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|author=Sarah LanganJenny Lecoat|title=Good NeighboursBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= If you're Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of a certain vintagethe occupation. During the war, itJean's hard father was arrested for listening to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streetbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, though, Arlo leaving Jean and Gertie live a world apart her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on Nazis, and the crescentwar is finally over, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earliertheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. They're not quite like all But will the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's truth come as a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inrelief, and or will it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the park across informer who told the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for Nazis about the residents of Maple Street, radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the worst is yet to come.occupation?|isbn=17890982111846976537

|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson1529428289|title=The Small ThingsA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, she feels like she never really fits init came with three sets of bones. Her family don't have enough money They dated back to let her do after school activities, World War II and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison it fell to theirs. When a new girl joins her classBruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, Anna is asked to partner her, but things are complicated because discover the identities of the new girl, Ellie, is unwell bodies and so canestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't attend school in person. Insteadenough to worry about, she joins in with the class by using a robotDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Can Anna overcome It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the challenge problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of making friends with someone through a robot, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649devastating flood.

|isbn=0008350388152919640X|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyThe Suspect|author=Otegha UwagbaRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=The nation''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirables favourite daytime TV presenter, less hireableJessica Holby, less intelligent was murdered live on television and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterpartsit seems that there's only one suspect...'' He''We Need s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Talk About MoneyJessica Holby. She'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies.7% of English Literature GCSE students Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in England study a book by busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanragout to Holby.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came Her EpiPen was nowhere to the UK from Kenya when be found and she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and ninedead within minutes. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined soon clear that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxfordno accident.

|isbn=17876318690008385068|title=The Rising TideMidnight Feast|author=Sam LloydLucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucy LockeIt's early life hadnmidsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It't been easy but she'd built a good s their opening weekend and decent life in the aftermathsplendid celebrations are promised. SheIt's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucyshe's daughter converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and Fin, the child she had with Danielfamous. They have financial difficultiesHer husband, some caused by Nick PoveyOwen, Daniel's partner was the architect and so-called best friendwork is still ongoing on parts of the site. Nick The heat is oppressive and Daniel have a history together from amongst the time they both spent in a children's home but guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and itwon's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, t be long before a body is concernedfound.

|author=Hannah PeckAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Kate on the CaseWild East|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Meet KateWritten in verse, although I got the impression shethis is Ronny'd rather be s story, a Catherine – young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and one specific Catherine start at thata mostly white school. For Catherine Rodriguez The move is Kateinitiated by Ronny's idol, and the author of our heroinemum who is worried for Ronny's favourite possessionsafety after a tragic event, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a plucky fathernew town, that booka new school, and her talking mouse called Rupertkeep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, she is all equipped to manage and has always dreamed of being a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksrapper. HoweverBut now, in this is a train ride with a differencenew school, for on board is his teacher encourages him to be part of a greedy-seeming harridan poetry writing workshop group and her cat, a thief – slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and two glowing eyespoetry, shining from and the darkness in a blink-power of creativity and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..crafting your words.|isbn=184812970X0241645441

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1635866847|title=Archibald Lox The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Terry Barlin Vesci

|summary=The second trilogy in ShanAround 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 ''MergeChildish Spirits'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world series is one of the Bornhis greatest achievements. It's not been easya sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, explaining to his foster parents where he's beena stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez Edward, a spoiled lordling and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=B093H8DPQZ1783064617

|isbnauthor=0571365884Jenny Valentine|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures Us in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchettthe Before and After|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyTeens|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even , their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a childtrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few But then chance brings them back together, and far betweenthey are inseparable. On a visit to a therapist Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, as an adultand now they must work through their grief, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believetheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Alex CotterKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The House on the EdgeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on Meet Kit. Like most of the edge of a cliffpeople in his world, literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house it seems to be falling apart, so he is Faith's family. Her dad has disappearedan avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and her mum is struggling to copehealer enter specially prepared, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in chargecentury-old, taking care of her little brother Noahmagical mazes, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah and race to schoolthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachersthe points they grant you along the way. Is her little brother okay? Why is Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in 's seen of the cellar? What should she do about latest race on the house? Can she find inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages has taken to get funding for the house? She carries goading from the weight token bully of all these worries on her constantly, his world and she doesnstumbled into declaring he't know how much longer the cliff will hold togetherll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, or and how long she can keep on keeping on.could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17880086261839945184

