Highgate WoodChloe Spencer. Josh Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the one doing the hiding - death but he returned tearfully to Vera thinks this is unlikely as the women: Kieron never came girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find him and now he can't find KieronChloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|isbn=B08CHJLNBS1399613073|title=Capturing EmiliaMoral Injuries|author=Brooke AdamsChristie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary=He's Charles DevereauxOlivia, thirty-eight Laura and a partner at Wickham Jones, Anjali met on the Mayfair letting agents. She's Emilia, twenty-nine, librarian first day of medical school and archivist in the heritage library next doortheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Emilia has read [[The Secret by Rhonda Byrne|The Secret]] but she's moved on from new age books like thatOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which leave is a bonus when you dependent on someone else's philosophies, aim to something be a little deepercardiothoracic surgeon. Charles Laura is more a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a [[Personal by Lee Child|Jack Reacher]] man himself, but, above all, he's shocked that Emilia reads ''The Guardian''GP. TheyWhen we first meet them they're obviously not at all compatible, so why can Charles not get this woman out of his mind? She's not his usual type at all: a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's obvious going to his friendsend in tragedy. And given that Emilia regularly feels repulsed by CharlesWe don's superficiality, why does she feel drawn to him? t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. The relationship's obviously a nonTwenty-starterfive years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, isnit't it?s their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=15043213830241636604|title=Single, Again, and Again, and Again …The Trading Game: What Do You Do When Life Doesn't Go to Plan?A Confession|author=Louisa PatemanGary Stevenson

|summary=''You can't be happy and fulfilled on If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your own. You are not complete until mind, you find a man''re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. This A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was what Louisa Pateman was brought up to believefamiliar with violence, poverty and injustice. It wasn't unkind: it There was simply no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the adults in her life advising her as to what they thought would be best for herLondon School of Economics. It was reinforced by all those fairy tales where the girl (she's usually fairly young) Stevenson is rescued by the handsome prince who then marries her so that they bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can live happily ever afteronly envy. Few girls are lucky enough He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be brought up ''without'' the expectation that they will marry and have childrenstupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a belief and it would be many years before Louisa would conclude that ''a belief is card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a choice''trader.

|isbn=1787301435B0DB64PYV5|title=Dark WatersThe White Rose|author=G R HallidayDave Baines

|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turrit. It was In 2033, a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push superstorm known as the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked White Rose devastates the steering wheel and hit a treeNorthern Hemisphere. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but And it obviously wasn't s not a conventional hospitalstorm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. She'd made her first mistake some time agoInstead, although it hovers across half the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and never going away.

|author=Suzanne CollinsLeanne Egan|title=The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesLover Birds

|summary= Coriolanus Snow is refinedWhen new girl, charmingIsabel, and one moves to Lou's hometown of the only surviving members of the affluent Snow familyLiverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. But their world was destroyed by the war. Their riches gone A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, his parents dead - and yet the facade must be maintained. As the 10th Hunger Games beginsthat's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, Coriolanus and other students isn't she? Even though none of the Academy become the first Mentors of the tributes in the games. This is his chance to prove himself to the world her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and secure his place in the Capitol for she's never had a good. But when he is assigned a tribute kiss with no hope - a girl from District 12 - he thinks all chances any of winning (both for her them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and for him) are gone. But Lucy Gray Baird proves herself wanting to be a spark in his world, in a way he could never have imagined. As the Games commence, Lucy Gray fights for hang out with her because fighting with her life in the arena - but behind the scenesis fun, in the sly, complex and strangely dangerous world of the Capitolshe definitely just hates Isabel, Coriolanus is fighting for his life too. Will doesn't she survive the Games? Will he? And what happens then?|isbn=0702300179000862657X

|authorisbn=Sakinu Ahronglong1009473085|title=Hunter SchoolThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyPolitics and Society|summary= The flyleaf Sometimes it's simpler to this little collection tells us explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that it is a work of fictionapplies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. That If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn's possibly misleadingt the book for you. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense If that Ahronglong made it all up's what you're looking for, or whether it is as the blurb goes on to say I don't think Anthony Seldon'recollectionss book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, folklore can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and autobiographical storiesshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It feels like 's the latter. It feels like seventh book in a series which looks at the stories he tells about his experiences as impact a child, government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as an adolescent, as an adult are real and truethe most important. But memory is This book follows the well-established format: a fickle thingseries of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it fiction means the changes that its safer occurred and therefore more people will read it. More people shouldthe situation in 2024.|isbn=1999791282

