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|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies1529428289|title=Oscar's LionA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or fatherBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroomthey found it, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepish, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two daysit came with three sets of bones. But there are benefits They dated back to having a lion around – World War II and it can be shown as an unspoken threat fell to Bruno, the bully that ruined a birthday party Chief of Police for Oscar the other month. And it can shapeshiftSt Denis, so he can take it to school discover the identities of the bodies and it can get him out of establish whether or not a problemcrime had been committed. And itAs if this isn's wonderful t enough to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intakeworry about, being much more lax about the rules, and so onDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. OK, it canIt't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar 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 wonderful timedevastating flood.|isbn=0008596751

|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR152919640X|title=Good Girls DieThe Suspect|author=Ayura AyiraRob Rinder

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The nation''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright students favourite daytime TV presenter, a bit too nerdy if truth be toldJessica Holby, was murdered live on television and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case itseems that there's contagiousonly one suspect. ItHe's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% whiteserve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She had 's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a crush on seventeenbusy, live television studio -year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice herand Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Then he did: Lavender Her EpiPen was very good at math nowhere to be found and Reggie asked if she would tutor himwas dead within minutes. She readily agreed: tutoring It was something she gladly did at church: soon clear that this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift homeno accident.

|authorisbn=V Castro0008385068|title=The Haunting of AlejandraMidnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=It''This was a part of her past that had to stop with her. She would be s midsummer on the one to confront thisDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It' At some point during s all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her life, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if ancestral home and she is playing parts 's converted it into an impressive retreat for others in her life – her the wealthy and famous. Her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desires, her own futureOwen, her own identitywas the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there The heat is something fundamentally wrongoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. For invisible Old scores are going to all but Alejandra, there is be settled and it won't be long before a darkness threatening to consume her. More and more she body is visited by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wakefound.|isbn=1803365617

|author=Richard KadreyAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Pale House DevilWild East|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorTeens|summary=Ford and Neuland are a couple ofWritten in verse, wellthis is Ronny's story, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. One of them The move is living, you see, and the other initiated by Ronny's mum who is undeadworried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so one of them kills the livingRonny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, and the other kills the undeadkeep himself out of trouble. (Only not each otherHe listens to music constantly, obviously)and has always dreamed of being a rapper. They're on a job But now, in New York that goes badlythis new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and so they head out , slowly, Ronny begins to see the West coast to try to lay low for a while connections between rap and poetry, and find some other work to keep them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot power of family history, creativity and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!crafting your words.|isbn=18033638940241645441

|authorisbn=Helen Cooper1635866847|title=The Taming of the CatLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Once againIt's strange, mice are pitched against catthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. In this case, principallyBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', we have Brie I visited the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and in case youthere're seeing s a connection, they live in picture of a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be slice of chocolate cake on the names of cheeseshomepage. Anyway, Brie is shunned, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits I don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art eat cakes and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And desserts - but I wanted that story-telling will come in handy one night, when he feels all alone and cast outcake viscerally. It(There's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie the top dog a recipe in the mouse communitybook, though, as all the others had the chance to half-inch which I'm avoiding with some cheese while difficulty!!) Then I started reading the cat book and I was distractedtold to make a mess of it. But will Notes in the story have margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the successful sequel it needs when corners of pages. You suspect that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|isbnauthor=B0CDZRGT1MRob Keeley|title=Super Short StoriesChildish Spirits: Flash Fiction|author=Mark C Wallfisch10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'Got s a minute to be amusedball of happy positivity, he understands children, entertainedand he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flashhector.''''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.''

Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story The ''Childish Spirits'' series is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book one of them? I donhis greatest achievements. It't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't s a fixed definition sequence of flash fiction but that for this collectionghost stories centring on Ellie, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limit. That's about stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a single page in your average paperback.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1732898766Jenny Valentine|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese Us in the Before and Indre Ta (Illustrator)After|rating=45|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=When we first meet Birpus Elk and Bulbus they're running for Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their lives friendship is a once in the Forest of Fine Reputea lifetime connection. Their greatest fear has come about: the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing them. He's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrils. (Please They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't try this get each other's contact details at home: it won't end wellthe time.) FortunatelyBut then chance brings them back together, and they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and when a ladder of moss tragic, and vines was lowered for them, they escaped. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high up in the tangled woods where now they lived with must work through their Grand Weesgrief, Nester Nook and Granny Crannytheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=1472263936Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to GreeceMeet Kit. She was alone: her motherLike most of the people in his world, Greek by birthit seems, had left he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the family home sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and refused race to returnthe exit, but Mary perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be points they grant you along the first of several annual visitsway. She grew to love her grandmother and Unfortunately for Kit, the familyonly thing he's maidseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, Dinaeaten, but was wary - and frightened - a new trio of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannisquestors is needed. He was proud Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his close connections to the Junta world and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate themstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. His prejudices included Helena's red hair What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestors.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Cody GoodfellowSaima Mir|title=VerticalVengeance

|summary= ThereI 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's something about tall buildings that just captures my imagination. Who doesnt read didn't love stop me – I've jumped midway into a good view from up high, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere Ifew series before (on page and screen) and it needn'm intrigued to get inside t be a hindrance if it's 40 stories tallgood enough. And that wasn't a problem here. So when I picked Vengeance swiftly brings you up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – to speed, and I was instantly intriguednever felt lost.|isbn= 18033639910861541561

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldStuart Douglas|title=Finding BearLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', April had been leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on Bear Island, the edge of a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearreservoir. Back homeThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, things on but something about the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for herwhole thing bothers Lowe, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from he enlists the islands Bear was last left on. For help of a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and woundedfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to They travel across the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous thingscountry during their days off filming, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – uncovering more possible murders and that the friendship can continue.|isbn=0008582017}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1804183210|title=No Reserve|author=Felix Francis|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auction, but Peter Radwayseemingly, a link to death during the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his sessionSecond World War. To say that he was shocked when But is there really a link between the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million poundsdeaths? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industry. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stall.lives?|isbn=1803368209

|authorisbn=Sarah WilsonB0CYV674G2|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake

|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild mud and blood - and precious life?'' I get to love carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that line so much because my answer is he hasn''This! Precisely thist killed the man.A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life the way I want s been stabbed todeath. Sarah Wilson DCI John Tanner is equally luckyjust back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. In her book that takes Oliver's words as her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us to You would think about whether we really ''are'he' living the life we want – the best life that we could d be living. Her grateful for an easy answer is an unequivocal but the words 'perverse'no, we are notand 'John Tanner'were made for each other. DonHe't care what yous sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he're doing, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And shes determined to keep going - probably because he can's effing furious about the fact that we are nott get any sleep at home.|isbn=1785633848

|isbn=18399484931787333175|title=A World of DogsYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeBenji Waterhouse

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPopular Science|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that Iwas tempted to read 'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didnYou Don't trust and IHave to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay've loved most s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of them. I wish I felt the same about human beingsNHS, humour and autobiography. So, any book about dogs, I'm going 'You Don't Have to sit down and devourbe Mad... Then I'm going ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to go back mental illness and read it properlythe work of a psychiatrist. And so I did wonder whether it was with ''A World of Dogs'', with ninety-six pages devoted entirely acceptable to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself be looking for humour in this setting but the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite laughter is directed at a situation rather than a lot about dogs since thenperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|isbnauthor=1405951680Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron WardAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, actually she was gently nudged into it by thanks to her friendstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a couple of monthssponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. After the problems Now Anuri is in her twenties and she'd had at workis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, it seemed like just suing her step-mother to take down the break she neededcontent about her. She was no longer a data analyst Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for the Metropolitan police in London: doing so. Most importantly, she was Jess is desperately worried about her little sister, who was returning to is the country new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her birth sister, and perhaps herself and in need of the space to get over the traumatic end of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in her father at the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticket.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Rachel HarrisonDavid Chadwick|title=Bad DollsHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesThrillers|summary=It's been some time since I've read any horrorSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. I had Hicks is a couple Mojave desert town of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly few thousand people with them to the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear 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 vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesn't have those jump scaresmain local employers but otherwise, and I didnthere't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most s not much of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about women, living normal lives, note other than dive bars and that at least in partJoshua trees. Life is quiet, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with griefuntil....|isbn=1803363932B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=1394159544Tom Percival|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Will''Recycling one ton s life is difficult, in a multitude of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oilways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' , he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'Recycling one ton t have enough money for even the most basic of paper things like food, and his dad can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfillt work because he lost his job at the college, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As was working a justcash-postin-WWII baby, I faced hand job on a dilemma: reducing, reusing building site and recycling is part of my DNAhad an accident. NEVER throw away anything Throw into that might mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will''possibly'' come s life seems bleak in handy now or in the futureevery direction. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purposeAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Almost everything can be used one more time He is good at art, and any purchase must pass clings to the test moments of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other handjoy when he is drawing, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking feel like a light at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yesend of a long, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bibledark tunnel.s|isbn=1398527122

