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|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1529428289|title=ElektraA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the story of grave but when they found it, it came with three women who live in the heavily male-dominated world sets of Ancient Greecebones. Cassandra They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, Clytemnestrathe Chief of Police for St Denis, and Elektra are all bit players in to discover the story identities of the Trojan Warbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us It's not just the local autumn rains that often have caused the silent women problem: various dams upstream on another river have the most compelling stories had to release water and St Denis faces the most extreme furiespossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=1529149800152919640X|title=Things You Can Do: How The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to Fight Climate Change be found and Reduce Wasteshe was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Eduardo Garcia Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and Sara Boccaccini 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 architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=We begin with Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when the forest fire took hold and most ball of them stood and watchedhappy positivity, he understands children, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water he writes for their pleasure and flying back enjoyment, not to drop them into the firelecture or hector.  The animals laughed: what good was that doing. ''IChildish Spirits'm doing the best I can'series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, said a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the hummingbird. And thatspirit world throws at her, reallyand Edward, is a spoiled lordling and the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might be.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1776574338Jenny Valentine|title=LeilongUs in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's Too Long!contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Julia Liu Kieran Larwood and Bei LynnJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Every morning Leilong, Meet Kit. Like most of the brontosaurus school buspeople in his world, makes his way through the cityit seems, picking up children as he goes. Children who live at is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the top sport where a team of tower blocks don't even need warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to go downstairs – the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they simply climb out of grant you along the window and slide down his neckway. ItUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's perfectseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, isn't it? What could be and a more fun way new trio of going to school? There questors is a problem, thoughneeded. Leilong isn't happy in the city: Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he's always having has taken to be careful about where he puts the goading from the token bully of his feet world and – because stumbled into declaring he's longer than ll enter as a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled upteam. The school decides What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that , and how could he can't be the bus anymore.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|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't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I 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 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, 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 link to death during the Second 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=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=303091657X1787333175|title=Disaster You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, 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 Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understandlaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Gerry Brown Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks 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 Randall S Petersonshe is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who 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}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes

|genre=Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary=Boards must act Will's life is difficult, in the best interests a multitude of their stakeholders and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureways. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have resulted in death or enough money for even the collapse most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a major company cash-in- have left interested parties asking what the board was doinghand job on a building site and had an accident. Where were they? Occasionally Throw into that mix the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn a blind eyefact that his mum and dad are separated, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. The 21st century And yet, he still has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened a tiny amount of hope. He is nothing new: Gerry Brown good at art, and Randall S Peterson give us clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway manialight at the end of a long, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littledark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1529337968Sylvie Cathrall|title=In Place of Fear|author=Catriona McPhersonA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS compelling premise. And this is born. She'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their health. The hardest part one of the job will be to persuade people that the services she offers really are free and that they don't have to do anything to qualify for them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummated.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0008517061|title=GalaxyDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=SparkFormer Metropolitan Police detective, who is an elite pilot Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with the Space Academyhis vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, barely makes it through as moving in together would mean a battle alive. His colot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-pilot was not so fortunate. Waking from a coma that lasted years, he remembers little grid and is relaxing life to move in no physical shape with Livia or does Livia move to resume his duties. But Earth Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is under threat the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and he mustputting the future on the back burner. Returned by his superiors }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the space stationbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, he Dr Ruth Galloway finds himself amid herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from result of the alien threats against itone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, but also from its own sins against itselfnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|authorisbn=Lissa Evans0008551324|title=WishedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=When things contrive It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to force Ed approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) he's prepared to stay with tell the police where the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Miss Fileyhe promises, for a week is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of half-term, they're not looking forward his sentence and to itget an early parole date. For one thingNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she thinks Wi's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -Fi make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It'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 special brand of biscuithalt. They don't particularly take to Willard eitherNow, her mother, the new kid next doorHelena, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhereher father are dead in their bed. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candlesInitially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and manage her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to work out be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that these candlesthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, for as long as their flames lastUna Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, make birthday wishes come trueRobert and Stanza. How will things change for Robert's a second time when they realise thattheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, having used up three of themdemanding, these should really be used handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the wishes two of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202Xkissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Justyn EdwardsJo Callaghan|title=The Great Fox IllusionLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a contest second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a differencepotential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. No singing Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, no dancingout of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, this show 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 looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and who can attempt 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 win The Great Foxend in tragedy. We don's magical legacy t know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty- five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the secrets three friends. This time, it'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 all think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his tricks! Flick background is determined to winthe East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but not because she wants he had been to own the tricksLondon School of Economics. She Stevenson is interested in just 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 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 trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It'ones twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'' trick, the trick that The Great Fox stole s back now because of a request for help from her fatherbeloved aunt, Carole. And she Freya's former mentor and Carole's hoping if close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she can find that trick then feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she will be has not felt able to bring be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her missing father homelife, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529501946AllTomorrowsFutureCover|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've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it'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.

|author=Jason RohanSunny Singh|title=S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access DeniedHotel Arcadia

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=Arun and 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 have had little to do with Donna, a girl at their schoolwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. But things immediately change at As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the start of this extended sprint of hotel, he forms a novelbond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, when she insists Arunand keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's house has become happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the attention of plain-clothes coppers phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and that they should bunk off school both wait to find out whysee if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists. And thus an unlikely trio |isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of misfit young heroes Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is formed – Sam is really Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not Donnawhat's worrying Miv's idea of companyfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but he to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the computer buffmove would mean leaving her best friend, Donna seems Sharon, and she'll do anything to know all prevent that. She's not worried about the criminal ins dangers or that her Mum'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 outs Ollie and survival skillsher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Arun? WellGreg, itfind the body of Greg's his lot father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to find out make that all Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he based his family life on isncouldn't truestand 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and that his only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father – kidnapped that very morning – is involved changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in something quite unexpectedthe States. But how can this disparate trio hope to best MI6When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, kidnappers, people ablJackie.}}