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|authorisbn=Will Brooker152919640X|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], one of the most successful British authors IThe nation've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each others favourite daytime TV presenter, as wellJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seems, of her anecdote about cup cakes, the words of her latest book she was reciting, and her being in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewellthere's diverse outputonly one suspect. Brooker decides He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he'd like nothing more than must not serve anything containing miso to follow her through a year in the published authorJessica Holby. She's life, working to make seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a success of the latest titlebusy, live television studio - and struggling with the next in lineBrooks served a ragout to Holby. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agreesHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. And It was soon clear that this is the resultwas no accident.|isbn=1529136024

|isbn=18011092650008385068|title=The CompanionMidnight Feast|author=Lesley ThomsonLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as It''a punctual man who was inexplicably never s midsummer on timethe Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It' and he was - as usual - late to pick s all headed up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'by Francesca Meadows. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur The Manor was her ancestral home and, competing she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the boy's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedwealthy and famous. The dinner would never be servedHer husband, Owen, as James was the architect and Wilbur are the victims work is still ongoing on parts of a double stabbing on the beachsite. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. She's feeling heat is oppressive and amongst the pressureguests are enemies as well as friends. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the Old scores are going gets toughto be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=152941363XAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerWild East

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth Written in verse, this is any more.Ronny'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')s story, the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordogne. They're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to the well-being Norwich and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Francestart at a mostly white school. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldnmove is initiated by Ronny't normally have s mum who is worried them so much had it not been for the strange bulletRonny's safety after a tragic event, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in the car. Oha new town, and there was a golf ball toonew school, which didn't belong to the owner and keep himself out of the cartrouble. A golf bag would be a good place He listens to hide music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a sniper's weaponrapper. Was there going But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be an attempt part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to kill someonesee the connections between rap and poetry, or were and the detectives being pushed in a certain direction?power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=02415424051635866847|title=Meredith AloneThe Lavender Companion|author=Claire AlexanderJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs itIt's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and shestrange, the things that make you ''immediately''s not left her home feel that this is the book for 1,214 daysyou. SheBefore I started reading 'd 'The Lavender Companion'like', I visited the author' tos [https: in fact, she so nearly does//www.pinelavenderfarm. Her outdoor clothes are on com/ website] and shethere's even considered which shoes to wear if she's going to catch her traina picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Then, she canI don'teat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. She simply can't force herself to leave the safety of her home. She(There's fortunate that she has a good friendrecipe in the book, Sadie, who visits regularly which I'm avoiding with her two children, James some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Matilda. Sadie's I was told to make a cardiac nurse and full mess of sound common senseit. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, FredNotes in the margins are sanctioned. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare timeYou get to fold down the corners of pages. Then Tom McDermott arrivesYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. HeI ''loved's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'sthis book already.

|isbnauthor=B09Y451X9KRob Keeley|title= Greetings, aliens!Childish Spirits: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F Walker10th anniversary special edition

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Around here, we're big fans of children'Anything can happen at s author Rob Keeley. He's a birthday partyball of happy positivity, particularly when the birthday boy is the young Lord of the Manor. But when an eerie signal is picked up in the early hourshe understands children, George and his new girlfriendhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest not to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out of the bag and the world goes into a state of paniclecture or hector.''

Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of their privileged lives his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world of advanced sciencethrows at her, and Edward, secret agents.a spoiled lordling and politicians hungry for power.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Darren ShanJenny Valentine|title= Archibald Lox Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the Sinkhole to Helltime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Archibald Lox series, book 7 Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary= SoMeet Kit. We're back Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the Merge exit, perhaps bothering with the first chapter in treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the third volume of Darren Shanonly thing he's saga seen of Archibald Loxthe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a young man who can pick the locks new trio of portals from our world to another, called the ''Merge''questors is needed. Since his last adventure Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Archie he has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on taken to the goading from the topic token bully of his regular disappearances. They don't ask too many questions world and Archie has settled stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a fairly peaceful routine of visiting Winstonteam. What chance does this friendless, his lockmuscle-free-picking mentor zone have in the ''Merge'' actually managing that, and showing Kojo, the young guardian, around our world of the Born. how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn= B09Z2MTCZD1839945184

