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|authorisbn=K P O'Donnell0008385068|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, is desperate to understand who she isIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel It's their opening weekend and Renadasplendid celebrations are promised. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue The Manor was her fatherancestral home and she's legacyconverted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmonyOwen, but internal frictions was the architect and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group work is still ongoing on parts of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfsite. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in The heat is oppressive and amongst the slightest, guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexelit won's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZMt be long before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=1838954481Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereWritten in verse, this is Ronny's no doubt about that. He was the fifteen-story, a young black fourteen year-old holding the gun boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and pointing it start at DI Kieran Shawa mostly white school. He pulled the trigger but due The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to the vagaries of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder settle in a new town, a new school, and the manslaughter keep himself out of the officertrouble. And so lives must go onHe listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the capital connections between rap and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - poetry, and back into the orbit power of Ryan Kennedycreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=10350252991635866847|title=Went to London, Took the DogThe Lavender Companion|author=Nina StibbeJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyLifestyle|summary=Nina Stibbe It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is returning to London the book for a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsyou. SheBefore I started reading 's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isnThe Lavender Companion''t all that conducive to writing, as I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's always something smallholding happening a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - as you might expectbut I wanted that cake viscerally. The other side of (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the decision book and I was sealed when told to make a room became available (courtesy mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of Deborah Moggach) at butter would not be a very reasonable rentproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|isbnauthor=B0CKD1L5JLRob Keeley|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey DunnChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Petr is an orphanAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. Rescued by the strangeHe's a ball of happy positivity, reclusive Bearhe understands children, and he is brought up far from bustling cities writes for their pleasure and busy human societyenjoyment, in the forests not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of Washingtonhis greatest achievements. It's Olympic Peninsula. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human companysequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, and armed a stalwart young girl who can cope with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through anything the forestspirit world throws at her, broadcasting the strangeand Edward, wild a spoiled lordling and rarely heard voices he the first spirit Ellie encounters.|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1635866243Jenny Valentine|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath Us in the Before and Sarah Walworth After|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words Elk and numbers on a page wasn't enough. Creating a pattern Mab are best friends, or more than that was correcteven, clear, concise, and consistent required their friendship is a great deal of trial and error, patience, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me once in a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good moneylifetime connection. The first line of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didnThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldneach other't afford s contact details at the repaymenttime. The pattern looked prettyBut then chance brings them back together, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect with her knittersthey are inseparable. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook'' Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Adam Baron Kieran Larwood and Benji DaviesJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Oscar's LionDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34

|summary=We start incredibly bluntlyMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or fatherit seems, but mother he is more likely an avid fan of Dungeon Running – read him his very favourite book the sport where a couple team of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroomwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bedcentury-old, looking sheepishmagical mazes, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat race to the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the other monthway. And it can shapeshiftUnfortunately for Kit, so the only thing he can take it to school and it can get him out of a problem. And it's wonderful to have around seen of the latest race on the house – not limiting his biscuit intakeinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, being much more lax about the ruleseaten, and so ona new trio of questors is needed. OKPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, it canhe has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he't work ll enter as a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timeteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=00085967511839945184

|isbnauthor=B0BC3YTCMRSaima Mir|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura AyiraVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels I was three weeks short instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of her fifteenth birthday when England run by a Muslim woman. The Incident happened. She fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a very bright student, few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a bit too nerdy hindrance if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagiousgood enough. ItAnd that wasn's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had t a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extensionproblem here. She went Vengeance swiftly brings you up to his house speed, and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift homeI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=V CastroStuart Douglas|title=The Haunting of AlejandraLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'This was , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a part woman on the edge of her past that had a reservoir. The police seem happy to stop with her. She would be assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the one help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to confront thishelp him investigate matters further.'' At some point They travel across the country during her lifetheir days off filming, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if she is playing parts for others in her life – her husband uncovering more possible murders and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desires, her own futureseemingly, her own identitya link to death during the Second World War. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there But is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandra, there is really a darkness threatening link between the deaths? And will they manage to consume her. More and uncover who is responsible before more she is visited by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wake.people lose their lives?|isbn=18033656171803368209

|authorisbn=Richard KadreyB0CYV674G2|title=The Pale House DevilSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Ford It seemed like an open-and Neuland are -shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a couple ofknife, well, guys for hire I guess, though really comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the way I thought bottom of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of them freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is livingjust back from his honeymoon, you see, and which coincided with the other is undead, and so one birth of them kills his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the living, words 'perverse' and the other kills the undead. (Only not 'John Tanner' were made for each other, obviously). TheyHe're on a job in New York that goes badly, and so they head out s sleep-deprived to the West coast to try to lay low for a while and find some other point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep them going- probably because he can't get any sleep at home. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894

