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|isbnauthor=0008421714Jenny Lecoat|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The problem began just after Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the publication end of George Marchthe occupation. During the war, Jean's most successful novel father was arrested for listening to datea banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Everyone but Mrs March But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529428289|title=A Grave in the Woods (we know her first name only on A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the last page) seemed to either be reading grave but when they found it, it or had already done socame with three sets of bones. Every day Mrs March went They dated back to the local patisserie World War II and it fell to buy olive bread but on that particular morningBruno, Patricia askedthe Chief of Police for St Denis, as she was wrapping to discover the identities of the bread, ''but bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' She mentioned that Johannaenough to worry about, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Perhaps this would It's not just the local autumn rains that have mattered, except for caused the fact that Johanna is problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the whore possibility of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchdevastating flood.''

|authorisbn=John Boyne152919640X|title=The Echo ChamberSuspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"suspect. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withcontract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world She's homeless with out-seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case ofemergencies. Everything seemed as normal -date foodas normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingragout to Holby. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections Her EpiPen was nowhere to his life, be found and you have something she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funnywas no accident.|isbn=0857526219

|isbn=02419890940008385068|title=The Perfect LifeMidnight Feast|author=Nuala EllwoodLucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and sheIt's viewing a house in Goring-midsummer on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie Dorset coast and Barclayguests gather at The Manor. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why sheIt's making this trip on her owntheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. The house would be perfect for them. It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and living in her sisterfamous. Her husband, Georgie'sOwen, spare room, where shewas the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connort be long before a body is found.

|author=Darren ShanAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Wild East

|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny'grop'' s safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to think about. But before thatsettle in a new town, a new school, soireesand keep himself out of trouble. Soirees! Archie, much He listens to Inez's amusementmusic constantly, doesn't even know what one and has always dreamed of those isbeing a rapper. But he manages now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to come through see the fancy party unscathedconnections between rap and poetry, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in and the first volume power of this seriescreativity and crafting your words. |isbn=B093J9TF730241645441

|isbn=B07GZ81J7C1635866847|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Lavender Companion|author=Peter CottonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actuallyIt's strange, the things that make you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred 'immediately'' feel that this is the book for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklyyou. But Before Istarted reading ''The Lavender Companion''m getting ahead of myself, I visited the author's [https: I//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'd better tell you s a picture of a bit more about Fredslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Fred is a snake I don't eat cakes and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. He arrived as (There's a present recipe in a box the book, which I'm avoiding with holes so that he could breathe some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and immediately became part I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the family, margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the extent corners of pages. You suspect that they smears of butter would take Fred out with them when they went out for not be a walk. And that was where the problem started. Fred didnI 't have any road sense. Or brakes'loved'' this book already.

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaRob Keeley|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isnAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'ts a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, as any parent will tell younot to lecture or hector. But really, why shouldn The ''Childish Spirits''t it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are smallseries is one of his greatest achievements. Why shouldnIt't potty training be as much fun ass a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, sayand Edward, learning about why the sun a spoiled lordling and the moon take turns in the sky? first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= B098BJZYHH1783064617

|isbnauthor=1787634493Jenny Valentine|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that the opportunity would arise for her soneven, Milo, to go on their friendship is a once in a play datelifetime connection. She was concerned that he didnThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't have any friends get each other's contact details at his new schoolthe time. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - But then chance brings them back together, and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterthey are inseparable. What could be better? Only Something has happened though, when Marissa arrived at the housesomething terrible and tragic, expecting to meet Jacob's motherand now they must work through their grief, Jenny, the door was answered by Estherand their friendship, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nannytogether.|isbn=1471196585

|author=Claire NorthKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Notes from the Burning AgeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or FlemingMeet Kit. However, as with Like most of the best novelspeople in his world, it wears many masks and its most affecting one seems, he is that an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a new team of warrior, mage and timely genrehealer enter specially prepared, clicentury-fiold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or climate change fictionthe big bad and the points they grant you along the way. North Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's novel tells seen of a world devastated by climate change where humans have the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been forced to start anew retired, eaten, and live alongside nature without any a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the modern goading from the token bully of his world and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. There is a growing unhappiness with What chance does this limiting worldfriendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims how could he possibly hope to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.succeed?|isbn=03565147571839945184

