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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)152919640X|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, bitter womanJessica 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 author EpiPen in case of failing if wellemergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio -regarded literary short novelsand Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Sorry Her EpiPen was nowhere to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, be found and she flukes her way into a public argument with was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying heDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's populist trash their opening weekend and only writing what anyone could writesplendid celebrations are promised. Cue the bet that she cannot live It's all headed up to that accusationby Francesca Meadows. Her publisher duly books The Manor was her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where ancestral home and she is put up 's converted it into an impressive retreat for a wintry month away from it allthe wealthy and famous. Just Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on the point parts of despairing – about her writing, about the people site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladyguests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won's nephew has been t be long before a body is found dead…|isbn=1914585615.

|isbnauthor=1804545600Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Monk|author=Tim SullivanWild East|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The body Written in the woods near Bristol was verse, this is Ronny's story, a nasty shock - a monk strapped young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to a chair Norwich and dumped in start at a ditchmostly white school. He'd been savagely beaten. ItThe move is initiated by Ronny's a while before D S George Cross and the Major Crime Unit establish that this mum who is Father Dominic. Heworried for Ronny'd been missing for s safety after a few days tragic event, and certainly hadn't asked permission so Ronny finds himself trying to leave his abbey. As the team gradually unpick the monk's past it becomes clear that he'd been well-loved as an investment bankersettle in a new town, brothera new school, neighbour and friendkeep himself out of trouble. He'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faithlistens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. Why would someone savagely murder 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 connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Lauren Bravo1635866847|title=PrelovedThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionLifestyle|summary= Gwen It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is pressing her middle-aged bosom on the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a big number that starts with picture of a four slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and ends with an oh-my-Goddesserts -but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm-nearly-fortyavoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue You get to fold down the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mid-life crisisproblem. Catharsis is key and Gwen has decided now is the time to take back her lifeI ''loved''|isbn=1398510629this book already.

|author=Cath HoweRob Keeley|title=My Life on FireChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54

|summary=RenAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's family home is destroyed in a fire. Sheball of happy positivity, her parentshe understands children, and her little brother lose everythinghe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. She doesn The 't have any 'Childish Spirits'' series is one of her clothes, or any his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardghost stories centring on Ellie, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they a stalwart young girl who can't touch anything, or do cope with anything, or even eat the foods they normally eat. When she goes back to school she discovers that the class are doing a special art projectspirit world throws at her, creating boxes of their livesand Edward, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a person. But Ren has nothing to put in a box, spoiled lordling and so she finds herself starting to steal things. Small things, things that people might not really miss, not when they have so much already. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=18399428351783064617

|isbnauthor=0008517010Jenny Valentine|title=Death Under a Little Sky|author=Stig AbellUs in the Before and After

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=The marriage had run its courseElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no They meet as children one else was involved - certainly not day on Jake's side and he didna trip out but unfortunately they don't think there was for Faye either. They were still polite to each other and wished get each other well - but didn't wish to remain marrieds contact details at the time. The perfect solution arrived in the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle ArthurBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and enough money to live there without the need to now they must workthrough their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Jennifer SaintKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=AtalantaDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=''I was as worthy as any one Meet Kit. Like most of them. I would get on board that shipthe people in his world, I vowed. I would take my placeit seems, not just in he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the name sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the goddess. It was for exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the sake of my name, tooway. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth Unfortunately for being born a daughter rather than a sonKit, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye only thing he's seen of the goddess Athemis latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and fashioned into a formidable huntressnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – he has taken to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent goading from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemistoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he' name and carve out her own legendary place in historyll enter as a team. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through itchance does this friendless, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that if she marries, it will be her undoing.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14722921541839945184

|isbnauthor=152915118XSaima Mir|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the story north of three women: Sasha, Darley and GeorgianaEngland run by a Muslim woman. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother Cord. They're Stocktons, only Sasha isnThe fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't a Stockton by birth so she isnread didn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problem's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if theystop me – I'd like to move ve jumped midway into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda a few series before (on page and Chip have renovated screen) and downsized to another property, it needn't be a street or so away, which they own. They wonhindrance if it't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight ins good enough. Nominally, they had a choice but And that wasn't the realitya problem here. Darley Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and Georgiana start to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it to 'the GD'I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=0008551278Stuart Douglas|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the bottom dead body of Fyrish, where she'd been doing her training. She'd been a bit woman on the edge of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it now looks as though she could be heading for an accidental death, but something about the national squad. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seewhole thing bothers Lowe, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at and he enlists the age help of twelvea fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. She was rescued when she was carrying They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familylink to death during the Second World War. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi But is in there really a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get link between the deaths? And will they manage to her.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|authorisbn=Emily TeshB0CYV674G2|title=Some Desperate GlorySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=''While Earth's children liveIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the enemy shall fear uspolice station shouting that he hasn'' Following t killed the man. A body at the destruction bottom of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivorsfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – which coincided with the home birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the last scraps of humanity – words 'perverse' and trained relentlessly 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity persevereskeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=0356521834

