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|author=James Baldwin|title=Giovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. It is David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=17876349060241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=No Less Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the Deviltime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=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 NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but 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 Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her 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. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= 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 main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. 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 most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Stuart MacBrideElly Griffiths

|summary=WeBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubleapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. He's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleThere was no skull. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and HugoWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people's difficult as Ruth knows, apparently) but sheNelson doesn'd put a tracking device in it so t, that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingis pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. It won't Her condition will be obvious before long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: , not many other people are going least because Ruth is prone to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backssudden bouts of sickness.

|author=Jennifer SaintJoan Didion|title=ElektraThe Year of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This book is Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief she endured following her husband's sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and necessary resource to help people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, lends them a human face to wear.|isbn=0007216858}}{{Frontpage|author=Alba de Cespedes |title=Forbidden Notebook

|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of three women who live in suspense and tension from the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandramoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, Clytemnestrapurchases her forbidden notebook, and Elektra are all bit players learns about herself in the story of the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories intimate and the most extreme furiesrevealing ways.|isbn=14722739151782278222

|author=Ottessa Moshfegh|title=My Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At best, this novel is a scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the world, but resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=1784707422}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15291498000008551324|title=Things The Devil You Can Do: How Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1739526910|title=Where I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to Fight Climate Change recover. Living with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a local world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and Reduce Wastesurprising romantic possibilities.''}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Eduardo Garcia Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It'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 a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Sara Boccaccini Meadows-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a telling storypotential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. All Will they be able to solve the birds case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and animals fled when , potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077745|title=The Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the forest fire took hold and most body of them stood and watcheda man in the park near Rosebank, unable a care home for troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of the care workers who was due to think work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - but her only clue is the disappearance of one of anything they could dothe residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. The tiny hummingbird flew Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the river first day of medical school and began taking tiny amounts their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of water a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and flying back to drop them into the firea trauma doctor. The animals laughed: what good was that doingAnjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'Is going to end in tragedy. We don'm doing t know who suffered the best I can'', said tragedy or the hummingbirdconsequences. And Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event thatwill impact the three friends. This time, reallyit's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the only way that we will solve East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the problem London School of climate change – by each Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us doing what we can, however small only envy. He also realised that might most rich people expect poor people to bestupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=1776574338B0DB64PYV5|title=Leilong's Too Long!The White Rose|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnDave Baines

|genre=For SharingDystopian Fiction|summary=Every morning LeilongIn 2033, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children a superstorm known as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of White Rose devastates the window and slide down his neckNorthern Hemisphere. ItAnd it's perfectnot a storm that gathers, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problemwreaks havoc, thoughthen dissipates. Leilong isn't happy in Instead, it hovers across half the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet Earth with its octopus-like tentacles, not giving up and – because he's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymorenever going away.

|author=Leanne Egan|title=Lover Birds|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. 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, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=000862657X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=303091657X1009473085|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Gerry Brown Anthony Seldon and Randall S PetersonTom Egerton (Editors)

|genre=Business Politics and FinanceSociety|summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and ensure that they are wellapplies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 -managed 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a compelling read and financially secureshould be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This might seem obvious but book follows the well-established format: a series of disasters - some experts from various fields review the state of which have resulted the nation when the coalition took over in death or 2010, the collapse changes that occurred and the situation in 2024.}}{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of a major company Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- have left interested parties asking what the board was doingbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Where were theyWhat could possibly go wrong? Occasionally Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eyeworld-building, leaving watchers wondering which was worse critter- ignorance or criminalitycollecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. The 21st century But first Lori has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniatiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, the South Sea Bubble and then she finds something even tulip maniamore spooky. Over three centuries we seem For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to have learned very littleenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|isbnauthor=1529337968Jenny Lecoat|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the day that end of the NHS is bornoccupation. SheDuring the war, Jean'll be working s father was arrested for Dr Deuchar listening to a banned radio and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthmother waiting for years for news of him. The hardest part of As the British finally free the job will be to persuade people that Channel islands from the services she offers really are free Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they don't have to do anything to qualify for themwill finally learn what became of him. Some of But will the problems truth come as a relief, or will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? Her marriage has never And what other secrets have been consummated.kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1529428289|title=GalaxyA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkBecause of various property transactions, who is an elite pilot people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Space AcademyChief of Police for St Denis, barely makes it through to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a battle alivecrime had been committed. His co As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River -pilot was normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not so fortunatejust the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood. Waking from a coma that lasted years}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, he remembers little was murdered live on television and is in no physical shape to resume his dutiesit seems that there's only one suspect. But Earth is under threat He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he mustnot serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Returned by his superiors to the space station She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, he finds himself amid live television studio - and Brooks served a last ditch attempt ragout to save humanity - Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itselfshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|authorisbn=Lissa Evans0008385068|title=WishedThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley

|summary=When things contrive to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, Miss Fileyhe understands children, and he writes for a week of half-termtheir pleasure and enjoyment, they're not looking forward to itlecture or hector. For  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuithis greatest achievements. They donIt't particularly take to Willard eithers a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhere. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesspirit world throws at her, and manage to work out that these candlesEdward, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for a second time when they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for spoiled lordling and the wishes of someone two generations older than them?first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=178845202X1783064617

|author=Justyn EdwardsKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Great Fox IllusionDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a contest with a difference. No singingteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, no dancingcentury-old, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workmazes, and who can attempt race to win The Great Foxthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's magical legacy - seen of the latest race on the secrets to all inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of his tricks! Flick questors is determined to winneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but not because she wants he has taken to own the tricksgoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. She is interested What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in just ''one'' trickactually managing that, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able and how could he possibly hope to bring her missing father home.succeed?|isbn=15295019461839945184