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|isbnauthor=1529379385James Baldwin|title=The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Gamache)|author=Louise PennyGiovanni's Room

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction |summary=In ''Giovanni's Room'' follows the Canadian village of Three Pinesnarrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, we're post-pandemic: the scars are still there but life an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. While David is starting to get back to normal. The villagers are beginning to return engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, the real tension in the Bistro and novel arises not from his infidelity but from the Aubergedeeper conflict within himself. They're visiting each otherIt is David's homes crippling shame and having friends and relatives to stay. A young Sudanese woman who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize is one such visitor and she soon proves denial of his sexuality that not all saints are necessarily pleasant people to be around - a bit like Vincent Gilbert, known in the village as the Asshole Saintultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=0141186356

|isbnauthor= B09F4CTKJRAshley Hickson-Lovence|title= Flights for Freedom|author= Steven BurgauerWild East

|genre=Historical FictionTeens|summary=ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's the later stages of World War I and the United States has just entered the conflict. Petrol Petronus is story, a young American black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has signed up to move to Norwich and joined the 17 Aero Squadronstart at a mostly white school. This company was the first US Aero Squadron 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 be trained settle in Canadaa new town, a new school, the first and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to be attached to the RAF music constantly, and the first has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this new school, his teacher encourages him to be sent into the skies part of a poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to fight see the Germans in active combat. But before that can happenconnections between rap and poetry, Petrol has to master flying and the notoriously difficult but majestic Sopwith Camelpower of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|isbn=183885410X1635866847|title=The Dark RemainsLavender Companion|author=William McIlvanney Jessica Dunham and Ian RankinTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Bobby Carter was a lawyer and consigliere to one of It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the major crime families in nineteen seventies Glasgowbook for you. DC Jack Laidlaw is 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 CID team charged with the investigationhomepage. I say don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There'on s a recipe in the teambook, which I'' but Laidlaw never really seems m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to be make a part mess of it. He does his own thing, goes his own way and 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 ''The Dark Remains'' uncovers the truth of why Bobby Carterloved's body was found behind one of Glasgow's seedier pubsthis book already.

|isbnauthor=1942410255Jenny Valentine|title=Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoUs in the Before and After|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=''Zangyo: overtime workElk and Mab are best friends, often unpaid'' It's the cultureor more than that even, isn't it? their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. The hours for which you're paid are really just They meet as children one day on a statement of the minimum youtrip out but unfortunately they don'll be required to do: yout get each other'll work more hours to get the job done and done to s contact details at the satisfaction of bullies like Shigeru Onizukatime. When he was found dead in front of Senden Central's headquarters in Tokyo there was nothing in the way of regret or griefBut then chance brings them back together, even from his family, but there was a mild curiosity as to whether he'd jumped from the roof of the building or been assisted in his descentand they are inseparable. Gossip revolves around the fact that he left the roof at the exact same spot that an employee Something has happened though, Mayu Yamasesomething terrible and tragic, had committed suicide some three years earlier. She'd accused Onizuka of bullying her and forcing her to now they must work an unreasonable amount of overtimethrough their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585

|isbn=02414254251787333175|title=The Man Who Died TwiceYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Richard OsmanBenji Waterhouse|rating=4.5|genre=CrimePopular Science|summary=Elizabeth Best I was a little surprised when she received the letter. It came from a man whose body she had helped tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to pull from the Thames and who had never existed but then this Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is the sort of conundrum which retired spies have Going to deal with on Hurt}}, a regular basis. When she visits glorious mixture of insight into the sender workings of the letter (heNHS, humour and autobiography. 's moved into the Cooper's Chase Retirement Village) it comes as no surprise that itYou Don's someone with whom she has a long professional history - and who used t Have to be her husbandMad... He's made a bad mistake - something ' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to do with a mask being removed within mental illness and the range work of a CCTV camera on psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a raid, situation rather than a missing twenty-million pounds in diamonds person and a few death threats. He's now in hiding it is always delivered with a young woman called Polly, who's his MI5 handler as well as being an incompetent waitressempathy and understanding.

