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|authorisbn=Alan Parks152919640X|title=To Die in JuneThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=What first The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems like the unfortunatethat 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, accidental death of live television studio - and Brooks served a homeless man 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=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the streetsDorset 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, suddenly starts 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 feel like something more sinister as another be settled and it won't be long before a body is discoveredfound.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and then anotherstart at a mostly white school. This The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worrying enough worried for detective Harry McCoyRonny's safety after a tragic event, but all the more and so because his own father is Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a down-new school, and-keep himself out alcoholic, with no fixed abodeof trouble. He listens to music constantly, and he has been for yearsalways dreamed of being a rapper. At the same time as facing these possible murdersBut now, in this new school, Harry is also dealing with his teacher encourages him to be part of a move poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to a different police stationsee the connections between rap and poetry, and the arrival power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is 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 picture of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record slice of chocolate cake on the boy having existed can be foundhomepage. Something feels wrong I don't eat cakes and desserts - not just but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the woman’s story but also with margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Laura NoakesRob Keeley|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgerAround here, and theywe're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponbig fans of children's author Rob Keeley. But Cosima bears the tag as He's a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came fromball of happy positivity, as the first ever inmatehe understands children, and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems not to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutelecture or hector. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Thomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times|rating=3|genre= Fantasy|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''

Set in the near-distant futureThe ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, in a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world on the verge of climate collapsethrows at her, and Edward, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day spoiled lordling and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=03565185231783064617

|author=Madelaine LucasJenny Valentine|title=Thirst for SaltUs in the Before and After

|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light Elk and weightless feelingMab are best friends, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective viewor more than that even, their friendship is a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined herin a lifetime connection. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with They meet as children one day on a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salttrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other' s contact details at the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lovertime. But then chance brings them back together, depicting its all-consuming natureand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships now they must work through their grief, and how it altered her irrevocablytheir friendship, together.|isbn=08615464901471196585

|isbnauthor=1529382823Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will DeanDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has found herself somewhat surprisingly in love with PeteMeet Kit. They're off on a cruise to New York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sisterLike most of the people in his world, Gemmait seems, reckons that Pete he is going to propose but Caz hasn't spotted an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a ringteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-shaped bulge in his suit pocket old, magical mazes, and she doesn't know whether she's relieved race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or disappointedthe big bad and the points they grant you along the way. TheyUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he've not s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been a couple for that long retired, eaten, and the trip will be an excellent opportunity to get to know him a bit betternew trio of questors is needed. MeanwhilePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Gemma is looking after Cazhe has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's cafe ll enter as well as their mother who has dementiaa team. It's going What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to be good, isn't itsucceed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Lex CroucherSaima Mir|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, Muslim woman. The fact that it lifted my spirits was the second in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomit needn't be a hindrance if it's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diariesgood enough. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing that wasn't a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsand I never felt lost. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=15266517930861541561

|author=Emily CritchleyStuart Douglas|title=One Puzzling AfternoonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town During location filming for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and bring Edie to live with his familyLeggit', as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the memory dead body of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be woman on the thing that reveals the truth edge of what happened all that time agoa reservoir. After 'seeing' Lucy in The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the high streetwhole thing bothers Lowe, just as she was and he enlists the last time she saw herhelp of a fellow actor, she starts John Le Breton to find pockets of memories coming back to herhelp him investigate matters further. And yet as she remembers They travel across the pastcountry during their days off filming, she is forgetting uncovering more possible murders and more in her day , seemingly, a link to day lifedeath during the Second World War. Will she But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance who is responsible before her move, and before her memories are gone forevermore people lose their lives?|isbn=18041812501803368209

|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=Thirty Days of DarknessDavid Blake

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as It seemed like an unlikeableopen-and-shut case. A man, bitter woman, an author of failing if wellcovered in mud and blood -regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at and carrying a book fairknife, she flukes her way comes into a public argument with the latest hot shot in police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the world bottom of crime fiction, saying a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up been stabbed to that accusationdeath. Her publisher duly books her flights DCI John Tanner is just back from Denmark to Icelandhis honeymoon, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on which coincided with the point birth of despairing – about her writing, about his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the people words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the lack point of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladyfalling asleep at work but he's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=18045456001787333175|title=The MonkYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Tim SullivanBenji Waterhouse

|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=The body in the woods near Bristol I was a nasty shock - a monk strapped 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 chair glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and dumped in a ditchautobiography. He'd been savagely beaten'You Don't Have to be Mad... It's a while before D S George Cross ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the Major Crime Unit establish that this is Father Dominicwork of a psychiatrist. He'd been missing I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a few days person and it is always delivered with empathy and certainly hadn't asked permission understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to leave his abbeyIntroduce Myself|rating=4. As 5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the team gradually unpick the monkworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's past it becomes clear that heincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'd been wells childhood for sponsorships 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-loved as an investment bankermother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, brotherfailing to start her PhD, neighbour undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and friendreceiving money from them for doing so. HeMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia'd also been very wealthy but had given it all up for his faiths online empire. Why would someone savagely murder himCan she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Lauren BravoDavid Chadwick|title=PrelovedHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionThrillers|summary= Gwen It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is pressing her middle-aged bosom on a big number that starts with Mojave desert town of a four and ends few thousand people with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a mid-life crisissignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Catharsis is key A silver mine and Gwen has decided now is a defence contractor are the time to take back her lifemain local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn=1398510629B0D321VJ76

