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|isbn=14711801581787333175|title=Maybe TomorrowYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Penny ParkesBenji Waterhouse|rating=5|genre=Popular Science|summary=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 Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding. }}{{Frontpage|author=Mariana Enriquez|title=A Sunny Place for Shady People|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=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 crime-ridden neighbourhood where safety meetings are routine - all within Argentina. The circumstances of her characters are so plausible that the supernatural or otherworldly horror which seeps into these spaces adopts a similarly tangible texture. |isbn=1803511230}}{{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upperAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-class grocery store, for a man whomother Ophelia's a control freak with all the subtlety increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a half brick. JamieAnuri's sonchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Bobasically, 'has his problems'monetary gain. He's asthmatic Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and the more you readto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrumcontent about her. Sometimes Jamie needs Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to take time off at short notice - start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she's a frequent flier in is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the local A&E and sometimes Bonew focus of Ophelia's not fit enough to go to schoolonline empire. Missed shifts or Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the need to be away on same time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a head.?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Harry AllenDavid Chadwick|title=Children Headload of the SunNapalm|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a North Korean Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and she is Las Vegas both a talented singersignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. Life is hard A silver mine and food is difficult to come bya defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, so Seo there's not much of note other than dive bars and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every eveningJoshua trees. Life is quiet, looking for tree bark and edible grasses to supplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at homeuntil....|isbn=1805140493B0D321VJ76

|author=Edel RodriguezTom Percival|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=WeWill're in childhoods life is difficult, and we're in Cubaa multitude of ways. The revolution He is bullied because he has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of 'the countrywrong shoes', he has proven himself a Communist, the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and not done nearly doesn't have enough to create a level playing field money for all. Welleven the most basic of things like food, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking and his time away. Our narrator's family werendad can't in work because he lost his job at the happiest of places herecollege, an uncle refusing to be the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to some minor prowas working a cash-in-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the father being watched fact that his mum and watcheddad are separated, and not liked for his successful photography businessWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, success being frowned uponhe still has a tiny amount of hope. The mother gets He is good at art, and clings to the couple jobs with the party to ease some moments of the heatjoy when he is drawing, but in this sultry island country, it remains that feel like a light at the kind end of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=14746167201398527122

|author=K P O'DonnellSylvie Cathrall|title=The Vital Link (A Spark in Letter to the Ashes)Luminous Deep|rating=3.5

|summary=VL-15, There are few greater joys than a prototype robot, is desperate book which lives up to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answers, the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over half-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuildcompelling premise. Dr Amelia Wong And this is determined to continue her father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down again. Craig Anderson, leader one of a group of salvagers called the Exhumers, has his entire life turned upside down when he unearths a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfthem. Even after being buried for 65 years, her determination hasn't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZM0356522776

|isbn=18389544811786482126|title=The MisperJanus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Kate LondonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: there's no doubt about that. He Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was the fifteengoing to hold seventy-yearfive 'luxury' apartments -old holding when they discovered the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawbones of a child beneath a doorway. He pulled the trigger but due to the vagaries of the jury system he There was found not guilty of both the no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder and the manslaughter of the officer. ? And so lives must go onInevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. For DI Sarah Collins It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that means leaving the capital and hoping for she is pregnant with his child as a quieter life in result of the countryside but when a missing teenager one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is found on her territory she's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit prone to sudden bouts of Ryan Kennedysickness.

|isbnauthor=1035025299Joan Didion|title=Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeThe Year of Magical Thinking|rating=4.5

|summary=Nina Stibbe This book is returning to London for a sabbatical after being away for twenty years. SheJoan Didion's been at Victoriaheartbreaking autobiographical account of the grief she endured following her husband's smallholding in Leicestershire which isn't all sudden death. Books that conducive shed light on taboo topics like death are such a beautiful and necessary resource to writinghelp people feel less alone. Didion unpicks unpleasant feelings surrounding death like self-pity, denial and delusion and makes them utterly normal, as there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The other side of the decision was sealed when lends them a room became available (courtesy of Deborah Moggach) at a very reasonable renthuman face to wear.|isbn=0007216858