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Saima Mir|title=Girls Who LieVengeance|rating=3.5

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all I was instantly intrigued by the dark corners premise of Iceland have featured this novel – an organised crime syndicate in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthe north of England run by a Muslim woman. You think, seeing on the map The fact that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from was the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just second in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care few series before her mother had asked for the girl back, (on page and screen) and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at needn't be a high level until hindrance if it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in good enough. And that wasn't a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placeproblem here. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyI never felt lost. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X0861541561

|isbnauthor=B0925KS87NStuart Douglas|title=Dead ManLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's Grave sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (DS Max CraigieJohn Tanner)|author=Neil LancasterDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave It seemed like an open- and it took some finding - shut case. A man, covered in an overgrown old cemeterymud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. It was A body at the bottom of a strange thing for Scotlandfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's premier criminal been stabbed to dodeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but Tam was getting old the words 'perverse' and there 'John Tanner' were things made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he wanted 's determined to dokeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. Only, his family didn}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't hear from him again after heHave to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to read 'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldnYou Don't Have to be opened - Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and his three sons began to worryautobiography. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn''You Don't normally go Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the police work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but they weren't certain where their father had been the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and they were worriedunderstanding.

|author=Emily CritchleyOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5

|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all Anuri spent her childhood on display to the hallmarks world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of something goodAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. I was intrigued by Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the plotcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, liked the design of the bookfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and thought receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the authornew focus of Ophelia's work sounded interestingonline empire. From Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong heresame time?|isbn= 19114270910861546873}}

|author=Sarah LanganDavid Chadwick|title=Good NeighboursHeadload of Napalm

|summary= If youIt're of a certain vintages September 1973 in Hicks, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''California. Maple Street Hicks is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Gertie live Las Vegas both a world apart from the Melbourne suburbssignificant drive away. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a year earlier. They're not quite like all defence contractor are the other families (he's an ex rockermain local employers but otherwise, shethere's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends not much of note other than dive bars and their kids have settled inJoshua trees. Life is quiet, and it's all going okuntil. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211B0D321VJ76

|author=Lisa ThompsonTom Percival|title=The Small ThingsWrong Shoes

|summary=Although Anna has friends at schoolWill's life is difficult, she feels like she never really fits ina multitude of ways. Her family don He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money to let her do after school activitiesfor even the most basic of things like food, and so she feels like her life his dad can't work because he lost his job at home is boring the college, was working a cash-in comparison to theirs-hand job on a building site and had an accident. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked to partner her, but things Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are complicated because the new girlseparated, Ellie, is unwell and so canWill't attend school s life seems bleak in personevery direction. Instead And yet, she joins in with he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the class by using moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a robot. Can Anna overcome light at the challenge end of making friends with someone through a robotlong, and is she even interesting enough to be a good friend to Ellie?dark tunnel.|isbn=17811296491398527122

|isbnauthor=0008350388Sylvie Cathrall|title=We Need A Letter to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagbathe Luminous Deep

|genre=Politics and SocietyScience Fiction|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable There are few greater joys than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by which lives up to a womancompelling premise.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although And this did not translate into a shortage is one 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, Oxfordthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17876318690008517061|title=The Rising TideDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Sam LloydStig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Lucy Locke's early Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life hadn't been easy but she'd built at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a good little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and decent life her daughter Diana, as moving in the aftermath. She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locketogether would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, grid and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point relaxing life to move in with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the child future she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner wants for herself and so-called best friend. her daughter? Nick For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Daniel have a history together from putting the future on the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concernedback burner.

