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|author=Alex Bell and Tim McDonaghSylvie Cathrall|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Eli is There are few greater joys than a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli book which lives with his lovely gran, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Eli's parents were both lost up to the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beastcompelling premise. This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the eatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope And this is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize one of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his granthem.|isbn=05713822310356522776

|isbn=178763681X0008517061|title=Knife Skills for BeginnersDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Orlando MurrinStig Abell

|summary=Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at a residential cookery school in BelgraviaLittle Sky. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had There’s perhaps a way little uncertainty about the future of getting both men his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to assist Paulher daughter Diana, who had as moving in together would mean a broken arm, but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off- grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the problems - are all his own. The one thing he hadn't expected was future she wants for someone to turn up dead. herself and her daughter? Unfortunately, he was For the person who discovered moment they’re enjoying life in the body present and everyone knows that putting the police consider that person to be future on the prime suspectback burner.

|authorisbn=Sarah Marsh1786482126|title=A Sign of Her OwnThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=After a bout Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into beneath a world of silence, everything about her life changesdoorway. Living in a time when the use of sign language There was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to a school where she is taught to lip read, but physically restrained from signingno skull. From here, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using Was this a system called Visible Speech. ritual killing or murder? At the same timeInevitably, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionageworking with DCI Harry Nelson.|isbn=1035401614}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1803816759|title=The Unravelling|author=Will Gibson|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary= It's 2038 and Joe difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a bored cop policing result of the wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into one night they spent together some really gritty crime detectionthree months ago. But then something goes horribly wrong with the AI system that now runs everything Her condition will be obvious before long, making life easier for many, and riots start not least because Ruth is prone to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In the aftermath sudden bouts of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the only one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a British superfan and tech nerd, is also on the casesickness. What went wrong? Did the system fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's kidnapping connected?

|isbn=15294212840008551324|title=Laying Out the BonesThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Kate WebbNeil Lancaster

|summary=It was one of those flash downpours that 's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the British weather often delivers in a heatwavepolice. In a gully, a human skeleton came Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the surface and forensic testing proved police where the body to be Lee Geary, of a missing person is buried and who had disappeared nine years earlierwas responsible for her death. He'd been a known drug user This person, he promises, is someone big and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convincedwill be worth the police doing what he wants. Geary was a townie, so And what was he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the suicide remainder of Holly Gilbert his sentence and to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the timeget an early parole date. Lockyer Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and DC Gemma Broad of she's even prepared to do the Major Crimes Review Unit (other thing thatHardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's cold cases to you and me) investigatehappening.

|isbn=05713795590008405026|title=The House of Broken BricksA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Fiona WilliamsJane Casey

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=It''The House of Broken Bricks'' is s sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the story of four peopleinvestigation ground to a halt. Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier thereNow, her mother, but insteadHelena, she lives and her father are dead in the house on the riverbank, built of broken brickstheir bed. Insubstantial as it might lookInitially, itlooks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's stood something about the passage positioning of time, storms the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and floodsher boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Her husband, Richard, struggles What looked as though it was going to grow his vegetables, to complete the delivery rounds be an open- and to bring in sufficient money-shut case is now a complex double murder. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, Kerrigan is convinced that the rainbow twins. Sonnyexplanation lies in Rosalie's colouring reflects his motherdisappearance: others (such as Derwent's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People don't believe that they're relatedboss, much Una Burt) are less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nannyconvinced.

|isbn=15294258670571379877|title=Lost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)The Kellerby Code|author=Simon MasonJonny Sweet|rating=43.5

|summary=In Oxford, there are two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins Edward Jevons is of Nigerian descenta working-class young man, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. D I Ryan Wilkinsobsessed with his upper-class friends, son of Ryan Robert and father of Ryan, is notStanza. HeRobert's not any of those thingsa theatre director. He's whitealso self-obsessed, originated from a trailer parkdemanding, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) handsome and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits entitled and trackiesuses Edward to run errands for him. TheyEdward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he're usually in lime green or acid yellows drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. You might wonder if youMost men in Robert're being introduced to s position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a police procedural written for laughs. Well, yourelationship had begun between them but he're s not. The like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematicthem kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Mosby WoodsJo Callaghan|title=A Whirly Man Loses His TurnLeave No Trace

|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary= The West isn't When a man is found crucified on the dominant force it once was. Nobody top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is case alongside her sidekick, the best course of actionAI detective Lock. Governments are flailing It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. A war here, a push for climate action But when there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine thena second body found crucified a few days later, there was Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a man with precognition. Imagine the strategic advantage in this asset; very high profile case that draws a man who can tell you what will happen given any set lot of circumstancesunwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. That man would Will they be valuableable to solve the case in time, right? Perhaps or will Kat find herself taken off the most valuable asset in history. Imagine thencase and, potentially, that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to get it backout of a career?|isbn=B0C9SNG8R1139851120X

|authorisbn=Alastair Humphreys1399613073|title=LocalMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Travel Thrillers|summary= Alastair Humphreys has walked Olivia, Laura and cycled all over Anjali met on the worldfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. And then written about itOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. For this book he walked Laura is a perfectionist and cycled very close to home a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and then wrote about itshe becomes a GP. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small mapend in tragedy. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…We don'' One of t know who suffered the joys of tragedy or the book for me was consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that there are no easy answersthree friends. This time, no single 'right or wrongit', that every upside is likely to have a downside for somebody and that there s their teenage children who are some hard choices aheadinvolved.|isbn=1785633678