|author=Cath HoweTom Percival|title=My Life on FireThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=RenWill's family home life is destroyed difficult, in a firemultitude of ways. She, her parentsHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and her little brother lose everything. She doesn't have any enough money for even the most basic of her clothes, or any of her special little knick-knacks from her cupboardthings like food, and now she is living at her grandmother's house where they his dad can't touch anythingwork because he lost his job at the college, or do anything, or even eat the foods they normally eatwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. When she goes back to school she discovers Throw into that mix the class fact that his mum and dad are doing a special art projectseparated, creating boxes of their lives, to display things that are important to them and show who they are as a personWill's life seems bleak in every direction. But Ren And yet, he still has nothing to put in a boxtiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and so she finds herself starting clings to steal things. Small thingsthe moments of joy when he is drawing, things that people might not really missfeel like a light at the end of a long, not when they have so much alreadydark tunnel. But what will happen to her if someone finds out what she is doing?|isbn=18399428351398527122

|isbnauthor=0008517010Sylvie Cathrall|title=Death Under a Little Sky|author=Stig AbellA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=The marriage had run its course. It might have been different if the pregnancies hadn't ended in miscarriages but no one else was involved - certainly not on Jake's side and he didn't think there was for Faye either. They were still polite There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to each other and wished each other well - but didn't wish to remain married. The perfect solution arrived in the form of a legacy from Jake's Uncle Arthurcompelling premise. He'd been left a secluded property in the hamlet And this is one of Caelum Parvum - Little Sky - and enough money to live there without the need to workthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint0008517061|title=AtalantaDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that shipFormer Metropolitan Police detective, I vowed. I would take my placeJake Johnson, not just in the name of the goddesshas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It was for There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the sake future of my namehis life with his vet girlfriend, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a Livia and her daughter rather than Diana, as moving in together would mean a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye lot of the goddess Athemis compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to join Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name future she wants for herself and carve out her own legendary place daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges the present and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoingputting the future on the back burner.|isbn=1472292154

|isbn=152915118X1786482126|title=Pineapple StreetThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jenny JacksonElly Griffiths

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Pineapple Street'' is apartments - when they discovered the story bones of three women: Sasha, Darley and Georgianaa child beneath a doorway. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married to their brother CordThere was no skull. They're StocktonsWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so she isn't readily accepted into the tribeDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The problemIt's exacerbated when the clan matriarchdifficult as Ruth knows, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if theybut Nelson doesn'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda and Chip have renovated and downsized to another propertyt, that she is pregnant with his child as a street or so away, which they own. They won't need any result of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight inone night they spent together some three months ago. NominallyHer condition will be obvious before long, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley and Georgiana start not least because Ruth is prone 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'sudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=00085512780008551324|title=Blood Runs Cold The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)

|summary=Affi Smith was snatched It's unusual for anyone from the bottom of Fyrish, where she'd been doing her trainingHardie family to approach the police. SheNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'd been a bit s prepared to tell the police where the body of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it now looks as though she could will be heading for worth the national squadpolice doing what he wants. That's quite And what he wants is to be transferred to an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came open prison to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at serve the age of twelve. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo remainder of drugs his sentence and three years later she's happy with her foster familyto get an early parole date. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterNot much to ask, Melodi is in a childrenit? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's home in Tirana - t think so and anyone could get to her.}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Tesh|title=Some Desperate Glory|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''While Earthshe's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly even prepared to avenge her people and do the world other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty DS Max Craigie and ensure that humanity perseveresanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=0356521834

|isbn=08615440560008405026|title=Twin TruthsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jacqueline SutherlandJane Casey

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Belle and DavidIt's twin daughters are just coming sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to the end of their first term at universitya halt. Kit's been at Bristol Now, her mother, Helena, and Jess's her father are dead in Exetertheir bed. ItInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's not only something about the first time they've been away from their parents for any length positioning of time - but they've also been apart from each otherthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Belle can't wait What looked as though it was going to have them all to herself for be an open-and-shut case is now a whilecomplex double murder. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer Kerrigan is convinced that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivothe explanation lies in Rosalie's apparently 'older'disappearance: heothers (such as Derwent's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroomboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17856334570571379877|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric CarThe Kellerby Code|author=Clive WilkinsonJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary=Clive Wilkinson has Edward Jevons is a history of travelling by unconventional means working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a preference theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for slow travelhim. As Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring 's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the edges two of England them kissing in an electric car was not totally outrageousa dark passageway. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?

