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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1529428289|title= Carrots Don’t Grow On Trees!A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Lily loves eating fruit and vegetables. She likes carrotsBecause of various property transactions, broccolipeople were searching for the grave but when they found it, cabbage and auberginesit came with three sets of bones. When her friends at school turn up their noses, Lily is keen They dated back to explain how good they are for you World War II and how nice it fell to eat. One dayBruno, poor Lily gets tricked by Jordanthe Chief of Police for St Denis, who tells her that carrots grow on treesto discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. Infuriated As if this isn't enough to worry about, Lily checks with the teacher, who explains Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that fruits grow have caused the problem: various dams upstream on trees another river have had to release water and vegetables, like carrots, grow in St Denis faces the ground. Jordan says, "I did try to tell her, Miss!" and everyone laughs at poor Lilypossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn= B09HHN541V

|isbn=178607981X152919640X|title=Bad ApplesThe Suspect|author=Will DeanRob Rinder

|summary=Tuva Moodyson The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was driving up a foggy hillside towards Visberg when she discovered an Audi 4x4 parked at the side of the roadmurdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. Wondering if someone needed help she got out of the car - He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and heard the screams from deep inside the foresthis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Determining the direction She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a sound isn't easy when you need hearing aids busy, live television studio - and dampness is causing interference but Tuva made her way Brooks served a ragout to where a woman was holding her coat over the body of a manHolby. He'd been decapitatedHer EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. He It was soon clear that this was Arne Gustav Persson, a resident of Visbergno accident.

|authorisbn=Lilja Sigurdadottir0008385068|title=Cold As HellThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary= In a red suitcase as It's midsummer on the 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 her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the bottom architect and work is still ongoing on parts of a fissure in a lava field, there the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body. And the man who has put her there has just discovered that he is capable of killingfound.|isbn=1913193888

|author=Lucy HopeAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=FledglingWild East

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=BavariaWritten in verse, 1900. Our scene this is Ronny's story, a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods belowstart at a mostly white school. It The move is initiated by Ronny's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system mum who is not as weworried for Ronny'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is s safety after a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through ittragic event, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermynew town, a woman who does nothing but quibblenew school, kvetch and sing opera loudlykeep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something elsenew school, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going his teacher encourages him to be part of a completely great poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and wonderful thingpoetry, think again..and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=183994188X0241645441

|isbn=18462767721635866847|title=The End of Bias: How We Change Our MindsLavender Companion|author=Jessica NordellDunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=Anyone who It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is not an ablethe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', white man understands bias in that they may no longer even recognise I visited the extent to which they suffer from itauthor's [https: it//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's simply a part picture of a slice of everyday lifechocolate cake on the homepage. White men will always come firstI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The able will come before (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the disabledbook and I was told to make a mess of it. Jobs, promotions, higher salaries Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the preserve corners of pages. You suspect that smears of the white manbutter would not be a problem. Even when those who wouldnI ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Around here, we't pass the medical become a part re big fans of an organisation itchildren's author Rob Keeley. He's rare that a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their views are heardpleasure and enjoyment, that their concerns are acknowledgednot to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's personally appalling and degrading for the individuals a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the receiving end of spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the bias but it's not just the individuals who are negatively impacted.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Teresa DriscollJenny Valentine|title=Her Perfect FamilyUs in the Before and After

|summary=The novel begins I was instantly intrigued by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the eleventh hour, north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn'He is not who he says he is…t stop me – I'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In ve jumped midway into a twist of events, few series before (on page and screen) and after it needn't be a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremonyhindrance if it's good enough. With Gemma then in And that wasn't a comaproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readand I never felt lost.|isbn=15420287520861541561

|isbnauthor=8409290103Stuart Douglas|title=If Only|author=Matthew TreeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by During location filming for his father1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', cotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, Mr Patrick, to ensure that leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the young man got dead body of a woman on board the boat and thereafter Patrick was to send him edge of a monthly allowancereservoir. Patrick sent The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the money regularly whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a correspondence - of sorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his sonfellow actor, it was that he didn't care John Le Breton to have help him in this investigate matters further. They travel across the country where he might be during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a danger link to his wife and other childrendeath during the Second World War. The alcohol problem was obvious even But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorDavid Blake

