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|authorisbn=Michael Harris1529428289|title=Solitude: In Pursuit A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= This is not Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the book I was expecting grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to be. For some reason I expected World War II and it fell to be another self-help manual on how to find calmBruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, how to step outside discover the mainstream, but it is identities of the bodies and establish whether or not that at alla crime had been committed. Instead of telling us howAs if this isn't enough to worry about, it the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is more about the ''why''flowing at record levels. Harries examines how weIt're eroding solitude, which used s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to be release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a natural part of our human lifedevastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and why it seems that mattersthere's only one suspect. Of course he talks about how some people have found solitude He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and what has come of his contract stated that, he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and eventually carries an EpiPen in the final chapter he talks about his own experience case of having deliberately sought it outemergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, but mostly he wanders down the alleys live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and by-ways she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that his thinking about this lost art led himwas no accident.

|authorisbn=Andy Briggs0008385068|title=Ctrl+SThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= Life in the near futureIt's not all badmidsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. We It've reversed global warming s their opening weekend and fixed the collapsing bee populationsplendid celebrations are promised. We even created SPACE, a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desire It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. But almost anything isn The Manor was her ancestral home and she't enough s converted it into an impressive retreat for somethe wealthy and famous. Every day Her husband, normal people are being takenOwen, their emotions harvested - and lives traded - to create death-defying thrills for was the rich architect and twisted. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail work is still ongoing on parts of clues, he'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has to offer: vPolice, AI Bots site. The heat is oppressive and anarchists - amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her . . body is found.|isbn=1409184641

|isbnauthor=1609809378Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Rabbits' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellWild East

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=WeWritten in verse, this is Ronny're in the realm of the rabbitss story, only the foxes a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and wolves have taken overstart at a mostly white school. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits donThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny't exists safety after a tragic event, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spreenew town, King Wolf orders a humble monkey new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to be his official portrait photographermusic constantly, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is and has always dreamed of being a distinct leporine hintrapper. Can King Wolf succeed But now, in proving himself victoriousthis new school, can the rabbits show their continued existence his teacher encourages him to all who need to know be part of it – a poetry writing workshop group and what can , slowly, Ronny begins to see the poor monkey caught in connections between do?rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Innosanto Nagara1635866847|title=M is for MovementThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersLifestyle|summary=Set in IndonesiaIt's strange, in the not too distant past, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is a story about social changethe book for you. Dealing with some difficult issuesBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', such as political corruption I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and nepotism, there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the book is neither boring nor preachyhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It educates gently(There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with vibrant, challenging illustrations, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. The message is a positive one; that Notes in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power margins are sanctioned. You get to instigate changefold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1609809351

|isbnauthor=1780724047Rob Keeley|title=A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J ConradiChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=PetsConfident Readers|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogsAround here, but I did wonder why this one was so we're big fans of children'thins author Rob Keeley. He'': given that I've never encountered s a dog who wasn't interesting or important - ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and probably bothenjoyment, I was expecting a massive tomenot to lecture or hector. But  The ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important DogsChildish Spirits'' series is actually 'one of his greatest achievements. It's a rich compendium sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudythrows at her, Sky. Bradley and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogsEdward, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each a spoiled lordling and every one of them. I knew that I was in safe hands.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1785769294Jenny Valentine|title=Man at Us in the Window (Detective Cardilini)|author=Robert JeffreysBefore and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=It's when we read Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a young boy is creeping reluctantly to once in a teacher's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wronglifetime connection. Nowadays you They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on s contact details at the part of the childtime. The boy would be safe that night But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though - albeit in the most horrific fashion. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found the man dead on the floor, the top of his skull missing. The school's initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and it was obviously a stray bullet which had killed the Captaintheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=1786695227Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Invisible in a Bright Light|author=Sally GardnerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=The beginning Meet Kit. Like most of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man people in the green suithis world, it seems, what he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the Reckoningsport where a team of warrior, mage and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroinetreasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. We watch in dismay as Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the strange maninn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, who seems to have no eyeseaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, does his best he has taken to persuade her to answer the goading from the token bully of his questionsworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. But for some reason Celeste What chance does this friendless, despite her bewildermentmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, remains wary and gives nothing away.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbnauthor=1912374854Saima Mir|title=Violet|author=S J I HollidayVengeance

