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|authorisbn=1787333175|title=K P OYou Don'Donnellt Have to be Mad to Work Here|titleauthor=The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Benji Waterhouse|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science Fiction|summary=VL-15, a prototype robot, I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is desperate Going to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answersHurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the world endedNHS, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel humour and Renadaautobiography. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting ''You Don't Have to rebuildbe Mad.. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her father.''s legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, promised the same elements but internal frictions moved from physical problems to mental illness and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader of a group the work of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfpsychiatrist. Even after being buried I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished humour in this setting but the slightest, laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and no errant machine, no savage human tribe it is always delivered with empathy and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZMunderstanding.

|isbnauthor=1838954481Mariana Enriquez|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonA Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=45|genre=CrimeShort Stories|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed Mariana Enriquez writes horror that is disturbingly real, achieving this uncanny familiarity by basing her paranormal plots on gritty realities: her settings include an abandoned field full of disused refrigerators due to an urban planning mishap, an overcrowded homeless shelter and a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He was the fifteencrime-yearridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine -old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawall within Argentina. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries The circumstances of the jury system he was found not guilty of both the murder and the manslaughter of the officer. And her characters are so lives must go on. For DI Sarah Collins plausible that means leaving the capital and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory she's drawn supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedysimilarly tangible texture.|isbn=1803511230

|isbnauthor=1035025299Onyi Nwabineli|title=Went Allow Me to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeIntroduce Myself|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Nina Stibbe is returning to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. She's been at Victoria's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writing, as there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The other side of the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable rent.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL|title=Radio Free Olympia|author=Jeffrey Dunn|rating=45

|summary= Petr 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 an orphanin 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. Rescued by the strange Anuri is battling alcoholism, reclusive Bearfailing to start her PhD, he undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human societydesperately worried about her little sister, in who is the forests new focus of WashingtonOphelia's Olympic Peninsulaonline empire. After Bear dies Can she save her sister, and a brief sojourn in human company, perhaps herself and armed her relationship with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through her father at the forest, broadcasting the strange, wild and rarely heard voices he encounters.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1635866243David Chadwick|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Headload of Napalm

|genre=CraftsThrillers|summary=It''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on a page wasn't enoughs September 1973 in Hicks, California. Creating Hicks is a pattern that was correct, clear, concise, and consistent required Mojave desert town of a great deal few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of trial LA and error, patience, and perseveranceLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me silver mine and a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line of defence contractor are the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...main local employers but otherwise, there'' It was clear that no good could come s not much of this - the instructions didn't get any better - note other than dive bars and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repaymentJoshua trees. The pattern looked prettyLife is quiet, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge and skills to enable her to connect with her knittersuntil... She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesTom Percival|title=Oscar's LionThe Wrong Shoes|rating=35

|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping to have his mother – or fatherWill's life is difficult, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book in a couple multitude of times before ways. He is bullied because he has to be ready for school. But when 'the wrong shoes', he enters has the wrong shoes because his parentsdad can' bedroomt work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, all and his dad can't work because he sees is lost his job at the college, was working a mahoosive male lion cash-in-hand job on their bed, looking sheepish, a building site and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two dayshad an accident. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to Throw into that mix the bully fact that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other monthhis mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And it can shapeshiftyet, so he can take it to school and it can get him out still has a tiny amount of a problemhope. And it's wonderful He is good at art, and clings to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intakemoments of joy when he is drawing, being much more lax about that feel like a light at the rulesend of a long, and so on. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful timedark tunnel.|isbn=00085967511398527122

|isbnauthor=B0BC3YTCMRSylvie Cathrall|title=Good Girls Die|author=Ayura AyiraA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=General Science Fiction|summary=''This story is not for everyone.'' Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, There are few greater joys than a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid book which lives up to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor himcompelling premise. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: And this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him to give her a lift homeis one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=V Castro1786482126|title=The Haunting of AlejandraJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury'This apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was a part of her past that had to stop with herno skull. She would be the one to confront Was this.'' At some point during her lifea ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Alejandra lost Dr Ruth Galloway finds herselfworking with DCI Harry Nelson. She feels It's difficult as if she is playing parts for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought to her own desiresRuth knows, her own futurebut Nelson doesn't, her own identity. Day by day that she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrongpregnant with his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. For invisible to all but Alejandra Her condition will be obvious before long, there not least because Ruth is a darkness threatening prone to consume hersudden bouts of sickness. More and more she is visited by a ghost, a weeping woman in a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wake.|isbn=1803365617

