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|isbnauthor=1785633457David Chadwick|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges Headload of England by Electric Car|author=Clive WilkinsonNapalm|rating=4.5|genre=TravelThrillers|summary=Clive Wilkinson has It's September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a history Mojave desert town of travelling by unconventional means a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a preference for slow travelsignificant drive away. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England Not much happens in an electric car was not totally outrageousHicks. In factA silver mine and a defence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive there's not much of note other than dive bars and his wifeJoshua trees. Life is quiet, Joan, shouldn't it?until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76

|author=Frederic SeagerTom Percival|title= Jesus, the Man and the Myth: A Jewish Reading of the New TestamentThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre= Spirituality and ReligionConfident Readers|summary= Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. I He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was brought up working a cash-in -hand job on a family where religion played little or no partbuilding site and had an accident. Culturally Irish Catholic on one side Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Welsh Methodist on the otherWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, nobody really discussed religion and the adults around me ranged from lapsed to agnostic clings to atheist. Other than the odd church wedding or baptism or moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the school nativity playend of a long, I didn't think too much about faith or what people did or didn't believedark tunnel.|isbn=B092BWWG9Y1398527122

|isbnauthor=0571370977Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)Science Fiction|summary=It's six months since the dramatic events There are few greater joys than a book which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke lives up to a compelling premise. And this is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst one of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.|isbn= 0356522776

|authorisbn=Julia Bartz0008517061|title=The Writing RetreatDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Roza ValloFormer Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. Anyone in There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the world future of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend his life with an impressivehis vet girlfriend, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with Livia and her breakthrough noveldaughter Diana, published when she was barely out as moving in together would mean a lot of childhood. Alex, a writercompromise: does Jake give up his off-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed grid and relaxing life to move in with Roza, and Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, the future she is invited to be part of wants for herself and her month-long writers' retreatdaughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.|isbn=0861544439

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix1786482126|title=Different for BoysThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Ant is Builders were demolishing an old house in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised Norwich - the site was going to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togethera child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only Was this a single-sex school can formritual killing or murder? Inevitably, the talk in class and out often turns to sexDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Which is confusing for AntIt's difficult as Ruth knows, as he but Nelson doesn't know what his score , that she is, where pregnant with his achievements in that regard lie. He's had child as a casual relationship, a secret result of the one, for several night they spent together some three months now, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sureago. And that's mostly Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of who he's been having the relationship and the sex withsickness.|isbn=1529509491

|author=M R Carey|title=Infinity Gate|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|isbn=0356518043}}{{Frontpage|isbn=13985095820008551324|title=The FavourDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Nicci FrenchNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5

|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when 's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the car crash happenedpolice. It would cause problems Neither side likes or has any respect for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he 's prepared to tell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and Jude Winter were together. She who was utterly driven by responsible for her determination to go to medical schooldeath. Liam was This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the reversepolice doing what he wants. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and carried him along''to get an early parole date. A bit of weed hereNot much to ask, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didnis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - or rather, Liam simply didnmake certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what't see Jude any mores happening.

|isbn=08570517410008405026|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson InvestigationStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Jane Casey

|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heIt's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found in a freezer at and the home of investigation ground to a deceased alcoholichalt. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitationsNow, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Raimo Koskela disappeared without Initially, it looks like a trace in 1962. He was straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the father positioning of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromthe bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rebecka wants nothing What looked as though it was going to do with a fiftybe an open-yearand-old shut case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is now a dying man's wishcomplex double murder. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes Kerrigan is convinced that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholicexplanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, was also murderedUna Burt) are less convinced. Is there a connection between the two deaths?

|authorisbn=Robert Dugoni0571379877|title=Her Deadly GameThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5

|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed a theatre director. He'The Irish Brawler' due s also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to his reputation run errands for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence of his clientshim. Along Edward has been in love with an indisputable talent for the law, Patsy also has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion Stanza since their university days - and inevitably the latter was beginning he's drunkenly confided how he feels to overshadow the formerRobert. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself Most men in the hideous Robert's position of asking her father for would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a job at relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the family firm because two of them kissing in a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southdark passageway.|isbn=1662500181

|author= Rob KeeleyJo Callaghan|title= The Boy Who Disappeared and Other StoriesLeave No Trace

