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|isbnauthor=0995647895Sylvie Cathrall|title=Sadie and A Letter to the Sea Dogs|author=Maureen Duffy and Anita JoiceLuminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingScience Fiction|summary=Sadie's mother always said that she was There are few greater joys than a dreamer, her mind never on what she should be doing. She book which lives by the River Thames at Greenwich and she loves up to spend hours at a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Maritime Museum or gazing at Cutty SarkJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime''Her class had gone one rainy afternoon''<br>''When all the houses cowered |summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the gloom,''<br>site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'To apartments - when they discovered the Maritime Museum''bones of a child beneath a doorway. Her imagination There was firedno skull. She'd love to sail the oceans on an ancient sailing ship and went back regularlyWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. One day It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she fell asleep under is pregnant with his child as a glass case (it's result of the one where Nelsonnight they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|author=Joan Didion|title=The Year of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=This book is Joan Didion's Trafalgar breeches are on show) and missed heartbreaking autobiographical account of the closing bell and the attendantgrief she endured following her husband's warning shoutsudden death. When she woke (hard floors don't make comfy beds) she was in the midst of an adventure Books that she could never have imagined in shed light on taboo topics like death are such a world of dolphinsbeautiful and necessary resource to help people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, piratesdenial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, mermaids and treasurelends them a human face to wear.|isbn=0007216858

|author=Kristen O'NealAlba de Cespedes |title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesForbidden Notebook|rating=54|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest This Italian work of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', feminist fiction holds an online support group where she talks to a bunch air of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles suspense and help each other outtension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of purchases her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a whileforbidden notebook, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf learns about herself in the basement – most intimate and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthsrevealing ways.|isbn=16836923491782278222

|author=Mercedes HelnweinOttessa Moshfegh|title=SlingshotMy Year of Rest and Relaxation

|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As At best, this novel is a secret illegitimate daughter scathing critique of modern society and reveals the fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a man slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with a "real" familythe world, she is used but resolves not to not being a priority lose sleep over it: in fact, her solution lies in peopleher hibernation.|isbn=1784707422}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's livesunusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But when she defends Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a random boy in missing person is buried and who was responsible for her class with her slingshotdeath. This person, he promises, her simple existence is changed for goodsomeone 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. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude Not much to ask, for her life now has a boy in is it ? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that she never asked for: Wade ScholfieldDS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=152905818X

|isbn=B005FM76AA1739526910|title=The DukeWhere I's Childrenve Not Been Lost|author=Anthony TrollopeGlen Sibley

|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The story opens ''One year after a suicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to probably the worst news of all: Lady Glencora Palliser is deadrecover. Her husband, Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, is nearly paralysed by grief and struggling - Living with an unexpected housemate at the same time - to adjust to no longer being prime minister, or even in office. He seeks to protect and guide his three adult childrenformer manager’s holiday home, which is easier said than done when none he dreams of them wishes to ''be'' guidedreconnecting with everything he has lost. Silverbridge (his elder sonBut as those tentative plans falter, actually called Plantagenet, but always known by his title) and Gerald are destined to be sent down from Oxford and Cambridge respectively and to run he becomes swept up gambling debts, occasionally in eye-watering sums. Lady Helen has fallen in love with - and wishes to marry - Frank Tregear, the penniless son a local world of a poor squireunlikely friendships, which the Duke cannot countenance, not least because he sees echos of what might have happened when he married Lady Glencoramobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities. He's about to learn that parents do not always get their way.'

|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky0008405026|title=The Last GirlA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesnIt't belongs sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, was never found and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as investigation ground to a source of comforthalt. She struggles to find anyone to connect with Now, her mother, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleHelena, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed her father are dead in the competitiontheir bed. But as the pranks escalate Initially, and Rachel finally feels it looks like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the pranks, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and people begin her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to get hurtbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. When Kerrigan is convinced that the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before itexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's too lateboss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=0755501527

|author=Polly BartonJo Callaghan|title=Fifty SoundsLeave No Trace|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself startsassigned to the case alongside her sidekick, with the question AI detective Lock. It''Why Japan?'' Japan has s their first live case together, having previously been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by nowvery successful with several cold cases. I may get But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later this year, but I am not hopefulKat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. And like Barton, I don't know the answer Will they be able to solve the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question case in the first essaytime, which is on or will Kat find herself taken off the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as beingcase and, among other thingspotentially, the sound out of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.a career?|isbn=1913097501139851120X