|summary=Meet HenriIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. With A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsknife, comes into the police station shouting that hehasn's perfect for his job in t killed the man. A body at the insurance company – until they decide bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone been stabbed to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingdeath. This DCI John Tanner is when he finds just back from his brother has diedhoneymoon, having a heart attack while busy changing which coincided with the birth of his Volvodaughter Samantha. You would think he's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'everythingperverse' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. 'John Tanner'YouMeFunwere made for each other. He'' is so not what Henri wants s sleep-deprived to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs point of falling asleep at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, work but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – ithe's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive determined to getting a cheap life insurance plan..keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=191319387X

|isbn=14711793111787333175|title=The UnheardYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Nicci FrenchBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPopular Science|summary=Tess, a teacher and JasonI 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 headmaster, have split up: she and Poppy have moved out glorious mixture of insight into the family home and Jason is now married to Emily. The separation was amicable - they had just drifted apart. They co-parent three-year-old Poppy who has her bedroom in what was workings of the family home NHS, humour and another in the flat she shares with her motherautobiography. It ''seemedYou Don't Have to be Mad...' ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to be working well until mental illness and the day that Poppy came home with a menacing drawing work of a woman falling from a tall building and she started swearing, using words she psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was unlikely acceptable to have heard be looking for humour in either home. Her behaviour deteriorated and there were problems this setting but the laughter is directed at nursery school. Tess turns to a therapist for help, then her doctor situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and finally the police but no one will take what she has to say seriouslyunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=1471196615Onyi Nwabineli|title=Iced|author=Felix FrancisAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Miles Pussett used Anuri spent her childhood on display to be a Steeplechase jockey but those days are past and he now gets his thrills from hurling head-first down the three-quarter-mile Cresta Runworld, occasionally reaching eighty miles an hour. He was in St Moritz the same weekend as White Turf thanks to her step- thatmother Ophelia's high-class horseracing increasingly popular presence on the frozen lake social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and against his better judgement he gets talked into helping with the saddling of the horses, basically, monetary gain. It's seven years since he put horseracing behind him Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and he swore that he'd never go to get her life back , suing her step-mother to ittake down the content about her. But when he sees that something suspicious Anuri is going onbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, Miles can't help but look undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for answersdoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, even when it puts him in dangerwho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=147228612XDavid Chadwick|title=The Late Train to Gipsy Hill|author=Alan JohnsonHeadload of Napalm

|summary=We all know It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people like Gary Nelson, although we probably haven't taken with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much notice of themhappens in Hicks. They live quiet, uneventful lives A silver mine and stay mostly under a defence contractor are the radar. In a city like Londonmain local employers but otherwise, thatthere's quite easy - not much of note other than dive bars and even Gary's three flatmates largely ignore himJoshua trees. The highlight of his day Life is watching a beautiful young woman apply her makeup as she goes to work on the train each morning: he'd love to ask her for a date but he doesn't have the couragequiet, until.. Then, on his homeward commute, Arina speaks to him and asks for his help. Before long he finds himself on the run from mobsters, Russian secret agents and the Metropolitan police.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Claire McGowanTom Percival|title=I Know YouThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'Then:t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' Casey returns from t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a walk with cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the baby, Carsonfact that his mum and dad are separated, and comes across three bodiesWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, almost he still has a whole family taken downtiny amount of hope. ''Now:'' Rachel He is out for a walk with her doggood at art, Brandyand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, when she comes across that feel like a body in light at the woodsend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=15420199741398527122

