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|isbnauthor=1787332098Max Boucherat|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''When we do think about animalss got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, we break them down into species and groups: cowsbabysitter poorly, dogsmother at work, foxesjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, elephants and so onher lonesome. And we assign them places in society: cows What could possibly go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes wrong? Snuggled in rubbish binsa blanket fort, elephants in zoosshe has one main intention, and millions of wild animals stay out therethat is to log on to Voxminer, ''somewherethe world-building,critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argues world. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldnBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't consider eating red meat...) find herself entirely on her own, and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of itshe finds something even more spooky. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - For the server she and her bestie and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had nobody else should be able to choose between the company enter shows signs of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animalstampering. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheeseWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, eggsand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, chicken and fish and I needed where is a girl to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Ananda DeviJenny Lecoat|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsBeyond Summerland

|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the shortest books I've read in a long whileoccupation. During the war, but itJean's father was arrested for listening to a 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 most dramaticNazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. It's also told in But will the truth come as a way that I can only describe as brutal: relief, or will it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, 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 descriptions stark and unromantic.occupation?|isbn=09930093441846976537}}

|isbn=02419851371529428289|title=The Whole Truth A Grave in the Woods (D I FawleyA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Cara HunterMartin Walker|rating=54

|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstBecause of various property transactions, called there by Jancis Appleby to see people were searching for the Principalgrave but when they found it, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation it came with three sets of sexual assault by a professor on a studentbones. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the alleged perpetrator doing in Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the room before they'd even got identities of the details from the victim? bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'As if this isn' t enough to worry about, the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina FisherDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Just to complicate matters further, CalebIt's mother is Petra Newson, not just the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by autumn rains that have caused the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month problem: various dams upstream on clothes another river have had to release water and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When St Denis faces the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' publicpossibility of a devastating flood.

|isbn=0753558378152919640X|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersThe Suspect|author=Greg McKeownRob Rinder

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=The nation''The marginal return of working harder wass favourite daytime TV presenter, in factJessica Holby, negative.'' Thatwas murdered live on television and it seems that there's what happened to Patrick McGinnisonly one suspect. ItHe's no exaggeration to say celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only must not serve anything containing miso to find that he was working for a bankrupt companyJessica Holby. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health She's seriously allergic and his job had little valuecarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. He made Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a bargain with God; if he survivedbusy, he would make some changeslive television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. He did survive Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and came through stronger - and richershe was dead within minutes. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breakIt was soon clear that this was no accident.''

|isbn=14711814050008385068|title=NighthawkingThe Midnight Feast|author=Russ ThomasLucy Foley

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://wwwmidsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you It'd like to visit) s their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discoveredpromised. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have started to dig her 's all headed up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsby Francesca Meadows. The police need to establish who stabbed Manor was her - ancestral home and who left she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the twowealthy and famous. Her husband, very rareOwen, gold aurei was the architect and work is still ongoing on her eyesparts of the site. DCI Diane Jordan The heat is oppressive and amongst the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers guests are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbanienemies as well as friends. TheyOld scores are going to be settled and it won're joined by DS Guy Daley who's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriest be long before a body is found.

|author= Jennifer Saint Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title= Ariadne Wild East|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction Teens|summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur Written in verse, this is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the Ronny's story in , a way that is sympathetic young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to its origins but also appealing move to Norwich and start at a modern audiencemostly white school. Saint The move is initiated by Ronny's narrative mum who is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadneworried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, spanning from her childhood and so Ronny finds himself trying to her deathsettle in a new town, allowing the reader a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to really connect with Ariadne as music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a character rapper. But now, in her own right rather than just this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a prop in poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the heroics power of Theseuscreativity and crafting your words. |isbn=14722738690241645441}}

