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|authorisbn=Rachel Harrison0008385068|title=Bad DollsThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesThrillers|summary=It's been some time since Imidsummer 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've read any horrors converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen KingHer husband, Owen, borrowing was the books from a boy I fancied at school architect and scaring myself half silly with them to work is still ongoing on parts of the point that I couldn't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the vampires outside! guests are enemies as well as friends. DonOld scores are going to be settled and it won't worry be long before a body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson- Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in verse, this short is Ronny's story collection isn, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny't like that! It doesns mum who is worried for Ronny't have those jump scaress safety after a tragic event, and I didn't have so Ronny finds himself trying to read it during daylight hours only! settle in a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. But it is creepyHe listens to music constantly, and I found most has always dreamed of that feeling came from the fact that these are stories about womenbeing a rapper. But now, living normal livesin this new school, and that at least in his teacher encourages him to be part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as of a breakuppoetry writing workshop group and, trying a new dieting appslowly, going Ronny begins to a hen party see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and a coping with griefcrafting your words.|isbn=18033639320241645441

|isbn=13941595441635866847|title=Recycling for DummiesThe Lavender Companion|author=Sarah WinklerJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5

|summary=It's strange, the things that make you 'Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'immediately' ' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.The Lavender Companion'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decomposeI visited the author's [https://www. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million yearspinelavenderfarm. As com/ website] and there's a just-post-WWII baby, I faced picture of a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part slice of my DNAchocolate cake on the homepage. NEVER throw away anything that might I don''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that would serve the purposecake viscerally. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of (There'Is this absolutely essential?' On s a recipe in the other handbook, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - which I'm looking at youavoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and dropping I was told to make a mess of it . Notes in the kerbside binmargins are sanctioned. Yes, I could go searching on You get to fold down the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I needed was a recycling bible''loved'' this book already.s

|author=Lauren St JohnRob Keeley|title=Finding WonderChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|summary=RooAround here, we're big fans of children's life has become almost impossibly difficultauthor Rob Keeley. Her mum died when she was youngHe's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticketgreatest achievements. When asked what other family she has, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didnIt't think very highly s a sequence of. But she has no one elseghost stories centring on Ellie, and so off she goes to live a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervanEdward, it breaks down in a spoiled lordling and the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=05713761691783064617

|isbnauthor=1448309743Jenny Valentine|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro RamsayUs in the Before and After|rating=45|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of ScotlandElk and Mab are best friends, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from the home is the Devil Stone: myth says or more than that if the stone even, their friendship is removed from Otterburn House, death will followa once in a lifetime connection. The only suspects are known Satanists They meet as children one day on a trip out but in many ways, thatunfortunately they don't get each other's an easy conclusion given that two of contact details at the time. But then chance brings them 'discovered' the bodyback together, and they are inseparable. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearsSomething has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' himtogether.|isbn=1471196585

|author= Kay ChronisterKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Desert CreaturesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|summary= With a Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a robotic takeoverteam of warrior, a world devoid of water mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a the big bad and the points they grant you along the way . Unfortunately for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. Kit, the only thing he''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new work trio of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of the fears that exist for humanity todayhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. It is a shocking novel What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that still manages , and how could he possibly hope to find hope.succeed?|isbn=18033649981839945184

|author=Christopher FowlerSaima Mir|title=Word MonkeyVengeance|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyThrillers|summary= It's I was instantly intrigued by the first premise of August this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the middle north of England run by a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hutMuslim woman. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I decided not to do fact that either. When I finished reading this book, I realised it was because (the second in a) series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I wanted to finish reading this book 've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and (bscreen) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler and it needn'wast be a hindrance if it' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosiss good enough. There is something very strange about being made to laugh by And that wasn't a man who repeatedly reminds problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you that he is dyingup to speed, and you know he actually is at that point, because he does. He didI never felt lost.|isbn=08575296250861541561