|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1786482126|title=Kate on the CaseThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Kate, although I got Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the impression shesite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'd rather be apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatdoorway. There was no skull. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, and the author of our heroineDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's favourite possessiondifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky fathert, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage pregnant with his child as a train ride to result of the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksone night they spent together some three months ago. HoweverHer condition will be obvious before long, this not least because Ruth is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalistprone to sudden bouts of sickness...|isbn=184812970X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0008551324|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanIt's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in unusual for anyone from the world of Hardie family to approach the Bornpolice. It Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's not been easy, explaining prepared to his foster parents tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he's beenpromises, or slipping back into ordinary life is someone big and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the Merge, but Archie has done remainder of his bestsentence and to get an early parole date.... well Not much to ask, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Benis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's clock tower even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and except for fiddling anyone who works with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak him is kept well awayfrom what's happening.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbn=05713658840008405026|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures A Stranger in Anxietythe Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Georgia PritchettJane Casey|rating=45|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a childIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was never found and the sort of life where if she had nothing investigation ground to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweena halt. On a visit to a therapistNow, her mother, as an adultHelena, and her father are dead in their bed. when she was completely unable to speak Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about what was wrong with the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was suggested that she should write it down going to be an open-and ''My Mess -shut case is now a Bit of a Life: Adventures complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in AnxietyRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent' is the result - or so we s boss, Una Burt) are given to believeless convinced.

|authorisbn=Alex Cotter0571379877|title=The House on the EdgeKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Faith's family home Edward Jevons is teetering on the edge of a cliffworking-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, literallyRobert and Stanza. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope Robert's a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faiththeatre director. He's family. Her dad has disappearedalso self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and her mum is struggling uses Edward to cope, barely leaving her bedrun errands for him. So that leaves Faith Edward has been in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, love with Stanza since their university days - and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what 's drunkenly confided how he claims is a ghost feels to Robert. Most men in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? WhatRobert's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he'll come back if she manages s not like most men: Edward is left to get funding for stumble upon the house? She carries the weight two of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onthem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1788008626

|isbnauthor=0008269041Jo Callaghan|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehouseLeave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=DCI Robin Lyons When a man is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from found crucified on the Met. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left top of a nasty taste hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then sidekick, the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeAI detective Lock. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parentIt's home into their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a rented house but there's still second body found crucified a difficult situation few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with her brother Luke who has gone out a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of his way unwanted attention to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childtheir AI Future Policing project. He's married Will they be able to Nataliesolve the case in time, now or will Kat find herself taken off the case and has , potentially, out of a young child but he's still got it in for Robin.career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=17863323881399613073|title=The First Day of SpringMoral Injuries|author=Nancy TuckerChristie Watson

|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and ''The First Day their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of Spring'' was one such occasiona century. The writing Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is superb and completely compellinga bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. The characterisation Laura is excellent a perfectionist and the plot grips you and won't let goa trauma doctor. So, what's Anjali is the problem? Well, free spirit of the problem is Chrissie, the main charactergroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet her shethem they's just eight years old, small for her age re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and she readily tells us that sheit's just killed someone - a two-year-old boygoing to end in tragedy. SheWe don's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized upt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. There's a clue Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in will impact the book: when will Steven come backthree friends. This time, she wonders? Hasnit't he been dead for long enough?s their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman0241636604|title=The Disappearing ActTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of successsomeone like Gary Stevenson. Great success. If A hoodie and jeans replaces the rumours are true, award season pin-stripe suit and his background is going to treat her wellthe East End, acknowledging her for her latestwhere he was familiar with violence, critically acclaimed productionpoverty and injustice. She's going places There was no posh public school on his CV - but so, unfortunately, he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is her partner. And the places bright - extremely bright - and he's going take him towards lies, deceit and has a pretty young thing in the form facility with numbers which most of his new co-starus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It's was his ability at what was, essentially, a good time for Mia to escapecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusethis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=1471189783

