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|author=Erling KaggeJenny Lecoat|title=Walking: One Step At A Time|rating=5|genre= Lifestyle|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why). Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents' page and I haven't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages long. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705}}{{Frontpage|author=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=Monster Hunting For Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942}}{{Frontpage|author=Keith Gray|title=The ClimbersBeyond Summerland

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sully is Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the best tree climber in end of the villageoccupation. He has what During the war, Jean's known amongst the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when father was arrested for listening to a new kid shows up in town? A new kidbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, called Nottingham, who clambers up some leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully is worried that his status is being threatenedNazis, and not only thatthe war is finally over, their hopes rise that his chance to name they will finally learn what became of him. But will the finaltruth come as a relief, unnamed big tree in or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the park by being informer who told the first to conquer it, might be snatched from his hands. How can Sully stop NottinghamNazis about the radio? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do sowhat other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=17811299911846976537

|authorisbn=Emma Carroll1529428289|title=The Week at World's EndA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=FirstBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the titlegrave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. We're in They dated back to World's End CloseWar II and it fell to Bruno, a mediocre set the Chief of housesPolice for St Denis, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with discover the identities of the family dog bodies and with the boy over the roadestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. But we could also be at World As if this isn's Endt enough to worry about, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the fact local autumn rains that have caused the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, release water and not much else is able to make St Denis faces the news. That said, Vie has news possibility of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at riskdevastating flood. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438

|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston152919640X|title=Julia and the SharkThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=JuliaThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, our pre-teen heroineJessica Holby, has been packed off with her parents was murdered live on television and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, it seems that kind of Scottish islandthere's only one suspect. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkJessica Holby. And Julia, well, she will be homesick She's seriously allergic and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightcarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Sampson|title=The Last Library|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan Everything seemed as normal -wearing, hair as normal as they can be in a bunbusy, catlive television studio -owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own Brooks served a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she didragout to Holby. Her mum used EpiPen was nowhere to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University found and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old bookswas dead within minutes. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=183877369X

|isbn=00083709820008385068|title=Rock Paper ScissorsThe Midnight Feast|author=Alice FeeneyLucy Foley

|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her a weekend away in a converted chapel in Scotland. Her husband, Adam, isnIt't so keen s midsummer on the ideaDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Like Amelia, he knows that their marriage has been under strain: heIt's a screenwriter their opening weekend and hesplendid celebrations are promised. It's never shy of making it clear to Amelia that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping to adapt than with herall headed up by Francesca Meadows. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how The Manor was her day has been - ancestral home and working with the dogs, many of whom have been abused, is never easy. Still - she's won the weekend away, even if converted it does mean driving into an impressive retreat for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - wealthy and then doing the same thing to come back a couple of days laterfamous.}}{{Frontpage|author=Doug Johnstone|title=The Great Silence|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=For those who Her husband, like meOwen, haven't come across was the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job architect and work is still ongoing on parts of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about itsite. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it The heat is merely oppressive and amongst the surname of a family of undertakersguests are enemies as well as friends. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping Old scores are going to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed be settled and now involved with it won't be long before a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, body is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next termfound.|isbn=1913193837

|isbnauthor=1901514978Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaWild East

|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Life Written in verse, this is different for George Lovelace Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and he can't really understand whystart at a mostly white school. HeThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's always done everything he ought safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to: steady workersettle in a new town, a new school, husband and father - keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a father who was always there for school plays and sports daysrapper. So why is he never quite But now, in tune with those around this new school, his teacher encourages him? Why does he upset people? Why is someone with such a ''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleagues? Why does he make so many breath-taking gaffes? It's almost become be part of a cliche these days poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to suggest that someone who is a little different is 'on see the spectrum'connections between rap and poetry, but George Lovelace has all and the symptoms power of Asperger's Syndrome: high-functioning autismcreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish1635866847|title=The HeightsLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Ellen doesnIt't expect to see Kieran s strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that daythis is the book for you. She Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's on site, visiting a client for picture of a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across slice of chocolate cake on the wayhomepage. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn I don't one Ellen expected eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that day or cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Ellen knows this for I was told to make a fact, because she had mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a hand in his murderproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1471183483

|isbnauthor=0008421714Rob Keeley|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=The problem began just after the publication Around here, we're big fans of George Marchchildren's most successful novel to dateauthor Rob Keeley. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to either be reading it lecture or had already done sohector. Every day Mrs March went to the local patisserie to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia asked, as she was wrapping the bread,  The ''Childish Spirits'but isn't this the first time heseries is one of his greatest achievements. It's based a character sequence of ghost stories centring on you?'' She mentioned that JohannaEllie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the principal character had 'spirit world throws at her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have mattered, except for and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the fact that Johanna is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=John BoyneJenny Valentine|title=The Echo ChamberUs in the Before and After

|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book once in 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 withlifetime connection. They have three meet as children, who are one day on 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 worldtrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's homeless with out-of-date foodcontact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingthey are inseparable. Add in a few other characters – therapists Something has happened though, lawyerssomething terrible and tragic, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his lifeand now they must work through their grief, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even moretheir friendship, however, is the fact this is bloody funnytogether.|isbn=08575262191471196585

|isbnauthor=0241989094Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=In August 2018 we meet I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a young Muslim woman called Imogen and she. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I's viewing ve jumped midway into a house in Goring-few series before (on-Thames page and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie screen) and Barclay. The boys are a bit of it needn't be a handful which is why shehindrance if it's making this trip on her owngood enough. And that wasn't a problem here. The house would be perfect for themVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}