|isbn=08615440561787333175|title=Twin TruthsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Jacqueline SutherlandBenji Waterhouse

|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=Belle and DavidI was tempted to read ''You Don's twin daughters are just coming t Have to be Mad to the end of their first term at university. KitWork Here's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. Itafter enjoying Adam Kay's not only first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the first time they've been away from their parents for any length workings of time - but they've also been apart from each otherthe NHS, humour and autobiography. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesnYou Don't want Have to upset Kitbe Mad... Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with thatmental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. And they'll I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be sharing looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a bedroomsituation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=1785633457Onyi Nwabineli|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive WilkinsonAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history 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 travelling by unconventional means with a preference Anuri's childhood for slow travelsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring 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 edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageouscontent about her. In fact Anuri is battling alcoholism, it should be a pleasant holiday failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for Clive and his wifedoing so. Most importantly, Joanshe is desperately worried about her little sister, shouldnwho is the new focus of Ophelia't its online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Frederic SeagerDavid Chadwick|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading Headload of the New TestamentNapalm

|genre= Spirituality and ReligionThrillers|summary= I was brought up 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 family where religion played little or no partsignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side A silver mine and Welsh Methodist on a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other, nobody really discussed religion than dive bars and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheistJoshua trees. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity playLife is quiet, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believeuntil....|isbn=B092BWWG9YB0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=0571370977Tom Percival|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=ItWill's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke life is now back difficult, in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebea multitude of ways. The worst of his grief He is over but bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. Theywrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when t have enough money for even the body most basic of a youngthings like food, Jewish scholarand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, Rosa Jacobswas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, is found and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a lock-uptiny amount of hope. At firstHe is good at art, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke and clings to the moments of joy when he is convinced drawing, that it was murder rather 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 suicidea book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz0008517061|title=The Writing RetreatDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Roza ValloFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Anyone in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the world future of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend his life with an impressivehis vet girlfriend, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with Livia and her breakthrough noveldaughter Diana, published when she was barely out as moving in together would mean a lot of childhood. Alex, a writercompromise: does Jake give up his off-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed grid and relaxing life to move in with Roza, and Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, the future she is invited to be part of wants for herself and her month-long writers' retreatdaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=0861544439

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix1786482126|title=Different for BoysThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Ant is Builders were demolishing an old house in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised Norwich - the site was going to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togethera child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only Was this a single-sex school can formritual killing or murder? Inevitably, the talk in class and out often turns to sexDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Which is confusing for AntIt's difficult as Ruth knows, as he but Nelson doesn't know what his score , that she is, where pregnant with his achievements in that regard lie. He's had child as a casual relationship, a secret result of the one, for several night they spent together some three months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sureago. And that's mostly Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of who he's been having the relationship and the sex withsickness.|isbn=1529509491

|author=M R Carey|title=Infinity Gate|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|isbn=0356518043}}{{Frontpage|isbn=13985095820008551324|title=The FavourDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Nicci FrenchNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when 's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the car crash happenedpolice. It would cause problems Neither side likes or has any respect for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Jude Winter were together. She who was utterly driven by responsible for her determination to go to medical schooldeath. Liam was This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the reversepolice doing what he wants. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and carried him along''to get an early parole date. A bit of weed hereNot much to ask, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didnis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - or rather, Liam simply didnmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't see Jude any mores happening.

|isbn=08570517410008405026|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Jane Casey

|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found in a freezer at and the home of investigation ground to a deceased alcoholichalt. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitationsNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Raimo Koskela disappeared without Initially, it looks like a trace in 1962. He was straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the father positioning of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rebecka wants nothing What looked as though it was going to do with a fiftybe an open-yearand-old shut case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is now a dying man's wishcomplex double murder. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes Kerrigan is convinced that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholicexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, was also murderedUna Burt) are less convinced. Is there a connection between the two deaths?