|summary=I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in often chance situationsthe north of England run by a Muslim woman. Well The fact that's exactly what happens when it was the two main/only characters meet second in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a refund few series before (on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train page and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia screen) and into Russia, it couldneedn've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this t be a thriller after all so hindrance if it quickly becomes 's good enough. And that wasn't a tale of obsessionproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, manipulation and toxic friendshipsI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|isbnauthor=1912374838Stuart Douglas|title=Nothing Important Happened Today|author=Will CarverLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Nothing Important Happened Today is During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a darkreservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, twisted, difficult read. Stories but something about cults often arethe whole thing bothers Lowe, but this is different; it's written with a sense and he enlists the help of style that is quite unlike anything I've read before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an oddfellow actor, distinctive narrative voiceJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. While a slim They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and relatively small book, seemingly, a link to death during the slow-moving nature of Second World War. But is there really a link between the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn= williamabbeyB0CYV674G2|title=The Pursuit of William AbbeySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Claire NorthDavid Blake

|genre=ParanormalCrime|summary=When William Abbey fails to prevent 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 body at the lynching bottom of a young boy in 1880freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's South Africabeen stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he finds himself cursed by 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the grieving motherwords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns He's sleep-deprived to the weight point of the curse upon himfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, as a glorious mixture of insight into the shadow workings of the dead boy begins NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to follow him across be Mad...'' promised the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and mountains in pursuit the work of Williama psychiatrist. As he finds himself unable I did wonder whether it was acceptable to resist speaking the truths that he hears be looking for humour in others, he also learns that this setting but the dark shadow laughter is deadly – directed at a situation rather than a person and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=1643785036Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Wondrous Apothecary|author=Mary E MartinAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize winning ''The Hay Wagonthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and Rinaldo, renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and cheeseto get her life back, if not sworn enemiessuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. If you've watched the relationshipAnuri is battling alcoholism, as has our narratorfailing to start her PhD, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and repulsing each other in equal measurereceiving money from them for doing so. Wainwright was at Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the socially acceptable end new focus of the artistic continuum, but with Rinaldo it was all too obvious that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisance. As time has worn on, heOphelia's frequently been brought to the attention of the policeonline empire. On this latest occasion we see him charged Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''.her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiDavid Chadwick|title=Permanent RecordHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodega. HeIt's massively September 1973 in debtHicks, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, he's surprised to discover that the girl he California. Hicks is chatting a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with as he serves is a super-famous pop star its nearest neighbours of LA and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start Las Vegas both a relationshipsignificant drive away. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyone, Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the worldmain local employers but otherwise, itthere's an interesting clash as they come togethernot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. This isn't just a love story thoughLife is quiet, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartuntil....|isbn=0349003459B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=1609809319Tom Percival|title=Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub|author=Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)The Wrong Shoes

|summary=One day Will's life is difficult, in a boy multitude of ways. He is in bullied because he has 'the zoo with his fatherwrong shoes', when he has the man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isnwrong shoes because his dad can't hustled into a cab work and taken home first, though, no – hedoesn's given hot dog t have enough moneyfor even the most basic of things like food, and taxi moneyhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, and told to just stick around was working a cash-in-hand job on his own a building site and enjoy himselfhad an accident. WellThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, itand Will's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make him happylife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and so clings to the moments of joy when he thinks is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a species name for himselflong, and curls himself dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up into an empty cage, as if he were to a new exhibitcompelling premise. And it's then the drama begins… this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17857855160008517061|title=Fucking Good MannersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Simon GriffinStig Abell

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Manners maketh manFormer Metropolitan Police detective, they sayJake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by There’s perhaps a set little uncertainty about the future of conventionshis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, some as moving in together would mean a lot of which are ages old compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about how much to tip whether or how you should behave if you get not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an invitation old house in Norwich - the site was going to Buckingham Palacehold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, they have nothing to do Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with class or financial status: DCI Harry Nelson. theyIt's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn're about getting t, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the basics right one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before we try long, not least because Ruth is prone to deal with more difficult matterssudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we5|genre=Crime|summary=It're with s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and friends, but ithe's best if we learn prepared to distinguish between our public tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and private lives who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to act appropriatelybe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Fucking Good Manners'' aims s even prepared to help us on do the wayother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=00083248590008405026|title=Fowl TwinsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Eoin ColferJane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Relax, everyone – our It's sixteen years since nine-year-old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one but two members of summer night. She was never found and the Fowl family investigation ground to contend witha halt. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and Now, her mother, franklyHelena, cute no longer) and her father are dead in this, their first independent adventurebed. Initially, they meet it looks like a troll straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and without even trying manage her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to make two deadly enemies: be an open-and-shut case is now a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the cost explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (to other peoplesuch as Derwent's boss, Una Burt), and an unusual interrogator-nun. The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairyless convinced.

