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|isbnauthor=1901514978Jenny Lecoat|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5

|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he can't really understand whyJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. HeDuring the war, Jean's always done everything he ought father was arrested for listening to: steady workera banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, husband leaving Jean and father - and a father who was always there her mother waiting for years for school plays and sports daysnews of him. So why As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is he never quite in tune with those around finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him? . Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such But will the truth come as a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work relief, or to relate to his colleagueswill it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffesWho was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? It's almost become a cliche these days to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on And what other secrets have been kept throughout the spectrum', but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autism.occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish1529428289|title=The HeightsA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on siteBecause of various property transactions, visiting a client people were searching for a lighting consultation the grave but when she spies him in a building across they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the way. There are lots Chief of thingsPolice for St Denis, lots to discover the identities of people, you might see when you look out across London, but the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't one Ellen expected enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had St Denis faces the possibility of a hand in his murderdevastating flood.|isbn=1471183483

|isbn=0008421714152919640X|title=Mrs MarchThe Suspect|author=Virginia FeitoRob Rinder

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George Marchnation's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on the last page) seemed to either be reading television and it or had already done soseems that there's only one suspect. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time he's based a character on you?'' must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She mentioned that Johanna, the principal character had 'her mannerisms''s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Perhaps this would not have matteredEverything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, except for the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes live television studio - ''and Brooks served a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretchragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.''

|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. 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's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}}{{Frontpage|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 fact that it was the map that wesecond in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I're set in Akranes, ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and finding itneedn's only twenty kilometres from 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, t be a hindrance if it's not just in Akranes good enough. And that our interests liewasn't a problem here. Six months ago a woman failed Vengeance swiftly brings you up to turn up for her date eveningspeed, and was I never seen againfelt lost. This left a teenaged girl not |isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the girl back, and dead body of a couple woman on the edge of delighted adoptersa reservoir. But The police seem happy to assign it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one placeas an accidental death, but something about the woman's car was found miles away in a second placewhole thing bothers Lowe, and now, after six months, he enlists the body has been discovered, in help of a thirdfellow actor, even more remote placeJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. MeanwhileThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodylink to death during the Second World War. Is the assumption that But is so easy for there really a link between the reader deaths? And will they manage to make the right oneuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=191319373X1803368209

|isbn=B0925KS87NB0CYV674G2|title=Dead Man's Grave 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 to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted been stabbed to dodeath. OnlyDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his family didn't hear from him again after daughter Samantha. You would think he'd said that hebe grateful for an easy answer but the words 'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldnperverse't be opened - and his three sons began to worry'John Tanner' were made for each other. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldnHe't normally go s sleep-deprived to the police point of falling asleep at work but they werenhe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't certain where their father had been and they were worriedget any sleep at home.

|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Emily CritchleyBenji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=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=The Tiny Gestures This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of Small Flowersa psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=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 cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to work and he needs his sleeptry to capture what's happened through her photography. He wakesAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, though, when Freddie does come in their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someonethey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1529153298|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 her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. 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=0857527703}}{{Frontpage|author=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=No, No, No!|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest ones. And nothing could be truer List 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 outside.|isbn=1638820457}}{{FrontpageSuspicious Things|author=Monica Connell|title=Against a Peacock SkyJennie 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 bothexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. She needed to think carefully about what she knew Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and decide how she should proceedher daughter, Etty. Everything are all worried but - or so she thought strangely - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's nieceher husband, ZoeAlec, had telephoned her in distressis not. Tara had been her best friend Shortly afterwards, Etty and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to CambridgeGreg, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all find the more so by the death body of MarianaGreg's husbandfather, SebastianDuncan Ackerley, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierthe river. Zoe It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother murdered Charlie 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, and what then committed suicide when he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Dannycouldn's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about t stand 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 peaceguilt. 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 The Salter children are not only be sharing Dannyconvinced but there's bedroom little else they can do but she will also be sleeping get 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 her babysitter, and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, their lives and then he even has a falling out with Raviwonder about what really happened...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X