|author=Andrew SharpOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Chef, the Bird and the BlessingAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary= Chef Mlantushi - Mozzy Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to his employer her step- ismother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, in his mindbasically, the head chef of a safari business catering to VIP guests in an unnamed African countrymonetary gain. Mozzy Now Anuri is earnest in her twenties and dedicated she is slowly trying to his task regain her confidence and he puts all of himself into creating fine cuisine dishes for the guests at BODto get her life back, suing her step-W safaris but his dream is mother to become take down the head chef of a restaurant in London or a big American citycontent about her. Even Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to win a Michelin starstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. He Most importantly, she is thwarted in this ambition by his bossdesperately worried about her little sister, Mr Bin (Ben to you and me) who incurs Mozzyis the new focus of Ophelia's disapproval for his scruffy waysonline empire. Can she save her sister, his uninterest in his guests and - shock, horror - his allowing of bush animals into perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the house.same time?|isbn=B09926MK8H0861546873

|author=Alex FoulkesDavid Chadwick|title=Rules for VampiresHeadload of Napalm

|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or Will'Leo' for short) s life is difficult, in a Vampiremultitude of ways. She drinks blood He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', she sleeps during he has the daywrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and she his dad can Grimwalk (turning into 't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a flock of bats to travel around, although not all of them remember to come back)building site and had an accident. Pretty cool stuff. Now, on Throw into that mix the night of her hundredth birthnight, she has to go out fact that his mum and hunt her first human. Howeverdad are separated, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanageWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Oops! And to make things worseyet, the ghosts he still has a tiny amount of one of the orphans hope. He is good at art, and clings to the evil master moments of the orphanage come back to haunt her. Sojoy when he is drawing, not only does Leo have to team up with that feel like a light at the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost end of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfula long, she has to do it all while hiding it from her familydark tunnel. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1398527122

|author=Tori BovalinoSylvie Cathrall|title=The Devil Makes ThreeA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary= Working all summer in her boarding school's library is the last thing Tess Matheson wants There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to do — especially when she gets a request for over a hundred books that she has to deliver herselfcompelling premise. What makes it worse And this is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. The boarding school's headmaster, and a man Tess hates. As a petty act of revenge for making her find and deliver such a large request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she can think of. They're never meant to reach him, one of course. Her plan is to get her anger out like this, and then take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her.|isbn=17890981300356522776

|isbn= B09BG8V3Q61786482126|title= Who Needs Nappies? Not Me! The Janus Stone (Everybody Potties!Dr Ruth Galloway)|author= Justine Avery and Seema AmjadElly Griffiths

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= ''Who Needs Nappies? Not Me!'' is the latest release Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'Everybody Potties!'' series from Justine Avery. This series of fun picture books aims to take apartments - when they discovered the pain out bones of potty training children and replace it a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with some funDCI Harry Nelson. It's a worthy aimdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as any frustrated parent will tell youa result of the 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 sickness.

|isbnauthor=B098FFFBH9Joan Didion|title=Snowcub|author=Graham FulbrightThe Year of Magical Thinking

|genre=Literary FictionAutobiography|summary=Fourteen-year-old Rachel This book is her schoolJoan Didion's animal rights project leader and heartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief she and endured following her friend husband's sudden death. Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are producing such a competition entry beautiful and necessary resource to highlight the way in which human beings exploit the animal worldhelp people feel less alone. She gets a great deal of support from her family: father Pip HarrisonDidion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, a lecturer at Imperial College, London, mother Kate denial and delusion and her twin, Nick. Kate runs the family businessmakes them utterly normal, lends them a toy shop called Cornucopia in Putney, which is where we'll meet Rachel's main (if unsuspected) source of information: five soft toyshuman face to wear.|isbn=0007216858

|author= Angharad WalkerAlba de Cespedes |title= The Ash HouseForbidden Notebook|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out to teach him the rules This Italian work of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety feminist fiction holds an air of Nicenesses set out by suspense and tension from the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and complete their chores, working as a hive learns about herself in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever most intimate and The Ash House will never be the same againrevealing ways.|isbn=19126269771782278222

|author=Yancey WilliamsOttessa Moshfegh|title=Crosshairs My Year of the DevilRest and Relaxation|rating=4.53