|authorisbn=Gianna Pollero and Sarah Horne1635866847|title=Monster DoughnutsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedIt's strange, Grace and Danni have been left to run the family bakerythings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. But Grace needs Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reasonauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm..even though shecom/ website] and there's only ten years old, she is a monster hunter! Monsters have a very sweet tooth, and Grace uses picture of a number slice of methods to defeat them such as throwing baking powder chocolate cake on them, or tricking them into eating a sweet treat the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that will, ultimately, be their demisecake viscerally. One day, though, Grace finds herself facing (There's a cyclops monster called Mr Harrisrecipe in the book, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesnwhich I't seem m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to explode as make a mess of it. Notes in the other monsters do, and so margins are sanctioned. things start You get to get very strange…|isbn=1848129432fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|isbnauthor=0995647895Rob Keeley|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=SadieAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's mother always said that she was a dreamerball of happy positivity, her mind never on what she should be doing. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and she loves enjoyment, not to spend hours at The Maritime Museum lecture or gazing at Cutty Sarkhector.

The ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoonChildish Spirits''<br>''When all the houses cowered in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''. Her imagination was firedseries is one of his greatest achievements. SheIt'd love to sail the oceans s a sequence of ghost stories centring on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under Ellie, a glass case (it's stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the one where Nelson's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shout. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure that she could never have imagined in a spirit world of dolphinsthrows at her, piratesand Edward, mermaids a spoiled lordling and treasure.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|author=Kristen O'NealJenny Valentine|title=Lycanthropy Us in the Before and Other Chronic IllnessesAfter

|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseElk and Mab are best friends, Priya has to come to terms with the fact or more than that she may be even, their friendship is a once in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesseslifetime connection. They talk about their troubles and help each other meet as children one day on a trip out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesnbut unfortunately they don't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigidget each other's house to check up on hercontact details at the time. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – then chance brings them back together, and for that werewolf to be the girl she they are inseparable. Something has been talking to online for the past few monthshappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=16836923491471196585

|author=Mercedes HelnweinKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=SlingshotDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonelyMeet Kit. As Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a secret illegitimate daughter team of a man warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with a "real" familythe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, she is used to not being a priority in peoplethe only thing he's lives. But when she defends seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence new trio of questors is changed needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitudeKit, for her life now he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a boy team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in it actually managing that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=152905818X1839945184

|isbnauthor=B005FM76AASaima Mir|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=The story opens to probably I was instantly intrigued by the worst news premise of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Duke north of Omnium, is nearly paralysed England run by grief and struggling - at a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even second in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none of them wishes to a series I hadn't read didn'bet stop me – I'' guided. Silverbridge ve jumped midway into a few series before (his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his titleon page and screen) and Gerald are destined to it needn't be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sumsa hindrance if it's good enough. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son of And that wasn't a poor squire, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencoraproblem here. He's about Vengeance swiftly brings you up to learn that parents do not always get their wayspeed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=Goldy MoldavskyStuart Douglas|title=The Last GirlLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnDuring location filming for his 1970't belong. Shes sitcom 's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, Floggit and most of allLeggit', she spends leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the majority dead body of her spare time watching horror movies as a source woman on the edge of comforta reservoir. She struggles The police seem happy to find anyone to connect withassign it as an accidental death, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off but something about the best prank in true horror movie stylewhole thing bothers Lowe, and unless someone screamshe enlists the help of a fellow actor, you have failedJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in They travel across the competition. But as the pranks escalatecountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; seemingly, a masked figure keeps showing up link to death during the pranks, and people begin to get hurtSecond World War. When But is there really a link between the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out deaths? And will they manage to uncover who this masked figure is responsible before it's too late.more people lose their lives?|isbn=07555015271803368209

|authorisbn=Polly BartonB0CYV674G2|title=Fifty SoundsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while It seemed like an open-and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowshut case. I may get there later this yearA man, but I am not hopeful. And like Bartoncovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, I doncomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't know killed the answer to man. A body at the question bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essays been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which is on coincided with the sound birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'giroperverse' and 'John Tanner' – which she describes as being, among were made for each other things, . He's sleep-deprived to the sound point of falling asleep at work but he''every party where you have s determined to introduce yourself'keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1913097501

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland1787333175|title=SistersongYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=Literary FictionPopular Science|summary=Sistersong I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is part Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of a genre I particularly enjoy, insight into the modern retelling workings of folk and fairy tales. These storiesthe NHS, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood humour and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspectiveautobiography. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning ''You Don't Have to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of womenbe Mad... Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, '' promised the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel same elements but allowing the characters moved from physical problems to come to life, to feel real mental illness and human, most importantly they feel relatable in the work of a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the pre-Saxon age they live in. This laughter is directed at a masterpiece of storytelling situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and I was captivated from beginning to endunderstanding.|isbn=1529039037

|isbnauthor=1529124255Onyi Nwabineli|title=The WhispersAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri 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's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. 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 content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=Heidi PerksDavid Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm

|summary=We know straight away that thereIt's going to be September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a body. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the Mojave desert town of Clearwater a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and it's new year's dayLas Vegas both a significant drive away. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous SeptemberNot much happens in Hicks. Grace Goodwin has A silver mine and a soft Australian accent - shedefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's lived there since her teens not much of note other than dive bars and nowJoshua trees. Life is quiet, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to liveuntil. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Sarah SultoonTom Percival|title=The SourceWrong Shoes|rating=2.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives Will's life is difficult, in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military basemultitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', struggling to care he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings even the most basic of things like food , and treatshis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and offers had an exclusive invitation accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to army partiesthe moments of joy when he is drawing, things start that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to look a little less bleak.compelling premise.And this is one of them.|isbn=19131935940356522776

|isbn=B004O37B6A0008517061|title=The Prime MinisterDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Anthony TrollopeStig Abell

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet PalliserFormer Metropolitan Police detective, the Duke of OmniumJake Johnson, is the prime minister of a coalition government but he's privately enraged has settled into his rustic life at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand LopezLittle Sky. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewish, others as Portuguese but There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is not going to explain. The ladies future of societyhis life with his vet girlfriend, even Palliser's own wifeLivia and her daughter Diana, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed as moving in the position together would mean a lot of having to support compromise: does Jake give up his wife's actions when Lopez loses a byoff-election. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses grid and relaxing life to move in an attempt with Livia or does Livia move to stem gossip Little Sky despite her reservations about his wife will come whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back to haunt himburner.

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass1786482126|title=The High HouseJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to pass on its genetic material with hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsbones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. However Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favourDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Today It's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parentsdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn' parents did not seem to think t, that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a she is pregnant with his child and living in as a world on result of the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrassone night they spent together some three months ago. This is Her condition will be obvious before long, not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This least because Ruth is the life our children and their children will have prone to livesudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=1800750072

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan0008551324|title=Madame BurovaThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedpolice. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting 's prepared to become tell the police where the body of a singer, missing person is buried and chieflywho was responsible for her death. This person, Imeldahe promises, is someone big and 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 third generation remainder of Madame Burovahis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she'Tarots even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -Reader, Palmist make certain that DS Max Craigie and Clairvoyantanyone who works with him is kept well away from what'', to use her familys happening.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's seasixteen years since nine-front boothyear-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. The singer, the scryer She was never found and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at investigation ground to a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallhalt. We also see Now, her on her last daymother, fifty years laterHelena, and her father are dead in possession of their bed. Initially, it looks like a pair straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of letters the bodies that will change everything for makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a woman called Billiecomplex double murder. Just who Kerrigan is she, and who delivered convinced that the secrets about her to Imeldaexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331XUna Burt) are less convinced.

