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|isbn=15294270450008385068|title=The Girl in the Eagle's TalonsMidnight Feast|author=Karin SmirnoffLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware of the part Salander played in her father's death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4

|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at the London-based public school where he met Ralph FinnsThe 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 unusual relationship as Ralph was a boarder impressive retreat for the wealthy and had money to throw around on a famous. Rolex watchHer husband, vintage wines Owen, was the architect and a state-work is still ongoing on parts of-the-art sound systemsite. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of Old scores are going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UKbe settled and it won's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up t be long before a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorsetbody is found.

|author=Dean KoontzAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The House at the End of the WorldWild East|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy 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 feel that there start at a mostly white school. The move is no one on your side, you can either suck it upinitiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat so Ronny finds himself trying to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly settle in a small chain of tiny dots on the map new town, a new school, and live keep himself out your days in peace of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and solitudehas always dreamed of being a rapper. That's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to start afresh on Jacob's Ladder; be part of a poetry writing workshop group and all would have been , slowly, Ronny begins to see the aforementioned peace connections between rap and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockpoetry, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in the name power of science creativity and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankindcrafting your words.|isbn=16624531590241645441

|authorisbn=T Kingfisher1635866847|title=ThornhedgeThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately''You had a right to retake your placefeel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'' T Kingfisher, I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's latest novella is a lovely reimagining picture of a fairytale slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that is well known and well belovedcake viscerally. But whilst there is (There's a princess trapped recipe in a towerthe book, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a new-born baby and secreted away mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the land corners of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spellspages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1803364238

|isbnauthor= B0CCCVRSGXRob Keeley|title=Stories 2|author=Richard F WalkerChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary= This is Richard F WalkerAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's second volume a ball of short stories. There are thirteen in all happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and I took something from each of themenjoyment, not to lecture or hector. There isn The ''Childish Spirits''t a single series is one that doesn't deserve to be among the others or brings down the overall qualityof his greatest achievements. It 's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much awaycope with anything the spirit world throws at her, so I'll just pick two to talk about and I think they give Edward, a general flavour.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1787636607Jenny Valentine|title=The Trap|author=Catherine Ryan HowardUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs Elk and looking for a way to get home. Some Mab are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis available. Others squash onto the night bus best friends, or more than that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem'even, particularly their friendship is a once in the light of 'the missing women'a lifetime connection. For They meet as children one young woman, the final stop day on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - trip out but her phoneunfortunately they don't get each other's deadcontact details at the time. The bus had driven off before she had the But then chance to beg the bus driver to let her use hisbrings them back together, and they are inseparable. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and in high-heeled shoestheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=1405957174Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy StuartDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=From Meet Kit. Like most of the first pagepeople in his world, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a man team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- is dying when we first meet him old, magical mazes, and Nadine consciously makes no effort race to call the ambulance he so desperately needsexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. What we donUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he't know s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is who the man that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is or why Nadine prefers to have him dieneeded. IPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'd better give you ll enter as a little more background so team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that you can understand what's happening., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Tania UnsworthSaima Mir|title=Nowhere IslandVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelve, he is so determined to escape I was instantly intrigued by the care system premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the system north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that constantly puts him it was the second in futureless places that are not homes a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and find it needn't be a home for himself. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets hindrance if it ride him to his future's good enough. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but And that someone lives with his brother in wasn't a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorway, a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to provide for their safety and seclusion. Themspeed, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyI never felt lost. 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=18045400800861541561

|isbnauthor=0008530025Stuart Douglas|title=Murder in Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Family|author=Cara HunterDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and found Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in a woman on the garden edge of their West London homea reservoir. He had The police seem happy to assign it as an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps accidental death, but something about the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years laterwhole thing bothers Lowe, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now he enlists the subject help of ''Infamous''a fellow actor, a true-crime showJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. A group of experts has been brought together to review They travel across the evidence country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and , seemingly, a link to take death during the investigation furtherSecond World War. More to But is there really a link between the point, deaths? And will they're going manage to do this live on camera, episode by episode. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewing.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|authorisbn=Judith EagleB0CYV674G2|title=The Stolen SongbirdSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Caro's mother, a worldIt seemed like an open-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missing-shut case. Her other motherA man, Ronnie, 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 Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated covered in mud and confused blood - and worriedcarrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. All her summer holiday plans A body at the bottom of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian ladyfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's housebeen stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, along which coincided with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toothe birth of his daughter Samantha. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mumYou would think he's old suitcase, and all across London a fearsome gang called d be grateful for an easy answer but the Snakes are thieving artworks words 'perverse' and terrorising people'John Tanner' were made for each other. Is the painting somehow linked He's sleep-deprived to the gang? And what has happened point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to Carokeep going - probably because he can's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148t get any sleep at home.

