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|authorisbn=Will Brooker1529428289|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]]Because of various property transactions, one of people were searching for the most successful British authors I've never knowingly read. Now meet Will Brookergrave but when they found it, one of the thousands it came with three sets of less successful authors I quite confidently never have readbones. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, They dated back to World War II and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer together. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seemsfell to Bruno, the Chief of her anecdote about cup cakesPolice for St Denis, to discover the words identities of her latest book she was reciting, the bodies and her being in establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get t enough to attend)worry about, but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbitDordogne River - normally tranquil -hole that is Jewell's diverse outputflowing at record levels. Brooker decides heIt'd like nothing more than to follow her through a year in s not just the local autumn rains that have caused the published author's life, working problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to make a success of the latest title, release water and struggling with St Denis faces the next in line. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agreespossibility of a devastating flood. And this is the result.|isbn=1529136024

|isbn=1801109265152919640X|title=The CompanionSuspect|author=Lesley ThomsonRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as The nation''a punctual man who s favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was inexplicably never murdered live on timetelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. He' s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he was - as usual - late must not serve anything containing miso to pick up his son, Wilbur, for their 'boys' day out'Jessica Holby. These were always days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur and, competing for the boyShe's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when he returnedseriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. The dinner would never Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be servedin a busy, as James live television studio - and Wilbur are the victims of Brooks served a double stabbing on the beachragout to Holby. The case falls Her EpiPen was nowhere to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex policebe found and she was dead within minutes. She's feeling the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughIt was soon clear that this was no accident.

|isbn=152941363X0008385068|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)The Midnight Feast|author=Martin WalkerLucy Foley

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=It''Nobody knows what s midsummer on the truth is any moreDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It'' Bruno Courrèges is the police chief for St Denis s their opening weekend and much of the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ'), the head of detectives for the départment of the Dordognesplendid celebrations are promised. TheyIt're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of Frances all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeot, crashed Manor was her ancestral home and abandoned in a ditch wouldnshe't normally have worried them so much had s converted it not been into an impressive retreat for the strange bullet, with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carwealthy and famous. OhHer husband, Owen, and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the carsite. A golf bag would be a good place to hide a sniper's weaponThe heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Was there Old scores are going to be an attempt to kill someone, or were the detectives being pushed in settled and it won't be long before a certain direction?body is found.

|isbnauthor=0241542405Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Meredith Alone|author=Claire AlexanderWild East

|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=When we first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 and sheWritten in verse, this is Ronny's not left her home for 1story,214 days. She'd ''like'' a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to: in fact, she so nearly doesNorwich and start at a mostly white school. Her outdoor clothes are on and sheThe move is initiated by Ronny's even considered which shoes to wear if shemum who is worried for Ronny's going to catch her train. Thensafety after a tragic event, she can't. She simply can't force herself and so Ronny finds himself trying to leave the safety of her home. She's fortunate that she has settle in a good friendnew town, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two childrena new school, James and Matildakeep himself out of trouble. Sadie's a cardiac nurse He listens to music constantly, and full has always dreamed of sound common sensebeing a rapper. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her catBut now, in this new school, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does in her spare time. Then Tom McDermott arrives. He's from Holding Handsslowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith'sand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=B09Y451X9K1635866847|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)The Lavender Companion|author=Richard F WalkerJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= It''Anything can happen at a birthday partys strange, particularly when the birthday boy things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the young Lord 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 Manorhomepage. But when an eerie signal is picked up I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the early hoursbook, George which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and his new girlfriend, I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest to uncover its incredible messagemargins are sanctioned. Things You get complicated when some total spoilsport lets to fold down the cat out corners of the bag and the world goes into pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a state of panicproblem. I ''loved'' Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for powerthis book already.

|author=Darren ShanRob Keeley|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to HellChildish Spirits: Archibald Lox series, book 7 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5

|summary= So. WeAround here, we're back to the Merge with the first chapter in the third volume big fans of Darren Shanchildren's saga author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of Archibald Loxhappy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world not to another, called the lecture or hector.  The ''MergeChildish Spirits''. Since his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on the topic series is one of his regular disappearancesgreatest achievements. They donIt't ask too many questions and Archie has settled into s a fairly peaceful routine sequence of visiting Winstonghost stories centring on Ellie, his lock-picking mentor in a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the ''Merge'' spirit world throws at her, and showing KojoEdward, a spoiled lordling and the young guardian, around our world of the Born. first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= B09Z2MTCZD1783064617

|author=John Henry PhillipsJenny Valentine|title=The SearchUs in the Before and After