It{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's the same month but now wesitcom 're in Wimbledon Floggit and we encounter Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the same young dead body of a womanon the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sisterhe enlists the help of a fellow actor, Georgie'sJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, spare roomuncovering more possible murders and, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriendseemingly, Connora 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

|authorisbn=Darren ShanB0CYV674G2|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=SoIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Having done A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the impossible and unpicked man. A body at the lock bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to the Forgotten Cryptdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, from which coincided with the Departed communicate with birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Merge, Archie now has words 'perverse'gropand 'John Tanner' to think aboutwere made for each other. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much He's sleep-deprived to Inezthe point of falling asleep at work but he's amusement, doesndetermined to keep going - probably because he can't even know what one of those isget any sleep at home. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbn=B07GZ81J7C1787333175|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Peter CottonBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingPopular Science|summary=Meet Fred. Well, actually, youI was tempted to read ''You Don're going t Have to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quickly. But IMad to Work Here''m getting ahead of myself: Iafter enjoying Adam Kay'd better tell you s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a bit more about Fredglorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. Fred is a snake and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going ''You Don't Have to warm to himbe Mad... He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe and immediately became part of '' promised the family, same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for work of a walkpsychiatrist. And that I did wonder whether it was where acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the problem started. Fred didn't have any road sense. Or brakeslaughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaOnyi Nwabineli|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isnAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'ts childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, as any parent will tell youbasically, monetary gain. But really Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, why shouldn't it be? We all have suing her step-mother to learn take down the content about our bodily functions just as we have her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to learn about everything else when we are smallstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Why shouldn't potty training be as much fun as Most importantly, sayshe is desperately worried about her little sister, learning about why who is the sun new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the moon take turns in the skysame time? |isbn= B098BJZYHH0861546873

|isbnauthor=1787634493David Chadwick|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea MaraHeadload of Napalm

|summary=It had seemed like one 's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on LA and Las Vegas both a play datesignificant drive away. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new schoolNot much happens in Hicks. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob - A silver mine and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at defence contractor are the housemain local employers but otherwise, expecting to meet Jacobthere's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esthernot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, who didn't know Jenny or Jacobuntil. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Claire NorthTom Percival|title=Notes from the Burning AgeThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=At its core Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'Notes From the Burning Agewrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations t work and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with doesn't have enough money for even the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that basic of a new things like food, and timely genrehis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, cliwas working a cash-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of in-hand job on a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew building site and live alongside nature without any of had an accident. Throw into that mix the modern fact that his mum and dad are separated, and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelsWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, weapons he still has a tiny amount of mass destruction, intensive farming)hope. There He is a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldgood at art, and one groupclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the Brotherhoodend of a long, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthdark tunnel.|isbn=03565147571398527122

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Sylvie Cathrall|title=Girls Who LieA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the There are few final straws left. However just because the greater joys than a book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed which lives up to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopterscompelling premise. But 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 place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, And 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 bodyone of them. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X0356522776

|isbn=B0925KS87N0008517061|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Neil LancasterStig Abell

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding - in an overgrown old cemeteryFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. It was There’s perhaps a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to dolittle uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, but Tam was getting old Livia and there were things he wanted to do. Onlyher daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave off- grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - future she wants for herself and his three sons began to worry. her daughter? Tam Junior, Frankie For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Dave wouldn't normally go to putting the future on the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worriedback burner.

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1786482126|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the hallmarks bones of something gooda child beneath a doorway. I There was intrigued by the plotno skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, liked the design that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the bookone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, and thought the author's work sounded interestingnot least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}}

|authorisbn=Sarah Langan0008551324|title=Good NeighboursThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, itIt's hard unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to read approach the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''police. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from Neither side likes or has any respect for the Melbourne suburbsother. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved But Davie Hardie is struggling in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (prison and he's an ex rocker, she's prepared to tell the police where the body of a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends missing person is buried and their kids have settled inwho was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and it's all going okwill be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Until Not much to ask, is it isn? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. Itthink so and she's a revolting mess of dirt even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst anyone who works with him is yet to comekept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1789098211

