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|isbn=17328987660008385068|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonMidnight Feast|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus theyIt're running for their lives in s midsummer on the Forest of Fine ReputeDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing themIt's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. HeIt's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrilsall headed up by Francesca Meadows. (Please donThe Manor was her ancestral home and she't try this at home: s converted it won't end wellinto an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous.) FortunatelyHer husband, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - Owen, was the architect and when a ladder work is still ongoing on parts of moss the site. The heat is oppressive and vines was lowered for them, they escapedamongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. They climbed up Old scores are going to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook be settled and Granny Crannyit won't be long before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=1472263936Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopWild East|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=It was Written in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to Greecemove to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. She was alone: her mother, Greek The move is initiated by birthRonny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, had left the family home and refused so Ronny finds himself trying to returnsettle in a new town, a new school, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritagekeep himself out of trouble. Her trip He listens to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first music constantly, and has always dreamed of several annual visitsbeing a rapper. She grew But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to love her grandmother be part of a poetry writing workshop group and the family's maid, Dinaslowly, but was wary - Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and frightened - of her grandfatherpoetry, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud and the power of his close connections to the Junta creativity and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestorscrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Cody Goodfellow1635866847|title=VerticalThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= ThereIt's something about tall buildings strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that just captures my imaginationthis is the book for you. Who doesn 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 love eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a good view from up highrecipe in the book, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere which I'm intrigued 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 inside if it's 40 stories tallto fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. So when I picked up ''loved'' this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedalready.|isbn= 1803363991

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldRob Keeley|title=Finding BearChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5

|summary=[[Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Bear IslandEllie, a lot further north than many people would venturestalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and finding Edward, a ridiculously unexpected but delightful spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship with is a once in a polar bear – that she called Bearlifetime connection. Back home, things They meet as children one day on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, trip out but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the islands Bear was last left ontime. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot But then chance brings them back together, and woundedthey are inseparable. Desperate to make sure he's OK Something has happened though, she something terrible and her father return to the Arctic tragic, and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous thingsnow they must work through their grief, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the their friendship can continue, together.|isbn=00085820171471196585

|isbnauthor=1804183210Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=No Reserve|author=Felix FrancisDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on I was instantly intrigued by the rostrum when premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the chairman, second in a series I hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and Elliot it needn'Mitcht be a hindrance if it' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industrys good enough. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed And that the horse had been deliberately bid wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morningspeed, the horse was dead in its stalland I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=Sarah WilsonStuart Douglas|title=This One Wild Lowe and Precious Life: Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the path back to connection in a fractured worldDress Rehearsal

|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'What is it you plan to do with your one wild Floggit and precious life?Leggit'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir.'' I'm lucky enough The police seem happy to be living my one wild assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and precious life he enlists the way I want help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton tohelp him investigate matters further. Sarah Wilson is equally lucky. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges They travel across the source) she pushes us country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – death during the best life that we could be livingSecond World War. Her answer But is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. there really a link between the deaths? Don't care what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17856338481803368209

|isbn=1839948493B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A World body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of Dogsfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeBenji Waterhouse

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that Iwas tempted to read 'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didnYou Don't trust and IHave to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay've loved most s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of them. I wish I felt the same about human beingsNHS, humour and autobiography. So, any book about dogs, I'm going 'You Don't Have to sit down and devourbe Mad... Then I'm going ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to go back mental illness and read it properlythe work of a psychiatrist. And so I did wonder whether it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely acceptable to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself be looking for humour in this setting but the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite laughter is directed at a situation rather than a lot about dogs since thenperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=1405951680Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron WardAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, actually she was gently nudged into it by thanks to her friendstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a couple of monthssponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. After the problems Now Anuri is in her twenties and she'd had at workis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, it seemed like just suing her step-mother to take down the break she neededcontent about her. She was no longer a data analyst Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for the Metropolitan police in London: doing so. Most importantly, she was Jess is desperately worried about her little sister, who was returning to is the country new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her birth sister, and perhaps herself and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in her father at the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Rachel HarrisonDavid Chadwick|title=Bad DollsHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesThrillers|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horrorSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. I had Hicks is a couple Mojave desert town of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly few thousand people with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear 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 vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scaresmain local employers but otherwise, and I didnthere't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most s not much of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, note other than dive bars and that at least in partJoshua trees. Life is quiet, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with griefuntil....|isbn=1803363932B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=1394159544Tom Percival|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Will''Recycling one ton s life is difficult, in a multitude of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oilways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' , he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'Recycling one ton t have enough money for even the most basic of paper things like food, and his dad can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfillt work because he lost his job at the college, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As was working a justcash-postin-WWII baby, I faced hand job on a dilemma: reducing, reusing building site and recycling is part of my DNAhad an accident. NEVER throw away anything Throw into that might mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will''possibly'' come s life seems bleak in handy now or in the futureevery direction. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purposeAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Almost everything can be used one more time He is good at art, and any purchase must pass clings to the test moments of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other handjoy when he is drawing, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking feel like a light at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yesend of a long, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bibledark tunnel.s|isbn=1398527122