|isbn=14722557980571379877|title=The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner)Kellerby Code|author=Quintin JardineJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took her own life after being accused of shoplifting from Edward Jevons is a local supermarketworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. It Robert's always been assumed that she couldna theatre director. He't live with the shame. People were surprised that she committed suicide just before the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to clear her namerun errands for him. She said that she'd Edward has been set up because she was hot on the trail of corruption in the council. Her exlove with Stanza since their university days -husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinner's daughter, and asked that she look into clearing Brownhe's name: itdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's something which he feels position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he has 's not like most men: Edward is left to do stumble upon the two of them kissing in memory of his son who was murdered recentlya dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B07X6GLQ3QJo Callaghan|title=See Them Run|author=Marion ToddLeave No Trace

|summary=D I Clare Mackay When a man is still relatively new found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to St Andrewthe case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's: she was their first live case together, having previously at Maryhill Rd station in Glasgowbeen very successful with several cold cases. She's left quite But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a lot behind including potential serial killer and a relationship very high profile case that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to support her when solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the chips were downcase and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. She also left 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a nasty situation, quarter of her own making but not her faulta century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and St Andrew's is a fresh starttrauma doctor. Not long into Anjali is the job free spirit of the group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they's faced with re at a hit drug and run death alcohol-fuelled party and thereit's little doubt that it wasngoing to end in tragedy. We don't accidental - know who suffered the card with tragedy or the number five suggests murderconsequences. Andy Robb was married to Sandra. You could say that they had an open marriage but Twenty-five years later there seemed to will be a lot of an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it'open' and very little of the 'marriage' left - on both sides, but would she want him dead?s their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17865409910241636604|title=The Impossible BoyTrading Game: A Confession|author=Ben BrooksGary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Oleg re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and Emma entered their den to find a cardboard spaceship standing his background is the East End, where they usually sathe was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Slowly, There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the front door openedLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. Smoke billowed out He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. And out stepped a boy It was his ability at what was, essentially, dressed in a long coat card game which got him an internship with an even longer scarfCitibank. Eventually, wound around his neckthis 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'"My names former mentor and Carole's Sebastian Coleclose friend, Arthur Crockleford," is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the boy saidlove of her life, "But you already know who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions thatDisrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come."''

And indeed they doI've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. Ever since I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the summer, when their friend Sarahfeeling that it's mother had moved her all getting awayfrom me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, Oleg I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and Emma have been unable to find end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a new friend to take her placeway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1447281357Sunny Singh|title=Salvation Lost|author=Peter F HamiltonHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary=In the twenty-third century, humanity The Hotel Arcadia is enjoying a comparative utopialuxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Yet life Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on Earth site, there is about to changeSam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight backhotel manager. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order As Abhi continues to carry us try to their god at care remotely for the end of residents who are still alive in the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earthhotel, vast warships converge above he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to flee, try to live in hiding amongst the stars – although capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before ever talk over the storm. As disaster loomsphone, animosities must be set aside their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even see if it means preparing for a future this generation they will never seebe rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=14711863931529153298|title=Photographer The List of the LostSuspicious Things|author=Caroline ScottJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=May 1921It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. Edie receives a photograph through the post(A woman? I mean, honestly. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of the photograph. ) It is a picture of her husbandShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, Francisthough. Francis has Women have been missing for four yearsdisappearing. TechnicallyWell, he has they've been "missingmurdered, believed killed" but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is not something that a young widow can believefrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She hangs on For Miv, the word move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'missingll do anything to prevent that. She', disbelieving s not worried about the word killeddangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=17837843501398524085|title=This Golden Fleece: A Journey Through Britain's Knitted HistoryHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Esther RutterNicci French

|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=It Charlotte Salter was December and Esther Rutter was stuck in expected at her office job, writing to people shehusband'd s fiftieth birthday party but never met and preparing spreadsheetsturned up. The job frustrated Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her and even daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her knitting did husband, Alec, is not soothe her mind. January was going to be a time for making changes Shortly afterwards, Etty and she decided that she would travel the length and breadth of the British Isles with occasional forays abroadGreg, discovering and telling find the story body of woolGreg's history and how it father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had made murdered Charlie and changed then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the landscapeguilt. SheThe Salter children are not convinced but there'd grown up s little else they can do but get on a sheep farm in Suffolk - '' a free range child on the farm'' - with their lives and learned wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to spinthink of Maria Callas as Greek, knit but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and weave from only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her mother and her motherfather changed it to 'Callas's friendto make it more manageable in the States. This When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her bloodvoice - 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.