|author=Richard KadreyJoan Didion|title=The Pale House DevilYear of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorAutobiography|summary=Ford and Neuland are a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through the This book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you see, and the other is undead, and so one Joan Didion's heartbreaking autobiographical account of them kills the living, and the other kills the undeadgrief she endured following her husband's sudden death. (Only not each other, obviously). They're Books that shed light on taboo topics like death are such a job in New York that goes badlybeautiful and necessary resource to help people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for a while delusion and find some other work to keep makes them utterly normal, lends them going. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them human face to kill the 'something' that appears to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!wear.|isbn=18033638940007216858

|authorisbn=Helen Cooper0008551324|title=The Taming of the CatDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against catIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. In this case, principally, we have Brie Neither side likes or has any respect for the mouse, up against Gorgonzola the cat – other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and in case youhe're seeing a connection, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all s prepared to tell the names used here seem to be police where the names body of cheesesa missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. AnywayThis person, he promises, Brie is shunned, scorned someone big and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits don't match it will be worth the other mice police doing what he lives withwants. They nibble up paper wrapping from And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art remainder of his sentence and makes stories based on the visuals on itto get an early parole date. And that story-telling will come in handy one nightNot much to ask, when he feels all alone is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and cast out. Itshe's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories even prepared to keep themselves alive. This makes Brie do the top dog in the mouse community, though, as all the others had the chance to halfother thing that Hardie demanded -inch some cheese while the cat was distractedmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs out?|isbn=0571376010

|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M1739526910|title=Super Short Stories: Flash FictionWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Mark C WallfischGlen Sibley

|genre=Short StoriesGeneral Fiction|summary=''Got One year after a minute to be amused, entertainedsuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley's life, or challenged?''''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one he arrives in a flashan unfamiliar Devon town to recover.''''Some are funnyLiving with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, he dreams of reconnecting with everything he has lost. Some are poignant. All are short.'' Question: how do you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions But as those tentative plans falter, he becomes swept up in a book of them? I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isn't a fixed definition local world of flash fiction but that for this collectionunlikely friendships, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone for a three hundred word limitmobile discos and surprising romantic possibilities. That's about a single page in your average paperback.'

|isbn=17328987660008405026|title=The Adventures of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk DragonA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=When we first meet Birpus and Bulbus theyIt're running for their lives in the Forest of Fine Reputes sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. Their greatest fear has come about: She was never found and the Sour Milk Dragon is chasing theminvestigation ground to a halt. He's right behind themNow, her mother, spewing hotHelena, sour milk from his nostrilsand her father are dead in their bed. (Please don't try this at home: Initially, it wonlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't end wells something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby LobWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-lolly and- and when shut case is now a ladder of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escapedcomplex double murder. They climbed up to Kerrigan is convinced that the Tree Wee homes high up explanation lies in the tangled woods where they lived with their Grand WeesRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Nester Nook and Granny CrannyUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=14722639361529077745|title=The FigurineDark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Victoria HislopAnn Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to Greecethe park near Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. She The dead man was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had left Josh - one of the family home and refused care workers who was due to return, work a shift the night before but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew who had never turned up without knowing her grandparents or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the family apartment in upmurder -market Kolonaki would be but her only clue is the first disappearance of one of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maidresidents, Dina, but was wary fourteen- and frightened year- of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannisold Chloe Spencer. He Some people believe that Chloe was proud of his close connections to responsible for the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values death but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included HelenaVera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestorsdiary makes it clear that she adored Josh. She knows that she has to find Chloe to discover what happened to Josh.