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland1529077745|title=SistersongThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong is part A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a genre I particularly enjoy, man in the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These storiespark near Rosebank, a care home for most troubled teens. The dead man was Josh - one of us, are the care workers who was due to work a cornerstone of childhood and shift the night before but who had never turned up. D I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning Vera Stanhope is called in to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and reinvestigate the murder -evaluating but her only clue is the role disappearance of women. Sistersong is a perfect example one of a modern retelling done wellthe residents, fourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the plot death but Vera thinks this is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing unlikely as the characters girl's diary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to come find Chloe to life, discover what happened to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live inJosh. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037

|isbn=15291242551399613073|title=The WhispersMoral Injuries|author=Heidi PerksChristie Watson

|summary=We know straight away that there's going Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a bodycardiothoracic surgeon. It's on Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the beach under Crayne's Cliff near free spirit of the town of Clearwater group and it's new year's dayshe becomes a GP. To understand what happened When wefirst meet them they're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has at a soft Australian accent drug and alcohol- she's lived there since her teens fuelled party and now, in her mid-thirties, sheit's returned going to her home town to liveend in tragedy. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the lovely apartment she's foundconsequences. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eightTwenty-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda five years later there will be joiningan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. ItThis time, it's perfect!their teenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon0241636604|title=The SourceTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=1996If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Essex 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. Thirteen There was no posh public school on his CV -yearbut he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright -old schoolgirl Carly lives in extremely bright - and he has a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingebe stupid. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats It was his ability at what was, essentially, and offers a card game which got him an exclusive invitation to army partiesinternship with Citibank. Eventually, things start to look this turned into permanent employment as a little less bleaktrader...|isbn=1913193594

|isbn=B004O37B6AB0DB64PYV5|title=The Prime MinisterWhite Rose|author=Anthony TrollopeDave Baines

|genre=Literary Dystopian Fiction|summary=Plantagenet PalliserIn 2033, a superstorm known as the Duke of Omnium, is White Rose devastates the prime minister of a coalition government but heNorthern Hemisphere. And it's privately enraged at not a storm that gathers, wreaks havoc, then dissipates. Instead, it hovers across half the seemingly unstoppable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. Lopex is exotic Earth with its octopus- some describe him as Jewishlike tentacles, others as Portuguese but the truth is that no one knows not giving up and Lopez is not never going away.}}{{Frontpage|author=Leanne Egan|title=Lover Birds|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to explainLou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. The ladies of societyA misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, even Palliserand that's own wifedefinitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, Lady Glencoraisn't it? Because Lou is straight, are supporters but after Lopez makes an advantageous marriage Palliser is placed in the position isn't she? Even though none of having to support his wifeher relationships with boys have gone very well so far, and she's actions when Lopez loses never had a by-election. good kiss with any of them? The DukeSo she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn's payment of Lopez' election expenses in an attempt to stem gossip about his wife will come back to haunt him.t she?|isbn=000862657X

|isbn=17873320981009473085|title=How to Love Animals in a HumanThe Conservative Effect 2010 -Shaped World2024|author=Henry ManceAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)

|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groupsthat applies to ''The Conservative Effect: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''somewhere,really'' hopefully happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the next David Attenborough seriesbook for you. If that's what you' I was going to argue. I meanre looking for, cows are for cheese (I couldndon't consider eating red meatthink Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years...) It's a compelling read and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling should be compulsory for the sake of itanyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself ''The Conservative Effect'' is an animal loverentirely different beast. If I had to choose between It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. This book follows the company well-established format: a series of humans and experts from various fields review the company state of animalsthe nation when the coalition took over in 2010, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted changes that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish occurred and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortablesituation in 2024.