|isbn=0008269041|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. He's married to Natalie, now and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robin.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786332388Saima Mir|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and ''The First Day was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of Spring'' was one such occasionEngland run by a Muslim woman. The writing is superb and completely compelling. The characterisation is excellent and fact that it was the plot grips you and wonsecond in a series I hadn't let go. So, whatread didn's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her shet stop me – I's just eight years old, small for her age ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and she readily tells us that sheit needn's just killed someone - t be a two-year-old boy. Shehindrance if it's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upgood enough. There's a clue And that Chrissie isnwasn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come backproblem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=Catherine SteadmanStuart Douglas|title=The Disappearing ActLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the cusp edge of successa reservoir. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going The police seem happy to treat her wellassign it as an accidental death, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but sosomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, unfortunatelyand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, is her partnerJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. And They travel across the places he's going take him towards liescountry during their days off filming, deceit uncovering more possible murders and , seemingly, a pretty young thing in link to death during the form of his new co-starSecond World War. It's But is there really a good time for Mia link between the deaths? And will they manage to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=14711897831803368209

|authorisbn= Christophe MedlerB0CYV674G2|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the backdrop police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of the English Civil War, a secret plan (codefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -named Madrigal) he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the summer birth of 1642his daughter Samantha. As a loyal servant of You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the King, words 'perverse' and Head of the Secret Service, it is Robert'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's duty sleep-deprived to uncover the details point of the plan and follow the clues falling asleep at work but he's determined to uncover one of the most guarded secrets in history—especially since the plot could affect the Kingkeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1787333175|title=The Jasmine ThroneYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=FantasyPopular Science|summary= On I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the night workings of her sacred burningthe NHS, Princess Malini defies her brother humour and refuses to step on to the pyreautobiography. She is immediately sent ''You Don't Have to be imprisoned on Mad...'' promised the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled with a community of people who got powers same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the mysterious deathless waterswork of a psychiatrist. But now I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the temple laughter is nothing more directed at a situation rather than an overgrown, decaying ruin. One day, Malini witnesses a girl kill someone person and it is always delivered with magic. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker empathy and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantunderstanding.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sarah Wallace said that Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she grew up on a council estate posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in Kent her twenties and that she had two brothers is slowly trying to regain her confidence and two sistersto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. It seemed Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to have been a lovingstart her PhD, stable familyundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. When we first meet herMost importantly, she can't sleep because is desperately worried about her son, Freddielittle sister, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by is the time he sort new focus of half-promised heOphelia'd be in bys online empire. Her husbandCan she save her sister, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in perhaps herself and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Joseph KnoxDavid Chadwick|title=True Crime StoryHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary= Joseph KnoxIt's September 1973 in Hicks, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a new genre few thousand people with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceNot much happens in Hicks. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life A silver mine and disappearance of Zoe through a defence contractor are the eyes main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of her twin sister, note other family, friends than dive bars and professionalsJoshua trees. Life is quiet, such as the policeuntil.. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703B0D321VJ76

|author=Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaTom Percival|title=No, No, No!The Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine AveryWill's life is difficult, in a Bookbag favouritemultitude of ways.  He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'No, No, No!he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn' is based around t have enough money for even the simplest text imaginable. most basic of things like food, and his dad can''Not work because he lost his job at the college, no, no! Okay, okaywas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Yes Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, you may.'' Thatand Will's it! Butlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, like all the best picture books, this he still has a tiny snippet amount of text hope. He is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on good at art, and clings to the inside moments of joy when he is drawing, that it appears on feel like a light at the outsideend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=16388204571398527122

|author=Monica ConnellSylvie Cathrall|title=Against a Peacock SkyA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=TravelScience Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.Da compelling premise. in social anthropology. I think it And this is important to know that. She went on a grant-supported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline one of how to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigms, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up.|isbn=17806004290356522776

|isbn=14091816690008517061|title=The MaidensDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Alex MichaelidesStig Abell|rating=54

|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them bothFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. She needed to think carefully There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death future of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Mariana's nieceher daughter Diana, Zoe, had telephoned her as moving in distress. Tara had been her best friend together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and she was struggling relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy Little Sky despite her reservations about having to go to Cambridge, but whether or not this is the future she caught wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana present and Zoe were close and had been made all putting the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident future on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Elizaback burner.