|isbnauthor=1529077699Stuart Douglas|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann CleevesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=''ItDuring location filming for his 1970's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit' Well yes, it is. Jem Rosco blew into leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the local pub one evening in dead body of a woman on the middle edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an autumn galeaccidental death, stayed for but something about a month and then turned upthe whole thing bothers Lowe, naked and dead, in he enlists the help of a small boatfellow actor, anchored in Scully Cove close John Le Breton to the village of Greystone, in Devonhelp him investigate matters further. Rosco had They travel across the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurercountry during their days off filming, round the world sailor uncovering more possible murders and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than seemingly, a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open booklink to death during the Second World War. Where did he get But is there really a link between the money for his first boatdeaths? How did he finance the tripAnd will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=B0CC9W7GLRB0CYV674G2|title=On the Beach: The Winter VisitorSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Kit It seemed like an open-and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at home-shut case. A man, bored but warm, or frozen cold covered in mud and blood - and building sand sculptures on carrying a snowy beach when a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the shorelineman. On top A body at the bottom of the ice was a polar bearfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. As the ice bumped onto the sandDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, the bear woke and which coincided with wobbly legs moved from the icebirth of his daughter Samantha. Kit was all You would think he'd be grateful for making a run for it, an easy answer but Teal knew that the bear was hungry words 'perverse' and gave him one apple and then another'John Tanner' were made for each other. He obviously needed 's sleep-deprived to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleepat home. What else would you do?

|authorisbn=Claire North1787333175|title=House of OdysseusYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre= Literary Fiction Popular Science|summary= I was tempted to read ''What could matter more than love?You Don'' The follow-up t Have to be Mad to the excellent Work Here''Ithacaafter enjoying Adam Kay'' picks up s first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a few months after where we left off. In glorious mixture of insight into the palace workings of Odysseusthe NHS, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to rule without her husband, who sailed be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to war at Troy mental illness and then by divine intervention never returned home. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne work of the Western Islesa psychiatrist. Having survived – politically and physical – I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shores, Queen Penelope laughter is on the brink of directed at a situation rather than a fragile peace. One that shatters however person and it is always delivered with the return of Orestes, King of Mycenae, empathy and his sister Elektra, seeking refugeunderstanding.|isbn=0356516075

|isbnauthor=1529427045Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=''Life has more Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to offer than people her step- prime numbers for examplemother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Lisbeth Salander has headed north Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to the small town of Gasskasget her life back, where the sosuing her step-far-untapped natural resources of mother to take down the area have sparked a gold rush. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forwardcontent about her. Salander's niece's mother Anuri is the latest woman in the area battling alcoholism, failing to have vanished without tracestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. It was only with reluctance that Salander became Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala little sister, who is a remarkably gifted teenager whothe new focus of Ophelia's unaware of the part Salander played in online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father's death.at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=B0CCCPJJ5BDavid Chadwick|title=The Last Person in the World|author=Matthew TreeHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy at the London-based public school where he met Ralph FinnsIt's September 1973 in Hicks, California. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was Hicks is a boarder and had money to throw around on Mojave desert town of a Rolex watch, vintage wines few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a state-of-the-art sound systemsignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends A silver mine and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingforddefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, the UKthere's third most prestigious universitynot much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Before going upLife is quiet, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorsetuntil....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Dean KoontzTom Percival|title=The House at the End of the WorldWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there Will's life is no one on your side, you can either suck it updifficult, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on an island that sits snugly in a small chain multitude of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solitudeways. ThatHe is bullied because he has 's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacobthe wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can's Ladder; t work and all would doesn't have been enough money for even the aforementioned peace most basic of things like food, and solitude were it not for his dad can't work because he lost his job at the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the neighbouring island fact that his mum and dad are separated, and perpetrating all manner Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of mischief in hope. He is good at art, and clings to the name moments of science and quite possibly bringing about joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of all mankinda long, dark tunnel.|isbn=16624531591398527122

|author=T KingfisherSylvie Cathrall|title=ThornhedgeA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''You had There are few greater joys than a right book which lives up to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well belovedcompelling premise. But whilst there And this is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the land one of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spellsthem.|isbn=18033642380356522776

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX0008517061|title=Stories 2Death in a Lonely Place|author=Richard F WalkerStig Abell

|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary= This is Richard F Walker's second volume Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of short stories. There are thirteen his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in all together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and I took something from each of them. There isn't a single one that doesn't deserve relaxing life to be among the others move in with Livia or brings down the overall quality. It can be tricky does Livia move to review short stories without giving too much away, so I'll just pick two to talk Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and I think they give a general flavourher daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.

|isbn=17876366071786482126|title=The TrapJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Catherine Ryan HowardElly Griffiths

|summary=It's a scene replicated all too often Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the early hours of site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the morning. Drunken revellers spilling out bones of clubs and looking for a way to get homechild beneath a doorway. Some are lucky and manage to get one of the few taxis availableThere was no skull. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villagesWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. The woman all regret the It'taxi problems difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, particularly in the light that she is pregnant with his child as a result of 'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her a long way short of her homenight they spent together some three months ago. She had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - but her phone's dead. The bus had driven off Her condition will be obvious before she had the chance long, not least because Ruth is prone to beg the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and in high-heeled shoessudden bouts of sickness.

|isbn=14059571740008551324|title=A Death at the PartyThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Amy StuartNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=From It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the first page, we know that Nadine Walshother. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's party will not end wellprepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The victim - a man - This person, he promises, is dying when we first meet him someone big and Nadine consciously makes no effort to call it will be worth the ambulance police doing what he so desperately needswants. What we don't know And what he wants is who to be transferred to an open prison to serve the man is or why Nadine prefers remainder of his sentence and to have him dieget an early parole date. INot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'd better give you a little more background t think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that you can understand DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth0008405026|title=Nowhere IslandA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet GilIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Just twelve, he is so determined She was never found and the investigation ground to escape the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – and find a home for himselfhalt. He is en route to yet another fostererNow, her mother, when he jumps into an anonymous carHelena, and lets it ride him to his futureher father are dead in their bed. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but that someone lives with his brother in a camp on an island between there's something about the two directions positioning of a motorway, a place inaccessible the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and definitely ignored enough to provide for their safety and seclusionher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Them, What looked as though it was going to be an open-and -shut case is now a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullycomplex double murder. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if this Kerrigan is one place where life convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=00085300250571379877|title=Murder in the FamilyThe Kellerby Code|author=Cara HunterJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=It was in December 2003 that fifteenEdward Jevons is a working-yearclass young man, obsessed with his upper-old Maura Howard came home class friends, Robert and found the body of her stepfather, Luke Ryder, in the garden of their West London homeStanza. He had an injury on the back of his head which could have happened if heRobert'd slipped down the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberates a theatre director. Twenty years later, no one has been charged with his murder and itHe's now the subject of ''Infamous''also self-obsessed, demanding, a true-crime showhandsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. A group of experts Edward has been brought together to review the evidence in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to take the investigation furtherRobert. More to the point, theyMost men in Robert're going to do this live on camera, episode by episode. Theres position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's no dump of not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the whole box set - and no shortage two of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingthem kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Judith EagleJo Callaghan|title=The Stolen SongbirdLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Caro's mother, When a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and man is now missing. Her other motherfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, Ronnie, is having DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to go up North to take care of the case alongside her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gamsidekick, someone Caro has heard her mother despises, she feels frustrated and confused and worriedthe AI detective Lock. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian ladyIt's housetheir first live case together, along having previously been very successful with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there tooseveral cold cases. But she soon finds herself caught up in when there is a second body found crucified a mysteryfew days later, as she discovers Kat is suddenly struggling with a painting of potential serial killer and a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcase, and all across London very high profile case that draws a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peoplelot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Is the painting somehow linked Will they be able to solve the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the mystery toocase and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=0571363148139851120X

|isbn=15291959771399613073|title=None of this is TrueMoral Injuries|author=Lisa JewellChristie Watson|rating=4.5

|summary=On her 45th birthdayOlivia, Alix Summer celebrated with Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a crowd quarter of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Faira century. SheOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walterwhich is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. It turns out that not only are Alix Laura is a perfectionist and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospitala trauma doctor. That's where Anjali is the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in free spirit of the midst of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're not at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it''exactly'' rowdy, they're enjoying themselvess going to end in tragedy. Josie, on We don't know who suffered the other hand, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get tragedy or the sense consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that Walter's not too happywill impact the three friends. He's not used to spending this much money on a meal - but This time, it is Josie's birthday after alltheir teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=18033651100241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Chuck TingleGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If 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 pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the 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=Camp DamascusThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller

|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Love is love; although humans continue It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to be confused by this sentimentthe English country village where she grew up. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. The UK government ruled out plans to make it a crime Freya's former mentor andCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, in is dead and the UScircumstances seem suspicious, nearly 700 000 adults have received itto say the least. Although it is both a secular and a religious prejudice Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, Chuck Tingleshe feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in his new horrorbusiness together as antique hunters, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the skin of Christian ''pray profession she loved. After the gay away'' camps to show split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the reader rebound from the horror lurking withinlove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1803136383AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Tin SoldiersAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=David ChadwickBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of a cloudthings to come. What actually happened out there '' I've heard it said that 'technology' is gossiped about and nobody is sure exactly what took placehappens after you're eighteen. Well, but an act I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of heroism leading technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice and disgrace seems to be me but I'm left with the consensusfeeling that it's all getting away from me. Wat himself Some of it is keeping his cards close to his chest- frankly - quite frightening. Of course, as he always doesI could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B0C7J9D21BSunny Singh|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)|author=A J LewisHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers |summary=When we first meet our hero, his name The Hotel Arcadia is Ettore and he lives at The House of Beautiful Swallowsa luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Idyllic as this might soundHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, it's a bordello wartime photographer and Ettore's mother died when he was bornAbhi, the hotel manager. He's not been short of mothers, though - but As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for someone of his background the residents who are still alive in late-eighteenth-century Amalfithe hotel, ithe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's difficult to obtain decent employmenthappened through her photography. The stint working with Although they only ever talk over the preparation of anchovies didn't work out phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boats. Ettore was nothing they both wait to see if not resourceful - and determined - and it was not long they will be rescued before he had a successful business as a guide for visitors. He was even saving some moneythey are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1529153298|title=After DeathThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35

|summary= Michael Mace, Head of Security, at a top secret biological research facility, is among 55 people who die when a virus It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is released in a bio-hazard accidentPrime Minister. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuary(A woman? I mean, covered in plastichonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleaguesthough. Women have been disappearing. As he recovers his sensesWell, he realises that there is something different about him; he can they've been murdered, but to have 'feeldisappeared'doesn' everythingt sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she'Everythings overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. Michael isnWhen you't re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She'Michaels not worried about the dangers or that her Mum'' anymores stopped talking - to anyone.|isbn=1662500467}}

|authorisbn=Jamie Littler1398524085|title=ArkspireHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Two sistersCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Juniper Paul and ElodieOllie and her daughter, born fifteen minutes apartEtty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, are growing to be chalk and cheeseis not. Juniper is an eager hunter Shortly afterwards, Etty and trader in illicit magicGreg, including relics from prior major wars left out in the Badlands. Elodie is intent on getting closer to power in one of find the religious districts body of ArkspireGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of the Watcher, river. It was an easy assumption for the closest police to a ruler the district has, make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and one of then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the five major victors in said earlier warguilt. Being trained in the magic that only five people The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can use would definitely change the status of the whole familydo but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. But in finding something oddly magical, Juniper might just be able to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…|isbn=0241586143

|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes1035906708|title=Old Gods New TricksDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapesWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, larks in December 1923 and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, only moved to Athens when she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisancewas thirteen. But just when sheHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the schoolCallas's to make it more manageable in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from usStates. And so When she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it was back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semiAthens -deities, giants, halfsupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -gods she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and so on known as the trickstersmade no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=178845295X

|author=Alexia CasaleChristopher Edge|title=Sing if you Can't DanceBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you're having to navigate a life-changing disability too, but that's what Ven is dealing with after collapsing on stage in the middle of a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's a new (cute!) boy in school, her music A Level performance piece to try to sort out, and just the day-to-day traumas of all the challenges her body continues to throw at her to navigate. So even though she can't dance anymore, might she be able to sing her way through instead?|isbn=0571373801}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Peters|title=Friends and Traitors|rating=34

|summary=England, WW2. Two young girls Lucas and his friends are new all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the country pile called Stanbrooknickname of 'The Black Hole'. One is NancyAll big movie fans, destined they're looking forward to be in service all her life it seemslots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, like as the female generations before her. The other is Sidneymovie starts, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school they very quickly realise that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk and cheesesomething about this new film format is very different, and if we hadnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't guessed that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it soeven imagine. But something is amiss, and first separately and then in combination as they realise lurch from one film genre to the Lord Evesham must be a rum 'un. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecynext, talk can they figure out what on earth is made of meetings with Germans, and not only that, a local Spitfire factory has been attacked. going on? But surely Will they ever get back to the girls are wrongcinema, and the upper class could never be so underhandto their real lives?|isbn=17880046471839942738

|isbnauthor=0241996104Rachel Greenlaw|title=Coming to Find You|author=Jane CorryCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Nancy's mother 'I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and step-father were brutally stabbed at their Sussex farmhouse partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her step-brother, Martin, has been convicted is one of their murderthe seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. We first meet Nancy outside But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the courtwrecking, after Martin receives a life sentence. The barrister tells her that shethey capture the island's leader and Mira's received father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a 'silent sentence' - wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she's not been found guilty sets off in search of anything but will have a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to live with unearth what happened for might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the rest heart of her life. Of course, itthe smuggler's made worse because Nancy's rich - she inherited five million pounds from territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her mother - home and the papers are making the ones she holds most of it. ''Farmhouse slaughter daughter'' is one favourite epithet and ''rich bitch'' might not be printed but is undoubtedly spokendear.|isbn=0008664730