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= Hooray! Bookbag favourite Rob Keeley When a man is back with found crucified on the top of a return hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the short story format! The Boy Who Disappeared treats us to eleven new talescase 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, each as fun Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to read as his previous offeringstheir 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= B0BVW69N1G139851120X

|authorisbn= Michael Grothaus1399613073|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre= Literary FictionThrillers|summary= ''But fearing something Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and having it come to pass are two different thingstheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, or we can take steps which is a bonus when you aim to change itbe a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around Anjali is the question free spirit of identity the group and acceptanceshe becomes a GP. Of what When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it means 's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be humanan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Of what is real and what is artificial This time, and whether the development of technology is exciting or frighteningit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=191458564X

|isbn=B09BLBP3P80241636604|title=Neville Chamberlain's WarThe Trading Game: How Great Britain Opposed Hitler, 1939-1940A Confession|author=Frederic SeagerGary Stevenson

|genre=HistoryAutobiography|summary=Received wisdom and simplified narrative often lead If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to misconceptions about historythink of someone like Gary Stevenson. One such A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the scrubbing from 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 popular imagination London School of the early days Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of World War II from 1939-40us can only envy. He also realised that most rich 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, known this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|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'Phoney War's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. We remember Neville Chamberlain appeasing Hitler Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, war breaking outshe feels, and Churchill coming let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to save be near the man or pursue the dayprofession she loved. Very little time is spent on this period After the split, she worked in cultural reflections a cafe, met and yetmarried James (on the rebound from the love of her life, as Frederic Seager argues in this book, it who was of vital significance in how the war played outmurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.

|isbn=0760378134AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The First-Time GardenerAll Tomorrow's Futures: Container Food GardeningFictions that Disrupt|author=Pamela FarleyBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Home and FamilyScience Fiction|summary=If you''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've ever thought how good heard it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised said that 'technology' is what happens after you wouldn't know where to startre eighteen. Well, this is the book you needI must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. ItI's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, ve kept up reasonably well with what you're going s advantageous to grow, what youme but I'll grow m left with the feeling that it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containerss all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, how you'll water I could research the possibilities and fertilise them the probabilities and you finish end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshootinglatest conspiracy theorist. There's also I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a good glossaryway I could understand. So, is it any good?

{{frontpage|isbn=1803363002Frontpage|author= Eric LaRoccaSunny Singh|title= The Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereHotel Arcadia|rating= 3.5|genre= HorrorThrillers |summary= Horror taps into something primeval within us. It The Hotel Arcadia is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process themluxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'' Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, whether that there is a home invaderSam, a monster or a ghost, it usually something tangible wartime photographer andAbhi, by the end of hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the storyhotel, beatable. Eric LaRoccahe forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like thathappened through her photography. It is a collection of short stories more interested in Although they only ever talk over the horrors of illnessphone, grief and humiliation. Horrors that linger 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 harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|authorisbn=Amelia Estelle Dellos1529153298|title=Delilah RecoveredThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= We meet Dee at a point when her life isnIt't going as planned but things mights 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, just mighthonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, be about to look upthough. Women have been disappearing. Out of work Well, they've been murdered, about but to lose her flat, Dee is up for an accountanthave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's job. But itupset because she's not overheard that her father wants to bemove the family 'Down South'. Dee When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is attacked by two men calling themselves witch huntersa frightening, foreign place, best avoided. She survives For Miv, the attack but not unscathedmove would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. Witch hunters? What on earth has that to do with Dee? She's just an ordinary woman, living an ordinary life. Slivers of memory of things not worried about the dangers or that are not ordinary at all return her Mum's stopped talking - to her and things will never be the sameanyone....|isbn=B0BKYFDLLV

|isbn=00084049761398524085|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jane CaseyNicci French

|summary=It Charlotte Salter was because of expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Closeher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. If you're a regular reader Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of the [[Jane CaseyGreg's Maeve Kerrigan series father, Duncan Ackerley, in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] you'll have read the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that sentence twice Duncan had murdered Charlie and wondered if itthen committed suicide when he couldn's a massive spoiler because there is a delicious sexual chemistry between t stand the two which seems very, very realguilt. But (The Salter children are not convinced but there's always a 'little else they can do but', isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes get on her son, even if the relationship with Melissa can be a little rocky. As for Maeve, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her more than a little uncertaintheir lives and wonder about what really happened.

