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|isbn=18009012321009473085|title=Stitched UpThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Steve ColeAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyPolitics and Society|summary=TwelveSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't'' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-year2024 -old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designer14 Wasted Years?''. Life in 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 rural village where she lived with her family was happybook for you. If that's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, if not prosperous{{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to can be missedbettered for those tumultuous years. Some money changed hands It's a compelling read and Hanh was on the mini-bus should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to Hanoipolitics. Only, Hanh and ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the other girls were not going to work seventh book in a shop, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: series which looks at the ones with intricate embroidery impact a government has made and beading on co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the legs? The ones with most important. This book follows the artfullywell-placed rips and distressed seams that felt so soft established format: a series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when you touched them? It's quite possible the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that Hanh occurred and her co-workers made themthe situation in 2024.

|author=Daisy HildyardMax Boucherat|title=EmergencyThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, 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-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver |title=The Weight end of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grievingthe occupation. Traumatised after During the death of her sisterwar, she awakes Jean's father was arrested for listening to find strangea banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, thick black hairs sprouting leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the bones Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of her spine which steadily increase in size and volumehim. Her GP, diagnosing But will the odd phenomenon truth come as a physical reaction to her griefrelief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn= 086154112X 1846976537

|authorisbn=1529428289|title=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett A Grave in the Woods (translatorA Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|titleauthor=Little DrummerMartin Walker|rating=34

|summary=Part Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the Oslo Detectives seriesgrave 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 crime story 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 mixture of police procedural devastating flood.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=152919640X|title=The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and thrillerhis contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. Beginning with the death She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of a young woman emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a carparkbusy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that looks very much like this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an overdoseimpressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it unravels into won't be long before a farbody is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-reaching investigation of murderLovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, fraudthis is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and international pharmaceutical dealingsstart at a mostly white school. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda and Frolich, The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who end up working separately on the case as Gunnarstranda remains in Norway whilst Frolich is led worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to Africa as they follow the twists settle in a new town, a new school, and turns keep himself out of the investigationtrouble. Gunnarstranda He listens to music constantly, and Frolich are tenacioushas always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficultthis new school, frustrating circumstanceshis teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, trying hard slowly, Ronny begins to uncover see the truth as they are sure that something much biggerconnections between rap and poetry, and much more dangerous, is going onthe power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=19145851270241645441

|isbn=00085414771635866847|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!The Lavender Companion|author=Lauren ChildJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|summary=It was Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a hot summer day right at the beginning ball of the summer holidays happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and Clarice Bean was bored:enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.

The ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.Childish Spirits'' There are seven members series is one of the Bean family living in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly), Mum and Dad, Clarice's older brother, Kurt and younger brother, Minal Crickethis greatest achievements. ThereIt's also Marciea sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who's main claim to fame seems to be that she steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read in cope with anything the airing cupboard. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to spirit world throws at her, rather than wanting to talkand Edward, but a spoiled lordling and the only one who does that is Granny and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617

|isbnauthor=0711266204Jenny Valentine|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield Us in the Before and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)After

|genre=Children's Non-FictionTeens|summary=I have recently discovered a great pleasure: I sit Elk and watch the vast numbers of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis. An hour can pass without my noticing. I've established which species feed from the groundMab are best friends, or more than that even, which pop to the feeders for their friendship is a quick snatch of some food and who settles once in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeablelifetime connection. It would have been wonderful if, They meet as children one day on a child, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birdstrip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. So – what is it?But 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

|isbnauthor=1737030942Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker BittickDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre= AnthologiesConfident Readers|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''Meet Kit. I first encountered Like most of the people in his writing about a year agoworld, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a rollicking tale team of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right nowwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, I didn't want a fullcentury-length novelold, magical mazes, so I turned and race to this anthology of verse the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and short storiesthe points they grant you along the way. BittickUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's writing seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has matured - been retired, eaten, and so have a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his charactersworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Well... most of them!What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Caryl Lewis Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|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 fact that it was the second in a 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, and George ErmosI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=SeedLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787333175|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotment, and manages Mad to stink the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to fertilise his vegetables. His mother somehow combines Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the dual roles workings of housebound failure the NHS, humour and hoarder – while she seems to do nothing and hasnautobiography. ''You Don't left the building in years she has still managed Have to fill it to the brim with junkbe Mad... What Marty's classmates don't know about this they can draw lines promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to from how poor Marty always looks, with his one school uniform built from lost propertymental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. We see him as once again I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the council threaten her laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and him it is always delivered with eviction, empathy and as he celebrates his birthday with the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedunderstanding.|isbn=1529077664

|author=Sophie CameronOnyi Nwabineli|title=Our Sister, AgainAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=After IslaAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's older sister Flora diesincreasingly 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 family struggle confidence and to find a way forward. In particularget her life back, Isla's mum who can’t seem suing her step-mother to be able to let take down the content about her daughter go. When Isla passes Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her mum's details onto a support group she finds PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people onlineand receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she thinks they might be able to help. But actuallyis desperately worried about her little sister, it turns out they are part of an experimental company who offer is the family the chance to have Flora back again, in robot form. But this won't just be a look-a-like. They use all new focus of FloraOphelia's online historyempire. Can she save her sister, and interviews perhaps herself and her relationship with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possible. But what will it really mean for her father at the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at allsame time?|isbn=17889539160861546873

|isbnauthor=1398507504David Chadwick|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasHeadload of Napalm

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed that his father committed suicide and for the last sixteen years heIt's been searching for evidence to prove that he's rightSeptember 1973 in Hicks, California. When Hicks is a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoir, there was Mojave desert town of a link back to few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a cold case from 2002significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. There didn't immediately seem to be any connection with DI Richard Tyler's death but Adam Tyler senses A silver mine and a link to defence contractor are the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all main local employers but otherwise, there's a growing sense that the criminality not much of Det Supt Stevens note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is going to be brought out into the openquiet, until.... Perhaps Tyler is going to get the answers he needs?|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=0727850547Tom Percival|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)|author=David MarkThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy hadnWill't even had time for breakfast when the call came through. A body had been found s life is difficult, in the roots a multitude of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullways. When He is bullied because he gets to has 'the scenewrong shoes', he will find what greets him is has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even worse than the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he could have imagined. A young man's corpse is entangled with lost his job at the roots of college, was working a newlycash-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – in-hand job on a building site and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyeshad an accident. It would seem Throw into that this was done whilst mix the man was still alivefact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. McAvoy makes And yet, he still has a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justicetiny amount of hope. But justice always comes He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a cost and this time light at the cost might be to McAvoy's own familyend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Natalia Garcia FreireSylvie Cathrall|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Literary Science Fiction|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a delightcompelling premise. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but 'a delight' And this is perhaps using the expression in a way I'm not familiar with. I have to confess my ignorance one of the Spanish-language literary tradition so forgive my generalisation here. From the little I have read (in translation, I don't read Spanish) there does seem to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismthem. |isbn=08615419010356522776

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0008517061|title= Rebel SkiesDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has spent her entire settled into his rustic life as at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a servant on little uncertainty about the Midorifuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers lot of the Empire come compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to drink and make merry between their conquests. However, when a man named Himura arrives move in with Livia or does Livia move to tell Little Sky despite her that she reservations about whether or not this is a Crafter like him, someone with the power to form paper into whatever future she desires – a power sought after all across wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the Empireback burner. He asks her }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to come with him, to leave hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the life bones of dreary servitude that is all she has knowna child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Well It's difficult as Ruth knows, soon Kurara wonbut Nelson doesn't have any say in the matter, because the Midori that she is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known pregnant with his child as a shikigami, and she is forced to flee out into result of the worldone night they spent together some three months ago. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime Her condition will be obvious before long, a sky-ship whose express purpose not least because Ruth is prone to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world sudden bouts of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590sickness.

|authorisbn=Patrice Lawrence0008551324|title=NeedleThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Brave. Charlene, the It'heroine' of this piece is extremely hard s unusual for some people anyone from the Hardie family to like, characters and readers bothapproach the police. Kicked out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Annie, and Neither side likes or has taken up residence any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in her son Blake's old room while prison and he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need prepared to tell the police where the body of a comfort blanket, you might perhaps think, and the creation of one such item is part of the plot here, as Charlene missing person is a wonder knitter, buried and is making something full of love who was responsible for her younger sister – a younger sister she's allowed contact with no moredeath. We see Charlene prove her belligerence with a store detective This person, and then force people to give her two days off schoolhe promises, when she shouts is someone down as expletively ignorantbig and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And then... well, what exactly happens he wants is not for me to saybe transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, only is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to remark how sharp do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and pointy those knitting needles can be..anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1800901011

