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|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Natalia Garcia FreireRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary= Early comments It's midsummer on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousthe Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a delightbody is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4. I will agree with the first – tremendous 5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is no understatement – but Ronny's story, a delightyoung black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny' s mum who is perhaps using the expression worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a way I'm not familiar withnew town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. I have He listens to confess my ignorance music constantly, and has always dreamed of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation herebeing a rapper. From the little I have read (But now, in translationthis new school, I don't read Spanish) there does seem his teacher encourages him to be part of a tendency towards poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the fantastical – connections between rap and poetry, and the mystical realismpower of creativity and crafting your words. |isbn=08615419010241645441

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1635866847|title= Rebel SkiesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensLifestyle|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the MidoriIt's strange, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and things that make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her you ''immediately'' feel that she this is a Crafter like himthe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', someone with I visited the power to form paper into whatever she desires – author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a power sought after all across slice of chocolate cake on the Empirehomepage. He asks her to come with him, to leave the life of dreary servitude I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that is all she has knowncake viscerally. Well, soon Kurara won (There't have any say s a recipe in the matterbook, because which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, book and she is forced I was told to flee out into make a mess of it. Notes in the worldmargins are sanctioned. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is You get to hunt fold down shikigami, and the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Patrice LawrenceRob Keeley|title=NeedleChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=34|genre=Confident Readers|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 ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5

|summary=Brave. CharleneElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, the 'heroine' of this piece their friendship is extremely hard for some people to like, characters and readers botha once in a lifetime connection. Kicked They meet as children one day on a trip out of multiple homes and schools, shebut unfortunately they don's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while het get each other's contact details at unithe time. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket But then chance brings them back together, you might perhaps thinkand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knittertragic, and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detectivenow they must work through their grief, 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 saytheir friendship, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be..together.|isbn=18009010111471196585

|isbnauthor=1405940980Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=It's I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the 7th north of January 2019 England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and we know it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body has been pulled out of a woman on the sea at Zennor in Cornwalledge of a reservoir. We don't know whose body The police seem happy to assign it isas an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Four They travel across the country during their days earlieroff filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, Floraa link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, Kat covered in mud and blood - and Lauren had gathered carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Rock 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 falling 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=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the request workings of their fatherthe NHS, Charlie Finch, a famous artisthumour and autobiography. The girls are actually ''halfYou Don't Have to be Mad...''-sisters promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and their dates the work of birth are embarrassingly closea psychiatrist. Finch I did wonder whether it was known acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for his fecunditysponsorships 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, if not undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for his fidelitydoing so. ItMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time ?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the total eclipsemain local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, something happeneduntil....|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. Kat 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 Flora were obviously involved but Lauren his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a victim 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 itWill's left her very wary life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of her sistersthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17876349060008517061|title=No Less 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 Devilfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot 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=Stuart MacBrideElly Griffiths

|summary=WeBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn're in Oldcastle and Malcolm t, that she is in troublepregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. HeHer condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to 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 Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in an abandoned house prison and he's being threatened by two young peopleprepared 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. One Not much to ask, is Allegra (weit? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'll soon learn that t think so and she's Allegra Deaneven prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -Edwardsmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11) |author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and Hugoher father are dead in their bed. It seems Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that Allegra bought Malcolm makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a new coat to keep him warm complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (she often does this for homeless peoplesuch as Derwent's boss, apparentlyUna Burt) but sheare less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert'd put s a tracking device theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in it so that she love with Stanza since their university days - and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. It wonMost men in Robert't be long before the police realise s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Malcolm was one of their owna relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: not many other people are going Edward is left to have stumble upon the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backstwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Jennifer SaintJo Callaghan|title=ElektraLeave No Trace