|isbn=15291959771787333175|title=None of this is TrueYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Lisa JewellBenji Waterhouse

|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, I 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 were both born in St Marytempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here''s hospital. Thatafter enjoying Adam Kay's where the similarities endfirst book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in a glorious mixture of insight into the midst workings of a joyfulthe NHS, monied group of friends humour and whilst theyautobiography. 're not 'You Don'exactlyt Have to be Mad...'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on promised the other hand, holds her handbag close same elements but moved from physical problems to her tummy mental illness and you get the sense that Walter's not too happywork of a psychiatrist. He's not used I did wonder whether it was acceptable to spending be looking for humour in this much money on setting but the laughter is directed at a meal - but situation rather than a person and it is Josie's birthday after allalways delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck TingleOnyi Nwabineli|title=Camp DamascusAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorGeneral Fiction|summary=Love is love; although humans continue Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to be confused by this sentimenther 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. Gay conversion therapy Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans slowly trying to make it a crime regain her confidence andto get her life back, in suing her step-mother to take down the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received itcontent about her. Although it Anuri is both a secular and a religious prejudicebattling alcoholism, Chuck Tinglefailing to start her PhD, in his new horrorundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, ''Camp Damascus''she is desperately worried about her little sister, peels back who is the skin new focus of Christian Ophelia''pray s online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the gay away'' camps to show the reader the horror lurking within.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting It's September 1973 in Vietnam under something Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a cloudfew thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. What actually happened out there is gossiped about Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and nobody is sure exactly what took placea defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, but an act there's not much of heroism leading to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice note other than dive bars and disgrace seems to be the consensusJoshua trees. Wat himself Life is keeping his cards close to his chestquiet, as he always doesuntil.... |isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=B0C7J9D21BTom Percival|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J LewisThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name Will's life is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallows. Idyllic as this might sounddifficult, it's in a bordello and Ettore's mother died when he was bornmultitude of ways. Heis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's not been short of mothers, though - but for someone of he has the wrong shoes because his background in late-eighteenth-century Amalfi, itdad can't work and doesn's difficult to obtain decent employment. The stint working with t have enough money for even the preparation most basic of anchovies didnthings like food, and his dad can't work out because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatshad an accident. Ettore was nothing if not resourceful - Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and determined - dad are separated, and it was not long before Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he had still has a successful business as a guide for visitorstiny amount of hope. He was even saving some moneyis 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

|author=Dean KoontzSylvie Cathrall|title=After DeathA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=General Science Fiction|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at There are few greater joys than a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when book which lives up to a virus compelling premise. And this 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 one 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'' anymorethem.|isbn=16625004670356522776}}

|authorisbn=Jamie Littler0008517061|title=ArkspireDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Two sistersFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Juniper and ElodieJake Johnson, born fifteen minutes apart, are growing to be chalk and cheesehas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Juniper is an eager hunter There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and trader in illicit magicher daughter Diana, including relics from prior major wars left out as moving in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one together would mean a lot of the religious districts of Arkspire, perhaps even compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to become the child move in line with Livia or does Livia move to inherit Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the power of the Watcher, the closest to a ruler the district has, future she wants for herself and one of her daughter? For the five major victors in said earlier war. Being trained moment they’re enjoying life in the magic that only five people can use would definitely change present and putting the status of future on the whole familyback burner. 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…|isbn=0241586143

|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes1786482126|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought bones of a child beneath a young goddess of nuisancedoorway. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changesThere was no skull. SuddenlyWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, practically everything electronic stops Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolwith DCI Harry Nelson. It's in difficult as Ruth knows, but the entire planet (apart from mobile phonesNelson doesn't, and all that powers she is pregnant with his child as a result of the Internet, just for our convenience's sake)one night they spent together some three months ago. TrixieHer condition will be obvious before long, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts 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 in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksterssickness.|isbn=178845295X

|authorisbn=Alexia Casale0008551324|title=Sing if you Can't DanceThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=It's hard enough unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that youapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he're having s prepared to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in tell the police where the middle body of a dance performance that missing person is buried and who was going to change responsible for her lifedeath. But she comes back fightingThis person, desperate to avoid the pity stareshe promises, is someone big and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manageit will be worth the police doing what he wants. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece And what he wants is to be transferred to try an open prison to sort out, and just serve the day-to-day traumas remainder of all the challenges her body continues his sentence and to throw at her get an early parole date. Not much to navigate. ask, is it? So even though she canThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't dance anymore, might think so and she be able 's even prepared to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801do 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.

