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|isbnauthor=0751581577David Chadwick|title=Lying Beside You|author=Michael RobothamHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5

|summary=Elias Haven murdered his parents It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and his twin sisters two days after his nineteenth birthdayLas Vegas both a significant drive away. Voices told him to do itNot much happens in Hicks. Only two people survived the carnage - Elias, who was sent to Rampton, A silver mine and his thirteen-year-old brother, Cyrus, who hid in a shed until defence contractor are the police found him. Twenty years latermain local employers but otherwise, Cyrus is a forensic psychologist and hethere's been told that his brother not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is being releasedquiet, until.... Can Cyrus forgive the sinner whilst having to live on a daily basis with the results of the crime? Can he bear to have Elias living in the same house? How will his lodger, twenty-one-year-old Evie Cormac, cope?|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|isbnauthor=140595115XTom Percival|title=A Stranger on Board|author=Cameron WardThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Right from the beginningWill's life is difficult, we know this will not turn out wellin a multitude of ways. Eight days into He is bullied because he has 'the trip to deliver wrong shoes', he has the superyacht wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'Escapet have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can'' to Antiguat work because he lost his job at the college, all 300 tonnes was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and six decks will be floundering without power in the Atlantichad an accident. Those of Throw into that mix the crew who fact that his mum and dad are left will be cowering separated, and Will's life seems bleak in fear a fellow crew member tries to pick them off, one by oneevery direction. Some are already deadAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. They are three days from shore He is good at art, and there clings to the moments of joy when he is no way drawing, that feel like a light at the end of making contact. But let's go back to when all this starteda long, in Southamptondark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|isbnauthor=1398508632Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Wilderness Cure|author=Mo WildeA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=LifestyleScience Fiction|summary=It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a There are few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with greater joys than a variety of terrains. She had electricity book which allowed her lives up to run a fridge, freezer and dehydrator. She had a car - and fuelcompelling premise. Most importantly, she had shelter: And this was not a plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produceis one of them.|isbn= 0356522776

|isbn=16358646740008517061|title=Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and MoreDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Joy HowardStig Abell

|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=''Think of it as no-whining diningFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky.'' We know it's a fruit rather than There’s perhaps a vegetable but little uncertainty about the fact that so many people get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato is. Then there are all the different typesfuture of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, not to mention the cultivars as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and you begin relaxing life to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her there - I have no affection reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the ones you find moment they’re enjoying life in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from present and putting the ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. Personally, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's not at all precious if you get future on the tasteback burner.

|isbn=02419890271786482126|title=We All Have Our SecretsThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Jane CorryElly Griffiths

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Harold Gentle advertised for liveBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -in help as he the site was failing going to cope at Willowmead House on his ownhold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. His advert was fairly specific: he There was a retired lawyer needing help but he also spoke of the ability to cook a good steak, enjoy decent wine and be free from any food fadsno skull. The first person who came to the house was Francoise, Was this a French woman in her early twentiesritual killing or murder? Inevitably, who fit the bill perfectlyDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. She got the job It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Francoise didnNelson doesn't know about the advert: , that she was there for is pregnant with his child as a completely different reasonresult of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Emily Gentle Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is Harold's daughter and she came prone to Willowmead House because she was running away from a problem in London. Emily's a midwife and her last shift had seen her lacking concentration and a complaint had been madesudden bouts of sickness.

|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Ewald Arenz and Rachel Ward The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=Tasting SunlightNeil Lancaster

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Sally is a teenager who has run away It's unusual for anyone from an anorexia treatment clinic. She just wants space, and for people the Hardie family to stop questioning her, tiptoeing around her, and trying to fix her without ever truly understanding her. She finds herself on some farmland with a woman called Liss who is in her forties and seems to live aloneapproach the police. Liss is unlike Neither side likes or has any respect for the other adult Sally has ever met. She just accepts Sally as she But Davie Hardie is, giving her a room to sleep struggling in, prison and he's prepared to tell the space to just be. As they work together on police where the farm, body of a closeness develops between themmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, becoming a beautifulhe promises, powerful friendship.|isbn=1914585143}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Mason|title=Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=''A struggling poetry zine, a mom-is someone big and-pop mobile diner in it will be worth the Northern California redwoods, a 400-meter hurdler who just missed police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the 2004 Olympics, a women's track coach with a yen for bullwhips, a billionaire with a state-remainder of-the-art S&M dungeon, a man serving a life his sentence in Alabama, and to get an enigmatic signatureearly parole date. Not much to ask, K(s, x), on a cheap oil painting, an erotic art dealer in Georgia...is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' This is just a sample of s even prepared to do the cast of characters other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and settings in Preposterous. As you can see, some keeping up will be required! The basic premise of this mystery story goes like thisanyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening...|isbn=B09STS96HS