|author=Jessie GreengrassMax Boucherat|title=The High HouseLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass We meet Lori on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on theirsher lonesome. However What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. Todaylog on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's young generation are discovering world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that their parents this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far aheadthen she finds something even more spooky. Or they did think that far ahead For the server she and her bestie and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do"nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Raising a child When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and living her safe place in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This game has been doctored – well, where is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have girl to live.turn?|isbn=18007500720008666482

|author=Ruth HoganJenny Lecoat|title=Madame BurovaBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedoccupation. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)During the war, a girl in a humdrum job wanting Jean's father was arrested for listening to become a singer, banned radio and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Readersoldiers took him away one night, Palmist leaving Jean and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothmother waiting for years for news of him. The singer, As the British finally free the scryer and Channel islands from the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campNazis, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for and the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last daywar is finally over, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters their hopes rise that they will change everything for a woman called Billiefinally learn what became of him. Just who is sheBut will the truth come as a relief, and or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who delivered told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this timebeen kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=152937331X1846976537

|authorisbn= Jonathan Stroud1529428289|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and BrowneA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlawBecause of various property transactions, rejecting people were searching for the draconian conformity grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of the Surviving Towns bones. They dated back to World War II and Faith Houses it fell to wander the wildlands between Bruno, the Seven Kingdoms Chief of BritainPolice for St Denis, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a darker pastcrime had been committed. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down As if this isn't enough to worry about, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London LagoonDordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, It's not just the cannibalistic Tainted and all local autumn rains that have caused the horrors of post-apocalyptic society problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in release water and St Denis faces the rest possibility of Britain?|isbn=1406394815a devastating flood.

|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S152919640X|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfThe Suspect|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalRob Rinder|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. HeThe nation's let himself down ''again'favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. The school bully Jayden, together with He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because contract stated that he is short must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and has small eyescarries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. They are mean but Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they are not stupidcan be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. They are careful Her EpiPen was nowhere to wind up Remy when nobody can see be found and then push him just she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he this was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedno accident.

|isbn=B00474HVX40008385068|title=Phineas ReduxThe Midnight Feast|author=Anthony TrollopeLucy Foley

|genre=Literary FictionThrillers|summary=It's some time since we heard from [[Phineas Finn 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 Anthony Trollope|Phineas Finn]]Francesca Meadows. Having succeeded in parliament The Manor was her ancestral home and achieved a paying position he fell out with those who provided his income she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and returned to Ireland where he married Mary, his childhood sweetheartfamous. He Her husband, Owen, was fortunate to get a job in Cork (or Dublin - recollections may vary) the architect and seemed settled into a life work is still ongoing on parts of domesticitythe site. To bring Finn back, Trollope had to kill off poor Mary The heat is oppressive and Phineas emerges in London amongst the guests are enemies as well as a childless widower with a legacy from an aunt who died at just the right time to allow the move friends. Old scores are going to be possiblesettled and it won't be long before a body is found.

|author=Dean KoontzAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Other EmilyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Our hero David Thorne Written in verse, this is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. ItRonny's the western coast we're concerned withstory, a place he young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to return move to, Norwich and start at a place he has to be able to leavemostly white school. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. HeThe move is initiated by Ronny's paying mum who is worried for contact with the man he thinks the only suspectRonny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a lifer nownew town, who went a bit Hannibal Lecternew school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordrapper. David is trying But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to pry the connection between the murderer be part of a poetry writing workshop group and his girl from the man's mind, but slowly, Ronny begins to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into see the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodimentconnections between rap and poetry, and the virtual resurrection, power of his lovecreativity and crafting your words. What is a man to do?|isbn=15420199580241645441

|authorisbn=Charlie Carroll1635866847|title=The LipLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you 'Melody Janie Rowe'immediately' ' feel that this is the book for you. even Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to be, author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and maybe thatthere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the pointhomepage. To me the name sings of English folk music, I don't eat cakes and desserts - but even I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in my use of that word Englishthe book, I know which I'm putting an emmet take on thingsavoiding 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. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmetI ''loved'' this book already. |isbn=1529334179

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellRob Keeley|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition|rating=54

