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|isbn=16867516801529428289|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanMartin Walker

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Which child doesn't think that there mother isBecause of various property transactions, wellpeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, ''weird''? it came with three sets of bones. It might be that in They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the morning their mother doesnbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't like speaking muchenough to worry about, when every selfthe Dordogne River - normally tranquil -respecting child knows that that is when you're flowing at your brightest with lots to say? record levels. ''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then thereIt's doing yoga in front of not just the local autumn rains that have caused the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about what goes problem: various dams upstream on in the bathroom and the colour changes which another river have occured when Mummy emerges had to release water and frankly, St Denis faces the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on the wallpossibility of a devastating flood. I mean, what else would you use paint for?

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk152919640X|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=''The day has endednation''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But nows favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and itseems that there's time, to be sureonly one suspect. He'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to be much too excited for bedJessica Holby. If you She're a parent at least, you'll know how it is to persuade s seriously allergic and carries an excited small person that yes, it is EpiPen in fact time for bedcase of emergencies. ''What Wonders DoYou See...'' sets out Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to cater to these childrenHolby. Instead of trying Her EpiPen was nowhere to persuade them that night time is calm time, it takes a slightly different tackbe found and she was dead within minutes. It tells them was soon clear that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has this was no limitaccident. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world, is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door to it. |isbn=194812422X

|authorisbn=Michael Harris0008385068|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary= This is not It's midsummer on the book I Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was expecting her ancestral home and she's converted it to beinto an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm Her husband, Owen, how to step outside was the mainstream, but it architect and work is not that at allstill ongoing on parts of the site. Instead of telling us how, it The heat is more about oppressive and amongst the ''why''guests are enemies as well as friends. Harries examines how weOld scores are going to be settled and it won're eroding solitude, which used to t be long before a natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Of course he talks about how some people have body is found solitude and what has come of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|isbn=1847947662

|author=Andy BriggsAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Ctrl+SWild East|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionTeens|summary= Life Written in the near futureverse, this is Ronny's not all badstory, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. We The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny've reversed global warming s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and fixed the collapsing bee populationkeep himself out of trouble. We even created SPACE He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desirerapper. But almost anything isn't enough for some. Every daynow, normal people are being takenin this new school, their emotions harvested - his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and lives traded - , slowly, Ronny begins to create death-defying thrills for see the rich connections between rap and twisted. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail of cluespoetry, he'll come up against and the most dangerous SPACE has to offer: vPolice, AI Bots power of creativity and anarchists - as well as a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her . . crafting your words.|isbn=14091846410241645441

|isbn=16098093781635866847|title=The Rabbits' RebellionLavender Companion|author=Ariel Dorfman Jessica Dunham and Chris RiddellTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=WeIt're in s strange, the realm of things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the rabbitsbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', only I visited the foxes author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and wolves have taken overthere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits I don't exist, eat cakes and desserts - but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing I wanted that the bunnies are in fact still aroundcake viscerally. Demanding (There's a propaganda spreerecipe in the book, King Wolf orders a humble monkey which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is make a distinct leporine hintmess of it. Can King Wolf succeed Notes in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence margins are sanctioned. You get to all who need to know fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do?butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Innosanto NagaraRob Keeley|title=M is for MovementChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Set in IndonesiaAround here, in the not too distant pastwe're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, this is a story about social change. Dealing with some difficult issueshe understands children, such as political corruption and nepotismhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, the book not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is neither boring nor preachyone of his greatest achievements. It educates gently's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with vibrant, challenging illustrationsanything the spirit world throws at her, and it portrays how social movements need people who will tryEdward, even when it seems that they will fail. The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have spoiled lordling and the power to instigate change.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=16098093511783064617

|isbnauthor=1780724047Jenny Valentine|title=A Dictionary of Interesting Us in the Before and Important Dogs|author=Peter J ConradiAfter|rating=45|genre=PetsTeens|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogsElk and Mab are best friends, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given or more than that I've never encountered even, their friendship is a dog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably both, I was expecting once in a massive tomelifetime connection. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs'' is actually ''They meet as children one day on a rich compendium of the world's most significant and beloved dogstrip out but unfortunately they don'' and itt get each other's certainly a rich treasure trovecontact details at the time. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: CloudyBut then chance brings them back together, Skyand they are inseparable. Bradley Something has happened though, something terrible and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogstragic, and now they must work through their grief, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one of them. I knew that I was in safe handstheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbn=1785769294|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardilini)|author=Robert Jeffreys|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly to a teacher's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrong. Nowadays you ''might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 Kieran Larwood and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the child. The boy would be safe that night though Joe Todd- 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 and it was obviously a stray bullet which had killed the Captain.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786695227Stanton|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 the lynching of It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a young boy in 1880's South Africaknife, comes into the police station shouting that he finds himself cursed by hasn't killed the grieving motherman. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns body at the weight bottom of the curse upon hima freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, as which coincided with the shadow birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans words 'perverse' and mountains in pursuit of William'John Tanner' were made for each other. As he finds himself unable He's sleep-deprived to resist speaking the truths that point of falling asleep at work but he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks 's determined to kill the one keep going - probably because he loves the most…can't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=16437850361787333175|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Mary E MartinBenji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. 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 person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow 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 lot behind including a relationship that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to support her when the chips were down. She also left second body found crucified a nasty situation, of her own making but not her faultfew days later, and St Andrew's Kat is a fresh start. Not long into the job she's faced suddenly struggling with a hit potential serial killer and run death and there's little doubt a very high profile case that it wasn't accidental - the card with the number five suggests murder. Andy Robb was married draws a lot of unwanted attention to Sandratheir AI Future Policing project. You could say that Will they had an open marriage but there seemed be able to be a lot of solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the 'open' case and very little , potentially, out of the 'marriage' left - on both sides, but would she want him deada career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=17865409911399613073|title=The Impossible BoyMoral Injuries|author=Ben BrooksChristie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it'Oleg s their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and Emma entered their den jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the 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 London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to find be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a cardboard spaceship standing 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 they usually satshe grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Slowly Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the front door openedleast. Smoke billowed out 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. And out stepped a boy After the split, dressed she worked in a long coat with an even longer scarfcafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, wound around his neckwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|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.''

 I'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. I'"My nameve kept up reasonably well with what's Sebastian Cole," advantageous to me but I'm left with the boy said, "But you already know feeling thatit's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening." Of course, I 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're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers And indeed they do|summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Ever since As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the summerresidents who are still alive in the hotel, when their friend Sarahhe 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 mother had moved happened through her awayphotography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, Oleg their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and Emma they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been unable disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to find move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a new frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend , Sharon, and she'll do anything to take prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her placeMum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's 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 Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn=14472813571035906708|title=Salvation LostDiva|author=Peter F HamiltonDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=In the twenty-third centuryWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about but she was born to changeGreek parents in Manhattan, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanityNew York, in order to carry us December 1923 and only moved to their god at the end of the universeAthens when she was thirteen. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, 'Callas' to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out more manageable in time. But others refuse to break before the stormStates. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the face Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of creation. Even if it means preparing her preference for a future this generation will never seeher elder sister, Jackie.