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud0571379877|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneKellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Scarlett McCain Edward Jevons is an outlawa working-class young man, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britainobsessed with his upper-class friends, robbing banks Robert and shooting other outlaws to keep herself aliveStanza. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and Robert's a darker pasttheatre director. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down He's also self-obsessed, demanding, they plan handsome and entitled and uses Edward to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoonrun errands for him. Together, they must brave man Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days -eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society he's drunkenly confided how he feels to reach the Free Isles, Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but will they be any more accepted there than they are in he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the rest two of Britain?|isbn=1406394815them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SJo Callaghan|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalLeave No Trace

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy When a man is feeling miserablefound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. He It's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, their first live case together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have having previously been laughing at Remyvery successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, calling him names because he Kat is short suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and has small eyesa very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. They are mean but Will they are not stupid. They are careful be able to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when solve the other kids are around. So, when Remy reactscase in time, it looks as though he was or will Kat find herself taken off the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school case and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=B00474HVX41399613073|title=Phineas ReduxMoral Injuries|author=Anthony TrollopeChristie Watson

|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income and returned bonus when you aim to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. He was fortunate to get Laura is a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) perfectionist and seemed settled into a life trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of domesticitythe group and she becomes a GP. To bring Finn back, Trollope had When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges end in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt tragedy. We don't know who died at just suffered the right time to allow tragedy or the move to consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be possiblean eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz0241636604|title=The Other EmilyTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Our hero David Thorne is If you were to bring up an authorimage of a city banker in your mind, who shares his life between the two US coastsyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. It's A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the western coast we're concerned withEast End, a place where he has to return towas familiar with violence, poverty and a place he has to be able to leaveinjustice. David lost contact with There was no posh public school on his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at nightCV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. He's paying for contact with the man Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. David is trying He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availbe stupid. He's also having a recharge ready for It was his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageability at what was, the very embodimentessentially, the virtual resurrection, of his lovea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. What is Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a man to do?|isbn=1542019958trader.

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1035021803|title=The LipAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'Melody Janie Rowes back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole' s close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. even Arthur was the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be, and maybe that's near the man or pursue the pointprofession she loved. To me After the name sings of English folk musicsplit, but even she worked in my use a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of that word Englishher life, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetwho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. |isbn=1529334179

|authorisbn=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when come.''poof I've heard it said that ' everything goes blank. And ittechnology's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping theyis what happens after you're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeeighteen. Toasters can toastWell, but TVs cannot do the V part I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of their job, and no computer can show its computationstechnology in my lifetime. You might think this is going I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, me but no. For I'm left with the family finally remember Stellafeeling that it's grandma, and see if they can get across country to herall getting away from me. Hence this has to go down as a roadSome of it is - frankly -trip bookquite frightening. But not just thatOf course, a slapstick road-trip comedyI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. And more than that, too – for it's I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will loveway I could understand.|isbn=1471196887

|isbnauthor=1913193527Sunny Singh|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)|author=Vanda SymonHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers |summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of the murder of The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffterrorist group. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced to watch Hiding from the murderterrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, with the scene being discovered by their sonthere is Sam, Declana wartime photographer and Abhi, when he returned home from an evening outthe hotel manager. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegal. His companythe hotel, Eros Globalhe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind keeps on venturing out of thing'her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedAbhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=15291091161529153298|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's JourneyThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Hannah JacksonJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=It''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who s 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is proudly employed in feeding the nationPrime Minister. (A woman? I don't think that is too much to askmean, honestly...) She's not what' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his's worrying Miv' s family , though. Women have farmed for generationsbeen disappearing. HeWell, they's probably grown up without giving much thought as ve been murdered, but to what he really wants to do: he knows that hehave 'disappeared' doesn'll be a farmert sound quite so frightening. ItMiv's upset because she's not always overheard that her father wants to move the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: shefamily 'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although sheDown South'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become When you'Dr Jacksonre from Yorkshire, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on Down South is a family holiday to the Lake Districtfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. She saw a lamb being born andFor Miv, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of move would mean leaving her original intentionbest friend, Sharon, and she knew 'll do anything to prevent that she wanted to be a shepherd. With She's not worried about the determination dangers or that youher Mum'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitions stopped talking - to anyone.