|genre=HistoryTeens|summary=Archaeology cannot be child's playElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, when you're scraping their friendship is a once in the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident whata lifetime connection. Archaeology must be They meet as children one day on a fair bit harder when you set trip out to find some specific thing. This book is a case of the latter, as our author promises to locate the topic of the titular search. And he really hasnbut unfortunately they don't made it easy for himself – get each other's contact details at the search area is a wide onetime. But then chance brings them back together, the target might not exist any more – ohand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and it's underwatertragic, when he cannot dive. Latching on to a particular D-Day veteran and now they must work through helping the heroic old man's visit back to France, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandytheir grief, and that he was lucky to survive when it sank from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboardtheir friendship, the vast majority of whom perishedtogether. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=14721461821471196585

|author=Fiona LongmuirKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Looking for EmilyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54

|summary=Meet LilyKit. She Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edgehealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and everyone from said mother race to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matterexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called EmilyKit, she the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is unaware her neighbourthat one team has been retired, Sameaten, and a new trio of questors is just about needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to make herself known, the goading from the token bully of his world and in stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a big wayteam. But where What chance does Emily come from? Wellthis friendless, Lily used muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that name because , and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of what she'd just stumbled into this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a mysterious collection of Muslim woman. The fact that it was the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, second in a place calling itself series I hadn'The Museum of Emilyt read didn'. Sam is completely unaware of this t stop me – I'museumve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn', too, leaving the two girls to make sure they leave no stone unturned in finding whatt be a hindrance if it's behind the intriguegood enough.And that wasn't a problem here.Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=18399427540861541561

|isbnauthor=B09XZMCDVFStuart Douglas|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F WalkerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'A news vendor is crying out Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the headlines in dead body of a woman on the middle edge of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back in time reservoir. The police seem happy to correct assign it as an iconic quote; accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a volunteer teacher proves the ideal person fellow actor, John Le Breton to have around in a lawless village; the new boy on help him investigate matters further. They travel across the pub football team is very useful with his feetcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and awfully familiar…'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has , seemingly, a lot link to offer death during the eclectic readerSecond World War. Tying them together But is there really a link between the idea that remarkable 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 strange-shut case. A man, even miraculouscovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, things can happen to ordinary people. And comes into the police station shouting that ordinary doesnhe hasn't mean boring or uninterestingkilled the man. Form and tone varies so this little treasury A body at the bottom of short fiction a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is never boring 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 you're never quite sure whatJohn Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's coming nextdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbn=18009012321787333175|title=Stitched UpYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Steve ColeBenji Waterhouse

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyPopular Science|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted 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 fashion designer. Life in glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the rural village where she lived with her family was happyNHS, if not prosperous, so when the smartly-dressed man humour and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be missedMad. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on ..'' promised the mini-bus same elements but moved from physical problems to Hanoi. Only, Hanh mental illness and the other girls were not going to work in of a shop, they were psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to work be looking for humour in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: this setting but the ones with intricate embroidery laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and beading on the legs? The ones it is always delivered with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft when you touched them? It's quite possible that Hanh empathy and her co-workers made themunderstanding.

|author=Daisy HildyardOnyi Nwabineli|title=EmergencyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The 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 this book doesnAnuri't come close to explaining what is done with the premises childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne Now Anuri is grieving. Traumatised after the death of in her sister, twenties and she awakes is slowly trying to find strangeregain her confidence and to get her life back, thick black hairs sprouting from suing her step-mother to take down the bones of content about her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP Anuri is battling alcoholism, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction failing to start her griefPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, recommends she go to stay at Nedeis desperately worried about her little sister, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange who is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis new focus of a kind. As MarianneOphelia's memories threaten to overwhelm online empire. Can she save hersister, Nede offers and perhaps herself and her relationship with her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only father at a terrible price: that of identity itself.the same time?|isbn= 086154112X 0861546873

|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)David Chadwick|title=Little DrummerHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesIt's September 1973 in Hicks, this crime story California. Hicks is a mixture Mojave desert town of police procedural and thriller. Beginning a few thousand people with the death its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a young woman in a carpark, that looks very significant drive away. Not much like an overdose, it unravels into a far-reaching investigation of murder, fraud, and international pharmaceutical dealings. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains happens in Norway whilst Frolich is led to Africa as they follow the twists and turns of the investigationHicks. Gunnarstranda A silver mine and Frolich a defence contractor are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficultmain local employers but otherwise, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as they are sure that something there's not much bigger, of note other than dive bars and much more dangerousJoshua trees. Life is quiet, is going onuntil....|isbn=1914585127B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=0008541477Tom Percival|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!|author=Lauren ChildThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5