|authorisbn=Will Brooker0008405026|title=The Truth About Lisa JewellA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=Meet [[:Category:Lisa Jewell|Lisa Jewell]], It's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one of the most successful British authors I've never knowingly readsummer night. Now meet Will Brooker, one of the thousands of less successful authors I quite confidently She was never have read. This book starts with the two meeting each other, as well, found and shows how 2021 drew the two closer and closer togetherinvestigation ground to a halt. The meeting was some unspecified combination, it seemsNow, of her anecdote about cup cakesmother, the words of her latest book she was recitingHelena, and her being father are dead in a ''black lace mini-dress with gold brocade'' (certainly a get-up never commonly worn at the author events I get to attend), but pulled Brooker, a professor of cultural studies who has swallowed Roland Barthes, down the rabbit-hole that is Jewell's diverse outputtheir bed. Brooker decides he'd Initially, it looks like nothing more than to follow her through a year in the published authorstraightforward murder/suicide but there's life, working to make a success something about the positioning of the latest title, bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and struggling with the next in lineher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Jewell, due diligence appropriately done, agreesWhat looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. And this Kerrigan is convinced that the resultexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.|isbn=1529136024

|isbn=18011092650571379877|title=The CompanionKellerby Code|author=Lesley ThomsonJonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary=James Ritchie thought of himself as ''Edward Jevons is a punctual working-class young man who was inexplicably never on time, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He' and he was s also self- as usual - late to pick up his sonobsessed, Wilburdemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for their 'boys' day out'him. These were always Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days which appealed more to James than to Wilbur - and, competing for the boyhe's attention, his mother, Anna, promised him a roast dinner when drunkenly confided how he returnedfeels to Robert. The dinner Most men in Robert's position would never be served, as James and Wilbur are the victims of stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a double stabbing on the beach. The case falls to DI Toni Kemp of Sussex police. Sherelationship had begun between them but he's feeling not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the pressure. You can always tell - she shoplifts Snickers Bars when the going gets toughtwo of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|isbnauthor=152941363XJo Callaghan|title=To Kill a Troubadour (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerLeave No Trace|rating=4.5

|summary=''Nobody knows what the truth is any more.'' Bruno Courrèges When a man is found crucified on the police chief for St Denis and much top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the Vézère valley and works closely with Commissaire Jean-Jaques Jalipeau (known as 'JJ')case alongside her sidekick, the head of detectives for the départment of the DordogneAI detective Lock. TheyIt're not just policemen - they're both deeply committed to the well-being and prosperity of this most beautiful part of France. The discovery of an old, stolen Peugeots their first live case together, crashed and abandoned in a ditch wouldn't normally have worried them so much had it not having previously been for the strange bullet, very successful with Russian letters stamped on the base, which they found in the carseveral cold cases. OhBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and there was a golf ball too, which didn't belong to the owner very high profile case that draws a lot of the car. A golf bag would be a good place unwanted attention to hide a sniper's weapontheir AI Future Policing project. Was there going to Will they be an attempt able to kill someonesolve the case in time, or were will Kat find herself taken off the detectives being pushed in case and, potentially, out of a certain directioncareer?|isbn=139851120X

|isbn=02415424051399613073|title=Meredith AloneMoral Injuries|author=Claire AlexanderChristie Watson