|author=Kat EllisMax Boucherat|title=Harrow LakeThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When we We meet Lori on the first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residents. But when evening she is found by her father's assistant and forced got the house to herself – no neighbour to come homepop in, she arrives to find babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an unlocked door, a trail of bloodavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and on her father dying lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in his study. And soa blanket fort, while he recoversshe has one main intention, she and that is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lakelog on to Voxminer, the small 1920s town world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famousLori's world. But something about first Lori has a tiny inkling that this place isnstormy night doesn't rightfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. There's a darkness inside For the people here. Secrets about server she and her mother bestie and dark tales nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every cornertampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hourher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins where is a girl to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake.turn?|isbn=02413970490008666482

|author= Helly ActonJenny Lecoat|title= The ShelfBeyond Summerland|rating= 4|genre= Women's General Fiction|summary= When we meet AmyJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, sheJean's in father was arrested for listening to a relationship with Jamiebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. You can't really call it a partnership As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, because things tend to get done on his termsand the war is finally over, but she's sticking around because she their hopes she can change rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Ah But will the truth come as a relief, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be or will itraise further questions around what else happened during the war? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? Was the work (and And what other secrets have been kept throughout the wait) worth itoccupation?|isbn=18387708791846976537

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Daria Yudina1529428289|title= This Book Wants to Make You Laugh A Grave in the Woods (Living BookA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre= For SharingCrime|summary=This Living Book is on a mission. What's the mission? To make you laugh! I can't think Because of many better missions than thatvarious property transactions, can you? Let's see how people were searching for the grave but when they found it does... .... well, it opens up came with a terrible jokethree sets of bones. A groany joke They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, an eye-roll joketo discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. The joke As if this isn't very funny but it is funny enough to see how enthusiastic and how generously this book wants to make you laugh worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - ''Oh, I'm terrible is flowing at jokesrecord levels. Some books are so good at them. I always wanted It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to help someone laughrelease water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.'' |isbn= 194812453X

|isbn=1529402271152919640X|title=Murder on the Moorland (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)The Suspect|author=Helen CoxRob Rinder|rating=34.5

|summary=DI Malcolm Halloran The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and Kitt Hartleyit seems that there's relationship is developing nicely: theyonly one suspect. He're even into a spot of bandage now, although the details are (mercifully) scants celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. After a night of passion Halloran is called away She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in the early hours case of the morningemergencies. There's been Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a murder in Irendalebusy, where Halloran used to live television studio - and where his wife, Kamala, was strangled five years agoBrooks served a ragout to Holby. There are sufficient details of the current murder Her EpiPen was nowhere to make Halloran suspect that the man who murdered his wife - be found and others - is in some way involved, despite being in prisonshe was dead within minutes. The DI heads off to speak to Jeremy KerrIt was soon clear that this was no accident.

|authorisbn= Mark Dawson0008385068|title= The CleanerMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating= 4.5|genre= Thrillers|summary= Ruthless It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and coldly competentfamous. Her husband, Owen, John Milton was the architect and work is one still ongoing on parts of the British government's best assets – a contract killer with lethal instinctssite. Now, after ten years, he wants out The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. But his job isn Old scores are going to be settled and it won't one you can just walk away from…|isbn=178739462Xbe long before a body is found.

|author=Angela MackAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=I Am UnworthyWild East|rating=4.5

|summary= Isabel Written in verse, this is determined Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start freshat a mostly white school. Start again. Sixth form will be different. Her tormentor doesn The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny't go s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to Gilleford Secondary School anymore. She can escape the hurtsettle in a new town, the feara new school, and the person she becamekeep himself out of trouble. Josh is determined He listens to keep goingmusic constantly, even through the rageand has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, the painin this new school, and using his fists teacher encourages him to solve any problem or situation. But he has secrets that threaten be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to tear him see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and his brothers apartcrafting your words. When Josh and Isabel's worlds collide, can they make their relationship work? Can they both finally be happy? Or will Josh's time run out?|isbn=B089FL7H4H0241645441

|authorisbn=Laura Imai Messina1635866847|title=The Phone Box at the End of the WorldLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary= In It's strange, the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his gardenthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into I visited the windauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'' It is s a real place, picture of a necessary place, slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I am pleased to see the IMPORTANT NOTE wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the author attaches to her storybook, that which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the place is not book and I was told to make a tourist destination, mess of it is a sacred place, a place . Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that must smears of butter would not be left to those who really need ita problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=178658039X