|authorisbn=Helen Cooper1787333175|title=The Taming of the CatYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case youI was tempted to read ''You Don're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem t Have to be the names of cheeses. Anyway, Brie Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is shunnedGoing to Hurt}}, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for a glorious mixture of insight into the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from workings of the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one nightNHS, when he feels all alone humour and cast outautobiography. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had 'You Don't Have to tell stories to keep themselves alivebe Mad... This makes Brie '' promised the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance same elements but moved from physical problems to half-inch some cheese while mental illness and the cat was distractedwork of a psychiatrist. But will I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the story have the successful sequel laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MOnyi Nwabineli|title=Super Short Stories: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C WallfischAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Short StoriesGeneral 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'Got a minute to be amuseds childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, entertainedbasically, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super shortmonetary gain. None Now Anuri is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flashher 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.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story Anuri is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try battling alcoholism, failing to draw out themes start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from all the flash fictions in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collectiondoing so. Most importantly, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. Thatshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's about a single page in your average paperbackonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1732898766David Chadwick|title=The Adventures Headload of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus theyIt're running for their lives s September 1973 in the Forest of Fine ReputeHicks, California. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon Hicks is chasing thema Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrilsNot much happens in Hicks. (Please don't try this at home: it won't end well.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - A silver mine and when a ladder defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of moss note other than dive bars and vines was lowered for themJoshua trees. Life is quiet, they escapeduntil... They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=1472263936Tom Percival|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopWrong Shoes

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It was Will's life is difficult, in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greecea multitude of ways. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birthHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', had left he has the family home wrong shoes because his dad can't work and refused to returndoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, but Mary and Hamish (Helenahis dad can's parents) felt that it would be t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment cash-in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visitshand job on a building site and had an accident. She grew to love her grandmother Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and the familyWill's maidlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, Dina, but was wary - and frightened - he still has a tiny amount of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannishope. He was proud is good at art, and clings to the moments of his close connections to joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the Junta 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 ancestorsend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Cody GoodfellowSylvie Cathrall|title=VerticalA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= There's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesn't love are few greater joys than a good view from book which lives up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories talla compelling premise. So when I picked up And this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedis one of them.|isbn= 18033639910356522776

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold0008517061|title=Finding BearDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]Former Metropolitan Police detective, April had been on Bear IslandJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship little uncertainty about the future of his life with a polar bear – that she called Bear. Back homehis vet girlfriend, things on the domestic Livia and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for herdaughter Diana, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left on. For as moving in together would mean a bear doing very Bearlot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-y things has been shot grid and wounded. Desperate relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to make sure he's OK, Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her father return to daughter? For the Arctic and hope that moment they’re enjoying life in a world of very white the present and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that putting the future on the friendship can continueback burner.|isbn=0008582017

|isbn=18041832101786482126|title=No ReserveThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Felix FrancisElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=ThirtyBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -fourthe site was going to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when they discovered the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his sessionbones of a child beneath a doorway. To say that he There was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatementno skull. A lovely animal - but three million pounds Was this a ritual killing or murder? Two men had been bidding against each otherInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Brian Kitman and Elliot It'Mitchs difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' Mitchell were well-known and respected in t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that night they had insurance in placespent together some three months ago. The following morningHer condition will be obvious before long, the horse was dead in its stallnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=Sarah Wilson0008551324|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is the one struggling in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild prison and precious life?he'' I get s prepared to love that line so much because my answer tell the police where the body of a missing person is ''buried and who was responsible for her death. This! Precisely thisperson, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants.'' I'm lucky enough And what he wants is to be living my one wild transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and precious life the way I want toget an early parole date. Sarah Wilson Not much to ask, is equally lucky. it? In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I canThe new Deputy Police Constable doesn't see that think so and she acknowledges the source) she pushes us 's even prepared to think about whether we really ''are'' living do the life we want – the best life other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that we could be living. Her answer DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is an unequivocal ''no, we are not''. Don't care kept well away from what you're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are nothappening.|isbn=1785633848

|isbn=18399484930008405026|title=A World of DogsStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeJane Casey

|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that IIt'm a sucker for dogss sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. In nearly eight decades, I've She was never met one I didn't trust found and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beingsinvestigation ground to a halt. SoNow, her mother, any book about dogsHelena, I'm going to sit down and devourher father are dead in their bed. Then IInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there'm going to go back s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and read it properlyher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. And so What looked as though it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninetygoing to be an open-six pages devoted entirely to my fourand-legged friendsshut case is now a complex double murder. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself Kerrigan is convinced that the accidental owner of an American Dingo - sheexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's learned quite a lot about dogs since thenboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=14059516800571379877|title=The Safe HouseKellerby Code|author=Cameron WardJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friendobsessed with his upper-class friends, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for Robert and Stanza. Robert's a couple of monthstheatre director. After the problems sheHe'd had at works also self-obsessed, demanding, it seemed like just the break she neededhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police Edward has been in London: she was Jess who was returning to the country of her birth love with Stanza since their university days - and in need of the space he's drunkenly confided how he feels to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with CharlesRobert. A few weeks Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the Otway Ranges two of them kissing in Victoria sounded like just the ticketa dark passageway.