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=When we Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first meet Meredith Maggs it's Wednesday 14 November 2018 day of medical school and she's not left her home their friendship would keep them inseparable for 1,214 daysa quarter of a century. She'd ''like'' to: in factOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, she so nearly does. Her outdoor clothes are on and she's even considered which shoes is a bonus when you aim to wear if she's going to catch her trainbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Then, she can'tLaura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. She simply can't force herself to leave Anjali is the safety free spirit of her home. She's fortunate that the group and she has becomes a good friend, Sadie, who visits regularly with her two children, James and MatildaGP. SadieWhen we first meet them they's re at a cardiac nurse drug and alcohol-fuelled party and full of sound common sense. In fact it was Sadie who gave Meredith her cat, Fred. Groceries are online deliveries and there's also an internet-based support group where you'll find Meredith as JIGSAWGIRL, so you can guess what she does going to end in her spare timetragedy. Then Tom McDermott arrives. HeWe don's from Holding Hands, a charity which supports people with problems such as Meredith's.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B09Y451X9K|title= Greetings, aliens!: (do pop in for tea)|author=Richard F Walker|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary= ''Anything can happen at a birthday party, particularly when the birthday boy is t know who suffered the young Lord of tragedy or the Manorconsequences. But when Twenty-five years later there will be an eerie signal is picked up in eerily similar event that will impact the early hoursthree friends. This time, George and his new girlfriend, the vivacious Lady Antonia, embark on a quest to uncover its incredible message. Things get complicated when some total spoilsport lets the cat out of the bag and the world goes into a state of panic.it'' Could it be? Could it? Have aliens reached out and contacted Earth? George and Antonia find themselves lifted out of s their privileged lives of parties and drunken shenanigans and catapulted into the world of advanced science, secret agents.and politicians hungry for powerteenage children who are involved.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan0241636604|title= Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to HellThe Trading Game: Archibald Lox series, book 7 A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary= So. WeIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're back unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the Merge with pin-stripe suit and his background is the first chapter in the third volume of Darren Shan's saga of Archibald LoxEast End, a young man who can pick the locks of portals from our world to anotherwhere he was familiar with violence, called the ''Merge''poverty and injustice. Since There was no posh public school on his last adventure, Archie has persuaded his foster parents into a slightly uneasy truce on CV - but he had been to the topic London School of his regular disappearancesEconomics. They don't ask too many questions Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and Archie he has settled into a fairly peaceful routine facility with numbers which most of visiting Winstonus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, his lock-picking mentor in the ''Merge'' and showing Kojoessentially, the young guardiana card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, around our world of the Bornthis turned into permanent employment as a trader. |isbn= B09Z2MTCZD

|authorisbn=John Henry Phillips1035021803|title=The SearchAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=Archaeology cannot be childIt's play, when you're scraping in twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the dirt looking to find what you can find, often knowing there should be something there but not always confident whatEnglish country village where she grew up. Archaeology must be She's back now because of a fair bit harder when you set out to find some specific thingrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. This book Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is a case of dead and the lattercircumstances seem suspicious, as our author promises to locate the topic of say the titular searchleast. And he really hasn't made it easy for himself – Arthur was the search area is a wide one, reason why Freya had not been back to the target might not exist any more – ohvillage: Arthur, and it's underwatershe feels, when he cannot divelet her down badly. Latching on Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to a particular D-Day veteran through helping be near the heroic old man's visit back to Franceor pursue the profession she loved. After the split, our author has promised to find the landing craft that delivered him to Normandyshe worked in a cafe, met and that he was lucky to survive when it sank married James (on the rebound from beneath him. The secondary aim is to erect a memorial to everyone else aboard, the vast majority love of whom perishedher life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced. Who else would make such promises to someone in their nineties?|isbn=1472146182

|authorisbn=Fiona LongmuirAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Looking for EmilyAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Lily''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. She and her mother have just moved from a city to a tiny seaside town called Edge, and everyone from '' I've heard it said mother to her teacher are making demands of Lily that she make new friends. It turns out that she doesn't have any say in the matter, for while pretending when phoning home that she was with someone called Emily, she technology' is unaware her neighbour, Sam, is just about to make herself known, and in a big waywhat happens after you're eighteen. But where does Emily come from? Well, Lily used I must confess that name because there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what she'd just stumbled into – a mysterious collection of s advantageous to me but I'm left with the most mundane objects, in some converted houses behind a most unassuming door, in a place calling itself feeling that it'The Museum s all getting away from me. Some of Emily'it is - frankly - quite frightening. Sam is completely unaware of this 'museum' Of course, too, leaving I could research the possibilities and the two girls to make sure probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they leave no stone unturned in finding what's behind re talking about or the intrigue.latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.|isbn=1839942754

|isbnauthor=B09XZMCDVFSunny Singh|title=Stories: 13 tantalising tales|author=Richard F WalkerHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesThrillers |summary=''A news vendor The Hotel Arcadia is crying out the headlines in the middle of the night; a wheelchair user loses touch with reality when he tries walking around in his imagination; a stickler for correct grammar goes back luxury hotel in time to correct an iconic quote; unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a volunteer teacher proves terrorist group. Hiding from the ideal person to have around in a lawless village; the new boy terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on the pub football team site, there is very useful with his feetSam, a wartime photographer and awfully familiar…'' This collection of thirteen short stories by Richard F Walker has a lot Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to offer care remotely for the eclectic reader. Tying them together is residents who are still alive in the idea that remarkable and strangehotel, even miraculoushe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, things can happen to ordinary people. And that ordinary doesn't mean boring or uninteresting. Form and tone varies so this little treasury keeps on venturing out of short fiction is never boring and you're never quite sure her room to try to capture what's coming nexthappened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=18009012321529153298|title=Stitched UpThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Steve ColeJennie Godfrey