|isbnauthor=B0859115X5Rob Keeley|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When Around here, we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she're big fans of children's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, Benjyauthor Rob Keeley. SheHe's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he's in Provincetownwrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, Cape Codnot to lecture or hector. He wishes that she was there, but Clare's struggling to think of what he  The ''actuallyChildish Spirits'' series is to her nowone of his greatest achievements. Is he her boyfriend? Her ex-boyfriend? She can't work it out and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't either. WorkIt's about to get very busy and she a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it cope with anything the spirit world throws at her , and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first. They're off somewhere top secret.spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1780899858Jenny Valentine|title=To Tell You Us in the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanBefore and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out of the house on the night of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woods. Her four-year-old brotherElk and Mab are best friends, Teddyor more than that even, would have woken the house if she hadn't taken him with her. But their friendship is a once in the early hours of the morning, Lucy returned home without Teddy, hoping that he would have got home before hera lifetime connection. He hadnThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't and no one has seen him since. Lucyget each other's story was crucial to contact details at the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changingtime. Lucy is being advised by her imaginary friendBut then chance brings them back together, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there they are certain things which Lucy inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must not tell the policework through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=0008214700Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Cut to the Bone (DI Meg Dalton)|author=Roz WatkinsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DI Meg Dalton and Ds Jai Sanghera are dealing with the case of a missing teenagerMeet Kit. Violet Armstrong Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is well-known as an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a vlogger team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- championing old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the cause of meat-eating. She barbeques meat wearing only a bikini big bad and has attracted the attention of animal rights activistspoints they grant you along the way. The meat-eaters (they wear meat suits) are determined that Meg Dalton is corrupt and not running a decent investigation (''obviously'' she Unfortunately for Kit, the only got the job because shething he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a woman) because she's a vegetariannew trio of questors is needed. As if the case wasn't enoughPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Meg's father is coming he has taken to stay with her despite having had little to do with her for fifteen years the goading from the token bully of his world and Jaistumbled into declaring he's convinced ll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that his girlfriend, Suki, doesn't like his children and that she wants more, but how could he doesn't.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbn=17843851661787333175|title=The Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi GermanyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Roger MoorhouseBenji Waterhouse

|genre=HistoryPopular Science|summary=What 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 Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the first image that comes NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to mind when you think of be Mad...'' promised the Third Reich? Hitler? A swastika? The Nazi salute? The gate same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a concentration camp? None of these are comfortable images psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but they are emblematic the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the Third ReichAnuri's fascist regime childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in all its iniquityher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. But some objects Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and images receiving money from that time may be less familiar to youthem for doing so. In this short volume Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, Roger Moorhouse has attempted to illustrate who is the period new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the Third Reich through one hundred of its material artefacts. same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1409187438David Chadwick|title=The First Lie|author=A J ParkHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5

|summary=On It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the second main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of October 37-year-old barristernote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, Paul Reeveuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, returned home at 9 pm to find his house in darkness and the front door opena multitude of ways. His wife was in He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the bedroom in a state most basic of shock things like food, and in his dad can't work because he lost his job at the bathroomcollege, there was working a dead man who had been stabbed repeatedly cash-in the neck with Paul's paper-knifehand job on a building site and had an accident. At Throw into that moment Paul takes a decision mix the fact that will be irrevocable: he decides that he his mum and Alice dad are not going to ring the police separated, and tell the truthWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. They're going He is good at art, and clings to bury the body in woodland and go on as though nothing has happenedmoments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbn=15294018010008517061|title=Grave's End (DS Alexandra Cupidi)Death in a Lonely Place|author=William ShawStig Abell|rating=4.5

|summary=Gram HickmanFormer Metropolitan Police detective, who worked for an estate agentJake Johnson, took has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Angela BoothLivia and her daughter Diana, to as moving in together would mean a house which lot of compromise: does Jake give up his firm was marketing. Guildeford Hall was an old Kentish oast house off-grid and was on relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the market future she wants for millions of pounds. Gram was hoping that he could get Angela into bed herself and he'd brought a bottle of prosecco along. her daughter? It was when searching for somewhere to chill For the bottle that he found the body of a man moment they’re enjoying life in the freezer in present and putting the garage. DS Alexandra Cupidi and DC Jill Ferriter are future on the caseback burner.