|author=John Henry PhillipsSaima Mir|title=The SearchVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=HistoryThrillers|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's play, when you're scraping I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident what. Archaeology must be north of England run by a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thingMuslim woman. This book is The fact that it was the second in a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasnseries I hadn't read didn't made it easy for himself stop me – the search area is I've jumped midway into a wide one, the target might not exist any more – oh, few series before (on page and screen) and itneedn's underwater, when he cannot dive. Latching on to t be a particular D-Day veteran through helping the heroic old manhindrance if it's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft good enough. And that delivered him wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to Normandyspeed, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority of whom perishedI never felt lost. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=14721461820861541561

|author=Fiona LongmuirStuart Douglas|title=Looking for EmilyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Lily. She During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and her mother have just moved from Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a city to woman on the edge of a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from said mother reservoir. The police seem happy to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emilyassign it as an accidental death, she is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just but something about to make herself knownthe whole thing bothers Lowe, and in he enlists the help of a big wayfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. But where does Emily come from? Well They travel across the country during their days off filming, Lily used that name because of what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of the most mundane objectsuncovering more possible murders and, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming doorseemingly, in a place calling itself 'The Museum of Emily'link to death during the Second World War. Sam But is completely unaware of this 'museum', too, leaving there really a link between the two girls deaths? And will they manage to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind the intrigue...uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=18399427541803368209

|isbn=B09XZMCDVFB0CYV674G2|title=Stories: 13 tantalising talesSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Richard F WalkerDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|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 news vendor is crying out the headlines in body at the middle bottom of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time 's been stabbed to correct an iconic quote; a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on the pub football team death. DCI John Tanner is very useful with just back from his feethoneymoon, and awfully familiar…'' This collection which coincided with the birth of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot to offer the eclectic readerhis daughter Samantha. Tying them together is You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the idea that remarkable words 'perverse' and strange, even miraculous, things can happen to ordinary people'John Tanner' were made for each other. And that ordinary doesnHe't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury s sleep-deprived to the point of short fiction is never boring and youfalling asleep at work but he're never quite sure whats determined to keep going - probably because he can's coming nextt get any sleep at home.

|isbn=18009012321787333175|title=Stitched UpYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Steve ColeBenji Waterhouse

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyPopular Science|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted 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 fashion designer. Life in glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the rural village where she lived with her family was happyNHS, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man humour and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be missedMad. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on ..'' promised the mini-bus same elements but moved from physical problems to Hanoi. Only, Hanh mental illness and the other girls were not going to work in of a shop, they were psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to work be looking for humour in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: this setting but the ones with intricate embroidery laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and beading on the legs? The ones it is always delivered with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh empathy and her co-workers made themunderstanding.

|author=Daisy HildyardOnyi Nwabineli|title=EmergencyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The 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 this book doesnAnuri't come close to explaining what is done with the premises childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne Now Anuri is grieving. Traumatised after the death of in her sister, twenties and she awakes is slowly trying to find strangeregain her confidence and to get her life back, thick black hairs sprouting from suing her step-mother to take down the bones of content about her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP Anuri is battling alcoholism, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction failing to start her griefPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, recommends she go to stay at Nedeis desperately worried about her little sister, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange who is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis new focus of a kind. As MarianneOphelia's memories threaten to overwhelm online empire. Can she save hersister, Nede offers and perhaps herself and her relationship with her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only father at a terrible price: that of identity itself.the same time?|isbn= 086154112X 0861546873