|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL0008551324|title=Radio Free OlympiaThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Jeffrey DunnNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary= Petr It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is an orphanstruggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. Rescued by the strange This person, reclusive Bearhe promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society, in to be transferred to an open prison to serve the forests remainder of Washington's Olympic Peninsulahis sentence and to get an early parole date. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human companyNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through the forest, broadcasting she's even prepared to do the strange, wild other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and rarely heard voices he encountersanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|isbn=16358662431739526910|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing HandbookWhere I've Not Been Lost|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Glen Sibley

|genre=CraftsGeneral Fiction|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on One year after a page wasnsuicide attempt blows apart musician Brian O’Malley't enoughs life, he arrives in an unfamiliar Devon town to recover. Creating a pattern that was correctLiving with an unexpected housemate at his former manager’s holiday home, clear, concise, and consistent required a great deal he dreams of trial and error, patiencereconnecting with everything he has lost. But as those tentative plans falter, and perseverance.'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me he becomes swept up in a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. The first line local world of the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitches...'' It was clear that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with a refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repayment. The pattern looked prettyunlikely friendships, but the creator didn't have the basic knowledge mobile discos and skills to enable her to connect with her knitterssurprising romantic possibilities. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook''.

|authorisbn=Adam Baron and Benji Davies0008405026|title=Oscar's LionA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to have his mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple of times before he has to be ready for schoolhalt. But when he enters his parents' bedroomNow, all he sees is a mahoosive male lion on their bedher mother, looking sheepishHelena, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two daysher father are dead in their bed. But Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to 's something about the positioning of the bully bodies that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other monthmakes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. And it can shapeshift, so he can take What looked as though it was going to school be an open-and it can get him out of -shut case is now a problemcomplex double murder. And itKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's wonderful to have around the house – not limiting his biscuit intakeboss, being much more lax about the rules, and so onUna Burt) are less convinced. OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.|isbn=0008596751

|isbn=B0BC3YTCMR1529077745|title=Good Girls DieThe Dark Wives (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ayura AyiraAnn Cleeves

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=''This story is not A man walking his dog in the early morning discovered the body of a man in the park near Rosebank, a care home for everyonetroubled teens.'' Lavender Daniels The dead man was three weeks short Josh - one of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happenedthe care workers who was due to work a shift the night before but who had never turned up. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo D I Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate the murder - people were afraid to hug but her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin only clue is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeenthe disappearance of one of the residents, fourteen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice herChloe Spencer. Then he did: Lavender Some people believe that Chloe was very good at math and Reggie asked if responsible for the death but Vera thinks this is unlikely as the girl's diary makes it clear that she would tutor himadored Josh. She readily agreed: tutoring was something knows that she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went has to find Chloe to his house and he raped her. In shock, she even allowed him discover what happened to give her a lift homeJosh.

|authorisbn=V Castro1399613073|title=The Haunting of AlejandraMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorThrillers|summary=''This was Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a part quarter of her past that had to stop with hera century. She would be the one to confront this.'' At some point during her life Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if she which is playing parts for others in her life – her husband and her children – without ever giving any thought a bonus when you aim to her own desires, her own future, her own identity. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there is something fundamentally wrongbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. For invisible to all but Alejandra, there Laura is a darkness threatening to consume herperfectionist and a trauma doctor. More Anjali is the free spirit of the group and more she is visited by becomes a ghost, GP. When we first meet them they're at a weeping woman drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in a fraying white gown dripping with watertragedy. We don't know 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, it's their teenage children who leaves distress in her wakeare involved.|isbn=1803365617

|authorisbn=Richard Kadrey0241636604|title=The Pale House DevilTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=HorrorAutobiography|summary=Ford and Neuland are If you were to bring up an image of a couple ofcity banker in your mind, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought you're unlikely to think of them through the book was as a couple of strange detectives! someone like Gary Stevenson. One of them is living, you see, A hoodie and jeans replaces the other pin-stripe suit and his background is undeadthe East End, and so one of them kills the livingwhere he was familiar with violence, poverty and the other kills the undeadinjustice. (Only not each other, obviously)There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. They're on a job in New York that goes badly, Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for he has a while and find some other work to keep them goingfacility with numbers which most of us can only envy. But when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill the 'something' He also realised that appears most rich people expect poor people to be haunting stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot of family historycard game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, and this turned into permanent employment as a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!|isbn=1803363894trader.