|authorisbn=Maisie Chan1786482126|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Danny is eleven years Builders were demolishing an old, and what he really, really loves house in Norwich - the site was going to do is drawhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the wordsThere was no skull. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make Was this a living from drawing! ritual killing or murder? At least Danny has his own roomInevitably, where he can draw in secret and in peaceDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing DannyIt's bedroom difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she will also be sleeping on the top bunk is pregnant with his child as a result of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the townone night they spent together some three months ago. Poor DannyHer condition will be obvious before long, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravinot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X

|authorisbn=Terry Miles0008551324|title=RabbitsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term unusual for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and from the Hardie family to approach the average person no obvious entry pointpolice. A bit like Neither side likes or has any respect for the game of life thenother. Yes, this But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the game police where the body of life a missing person is buried and who was responsible for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websher death. People like our hero This person, Khe promises, named like that in is someone big and it will be worth the least Kafkaesque manner possiblepolice doing what he wants. K and his bezzies are trying And what he wants is to be historians of transferred to an open prison to serve the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique remainder of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, his sentence and are still very shortto get an early parole date. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous Not much to ask, nay lethal, the most broken is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn's ever been – morally t think so and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if itshe's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only prepared to find out do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that the line between observing DS Max Craigie and learning about the game, and playing it, anyone who works with him is a very thin one indeedkept well away from what's happening...|isbn=1529016932

|authorisbn=C J Carey0008405026|title=WidowlandA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It's April 1953, sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming investigation ground to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallishalt. For yesNow, her mother, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know itHelena, and we her father are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''dead in their bed. But this is most certainly a different BritainInitially, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into it looks like a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to positioning of the childless, the husbandless bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and the widowsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature What looked as though it was going to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, an open-and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get -shut case is now a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintcomplex double murder. That Kerrigan is her job, at least, until convinced that the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitlerexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's visitboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=152941198X

|authorisbn=Louise Beech0571379877|title=This Is How We Are HumanThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica Edward Jevons is a devoted single mother to her sonworking-class young man, Sebastian obsessed with his upper- but she canclass friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert't give him everything he wantss a theatre director. Sebastian has decided that it He's time also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -old, thatand he's easier said than donedrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. And it Most men in Robert's starting 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 cause stumble upon the two of them both problemskissing in a dark passageway. |isbn=1913193713

|isbnauthor=B093VPBL5LJo Callaghan|title=Cape Henry House|author=Jolly Walker BittickLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet Bosner, orWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to give him his full titlethe case alongside her sidekick, Petty Officer Third Class Bosner. We never really find out if he has a first name: there's merely a hint that he had the nickname 'Secretary' at one pointAI detective Lock. HeIt's simply Bosner to one and alltheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. When we first encounter him he's exploring his memories of 2008 But when he was there is a second body found crucified a greaser on helicopters (or helosfew days later, as they were called) at Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a naval establishmentlot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The hours could Will they be long able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and he was often working nights but at the age , potentially, out of twenty-one, there was always a way to work some fun (think drinking and eating) into his day.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten1399613073|title=For the WolfMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=In Red's familyOlivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first daughter becomes queen, day of medical school and the second daughter becomes their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a sacrificecentury. To Red's misfortune Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she which is the second daughtera bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods Laura is a wolf, perfectionist and he a trauma doctor. Anjali is the one who will decide free spirit of the fate of their kingdomgroup and she becomes a GP. If she is not When we first meet them they're at a worthy sacrifice, drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the monsters he keeps contained to tragedy or the woods consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage an eerily similar event that will never be returned—or so impact the stories gothree friends. But when Red enters the woods This time, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—heit's a mantheir teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0356516369

