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|author=Natalia Garcia FreireOnyi Nwabineli|title=This World Does 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 Belong To Usmuch 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

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary= Early comments on There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousis one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, 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, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a delightlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4. I will agree with 5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the first – tremendous is no understatement – but site was going to hold seventy-five 'a delightluxury' is perhaps using apartments - when they discovered the expression in bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a way Iritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'm not familiar t, that she is pregnant withhis child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. I have Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to confess my ignorance sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereHardie family to approach the police. From Neither side likes or has any respect for the little I have read (other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in translationprison 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, I donis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't read Spanish) there does seem think so and she's even prepared to be a tendency towards do the fantastical – the mystical realismother 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=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0008405026|title= Rebel SkiesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara has spent It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her entire life as bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a servant on the Midorihalt. Now, her mother, Helena, a massive dining hall floating and her father are dead in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and make merry between their conquestsbed. However Initially, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter it looks like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the Empire. He asks her to come with him, to leave positioning of the life of dreary servitude bodies that is all she has knownmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known What looked as a shikigami, though it was going to be an open-and she -shut case is forced to flee out into the worldnow a complex double murder. She joins Himura aboard Kerrigan is convinced that the Orihimeexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence0571379877|title=NeedleThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Brave. CharleneEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, the 'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard for some people to likeobsessed with his upper-class friends, characters Robert and readers bothStanza. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheRobert's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutortheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, Anniedemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has taken up residence been in her son Blakelove with Stanza since their university days - and he's old room while drunkenly confided how hefeels to Robert. Most men in Robert's at uni. Such position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is part of left to stumble upon the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, and is making something full two of love for her younger sister – them kissing in a younger sister she's allowed contact with no moredark passageway. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...|isbn=1800901011

|isbnauthor=1405940980Jo Callaghan|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseLeave No Trace

|summary=It's Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the 7th first day of January 2019 medical school and we know that their friendship would keep them inseparable for a body has been pulled out quarter of the sea at Zennor in Cornwalla century. We don't know whose body it Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which isa bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat Laura is a perfectionist and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at a trauma doctor. Anjali is the request free spirit of their father, Charlie Finch, the group and she becomes a famous artistGP. The girls are actually ''half'When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-sisters fuelled party and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeit's going to end in tragedy. Finch was known for his fecundity, if not for his fidelityWe don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty Twenty-five years ago, at later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time of the total eclipse, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim and it's left her very wary of her sisterstheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17876349060241636604|title=No Less the DevilThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Stuart MacBrideGary Stevenson

|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. HeShe's in an abandoned house and he's being threatened by two young peopleback now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. One is Allegra (weFreya'll soon learn that shes former mentor and Carole's Allegra Dean-Edwards) close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Hugothe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to keep him warm (the village: Arthur, she often does this for homeless peoplefeels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, apparently) but she'd put a tracking device in it so that has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she and Hugo could find out where he was sleepingloved. It won't be long before After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the police realise that Malcolm love of her life, who was one of their own: not many other people are going to murdered) and Freya and James have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsnow divorced.

|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, 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's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of 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 States. 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=Jennifer SaintChristopher Edge|title=ElektraBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the Dead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the story Briar's, a family of three women witches who live in protect the heavily male-dominated town and the wider world of Ancient Greecefrom the Darklands. CassandraThough she has always wished for magic, ClytemnestraEllie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and Elektra are all bit players in administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the story of Briar Witch, the Trojan Wartown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the silent women have dead, putting her at the most compelling stories heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the most extreme furiesBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=14722739151803364548

|isbn=15291498001529900360|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteThe Ghost Orchid|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJonathan Kellerman

|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. All the birds His assertions that there were only open-and animals fled when -shut cases which didn't need the forest fire took hold and most help of them stood and watcheda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, unable to think of anything they could dowho nudged Milo into asking for help again. The tiny hummingbird flew to She knew that the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into involvement was something that the fireman she loved needed. The animals laughed: what good was that doingnext case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. ''I'm doing He was the best I canheir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it'', said s not the hummingbirdItalian. And that, really, is But which of them was the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.primary target?

|isbn=17765743381529395224|title=Leilong's Too Long!Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking up children as he goesSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn't even need want to go downstairs – they simply climb out of follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the window and slide down strain that being on-call put on his neck. Itfather's perfect, isn't it? What could be life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a more fun way of going to school? vet and was convinced this was the job for him. There is a problemBefore long, thoughhe was at Liverpool University. Leilong isnIt hadn't happy in the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts - as with so many students - been his feet and – because dream since he's longer than was a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled upchild. The school decides that If anything, he can't d wanted to be the bus anymorea professional footballer.

|isbn=303091657X0861541774|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandA Nye of Pheasants|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in the best interests of their stakeholders and ensure a street brawl - he would later maintain that they are wellhe was facing a man armed with a knife -managed and financially securehe killed a Ghurka. This might seem obvious but Initially, he faced a series charge of disasters - some of which manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have resulted in death or planned to murder the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingman. Where were they? Occasionally Now he could be facing the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalitydeath penalty. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is Domenic Jejeune can do nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble diplomatic incident and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littlewouldn't help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1529337968Alexander McCall Smith|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and Helen Crowther is due operating as an alternative to start work as all the online apps in providing a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is bornmore personal, tailored service. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthget away for a while. The hardest part Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they don't have chance to do anything come home to qualify for themEdinburgh. Some of And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the problems will require delicate handling Isabel Dalhousie novels, but Helen with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a problem of business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her own which might give abilities, and there's always her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0811771741|title=GalaxyInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=Science FictionCrafts|summary=Spark, who is an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a battle alivecollection of knits from toys to blankets. His co Some will be quick knits -pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted yearsothers are of the 'long, he remembers little and is cosy afternoons in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat and he mustfront of the fire' variety. Returned The projects are divided by his superiors the time they'll take to the space stationcomplete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt ten to save humanity - twenty hours and not just from more than twenty hours. All the alien threats against itprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but also from its own sins against itselfthat's me being picky. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|author=Lissa EvansDean Koontz|title=WishedThe Bad Weather Friend

|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal|summary=When things contrive to force Ed Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanhouse gets trashed. Oh, Miss Fileyand someone has delivered a really weird, for a week of halfdisturbing coffin-termsized object to his home, theyand it're not looking forward s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to itdeserve all this bad luck. For one thing, she thinks Wi-Fi He is a special brand of biscuitnice person. A really nice person. They don't particularly take So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to Willard eitherhis house is a new friend, the new kid next doora bad weather friend called Spike, who seems has been sent to ebulliently take over everything and everywherehelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesSpike is going to take care of Benny, and manage to work out that these candleswill certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, for as long as their flames lastBenny, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change for and Harper (a second time when waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they realise that, having used up three of them, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?are.|isbn=178845202X1662500491

|author=Justyn EdwardsAdam Stower|title=The Great Fox IllusionMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show Murray is supposed to be a contest with a difference. No singinghumble, no dancingtidy and friendly cat, this show one who is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, and who can attempt to win The Great Foxwhatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's magical legacy - cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick is determined to wincatflap they both use can chuck them out, but not because she wants to own into the tricksregular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. She This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is interested in just ''expected – well, one'' trickmuch bigger than Murray was, to be honest, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And shebut he's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able turned up and he'll have to bring her missing father home.do…|isbn=15295019460008561249