|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)David Chadwick|title=Little DrummerHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesIt's September 1973 in Hicks, this crime story California. Hicks is a mixture Mojave desert town of police procedural and thriller. Beginning a few thousand people with the death its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a young woman in a carpark, that looks very significant drive away. Not much like an overdose, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains happens in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of the investigationHicks. Gunnarstranda A silver mine and Frolich a defence contractor are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficultmain local employers but otherwise, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure that something there's not much bigger, of note other than dive bars and much more dangerousJoshua trees. Life is quiet, is going onuntil....|isbn=1914585127B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=0008541477Tom Percival|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5

|summary=It was Will's life is difficult, in a hot summer day right at the beginning multitude of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimesways... And only on rare-sh occasions, which He is hardly ever.bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on , he has the ground floor wrong shoes because hehis dad can't work and doesn's wobbly)t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, Mum and Dad, Claricehis dad can's older brothert work because he lost his job at the college, Kurt was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and younger brother, Minal Crickethad an accident. There's also MarcieThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, whoand Will's main claim to fame life seems to be that she steals the batteries from Clarice's torchbleak in every direction. And yet, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboardhe still has a tiny amount of hope. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to herHe is good at art, rather than wanting and clings to talkthe moments of joy when he is drawing, but that feel like a light at the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=0711266204Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)A Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered There are few greater joys than a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds book which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop lives up to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablecompelling premise. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life And this is one of Birds''them. So – what is it?|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17370309420008517061|title=Bag O'GoodiesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jolly Walker BittickStig Abell

|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. I first encountered There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his writing about a year agovet girlfriend, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a rollicking tale lot of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn't want a fullcompromise: does Jake give up his off-length novel, so I turned grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this anthology of verse is the future she wants for herself and short stories. her daughter? Bittick's writing has matured - For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and so have his charactersputting the future on the back burner. Well... most of them!

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1786482126|title=SeedThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs Builders were demolishing an allotment, and manages to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it old house in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines Norwich - the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems site was going to do nothing and hasnhold seventy-five 'luxury't left apartments - when they discovered the building in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim 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 junkDCI Harry Nelson. What Marty It's classmates dondifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one school uniform built from lost propertynight they spent together some three months ago. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction Her condition will be obvious before long, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of a solitary plant seedsickness.|isbn=1529077664

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron0008551324|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After IslaIt's older sister Flora dies, her unusual for anyone from the Hardie family struggle to find a way forwardapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. In particular, IslaBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's mum prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who can’t seem to be able to let was responsible for her daughter godeath. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online This person, he promises, she thinks they might is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be able transferred to an open prison to helpserve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. But actually Not much to ask, is it turns out they are part of an experimental company ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who offer works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the family 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 chance investigation ground to have Flora back againa halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in robot formtheir bed. But this won Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't just s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be a lookan open-and-shut case is now a-likecomplex double murder. They use all of Flora Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's online historyboss, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possibleUna Burt) are less convinced. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916

|isbn=13985075040571379877|title=Cold ReckoningThe Kellerby Code|author=Russ ThomasJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his father committed suicide upper-class friends, Robert and for the last sixteen years heStanza. Robert's been searching for evidence to prove that hea theatre director. He's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoiralso self-obsessed, demanding, there was a link back handsome and entitled and uses Edward to a cold case from 2002run errands for him. There didn Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he't immediately seem s drunkenly confided how he feels to be any connection with DI Richard TylerRobert. Most men in Robert's death position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens not like most men: Edward is going left to be brought out into stumble upon the opentwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?

|isbnauthor=0727850547Jo Callaghan|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)|author=David MarkLeave No Trace