|isbnauthor=1529148251Sylvie Cathrall|title=Misfits: A Personal Manifesto|author=Michaela CoelLetter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''How am I able to be so transparent on paper about rape, malpractice and poverty, yet still compartmentalise? It's as though I were telling the truth whilst simultaneously running away from it.'' Before you start reading ''Misfits'' you need to be in a certain frame of mind. You're not going to read There are few greater joys than a book of essays or a self-help book. You're going to read writing which was inspired by Michaela Coel's 2018 MacTaggart Lecture lives up to professionals within the television industry at the Edinburgh TV Festivala compelling premise. You might be ''reading'' the book but you need to ''listen'' to the words as though you're in the lecture theatre. The disjointedness will fade away and you'll be carried on a cloud And this is one of exquisite writingthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=00084336310008517061|title=Next of KinDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Kia AbdullahStig Abell|rating=54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It was the sort of thing that happened every dayFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, although not to Leila Syedhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She'd never driven her nephew, Max, to school before but There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his fathervet girlfriend, Andrew HansonLivia and her daughter Diana, had rung her as moving in together would mean a panic. He was supposed to be taking Max lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to school but he'd been called into work and the delay move in getting there could lead with Livia or does Livia move to financial losses. As Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the school was only five minutes out of Leila's way, could future she drop him offwants for herself and her daughter? Of course, she could For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and a sleeping Max was duly strapped into putting the future on the back of her car. On the way Leila took a phone call - there was panic at her work too, with a problem which could put a multi-million-pound contract at riskburner.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova1786482126|title=Everybody Toots! The Janus Stone (Everybody Potties!Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= TootsBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold 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, trumps, fartsDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Whatever your word for them It's difficult as Ruth knows, find us a child that but Nelson doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that she is. But horribly embarrassing if you let pregnant with his child as a result of the one go at the wrong timenight they spent together some three months ago. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone Her condition will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attachedbe obvious before long, explains that tooting not least because Ruth is perfectly normalprone to sudden bouts of sickness. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}

|isbn=17841652630008551324|title=Invite Me InThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Emma CurtisNeil Lancaster

|summary=Martin CurranIt's wife, Eliza knew that she had unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to be home to make his lunch approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for one othe other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'clock on s prepared to tell the dot, despite police where the fact that she body of a missing person is buried and who was actually painting one of their properties prior to it being letresponsible for her death. If she didn't get homeThis person, he promises, there would is someone big and it will be troubleworth the police doing what he wants. There was some excuse: Martin was a paraplegic and confined And what he wants is to a wheelchair, but don't be too quick transferred to be understandingan open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. He was also a very unpleasant person: he once told Eliza Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn''you're good at being a disappointment''. All this was in Elizat think so and she's mind when she first met Dan Jones who arrived, unannounced, at the flat just as Eliza was about even prepared to leave: he wanted do the lease of flat 2, 42 Linden Road other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and he was desperate to get in before it was advertised as being availableanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=17847427750008405026|title=A Change of Circumstance Stranger in the Family (Simon SerraillerMaeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Susan HillJane Casey

|summary=Drugs hadnIt't really been that much of s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a problem halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in Lafferton and Detective Superintendent Simon Serrailler had thought of drugs ops as a bit of a waste of timetheir bed. They still were Initially, to it looks like a great extent, straightforward murder/suicide but Serrailler knew there's something about the positioning of the bodies that something had to be donemakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Children What looked as young as nine were being recruited though it was going to transport the drugs be an open-and the operation running the county lines was tight-shut case is now a complex double murder. A mule might know Kerrigan is convinced that the name explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (although it probably wouldnsuch as Derwent't be the correct ones boss, Una Burt) of the person who was running him but he certainly wouldn't know anything about those higher up in the organisation. The police might catch a few of the runners but they'd never get anywhere near those higher upare less convinced.

