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|authorisbn=Lucy Hope1529428289|title=FledglingA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=BavariaBecause of various property transactions, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over people were searching for the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know grave but when they found it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier came with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby three sets of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch bones. They dated back to World War II and sing opera loudlyit fell to Bruno, and the dying grandma to our heroineChief of Police for St Denis, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all discover the maintenance identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but itisn's also going t enough to house someone or something elseworry about, when crashing through Cassiethe Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going 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 completely great and wonderful thing, think againdevastating flood...|isbn=183994188X

|isbn=1846276772152919640X|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsSuspect|author=Jessica NordellRob Rinder

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Anyone who is not an ableThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, white man understands bias in was murdered live on television and it seems that they may no longer even recognise the extent to which they suffer from it: itthere's simply a part of everyday lifeonly one suspect. White men will always come firstHe's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. The able will come before the disabledShe's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. JobsEverything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, promotions, higher salaries are the preserve of the white manlive television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Even when those who wouldn't pass the medical become a part of an organisation it's rare that their views are heard, that their concerns are acknowledgedHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals on the receiving end of the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impactedwas soon clear that this was no accident.

|authorisbn=Teresa Driscoll0008385068|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with It's midsummer on the familiar horrifying realisation, Dorset coast and guests gather at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrongThe Manor. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It'He is not who he says he is…s all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she'', paving the way s converted it into an impressive retreat for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novelwealthy and famous. In a twist of events Her husband, Owen, was the architect and after a change work is still ongoing on parts of outfit, Gemma the site. The heat is shot in oppressive and amongst the midst of her graduation ceremonyguests are enemies as well as friends. With Gemma then in Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a coma, what follows body is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readfound.|isbn=1542028752

|isbnauthor=8409290103Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeWild East

|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=Twenty-one-Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by his fatherRonny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountantand so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, Mr Patricka new school, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him a monthly allowancekeep himself out of trouble. Patrick sent the money regularly He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrickrapper. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son But now, it was that he didn't care to have him in this country where he might new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a danger poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to his wife see the connections between rap and poetry, and other children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his waypower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)1635866847|title=The Rabbit FactorLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, heIt's perfect for his job in strange, the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, things that theymake you 'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that immediately'everything' feel that this is just an adventure park, and nothing elsethe book for you. Before I started reading ''YouMeFunThe Lavender Companion'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a little when he sees huge holes in slice of chocolate cake on the finances – it runs at a steady moneyhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanishedI wanted that cake viscerally. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – itThere's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henrirecipe 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 activities margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of these guys are pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not conducive to getting be a cheap life insurance plan.problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=191319387X

|isbnauthor=1471179311Rob Keeley|title=The Unheard|author=Nicci FrenchChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=TessAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a teacher and Jasonball of happy positivity, a headmasterhe understands children, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out of the family home he writes for their pleasure and Jason is now married enjoyment, not to Emilylecture or hector.  The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was the family home and another in the flat she shares with her mother. It ''seemedChildish Spirits''series is one of his greatest achievements. It' to be working well until the day that Poppy came home with s a menacing drawing sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a woman falling from a tall building stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and she started swearingEdward, using words she was unlikely to have heard in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then her doctor spoiled lordling and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriously.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1471196615Jenny Valentine|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Miles Pussett used to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days Elk and Mab are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runbest friends, or more than that even, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hourtheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. He was in St Moritz the same weekend They meet as White Turf - thatchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's high-class horseracing on the frozen lake and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of contact details at the horsestime. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him But then chance brings them back together, and he swore that he'd never go back to itthey are inseparable. But when he sees that Something has happened though, something suspicious is going onterrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, Miles can't help but look for answersand their friendship, even when it puts him in dangertogether.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=147228612XKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=We all know Meet Kit. Like most of the people like Gary Nelsonin his world, although we probably haven't taken much notice it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of them. They live quietwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, uneventful lives perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and stay mostly under the radarpoints they grant you along the way. In a city like LondonUnfortunately for Kit, thatthe only thing he's quite easy - seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore hima new trio of questors is needed. The highlight Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his day is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: world and stumbled into declaring he'd love to ask her for ll enter as a date but he doesn't have the courageteam. Then What chance does this friendless, on his homeward commutemuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long how could he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Claire McGowanSaima Mir|title=I Know YouVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn'Then:t be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn' Casey returns from t a walk with the baby, Carsonproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken downI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}

