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|authorisbn=Mercedes Helnwein1009473085|title=SlingshotThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=35|genre=TeensPolitics and Society|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to being lonely''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family If that's what you're looking for, she is used to not being a priority in peopleI don't think Anthony Seldon's livesbook, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. But when she defends It's a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence compelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is changed for goodan entirely different beast. No longer can she spend her time writing novels It's the seventh book in solitude, for her life now a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the well-established format: a boy series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in it 2010, the changes that she never asked for: Wade Scholfieldoccurred and the situation in 2024.|isbn=152905818X

|isbnauthor=B005FM76AAMax Boucherat|title=The Duke's Children|author=Anthony TrollopeLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=The story opens We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadherself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Her husbandWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omniumshe has one main intention, and that is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - at the same time - to adjust log on to no longer being prime ministerVoxminer, or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult childrenthe world-building, which critter-collecting game that is easier said than done when none of them wishes to a hit in Lori''be'' guideds world. Silverbridge (his elder sonBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and Cambridge respectively her bestie and nobody else should be able to run enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up gambling debtson her phone screen, occasionally and her safe place in eye-watering sumsthe game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and wishes to marry - Frank Tregearsoldiers 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 penniless son of a poor squireNazis, which and the Duke cannot countenancewar is finally over, not least because he sees echos their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what might have else happened when he married Lady Glencora. during the war? He's Who was the informer who told the Nazis about to learn that parents do not always get their way.the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky1529428289|title=The Last GirlA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=54|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the new girl at Manchester Prepgrave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. A school filled They dated back to the brim with the richest children in the city – World War II and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties it fell to some royal family in SerbiaBruno, and most the Chief of allPolice for St Denis, she spends to discover the majority identities of her spare time watching horror movies as the bodies and establish whether or not a source of comfortcrime had been committed. She struggles to find anyone As if this isn't enough to connect withworry about, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley ClubDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. A secret society with one aim: pull off It's not just the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you local autumn rains that have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in caused the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to the pranks, release water and people begin to get hurt. When St Denis faces the competition then takes possibility of a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too latedevastating flood.|isbn=0755501527

|authorisbn=Polly Barton152919640X|title=Fifty SoundsThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself startsThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been was murdered live on my radar for a while television and if the world hadnit seems that there't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nows only one suspect. I may get there later this year, but I am He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not hopefulserve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. And like Barton, I don She't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings s seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in respect case of the question emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in the first essaya busy, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.|isbn=1913097501

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland0008385068|title=SistersongThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, It's midsummer on the modern retelling of folk Dorset coast and fairy talesguests gather at The Manor. These stories, for most of us, It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are a cornerstone of childhood promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and a fresh perspectivefamous. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated Her husband, fleshing out charactersOwen, examining relationships was the architect and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong work is a perfect example still ongoing on parts of a modern retelling done well, the plot site. The heat is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing oppressive and amongst the characters guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to come to life, to feel real be settled and human, most importantly they feel relatable in it won't be long before a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This body is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endfound.|isbn=1529039037

|isbnauthor=1529124255Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksWild East

|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=We know straight away that thereWritten in verse, this is Ronny's going story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to be Norwich and start at a bodymostly white school. ItThe move is initiated by Ronny's on the beach under Craynemum who is worried for Ronny's Cliff near the safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town , a new school, and keep himself out of Clearwater and it's new year's daytrouble. To understand what happened we're going He listens to have to go back to the previous Septembermusic constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and But now, in her mid-thirtiesthis new school, she's returned his teacher encourages him to her home town to live. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she be part of a poetry writing workshop group and her eight-year-old daughter, Matildaslowly, might as well be in Ronny begins to see the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinsonconnections between rap and poetry, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joiningpower of creativity and crafting your words. It's perfect!|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1635866847|title=The SourceLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=1996It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Essex Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a disenfranchised town dominated by picture of a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingeslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. When her squaddie brother brings food I don't eat cakes and treatsdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and offers an exclusive invitation I was told to army parties, things start make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to look fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a little less bleakproblem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1913193594

|isbnauthor=B004O37B6ARob Keeley|title=The Prime Minister|author=Anthony TrollopeChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Plantagenet PalliserAround here, the Duke we're big fans of Omnium, is the prime minister of a coalition government but hechildren's author Rob Keeley. He's privately enraged at the seemingly unstoppable rise a ball of Ferdinand Lopez. Lopex is exotic - some describe him as Jewishhappy positivity, he understands children, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows and Lopez is he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not going to explainlecture or hector.  The ladies of society, even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser 'Childish Spirits'' series is placed in the position one of having to support his wifegreatest achievements. It's actions when Lopez loses a by-election. The Duke's payment sequence of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt him.ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=1787332098Jenny Valentine|title=How to Love Animals Us in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mancethe Before and After

|genre=Politics and SocietyTeens|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species Elk and groups: cowsMab are best friends, dogsor more than that even, foxes, elephants and so their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day ona trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. And we assign But then chance brings them places in society: cows go on platesback together, dogs on sofasand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, foxes in rubbish binssomething terrible and tragic, elephants in zoosand now they must work through their grief, and millions of wild animals stay out theretheir friendship, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough seriestogether.''|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident ReadersI was going to argue|summary=Meet Kit. I meanLike most of the people in his world, it seems, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake sport where a team of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- old, magical mazes, and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had race to choose between the company of humans exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the company of animals, I would probably choose points they grant you along the animalsway. I insisted Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheeseteam has been retired, eggseaten, chicken and fish and I a new trio of questors is needed . Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to either do so without guilt or change my choicesthe goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. I suspected What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that making the decision would not be comfortable., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Jessie GreengrassSaima Mir|title=The High HouseVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with I was instantly intrigued by the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. However, that train premise of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of favourEngland run by a Muslim woman. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think The fact that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "itwas the second in a series I hadn's not my problem" or "theret read didn's nothing t stop me – I can do". Raising 've jumped midway into a child few series before (on page and screen) and living in it needn't be a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High Househindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not t a science-fiction novelproblem here. This is our reality. This is the life our children Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and their children will have to liveI never felt lost.|isbn=18007500720861541561

|author=Ruth HoganStuart Douglas|title=Madame BurovaLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of life in a woman on the early 1970s, all vaguely connectededge of a reservoir. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (The police seem happy to assign it as he would have been called then)an accidental death, a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singerbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and chiefly, Imelda, he enlists the third generation help of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant''a fellow actor, John Le Breton to use her family's sea-front boothhelp him investigate matters further. The singerThey travel across the country during their days off filming, the scryer uncovering more possible murders and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at , seemingly, a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for link to death during the first time in the family stallSecond World War. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of But is there really a pair of letters that link between the deaths? And will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just they manage to uncover who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this timeresponsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=152937331X1803368209

|authorisbn= Jonathan StroudB0CYV674G2|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Scarlett McCain is It seemed like an outlawopen-and-shut case. A man, rejecting covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the draconian conformity of police station shouting that he hasn't killed the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between man. A body at the Seven Kingdoms bottom of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to keep herself alivedeath. But then she meets Albert BrowneDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, a dark boy which coincided with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles birth of the London Lagoonhis daughter Samantha. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the cannibalistic Tainted words 'perverse' and all the horrors of post'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-apocalyptic society deprived to reach the Free Isles, point of falling asleep at work but will they be he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815sleep at home.

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S1787333175|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalBenji Waterhouse|rating=45|genre=For SharingPopular Science|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. HeI was tempted to read ''s let himself down You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'again'after enjoying Adam Kay'. The school bully Jaydens first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandona glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short humour and has small eyesautobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad... They are mean '' promised the same elements but they are not stupid. They are careful moved from physical problems to wind up Remy when nobody can see mental illness and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are aroundwork of a psychiatrist. So, when Remy reacts, I did wonder whether it looks as though he was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the instigator. And then he gets into trouble laughter is directed at school a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=B00474HVX4Onyi Nwabineli|title=Phineas Redux|author=Anthony TrollopeAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Having succeeded Now Anuri is in parliament her twenties and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and returned to Ireland where he married Maryget her life back, his childhood sweetheartsuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. He was fortunate Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to get a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and seemed settled into a life receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of domesticityOphelia's online empire. To bring Finn backCan she save her sister, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary and Phineas emerges in London as a childless widower perhaps herself and her relationship with a legacy from an aunt who died her father at just the right same time to allow the move to be possible.?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Dean KoontzDavid Chadwick|title=The Other EmilyHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned withSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a place he has to return to, few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a place he has to be able to leavesignificant drive away. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at nightNot much happens in Hicks. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, A silver mine and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry defence contractor are the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mindmain local employers but otherwise, but to no avail. Hethere's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, not much of his lovenote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. What Life is a man to do?quiet, until....|isbn=1542019958B0D321VJ76

|author=Charlie CarrollTom Percival|title=The LipWrong Shoes

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'Melody Janie Rowethe wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can' t work and doesn't have enough money for even the name is evocative of…probably most basic of whatever we want it to bethings like food, and maybe thathis dad can's t work because he lost his job at the pointcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. To me Throw into that mix the name sings of English folk music, but even in my use of fact that word Englishhis mum and dad are separated, I know Iand Will'm putting an emmet take on thingss life seems bleak in every direction. And Melody Janie Rowe yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is anti-emmetgood at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel. |isbn=15293341791398527122

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellSylvie Cathrall|title=The Day A Letter to the Screens Went BlankLuminous Deep

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankcompelling premise. And it'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 they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles one of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovethem.|isbn=14711968870356522776

|isbn=19131935270008517061|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Vanda SymonStig Abell|rating=4.5

|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of the murder of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at SeacliffLittle Sky. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced to watch There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the murder, future of his life with the scene being discovered by their sonhis vet girlfriend, DeclanLivia and her daughter Diana, when he returned home from an evening out. The subsequent investigation as moving in together would prove that John Henderson had been involved mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in some activities which might have been considered shady 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 certainly questionable if not illegal. her daughter? His company, Eros Global, manufactured For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedputting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=15291091161786482126|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's JourneyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Hannah JacksonElly Griffiths

