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|isbnauthor=1787634906David Chadwick|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideHeadload of Napalm

|summary=WeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert're in Oldcastle and Malcolm is in troubles a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in an abandoned house love with Stanza since their university days - and he's being threatened by two young peopledrunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. One is Alegra (we'll soon learn that sheMost men in Robert's Allegra Dean-Edwards) and Hugo. It seems position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that Allegra bought Malcolm a new coat to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless people, apparently) relationship had begun between them but she'd put a tracking device in it so that she and Hugo could find out where he was sleeping. It won't be long before the police realise that Malcolm was one of their owns not like most men: not many other people are going Edward is left to have stumble upon the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backstwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Jennifer SaintJo Callaghan|title=ElektraLeave No Trace

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells When a man is found crucified on the story top of three women who a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the heavily male-dominated world case and, potentially, out of Ancient Greecea career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4. Cassandra5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, ClytemnestraLaura 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 Elektra are all bit players 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 going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the story of tragedy or the Trojan Warconsequences. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that often will impact the silent women have three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the most compelling stories East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most extreme furiesrich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=14722739151035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=1529149800AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Things You Can DoAll Tomorrow's Futures: How to Fight Climate Change and Reduce WasteFictions that Disrupt|author=Eduardo Garcia Benjamin Greenaway and Sara Boccaccini MeadowsStephen Oram (Editors)|rating=45|genre=Home and FamilyScience Fiction|summary=We begin with a telling story. All the birds and animals fled when ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the forest fire took hold and most shape of them stood and watched, unable things to think of anything they could docome. The tiny hummingbird flew to the river and began taking tiny amounts of water and flying back to drop them into the fire'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. The animals laughed: what good was Well, I must confess that doingthere have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm doing left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the best probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I can'm reading someone who knows what they', said re talking about or the hummingbirdlatest conspiracy theorist. And that, really, is the only I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way that we will solve the problem of climate change – by each of us doing what we can, however small that might beI could understand.

|isbnauthor=1776574338Sunny Singh|title=Leilong's Too Long!|author=Julia Liu and Bei LynnHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=Every morning Leilong, the brontosaurus school bus, makes his way through the The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city, picking up children as he goesthat has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Children Hiding from the terrorists who live at the top of tower blocks don't even need to go downstairs – they simply climb out of the window and slide down his neck. It's perfectare rampaging through, killing everyone on site, isn't it? What could be a more fun way of going to school? There there is Sam, a problemwartime photographer and Abhi, thoughthe hotel manager. Leilong isn't happy As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the city: hotel, he's always having forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be careful about where he puts his feet cowed by events, and – because hekeeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's longer than a tennis court – he often causes damage without intending happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and traffic regularly gets snarled up. The school decides that he can't they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the bus anymoreterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=303091657X1529153298|title=Disaster in the Boardroom: Six Dysfunctions Everyone Should UnderstandThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Gerry Brown and Randall S PetersonJennie Godfrey

|genre=Business and FinanceGeneral Fiction|summary=Boards must act in the best interests of their stakeholders It's 1979 and ensure that they are well-managed and financially secureMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. This might seem obvious but a series of disasters - some of which Women have resulted in death or the collapse of a major company - have left interested parties asking what the board was doingbeen disappearing. Where were Well, they? 've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Occasionally Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the boards were unaware of what was happening or they preferred to turn family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a blind eyefrightening, leaving watchers wondering which was worse - ignorance or criminalityforeign place, best avoided. The 21st century has delivered some major company scandals but what has happened is nothing new: Gerry Brown and Randall S Peterson give us a very readable trip through such major debacles as railway maniaFor Miv, the South Sea Bubble move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and even tulip maniashe'll do anything to prevent that. Over three centuries we seem She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to have learned very littleanyone.

|isbn=15293379681398524085|title=In Place of FearHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Catriona McPhersonNicci French

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's July 1948 fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and Helen Crowther her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is due to start work as a qualified medical almoner not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the following morning - on river. It was an easy assumption for the day police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the NHS is bornguilt. SheThe Salter children are not convinced but there'll be working for Dr Deuchar s little else they can do but get on with their lives and Dr Strasser wonder about what really happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in their GP surgery December 1923 and her job will be only moved to help patients with those non-medical problems which affect their healthAthens when she was thirteen. The hardest part of the job will be Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to persuade people that make it more manageable in the services States. When she offers really are free and was back in Athens - supposedly so that they don't have to do anything to qualify she could get appropriate training for them. Some of her voice - she was raised under the problems will require delicate handling but Helen has Nazi occupation by a problem mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her own which might give preference for her some insight. Her marriage has never been consummatedelder sister, Jackie.

|author=Mark LinganeChristopher Edge|title=GalaxyBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=SparkLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, who they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an elite pilot with adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the Space Academycinema, barely makes it through a battle aliveand to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738}}{{Frontpage|author=Rachel Greenlaw|title=Compass and Blade|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. His co-pilot was not so fortunateThe call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart. Waking from '' Rosevear, a coma that lasted yearsremote and partially forgotten island, he remembers little survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is in no physical shape one of the seven who swim out to resume his dutiessurvey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But Earth is under threat when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and he mustMira's father. Returned by his superiors Desperate to the space stationsave him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he finds himself amid is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a last ditch attempt family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save humanity - and not just her father, as her journey takes her from the alien threats against itwatched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, but also from its own sins against itselfMira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear. |isbn=B09X3NZ76W0008664730

|author=Lissa EvansJames Sherwood Metts|title=WishedPlanet Storyland

|summary=When things contrive Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to spend time, along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to force Ed be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his sister Roo (aka Lucy) artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to stay with his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8}}{{Frontpage|author=A G Slatter|title=The Briar Book of the neighbourhood spinsterish old womanDead|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, Miss Fileyall mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a week while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of halfthe Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-termwitch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything theyhave sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn're not looking forward t been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, itwas Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. For one thingShe knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she thinks Wi-Fi is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a special brand of biscuitVet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. They donHis father was a GP and Rowlands didn't particularly take want to Willard eitherfollow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the new kid next door, strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who seems to ebulliently take over everything was a vet and everywherewas convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. But things soon change when they find some tiny If anything, he'd wanted to be a professional footballer.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861541774|title=A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old birthday candlesally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife - and manage he killed a Ghurka. Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to work out light that suggested that these candleshe might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.}}{{Frontpage|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, for run by Ness and operating as long an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as their flames lastNess is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, make birthday wishes and so jumps at the chance to come truehome to Edinburgh. How will things change And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=1846976596}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0811771741|title=InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=4|genre=Crafts|summary=Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a second collection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when they realise I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, having used up three of themdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, these should Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really be used nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the wishes delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of someone two generations older than them?Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=178845202X1662500491

|author=Justyn EdwardsAdam Stower|title=The Great Fox IllusionMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is Can you make a contest with a difference. No singing''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, no dancing, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks workthe question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, and who can attempt to win would it land? The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets to all of his tricks! Flick catch is determined to win, but not because she wants to own that the tricksanswer for both could well be. She is interested in just ... no. ''oneFragility'' trickis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the trick that The Great Fox stole from her father. And she's hoping if she can find that trick then she will be able to bring her missing father home.|isbn=1529501946covid pandemic