|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni0571379877|title=Her Deadly GameThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed a theatre director. He'The Irish Brawler' due s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to his reputation run errands for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientshim. Along Edward has been in love with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion Stanza since their university days - and inevitably the latter was beginning he's drunkenly confided how he feels to overshadow the formerRobert. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself Most men in the hideous Robert's position of asking her father for would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a job at relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the family firm because two of them kissing in a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southdark passageway.|isbn=1662500181

|author= Rob KeeleyJo Callaghan|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley When a man is back with found crucified on the top of a return hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new talescase 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, each as fun Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to read as his previous offeringstheir AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn= B0BVW69N1G139851120X

|authorisbn= Michael Grothaus1399613073|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre= Literary FictionThrillers|summary= ''But fearing something Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and having it come to pass are two different thingstheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, or we can take steps which is a bonus when you aim to change itbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around Anjali is the question free spirit of identity the group and acceptanceshe becomes a GP. Of what When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it means 's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be humanan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Of what is real and what is artificial This time, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frighteningit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=191458564X

|isbn=B09BLBP3P80241636604|title=Neville Chamberlain's WarThe Trading Game: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940A Confession|author=Frederic SeagerGary Stevenson

|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to misconceptions about historythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. One such A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the scrubbing from East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the popular imagination London School of the early days Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of World War II from 1939-40us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, known this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'Phoney War's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, war breaking outshe feels, and Churchill coming let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to save be near the man or pursue the dayprofession she loved. Very little time is spent on this period After the split, she worked in cultural reflections a cafe, met and yetmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it who was of vital significance in how the war played outmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0760378134AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The First-Time GardenerAll Tomorrow's Futures: Container Food GardeningFictions that Disrupt|author=Pamela FarleyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Home and FamilyScience Fiction|summary=If you''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've ever thought how good heard it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised said that 'technology' is what happens after you wouldn't know where to startre eighteen. Well, this is the book you needI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. ItI's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, ve kept up reasonably well with what you're going s advantageous to grow, what youme but I'll grow m left with the feeling that it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containerss all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, how you'll water I could research the possibilities and fertilise them the probabilities and you finish end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshootinglatest conspiracy theorist. There's also I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a good glossaryway I could understand. So, is it any good?

{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002Frontpage|author= Eric LaRoccaSunny Singh|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= HorrorThrillers |summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It The Hotel Arcadia is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process themluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'' Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, whether that there is a home invaderSam, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible wartime photographer andAbhi, by the end of hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the storyhotel, beatable. Eric LaRoccahe 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 ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like thathappened through her photography. It is a collection of short stories more interested in Although they only ever talk over the horrors of illnessphone, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger 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 harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1529153298|title=Delilah RecoveredThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isnIt't going as planned but things mights 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, just mighthonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, be about to look upthough. Women have been disappearing. Out of work Well, they've been murdered, about but to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountanthave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's job. But itupset because she's not overheard that her father wants to bemove the family 'Down South'. Dee When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is attacked by two men calling themselves witch huntersa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. She survives For Miv, the attack but not unscathedmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things not worried about the dangers or that are not ordinary at all return her Mum's stopped talking - to her and things will never be the sameanyone....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV

|isbn=00084049761398524085|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane CaseyNicci French

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was because of expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closeher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. If you're a regular reader Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of the [[Jane CaseyGreg's Maeve Kerrigan series father, Duncan Ackerley, in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sentence twice Duncan had murdered Charlie and wondered if itthen committed suicide when he couldn's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between t stand the two which seems very, very realguilt. But (The Salter children are not convinced but there's always a 'little else they can do but', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes get on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertaintheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover1035906708|title=The Hidden FiresDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background We tend to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is think of Australian parentageMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in KathmanduManhattan, New York, grew up in the Annapurna December 1923 and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlandonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. I can think of no-one better a combination Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence make it more manageable in the Cairngorms National ParkStates. Merryn walks, not When she was back in Athens - supposedly so much in that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the shadow Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Shepherdher preference for her elder sister, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famouslyJackie.|isbn=1846975751

|author=Alice M RossChristopher Edge|title=The Nowhere ThiefBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth Lucas and her mother run his friends are all booked in for a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because she movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has stolen itthe nickname of 'The Black Hole'. She also knows she should be free from worries about being found outAll big movie fans, because she has the ability they're looking forward to leave this worldlots of exciting films, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours to enter other worldsmany, many snacks! However, where as the sea levels are rising dramatically movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and the buildings they are generally empty of humans and ripe for plunderswept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. With eviction imminentBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shopthey figure out what on earth is going on? Well yes, is Will they ever get back to the answercinema, but the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…and to their real lives?|isbn=18399437691839942738