|isbn=B09FS89KX90571379877|title=Fall On MeThe Kellerby Code|author=Penelope PottsJonny Sweet

|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Life should have been good for Hollie: She was just going into the final year of her veterinary degree and Edward Jevons is a working- three years later class young man, obsessed with his upper- was still working at BBclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's dinera theatre director. Bob He's also self- the owner - regarded her fondly: he was a good bossobsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Hollie had moved Edward has been in love with her boyfriend, Marcus: her mother thought he was great Stanza since their university days - and he was doing well in his career. Hollie wasn't quite so certain though: Marcus wanted to control her and most of all s drunkenly confided how he wanted her feels to leave her job at the dinerRobert. Then there was the fact Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he would be violent, both 's not like most men: Edward is left to her and to other peoplestumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=John GwynneJo Callaghan|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|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 a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09HTWX47X|title=Endless Obsession|author=Dai HenleyLeave No Trace

|summary=It's some years since we last caught up with Andy Flood, formerly When a DCI in man is found crucified on the Met but now top of a well-respected private investigator. He's married hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to Laurathe case alongside her sidekick, formerly his DS in the Murder Squad but now working in a forensics laboratoryAI detective Lock. FloodIt's daughters, Gemma and Pippa, have flown the nest, Pippa to Australiatheir first live case together, from where she has having previously been very little contact successful with the family, and Gemma to married lifeseveral cold cases. She's had mental problems since she was abducted many years ago but Andy But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Laura hope a very high profile case that married life will provide the support she needsdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Flood's business is going well and that was why he felt Will they be able to turn down solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of Lisa Black.a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Peter Papathanasiou1399613073|title=The StoningMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5

|summary=In Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a town sleazy enough century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, be a teacher has been transported across town at night in cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a shopping trolley, perfectionist and she's been taped to a tree trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and shebecomes a GP. When we first meet them they's had rocks bowled re at her as if she were the worlda drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's tallest cricket stumpsgoing to end in tragedy. When she We don's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident t know who suffered the culprit has come from tragedy or the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home toconsequences. An arson attack on Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that shows will impact the feeling – and three friends. This time, it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants their teenage children who are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law..involved.|isbn=1529416973

|isbn=B08Z8BMZ7H0241636604|title=The Mystery of HealingTrading Game: A Confession|author=A P McGrathGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Autobiography|summary=We meet Solon If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Pergamon in the second century your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the common era pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he's the physician was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on duty at the munus his CV - but he had been to the games put on for the amusement London School of the populaceEconomics. The remuneration isn't high but the work gives the doctor Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a feeling facility with numbers which most of virtue and hones us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his skills: Solon ''wantsability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It' s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the warriors to liveEnglish country village where she grew up. ItShe's quite back now because of a spectacle: the magistri are the charge hands request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and when we first see themCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, they're sprinkling gold dust onto is dead and the lions' manes circumstances seem suspicious, to make them look more impressivesay the least. The sagitarii are Arthur was the archers and reason why Freya had not been back to the beastiarii are 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 condemned criminals who are going to fight for their lives with man or pursue the wild animalsprofession she loved. TodayAfter the split, it's she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the crocodileslove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Kate DiCamillo and Sophie BlackallAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Beatryce ProphecyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=''Stories have joy and surprises in themOpening 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, we are told here. And none I must confess that there have been more so than a few decades of technology in this wondrous story, which feels an instant classic my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the freshness and the agelessness feeling that it has in equal proportion's all getting away from me. We start with a group Some of monksit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing, possibilities and the demonic goat that loves nothing more than upending, trampling on probabilities and biting end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the poor Brotherslatest conspiracy theorist. Things change drastically when the beast takes a totally maternal approach to a homeless girl, one I needed people I knew I could trust and who has survived some trauma that has blocked her past from her memory. Elsewhere sits a King could deliver information in his castle, desperate to find the girl, for it is prophesied that a young child can unseat the throne and cause great changeway I could understand. Who foretold that revolution but the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing? But how can a simple, amnesiac lass ever prove a threat to anyone?|isbn=1529500893

|isbnauthor=B09FFJF8YSSunny Singh|title=You Can't Wear Panties! (No More Nappies!)|author=Justine Avery and Kate ZhoidikHotel Arcadia