|author=Lauren St JohnSylvie Cathrall|title=Finding WonderA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was young, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to buy a lottery ticketcompelling premise. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly And this is one ofthem. But she has no one else, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervan, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=05713761690356522776

|isbn=14483097430008517061|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Caro RamsayStig Abell

|summary=In Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the village future of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotlandhis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, five members as moving in together would mean a lot of a wealthy family are found murdered. compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? The only item missing from For the home is moment they’re enjoying life in the Devil Stone: myth says that if present and putting the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will follow. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' future on the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' himback burner.

|authorisbn= Kay Chronister1786482126|title= Desert Creatures|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{FrontpageThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Christopher Fowler|title=Word MonkeyElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= It's the first of August Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not site was going to swim at hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the pool in favour bones of going to my beach huta child beneath a doorway. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I decided not to do that eitherThere was no skull. When I finished reading Was this booka ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. No spoiler alertsIt's difficult as Ruth knows, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler but Nelson doesn'was' – and t, that she is pregnant with his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosischild as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. There Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is something very strange about being made prone to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, and you know he actually is at that point, because he doessudden bouts of sickness. He did.|isbn=0857529625

|isbn=15290776990008551324|title=The Raging Storm Devil You Know (Two RiversD S Max Craigie)|author=Ann CleevesNeil Lancaster

|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yes, it isunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Jem Rosco blew into Neither side likes or has any respect for the local pub one evening other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the middle police where the body of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month missing person is buried and then turned upwho was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, naked is someone big and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to it will be worth the village of Greystone, in Devonpolice doing what he wants. Rosco had And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the status remainder of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor his sentence and all round ''celebrity''to get an early parole date. I Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'nearly'' said 'alls even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with money and his background isnhim is kept well away from what't exactly an open books happening. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbn=B0CC9W7GLR0008405026|title=On A Stranger in the Beach: The Winter VisitorFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaJane Casey

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was better to be at home, bored but warm, or frozen cold never found and building sand sculptures on a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shoreline. On top of the ice was investigation ground to a polar bearhalt. As the ice bumped onto the sandNow, her mother, Helena, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the iceher father are dead in their bed. Kit was all for making Initially, it looks like a run for it, straightforward murder/suicide but Teal knew there's something about the positioning of the bodies that the bear was hungry makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and gave him one apple and then anotherher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. He obviously needed What looked as though it was going to be taken home on the bus an open-and given -shut case is now a good meal and somewhere to sleepcomplex double murder. What else would you do?Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn=Claire North0571379877|title=House of OdysseusThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The followEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-up to the excellent class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert''Ithaca'' picks up s a few months after where we left offtheatre director. In the palace of Odysseus He's also self-obsessed, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husbanddemanding, who sailed handsome and entitled and uses Edward to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying run errands for the throne of the Western Isleshim. Having survived – politically Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and physical – the chaotic storm he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Clytemnestra brought to Ithacaa relationship had begun between them but he's shores, Queen Penelope not like most men: Edward is on left to stumble upon the brink two of them kissing in a fragile peacedark passageway. One that shatters however with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektra, seeking refuge.|isbn=0356516075