|authorisbn=Merryn Glover1035906708|title=The Hidden FiresDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= It is always about the book, not the writer, but there are times when the author's hinterland is also the background We tend to the book and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the book. Merryn Glover is think of Australian parentageMaria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in KathmanduManhattan, New York, grew up in the Annapurna December 1923 and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotlandonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. I can think of no-one better a combination Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to give us a re-appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Residence make it more manageable in the Cairngorms National ParkStates. Merryn walks, not When she was back in Athens - supposedly so much in that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the shadow Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Shepherdher preference for her elder sister, but in her spirit. I think the two would have gotten along famouslyJackie.|isbn=1846975751

|author=Alice M RossChristopher Edge|title=The Nowhere ThiefBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=At last there is new stock in the impoverished yet over-full antiques shop Elsbeth Lucas and her mother run his friends are all booked in for a seaside townmovie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Elsbeth knows All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this because she has stolen itnew film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. She also knows she should be free But as they lurch from worries about being found one film genre to the next, can they figure outwhat on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and 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. The call of the deep, because she has the ability to leave this worldanswering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and use an unworldly portal plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of kaleidoscope colours the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to enter other worldsend the wrecking, where they capture the sea levels are rising dramatically island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, 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 family secret that lies buried deep in the buildings are generally empty of humans and ripe for plundersea. With eviction imminentonly nine days to unearth what might save her father, can Elsbeth nab anything as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yesheart of the smuggler's territory, is Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the answer, but future of her home and the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…ones she holds most dear.|isbn=18399437690008664730

|isbnauthor=1529504775James Sherwood Metts|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)|author=Amy Sparkes and Katie HickeyPlanet Storyland

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to Things have been a bit sticky for the park Earthlings. AI and watch the red buses drive past. Elsie would race the buses along the side of the park but David couldnautomation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't - he'd been born with cerebral palsy re paid to do and even just standing up was very difficultother tasks that took time to accomplish. One day Elsie spotted a bus in the toy shop window which would help David - Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and was happy starting to use the coins from her money box to pay for it as cash was tight at home. Graduallythink of other, David learned new ways to stand upspend time, use the bus for support, and walk behind italong came an awful pandemic. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged Life was pretty much shut down and rusted, to the Repair Shopalong with it, hoping that all the experts there could make it many daily social interactions on which they depend so that her grandchildren could play with itheavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1847941834Matthew Tree|title=Atomic Habits|author=James ClearWe'll Never Know

|genre=LifestyleLiterary Fiction|summary=I've said this before but there are some books that you seek outTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, some books that you stumble across a drunk and some books that drop into your life because you really MUST read themchronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. So Tim applied himself to his studies, like, right now! ''Atomic Habits'' is in the last categorycultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Natasha FarrantA G Slatter|title=The Rescue Briar Book of Ravenwoodthe Dead

|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This story is another excellent adventure from the author secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''Voyage  Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the SparrowhawkBriar''. Ravenwood is an old houses, in a family of witches who protect the North of England, where Bea town and Raffy have been living the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for most of their lives. They are part of a complexmagic, extended family arrangement, as Bea Ellie Briar is there with the first non-witch to be born into her Uncle Leo, family for generations and Raffy is there with his mumas such since she was young, and they are living together her training as a familysteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. They have grown up swimming in When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the coveBriar Witch, roaming through the treestown's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, completely at one right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with all of the nature around dead, putting her at the house and loving every inch heart of a maelstrom of the placechaos. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure Reeling from his other two brothers one family secret to sell the property another, Ellie must decide who to a developer as it's becoming more trust and more expensive determine what to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where theydo as the Briar witches're going to livelegacy, but if everything they'll even be togetherhave sacrificed to survive, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn downis under threat.|isbn=05713487851803364548

|authorisbn=Nick Brooks1529900360|title=Promise BoysThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=When It hadn'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 principal (headmaster) help of Urban Promise Prep school is murdereda psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, three boys find themselves called who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the police station as suspectsinvolvement was something that the man she loved needed. EachThe next case did look simple, seemingly, has though. Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and each could have been there at it's not the time of his murderItalian. But who killed him, and why, and if any which of them was the boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their namesprimary target?|isbn=1035003155

|authorisbn=G K Holloway1529395224|title=In Letting the Cat Out of the Shadows Bag: The Secret Life of Castlesa Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= We begin after Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the momentous battle in 1066 and strain that being on-call put on the day of William of Normandyhis father's coronation as King life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of Englanddoing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. William Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn's position is not secure and the new king has t - as with so many challenges. Imposing authority through students - been his dream since he was a coronation is importantchild. And William is right to worry. While the previous king If anything, Harold, is dead and the likelihood of more pitched battles is over, the rebels are stirring and much of the country does not wish he'd wanted to recognise be a new overlordprofessional footballer.|isbn=1800422466