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler1035021803|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the backdrop English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of the English Civil Wara request for help from her beloved aunt, a secret plan (code-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in the summer of 1642Carole. As a loyal servant of the King Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and Head of the Secret Servicecircumstances seem suspicious, it is Robert's duty to uncover say the details of least. Arthur was the plan and follow reason why Freya had not been back to the clues village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to uncover one of be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the most guarded secrets split, she worked in history—especially since a cafe, met and married James (on the plot could affect rebound from the Kinglove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ

|authorisbn=Tasha SuriAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Jasmine ThroneAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary= On ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the night shape of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother and refuses to step on things to the pyrecome. She '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is immediately sent what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to be imprisoned on me but I'm left with the Hirana: an ancient temple feeling that was once filled with a community of people who got powers it's all getting away from the mysterious deathless watersme. But now the temple Some of it is nothing more than an overgrown, decaying ruin- frankly - quite frightening. One day Of course, Malini witnesses a girl kill I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone with magicwho knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Instead of reporting her for such I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a gruesome crime, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl to become her own personal maidservantway I could understand.|isbn=0356515648

|isbnauthor=B088YWF5BCSunny Singh|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane CorryHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on The Hotel Arcadia is a council estate luxury hotel in Kent and an unnamed city that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have has suddenly been violently taken over by a loving, stable familyterrorist group. When we first meet herHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, she can't sleep because her sonkilling everyone on site, Freddiethere is Sam, who's nearly sixteena wartime photographer and Abhi, hasn't come home by the time he sort of half-promised he'd be in byhotel manager. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the morning but hotel, he's still going forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, thoughcowed by events, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that hekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's killed someone.}}{{Frontpage|author=Joseph Knox|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from happened through her university halls of residencephotography. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through Although they only ever talk over the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionalsphone, such their friendship grows as the police. The various accounts Abhi tries to help the reader get her keep safe and they both wait 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=0857527703}}{{Frontpage|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=No, No, No!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=They say the best picture books see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. ''No, No, No!'' is based around the simplest text imaginable. ''No, no, no! Okay, okay. Yes, you may.'' That's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outsideterrorists.|isbn=1638820457086154742X

|authorisbn=Monica Connell1529153298|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her PhIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister.D (A woman? I mean, honestly. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. ) She went on a grant-supported trip's not what's worrying Miv's family, with a relatively specific objectivethough. Women have been disappearing. She wasn Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-lasound quite so frightening. She wasn Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South't a mere tourist passing through. She went with When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they livedfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She also went For Miv, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to find these things out, how to organise them in move would mean leaving her mindbest friend, how to "understand" them in the context of her own paradigmsSharon, and how she'll do anything to keep enough notes and files and photos to help prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, she also went with a sense of openMum's stopped talking -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 upanyone.|isbn=1780600429

|isbn=14091816691398524085|title=The MaidensHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Alex MichaelidesNicci French

|summary=Mariana Charlotte Salter was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Marianaexpected at her husband's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, fiftieth birthday party but she caught the first fast train from King's Crossnever turned up. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husbandHer children, Sebastiansons Niall, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother Paul and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Maisie Chan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Danny is eleven years old, Ollie and what he reallyher daughter, really loves to do is drawEtty. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. 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 Danny's bedroom are all worried but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being - strangely - her babysitterhusband, and showing her around the town. Poor DannyAlec, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|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 for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websnot. People like our hero Shortly afterwards, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K Etty and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the gameGreg, and have studied amongst many things find the most unique body of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time itGreg's different. This time the game seems the most dangerousfather, nay lethalDuncan Ackerley, in the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwiseriver. Unfortunately It was an easy assumption for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only police to find out make that the line between observing Duncan had murdered Charlie and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932}}{{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didncommitted suicide when he couldn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''stand the mainland''guilt. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, The Salter children are not every book convinced but there's little else they can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just do but get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, on with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitlives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=152941198X