|isbnauthor=1529427045Jo Callaghan|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to When a man is found crucified on the small town top of Gasskasa hill in Nuneaton, where DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the so-far-untapped natural resources of case alongside her sidekick, the area have sparked a gold rushAI detective Lock. The criminal underworld has not It's their first live case together, having previously been slow in coming forwardvery successful with several cold cases. Salander's niece's mother But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only suddenly struggling with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that Svala is draws a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the part Salander played case in her father's death.time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B1399613073|title=The Last Person in the WorldMoral Injuries|author=Matthew TreeChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day boy at the London-based public of medical school where he met Ralph Finnsand their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a boarder and had money bonus when you aim to throw around on be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Rolex watch, vintage wines Laura is a perfectionist and a state-trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit ofthe 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 thetragedy or the consequences. Twenty-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to UniversityThis time, unlike our storyteller it's their teenage children who had 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 place at Wolverton College city banker in Wellingfordyour mind, the UKyou's third most prestigious universityre unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Before going up A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and 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 took up has a loose invitation facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to visit Ralph be stupid. It was his ability at his homewhat was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, Clouds Manor in West Dorsetthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1035021803|title=The House at the End of the WorldAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitudeEnglish country village where she grew up. ThatShe's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down back now because of a request for help from her old life to start afresh on Jacobbeloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's Ladder; close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and all would have the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the aforementioned peace and solitude village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were it in business together as antique hunters, she has not for felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the pesky US Government occupying Ringrocksplit, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner of mischief in rebound from the name love of science her life, who was murdered) and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankindFreya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1662453159

|authorisbn=T KingfisherAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=ThornhedgeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''You had a right Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to retake your placecome.''

T KingfisherI've heard it said that 'technology's latest novella is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a lovely reimagining few decades of a fairytale 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 well known - 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 well belovedwho could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3. But whilst there 5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a princess trapped luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a towerterrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, sleeping under an eternal enchantmentkilling everyone on site, Thornhedge there is not her storySam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling 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 was stolen away refuses to be cowed by fairies when she was a new-born baby events, and secreted away keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to draw magic from help her veins keep safe and cast spellsthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=1803364238086154742X

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX1529153298|title=Stories 2The List of Suspicious Things|author=Richard F WalkerJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary= This It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Richard F WalkerPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's second volume of short storiesnot what's worrying Miv's family, though. There are thirteen in all and I took something from each of them Women have been disappearing. There isn Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared't a single one that doesn't deserve sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to be among move the others or brings down family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the overall quality. It can be tricky to review short stories without giving too much awaymove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, so Iand she'll just pick two do anything to talk prevent that. She's not worried about and I think they give a general flavourthe dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=17876366071398524085|title=The TrapHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Catherine Ryan HowardNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morningfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and looking for a way to get homeher daughter, Etty. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis availableall worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Others squash onto Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the night bus that will only go as far as one body of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problemGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, particularly in the light of 'the missing women'river. For one young woman, It was an easy assumption for the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her home. She police to make that Duncan had intended to ring someone to come murdered Charlie and collect her - but her phonethen committed suicide when he couldn's dead. The bus had driven off before she had t stand the chance to beg the bus driver to let her use hisguilt. ThereThe Salter children are not convinced but there's no option little else they can do but to start walking - unsuitably clothed get on with their lives and in high-heeled shoeswonder about what really happened.

|isbn=14059571741035906708|title=A Death at the PartyDiva|author=Amy StuartDaisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=From the first pageWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, we know that Nadine Walsh's party will not end well. The victim - a man - is dying when we first meet him in December 1923 and Nadine consciously makes no effort only moved to call the ambulance he so desperately needsAthens when she was thirteen. What we donHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 't know is who Callas' to make it more manageable in the man is or why Nadine prefers to have him dieStates. I'd better give you a little more background When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that you can understand what's happeningshe 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.