{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Now:Floggit and Leggit'' Rachel is out for , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a walk with her dogreservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Brandybut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, when she comes and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a body in link to death during the woodsSecond World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15420199741803368209

|isbn=1529148251B0CYV674G2|title=Misfits: A Personal ManifestoSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Michaela CoelDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rapeIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, malpractice covered in mud and blood - and povertycarrying a knife, yet still compartmentalise? Itcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn's as though I were telling t killed the truth whilst simultaneously running away from itman.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame A body at the bottom of mind. You're not going to read a book of essays or a selffreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -help book. Youhe're going s been stabbed to read writing death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture to professionals within coincided with the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivalbirth of his daughter Samantha. You might would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'readingand 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the book point of falling asleep at work but you need to ''listen'he' s determined to the words as though youkeep going - probably because he can're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud of exquisite writingt get any sleep at home.

|isbn=00084336311787333175|title=Next of KinYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Kia AbdullahBenji Waterhouse

|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=It I was the sort of thing that happened every day, although not tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Leila Syed. SheWork Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay'd never driven her nephew, Max, s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to school before but his fatherHurt}}, Andrew Hansona glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, had rung her in a panichumour and autobiography. He was supposed ''You Don't Have to be taking Max to school but heMad...''d been called into work and promised the delay in getting there could lead same elements but moved from physical problems to financial losses. As mental illness and the school was only five minutes out work of Leila's way, could she drop him off? Of course, she could and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into the back of her carpsychiatrist. On I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic laughter is directed at her work too, with a problem which could put situation rather than a multi-million-pound contract at riskperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaOnyi Nwabineli|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary= TootsAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, trumpsthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, farts. Whatever your word where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for themsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funnymonetary gain. Funny Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to talk about regain her confidence and joke aboutto get her life back, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at suing her step-mother to take down the wrong timecontent about her. In class Anuri is battling alcoholism, sayfailing to start her PhD, when everyone will hear it undergoing therapy and everyone will laughsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. At you. Justine Avery Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's latest entry in online empire. Can she save her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting sister, and gently perhaps herself and calmly, her relationship with her father at the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!same time?|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W0861546873}}

|isbnauthor=1784165263David Chadwick|title=Invite Me In|author=Emma CurtisHeadload of Napalm

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Martin CurranIt's wifeSeptember 1973 in Hicks, Eliza knew that she had to be home to make his lunch for one o'clock on the dot, despite the fact that she was actually painting one California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of their properties prior to it being letLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. If she didn't get home, there would be troubleNot much happens in Hicks. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic A silver mine and confined to a wheelchairdefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, but don't be too quick to be understanding. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza ''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Elizathere's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about to leave: he wanted the lease not much of flat 2note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, 42 Linden Road and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=1784742775Tom Percival|title=A Change of Circumstance (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Drugs hadnWill't really been that much of a problem s life is difficult, in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit multitude of a waste of timeways. They still were He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', to a great extent, but Serrailler knew that something had to be done. Children as young as nine were being recruited to transport he has the drugs wrong shoes because his dad can't work and the operation running the county lines was tight. A mule might know the name (although it probably wouldndoesn't be have enough money for even the correct one) most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the person who college, was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up working a cash-in the organisation. The police might catch -hand job on a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upbuilding site and had an accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09FS89KX9|title=Fall On Me|author=Penelope Potts|rating=3.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going Throw into that mix the final year of her veterinary degree fact that his mum and dad are separated, and - three years later - was still working at BBWill's dinerlife seems bleak in every direction. Bob - the owner - regarded her fondly: And yet, he was still has a good bosstiny amount of hope. Hollie had moved in with her boyfriendHe is good at art, Marcus: her mother thought he was great and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted clings to control her and most the moments of all joy when he wanted her to leave her job is drawing, that feel like a light at the diner. Then there was the fact that he would be violentend of a long, both to her and to other peopledark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=John GwynneSylvie Cathrall|title=The Shadow Of The GodsA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is There are few greater joys than a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together which lives up to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlecompelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn=03565142180356522776

|isbn=B09HTWX47X0008517061|title=Endless ObsessionDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Dai HenleyStig Abell

|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy FloodFormer Metropolitan Police detective, formerly a DCI in the Met but now a well-respected private investigator. He's married to LauraJake Johnson, formerly has settled into his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryrustic life at Little Sky. Flood's daughtersThere’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Gemma Livia and Pippaher daughter Diana, have flown the nest, Pippa as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to Australia, from where she has very little contact move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the family, future she wants for herself and Gemma to married life. her daughter? She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy and Laura hope that married For the moment they’re enjoying life will provide in the support she needs. Flood's business is going well present and that was why he felt able to turn down putting the future on the case of Lisa Blackback burner.