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a fashion designerIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) Life in the rural village where she lived with her She's not what's worrying Miv's family was happy, if not prosperousthough. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so when the smartly-dressed man and woman came to the village to offer Hahn a job in Hanoi it was an opportunity not to be missedfrightening. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the mini-bus to Hanoifamily 'Down South'. OnlyWhen you're from Yorkshire, Hanh and the other girls were not going to work in Down South is a shopfrightening, they were to work in virtual slavery in an illegal garment factoryforeign place, best avoided. You know those jeans you really wanted: For Miv, the ones with intricate embroidery move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and beading on the legs? The ones with the artfully-placed rips and distressed seams she'll do anything to prevent that felt so soft when you touched them? . ItShe's quite possible not worried about the dangers or that Hanh and her coMum's stopped talking -workers made themto anyone.

|author=Daisy Hildyard|title=Emergency|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=The summary of this book doesn't come close to explaining what is done with the premise.|isbn=1913097811}} {{Frontpage |author=Sally Oliver 1398524085|title=The Weight of Loss |rating=4 |genre=Literary Fiction |summary= Marianne is grieving. Traumatised after the death of her sister, she awakes to find strange, thick black hairs sprouting from the bones of her spine which steadily increase in size and volume. Her GP, diagnosing the odd phenomenon as a physical reaction to her grief, recommends she go to stay at Nede, an experimental new treatment centre in Wales. Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As Marianne's memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.|isbn= 086154112X }}{{FrontpageHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Kjell Ola Dahl and Don Bartlett (translator)|title=Little DrummerNicci French|rating=35

|summary=Part of the Oslo Detectives seriesCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, this crime story is a mixture of police procedural Paul and Ollie and thrillerher daughter, Etty. Beginning with the death of a young woman in a carpark, that looks very much like an overdose, it unravels into a farare all worried but - strangely -reaching investigation of murderher husband, fraudAlec, and international pharmaceutical dealingsis not. Our two detectives are Gunnarstranda Shortly afterwards, Etty and FrolichGreg, who end up working separately on find the case as Gunnarstranda remains body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in Norway whilst Frolich is led the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to Africa as they follow the twists make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and turns of then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the investigationguilt. Gunnarstranda and Frolich The Salter children are tenacious, chasing down the truth in increasingly difficult, frustrating circumstances, trying hard to uncover the truth as not convinced but there's little else they are sure that something much bigger, can do but get on with their lives and much more dangerous, is going onwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1914585127

|isbn=00085414771035906708|title=Clarice Bean: Scram!Diva|author=Lauren ChildDaisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=It was a hot summer day right at the beginning We tend to think of the summer holidays and Clarice Bean Maria Callas as Greek, but she was bored: ''Nothing ever happens except for sometimes... And only on rare-sh occasions, which is hardly ever.'' There are seven members of the Bean family living born to Greek parents in the house: Grandad (who lives on the ground floor because he's wobbly)Manhattan, Mum and DadNew York, Clarice's older brother, Kurt in December 1923 and younger brother, Minal Cricketonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. ThereHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's also Marcie, whoCallas's main claim to fame seems to be that she steals the batteries from Clarice's torch, which means that she can't read make it more manageable in the airing cupboardStates. Clarice would love to have someone who listened to When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her, rather than wanting to talk, but voice - she was raised under the only one Nazi occupation by a mother who does that is Granny mercilessly exploited her and she lives in New York. The Bean family is ''different''made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|isbnauthor=0711266204Christopher Edge|title=The Secret Life of Birds|author=Moira Butterfield and Vivian Mineker (illustrator)Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=I have recently discovered Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a great pleasure: I sit and watch movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the vast numbers nickname of birds which visit our garden on a daily basis'The Black Hole'. An hour can pass without my noticing. IAll big movie fans, they've established which species feed from the ground, which pop re looking forward to the feeders for a quick snatch lots of some food exciting films, and who settles in for a good munch but I wish I was more knowledgeable. many, many snacks! It would have been wonderful ifHowever, as a childthe movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, I'd had access to a book such as ''The Secret Life of Birds'and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. So – But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is itgoing on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|isbnauthor=1737030942Rachel Greenlaw|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jolly Walker BittickCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre= AnthologiesTeens|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'GoodiesI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. I first encountered his writing about a year agoMira, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]]like her mother before her, a rollicking tale is one of what happens the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when five young men find the Council Watch lays a base for their partyingtrap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Right nowDesperate to save him from death, I didn't want Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a full-length novelfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, so I turned as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to this anthology the heart of verse and short stories. Bittickthe smuggler's writing has matured - territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and so have his charactersthe ones she holds most dear. Well... most of them!|isbn=0008664730