|isbn=00085063370861541774|title=The Garnett GirlsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Georgina MooreSteve Burrows|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=The love affair between Margo Garnett DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and poet Richard O'Leary was all-consumingformer colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, apparently on both sidesGuy Trueman. Margo Maik was just sixteen when they fell involved in love. Richard a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was twenty-one and described by Margo's mother as 'an older facing a man'. Her parents worried that Richard's influence would take her away from what they felt she could achieve armed with a knife - going to Oxford and having he killed a glittering careerGhurka. In the eventInitially, they eloped and Richard took her away from the Isle he faced a charge of Wight. Margo did go manslaughter but evidence came to Oxford and went on light that suggested that he might have planned to become a well-respected journalistmurder the man. The couple had three children: Rachel, Imogen and Sasha. Life was lived in London and holidays were spent at Sandcove, Now he could be facing the family home on the Isle of Wightdeath penalty. Even then the doubts about Richard's drinking were never far Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from Margoanother police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn's mind: ''she would never be able to leave him in charge''. Then Richard left themt help Danny at all.

|author=Vanda SymonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)The Perfect Passion Company

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching the start of her maternity leave when there The Perfect Passion Company is a brutaldating agency in Edinburgh, shocking murder of run by Ness and operating as an expectant woman alternative to all the online apps in Dunedinproviding a more personal, tailored service. Suddenly Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she finds herself embroiled in could come and look after the hunt business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a killer targeting pregnant womenwhile. Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, with all and so jumps at the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfchance to come home to Edinburgh. Finding herself put on desk dutiesAnd so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, which she rails againstbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, she just can't let thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the case go 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 she starts to follow every thread to uncover whatthere's actually happeningalways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.to lend a hand…|isbn=19145855771846976596

|isbn=15291259600811771741|title=Unnatural HistoryInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jonathan KellermanMelissa Leapman

|genre=CrimeCrafts|summary=Donny Klement was Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a photographercollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. Well The projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, it was Adonisfive to ten hours, actuallyten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but Donny had stuck unless he got Danny but whichever - itthat's past tense as 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 PA found him dead in job, he loses his bed. Three shots were placed neatly through fiancee, and his hearthouse gets trashed. The PAOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, Mel Gornickdisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, is distraught and it falls to psychologist Alex Delaware to calm her down whilst Lieutenant Milo Sturgis gets more agitated as he tries to establish what's happenedpossible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. Donny had just finished He is a series of photographs called ''The Wishers''nice person. A really nice person. He'd taken eight homeless people off So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the streets and asked them what they'd really like delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to behelp him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. They were then dressed up as their fantasySpike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, photographed and sent on their way with Harper (a generous gift in dollarswaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonAdam Stower|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver StreetMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jayden's nose Murray is forever in supposed to be a bookhumble, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes tidy and unicorns of the worldfriendly cat, for example. Aisha one who is addicted able to her new tabletsleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, where she can see videos whatever takes his fancy next of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, Londontwo. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with he's a past involving Jaydenbad magician's cousincat, they find so his favourite bun has been turned into a magical world hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are realboth use can chuck them out, including not into the one Aisha thinks she's seen on regular back garden, but into a bit world of local footagefrightening adventure and whiffs. The crew of the boatThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, including where a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters troll hunter is expected – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leilawell, the woman on boardone much bigger than Murray was, and her relative who lives as a figure in a paintingto be honest, but he's turned up and become saviours of the unseen?he'll have to do…|isbn=02415734830008561249

|isbn=1913839656B0C47LV1PC|title=Let's Celebrate Being DifferentFragility|author=Lainey DeeMosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=For SharingLiterary Fiction|summary=Todd was excited about spending the weekend with his grandmotherCan you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, not least because she made is the best beetle juice. He packed two pairs of dungarees and his favourite hat and then gathered together his button collection to show his grandmother. She had promised to take him to question should you make it? Or is the Friday Night Club at the local community centre and Todd was pleased about this as he wanted to make new friends. At homequestion if you did, his only friend was his mum and he wondered why would it land? The catch is that the answer for both could well be. Grandma thought that it might be because he looked different... no. ''Fragility'' is set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic