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|author=Darren ShanMax Boucherat|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 The Last Life of 3Lori Mills

|summary=The second trilogy in ShanWe meet Lori on the first evening she's ''Merge'' saga opens with our herogot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Archiejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, back in London on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world of the Born. It-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where heworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's beent find herself entirely on her own, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and his other friends in the Mergenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but Archie and her safe place in the game has done his best.... been doctored – well, 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 away.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0008666482

|isbnauthor=0008444501Jenny Lecoat|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke KennardBeyond Summerland

|summary=Life should have been good for EmilyJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She had a lovely husbandDuring the war, Steven, who Jean's father was arrested for listening to a speech therapistbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. We'll pass As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over the fact , their hopes rise that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bedwill finally learn what became of him. It isn't so much that Emily has left But will the marital bed truth come as that she's sharing a bed with one of her children as relief, or will it's the only way to get him to sleep raise further questions around what else happened during the night. war? Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has And what other secrets have been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|isbn=02419851371529428289|title=The Whole Truth A Grave in the Woods (D I FawleyA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Cara HunterMartin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Because 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, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob 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 carries an EpiPen in Artificial Intelligencecase 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.

|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker0008385068|title=A Tattoo on my BrainThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=34.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary=AlzheimerIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity their opening weekend and sense of selfsplendid celebrations are promised. I have been directly affected It's all headed up by this cruel disease, as have manyFrancesca Meadows. Your memories The Manor was her ancestral home and personality worn away like a statue over time affected she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the elementswealthy and famous. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you Her husband, Owen, was the architect and your dignitywork is still ongoing on parts of the site. This The heat is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirableoppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers Old scores are going to be settled and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain'it won't be long before a body is found.|isbn=1108838936

|isbnauthor=1635862353Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryWild East

|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldnWritten in verse, this is Ronny't really believe its story, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to be able move to contain but I was intriguedNorwich and start at a mostly white school. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart tragic event, and she could see how the sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldn't afford so Ronny finds himself trying to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create settle in a new town, a new school, and worthwhile craft? keep himself out of trouble. She showed quite a few people her first pair He listens to music constantly, and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them has always dreamed of being a pairrapper. A But now, in this new career was bornschool, his teacher 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

|isbn=17873320981635866847|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped WorldThe Lavender Companion|author=Henry ManceJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groupsI visited the author's [https: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on//www.pinelavenderfarm. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, com/ website] and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the next David Attenborough serieshomepage. I don'' t eat cakes and desserts - but I was going to arguewanted that cake viscerally. I mean(There's a recipe in the book, cows are for cheese (which I couldn't consider eating red meat...m avoiding with some difficulty!!) and Then I much prefer my elephants in started reading the wild but then I realised that book and I was quibbling for the sake told to make a mess of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal loverNotes in the margins are sanctioned. If I had You get to choose between fold down the company corners of humans and the company pages. You suspect that smears of animals, I butter would probably choose the animalsnot be a problem. I insisted that I read ''loved'' this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablealready.

|author=Ananda DeviRob Keeley|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=At not even 200 pagesAround here, Eve Out we're big fans of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books Ichildren's author Rob Keeley. He've read in s a long whileball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, but itnot to lecture or hector.  The 's 'Childish Spirits'' series is one of the most dramatichis greatest achievements. It's also told in a way that I sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and pulls very few punchesEdward, a spoiled lordling and the descriptions stark and unromantic.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=09930093441783064617}}

|isbnauthor=0241985137Jenny Valentine|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterUs in the Before and After

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstElk and Mab are best friends, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principalor more than that even, Professor Hilary Reynoldstheir friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor They meet as children one day on a studenttrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. When Fawley arrived he was almost crossBut then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: what was Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the alleged perpetrator doing people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the room before they'd even got sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the details from exit, perhaps bothering with the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' treasure or the 'victim' big bad and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherpoints they grant you along the way. Just to complicate matters furtherUnfortunately for Kit, Calebthe only thing he's mother seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is Petra Newsonthat one team has been retired, the local MPeaten, and Professor Fisher is a big name new trio of questors is Artificial Intelligenceneeded. She Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by taken to the case goading from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersteam. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipmentWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, this is going and how could he possibly hope to be ''very'' public.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbnauthor=0753558378Saima Mir|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=''I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The marginal return of working harder fact that it was, the second in facta series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, negativeand I never felt lost.''|isbn=0861541561}}

That{{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 what happened to Patrick McGinnissitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the company he worked forwhole thing bothers Lowe, struggling through, even when and he was illenlists the help of a fellow actor, only John Le Breton to find that he was working for a bankrupt companyhelp him investigate matters further. His stock had fallen by 97%They travel across the country during their days off filming, he had lost his health uncovering more possible murders and his job had little value. He made , seemingly, a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richerlink to death during the Second World War. There But is, you see, there really a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who bleed, for those who almost break.''is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1471181405B0CYV674G2|title=NighthawkingSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Russ ThomasDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.orgIt seemed like an open-and-shut case.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse RoadA man, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm covered in whatmud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been buried in one of the beds but who would have started stabbed to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsdeath. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyesbirth of his daughter Samantha. DCI Diane Jordan is You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler words 'perverse' and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley whoJohn Tanner's just returned from extended sick leavewere made for each other. Mina thinks heHe's as obnoxious as ever sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint 1787333175|title= Ariadne You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse|rating= 4.5 |genre= WomenPopular Science|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's Fiction first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|summarytitle= This re-telling is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the myth workings of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting NHS, humour and unusualautobiography. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic ''You Don't Have to its origins but also appealing to a modern audiencebe Mad... Saint's narrative is told predominantly through ' promised the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning same elements but moved from her childhood physical problems to her death, allowing mental illness and the reader work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to really connect with Ariadne as be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a character in her own right situation rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseusperson and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. |isbn=1472273869}}

|author=Gianna Pollero and Sarah HorneOnyi Nwabineli|title=Monster DoughnutsAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=After their parents mysteriously disappearedAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, Grace and Danni have been left thanks to run the family bakery. But Grace needs the doughnuts and sweet treats that Danni bakes for a rather unusual reason...even though her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where sheposted every step of Anuri's only ten years oldchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is a monster hunter! slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Monsters have a very sweet toothAnuri is battling alcoholism, and Grace uses a number of methods failing to defeat them such as throwing baking powder on themstart her PhD, or tricking undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them into eating a sweet treat that will, ultimately, be their demisefor doing so. One dayMost importantly, though, Grace finds herself facing a cyclops monster called Mr Harrisshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who has a weakness for doughnuts but doesnis the new focus of Ophelia't seem to explode as the other monsters dos online empire. Can she save her sister, and so things start to get very strange…perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=18481294320861546873

|isbnauthor=0995647895David Chadwick|title=Sadie and the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceHeadload of Napalm|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=SadieIt's mother always said that she was a dreamerSeptember 1973 in Hicks, her mind never on what she should be doingCalifornia. She lives by the River Thames at Greenwich Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and she loves to spend hours at The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty SarkLas Vegas both a significant drive away. ''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered Not much happens in the gloom,''<br>''To the Maritime Museum''Hicks. Her imagination was fired. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship A silver mine and went back regularly. One day she fell asleep under a glass case (it's defence contractor are the one where Nelsonmain local employers but otherwise, there's Trafalgar breeches are on show) not much of note other than dive bars and missed the closing bell and the attendant's warning shoutJoshua trees. 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 world of dolphinsLife is quiet, pirates, mermaids and treasureuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Kristen O'NealTom Percival|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseWill's life is difficult, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest a multitude of her lifeways. She joins He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Oof Ouch My Bones, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn', an online support group where she talks to a bunch t have enough money for even the most basic of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other outthings like food, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesnhis dad can't respond to work because he lost his job at the chat for college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a whilebuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to BrigidWill's house to check up on herlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. But what she doesn't expect to find there He is a werewolf in the basement – good at art, and for that werewolf clings to be the girl she has been talking to online for moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the past few monthsend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=16836923491398527122

|author=Mercedes HelnweinSylvie Cathrall|title=SlingshotA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=35|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As There are few greater joys than a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used book which lives up to not being a priority in people's livescompelling premise. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence And this is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldone of them.|isbn=152905818X0356522776

|isbn=B005FM76AA0008517061|title=The Duke's ChildrenDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Anthony TrollopeStig Abell|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=The story opens to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the Duke future of Omniumhis life with his vet girlfriend, is nearly paralysed by grief Livia and struggling - at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime ministerher daughter Diana, or even as moving in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult children, which is easier said than done when none together would mean a lot of them wishes to ''be'' guided. Silverbridge (compromise: does Jake give up his elder son, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) off-grid and Gerald are destined relaxing life to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and to run up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. her daughter? Lady Helen has fallen For the moment they’re enjoying life in love with - the present and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, putting the penniless son of a poor squire, which future on the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencora. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their wayback burner.

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky1786482126|title=The Last GirlJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled site was going to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnhold seventy-five 't belong. Sheluxury's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends apartments - when they discovered the majority bones of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfortchild beneath a doorway. There was no skull. She struggles to find anyone to connect with Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failedDCI Harry Nelson. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But It's difficult as the pranks escalateRuth knows, but Nelson doesn't, and Rachel finally feels like that she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; is pregnant with his child as a masked figure keeps showing up to result of the pranks, and people begin to get hurtone night they spent together some three months ago. When the competition then takes a deadly turn Her condition will be obvious before long, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure not least because Ruth is before it's too lateprone to sudden bouts of sickness.|isbn=0755501527

|authorisbn=Polly Barton0008551324|title=Fifty SoundsThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan police. Neither side likes or has been on my radar any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a while missing person is buried and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowwho was responsible for her death. I may get there later this year This person, he promises, but I am not hopefulis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And like Barton, I don't know the answer what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect remainder of the question in the first essayhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, which is on the sound it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn''giro' '' – which t think so and she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have s even prepared to introduce yourself'do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1913097501

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland0008405026|title=SistersongA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong is part of It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a genre I particularly enjoyhalt. Now, her mother, Helena, the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesher father are dead in their bed. These stories Initially, for most of us, are it looks like a cornerstone straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and a fresh perspectiveher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning What looked as though it was going to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships be an open-and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong shut case is now a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot complex double murder. Kerrigan is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing convinced that the characters to come to lifeexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live inUna Burt) are less convinced. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037

|isbn=15291242550571379877|title=The WhispersKellerby Code|author=Heidi PerksJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know straight away that thereEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's going to be a bodytheatre director. ItHe's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have uses Edward to go back to the previous Septemberrun errands for him. Grace Goodwin Edward has a soft Australian accent been in love with Stanza since their university days - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, shehe's returned drunkenly confided how he feels to her home town to liveRobert. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be Most men in the lovely apartment sheRobert's found. Graceposition would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's best friend, Anna Robinson, not like most men: Edward is still left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child tooa dark passageway. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!

|author=Sarah SultoonJo Callaghan|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...|isbn=1913193594}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B004O37B6A|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeLeave No Trace

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Plantagenet PalliserWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Duke of Omniumcase alongside her sidekick, is the prime minister of a coalition government but heAI detective Lock. It's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopeztheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. Lopex But when there is exotic - some describe him as Jewisha second body found crucified a few days later, others as Portuguese but the truth Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that no one knows and Lopez is not going draws a lot of unwanted attention to explaintheir AI Future Policing project. The ladies of societyWill they be able to solve the case in time, even Palliser's own wifeor will Kat find herself taken off the case and, Lady Glencorapotentially, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position out of having to support his wife's actions when Lopez loses a by-election. The Duke's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt him.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Jessie Greengrass1399613073|title=The High HouseMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. However Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, that train of thought which is slowly seems a bonus when you aim to have fallen out be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of favourthe group and she becomes a GP. Today When we first meet them they's young generation are discovering that their parents re at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and their parentsit' parents did not seem s going to think that far aheadend in tragedy. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it We don's not my problem" t know who suffered the tragedy or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrassconsequences. This is not a science Twenty-fiction novelfive years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This is our reality. This is the life our children and time, it's their teenage children will have to livewho are involved.|isbn=1800750072

|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan0241636604|title=Madame BurovaThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=This book lets us discover several people If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in different stages your mind, you're unlikely to think of life in someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the early 1970sEast End, all vaguely connectedwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. So we have a bullied halfThere was no posh public school on his CV -cast boy (as but he would have had been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation London School of Madame Burova, ''TarotEconomics. Stevenson is bright -Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's seaextremely bright -front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at he has a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. We He also see her on her last dayrealised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, fifty years lateressentially, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiecard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Just who is sheEventually, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain this turned into permanent employment as a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xtrader.

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud1035021803|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Scarlett McCain 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 a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is an outlawdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, rejecting to say the draconian conformity of least. Arthur was the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses reason why Freya had not been back to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britainvillage: Arthur, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Brownefeels, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker pastlet her down badly. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, they plan to flee she has not felt able to be near the mythical Free Isles of man or pursue the London Lagoonprofession she loved. Together After the split, they must brave man-eating wildlifeshe worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the cannibalistic Tainted and all rebound from the horrors love of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Islesher life, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9SAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=RemyAll Tomorrow's Futures: A book about believing in yourselfFictions that Disrupt|author=Mayuri Naidoo Benjamin Greenaway and Caroline SiegalStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Remy is feeling miserable''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. He's let himself down ' I'againve heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you're eighteen. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and BrandonWell, I must confess that there have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyesmore than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. They are mean I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but they are not stupidI'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are aroundSome of it is - frankly - quite frightening. So Of course, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was I could research the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school possibilities and the teachers donprobabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I't believe him when he tries to explain m reading someone who knows what happenedthey're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Sunny Singh|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers |summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]a terrorist group. Having succeeded in parliament and achieved Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income wartime photographer and returned to Ireland where he married MaryAbhi, his childhood sweetheartthe hotel manager. He was fortunate As Abhi continues to try to get care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and seemed settled into a life keeps on venturing out of domesticityher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. To bring Finn backAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, Trollope had their friendship grows as Abhi tries to kill off poor Mary help her keep safe and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time they both wait to allow see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the move to be possibleterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529153298|title=The Other EmilyList of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Our hero David Thorne It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is an authorPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, who shares his life between the two US coastshonestly... ) ItShe's not what's the western coast weworrying Miv're concerned withs family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, a place he has to return tothey've been murdered, and a place he has but to be able to leavehave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when Miv's upset because she vanished from a remote road late at night's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. HeWhen you's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspectre from Yorkshire, Down South is a lifer nowfrightening, who went a bit Hannibal Lecterforeign place, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordbest avoided. David is trying to pry For Miv, the connection between the murderer move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and his girl from the manshe's mind, but ll do anything to no availprevent that. HeShe's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into not worried about the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his lovedangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958