|authorisbn=Helen Peters0008405026|title=Friends and TraitorsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=England, WW2It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Two young girls are new at She was never found and the country pile called Stanbrookinvestigation ground to a halt. One is NancyNow, destined to be in service all her life it seemsmother, Helena, like the female generations before and herfather are dead in their bed. The other is SidneyInitially, it looks like a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed straightforward murder/suicide but there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed s something about the positioning of the bodies that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it somakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. But something What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is amiss, and first separately and then in combination they realise the Lord Evesham must be now a rum 'uncomplex double murder. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecy, talk Kerrigan is made of meetings with Germans, and not only convinced thatthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, a local Spitfire factory has been attackedUna Burt) are less convinced. But surely the girls are wrong, and the upper class could never be so underhand?|isbn=1788004647

|isbn=02419961040571379877|title=Coming to Find YouThe Kellerby Code|author=Jane CorryJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Nancy's mother and stepEdward Jevons is a working-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse and her stepclass young man, obsessed with his upper-brotherclass friends, Martin, has been convicted of their murderRobert and Stanza. We first meet Nancy outside the court, after Martin receives Robert's a life sentencetheatre director. The barrister tells her that sheHe's received a 'silent sentence' also self- she's not been found guilty of anything but will have obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to live with what happened run errands for the rest of her lifehim. Of course, itEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's made worse because Nancydrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's rich - she inherited five million pounds position would stay away from her mother - and the papers are making the most of it. Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might s not be printed but like most men: Edward is undoubtedly spokenleft to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1529413680Jo Callaghan|title=A Chateau Under Siege (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLeave No Trace

|summary=One of the main events of the Sarlat tourist season When a man is found crucified on the re-enactment top of the liberation of the town from the English a hill in 1370 and Bruno's there Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to see the show with some friendscase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's all their first live case together, having previously been very carefully choreographed but goes badly wrong successful with several cold cases. But when, Kerquelin, the man playing one of the main characters there is seriously injured when he departs from the script. Luckilya second body found crucified a few days later, his doctor Kat is there suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the man is whisked away in a helicoptervery high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. A local doctor (and friend of Bruno) wonders about his chances of survival but - as he's a senior government employeeWill they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the man who runs Frenchelon - the military has stepped in. One daughter lives nearby case and another, who lives in Californiapotentially, is flying in with some out of her father's friends for a pre-arranged holiday.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=15291963881399613073|title=The TrialMoral Injuries|author=Rob RinderChristie Watson

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Grant Cliveden was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a hero: quarter of a policeman who stood for all that was good and honest and looked up to by just about everyonecentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, so there was public uproar which is a bonus when he was murdered in plain sight at you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the Old Baileygroup and she becomes a GP. ThereWhen we first meet them they's just one man in the frame for his murder - Jimmy Knight re at a drug and alcohol- fuelled party and it's not too long before Knight appears going to end in court, charged with Clivedentragedy. We don's murdert know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Knight was told Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the best barrister for him was Jonathan Taylor-Cameron of Stag Court Chambers and it's Taylor-Cameron and his pupil, Adam Green, who eventually represent himthree friends. Knight's determined to plead not guiltyThis time, despite all Taylor-Cameronit's recommendations to the contrarytheir teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Essie Fox0241636604|title=The FascinationTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary= The Victorian era is incredibly over-romanticised as If you were to bring up an image of a setting for historical fiction (matched onlycity banker in your mind, perhaps, by the Second World War) which has often led you're unlikely to more than a few writers mishandling itthink of someone like Gary Stevenson. There's such a glut of media set in A hoodie and jeans replaces the era that pin-stripe suit and his background is the hallmarks we've come to associate East End, where he was familiar with it are familiar violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the point London School of being cliched, hackneyed evenEconomics. All this Stevenson is simply bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to illustrate that it would be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an easy thing to do poorlyinternship with Citibank. But despite that Eventually, something about it still grabs me – and something about this book's description did turned into permanent employment as wella trader.|isbn=1914585526