|summary=Award-winning crime writer Eddie Jablonski At best, this novel is getting on in years and, despite his strenuous objections and thanks to his daughter, finds himself living - or imprisoned, from Eddie's point of view - in room 315 of the Garden of Eden nursing home, with only a trusty nursing aide, Jenkins, for palatable company. Nothing is going to keep Eddie from his stock-in-trade scathing critique of writing though, so here, for his readers, are his wanderings through his life's work.|isbn=0986031658}} {{Frontpage|author=Philip Reeve|title=Utterly Dark modern society and reveals the Face fragility of the Deep|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=In a wordhuman relationships; at worst, rich. There it is certainly an abundance of riches in this story set on a peculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There are troll people on it, and sea-witchescynical, predictable and legends slightly trite tale of the Dark family that has to keep watch for magical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sailan unlikeable protagonist. The current Darks are the WatcherThis unlikely heroine, Andrewea slim, who has to keep notes of activity from the Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives attractive and newly orphaned girl in London her twenties is disillusioned with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and Andrewe's foundling daughter, who washed up out of the sea one day eleven years ago. But when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the world of protecting their island, like but resolves not to lose sleep over it or not: in fact, her solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=17884523721784707422

|authorisbn=Erling Kagge0008551324|title=Walking: One Step At A TimeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre= LifestyleCrime|summary= Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a book is evidenced by It's unusual for anyone from the number of pages with corners turned, so let me start this one with an apology Hardie family to approach the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not minepolice. In my defence, I will say that as a reader of this type of book there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it is subtle – I'll allow creased corners, but not scribbles – Neither side likes or has any respect for the latter we must buy our own copy – which I am about to do as soon as I have finished telling you why)other. Erligg Kagge But Davie Hardie is a Norwegian explorer who has walked struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the South Pole, the North Pole and police where the summit body of Everest. He knows a thing or two about walkingmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. However This person, this isn't a travelogue about any of those epic journeyshe promises, is someone big and it is instead a thoughtful exploration of will be worth the police doing what it means to walkhe wants. It And what he wants is a plenitude to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of unnumbered essays about walkinghis sentence and to get an early parole date. There Not much to ask, is no it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn'contentst think so and she' page s even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and I havenanyone who works with him is kept well away from what't counted. In small format paperback, each essay is only a few pages longs happening. Perhaps then, better thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|isbn=0241357705

|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1739526910|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Glen Sibley

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's 'One year after a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jacksuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's mother knew all about monsterslife, and look what happened he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to her – she diedrecover. Luckily or unluckily thenLiving with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, depending on your point he dreams of viewreconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunterlocal world of unlikely friendships, mobile discos and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact withsurprising romantic possibilities. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942

|authorisbn=Keith Gray0008405026|title=The ClimbersA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Sully is It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the best tree climber investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in the villagetheir bed. He has what Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's known amongst something about the kids as 'reach'. But what happens when a new kid shows up in town? A new kid, called Nottingham, who clambers up some positioning of the hardest trees with ease? Suddenly Sully bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is worried that his status now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is being threatened, and not only convinced that, that his chance to name the final, unnamed big tree explanation lies in the park by being the first to conquer itRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, might be snatched from his handsUna Burt) are less convinced. How can Sully stop Nottingham? And will it cost him his best friend, or maybe even all of his friends, to do so?|isbn=1781129991

|author=Emma CarrollJo Callaghan|title=The Week at World's EndLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=First, When a man is found crucified on the title. We're top of a hill in World's End CloseNuneaton, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her friends) finds fun only with sidekick, the family dog and with the boy over the roadAI detective Lock. But we could also be at World It's Endtheir first live case together, because something taking having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a great chunk of the fun away second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is the fact suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offdraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is Will they be able to make solve the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, case in no short time, or will Kat find herself taken a strong interest in off the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted case and leave, failed to leavepotentially, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit out of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles awaya career?|isbn=0571364438139851120X

|authorisbn=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston1529077745|title=Julia and the SharkThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for body of a summer, man in the far NE of the Scottish islandspark near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. Here be Vikings, that kind The dead man was Josh - one of Scottish islandthe care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. Dad D I Vera Stanhope is going called in to be automating investigate the lantern, which murder - but her only clue is his specialist thingthe disappearance of one of the residents, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkfourteen-year-old Chloe Spencer. And Julia, well, Some people believe that Chloe was responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she will be homesick and alone – until adored Josh. She knows that she suddenly finds company one nighthas to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.|isbn=1510107789