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyAround here, we're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when big fans of children''poof'' everything goes blanks author Rob Keeley. And itHe's not just their homea ball of happy positivity, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholehe understands children, and not just that, either, but the whole countryhe writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, if not worldto lecture or hector. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they The ''Childish Spirits''re first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part series is one of their job, and no computer can show its computationshis greatest achievements. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember StellaIt's grandmaa sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, and see if they a stalwart young girl who can get across country to cope with anything the spirit world throws at her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatand Edward, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn=14711968871783064617

|isbnauthor=1913193527Jenny Valentine|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)|author=Vanda SymonUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard of the murder of a wealthy Elk and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliff. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so Mab are best friends, or more than that she was forced to watch the murdereven, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip outbut unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady But then chance brings them back together, and certainly questionable if not illegalthey are inseparable. His company Something has happened though, Eros Globalsomething terrible and tragic, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements now they must work through their grief, andtheir friendship, well, sexual enhancers, that kind of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainedtogether.|isbn=1471196585

|isbnauthor=1529109116Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Call Me RedDungeon Runners: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonHero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=''I want Meet Kit. Like most of the image people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a British farmer team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nationexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. I don't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on Unfortunately for Kit, the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that only thing he'll be a farmer. It's not always seen of the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up latest race on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love new trio of animalsquestors is needed. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr JacksonPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday he has taken to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born goading from the token bully of his world and, although stumbled into declaring he'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be ll enter as a shepherdteam. With the determination What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbn=08575272311787333175|title=Dog DaysYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Ericka WallerBenji Waterhouse

|genre=General FictionPopular Science|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angry. ItI was tempted to read 's eight days since his wife, Ellen, died and it's the first time that sheYou Don's let him down. Het Have to be Mad to Work Here's lost, bereft without her ( he 'after enjoying Adam Kay'needs his wifes first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, like a snail needs its shell''). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the doorstepNHS, he'd much rather have a good row with someonehumour and autobiography. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn'You Don't stayingHave to be Mad... Now he's lumbered with a dog he doesn't want promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a load of busybodies who are trying psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to interfere be looking for humour in his life. Worst of all this setting but the laughter is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends directed at a situation rather than a lot of time trying to escape from person and it is always delivered with empathy and destroy themunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=B003UH99X4Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Eustace Diamonds|author=Anthony TrollopeAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=It was generally thought that Sir Florian Eustace had come Anuri spent her childhood on display to regret his marriage but he didnthe world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri't live long enough s childhood for this to become a problemsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. After his death, his wife, Lizzie - still only Now Anuri is in her late teens - was in possession of a very valuable diamond necklace twenties and was determined that she would not hand it over is slowly trying to regain her husband's executors. She was adamant that Sir Florian had given it confidence and to get her absolutelylife back, although suing her step-mother to take down the precise circumstances of the giving varied from telling to tellingcontent about her. Lady Eustace was not a woman Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to whom truth meant a great dealstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. All that was important to her nowMost importantly, she maintainedis desperately worried about her little sister, was her sonwho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. And, of courseCan she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her diamonds.father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1529047315David Chadwick|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma StonexHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=It''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two facess September 1973 in Hicks, California. You have to take them Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both, he said, the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of thema significant drive away.'' In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse Not much happens in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''Hicks. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking A silver mine and bobbing like a bath toy over defence contractor are the wavelets'' main local employers but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next dayotherwise, but there was no sign 's not much of the mennote other than dive bars and Joshua trees. The table was set for a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8Life is quiet, until.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the men.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Mary H K ChoiTom Percival|title=YolkThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Jayne Baek Will's life is difficult, in a fashion student thatmultitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about , he has the men she sleeps with. Shewrong shoes because his dad can's an all-round messy character; t work and thatdoesn's her charm. Junet have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, on and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the other college, was working a cash-in-hand, is job on a complete contrast to Jaynebuilding site and had an accident. She Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's a typical older sister: she's smartlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, thinks she knows it all, and he still has a successful jobtiny amount of hope. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices He is good at art, and clings to the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This moments of joy when he is until June finds out she's sickdrawing, and Jayne is that feel like a light at the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn= 03490036961398527122

|authorisbn=Saima Mir0008517061|title=The KhanDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=54

|summary=Jia Khan Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is settled into his rustic life at the top of her gameLittle Sky. Returning to There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the city future of her birthhis life with his vet girlfriend, to old scars Livia and fresh woundsher daughter Diana, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense as moving in together would mean a lot of honour compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008336830|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrath|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going relaxing life to jump from the Clifton suspension bridge. She talks move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smith. Nevis reservations about whether or not this is unworldly and rather reserved - the future she wants for herself and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with her. daughter? She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken to hospital For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and Nevis calls her mother, Honor. They've not been putting the future on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her motherback burner.