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came through. A body had been When a man is found in crucified on the roots top of a fallen tree at Brantinghamhill in Nuneaton, near Hull. When he gets DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the scenecase alongside her sidekick, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedthe AI detective Lock. A young manIt's corpse 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 entangled suddenly struggling with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – potential serial killer and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem a very high profile case that this was done whilst the man was still alivedraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. McAvoy makes a promise Will they be able to solve the victim: I case in time, or will Kat find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own family.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1399613073|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary= Early comments Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousthe 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 a delighttrauma doctor. I will agree with Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first – tremendous is no understatement – but meet them they're at a delightdrug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don' is perhaps using t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the expression three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in a way Iyour mind, you'm not re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar withviolence, poverty and injustice. I have There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to confess my ignorance the London School of the SpanishEconomics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereand he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin1035021803|title= Rebel SkiesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 3.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, a massive dining hall floating in been back to the sky English country village where soldiers she grew up. She's back now because of the Empire come to drink a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and make merry between their conquests. HoweverCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she is a Crafter like himdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across say the Empireleast. He asks her Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to come with himthe village: Arthur, to leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has knownfeels, let her down badly. Well, soon Kurara won't have any say Even though they were in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known business together as a shikigamiantique hunters, and she is forced has not felt able to flee out into be near the man or pursue the worldprofession she loved. She joins Himura aboard After the Orihimesplit, she worked in a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigamicafe, met and a whole world married James (on the rebound from the love of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Patrice LawrenceAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=NeedleAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=35|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Brave''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. Charlene, the 'heroine' of this piece  I've heard it said that 'technology' is extremely hard for some people to likewhat happens after you're eighteen. Well, characters and readers bothI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, sheI's fostering ve kept up reasonably well with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and has taken up residence in her son Blakewhat's old room while headvantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's at uniall getting away from me. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need Some of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps thinkit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene is a wonder knitter, probabilities and is making something full of love for her younger sister – a younger sister sheend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's allowed contact with no morere talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective, and then force I needed people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp I knew I could trust and pointy those knitting needles can be..who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1800901011

|isbnauthor=1405940980Sunny Singh|title=The Birdcage|author=Eve ChaseHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's the 7th of January 2019 and we know The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that a body has suddenly been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwallviolently taken over by a terrorist group. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlierHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, Florakilling everyone on site, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finchthere is Sam, a famous artist. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters wartime photographer and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closeAbhi, the hotel manager. Finch was known As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for his fecundity, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at residents who are still alive in the time of the total eclipsehotel, something happened. Kat and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was he forms a victim bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and itkeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's left happened through her very wary of photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her sisterskeep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17876349061529153298|title=No Less the DevilThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Stuart MacBrideJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=WeIt're in Oldcastle s 1979 and Malcolm Margaret Thatcher is in troublePrime Minister. He(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's in an abandoned house and heworrying Miv's being threatened by two young peoplefamily, though. Women have been disappearing. One is Allegra (weWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv'll soon learn that s upset because she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugooverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, apparently) but and she'd put a tracking device in it so ll do anything to prevent that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It wonShe't be long before s not worried about the police realise dangers or that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people are going her Mum's stopped talking - to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsanyone.

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1398524085|title=ElektraHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband'Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greeces fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Cassandra Her children, Clytemnestrasons Niall, Paul and Elektra Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all bit players in worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the story body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Trojan Warriver. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us It was an easy assumption for the police to make that often Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the silent women have the most compelling stories guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and the most extreme furieswonder about what really happened.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=15291498001035906708|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteDiva|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyGeneral Fiction|summary=We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most of them stood and watched, unable tend to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to the river Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back only moved to drop them into the fireAthens when she was thirteen. The animals laughed: what good Her original surname was that doing. Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'I'm doing to make it more manageable in the best I can'', said the hummingbirdStates. And When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that, really, is she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – Nazi occupation by each a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of us doing what we canher preference for her elder sister, however small that might beJackie.

|isbnauthor=1776574338Christopher Edge|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes Lucas and his way through the cityfriends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at a place that has the top nickname of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neckThe Black Hole'. It's perfectAll big movie fans, isnthey't it? What could be a more fun way re looking forward to lots of going to school? exciting films, and many, many snacks! There is a problemHowever, though. Leilong isn't happy in as the city: he's always having to be careful movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about where he puts his feet this new film format is very different, and – because hethey are swept up into an adventure they couldn's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled upt even imagine. The school decides that he But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can't be they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the bus anymore.cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738