|authorisbn=Freya Sampson1399613073|title=The Last LibraryMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a libraryOlivia, since I am Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought quarter of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a buncentury. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, cat-owning, glasses on which is a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in bonus when you aim to be a bun, and she does own cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends perfectionist and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw trauma doctor. Anjali is the book out free spirit of the window, because I found I was interested in June, group and why she lived as she didbecomes a GP. Her mum used to be When we first meet them they're at a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the local libraryconsequences. And even though her mum sadly died some Twenty-five years ago, she is still working later therewill be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, still eating her mumit's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old bookstheir teenage children who are involved. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X

|isbn=00083709820241636604|title=Rock Paper ScissorsThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Alice FeeneyGary Stevenson

|genre=ThrillersAutobiography|summary=Amelia Wright is forty-two and it was the staff raffle at Battersea Dogs Home that gave her If you were to bring up an image of a weekend away city banker in a converted chapel in Scotlandyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Her husbandA hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, Adamwhere he was familiar with violence, isn't so keen poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the ideaLondon School of Economics. Like Amelia, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he knows that their marriage has been under strain: he's a screenwriter and he's never shy facility with numbers which most of making it clear to Amelia us can only envy. He also realised that he'd prefer to spend time with the novels he's hoping most rich people expect poor people to adapt than with herbe stupid. Amelia's annoyed that he never enquires about how her day has been - and working with the dogsIt was his ability at what was, many of whom have been abusedessentially, is never easya card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Still - she's won the weekend awayEventually, even if it does mean driving for eight hours in her 1978 Morris Minor Traveller with Adam beside her in the passenger seat - and then doing the same thing to come back this turned into permanent employment as a couple of days latertrader.

|authorisbn=Doug JohnstoneB0DB64PYV5|title=The Great SilenceWhite Rose|author=Dave Baines

|genre=CrimeDystopian Fiction|summary=For those whoIn 2033, like me, haven't come across a superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of whoNorthern Hemisphere. And it's who – although Johnstone does not a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creaturestorm that gathers, though it sounds as though it ought to bewreaks havoc, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigatorsthen dissipates. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctInstead, she married a scot and ended up helping to run it hovers across half the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved Earth with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jennyits octopus-like tentacles, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree not giving up and join the academic staff next termnever going away.|isbn=1913193837

|isbnauthor=1901514978Leanne Egan|title=There's a Problem With Dad|author=Carlos AlbaLover Birds

|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=Life is different for George Lovelace and he canWhen new girl, Isabel, moves to Lou't really understand why. Hes hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's always done disdain for everything he ought to: steady worker, husband and father - and a father who was always there for school plays and sports daysaround her. So why is he never quite in tune A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with those around him? Why does he upset peopleher, and that's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Why Because Lou is someone with such a straight, isn''good'' mind unable to progress at work or to relate to his colleaguest she? Why does he make Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very well so many breath-taking gaffes? Itfar, and she's almost become never had a cliche these days good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, and wanting to suggest that someone who hang out with her because fighting with her is a little different is 'on the spectrum'fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, but George Lovelace has all the symptoms of Aspergerdoesn's Syndrome: high-functioning autism.t she?|isbn=000862657X

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish1009473085|title=The HeightsConservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Anthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Ellen doesnSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't expect '' and that applies to see Kieran ''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for an easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the book for you. If that day's what you're looking for, I don't think Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, can be bettered for those tumultuous years. She It's on site, visiting a client compelling read and should be compulsory for a lighting consultation when she spies him anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's the seventh book in a building across series which looks at the wayimpact a government has made and co-editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the most important. There are lots This book follows the well-established format: a series of things, lots experts from various fields review the state of people, you might see the nation when you look out across Londonthe coalition took over in 2010, but this isn't one Ellen expected the changes that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, occurred and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand the situation in his murder2024.|isbn=1471183483