|author=Caryl Lewis and George ErmosJames Sherwood Metts|title=SeedPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Marty has two parental figures in his life, and they both might be thought of as complete embarrassments. His grandfather runs an allotment, and manages to stink Things have been a bit sticky for the entire town out from it when he douses it in fish guts each spring to fertilise his vegetablesEarthlings. His mother somehow combines the dual roles of housebound failure AI and hoarder – while she seems automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do nothing and hasn't left the building in years she has still managed other tasks that took time to accomplish. Just as they were beginning to fill it get used to the brim with junk. What Marty's classmates don't know about all this they can draw lines technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to from how poor Marty always looksspend time, with his one school uniform built from lost propertyalong came an awful pandemic. We see him as once again the council threaten her Life was pretty much shut down and him , along with evictionit, and as he celebrates his birthday with all the gift from his grandfather of a solitary plant seedmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=15290776641736128426

|author=Sophie CameronMatthew Tree|title=Our Sister, AgainWe'll Never Know

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=After Isla's older sister Flora dies, her family struggle Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to find a way forward. In particularbe different from his father, Isla's mum who can’t seem to be able to let her daughter go. When Isla passes her mum's details onto a support group she finds online, she thinks they might be able to help. But actually, it turns out they are part drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of an experimental company his artistic passions all failed miserably and who offer the family the chance had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to have Flora back again, in robot form. But this won't just be a look-a-like. They use all of Flora's online historyhis studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and interviews with family and friends, and through this data they will recreate Flora as closely as possibleset himself high but achievable ambitions. But what will it really mean for the family, to have Flora back? And is it really Flora at all?|isbn=1788953916B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1398507504A G Slatter|title=Cold Reckoning|author=Russ ThomasThe Briar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeFantasy|summary=DS Adam Tyler never believed '' There's a part of me that his father committed suicide and wants to keep this just to myself for the however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last sixteen years he. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'s been searching for evidence to prove that he's right. When  Within a frozen body was found in Damflask Reservoirremote mountain pass, far away from the world, there was lies Silverton; a link back to town under the protection of the Briar's, a cold case family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from 2002the Darklands. There didn't immediately seem Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be any connection with DI Richard Tylerborn 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 death but Adam Tyler senses a link to cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the case his father was investigating before he died. Above all theretown's a growing sense that leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the criminality of Det Supt Stevens is going rare ability to be brought out into communicate with the dead, putting her at the openheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Perhaps Tyler is going Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to get do as the answers he needs?Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=07278505471529900360|title=Blind Justice (DS McAvoy 10)The Ghost Orchid|author=David MarkJonathan Kellerman

|summary=Acting DI Aector McAvoy It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even had time after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for breakfast when the call came throughhis help on difficult cases. A body had been found in His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the roots help of a fallen tree at Brantingham, near Hullpsychologist only worked for a while. When he gets to the sceneFinally, it was Robin, he will find what greets him is even worse than he could have imagined. A young manDelaware's corpse is entangled with the roots of a newly-fallen tree – the roots have grown through him – and two silver Roman coins have been nailed through his eyespartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It would seem She knew that this the involvement was done whilst something that the man was still aliveshe loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. McAvoy makes Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a promise to the victim: I will find answers. You will know justiceremote property in Bel Air. But justice always comes at a cost He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and this time the cost might be she is married to McAvoyan extremely rich man and it's own familynot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Natalia Garcia Freire1529395224|title=This World Does Not Belong To UsLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Early comments on this debut novel from Ecuadorian writer Natalia García Freire include Tremendous, a delightSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. I will agree with the first – tremendous is no understatement – but ' His father was a delightGP and Rowlands didn' is perhaps using t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the expression in a way Istrain that being on-call put on his father'm not familiar s life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience witha family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. I have to confess my ignorance of the SpanishIt hadn't -language literary tradition as with so forgive my generalisation heremany students - been his dream since he was a child. From the little I have read (in translationIf anything, I donhe't read Spanish) there does seem d wanted to be a tendency towards the fantastical – the mystical realismprofessional footballer. |isbn=0861541901

