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|isbn=1405940980152919640X|title=The BirdcageSuspect|author=Eve ChaseRob 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 his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, 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 this was no accident.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008385068|title=The Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5

|summary=It's midsummer on the 7th of January 2019 Dorset coast and we know that a body has been pulled out of the sea guests gather at Zennor in CornwallThe Manor. We donIt't know whose body it iss their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. Four days earlier, Flora, Kat and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at the request of their father, Charlie Finch, a famous artistIt's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The girls are actually Manor was her ancestral home and she''half''-sisters s converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closefamous. Finch was known for his fecundityHer husband, if not for his fidelity. It's been a long time since the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agoOwen, at was the time architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the total eclipse, something happenedsite. Kat The heat is oppressive and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was a victim amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and itwon's left her very wary of her sisterst be long before a body is found.

|isbnauthor=1787634906Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideWild East

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=WeWritten in verse, this is Ronny're in Oldcastle s story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and Malcolm 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 a new town, a new school, and keep himself out of trouble. He's listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in an abandoned house this new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and poetry, and the power of creativity and hecrafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's being threatened by two young peoplestrange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. One is Allegra (weBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''ll soon learn that she, I visited the author's Allegra Dean-Edwards) [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Hugothere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. It seems I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm cake viscerally. (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) but sheThere'd put s a tracking device recipe in it so that she the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Hugo could find out where he I was sleepingtold to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. It won't be long before You get to fold down the police realise corners of pages. You suspect that Malcolm was one smears of their own: butter would not many other people are going to have the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backsbe a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Jennifer SaintRob Keeley|title=ElektraChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Around here, we'Elektrare big fans of children' by Jennifer Saint tells the story s author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of three women who live in the heavily male-dominated world of Ancient Greece. Cassandrahappy positivity, Clytemnestrahe understands children, and Elektra are all bit players in the story he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.  The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of the Trojan Warhis greatest achievements. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the silent women have the most compelling stories spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the most extreme furies.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=14722739151783064617

|isbnauthor=1529149800Jenny Valentine|title=Things You Can Do: How to Fight Climate Change Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. 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 Reduce Wastetheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Eduardo Garcia Kieran Larwood and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Home and FamilyConfident Readers|summary=We begin with a telling storyMeet Kit. All Like most of the birds people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and animals fled when healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the forest fire took hold big bad and most the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of them stood the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and watcheda new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, unable he has taken to think the goading from the token bully of anything they his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could dohe 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 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 I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}} {{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The tiny hummingbird flew police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the river whole thing bothers Lowe, and began taking tiny amounts he enlists the help of water 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 flying , 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|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=I was tempted to drop them read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the fireworkings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. The animals laughed: what good ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was that acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother 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. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doingso. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}{{Frontpage|author=David Chadwick|title=Headload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'Ithe wrong shoes'm doing , he has the best I wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, said and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the hummingbirdcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. And Throw into that mix the fact thathis mum and dad are separated, reallyand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the only way moments of joy when he is drawing, that we will solve feel like a light at the problem end of climate change – by each a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of us doing what we can, however small that might bethem.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=17765743380008517061|title=Leilong's Too Long!Death in a Lonely Place|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnStig Abell

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Every morning LeilongFormer Metropolitan Police detective, the brontosaurus school busJake Johnson, makes has settled into his way through rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the cityfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, picking as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up children as he goeshis 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 future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4. Children who live at 5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the top of tower blocks donsite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury't even need to go downstairs – apartments - when they simply climb out discovered the bones of the window and slide down his necka 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. It's perfectdifficult as Ruth knows, isnbut Nelson doesn't it? , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. What could Her condition will be a more fun way obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of going sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to school? approach the police. There Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is a problem, though. Leilong isn't happy struggling in the city: prison and he's always having prepared to be careful about tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he puts his feet promises, is someone big and – because it will be worth the police doing what he's longer than a tennis court – wants. And what he often causes damage without intending wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and traffic regularly gets snarled upto get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The school decides that he cannew Deputy Police Constable doesn't be think so and she's even prepared to do the bus anymoreother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=303091657X0008405026|title=Disaster A Stranger in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandFamily (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonJane Casey

|genre=Business and FinanceCrime|summary=Boards must act in It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the best interests of their stakeholders investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and ensure that they her father are well-managed and financially securedead in their bed. This might seem obvious Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but a series of disasters - some of which have resulted in death or there's something about the collapse positioning of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Where were they? Occasionally the boards were unaware of what What looked as though it was happening or they preferred going to turn be an open-and-shut case is now a blind eye, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalitycomplex double murder. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened Kerrigan is nothing newconvinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through others (such major debacles as railway maniaDerwent's boss, the South Sea Bubble and even tulip mania. Over three centuries we seem to have learned very littleUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=15293379680571379877|title=In Place of FearThe Kellerby Code|author=Catriona McPhersonJonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=ItEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's July 1948 and Helen Crowther is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner the following morning - on the day that the NHS is borntheatre director. SheHe'll be working s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for Dr Deuchar and Dr Strasser him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their GP surgery university days - and her job will be he's drunkenly confided how he feels to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthRobert. The hardest part of the job will be to persuade people Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that the services she offers really are free and that they dona relationship had begun between them but he't have s not like most men: Edward is left to do anything to qualify for stumble upon the two of them. Some of the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has kissing in a problem of her own which might give her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummateddark passageway.

|author=Mark LinganeJo Callaghan|title=GalaxyLeave No Trace

|summary=Spark''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, who is an elite pilot I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the Space Academy, barely makes feeling that it through a battle alive's all getting away from me. His coSome of it is -pilot was not so fortunatefrankly - quite frightening. Waking from a coma that lasted years Of course, he remembers little I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and is in no physical shape to resume his dutiesend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. But Earth is under threat I needed people I knew I could trust and he must. Returned by his superiors to the space station, he finds himself amid who could deliver information in a last ditch attempt to save humanity - and not just from the alien threats against it, but also from its own sins against itselfway I could understand. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W

|author=Lissa EvansSunny Singh|title=WishedHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he 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 happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their 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=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but 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 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's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The 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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=When things contrive We tend to force Ed and his sister Roo (aka Lucy) think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to stay with the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanGreek parents in Manhattan, Miss FileyNew York, for a week of half-term, they're not looking forward in December 1923 and only moved to it. For one thing, Athens when she thinks Wi-Fi is a special brand of biscuitwas thirteen. They donHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't particularly take to Willard either, make it more manageable in the new kid next door, who seems to ebulliently take over everything and everywhereStates. But things soon change when they find some tiny old birthday candles, and manage to work out When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that these candles, for as long as their flames last, make birthday wishes come true. How will things change she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a second time when they realise that, having used up three mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of themher preference for her elder sister, these should really be used for the wishes of someone two generations older than them?|isbn=178845202XJackie.

|author=Justyn EdwardsChristopher Edge|title=The Great Fox IllusionBlack Hole Cinema Club

|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a contest with movie marathon at their local cinema, a differenceplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. No singing All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, no dancingas the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this show new film format is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workvery different, and who can attempt they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick next, can they figure out what on earth is determined to win, but not because she wants going on? Will they ever get back to own the tricks. She is interested in just ''one'' trickcinema, the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able and to bring her missing father home.their real lives?|isbn=15295019461839942738