|authorisbn=Cody Goodfellow1399613073|title=VerticalMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5

|summary= ThereOlivia, 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 cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's something about tall buildings that just captures my imaginationgoing to end in tragedy. Who doesn We don't love a good view from up highknow who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, after all? Even the drabbest office building is somewhere I'm intrigued to get inside if it's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people their teenage children who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedare involved.|isbn= 1803363991

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold0241636604|title=Finding BearThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, April had been on Bear Islandyou're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, a lot further north than many people would venturewhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearinjustice. Back home, things There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the domestic London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and family front are he has a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so facility with numbers which most of us can easily only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear stupid. It was his ability at what was last left on, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. For Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and woundedtrader.}}{{Frontpage|author=Leanne Egan|title=Lover Birds|rating=4. Desperate 5|genre=Teens|summary=When new girl, Isabel, moves to make sure heLou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's OKdisdain for everything around her. A misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, but Lou feels her pulse racing every time she and looks at Isabel or speaks with her father return to the Arctic , and hope that in a world 's definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, isn't it? Because Lou is straight, isn't she? Even though none of her relationships with boys have gone very white well so far, and very dangerous thingsshe's never had a good kiss with any of them? So she just finds herself watching Isabel, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – wanting to hang out with her because fighting with her is fun, and that the friendship can continue.she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=0008582017000862657X

|isbn=18041832101009473085|title=No ReserveThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Felix FrancisAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=45|genre=ThrillersPolitics and Society|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldnSometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''isn't have been on the rostrum when the colt '' and that applies to ''The Conservative Effect: 2010- as yet unnamed 2024 - came up 14 Wasted Years?''. If you're looking for auction, but Peter Radwayan easy read which will deliver the inside story about what ''really'' happened on certain occasions, then this isn't the chairmanbook for you. If that's what you're looking for, hadnI don't arrivedthink Anthony Seldon's book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, so he continued his sessioncan be bettered for those tumultuous years. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would It's a compelling read and should be an understatementcompulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. Brian Kitman It's the seventh book in a series which looks at the impact a government has made and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were wellco-known and respected in editor Sir Anthony Seldon regards this as the racing industrymost important. Jennings was in one This book follows the well-established format: a series of experts from various fields review the cubicles in state of the toilets nation when the two men came coalition took over in and their conversation revealed that 2010, the horse had been deliberately bid up to changes that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, occurred and the horse was dead situation in its stall2024.

|author=Sarah WilsonMax Boucherat|title=This One Wild and Precious The Last Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldof Lori Mills|rating=34.5|genre= LifestyleConfident Readers|summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is We meet Lori on the one in which first evening she asks ''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 her lonesome. What is it you plan to do with your could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one wild main intention, and precious life?'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to be living my one wild and precious life log on to Voxminer, the way I want to. Sarah Wilson world-building, critter-collecting game that is equally luckya hit in Lori's world. In her book But first Lori has a tiny inkling that takes Oliverthis stormy night doesn's words as t find herself entirely on her title (though I can't see that own, and then she acknowledges finds something even more spooky. For the source) server she pushes us and her bestie and nobody else should be able to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be livingenter shows signs of tampering. Her answer is an unequivocal ''noWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, we are not''. Don't care what you're doingand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, she thinks you (we, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are not.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=17856338480008666482

|isbnauthor=1839948493Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeWhite Nights

|genre=Children's Non-FictionShort Stories|summary=In As always in Dostoyevsky, the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogscharacter work is sublime. In nearly eight decades, I've One is never met one I didn't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt the same about human beings. So, any book about dogs, I'm going to sit down and devour. Then I'm going to go back left wondering what a character is thinking or feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World of Dogs'', temperaments with ninety-six pages devoted entirely to my four-legged friends. Author Carlie Sorosiak found herself the accidental owner of an American Dingo - she's learned quite a lot about dogs since thenremarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785

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

|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OK, actually she was gently nudged into it It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by her friend, Rupert) to caretake a luxury property in the Australian outback for a couple of monthsFrancesca Meadows. After the problems The Manor was her ancestral home and she'd had at work, s converted it seemed like just into an impressive retreat for the break she neededwealthy and famous. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police in London: she was Jess who Her husband, Owen, was returning to the country of her birth architect and in need work is still ongoing on parts of the space to get over site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the traumatic end of her relationship with Charlesguests are enemies as well as friends. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticketOld scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.