|summary=It was Will's life is difficult, in a hot summer day right at the beginning multitude of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimesways... And only on rare-sh occasions, which He is hardly ever.bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' There are seven members of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on , he has the ground floor wrong shoes because hehis dad can't work and doesn's wobbly)t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, Mum and Dad, Claricehis dad can's older brothert work because he lost his job at the college, Kurt was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and younger brother, Minal Crickethad an accident. There's also MarcieThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, whoand Will's main claim to fame life seems to be that she steals the batteries from Clarice's torchbleak in every direction. And yet, which means that she can't read in the airing cupboardhe still has a tiny amount of hope. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to herHe is good at art, rather than wanting and clings to talkthe moments of joy when he is drawing, but that feel like a light at the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=0711266204Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)A Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=I have recently discovered There are few greater joys than a great pleasure: I sit and watch the vast numbers of birds book which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the ground, which pop lives up to the feeders for a quick snatch of some food and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablecompelling premise. It would have been wonderful if, as a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life And this is one of Birds''them. So – what is it?|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17370309420008517061|title=Bag O'GoodiesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Jolly Walker BittickStig Abell

|genre= AnthologiesCrime|summary=SometimesFormer Metropolitan Police detective, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. I first encountered There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his writing about a year agovet girlfriend, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a rollicking tale lot of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn't want a fullcompromise: does Jake give up his off-length novel, so I turned grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this anthology of verse is the future she wants for herself and short stories. her daughter? Bittick's writing has matured - For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and so have his charactersputting the future on the back burner. Well... most of them!

|authorisbn=Caryl Lewis and George Ermos1786482126|title=SeedThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs Builders were demolishing an allotment, and manages to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it old house in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines Norwich - the dual roles of housebound failure and hoarder – while she seems site was going to do nothing and hasnhold seventy-five 'luxury't left apartments - when they discovered the building in years she has still managed to fill it to the brim bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with junkDCI Harry Nelson. What Marty It's classmates dondifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't know about this they can draw lines to from how poor Marty always looks, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one school uniform built from lost propertynight they spent together some three months ago. We see him as once again the council threaten her and him with eviction Her condition will be obvious before long, and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of a solitary plant seedsickness.|isbn=1529077664

|authorisbn=Sophie Cameron0008551324|title=Our Sister, AgainThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=After IslaIt's older sister Flora dies, her unusual for anyone from the Hardie family struggle to find a way forwardapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. In particular, IslaBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's mum prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who can’t seem to be able to let was responsible for her daughter godeath. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online This person, he promises, she thinks they might is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be able transferred to an open prison to helpserve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. But actually Not much to ask, is it turns out they are part of an experimental company ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who offer works with him is kept well away from what's happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the family 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 chance investigation ground to have Flora back againa halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in robot formtheir bed. But this won Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't just s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be a lookan open-and-shut case is now a-likecomplex double murder. They use all of Flora Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's online historyboss, and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possibleUna Burt) are less convinced. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916

|isbn=13985075040571379877|title=Cold ReckoningThe Kellerby Code|author=Russ ThomasJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his father committed suicide upper-class friends, Robert and for the last sixteen years heStanza. Robert's been searching for evidence to prove that hea theatre director. He's right. When a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoiralso self-obsessed, demanding, there was a link back handsome and entitled and uses Edward to a cold case from 2002run errands for him. There didn Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he't immediately seem s drunkenly confided how he feels to be any connection with DI Richard TylerRobert. Most men in Robert's death position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but Adam Tyler senses a link to the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all there's a growing sense that the criminality of Det Supt Stevens not like most men: Edward is going left to be brought out into stumble upon the opentwo of them kissing in a dark passageway. Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?

|isbnauthor=0727850547Jo Callaghan|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)|author=David MarkLeave No Trace

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadn't even had time for breakfast when the call came through. A body had been When a man is found in crucified on the roots top of a fallen tree at Brantinghamhill in Nuneaton, near Hull. When he gets DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the scenecase alongside her sidekick, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imaginedthe AI detective Lock. A young manIt's corpse their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is entangled suddenly struggling with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – potential serial killer and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyes. It would seem a very high profile case that this was done whilst the man was still alivedraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. McAvoy makes a promise Will they be able to solve the victim: I case in time, or will Kat find answers. You will know justice. But justice always comes at herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a cost and this time the cost might be to McAvoy's own family.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1399613073|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary= Early comments Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendousthe first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a delightcardiothoracic surgeon. I will agree with the first – tremendous Laura is no understatement – but 'a delight' perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is perhaps using the expression in free spirit of the group and she becomes a way I'm not familiar withGP. I have When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to confess my ignorance of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation hereend in tragedy. From the little I have read (in translation, I We don't read Spanish) know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there does seem to will be a tendency towards an eerily similar event that will impact the fantastical – the mystical realismthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0241636604|title= Rebel SkiesThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensAutobiography|summary= Kurara has spent her entire life as If you were to bring up an image of a servant on the Midoricity banker in your mind, a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the Empire come to drink pin-stripe suit and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives to tell her that she his background is a Crafter like himthe East End, someone where he was familiar with the power violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the EmpireLondon School of Economics. He asks her to come Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with him, to leave the life numbers which most of dreary servitude us can only envy. He also realised that is all she has knownmost rich people expect poor people to be stupid. Well It was his ability at what was, soon Kurara won't have any say in the matteressentially, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into the worldtrader. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence1035021803|title=NeedleThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=BraveIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Charlene, the 'heroine She' s back now because of this piece is extremely hard a request for some people to likehelp from her beloved aunt, characters and readers bothCarole. Kicked out of multiple homes Freya's former mentor and schools, sheCarole's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutorclose friend, AnnieArthur Crockleford, is dead and has taken up residence in the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her son Blake's old room while he's at unidown badly. Such a tempestuous personality may be Even though they were in need of a comfort blanketbusiness together as antique hunters, you might perhaps think, and she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the creation of one such item is part of profession she loved. After the plot heresplit, as Charlene is she worked in a wonder knittercafe, met and is making something full married James (on the rebound from the love of love for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detectivelife, who was murdered) and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, what exactly happens is not for me to say, only to remark how sharp Freya and pointy those knitting needles can be..James have now divorced.|isbn=1800901011

|isbn=1405940980AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The BirdcageAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Eve ChaseBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=It's 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the 7th shape of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwallthings to come. We don't know whose body ' I've heard it said that 'technology' iswhat happens after you're eighteen. Four days earlierWell, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artisttechnology in my lifetime. The girls are actually I've kept up reasonably well with what'halfs advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly -sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closequite frightening. Finch was known for his fecundityOf course, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since I could research the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at possibilities and the time of probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the total eclipse, something happenedlatest conspiracy theorist. Kat I needed people I knew I could trust and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was who could deliver information in a victim and it's left her very wary of her sistersway I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1787634906Sunny Singh|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=We're in Oldcastle and Malcolm The Hotel Arcadia is in trouble. He's a luxury hotel in an abandoned house and he's being threatened unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by two young peoplea terrorist group. One Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Allegra (we'll soon learn that she's Allegra Dean-Edwards) Sam, a wartime photographer and HugoAbhi, the hotel manager. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat As Abhi continues to try to keep him warm (she often does this care remotely for homeless peoplethe residents who are still alive in the hotel, apparently) but she'd put he forms a tracking device in it so that she bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and Hugo could find keeps on venturing out where he was sleepingof her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. It won't 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 long rescued before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their own: not many other people they are going to have discovered by the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Jennifer Saint1529153298|title=ElektraThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It'Elektras 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She' by Jennifer Saint tells the story of three women who live in the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greeces not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Cassandra Well, Clytemnestrathey've been murdered, and Elektra are all bit players in the story of the Trojan Warbut to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us Miv's upset because she's overheard that often her father wants to move the silent women have family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the most compelling stories move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the most extreme furiesdangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1472273915

|isbn=15291498001398524085|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsNicci French|rating=45|genre=Home and FamilyCrime|summary=We begin with a telling storyCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. All the birds Her children, sons Niall, Paul and animals fled when the forest fire took hold Ollie and most of them stood and watchedher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, unable to think of anything they could dois not. The tiny hummingbird flew to Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the river and began taking tiny amounts body of water and flying back to drop them into Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the fireriver. The animals laughed: what good It was an easy assumption for the police to make that doingDuncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there''I'm doing the best I s little else they can'', said the hummingbird. And that, do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really, is the only way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might behappened.

|isbn=17765743381035906708|title=Leilong's Too Long!Diva|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Every morning LeilongWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, the brontosaurus school busbut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, makes his way through the cityNew York, picking up children as he goesin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Children who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfect, isnCallas't to make it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There is a problem, thoughmanageable in the States. Leilong isn't happy When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the city: he's always having to be careful about where he puts his feet and – because he's longer than Nazi occupation by a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to mother who mercilessly exploited her and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymoremade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.