|author=Rachel HarrisonJo Callaghan|title=Bad DollsLeave No Trace

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had When a couple man is found crucified on the top of misspent teen years reading Stephen Kinga hill in Nuneaton, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of case alongside her sidekick, the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! AI detective Lock. It doesn't have those jump scaress their first live case together, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But it when there is creepya second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and I found most a very high profile case that draws a lot of that feeling came from unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, and that at least case in parttime, or will Kat find herself taken off the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakupcase and, trying a new dieting apppotentially, going to a hen party and out of a coping with grief.career?|isbn=1803363932139851120X

|isbn=13941595441399613073|title=Recycling for DummiesMoral Injuries|author=Sarah WinklerChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=''Recycling one ton Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of oila century.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you send an apple core aim to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decomposebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As Laura is a just-post-WWII baby, I faced perfectionist and a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling trauma doctor. Anjali is part the free spirit of my DNAthe group and she becomes a GP. NEVER throw away anything that might When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'possiblys going to end in tragedy. We don'' come in handy now t know who suffered the tragedy or in the futureconsequences. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that would serve will impact the purposethree friends. Almost everything can be used one more This time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - Iit'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bibles their teenage children who are involved.s

|authorisbn=Lauren St John0241636604|title=Finding WonderThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=RooIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's life has become almost impossibly difficultre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Her mum died when she A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was youngfamiliar with violence, poverty 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 injustice. There was no posh public school on his way CV - but he had been to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticketLondon School of Economics. When asked what other family she Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has, she a facility with numbers which most of us can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly ofenvy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. But she has no one elseIt was his ability at what was, essentially, and so off she goes to live a card game which got him an internship with her unreliable auntCitibank. Things continue to get worse for RooEventually, this turned into permanent employment 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=0571376169a trader.

|isbn=14483097431035021803|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Caro RamsayC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=In It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of Cronchie on a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the West coast of Scotlandcircumstances seem suspicious, five members of a wealthy family are found murderedto say the least. The only item missing from Arthur was the home is reason why Freya had not been back to the Devil Stonevillage: myth says that if Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will followprofession she loved. The only suspects are known Satanists but After the split, she worked in many waysa cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, thatwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's an easy conclusion given Futures: Fictions that two of them Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary='discovered' Opening up new ways of thinking about the bodyshape of things to come. The Senior Investigating Office '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearswhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled 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'shadowm left with the feeling that it' hims 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.

|author= Kay ChronisterSunny Singh|title= Desert CreaturesHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= Dystopian FictionThrillers |summary= With The Hotel Arcadia is a world 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 becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanitySam, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeoverwartime photographer and Abhi, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaustthe hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, this genre is he forms a way for humans bond with Sam who refuses to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' be cowed by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many 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 fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to find hopesee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1803364998086154742X

|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler1529153298|title=Word MonkeyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= It's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I decided mean, honestly...) She's not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hutwhat's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. The weather closed inWell, rain arrivedthey've been murdered, and I decided not but to do that eitherhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When I finished reading this book, I realised it was Miv's upset because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want she's overheard that her father wants to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, move the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler family 'wasDown South' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and you know he actually is at she'll do anything to prevent that point, because he does. He didShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=0857529625

|isbn=15290776991398524085|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Ann CleevesNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=''ItCharlotte 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 bloody peculiarworried but - strangely - her husband, isn't itAlec, Sir?'' Well yes, it isnot. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn galeShortly afterwards, stayed for about a month Etty and then turned upGreg, naked and deadfind the body of Greg's father, in a small boatDuncan Ackerley, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devonriver. Rosco It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor murdered Charlie and all round ''celebrity'then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' The Salter children are not convinced but as wethere'll find out, he could be more than a s little bit close else they can do but get on with money their lives and his background isn't exactly an open bookwonder about what really happened. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR1035906708|title=On the Beach: The Winter VisitorDiva|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning We tend to wonder whether it think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was better born to be at homeGreek parents in Manhattan, bored but warmNew York, or frozen cold in December 1923 and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach only moved to Athens when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelineshe was thirteen. On top of the ice Her original surname was a polar bear. As Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the ice bumped onto the sand, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the iceStates. Kit When she was all back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for making a run for it, but Teal knew that the bear her voice - she was hungry and gave him one apple and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on raised under the bus and given Nazi occupation by a good meal mother who mercilessly exploited her and somewhere to sleepmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie. What else would you do?

|author=Claire NorthChristopher Edge|title=House of OdysseusBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre= Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary= Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to the excellent Black Hole''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseus All big movie fans, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues they're looking forward to rule without her husbandlots of exciting films, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for many, many snacks! However, as the throne of the Western Islesmovie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Having survived – politically and physical – But as they lurch from one film genre to the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shoresnext, Queen Penelope can they figure out what on earth is going on ? Will they ever get back to the brink of a fragile peace. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenaecinema, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.to their real lives?|isbn=03565160751839942738

|isbnauthor=1529427045Rachel Greenlaw|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffCompass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for exampleI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''.

Lisbeth Salander has headed north to Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the small town wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the area have sparked Council Watch lays a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salandertrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's nieceleader and Mira's mother father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is the latest woman secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the area to have vanished without tracesea. It was With only with reluctance that Salander became nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her niecefrom the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the part Salander played in her father's deathones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730