|author=Helen CooperLeanne Egan|title=The Taming of the CatLover Birds|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Once againWhen new girl, mice are pitched against catIsabel, moves to Lou's hometown of Liverpool from London Lou immediately feels Isabel's disdain for everything around her. In this caseA misunderstanding between them leaves them hating each other, principally, we have Brie the mousebut Lou feels her pulse racing every time she looks at Isabel or speaks with her, up against Gorgonzola the cat – and in case youthat're seeing a connections definitely because Isabel makes her feel so cross, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. isn't it? Anyway, Brie Because Lou is shunnedstraight, scorned and, if you must, mous-tracised, for the way his habits donisn't match the other mice he lives she? Even though none of her relationships with. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And that story-telling will come in handy one nightboys have gone very well so far, when he feels all alone and cast out. Itshe's almost as if there were another character from fable who never had had to tell stories to keep themselves alive. a good kiss with any of them? This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse communitySo she just finds herself watching Isabel, though, as all the others had the chance and wanting to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs hang outwith her because fighting with her is fun, and she definitely just hates Isabel, doesn't she?|isbn=0571376010000862657X

|isbn=B0CDZRGT1M1009473085|title=Super Short Stories: Flash FictionThe Conservative Effect 2010 - 2024|author=Mark C WallfischAnthony Seldon and Tom Egerton (Editors)|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesPolitics and Society|summary=Sometimes it's simpler to explain a book by describing what it ''Got a minute isn't'' and that applies to be amused, entertained, or challenged?''The Conservative Effect: 2010-2024 - 14 Wasted Years?''These 100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can If you're looking for an easy read one in a flash.which will deliver the inside story about what ''really''Some are funny. Some are poignant. All are short.happened on certain occasions, then this isn'' Question: how do t the book for you review flash fiction? How do you give a flavour of a fully rounded little story if . If that story is told in fewer than three hundred words? Or do 's what you try to draw out themes from all the flash fictions in a book of them? 're looking for, I don't know! Perhaps we could start by explaining that there really isnthink Anthony Seldon't a fixed definition of flash fiction but that for this collections book, {{amazonurl|isbn=B0BH7SKG2S|title=Johnson at 10}}, author Mark C Wallfisch has gone can be bettered for those tumultuous years. It's a three hundred word limitcompelling read and should be compulsory for anyone who thinks Johnson should return to politics. That ''The Conservative Effect'' is an entirely different beast. It's about 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 well-established format: a single page series of experts from various fields review the state of the nation when the coalition took over in 2010, the changes that occurred and the situation in your average paperback2024.

|isbnauthor=1732898766Max Boucherat|title=The Adventures Last Life of Birpus and Bulbus: Book One: The Sour Milk Dragon|author=Wynn Everett-Albanese, Michael Albanese and Indre Ta (Illustrator)Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=When we We meet Lori on the first meet Birpus and Bulbus theyevening she're running for their lives s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the Forest of Fine Repute, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Their greatest fear What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has come about: one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the Sour Milk Dragon world-building, critter-collecting game that is chasing them. Hea hit in Lori's right behind them, spewing hot, sour milk from his nostrilsworld. (Please don't try But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this at home: it wonstormy night doesn't end wellfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky.) Fortunately, they were nearly at Nobby Lob-lolly - For the server she and her bestie and when a ladder nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of moss and vines was lowered for them, they escapedtampering. They climbed up to the Tree Wee homes high When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the tangled woods game has been doctored – well, where they lived with their Grand Wees, Nester Nook and Granny Cranny.is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482

|isbnauthor=1472263936Fyodor Dostoyevsky|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopWhite Nights

|genre=General FictionShort Stories|summary=It was As always in 1968 that Helena McCloud made her first trip to GreeceDostoyevsky, the character work is sublime. She was alone: her mother, Greek by birth, had One is never left the family home and refused to return, but Mary and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be wondering what a pity if Helena grew up without knowing her grandparents character is thinking or understanding her Greek heritage. Her trip to the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visits. She grew to love her grandmother and the family's maid, Dina, but was wary - feeling because Dostoyevsky lays bare their innermost dispositions and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate them. His prejudices included Helena's red hair and green eyes - inherited from her father's Scottish ancestorstemperaments with remarkable clarity.|isbn=0241619785

|authorisbn=Cody Goodfellow0008385068|title=VerticalThe Midnight Feast|author=Lucy Foley|rating=34.5

|summary= ThereIt's something about tall buildings that just captures my imaginationmidsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. Who doesn It't love a good view from s their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up highby Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, after all? Even Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the drabbest office building site. The heat is somewhere I'm intrigued oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to get inside if be settled and itwon's 40 stories tall. So when I picked up this book – about people who scale tall buildings for fun – I was instantly intriguedt be long before a body is found.|isbn= 1803363991