|author=Frederic SeagerJo Callaghan|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New Testament|rating=4.5|genre= Spirituality and Religion|summary= I was brought up in a family where religion played little or no part. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side and Welsh Methodist on the other, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic to atheist. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or the school nativity play, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believe.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571370977|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleLeave No Trace

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's six months since When a man is found crucified on the dramatic events which we read about top of a hill in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughterNuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficultAI detective Lock. TheyIt're brought s their first live case together by Chief Inspector Hackett , having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when the there is a second body of found crucified a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobsfew days later, Kat is found in suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lock-uplot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. At firstWill they be able to solve the case in time, it looked as though she'd gassed or will Kat find herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1399613073|title=The Writing RetreatMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the world first day of publishing knows the namemedical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Writers want Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be her, agents want to represent hera cardiothoracic surgeon. She's something of Laura is a perfectionist and a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when the group and she was barely out of childhoodbecomes a GP. Alex, When we first meet them they're at a writerdrug and alcohol-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, fuelled party and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be part of her month-long writersan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it' retreats their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0861544439

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix0241636604|title=Different for BoysThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Teens Autobiography|summary=Ant is If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography background is ever learnt) has been restructuredthe East End, so his desk is one of four where he was familiar with both violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his best buddy from CV - but he had been to the football team, London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to primary school days togetherbe stupid. As they're all fired upIt was his ability at what was, essentially, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sexcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Which is confusing for AntEventually, this turned into permanent employment as he doesna trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It't know what his score is, s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where his achievements in that regard lieshe grew up. HeShe's had back now because of a casual relationshiprequest for help from her beloved aunt, a secret oneCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, for several months nowArthur Crockleford, is dead and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, but whether that's set let her down badly. Even though they were in stonebusiness together as antique hunters, he can't she has not felt able to be surenear the man or pursue the profession she loved. And that's mostly because After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who he's been having the relationship was murdered) and Freya and the sex withJames have now divorced.|isbn=1529509491

|authorisbn=M R CareyAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Infinity GateAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to science fictioncome. Not because '' I've heard itsaid that 'technology' is what happens after you's re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a genre I dislike – nothing few decades of the sorttechnology in my lifetime. My standards are high precisely because it I've kept up reasonably well with what's a hard genre advantageous to get right – and when itme but I's bad, m left with the feeling that it's often terribleall getting away from me. But the premise Some of Infinity Gate had me hookedit is - frankly - quite frightening. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well Of course, itI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'd be fantasticre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. So this is where I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I sum up that premisecould understand.|isbn=0356518043

|isbnauthor=1398509582Sunny Singh|title=The Favour|author=Nicci FrenchHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=It was 2 amThe 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, not long after A levelsa wartime photographer and Abhi, when the car crash happenedhotel manager. It would cause problems As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by keeps on venturing out of her determination room to go try to medical schoolcapture what's happened through her photography. Liam was Although they only ever talk over the reverse. He just acted ''phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if life just rolled him over and carried him along''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of they will be rescued before they are discovered by the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any moreterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=08570517411529153298|title=The Sins List of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationSuspicious Things|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Jennie Godfrey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's determined that Rebecka Martinsson 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitationsWomen have been disappearing. Raimo Koskela Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared without a trace in 1962' doesn't sound quite so frightening. He was the Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: move the problem is that this is a dying manfamily 'Down South's wish. The situation changes when When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a post-mortem establishes that frightening, foreign place, best avoided. Henry PekkariFor Miv, the dead alcoholicmove would mean leaving her best friend, was also murderedSharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Is there a connection between She's not worried about the two deaths?dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni1398524085|title=Her Deadly GameHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French

|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's work fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed Greg'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances s father, Duncan Ackerley, in defence of his clientsthe river. Along with It was an indisputable talent easy assumption for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself police to oblivion make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and inevitably then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the latter was beginning to overshadow the formerguilt. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a job at the family firm because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1662500181

|authorisbn= Rob Keeley1035906708|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley is back with a return We tend to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to eleven new talesGreek parents in Manhattan, New York, each as fun in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to read as his previous offeringsmake it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn= B0BVW69N1G

|author= Michael GrothausChristopher Edge|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''But fearing something Lucas and having it come to pass his friends are two different things. And I'm willing to bet most all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.'The Black Hole' ''Beautiful Shining People'. All big movie fans, they' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means re looking forward to be human. Of what is real and what is artificial, and whether the development lots of technology is exciting or frightening.|isbn=191458564X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09BLBP3P8|title=Neville Chamberlain's War: How Great Britain Opposed Hitlerfilms, 1939-1940|author=Frederic Seager|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead to misconceptions about history. One such is the scrubbing from the popular imagination of the early days of World War II from 1939-40many, many snacks! However, known as the ''Phoney War''. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitlermovie starts, war breaking outthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and Churchill coming in they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to save the day. Very little time next, can they figure out what on earth is spent going on this period in cultural reflections ? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and yet, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it was of vital significance in how the war played out.to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738