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1786482126|title=The StoningJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous Builders were demolishing an old house in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped Norwich - the site was going to a tree and shehold seventy-five 's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the worldluxury's tallest cricket stumps. When she's apartments - when they discovered by the town gossip everyonebones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home toDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it It's only fairdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival pregnant with his child as a result of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outone night they spent together some three months ago. Because such an aggrieved Her condition will be obvious before long, insular community not least because Ruth is really going prone to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0008551324|title=The Mystery of HealingDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=A P McGrathNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=We meet Solon in Pergamon in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the second century of police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the common era other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the physician on duty at police where the munus - the games put on body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the amusement of the populacepolice doing what he wants. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the doctor a feeling remainder of virtue his sentence and hones his skills: Solon ''wants'' the warriors to liveget an early parole date. ItNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's quite a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands t think so and when we first see them, theyshe're sprinkling gold dust onto s even prepared to do the lions' manes to other thing that Hardie demanded - make them look more impressive. The sagitarii are the archers certain that DS Max Craigie and the beastiarii are the condemned criminals anyone who are going to fight for their lives works with the wild animals. Today, ithim is kept well away from what's the crocodileshappening.

|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie Blackall0008405026|title=The Beatryce ProphecyA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=It''Stories have joy s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and surprises in them''the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, we and her father are told heredead in their bed. And none more so than in this wondrous story Initially, which feels an instant classic with the freshness and the agelessness it has in equal proportion. We start with looks like a group of monks, straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the Order positioning of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, and the demonic goat bodies that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and biting the poor Brothers. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memoryboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Elsewhere sits a King in his castle, desperate What looked as though it was going to find the girl, for it be an open-and-shut case is prophesied that now a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changecomplex double murder. Who foretold Kerrigan is convinced that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simpleexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=B09FFJF8YS0571379877|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)The Kellerby Code|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikJonny Sweet

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=''For the big, grownup girls out there, the potty masters in training, "You Can't Wear Panties!" Edward Jevons is a cry (the bigworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-girl kind!) of toilet triumph class friends, Robert and persevering panty prideStanza. Robert''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates s a little girltheatre director. He's final goodbye to nappies and pullalso self-ups and graduation to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dogobsessed, her catdemanding, her stuffed rabbit handsome and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear superentitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can the flowers, nor the fish, nor the birds. Boyand he's certainly can'tdrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. She Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a big girl now and she wants everyone relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to know it!stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}

|author=Nick Lake and Emily GravettJo Callaghan|title=Locked Out LilyLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Lily When a man isfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, or was, or has been, very ill, and DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to give the case alongside her parents relief shesidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been told to stay very successful with her grandma for several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days. The parents need the relief as Lily's baby sibling later, Kat is just about to be born – suddenly struggling with a child Lily swears she hates already potential serial killer and wants nothing a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to do withtheir AI Future Policing project. But on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to Will they be ousted able to get solve the family back intactcase in time, even if it's not or will Kat find herself taken off the family Lily wants – case and all she has to help her in the task are some talking animals – Crow, Molepotentially, Mouse and Snake.out of a career?|isbn=1471194833139851120X