|author=Rachel HarrisonJames Baldwin|title=Bad DollsGiovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLiterary Fiction |summary=It's been some time since I've read any horror. I had a couple of misspent teen years reading Stephen King, borrowing the books from a boy I fancied at school and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldnGiovanni't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear of the vampires outside! Don't worry - this short story collection isn't like that! It doesns Room't have those jump scares, and I didn't have to read it during daylight hours only! But it is creepy, and I found most of that feeling came from follows the fact that these are stories about womennarrator David, an American man living normal lives, and that at least in partParis, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as a breakuphe navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and an Italian bartender he meets in a coping with griefgay bar.|isbn=1803363932}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up While David is engaged to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfillHella, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling who is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come travelling in handy now or Spain, the real tension in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve novel arises not from his infidelity but from the purposedeeper conflict within himself. Almost everything can be used one more time It is David's crippling shame and any purchase must pass the test denial of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming his sexuality that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside binultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s|isbn=0141186356

|authorisbn=Lauren St JohnB0DGDJRHYD|title=Finding WonderNowhere Man|author=Deborah Stone

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficultIn a quiet suburban house, Patrick is making his final plans. Her mum died when she was youngA meticulous man, and now she finds herself awoken in the middle he makes sure of the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way every preparation, down to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticketlast detail. When asked what other family she hasSome last reflections, she can only name her auntand then he says goodbye to his wife, Jonithe world, who she knows her dad didnand his life. It't think very highly ofs horribly sad. But she has no one elseAt work in her shop, and so his wife Diana is fending off she goes to live with yet another phone call about her unreliable aunt. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she ageing and Joni leave London in Joni's old campervanailing mother, it breaks down in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169who needs extricating from yet another accident. It will be a while before Diana realises what Patrick has done.

|isbnauthor=1448309743Virginie Despentes|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro RamsayKing Kong Theory

|genre=CrimeAutobiography |summary=In the village of Cronchie on the West coast of Scotland''King Kong Theory'' is a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, five members of which can be seen as a call to arms for women in a wealthy family are found murderedphallocentric society broken at its core. The only item missing from Originally written in French, the home book is a collection of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her experiences as a woman through the Devil Stonecomplex prism of her varied life: myth says that if the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will followrape to sex work and pornography. The only suspects Though these discussions are known Satanists but in many waysintertwined, that's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' their placement within the body. The Senior Investigating Office is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearsbook can feel somewhat disjointed, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to 'shadow' hima reflection of their original form as independent essays.|isbn=191309734X

|author= Kay ChronisterJames Baldwin|title= Desert CreaturesGiovanni's Room|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian Literary Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanity''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeoverAmerican man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre gay bar. While David is a way for humans engaged to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister Hella, who is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of travelling in Spain, the real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the fears that exist for humanity todaydeeper conflict within himself. It is a shocking novel David's crippling shame and denial of his sexuality that still manages to find hopeultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=18033649980141186356

|author=Christopher FowlerAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Word MonkeyWild East|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyTeens|summary= ItWritten in verse, this is Ronny's the first of August in the middle of story, a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to swim Norwich and start at the pool in favour of going to my beach huta mostly white school. The weather closed 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 ina new town, rain arriveda new school, and I decided not to do that eitherkeep himself out of trouble. When I finished reading this bookHe listens to music constantly, I realised it was because (and has always dreamed of being a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackrapper. No spoiler alertsBut now, in this new school, the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. There is something very strange about being made teacher encourages him to laugh by be part of a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingpoetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the connections between rap and you know he actually is at that pointpoetry, because he does. He didand the power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=08575296250241645441

|isbn=15290776991635866847|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)Lavender Companion|author=Ann CleevesJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=''It's all bloody peculiarstrange, isnthe things that make you 't it, Sir?'immediately'' Well yes, it feel that this isthe book for you. Jem Rosco blew into Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the local pub one evening in the middle author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of an autumn gale, stayed for about a month slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and then turned updesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, naked which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and dead, in I was told to make a small boat, anchored mess of it. Notes in Scully Cove close the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the village corners of Greystone, in Devonpages. Rosco had the status You suspect that smears of butter would not be a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''problem. I ''nearlyloved'' said 'all-round good egg' but as we'll find out, he could be more than a little bit close with money and his background isn't exactly an open this bookalready. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?