|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=''For 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 bigterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, grownup girls out thereis Sam, the potty masters in traininga wartime photographer and Abhi, "You Can't Wear Panties!" is a cry (the big-girl kind!) of toilet triumph and persevering panty pridehotel manager.''  And so it is! This latest book from Justine Avery celebrates a little girl's final goodbye As Abhi continues to nappies and pull-ups and graduation try to "proper" pants by following her around as she proudly explains to her dog, her cat, her stuffed rabbit and her baby sibling that ''she'' can wear super-duper proper pants, while they cannot. Neither can care remotely for the flowers, nor residents who are still alive in the fishhotel, nor the birds. Boy's certainly can't. She's he forms a big girl now and she wants everyone bond with Sam who refuses to know it!}} {{Frontpage|author=Nick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Locked Out Lily|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lily is, or was, or has been, very illbe cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to give her parents relief shecapture what's been told to stay with happened through her grandma for a few daysphotography. The parents need Although they only ever talk over the relief phone, their friendship grows as Lily's baby sibling is just about Abhi tries to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But on tracking back home for word of help her parents (keep safe 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 they both wait to see if they will be ousted to get the family back intact, even if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in rescued before they are discovered by the task are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snaketerrorists.|isbn=1471194833086154742X

|authorisbn=Greg James and Chris Smith1529153298|title=The Great Dream RobberyList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=MayaIt's father 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is a professor who invented an amazing dream machinePrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... But something went wrong) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, and now he canthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't wake upsound quite so frightening. Or at least, Miv's upset because she's overheard thather father wants to move the family 'Down South's what Maya has been told. In When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a rather strange dream one night Maya makes a new frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and discovers she'll do anything to prevent that . She's not worried about the only way to save dangers or that her dad may be by being asleep. Cue one madcap action adventure story where dreams and reality collide...really...and thereMum's everything from llamas and bananas, dream machines made from hairdresser caststopped talking -offs, to a talking cat called Bin Bag!|isbn=024147051Xanyone.

|isbn=18004644951398524085|title= 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma Smith|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=''Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, assessing probability at six months old, and comprehending addition and subtraction at nine months old.'' Did you know thisHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? I didn't! How about: ''Maths ability on entry to school is a strong predictor of later achievement, double that of literacy skills.'' I didn't know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good start in literacy - reading stories, teaching pen grips, singing rhymes - gives children a solid foundation when they start school. But do we think the same way about maths, 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 a similar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.}}{{Frontpage |author=Robert Peston |title=The Whistleblower |rating=3 |genre=Thrillers|summary=I'm not the first to point out how fitting it is for Robert Peston to write a political thriller, so I'll move on quickly – but this won't be winning any awards for originality. It's an interesting plot with a good pace, but it does very little to differentiate itself and I suspect before much time has passed I'll have forgotten a lot of it. |isbn=1838775242 }} {{Frontpage|isbn=1529379385|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=In the Canadian village of Three PinesCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, we're post-pandemic: the scars Etty. are still there all worried but life - strangely - her husband, Alec, is starting to get back to normalnot. The villagers are beginning to return to the Bistro Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the Auberge. They're visiting each otherbody of Greg's homes and having friends and relatives to stayfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated It was an easy assumption for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and she soon proves that then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintconvinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|isbn= B09F4CTKJR1035906708|title= Flights for FreedomDiva|author= Steven BurgauerDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=It's the later stages We tend to think of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is a young American who has signed up and joined the 17 Aero Squadron. This company Maria Callas as Greek, but she was the first US Aero Squadron born to be trained Greek parents in CanadaManhattan, New York, the first to be attached to the RAF in December 1923 and the first only moved to be sent into the skies to fight the Germans in active combatAthens when she was thirteen. But before that can happen, Petrol has Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to master flying the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=183885410X|title=The Dark Remains|author=William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere 'Callas' to one of the major crime families make it more manageable in nineteen seventies Glasgow. DC Jack Laidlaw is on the CID team charged with the investigationStates. I say ''on When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the team'' but Laidlaw never really seems to be Nazi occupation by a part mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of it. He does his own thingher preference for her elder sister, goes his own way and ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carter's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsJackie.