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|isbn=14059516800008385068|title=The Safe HouseMidnight Feast|author=Cameron WardLucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=Jess Walker accepted 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 offer (OKimpressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, actually she was gently nudged into it by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple architect and work is still ongoing on parts of monthsthe site. After the problems she'd had at work, it seemed like just The heat is oppressive and amongst the break she neededguests are enemies as well as friends. She was no longer Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a data analyst for the Metropolitan police body is found.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wild East|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Written in London: she was Jess verse, this is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who was returning suddenly has to move to the country of her birth Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in need a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of the space trouble. He listens to get over the traumatic end music constantly, and has always dreamed of her relationship with Charlesbeing a rapper. A few weeks But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just connections between rap and poetry, and the ticketpower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - 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 I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel HarrisonRob Keeley|title=Bad DollsChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Short StoriesConfident Readers|summary=ItAround here, we're big fans of children's been some time since Iauthor Rob Keeley. He've read any horror. I had s a couple ball of misspent teen years reading Stephen Kinghappy positivity, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and scaring myself half silly with them enjoyment, not to the point that I couldnlecture or hector.  The ''t shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! DonChildish Spirits't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! series is one of his greatest achievements. It doesn't have those jump scares, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most s a sequence of that feeling came from the fact that these are ghost stories about womencentring on Ellie, living normal livesa stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and that at least in partEdward, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party spoiled lordling and a coping with grief.the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=18033639321783064617

|isbnauthor=1394159544Jenny Valentine|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah WinklerUs in the Before and After

|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months Elk and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII babyMab are best friends, I faced a dilemma: reducingor more than that even, reusing and recycling their friendship is part of my DNAa once in a lifetime connection. NEVER throw away anything that might They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'possibly'' come in handy now or in s contact details at the futuretime. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble But then chance brings them back together , and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time terrible and tragic, and any purchase now they must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other handwork through their grief, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yestheir friendship, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bibletogether.s|isbn=1471196585

|author=Lauren St JohnKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Finding WonderDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficultMeet Kit. Her mum died when she was youngLike most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and now she finds herself awoken in race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the middle of big bad and the night by points they grant you along 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 ticket. When asked what other family she hasUnfortunately for Kit, she can the only name her auntthing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, Jonieaten, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly and a new trio ofquestors is needed. But she Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has no one else, taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and so off she goes to live with her unreliable auntstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Things continue to get worse for RooWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, as when she and Joni leave London how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=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 Jonia 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 old campervangood enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!I never felt lost.|isbn=05713761690861541561

|isbnauthor=1448309743Stuart Douglas|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro RamsayLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=In During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the village dead body of Cronchie a woman on the West coast of Scotland, five members edge of a wealthy family are found murderedreservoir. The only item missing from police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the home is whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the Devil Stone: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn Househelp of a fellow actor, death will followJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many waysThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' a link to death during the bodySecond World War. The Senior Investigating Office But is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappears, DCI Christine Caplan there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is pulled in to 'shadow' him.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|authorisbn= Kay ChronisterB0CYV674G2|title= Desert CreaturesSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating= 43.5|genre= Dystopian FictionCrime|summary= With It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a world knife, comes into the police station shouting that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity, posthe hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillhe's been stabbed to death. Whether it DCI John Tanner is a robotic takeoverjust back from his honeymoon, a world devoid which coincided with the birth of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. an easy answer but the words 'perverse'and 'Desert CreaturesJohn Tanner'were made for each other. He' by Kay Chronister is a new work of posts sleep-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many deprived to the point of the fears that exist for humanity today. It is a shocking novel that still manages falling asleep at work but he's determined to find hopekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1803364998

|authorisbn=Christopher Fowler1787333175|title=Word MonkeyYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Benji Waterhouse

|genre=AutobiographyPopular Science|summary= ItI was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's the first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of August in insight into the middle workings of a cool wet summer in East Angliathe NHS, humour and autobiography. I decided not ''You Don't Have to swim at be Mad...'' promised the pool in favour of going same elements but moved from physical problems to my beach hut. The weather closed in, rain arrived, mental illness and I decided not to do that eitherthe work of a psychiatrist. When I finished reading this book, I realised did wonder whether it was because (a) I wanted acceptable to finish reading be looking for humour in this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, setting but the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There laughter is something very strange about being made to laugh by directed at a situation rather than a man who repeatedly reminds you that he person and it is dying, always delivered with empathy and you know he actually is at that point, because he doesunderstanding. He did.|isbn=0857529625

|isbnauthor=1529077699Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann CleevesAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=''ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's all bloody peculiarincreasingly popular presence on social media, isnwhere she posted every step of Anuri't its childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Sir?'' Well yesbasically, it ismonetary gain. Jem Rosco blew into the local pub one evening Now Anuri is in the middle of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month her twenties and then turned up, naked she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and deadto get her life back, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close suing her step-mother to take down the village of Greystone, in Devoncontent about her. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurerAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, round the world sailor undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and all round ''celebrity''receiving money from them for doing so. I ''nearly'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find outMost importantly, he could be more than a she is desperately worried about her little bit close with money and his background isnsister, who is the new focus of Ophelia't exactly an open books online empire. Where did he get Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the money for his first boat? How did he finance the tripsame time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=B0CC9W7GLRDavid Chadwick|title=On the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green and Jenny FiondaHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Kit and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at homeIt's September 1973 in Hicks, bored but warm, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on California. Hicks is a snowy beach when Mojave desert town of a large slab few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelineLA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. On top of the ice was A silver mine and a polar bear. As defence contractor are the ice bumped onto the sandmain local employers but otherwise, the bear woke there's not much of note other than dive bars and with wobbly legs moved from the iceJoshua trees. Kit was all for making a run for itLife is quiet, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry and gave him one apple and then anotheruntil... He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus and given a good meal and somewhere to sleep. What else would you do?|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Claire NorthTom Percival|title=House of OdysseusThe Wrong Shoes

|genre= Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary= Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'What could matter more than love?the wrong shoes'' The follow-up to , he has the excellent wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In t have enough money for even the palace most basic of Odysseusthings like food, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without her husbandand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, who sailed to war at Troy was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and then by divine intervention never returned homehad an accident. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for Throw into that mix the throne of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically fact that his mum and dad are separated, and physical – the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to IthacaWill's shoreslife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, Queen Penelope he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is on good at art, and clings to the brink moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a fragile peace. One that shatters however with light at the return end of Orestes, King of Mycenae, and his sister Elektraa long, seeking refugedark tunnel.|isbn=03565160751398527122

|isbnauthor=1529427045Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Girl in A Letter to the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffLuminous Deep

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=''Life has more to offer There are few greater joys than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north a book which lives up to the small town of Gasskas, where the so-far-untapped natural resources of the area have sparked a gold rushcompelling premise. The criminal underworld has not been slow in coming forward. Salander's niece's mother And this is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious that Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware one of the part Salander played in her father's deaththem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5B0008517061|title=The Last Person Death in the Worlda Lonely Place|author=Matthew TreeStig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Our narrator was a scholarship day boy Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at the London-based public school where he met Ralph FinnsLittle Sky. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was There’s perhaps a boarder little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and had money to throw around on a Rolex watchher daughter Diana, vintage wines and as moving in together would mean a state-lot ofcompromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the-art sound system. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends future she wants for herself and certainly more than acquaintances. her daughter? Finns had no intention of going For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in Wellingford, the UK's third most prestigious university. Before going up, he took up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorsetback burner.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1786482126|title=The House at the End of the WorldJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When you experience overwhelming tragedy and feel that there is no one on your side, you can either suck it up, saddle up and ride on or you can retreat to your own private fortress on Builders were demolishing an island that sits snugly old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a small chain of tiny dots on the map and live out your days in peace and solituderitual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. ThatIt's what Katie thought she was doing when she shut down her old life to start afresh on Jacobdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn's Ladder; and all would have been the aforementioned peace and solitude were it not for the pesky US Government occupying Ringrockt, the neighbouring island and perpetrating all manner that she is pregnant with his child as a result of mischief in the name one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of science and quite possibly bringing about the end of all mankindsickness.|isbn=1662453159

|authorisbn=T Kingfisher0008551324|title=ThornhedgeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=It''You had a right s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to retake your placeapproach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other.'' T KingfisherBut Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's latest novella is a lovely reimagining prepared to tell the police where the body of a fairytale that missing person is well known buried and well belovedwho was responsible for her death. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower This person, sleeping under an eternal enchantmenthe promises, Thornhedge is not her storysomeone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Instead Not much to ask, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she was a new's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded -born baby make certain that DS Max Craigie and secreted anyone who works with him is kept well away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spellswhat's happening.|isbn=1803364238