|authorisbn=Andrew Cartmel1035021803|title=Death in Fine ConditionThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=Cordelia really loves classic paperback crime fiction, and in particular a series called Sleuth HoundIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She spends 's back now because of a request for help from her time hunting out copies that she can sell on for profitbeloved aunt, sometimes Carole. Freya'tweakings former mentor and Carole' thems close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to add value, in somewhat fraudulent wayssay the least. One day she discovers a near perfect collection of these books after seeing them in Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the background of a photograph on her drug dealer's living room wallvillage: Arthur, and so she sets about discovering where this collection isfeels, and how she can steal it! let her down badly. It's a next-level step Even though they were in her petty crime careerbusiness together as antique hunters, but she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she reached too farworked in a cafe, met and what will happen when married James (on the owner rebound from the love of the collection comes looking for their books?|isbn=1789098947her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1529507987AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Repair Shop Craft BookAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Walker Books Benjamin Greenaway and Sonia Albert Stephen Oram (IllustratorEditors)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=I love ''The Repair ShopOpening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I'. Itve heard it said that 's my go-to programme when I want to be cheered up. After a hard day, theretechnology's nothing better than watching experts repair treasured items without ever mentioning is what theyhappens after you're wortheighteen. You seeWell, the value is I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what these possessions are worth 's advantageous to me but I'm left with the people who own them and the memories they holdfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. No expense appears to be spared and Of course, I could research the experts spend as much time possibilities and effort as is required to achieve the desired result. Regular viewers know the experts probabilities and theyend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I're all brilliant at explaining m reading someone who knows what it is they're doingtalking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But how did they start?I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Nicole JarvisSunny Singh|title=A Portrait in ShadowHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=''I want all of Florence to know my name'' Cast out from Rome, Artemisia Gentileschi arrives The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in Florence seeking an oasis in which her art can find unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a home and where her future can thrive rather than stagnateterrorist group. But as some as she enters Florentine society she faces great opposition Hiding from the powerful Accademiaterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the self-proclaimed guardians of hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the healing magics that through paintings have residents who are still alive in the power hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to protect the city be cowed by events, and its citizens from plagues and curseskeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. The all-male Accademia has hoarded power Although they only ever talk over art and architecture for centuries and guard it above all else. To themthe phone, Artemisia – an ambitious young woman who promises trouble their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and change – has no place amongst them and their societythey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1803362340086154742X

|isbn=B0BVDC2VWH1529153298|title=The Grave ListenersList of Suspicious Things|author=William FrankJennie Godfrey|rating=45

|summary=The village It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is isolated and poorPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... It) She's not what's worrying Miv's surrounded by a Witching Forestfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. And Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the villagers subsist largely by farming Uphegia plants - its bread-like fruit provides nutrition and its blossom provides herbal medicinesfamily 'Down South'. The black wood of the forest provides heat and warmth When you're from Yorkshire, roofs on homesDown South is a frightening, and even gallowsforeign place, if neededbest avoided. The fear of being buried alive is an existential superstition in For Miv, the village move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that is . She's not worried about the reason Volushka, a drunken, selfdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -indulgent, lazy lout of a man is toleratedto anyone.

|isbn=024162343X1398524085|title=Stolen HistoryHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Sathnam SangheraNicci French

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=I Charlotte Salter was the bad company other people got into expected at schoolher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. I was disruptive in religious education classes because I disputed the existence of a 'god'Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. Where was the proof? In history lessonsare all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, it was probably worse stillis not. Not too long after Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the end body of WWII, I didn't so much want to learn about the British armyGreg's successes (and occasional failuresfather, Duncan Ackerley, but we didn't dwell on those) in what came to be called 'the colonies' as want to dispute what right the army had to be there in the first placeriver. Looking back, I still believe I It was right - but I regret that I lacked an easy assumption for the maturity police to approach make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the problem' politelyguilt. I wish I'd had Sathnam SangheraThe Salter children are not convinced but there's ''Stolen History''little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1035906708|title=Three GracesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|summary= Few styles We tend to think of contemporary fiction interest me like Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the stateStates. When she was back in Athens -supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of-her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the-nation novelnickname of 'The Black Hole'. There All big movie fans, they's re looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something so utterly compelling about any writer who this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can catch hold hear the song of the atmosphere sea. The call of the day and capture itdeep, crafting an image of the country as it stands answering beat in one particular momentmy heart. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with ' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the genre wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of contemporary social fiction at this pointthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. She has such But when the Council Watch lays a gift for weaving trap to end the ongoing issues of wrecking, they capture the day into the lives of island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her characters , she sets off in search of a way family secret that feels natural and lived-lies buried deep inthe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised peopleas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, grappling with issues far larger than themselvesMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn= 140871468X0008664730