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1399613073|title=The Great Dream RobberyMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Maya's father is a professor who invented an amazing dream machine. But something went wrongOlivia, Laura and now he can't wake upAnjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Or at least Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, that's what Maya has been toldwhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. In Laura is a rather strange dream one night Maya makes perfectionist and a new friend, trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and discovers that the only way to save her dad may be by being asleepshe becomes a GP. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams When we first meet them they're at a drug and reality collidealcohol-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.really...and there This time, it's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser cast-offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xtheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=18004644950241636604|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby MathsThe Trading Game: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of MathsA Confession|author=Emma SmithGary Stevenson

|genre=Children's Non-FictionAutobiography|summary=''Babies seem If you were to be born with bring up an amazing number sense: understanding shapes image of a city banker in the wombyour mind, being aware you're unlikely to think of quantities at seven hours oldsomeone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, assessing probability at six months oldwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months oldinjustice.'' Did you know this? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability There was no posh public school on entry his CV - but he had been to school the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a strong predictor facility with numbers which most of later achievement, double us can only envy. He also realised that of literacy skillsmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories It was his ability at what was, teaching pen gripsessentially, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start schoolcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. But do we think the same way about maths Eventually, beyond counting? I don't think we do, in part because so many of us are afraid of maths. But why are we? Most of us use maths in daily life without realising and it follows that giving our children this turned into permanent employment as a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficialtrader.

|isbn=15293793851035021803|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Louise PennyC L Miller|rating=43.5

|summary=In the Canadian village of Three Pines, weIt're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life is starting to get s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to normalthe English country village where she grew up. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro and the AubergeShe's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. TheyFreya're visiting each others former mentor and Carole's homes close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and having friends and relatives the circumstances seem suspicious, to staysay the least. A young Sudanese woman who has Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been nominated for back to the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she soon proves that has not all saints are necessarily pleasant people felt able to be around - near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a bit like Vincent Gilbertcafe, known in met and married James (on the village as rebound from the Asshole Saintlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn= B09F4CTKJRAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title= Flights for FreedomAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author= Steven BurgauerBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=It's 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the later stages shape of World War things to come.'' I and the United States has just entered the conflict've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Petrol Petronus is Well, I must confess that there have been more than a young American who has signed few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up and joined reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the 17 Aero Squadronfeeling that it's all getting away from me. This company was the first US Aero Squadron to be trained in CanadaSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the first to be attached to possibilities and the RAF probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the first to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in active combat. But before that can happen, Petrol has to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camela way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=183885410XSunny Singh|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian RankinHotel Arcadia

|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Bobby Carter was The Hotel Arcadia is a lawyer and consigliere to one of the major crime families luxury hotel in nineteen seventies Glasgowan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. DC Jack Laidlaw Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is on the CID team charged with Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the investigationhotel manager. I say ''on As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be a part cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of ither room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. He does his own thingAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, goes his own way their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=19424102551529153298|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)The List of Suspicious Things|author=Michael PronkoJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It''Zangyo: overtime works 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, often unpaidhonestly...) She's not what' Its worrying Miv's the culturefamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, isnbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't it? sound quite so frightening. The hours for which youMiv's upset because she're paid are really just a statement of s overheard that her father wants to move the minimum youfamily 'll be required to do: youDown South'll work more hours to get the job done and done to the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizuka. When he was found dead in front of Senden Centralyou's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or grief, even re from his familyYorkshire, but there was Down South is a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. Gossip revolves around For Miv, the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employeemove would mean leaving her best friend, Mayu YamaseSharon, had committed suicide some three years earlierand she'll do anything to prevent that. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing s not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to work an unreasonable amount of overtimeanyone.

|isbn=02414254251398524085|title=The Man Who Died TwiceHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Richard OsmanNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=Elizabeth Best Charlotte Salter was a little surprised when she received the letterexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It came from a man whose body she had helped to pull from the Thames Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and who had never existed her daughter, Etty. are all worried but then this - strangely - her husband, Alec, is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have to deal with on a regular basisnot. When she visits Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the sender body of the letter (heGreg's moved into father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that itDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used to be her husbandt stand the guilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there's made a bad mistake - something to little else they can do but get on with a mask being removed within the range of a CCTV camera on a raid, a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds their lives and a few death threats. He's now in hiding with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitresswonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Andrew Sharp1035906708|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5

|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy We tend to his employer - isthink of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in his mindManhattan, New York, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African country. Mozzy is earnest December 1923 and dedicated only moved to his task and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BOD-W safaris Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but his dream is her father changed it to become 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American city. Even to win a Michelin starStates. He is thwarted When she was back in this ambition Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by his boss, Mr Bin (Ben to you a mother who mercilessly exploited her and me) who incurs Mozzy's disapproval made no secret of her preference for his scruffy waysher elder sister, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into the houseJackie.|isbn=B09926MK8H