|authorisbn= Ann Sei Lin0861541774|title= Rebel SkiesA Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating= 54|genre= TeensCrime|summary= Kurara DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, taken a massive dining hall floating short holiday in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come Singapore to drink and make merry between their conquestsmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. However, when Maik was involved in a man named Himura arrives to tell her street brawl - he would later maintain that she is he was facing a Crafter like him, someone man armed with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a power sought after all across the Empireknife - and he killed a Ghurka. He asks her to come with him Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to leave the life of dreary servitude light that suggested that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won't he might have any say in planned to murder the matter, because man. Now he could be facing the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a shikigami, diplomatic incident and she is forced to flee out into the worldwouldn't help Danny at all. She joins Himura aboard the Orihime, a sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and a whole world of adventure awaits her…|isbn=1406399590

|author=Patrice LawrenceAlexander McCall Smith|title=NeedleThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=34.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=BraveThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Charlene Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, the 'heroine' of this piece as Ness is extremely hard planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for some people to like, characters and readers botha while. Kicked Katie is coming out of multiple homes and schools, she's fostering a break up with a pleasant yoga tutor, Anniebad boyfriend, and has taken up residence in her son Blake's old room while he's so jumps at unithe chance to come home to Edinburgh. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of a comfort blanket And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, you might perhaps thinkbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the creation of one such item is part of the plot hereIsabel Dalhousie novels, as Charlene is but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in running a wonder knitterbusiness, and is or in match-making something , but Ness has full of love for confidence in her younger sister – a younger sister sheabilities, and there's allowed contact with no more. We see Charlene prove always her belligerence with a store detective, very helpful (and then force people to give her two days off school, when she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... wellrather handsome) neighbour, what exactly happens is not for me to sayWilliam, only to remark how sharp and pointy those knitting needles can be...lend a hand…|isbn=18009010111846976596

|isbn=14059409800811771741|title=The BirdcageInstaKnits for Baby|author=Eve ChaseMelissa Leapman

|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=ItMelissa Leapman's the 7th ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of January 2019 and we know that a body has been pulled out knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the sea at Zennor 'long, cosy afternoons in Cornwallfront of the fire' variety. We donThe projects are divided by the time they't know whose body it is. Four days earlierll take to complete - less than five hours, Florafive to ten hours, Kat ten to twenty hours and Lauren had gathered at Rock point at more than twenty hours. All the request of their fatherprojects are attractive, Charlie Finch, a famous artistmodern and useable. The girls are actually I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects'halfbut that''-sisters and their dates of birth are embarrassingly closes 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. Finch was known for He loses his job, he loses his fecundityfiancee, if not for and his fidelityhouse gets trashed. ItOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's been a long time since possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the girls have been at Rock Point together: just over twenty years agothing that has trashed his house! The thing is, at Benny is the time of very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the total eclipsedelivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, something happenedwho has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Kat Spike is going to take care of Benny, and Flora were obviously involved but Lauren was will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a victim and itwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's left her very wary of her sisterswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|isbnauthor=1787634906Adam Stower|title=No Less the Devil|author=Stuart MacBrideMurray and Bun

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=We're in Oldcastle Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and Malcolm friendly cat, one who is in troubleable to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. He's in an abandoned house and But he's being threatened by two young people. One is Allegra (we'll soon learn that shea bad magician's Allegra Dean-Edwards) cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and Hugothe catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. It seems that Allegra bought Malcolm This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a new coat troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to keep him warm (she often does this for homeless peoplebe honest, apparently) but shehe's turned up and he'd put ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B0C47LV1PC|title=Fragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Can you make a tracking device in ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it so ? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that she and Hugo the answer for both could find out where he was sleepingwell be.... no. It won ''Fragility''t be long before is set as the police realise that Malcolm was one city of their own: not many other people are going Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to have emerge from the restrictions imposed during the Oldcastle police crest tattooed on their backs.covid pandemic