|authorisbn=M G Leonard0241636604|title=TwitchThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Twitch is If you were to bring up an image of a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at homecity banker in your mind, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared you're unlikely to that think of his time in schoolsomeone like Gary Stevenson. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his life as there background is a dangerous bank robber on the runEast End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and it's possible that injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the missing bank haul London School of Economics. Stevenson is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide bright - extremely bright - and that he knows like the back has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his hand! ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Can Twitch solve the mysteryEventually, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=18388538041035021803|title=The Cursed GirlsAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Caro RamsayC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Megan MelvickIt's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfEnglish country village where she grew up. Twenty years later sheShe's back home again and this time the occasion is no less sadnow because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. SheFreya's former mentor and Carole's there close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say her final farewells the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to her sisterthe village: Arthur, Melissashe feels, who is dying of anorexialet her down badly. As Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' has not felt able to Megan but what did be near the man or pursue the profession she mean? loved. There were lots of thingsAfter the split, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even she worked in a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jagocafe, met and married James (on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant the rebound from the love of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problemsher life, Megan who was deaf murdered) and Freya and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforeJames have now divorced. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?

|isbn=0241400120AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Girl Who DiedAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Ragnar Jonasson Benjamin Greenaway and Victoria CribbStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given 'Opening up her medical studies and retrained as a teachernew ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. She was thirty years old and money was tight'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Her friendWell, Sara, showed her an advert for I must confess that there have been more than a job few decades of technology in Skalar on my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the Langanes Peninsulafeeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. There were only ten people in Of course, I could research the possibilities and the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid probabilities and accommodation providedend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Una was the only applicant I needed people I knew I could trust and the job meant that she who could let her flat deliver information in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covereda way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=1846975719Sunny Singh|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickHotel Arcadia

|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=We learn The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placeshas suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. But that's LondonHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley wartime photographer and his colleagueAbhi, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awayhotel manager. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the plane were dead before take off. How could that hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be? The sort cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of tech which would make that possible isnher room to try to capture what't available to the paying publics happened through her photography. And why have Although they only ever talk over the man no identification on them - or even labels in phone, their clothes?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

|authorisbn=Richard Brook1529153298|title=Understanding Human Nature: A User's Guide to LifeThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary= It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I am a firm believer that sometimes we choose booksmean, and sometimes books choose ushonestly... ) In my caseShe's not what's worrying Miv's family, this is one of the latterthough. Women have been disappearing. Not so very long ago Well, if I had come across this book Ithey'd have skimmed it, found some of it interestingve been murdered, but it would not to have 'hit homedisappeared' doesn' in the way that it does nowt sound quite so frightening. I believe it came to me not just Miv's upset because I was likely she's overheard that her father wants to give it a favourable review [ move the family 'Down South'full disclosure The Bookbag. When you's u.s.p. is that people chose their own books rather than getting them randomlyre from Yorkshire, so there Down South is a predisposition towards expecting to like frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the bookmove would mean leaving her best friend, even if it doesnSharon, and she't always turn out ll do anything to prevent that way. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum' ] – but also because it is a book I needed s stopped talking - to read, right nowanyone.|isbn=1800461682

|isbn=B095CY7NBN1398524085|title=Autumn CampHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Barry FowlerNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It Charlotte Salter was to be Brianexpected at her husband's last campfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. He'd founded the organisation some four years ago Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and had done her daughter, Etty. are all the organisation since worried but he was leaving school and the time had come to hand the reins to someone else- strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. The obvious person was GaryShortly afterwards, who'd always been the fun element of the camps Etty and Brian had said that on this campGreg, Gary should act as find the leader and hebody of Greg'd just be there to observe. The problem with this was that Gary wasn't really an organisers father, an administrator if you like. He was the entertainerDuncan Ackerley, the person who basked in the spotlight and made things fun - so Brian stepped in and did the organisingriver. He handed It was an easy assumption for the camp over - police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then took it backcommitted suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. And Gary determined to have his revenge. This should have been The Salter children are not convinced but there''his'' camps little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.