|author=Lauren St JohnSylvie Cathrall|title=Finding WonderA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to buy a lottery ticketcompelling premise. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly And this is one ofthem. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=05713761690356522776

|isbn=14483097430008517061|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Caro RamsayStig Abell

|summary=In Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the village future of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotlandhis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, five members as moving in together would mean a lot of a wealthy family are found murdered. 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? The only item missing from For the home is moment they’re enjoying life in the Devil Stone: myth says that if present and putting the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' future on the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' himback burner.

|authorisbn= Kay Chronister1786482126|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{FrontpageThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Christopher Fowler|title=Word MonkeyElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= It's the first of August Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not site was going to swim at hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the pool in favour bones of going to my beach huta child beneath a doorway. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I decided not to do that eitherThere was no skull. When I finished reading Was this booka ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. No spoiler alertsIt's difficult as Ruth knows, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler but Nelson doesn'was' – and t, that she is pregnant with his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosischild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. There Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is something very strange about being made prone to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, and you know he actually is at that point, because he doessudden bouts of sickness. He did.|isbn=0857529625

|isbn=15290776990008551324|title=The Raging Storm Devil You Know (Two RiversD S Max Craigie)|author=Ann CleevesNeil Lancaster

|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it isunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Jem Rosco blew into Neither side likes or has any respect for the local pub one evening other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the middle police where the body of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month missing person is buried and then turned upwho was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, naked is someone big and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to it will be worth the village of Greystone, in Devonpolice doing what he wants. Rosco had And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the status remainder of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor his sentence and all round ''celebrity''to get an early parole date. I Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'nearly'' said 'alls even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with money and his background isnhim is kept well away from what't exactly an open books happening. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR0008405026|title=On A Stranger in the Beach: The Winter VisitorFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaJane Casey

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold never found and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was investigation ground to a polar bearhalt. As the ice bumped onto the sandNow, her mother, Helena, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the iceher father are dead in their bed. Kit was all for making Initially, it looks like a run for it, straightforward murder/suicide but Teal knew there's something about the positioning of the bodies that the bear was hungry makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and gave him one apple and then anotherher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He obviously needed What looked as though it was going to be taken home on the bus an open-and given -shut case is now a good meal and somewhere to sleepcomplex double murder. What else would you do?Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Claire North0571379877|title=House of OdysseusThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The followEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-up to the excellent class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert''Ithaca'' picks up s a few months after where we left offtheatre director. In the palace of Odysseus He's also self-obsessed, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husbanddemanding, who sailed handsome and entitled and uses Edward to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying run errands for the throne of the Western Isleshim. Having survived – politically Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and physical – the chaotic storm he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Clytemnestra brought to Ithacaa relationship had begun between them but he's shores, Queen Penelope not like most men: Edward is on left to stumble upon the brink two of them kissing in a fragile peacedark passageway. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075

|isbnauthor=1529427045Jo Callaghan|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to When a man is found crucified on the small town top of Gasskasa hill in Nuneaton, where DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the so-far-untapped natural resources of case alongside her sidekick, the area have sparked a gold rushAI detective Lock. The criminal underworld has not It's their first live case together, having previously been slow in coming forwardvery successful with several cold cases. Salander's niece's mother But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only suddenly struggling with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that Svala is draws a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the part Salander played case in her father's death.time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B1399613073|title=The Last Person in the WorldMoral Injuries|author=Matthew TreeChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day boy at the London-based public of medical school where he met Ralph Finnsand their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a boarder and had money bonus when you aim to throw around on be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Rolex watch, vintage wines Laura is a perfectionist and a state-trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of-the-art sound systemgroup and she becomes a GP. Both were probably quite surprised when When we first meet them they became almost friends 're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and certainly more than acquaintancesit's going to end in tragedy. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller We don't know who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingfordsuffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, the UKit's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorsettheir teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0241636604|title=The House at the End of the WorldTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=When If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you experience overwhelming tragedy 're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and feel that there his background is no one on your sidethe East End, you can either suck it upwhere he was familiar with violence, saddle up poverty and ride injustice. There was no posh public school on or you his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can retreat only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to your own private fortress on be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an island that sits snugly in internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a small chain of tiny dots on trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the map and live out your days in peace and solitudeEnglish country village where she grew up. ThatShe's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down back now because of a request for help from her old life to start afresh on Jacobbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's Ladder; close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and all would have the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the aforementioned peace and solitude village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were it in business together as antique hunters, she has not for felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the pesky US Government occupying Ringrocksplit, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in rebound from the name love of science her life, who was murdered) and Freya and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankindJames have now divorced.|isbn=1662453159

|authorisbn=T KingfisherAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=ThornhedgeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''You had a right Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to retake your placecome.''