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells When a man is found crucified on the story top of three women who a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the heavily male-dominated world case and, potentially, out of Ancient Greecea career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. Cassandra5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, ClytemnestraLaura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and Elektra are all bit players in a trauma doctor. Anjali is the story free spirit of the Trojan Wargroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often We don't know who suffered the silent women have tragedy or the most compelling stories and consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the most extreme furiesthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=15291498000241636604|title=Things You Can DoThe Trading Game: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteA Confession|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyAutobiography|summary=We begin with If you were to bring up an image of a telling storycity banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. All A hoodie and jeans replaces the birds pin-stripe suit and animals fled when his background is the forest fire took hold East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and most of them stood and watched, unable injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to think the London School of anything they could doEconomics. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and began taking tiny amounts he has a facility with numbers which most of water and flying back us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to drop them into the firebe stupid. The animals laughed: It was his ability at what good was that doing. ''I'm doing the best I can'', said the hummingbirdessentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. And thatEventually, really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might bethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=17765743381035021803|title=LeilongThe Antique Hunter's Too Long!Guide to Murder|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning Leilong, It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the city, picking English country village where she grew up children as he goes. Children who live at the top of tower blocks donShe't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out s back now because of the window and slide down his necka request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. ItFreya's former mentor and Carole's perfectclose friend, isn't it? Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. What could be a more fun way of going Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to school? There is a problemthe village: Arthur, she feels, thoughlet her down badly. Leilong isn't happy Even though they were in the city: he's always having business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to cafe, met and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be married James (on the rebound from the bus anymorelove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=303091657XAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Disaster in the BoardroomAll Tomorrow's Futures: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandFictions that Disrupt|author=Gerry Brown Benjamin Greenaway and Randall S PetersonStephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Business and FinanceScience Fiction|summary=Boards must act in ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the best interests shape of their stakeholders and ensure things to come.'' I've heard it said that they are well-managed and financially secure'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. This might seem obvious but Well, I must confess that there have been more than a series of disasters - some few decades of which have resulted technology in death or my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the collapse feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of a major company it is - frankly - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingquite frightening. Where were they? Occasionally Of course, I could research the possibilities and the boards were unaware of probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance 're talking about or criminalitythe latest conspiracy theorist. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown I needed people I knew I could trust and Randall S Peterson give us who could deliver information in a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway mania, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littleway I could understand.

|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=15293379681529153298|title=In Place The List of FearSuspicious Things|author=Catriona McPhersonJennie Godfrey

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 1979 and Helen Crowther Margaret Thatcher is due 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 start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the NHS is bornfamily 'Down South'. SheWhen you'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthre from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. The hardest part of For Miv, the job will be to persuade people that the services move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she offers really are free and that they don't have to ll do anything to qualify for themprevent that. Some of She's not worried about the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of dangers or that her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedMum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane1398524085|title=GalaxyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, who is an elite pilot with the Space AcademyPaul and Ollie and her daughter, barely makes it through a battle aliveEtty. His coare all worried but -pilot was strangely - her husband, Alec, is not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years Shortly afterwards, he remembers little Etty and is Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in no physical shape the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he mustcouldn't stand the guilt. Returned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and The Salter children are not just from the alien threats against it, convinced but there's little else they can do but also from its own sins against itselfget on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|authorisbn=Lissa Evans1035906708|title=WishedDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=When things contrive We tend to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanGreek parents in Manhattan, Miss FileyNew York, for a week of half-term, they're not looking forward in December 1923 and only moved to it. For one thing, Athens when she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuitwas thirteen. They donHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't particularly take to Willard either, make it more manageable in the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhereStates. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage to work out When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a second time when they realise that, having used up three mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of themher preference for her elder sister, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202XJackie.

|author=Justyn EdwardsChristopher Edge|title=The Great Fox IllusionBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a contest with movie marathon at their local cinema, a differenceplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. No singing All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, no dancingas the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this show new film format is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workvery different, and who can attempt they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick next, can they figure out what on earth is determined to win, but not because she wants going on? Will they ever get back to own the tricks. She is interested in just ''one'' trickcinema, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able and to bring her missing father home.their real lives?|isbn=15295019461839942738