|authorisbn=Lisa Thompson0008405026|title=The Small ThingsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in. Her family donIt't have enough money to let s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her do after school activities, bed one summer night. She was never found and so she feels like her life at home is boring in comparison the investigation ground to theirsa halt. When a new girl joins her class Now, Anna is asked to partner hermother, but things are complicated because the new girlHelena, Ellie, is unwell and so can't attend school her father are dead in persontheir bed. Instead Initially, she joins in with the class by using it looks like a robot. Can Anna overcome straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the challenge positioning of making friends with someone through a robot, the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and is she even interesting enough her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=00083503880571379877|title=We Need to Talk About MoneyThe Kellerby Code|author=Otegha UwagbaJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''To be Edward Jevons is a darkworking-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirableclass young man, less hireableobsessed with his upper-class friends, less intelligent Robert and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts..Stanza.'' Robert''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 s a womantheatre director.'' He''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to the UK from Kenya when she was five years oldrun errands for him. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, Edward has been in love with her father joining them later. The family was hardStanza since their university days -working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possiblehe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. There was always Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a painful awareness of money although this did relationship had begun between them but he's not translate into a shortage of anythinglike most men: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten Edward is left to stumble upon the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school two of them kissing in London and then a place at New College, Oxforddark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1787631869Jo Callaghan|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam LloydLeave No Trace

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built When a man is found crucified on the top of a good and decent life hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the aftermathcase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. SheIt's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they their first live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billiecase together, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the child she had having previously been very successful with Danielseveral cold cases. They have financial difficultiesBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and so-called best frienda very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Nick and Daniel have a history together from Will they be able to solve the case in 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 Lucyor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, or moneypotentially, is concerned.out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1399613073|title=Kate on the CaseMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet KateOlivia, although I got Laura and Anjali met on the impression she'd rather be first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatcentury. For Catherine Rodriguez Olivia is Kate's idolruthlessly ambitious, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with which is a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped bonus when you aim to manage be a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonkscardiothoracic surgeon. However, this Laura is a train ride with perfectionist and a difference, for on board trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, GP. When we first meet them they're at a thief – drug and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blinkalcohol-fuelled party and-youit's going to end in tragedy. We don'llt know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-miss-them stylefive years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. ItThis time, it's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalisttheir teenage children who are involved...|isbn=184812970X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0241636604|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten CryptThe Trading Game: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=The second trilogy If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in Shanyour mind, you's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the world of pin-stripe suit and his background is the Born. It's not been easyEast End, explaining to his foster parents where he's beenwas familiar with violence, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his other friends in CV - but he had been to the Merge, but Archie London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has done his besta 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 ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank.. well Eventually, 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 awaythis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbn=05713658841035021803|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in AnxietyThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Georgia PritchettC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary=Georgia Pritchett It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has always been anxiousback to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, even as a childCarole. She would worry about whether Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the monsters under circumstances seem suspicious, to say the bed were comfortable: it least. Arthur was the sort of life where if she reason why Freya had nothing not been back to worry about the village: Arthur, she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far betweenfeels, let her down badly. On a visit to a therapist, Even though they were in business together as an adultantique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. when After the split, she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her it life, who was suggested that she should write it down murdered) and Freya and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believeJames have now divorced.

|authorisbn=Alex CotterAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The House on the EdgeAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the edge shape of a cliff, literallythings to come. Is '' I've heard it said that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so 'technology' is Faithwhat happens after you's familyre eighteen. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope Well, barely leaving her bed. So I must confess that leaves Faith there have been more than a few decades of technology in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachersmy lifetime. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed I've kept up reasonably well with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened advantageous to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe heme but I'll come back if she manages to get funding for m left with the house? She carries the weight feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of all these worries on her constantlyit is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and she doesnend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they't know how much longer re talking about or the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping onlatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1788008626

|isbnauthor=0008269041Sunny Singh|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehouseHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=DCI Robin Lyons The Hotel Arcadia is back a luxury hotel in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Metan unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. She might have been reinstated but Hiding from the whole episode left terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a nasty taste in her mouthwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. She was now working As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She refuses to be cowed by events, and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved keeps on venturing out of her parentroom to try to capture what's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with happened through her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childphotography. He's married Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to Natalie, now help her keep safe and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robinthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17863323881529153298|title=The First Day List of SpringSuspicious Things|author=Nancy TuckerJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sometimes It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - and mean, honestly...) She's not what'The First Day of Springs worrying Miv'' was one such occasions family, though. The writing is superb and completely compellingWomen have been disappearing. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and wonWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't let gosound quite so frightening. So, whatMiv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the problem? family 'Down South'. WellWhen you're from Yorkshire, the problem Down South is Chrissiea frightening, foreign place, the main characterbest avoided. When we first meet For Miv, the move would mean leaving her she's just eight years oldbest friend, Sharon, small for her age and she readily tells us 'll do anything to prevent that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boy. She's completely cold not worried about what shethe dangers or that her Mum's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing stopped talking - suffocating - her hands seized upto anyone. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1398524085|title=The Disappearing ActHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of successCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Great success. If the rumours are true Her children, award season is going to treat her wellsons Niall, acknowledging Paul and Ollie and her for her latestdaughter, critically acclaimed productionEtty. She's going places are all worried but so- strangely - her husband, unfortunatelyAlec, is her partnernot. And Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the places hebody of Greg's going take him towards liesfather, Duncan Ackerley, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-starriver. It's a good time was an easy assumption for Mia the police to escape, make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and pilot season in LA provides just then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the excuseguilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.|isbn=1471189783