|isbn= B0CCCVRSGX0008405026|title=Stories 2A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Richard F WalkerJane Casey|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary= This is Richard F WalkerIt's second volume of short storiessixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. There Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are thirteen dead in all and I took something from each of themtheir bed. There isn't Initially, it looks like a single one that doesnstraightforward murder/suicide but there't deserve to be among s something about the others or brings down positioning of the overall qualitybodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. It can What looked as though it was going to be tricky to review short stories without giving too much away, so I'll just pick two to talk about an open-and I think they give -shut case is now a general flavourcomplex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17876366070571379877|title=The TrapKellerby Code|author=Catherine Ryan HowardJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a scene replicated all too often in the early hours of the morningtheatre director. Drunken revellers spilling out of clubs He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and looking uses Edward to run errands for a way to get homehim. Some are lucky Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and manage he's drunkenly confided how he feels to get one of the few taxis availableRobert. Others squash onto the night bus that will only go as far as one of the outlying villages. The woman all regret the 'taxi problem', particularly Most men in the light of Robert'the missing women'. For one young woman, the final stop on the bus leaves her s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a long way short of her home. She relationship had intended to ring someone to come and collect her - begun between them but her phonehe's dead. The bus had driven off before she had the chance not like most men: Edward is left to beg stumble upon the bus driver to let her use his. There's no option but to start walking - unsuitably clothed and two of them kissing in high-heeled shoesa dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=1405957174Jo Callaghan|title=A Death at the Party|author=Amy StuartLeave No Trace

|summary=From When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the first pagecase alongside her sidekick, we know that Nadine Walshthe AI detective Lock. It's party will not end welltheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The victim - But when there is a man - second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is dying when we first meet him suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and Nadine consciously makes no effort a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to call the ambulance he so desperately needstheir AI Future Policing project. What we don't know is who Will they be able to solve the man is case in time, or why Nadine prefers to have him die. I'd better give you will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a little more background so that you can understand what's happening.career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1399613073|title=Nowhere IslandMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveOlivia, he is so determined to escape Laura and Anjali met on the care system – the system that constantly puts him in futureless places that are not homes – first day of medical school and find their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a home for himselfcentury. He Olivia is en route to yet another fostererruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when he jumps into an anonymous car, and lets it ride him you aim to his futurebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – but that someone lives with his brother in Laura is a perfectionist and a camp on an island between trauma doctor. Anjali is the two directions free spirit of the group and she becomes a motorway, GP. When we first meet them they're at a place inaccessible drug and definitely ignored enough alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to provide for their safety and seclusionend in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Them, and a mute girl also finding a home Twenty-five years later there, albeit so much more successfullywill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combineThis time, or if this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=00085300250241636604|title=Murder in the FamilyThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Cara HunterGary Stevenson

|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=It was If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in December 2003 that fifteenyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-year-old Maura Howard came home stripe suit and found his background is the body of her stepfatherEast End, Luke Ryderwhere he was familiar with violence, in the garden of their West London homepoverty and injustice. He had an injury There was no posh public school on the back of his head which could have happened if CV - but he'd slipped down had been to the steps but the vicious beating his face had taken was obviously deliberateLondon School of Economics. Twenty years later, no one Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has been charged a facility with his murder and it's now the subject numbers which most of ''Infamous'', a true-crime showus can only envy. A group of experts has been brought together to review the evidence and He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to take the investigation furtherbe stupid. More to the pointIt was his ability at what was, they're going to do this live on cameraessentially, episode by episodea card game which got him an internship with Citibank. There's no dump of the whole box set - and no shortage of cliffhangers. It's compelling viewingEventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Judith Eagle1035021803|title=The Stolen SongbirdAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=CaroIt's mother, a world-famous whistler, twenty years since Freya Lockwood has failed been back to return home the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingbeloved aunt, Carole. Her other motherFreya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, RonnieArthur Crockleford, is having dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to go up North to take care of her sister who is unwellsay the least. So who is going Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gam, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesthe village: Arthur, she feels frustrated and confused and worried, let her down badly. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst be near the man or pursue the profession she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's house, along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there tooloved. But After the split, she soon finds herself caught up worked in a mysterycafe, as she discovers a painting met and married James (on the rebound from the love of a bird hidden away inside her mum's old suitcaselife, who was murdered) and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks Freya and terrorising peopleJames have now divorced. Is the painting somehow linked to the gang? And what has happened to Caro's mother? Is she somehow involved in the mystery too?|isbn=0571363148

|isbn=1529195977AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=None of this is TrueAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Lisa JewellBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=On her 45th birthday, Alix Summer celebrated with a crowd of friends in the Landsdown pub on Salisbury Road when she encountered Josie Fair. She, too, was out celebrating her 45th birthday, only she was just with her husband, Walter. It turns out that not only are Alix and Josie birthday twins, they were both born in St Mary's hospital. That's where Opening up new ways of thinking about the similarities end, though: Alix, with her husband, Nathan, are in the midst shape of a joyful, monied group of friends and whilst theythings to come.'re not ' I'exactlyve heard it said that 'technology' rowdy, theyis what happens after you're enjoying themselveseighteen. Josie, on the other handWell, holds her handbag close to her tummy and you get the sense I must confess that Walter's not too happythere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. HeI've kept up reasonably well with what's not used advantageous to spending this much money on a meal - me but I'm left with the feeling that it is Josie's birthday after allgetting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbn=1803365110|author=Chuck TingleSunny Singh|title=Camp DamascusHotel Arcadia

|genre=HorrorThrillers |summary=Love The Hotel Arcadia is love; although humans continue to be confused a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by this sentimenta terrorist group. Gay conversion therapy Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it Sam, a crime wartime photographer andAbhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the UShotel, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Although it is both he forms a secular bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin keeps on venturing out of Christian her room to try to capture what''pray s happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the gay away'' camps phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to show see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the reader the horror lurking withinterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=18031363831529153298|title=Tin SoldiersThe List of Suspicious Things|author=David ChadwickJennie Godfrey|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Wat Tyler has returned from fighting in Vietnam under something of a cloud. What actually happened out there is gossiped about It's 1979 and nobody Margaret Thatcher is sure exactly Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what took place's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but an act of heroism leading to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a rare battlefield commission followed by rank cowardice frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and disgrace seems she'll do anything to be prevent that. She's not worried about the consensus. Wat himself is keeping his cards close dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to his chest, as he always doesanyone.

|isbn=B0C7J9D21B1398524085|title=A Captive in Algiers (Muhammed Amalfi Mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=A J LewisNicci French|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet our hero, his name is Ettore and he lives Charlotte Salter was expected at The House of Beautiful Swallowsher husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Idyllic as this might soundHer children, it's a bordello sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Ettore's mother died when he was bornher daughter, Etty. He's not been short of mothers, though - are all worried but for someone of his background in late-eighteenthstrangely -century Amalfiher husband, it's difficult to obtain decent employmentAlec, is not. The stint working with Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the preparation body of anchovies didnGreg't work out and bastards are considered bad luck on fishing boatss father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. Ettore It was nothing if not resourceful - an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and determined - and it was not long before then committed suicide when he had a successful business as a guide for visitorscouldn't stand the guilt. He was even saving some moneyThe Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1035906708|title=After DeathDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=34.5

|summary= Michael Mace, Head We tend to think of SecurityMaria Callas as Greek, at a top secret biological research facilitybut she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, is among 55 people who die when a virus is released in a bio-hazard accident. Finding himself in a makeshift mortuaryNew York, covered in plastic, he has a sense that something very, very bad has happened to him – December 1923 and only him – as he sits up and looks around at the shrouded bodies of his dead friends and former colleaguesmoved to Athens when she was thirteen. As he recovers his senses, he realises that there is something different about him; he can Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas'feel'' everythingto make it more manageable in the States. ''Everything''. Michael isn't ''Michael'' anymoreWhen she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1662500467}}

|author=Jamie LittlerChristopher Edge|title=ArkspireBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=Two sisters, Juniper Lucas and Elodie, born fifteen minutes apart, his friends are growing to be chalk and cheese. Juniper is an eager hunter and trader all booked in illicit magicfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, including relics from prior major wars left out in a place that has the Badlandsnickname of 'The Black Hole'. Elodie is intent on getting closer All big movie fans, they're looking forward to power in one lots of the religious districts of Arkspireexciting films, and many, many snacks! However, perhaps even to become the child in line to inherit the power of as the Watchermovie starts, the closest to a ruler the district hasthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and one of the five major victors in said earlier warthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Being trained in But as they lurch from one film genre to the magic that only five people next, can use would definitely change the status of they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the whole family. But in finding something oddly magicalcinema, Juniper might just be able and to gain some power of her own – for good, or for very, very bad…their real lives?|isbn=02415861431839942738

|author=Thiago de MoraesRachel Greenlaw|title=Old Gods New TricksCompass and Blade|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she'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 school's 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 us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters3.|isbn=178845295X}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexia Casale|title=Sing if you Can't Dance|rating=5

|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 I can hear the middle song of a dance performance that was going to change her lifethe sea. But she comes back fightingThe call of the deep, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's as normal as she can possibly manageanswering beat in my heart. 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 Rosevear, a remote and Traitors|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Englandpartially forgotten island, WW2. Two young girls are new at survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the country pile called Stanbrookwrecks. One is NancyMira, destined to be in service all like her life it seems, like the female generations mother before her. The other , is Sidney, a girl from a hoity-toity Sussex boarding school that has been removed there away from bomber flight-paths. The girls are chalk one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and cheese, and if we hadn't guessed any treasure that then their behaviour with each other over their first encounters would only prove it solies within. But something is amisswhen the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, and first separately and then in combination they realise capture the Lord Evesham must be a rum island's leader and Mira'uns father. Midnight deliveries are received under cover of secrecyDesperate to save him from death, talk Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is made of meetings secretive and with Germans, and not only thatcoordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a local Spitfire factory has been attackedfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. But surely With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the girls are wrongsmuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the upper class could never be so underhand?ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17880046470008664730