|isbnauthor=B0CC9W7GLRJenny Valentine|title=On Us in the Beach: The Winter Visitor|author=Chris Green Before and Jenny FiondaAfter

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Kit Elk and Teal were just beginning to wonder whether it was better to be at homeMab are best friends, bored but warmor more than that even, or frozen cold and building sand sculptures on their friendship is a snowy beach when once in a large slab of silvery ice drifted onto the shorelinelifetime connection. On top of They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the ice was a polar beartime. As the ice bumped onto the sandBut then chance brings them back together, the bear woke and with wobbly legs moved from the icethey are inseparable. Kit was all for making a run for it Something has happened though, but Teal knew that the bear was hungry something terrible and gave him one apple tragic, and then another. He obviously needed to be taken home on the bus now they must work through their grief, and given a good meal and somewhere to sleeptheir friendship, together. What else would you do?|isbn=1471196585

|author=Claire NorthAlba de Cespedes |title=House of OdysseusForbidden Notebook|rating=54|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''What could matter more than love?'' The follow-up to This Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the excellent ''Ithaca'' picks up a few months after where we left off. In the palace of Odysseusmoment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, with delicate care Queen Penelope continues to rule without purchases her husbandforbidden notebook, who sailed to war at Troy and then by divine intervention never returned homelearns about herself in the most intimate and revealing ways. As ever she remains surrounded by suitors vying for the throne |isbn=1782278222}}{{Frontpage|author=Ottessa Moshfegh|title=My Year of Rest and Relaxation|rating=3|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=At best, this novel is a scathing critique of the Western Isles. Having survived – politically modern society and physical – reveals the chaotic storm that Clytemnestra brought to Ithaca's shoresfragility of human relationships; at worst, Queen Penelope it is on the brink cynical, predictable and slightly trite tale of an unlikeable protagonist. This unlikely heroine, a fragile peace. One that shatters however slim, attractive and newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with the return of Orestesworld, King of Mycenaebut resolves not to lose sleep over it: in fact, and his sister Elektra, seeking refugeher solution lies in her hibernation.|isbn=03565160751784707422

|isbnauthor=1529427045Jo Callaghan|title=The Girl in the Eagle's Talons|author=Karin SmirnoffLeave No Trace|rating=54

|summary=''Life has more to offer than people - prime numbers for example''. Lisbeth Salander has headed north to When a man is found crucified on the small town top of Gasskasa hill in Nuneaton, where DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the so-far-untapped natural resources of case alongside her sidekick, the area have sparked a gold rushAI detective Lock. The criminal underworld has not It's their first live case together, having previously been slow in coming forwardvery successful with several cold cases. Salander's niece's mother But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is the latest woman in the area to have vanished without trace. It was only suddenly struggling with reluctance that Salander became her niece's guardian but it quickly becomes obvious a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that Svala is draws a remarkably gifted teenager who's unaware lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the part Salander played case in her father's death.time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=B0CCCPJJ5BB0DB64PYV5|title=The Last Person in the WorldWhite Rose|author=Matthew TreeDave Baines

|genre=ThrillersDystopian Fiction|summary=Our narrator was In 2033, a scholarship day boy at superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the London-based public school where he met Ralph FinnsNorthern Hemisphere. It was an unusual relationship as Ralph was And it's not a boarder and had money to throw around on a Rolex watchstorm that gathers, wreaks havoc, vintage wines and a state-of-the-art sound systemthen dissipates. Both were probably quite surprised when they became almost friends and certainly more than acquaintances. Finns had no intention of going on to University, unlike our storyteller who had a place at Wolverton College in WellingfordInstead, it hovers across half the UK's third most prestigious university. Before going upEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, he took not giving up a loose invitation to visit Ralph at his home, Clouds Manor in West Dorsetand never going away.