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'I want apartments - when they discovered the image bones of a British farmer to simply be that of child beneath a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nationdoorway. I don't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer There was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generationsno skull. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be Was this a farmerritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: shedifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn'd never set foot on a commercial farm until t, that she was twenty although she'd always had is pregnant with his child as a deep love result of animalsthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jacksoncondition will be obvious before long, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted not least because Ruth is prone to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part sudden bouts of her, she set about achieving her ambitionsickness.

|isbn=08575272310008551324|title=Dog DaysThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Ericka WallerNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. It's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and ithe's prepared to tell the police where the first time that she's let him downbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. He's lostThis person, bereft without her ( he ''needs his wifepromises, like a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life is someone big and rather than bringing him meals to leave on it will be worth the doorstep, police doing what he'd much rather have a good row with someonewants. He's particularly angry about And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she diedremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. She even dared Not much to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasnask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't staying. Now hethink so and she's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and a load of busybodies anyone who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all works with him is Betty, who wonkept well away from what't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy thems happening.

|isbn=B003UH99X40008405026|title=The Eustace DiamondsA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Anthony TrollopeJane Casey

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It 's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come never found and the investigation ground to regret his marriage but he didn't live long enough for this to become a problemhalt. After his deathNow, his wifeher mother, Helena, Lizzie - still only in and her late teens - was father are dead in possession of their bed. Initially, it looks like a very valuable diamond necklace and was determined that she would not hand it over to her husbandstraightforward murder/suicide but there's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it to her absolutely, although something about the precise circumstances positioning of the giving varied from telling to tellingbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Lady Eustace What looked as though it was not a woman going to whom truth meant be an open-and-shut case is now a great dealcomplex double murder. All Kerrigan is convinced that was important to her now, she maintainedthe explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, was her son. And, of course, her diamondsUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=15290473150571379877|title=The LamplightersKellerby Code|author=Emma StonexJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them bothEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, he saidobsessed with his upper-class friends, the good Robert and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of themStanza. Robert's a theatre director. He' In 1972s also self-obsessed, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwalldemanding, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas handsome and entitled and New Year''uses Edward to run errands for him. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and bobbing like a bath toy over the waveletshe'' but they were unable s drunkenly confided how he feels to get any response from the Maiden RockRobert. It was broken into the next day, but there was no sign of the Most men. The table was set for in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light relationship had begun between them but he's not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the mentwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Mary H K ChoiJo Callaghan|title=YolkLeave No Trace|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=54

|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by When a man is found crucified on the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her rise through sidekick, the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterAI detective Lock. It's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exiletheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, she Kat is at the top suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of her gameunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Returning Will they be able to solve the city of her birthcase in time, to old scars or will Kat find herself taken off the case and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense potentially, out of honour and duty.a career?|isbn=1786079097139851120X

|isbn=00083368301399613073|title=Two WrongsMoral Injuries|author=Mel McGrathChristie Watson

|summary=Sondra was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on her way home after work when she saw the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridgecentury. She talks to herOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam which is a bonus when you aim to call her best friend be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and flatmate, Nevis Smitha trauma doctor. Nevis Anjali is unworldly the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and rather reserved alcohol- fuelled party and she canit't understand why Satnam hasns going to end in tragedy. We don't shared her problems with herknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. She thought they shared everythingTwenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Satnam is taken to hospital and Nevis calls her motherThis time, Honor. Theyit've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her mothers their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)0241636604|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=This was If you were to bring up an incredibly readable novellaimage of a city banker in your mind, but one that left me a little conflictedyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and before we even know injustice. There was no posh public school on his gender or CV - but he had been to the nature London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has 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, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a 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 person heEnglish country village where she grew up. She's addressing in his second person monologue back now because of a narrationrequest for help from her beloved aunt, we see him picked up by his motherCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's chauffeurclose friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and carted off the circumstances seem suspicious, to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried say the following dayleast. The mother Arthur was a businesswomanthe reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, who clearly left northern Italy and settled let her down badly. Even though they were in Romania with her (night-time and business) partnertogether as antique hunters, and feelings of abandonment are still strongshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. And so we flit from current (well After the split, this came out she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the original Italian in 2007love of her life, so moderately currentwho 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) Bucharest|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the 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 me but I'm left with the ladfeeling that it's childhoodall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and see just end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what he has to tell her as they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a private farewell addressway I could understand.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Jane LightbourneSunny Singh|title= My Cat Called RedHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersThrillers |summary= Robin The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has red hairsuddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. He hates it Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the freckles that go along hotel, he forms a bond with it. He's been bullied Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and mocked at school because keeps on venturing out of it. her room to try to capture what''Ginger Minger! Carrots!'' Kids are means happened through her photography. But red hair is not Robin's Although they only misery in life. He's already lost his dad ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to a mountaineering accident when his mum gets ill help her keep safe and is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn= 1838216812086154742X