|isbnauthor=0008421714Max Boucherat|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=The problem began just after We meet Lori on the publication of George Marchfirst evening she's most successful novel got the house to herself – no neighbour to datepop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Everyone but Mrs March (we know her first name only on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. What could possibly go wrong? Every day Mrs March went Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to the local patisserie log on to buy olive bread but on that particular morning, Patricia askedVoxminer, as she was wrapping the breadworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori''but isns world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't this the first time he's based a character find herself entirely on you?'' her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. She mentioned that Johanna, For the principal character had 'server she and her mannerisms''bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Perhaps this would not have matteredWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, except for and her safe place in the fact that Johanna game has been doctored – well, where is the whore of Nantes - ''a weak, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=John BoyneJenny Lecoat|title=The Echo ChamberBeyond Summerland|rating=54

|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the few television personalities over occupation. During the age of fifty without war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells banned radio and soldiers took him she's carrying his childaway one night, but then his author wife is getting leaving Jean and her kicks with mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withwar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. They have three children, who are But will the truth come as a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverrelief, a girl who hangs or will it raise further questions around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who wants to save told the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing Nazis about the gay hustle thing. Add in a few radio? And what other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you secrets have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is been kept throughout the fact this is bloody funny.occupation?|isbn=08575262191846976537

|isbn=02419890941529428289|title=The Perfect LifeA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Nuala EllwoodMartin Walker

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the estate agent about her grave but when they found it, it came with three childrensets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, Lavenderthe Chief of Police for St Denis, Freddie to discover the identities of the bodies and Barclayestablish whether or not a crime had been committed. The boys are a bit of a handful which As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is why she's making this trip on her ownflowing at record levels. The house would be perfect for them. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the same month but now we're in Wimbledon problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and we encounter St Denis faces the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorpossibility of a devastating flood.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan152919640X|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Suspect|author=Rob Rinder

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptThe nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, from which the Departed communicate with the MergeJessica Holby, Archie now has ''gropwas 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 think aboutJessica Holby. But before that, soirees She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Soirees! Archie Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, much live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those isHolby. But he manages Her EpiPen was nowhere to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez be found and she was dead within minutes. It was crushed in the first volume of soon clear that this serieswas no accident. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbn=B07GZ81J7C0008385068|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Midnight Feast|author=Peter CottonLucy Foley

|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Meet FredIt's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Well, actually, youIt're going to be meeting Fred-Fred for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklys their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. But IIt'm getting ahead of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Freds all headed up by Francesca Meadows. Fred is a snake The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himfamous. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that he could breathe Her husband, Owen, was the architect and immediately became part work is still ongoing on parts of the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walksite. And that was where The heat is oppressive and amongst the problem startedguests are enemies as well as friends. Fred didnOld scores are going to be settled and it won't have any road sense. Or brakesbe long before a body is found.

|author= Justine Avery and Naday MeldovaRob Keeley|title= Everybody Pees! (Everybody Potties!)Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isnAround here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He'ts a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, as any parent will tell younot to lecture or hector. But really, why shouldn The ''Childish Spirits''t it be? We all have to learn about our bodily functions just as we have to learn about everything else when we are smallseries is one of his greatest achievements. Why shouldnIt't potty training be as much fun ass a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, sayand Edward, learning about why the sun a spoiled lordling and the moon take turns in the sky? first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= B098BJZYHH1783064617

|isbn=1787634493|title=All Her Fault|author=Andrea Mara|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happen. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on a play date. She was concerned that he didn't have any friends at his new school. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School in an affluent Dublin suburb with his classmate Jacob Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd- and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little later. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet Jacob's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo had disappeared. And so had Jenny's nanny.}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire NorthStanton|title=Notes from the Burning AgeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or FlemingMeet Kit. However, as with Like most of the best novelspeople in his world, it wears many masks and its most affecting one seems, he is that an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a new team of warrior, mage and timely genrehealer enter specially prepared, clicentury-fiold, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced magical mazes, and race to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destructionexit, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness perhaps bothering with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter treasure or the cost to big bad and the Earth.|isbn=0356514757}}{{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all points they grant you along the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowway. You thinkUnfortunately for Kit, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding itonly thing he's only twenty kilometres from seen of the latest race on the capital city, that this author inn TV equivalent is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningone team has been retired, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl backeaten, and a couple new trio of delighted adoptersquestors is needed. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one placePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the womantoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in ll enter as a third, even more remote placeteam. MeanwhileWhat chance does this friendless, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy postmuscle-free-natal depressionzone have in actually managing that, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader how could he possibly hope to make the right onesucceed?|isbn=191319373X1839945184