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldJames Baldwin|title=Finding BearGiovanni's Room

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction |summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]''Giovanni's Room'' follows the narrator David, April had been on Bear Islandan American man living in Paris, a lot further north than many people would ventureas he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with an Italian bartender he meets in a polar bear – that she called Beargay bar. Back homeWhile David is engaged to Hella, who is travelling in Spain, things on the domestic and family front are a bit advanced, real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left ondeeper conflict within himself. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure heIt is David's OK, she crippling shame and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world denial of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and his sexuality that the friendship can continueultimately dooms his relationship with Giovanni.|isbn=00085820170141186356

|isbn=1804183210B0DGDJRHYD|title=No ReserveNowhere Man|author=Felix FrancisDeborah Stone

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came up for auctionIn a quiet suburban house, Patrick is making his final plans. A meticulous man, but Peter Radwayhe makes sure of every preparation, down to the chairmanlast detail. Some last reflections, hadn't arrived, so and then he continued says goodbye to his session. To say that he was shocked when wife, the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatementworld, and his life. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot It'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industrys horribly sad. Jennings was in one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came At work in her shop, his wife Diana is fending off yet another phone call about her ageing and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figureailing mother, who needs extricating from yet another accident. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stallIt will be a while before Diana realises what Patrick has done.

|author=Sarah WilsonVirginie Despentes|title=This One Wild and Precious Life: the path back to connection in a fractured worldKing Kong Theory|rating=3.54|genre= LifestyleAutobiography |summary= My favourite Mary Oliver line is the one in which she asks ''What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?King Kong Theory'' I get to love that line so much because my answer is ''This! Precisely this.'' I'm lucky enough to a hard-hitting memoir and feminist manifesto, which can be living my one wild and precious life the way I want seen as a call toarms for women in a phallocentric society broken at its core. Sarah Wilson Originally written in French, the book is equally lucky. In a collection of essays in which Virginie Despentes explores her book that takes Oliver's words experiences as a woman through the complex prism of her title (though I can't see that she acknowledges the source) she pushes us varied life: from rape to think about whether we really ''are'' living the life we want – the best life that we could be livingsex work and pornography. Her answer is an unequivocal ''no, we Though these discussions are not''. Don't care what you're doingintertwined, she thinks you (wetheir placement within the book can feel somewhat disjointed, I) could be doing more…And she's effing furious about the fact that we are nota reflection of their original form as independent essays.|isbn=1785633848191309734X

|isbnauthor=1839948493James Baldwin|title=A World of Dogs|author=Carlie Sorosiak and Luisa UribeGiovanni's Room|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=In the interests of full disclosure, I must tell you that I'm a sucker for dogs. In nearly eight decades, I've never met one I didnGiovanni's Room't trust and I've loved most of them. I wish I felt follows the same about human beingsnarrator David, an American man living in Paris, as he navigates his torturous affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender he meets in a gay bar. SoWhile David is engaged to Hella, any book about dogswho is travelling in Spain, I'm going to sit down and devourthe real tension in the novel arises not from his infidelity but from the deeper conflict within himself. Then IIt is David'm going to go back s crippling shame and read it properly. And so it was with ''A World denial of Dogs'', his sexuality that ultimately dooms his relationship 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 thenGiovanni.|isbn=0141186356

|isbnauthor=1405951680Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title=The Safe House|author=Cameron WardWild East|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=Jess Walker accepted an offer (OKWritten in verse, this is Ronny's story, actually she was gently nudged into it a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by her friendRonny's mum who is worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, Rupert) and so Ronny finds himself trying to caretake settle in a luxury property in the Australian outback for new town, a couple new school, and keep himself out of monthstrouble. After the problems she'd had at workHe listens to music constantly, it seemed like just the break she neededand has always dreamed of being a rapper. She was no longer a data analyst for the Metropolitan police But now, in London: she was Jess who was returning this new school, his teacher encourages him to the country be part of her birth a poetry writing workshop group and in need of , slowly, Ronny begins to see the space to get over connections between rap and poetry, and the traumatic end power of her relationship with Charles. A few weeks in the Otway Ranges in Victoria sounded like just the ticketcreativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441

