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|isbn=17876349061529428289|title=No Less A Grave in the DevilWoods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Stuart MacBrideMartin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies 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. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|summary=WeThe nation're in Oldcastle s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and Malcolm is in troubleit seems that there's only one suspect. He's in an abandoned house celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that hemust not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's being threatened by two young peopleseriously 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 be found and she was dead within minutes. One is Allegra (we'll It was soon learn clear that shethis was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's Allegra Dean-Edwards) their opening weekend and Hugosplendid celebrations are promised. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but 's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she'd put a tracking device in s converted it so that she into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and Hugo could find out where he famous. Her husband, Owen, was sleepingthe architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. It 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 the police realise that Malcolm was one 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 their own: not many other people are going a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to have see the connections between rap and poetry, and the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backspower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|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=Jennifer SaintRob Keeley|title=ElektraChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''ElektraChildish Spirits' by Jennifer Saint tells the story ' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of three women ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who live in can cope with anything the heavily male-dominated spirit world of Ancient Greece. Cassandrathrows at her, Clytemnestraand Edward, a spoiled lordling and Elektra the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are all bit players 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 contact details at the story of the Trojan Wartime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often the silent women have the most compelling stories Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and the most extreme furiestheir friendship, together.|isbn=14722739151471196585

|isbnauthor=1529149800Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Things You Can DoDungeon Runners: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce Waste|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsHero Trial

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=We begin with a telling storyMeet Kit. All Like most of the birds and animals fled when people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the forest fire took hold and most sport where a team of them stood warrior, mage and watchedhealer enter specially prepared, unable to think of anything they could do. The tiny hummingbird flew century-old, magical mazes, and race to the river exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire. The animals laughed: what good was that doingpoints they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he''I'm doing s seen of the best I can'', said latest race on the hummingbird. And inn TV equivalent is thatone team has been retired, reallyeaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the only way that we will solve goading from the problem token bully of climate change – by each of us doing what we canhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, however small muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that might be., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbnauthor=1776574338Saima Mir|title=LeilongVengeance|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 Too Long!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=Julia Liu Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Bei LynnLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning LeilongDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the brontosaurus school busedge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, makes his way through but something about the citywhole thing bothers Lowe, picking up children as and he goesenlists 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. Children But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who live 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 top bottom of tower blocks dona freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he't even need s been stabbed to go downstairs – they simply climb out 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 window words 'perverse' and slide down his neck'John Tanner' were made for each other. ItHe's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's perfect, isndetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't it? What could Have to be a more fun way of going Mad to school? There Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a problemglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, thoughhumour and autobiography. Leilong isn''You Don't happy 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 city: helaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|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 always having childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she 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 be careful 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 where he puts his feet her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and – because heher 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 longer than September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and traffic regularly gets snarled upLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. The school decides that he canA silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there't be the bus anymores not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=303091657XTom Percival|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should Understand|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonThe 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, no dancingpotentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, this show which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is looking for magical the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workare involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and who injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can attempt only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to win 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 Great FoxAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's magical legacy - twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the secrets to all English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of his tricks! Flick a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is determined dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to winthe village: Arthur, she feels, but let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not because felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she wants worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to own the trickscome. She '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is interested what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in just my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what'ones advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it' tricks all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the trick probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The Great Fox stole from List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her fatherwants to move the family 'Down South'. And When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's hoping if she can find not worried about the dangers or that trick then she will be able her Mum's stopped talking - to bring anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her missing husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father home, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15295019461035906708|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 only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When 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, Jackie.