T KingfisherI's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale ve heard it said that 'technology' is well known and well belovedwhat happens after you're eighteen. But whilst Well, I must confess that there is have been more than a princess trapped few decades of technology in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge 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 not her story- frankly - quite frightening. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling 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 was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to knows what they're talking about or the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and cast spellswho could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1803364238

|isbnauthor= B0CCCVRSGXSunny Singh|title=Stories 2|author=Richard F WalkerHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesThrillers |summary= This The Hotel Arcadia is Richard F Walker's second volume of short storiesa luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. There Hiding from the terrorists who are thirteen in all rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and I took something from each of themAbhi, the hotel manager. There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve As Abhi continues to try to be among care remotely for the others or brings down residents who are still alive in the overall quality. It can hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be tricky cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to review short stories without giving too much awaycapture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, so I'll just pick two their friendship grows as Abhi tries to talk about help her keep safe and I think they give a general flavourboth wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17876366071529153298|title=The TrapList of Suspicious Things|author=Catherine Ryan HowardJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morning1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs and looking for a way to get homeWomen have been disappearing. Some are lucky and manage Well, they've been murdered, but to get one of the few taxis availablehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Others squash onto the night bus Miv's upset because she's overheard that will only go as far as one of her father wants to move the outlying villagesfamily 'Down South'. The woman all regret the 'taxi problemWhen you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'best avoided. For one young womanMiv, the final stop on the bus leaves move would mean leaving her a long way short of her homebest friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off before she had not worried about the chance to beg the bus driver to let dangers or that her use his. ThereMum's no option but stopped talking - to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoesanyone.

|isbn=14059571741398524085|title=A Death at the PartyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Amy StuartNicci French|rating=45

|summary=From the first page, we know that Nadine WalshCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party will not end wellbut never turned up. The victim Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - a man strangely - her husband, Alec, is dying when we first meet him not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the ambulance he so desperately needsriver. What we donIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't know is who stand the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him dieguilt. IThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd better give you a s little more background so that you else they can understand do but get on with their lives and wonder about what's happeningreally happened.

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1035906708|title=Nowhere IslandDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, he is so determined but she was born to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in futureless places that are not homes – December 1923 and find a home for himselfonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. He is en route Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets make it ride him to his futuremore manageable in the States. That future seems to be When she was back in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but Athens - supposedly so that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the two directions of Nazi occupation by a motorway, a place inaccessible mother who mercilessly exploited her and definitely ignored enough to provide made no secret of her preference for their safety and seclusion. Themher elder sister, and a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyJackie. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080

|isbn=0008530025|title=Murder in the Family|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteen-year-old Maura Howard came home and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London home. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if he'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberate. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and it's now the subject of ''Infamous'', a true-crime show. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and to take the investigation further. More to the point, they're going 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.}} {{Frontpage|author=Judith EagleChristopher Edge|title=The Stolen SongbirdBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Caro's motherLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a world-famous whistler, place that has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Her other motherAll big movie fans, Ronnie, is having they're looking forward to go up North to take care lots of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gamexciting films, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesand many, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. many snacks! All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's houseHowever, along with an orphan boyas the movie starts, Albie, who they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is living there too. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mystery, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcasevery different, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes they are thieving artworks and terrorising peopleswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Is the painting somehow linked But as they lurch from one film genre to the gangnext, can they figure out what on earth is going on? And what has happened Will they ever get back to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery toocinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=05713631481839942738

|isbnauthor=1529195977Rachel Greenlaw|title=None of this is True|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|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, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix Compass and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst they're not ''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselves. Josie, on the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense that Walter's not too happy. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but it is Josie's birthday after all.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck Tingle|title=Camp DamascusBlade

|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment''I can hear the song of the sea. Gay conversion therapy is ongoingThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. The UK government ruled out plans to make it '' Rosevear, a crime remote andpartially forgotten island, in survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the USwrecks. Mira, nearly 700 000 adults have received itlike her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. Although it is both But when the Council Watch lays a secular trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a religious prejudice, Chuck Tinglebargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in his new horrorthe sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the skin heart of Christian ''pray the gay awaysmuggler'' camps s territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to show save the reader future of her home and the horror lurking withinones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730