|isbn=14059409800008405026|title=The BirdcageA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Eve ChaseJane Casey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the 7th of January 2019 and we know that investigation ground to a body has been pulled out of the sea at Zennor in Cornwallhalt. We don't know whose body it is. Four days earlierNow, her mother, FloraHelena, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their her father, Charlie Finch, a famous artist. The girls are actually ''half''-sisters and dead in their dates of birth are embarrassingly closebed. Finch was known for his fecundityInitially, if not for his fidelity. Itit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's been a long time since something about the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years ago, at the time positioning of the total eclipse, something happenedbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Kat What looked as though it was going to be an open-and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was -shut case is now a victim and itcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's left her very wary of her sistersboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17876349060571379877|title=No Less the DevilThe Kellerby Code|author=Stuart MacBrideJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=WeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in an abandoned house love with Stanza since their university days - and he's being threatened by two young peopledrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that sheMost men in Robert's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) relationship had begun between them but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their owns not like most men: not many other people are going Edward is left to have stumble upon the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backstwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Jennifer SaintJo Callaghan|title=ElektraLeave No Trace

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells When a man is found crucified on the story top of three women who live a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greececase alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. Cassandra It's their first live case together, Clytemnestrahaving previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Elektra are all bit players in the story a very high profile case that draws a lot of the Trojan Warunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often Will they be able to solve the silent women have case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the most compelling stories case and the most extreme furies., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=1472273915139851120X

|isbn=15291498001399613073|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteMoral Injuries|author=Eduardo Garcia and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsChristie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Home and FamilyThrillers|summary=We begin with a telling story. All the birds Olivia, Laura and animals fled when Anjali met on the forest fire took hold first day of medical school and most their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of them stood and watcheda century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, unable which is a bonus when you aim to think of anything they could dobe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. The tiny hummingbird flew to Anjali is the river and began taking tiny amounts free spirit of water the group and flying back to drop them into the fireshe becomes a GP. The animals laughed: what good was that doingWhen we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don''I'm doing t know who suffered the best I can'', said tragedy or the hummingbirdconsequences. And that, really, is the only way Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that we will solve impact the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we canthree friends. This time, however small that might beit's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=17765743380241636604|title=Leilong's Too Long!The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Every morning LeilongIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the brontosaurus school bus, makes pin-stripe suit and his way through background is the cityEast End, picking up children as where he goeswas familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Children who live at There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out London School of the window and slide down his neckEconomics. It's perfect, isn't it? What could be Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a more fun way facility with numbers which most of going to school? There is a problem, thoughus can only envy. Leilong isn't happy in the city: he's always having He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be careful about where he puts stupid. It was his feet and – because he's longer than ability at what was, essentially, a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending to and traffic regularly gets snarled upcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. The school decides that he can't be the bus anymoreEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|isbn=303091657X1035021803|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonC L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act in It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the best interests English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of their stakeholders a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and ensure that they are well-managed Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and financially securethe circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or Arthur was the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what reason why Freya had not been back to the board was doingvillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Where were Even though they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to turn a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance be near the man or criminalitypursue the profession she loved. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us After the split, she worked in a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniacafe, met and married James (on the South Sea Bubble rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to Freya and James have learned very littlenow divorced.

|isbn=1529337968AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=In Place of FearAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Catriona McPhersonBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=It's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day come.'' I've heard it said that the NHS 'technology' is bornwhat happens after you're eighteen. SheWell, 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'll be working for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser in their GP surgery and her job will be s advantageous to help patients me but I'm left with those nonthe feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is -medical problems which affect their healthfrankly - quite frightening. The hardest part of Of course, I could research the job will be to persuade people that possibilities and the services she offers probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really are free and that understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they don't have to do anything to qualify for themre talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedway I could understand.

|author=Mark LinganeSunny Singh|title=GalaxyHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary=Spark, who The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an elite pilot with the Space Academy, barely makes it through unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a battle alive. His co-pilot was not so fortunateterrorist group. Waking Hiding from a coma that lasted yearsthe terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, he remembers little and there is in no physical shape to resume his duties. But Earth is under threat Sam, a wartime photographer and he mustAbhi, the hotel manager. Returned by his superiors As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the space stationresidents who are still alive in the hotel, he finds himself amid forms a last ditch attempt bond with Sam who refuses to save humanity - be cowed by events, and not just from keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the alien threats against itphone, but also from its own sins against itselftheir 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 terrorists. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W086154742X