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|isbnauthor=0241985137Max Boucherat|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name in Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' public.}}{{Frontpage|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense Last Life of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|isbn=1108838936}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635862353|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryLori Mills

|genre=CraftsConfident Readers|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that youWe meet Lori on the first evening she'd need more equipment than s got the average home was likely house to be able herself – no neighbour to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- a small fire destroyed some of breaking eleven year old, on her shoeslonesome. One pair had come apart What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and she could see how that is to log on to Voxminer, the sandal was constructedworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Then she realised But first Lori has a tiny inkling that she couldnthis stormy night doesn't afford to replace all find herself entirely on her shoesown, and then she finds something even more spooky. Could For the server she combine these two facts to create a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair bestie and they all either wanted nobody else should be able to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pairenter shows signs of tampering. A new career was born.When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|isbnauthor=1787332098Jenny Lecoat|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry ManceBeyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so Jean lives on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriesoccupation. During the war, Jean'' I s father was going arrested for listening to argue. I meana banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, cows are leaving Jean and her mother waiting for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling years for the sake news of ithim. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between As the British finally free the Channel islands from the company of humans Nazis, and the company of animalswar is finally over, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted their hopes rise that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctantthey will finally learn what became of him. I eat cheeseBut will the truth come as a relief, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? I suspected that making And what other secrets have been kept throughout the decision would not be comfortable.occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|authorisbn=Ananda Devi1529428289|title=Eve Out A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Her RuinsPolice Novel)|author=Martin Walker

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=At not even 200 pagesBecause of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, Eve Out the Chief of Her Ruins is one Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the shortest books Ibodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn've read in a long whilet enough to worry about, but it's one of the most dramaticDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's also told in a way not just the local autumn rains that I can only describe as brutalhave caused the problem: it spares nothing various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and pulls very few punches, St Denis faces the descriptions stark and unromanticpossibility of a devastating flood.|isbn=0993009344}}

|isbn=0241985137152919640X|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)Suspect|author=Cara HunterRob Rinder|rating=4.5

|summary=DI Adam FawleyThe nation's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstfavourite daytime TV presenter, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the PrincipalJessica Holby, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor was murdered live on a studenttelevision and it seems that there's only one suspect. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victimHe' s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherhis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Just to complicate matters further, CalebShe's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, seriously allergic and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencecarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. She has an eightEverything seemed as normal -yearas normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio -old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 and Brooks served a month on clothes ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersshe was dead within minutes. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, It was soon clear that this is going to be ''very'' publicwas no accident.

|isbn=07535583780008385068|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What MattersThe Midnight Feast|author=Greg McKeownLucy Foley

|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=It''s midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negativeManor.'' That It's what happened to Patrick McGinnistheir opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was ill, only to find that he was working her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for a bankrupt companythe wealthy and famous. His stock had fallen by 97%Her husband, Owen, he had lost his health was the architect and his job had little valuework is still ongoing on parts of the site. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changesThe heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. He did survive Old scores are going to be settled and came through stronger - and richer. There it won't be long before a body is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost breakfound.''

|isbnauthor=1471181405Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasWild East

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=SheffieldWritten in verse, this is Ronny's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Roadstory, if you'd like to visit) 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 discovered. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who would have started suddenly has to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months move to Norwich and could have been undiscovered for yearsstart at a mostly white school. The police need to establish move is initiated by Ronny's mum who stabbed her - is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and who left the twoso Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, very rarea new school, gold aurei on her eyesand keep himself out of trouble. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer He listens to music constantly, and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbanihas always dreamed of being a rapper. They'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 But now, in this new school, his injuriesteacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint 1635866847|title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}} {{FrontpageThe Lavender Companion|author=Gianna Pollero Jessica Dunham and Sarah Horne|title=Monster DoughnutsTerry 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 a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, tell the police where the third generation body of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist a missing person is buried and Clairvoyant'', to use who was responsible for her family's sea-front boothdeath. The singerThis person, he promises, the scryer is someone big and the sufferer's mother it will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for be worth the first time in the family stallpolice doing what he wants. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiehis sentence and to get an early parole date. Just who Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she, 's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xworks with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud0008405026|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating= 45|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws investigation ground to keep herself alivea halt. But then she meets Albert Browne Now, her mother, Helena, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker pasther father are dead in their bed. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down Initially, they plan to flee to it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the mythical Free Isles positioning of the London Lagoonbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Together, they must brave man What looked as though it was going to be an open-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the Free Islesexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, but will they be any more accepted there than they Una Burt) are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815less convinced.

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S0571379877|title=RemyThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: A book about believing Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in yourselfa dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalJo Callaghan|title=Leave 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 stupidbe able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and then push him just that little bit further when Anjali met on the other kids are aroundfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. So Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the instigatorgroup and she becomes a GP. And then he gets into trouble When we first meet them they're at school a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and the teachers it's going to end in tragedy. We don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B00474HVX40241636604|title=Phineas ReduxThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Anthony TrollopeGary Stevenson

|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=ItIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Having succeeded in parliament A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and achieved a paying position his background is the East End, where he fell out was familiar with those who provided violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his income CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweethearthas a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was fortunate to get , essentially, a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) and seemed settled card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a life trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of domesticitya request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. To bring Finn backFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, Trollope to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in London business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a childless widower with a legacy cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from an aunt the love of her life, who died at just was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the right time shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is 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 allow me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I 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 move to be possiblelatest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|author=Dean KoontzSunny Singh|title=The Other EmilyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsunnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. It's Hiding from the western coast we're concerned withterrorists who are rampaging through, a place he has to return tokilling everyone on site, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agois Sam, when she vanished from a remote road late at nightwartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. He's paying As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for contact with the man he thinks residents who are still alive in the only suspecthotel, he forms a lifer now, bond with Sam who went a bit Hannibal Lecterrefuses to be cowed by events, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does keeps on his record. David is trying venturing out of her room to try to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the mancapture what's mind, but to no availhappened through her photography. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into Although they only ever talk over the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagephone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his loveterrorists. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958086154742X

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1529153298|title=The LipList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She'Melody Janie Rowes not what's worrying Miv' s family, though. even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to be, and maybe thathave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the pointfamily 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. To me For Miv, the name sings of English folk musicmove would mean leaving her best friend, but even in my use of that word EnglishSharon, I know Iand she'm putting an emmet take on thingsll do anything to prevent that. And Melody Janie Rowe is antiShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -emmetto anyone. |isbn=1529334179