|authorisbn=Rachel Harrison1635866847|title=Bad DollsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesLifestyle|summary=It's been some time since Istrange, the things that make you ''immediately''ve read any horrorfeel that this is the book for you. Before I had a couple of misspent teen years started reading Stephen King''The Lavender Companion'', borrowing I visited the books from a boy I fancied at school author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and scaring myself half silly with them to the point that I couldnthere't shut my bedroom curtains at night for fear s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the vampires outside! homepage. DonI don't worry eat cakes and desserts - this short story collection isn't like but I wanted that! cake viscerally. It doesn(There't have those jump scaress a recipe in the book, and which I didn't have to read it during daylight hours onlym avoiding with some difficulty!! But it is creepy, ) Then I started reading the book and I found most was told to make a mess of that feeling came from it. Notes in the fact that these margins are stories about women, living normal lives, and sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that at least in part, the horrors arises from very normal situations such as smears of butter would not be a breakup, trying a new dieting app, going to a hen party and a coping with griefproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1803363932

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

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

|author=Lauren St JohnAlba de Cespedes |title=Finding WonderForbidden Notebook

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficult. Her mum died when she was youngThis Italian work of feminist fiction holds an air of suspense and tension from the moment our protagonist, Valeria Cossati, purchases her forbidden notebook, and now she finds learns about herself awoken in the middle most intimate and revealing ways.|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 modern society and reveals the night by the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to fragility of human relationships; at worst, it is the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she hascynical, she can only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didn't think very highly predictable and slightly trite tale ofan unlikeable protagonist. But she has no one elseThis unlikely heroine, a slim, attractive and so off she goes to live newly orphaned girl in her twenties is disillusioned with her unreliable aunt. Things continue the world, but resolves not to get worse for Roo, as when she and Joni leave London lose sleep over it: in Joni's old campervanfact, it breaks down her solution lies in the middle of nowhere and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!her hibernation.|isbn=05713761691784707422

|isbnauthor=1448309743Jo Callaghan|title=The Devil Stone (DCI Christine Caplan)|author=Caro RamsayLeave No Trace

|summary=In the village of Cronchie When a man is found crucified on the West coast top of Scotlanda hill in Nuneaton, five members of a wealthy family are found murdered. The only item missing from DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the home is the Devil Stone: myth says that if case alongside her sidekick, the stone is removed from Otterburn House, death will followAI detective Lock. The only suspects are known Satanists but in many ways, thatIt's an easy conclusion given that two of them 'discovered' the bodytheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The Senior Investigating Office But when there is DCI Bob Oswald but when he disappearsa second body found crucified a few days later, DCI Christine Caplan Kat is pulled in suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to 'shadow' himtheir AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X

|authorisbn= Kay ChronisterB0DB64PYV5|title= Desert CreaturesThe White Rose|author=Dave Baines|rating= 4|genre= Dystopian Fiction|summary= With a world that is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanityIn 2033, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is a robotic takeover, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. ''Desert Creatures'' by Kay Chronister is a new work of post-apocalyptic fiction that aligns many of superstorm known as the White Rose devastates the fears that exist for humanity todayNorthern Hemisphere. It is a shocking novel that still manages to find hope.|isbn=1803364998}}{{Frontpage|author=Christopher Fowler|title=Word Monkey|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary= ItAnd it's the first of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East Anglia. I decided not to swim at the pool in favour of going to my beach hut. The weather closed in, rain arrived, and I decided not to do that either. When I finished reading this book, I realised it was because (a) I wanted to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alerts, 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 to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you storm that he is dyinggathers, and you know he actually is at that pointwreaks havoc, because he doesthen dissipates. He did.|isbn=0857529625}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529077699|title=The Raging Storm (Two Rivers)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=''It's all bloody peculiar, isn't it, Sir?'' Well yesInstead, it is. Jem Rosco blew into hovers across half the local pub one evening in the middle of an autumn galeEarth with its octopus-like tentacles, stayed for about a month and then turned not giving up, naked and dead, in a small boat, anchored in Scully Cove close to the village of Greystone, in Devon. Rosco had the status of a national treasure: a renowned adventurer, round the world sailor and all round ''celebrity''. I ''nearly'' 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 booknever going away. Where did he get the money for his first boat? How did he finance the trip?