|isbn=18051418720241636604|title=The Teacher Who Knew Too MuchTrading Game: A Confession|author=Rob KeeleyGary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you''Seventeen banks re unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and a jeweller’s have been raided. The police are baffled, but only Ben knows jeans replaces the truth – pin-stripe suit and his Maths teacherbackground is the East End, Miss Judsonwhere he was familiar with violence, is really a safecracker! With police poverty and her gangster boyfriend Al on their trail, Miss Judson and Ben go injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the runLondon School of Economics. But Al needs them for one last job Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid..'' Goodness me It was his ability at what was, essentially, that Miss Judson is a terror! How on earth did a nice teacher like her manage to get mixed up card game which got him an internship with a bad 'un like Al? We'll find outCitibank. Luckily for Miss Judson Eventually, the pupil who discovers her terrible secret is Ben, the son of this turned into permanent employment as a famous magician who has ambitions to be as good as his father some day, and who thinks Miss Judson is worth savingtrader.

|isbn=07603812671035021803|title=Verdura: Living a Garden LifeThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Perla Sofia Curbelo-SantiagoC L Miller

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She'The most important part s back now because of a garden 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 one 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 enjoys itwas murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''

I've heard it said that 'technology'gardenedis what happens after you' in a vaguere eighteen. Well, indefinite sort of way for I must confess that there have been more than half a centuryfew decades of technology in my lifetime. I know (most of) the basics 've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but life has changed and I needed 'projectsm left with the feeling that it' rather than a general commitment to gardenings all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they'Verdura'' with its promise of projects for both indoors and outdoors of varying complexity seemed like re talking about or the answerlatest conspiracy theorist. So, how did it stack up?I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=B0CP95J1CGSunny Singh|title=Of Ghosts & Broken Promises|author=Mark LinganeHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers |summary= Ronan's not entirely sure why he decides The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to go try to care remotely for the party but his interest is piqued by residents who are still alive in the way it arrived. And it seems like hotel, he forms a good opportunity bond with Sam who refuses to get be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of his her room and away from to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the online activities he makes a living at. So he makes his way therephone, dodging the buses that make up most of the traffic their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and watching they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the local energy storage indicator lights. Should be enough power. Hopefullyterrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=14549555461529153298|title=SugarlessThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Nicole M AvenaJennie Godfrey

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=It''This isn't a diet books 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. The last thing anyone needs is another diet book(A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv' There was a times family, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat contentthough. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart diseaseWomen have been disappearing. Sugar was a carbohydrate Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so goodfrightening. ThereMiv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a problemfrightening, foreign place, thoughbest avoided. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much For Miv, the same way as drugs like heroin move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and cocaineshe'll do anything to prevent that. Does She's not worried about the dangers or that sound over the top? Well, it isnher Mum'ts stopped talking - to anyone.

|isbn=15211298861398524085|title=They Had It Coming (Greg Mason mysteries)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Keith RedfernNicci French|rating=45

|summary=Greg MasonCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's just beginning to get his confidence as an investigator to the point where he'll warn someone about how much he chargesfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. It's a good job too because Greg Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Joyce will soon have a baby Ollie and they're both delightedher daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Joyce will be more delighted about Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the baby when she gets past body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the morning sicknessriver. Greg is approached by It was an old friend whose brother-in-law appears easy assumption for the police to have killed himselfmake that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. StuartThe Salter children are not convinced but there's concerned little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about his sisterwhat 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, LucyNew York, who's struggling in December 1923 and only moved to make ends meet and her son is not thrivingAthens when she was thirteen. Lucy, he says, is convinced that Gil would never have killed himself - Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it simply wasnto 't Callas' to make it more manageable in his naturethe States. The police and the coroner have accepted When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the death was suicideNazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, but Stuart's prepared to pay Greg to find out what happened on the night Gil diedJackie.

|isbnauthor=B0CK3MYJ56Christopher Edge|title=Responsibilities (Greg Mason mysteries)|author=Ann MacarthurBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It's the 1990s Lucas and Greg Mason's twenty-eight years old. He used to have his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a high-flying job in place that has the city but it wasnnickname of 't satisfying so heThe Black Hole's now set himself up as a private investigator. All big movie fans, they'Shades re looking forward to lots of Cameron Strike'exciting films, and many, you might be thinking. Nice blokemany snacks! However, but where's as the life experience movie starts, they very quickly realise that backs something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up this professioninto an 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? On Will they ever get back to the other handcinema, he has been asked and to look 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, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into somethingthe rocks and plundering the wrecks. Joyce Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and Helen are half-sisters, or ratherany treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they were until Helen was killed in whatcapture the island's leader and Mira's been written off father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as a tragic accident at an unmanned level crossing. Joyce - he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her parents, Oliver and Pam Hetherington - can't understand what she was doing there - or how she could come to fall sets off in front search of a trainfamily secret that lies buried deep in the sea. GregWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's been asked territory, Mira must be determined to investigatestop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=0008664730

|author=Katherine HoweJames Sherwood Metts|title=A True AccountPlanet Storyland

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Hannah Masury is living in Boston, having Things have been sent to live with a family who run an innbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they're paid to do and being made other tasks that took time to work there from a young ageaccomplish. When she hears there is Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to be a hanging think of some pirates in the townother, she decides new ways to go and watch. Enthralled and horrified in equal measurespend time, Hannah finds herself embroiled in a young boy's death at the hands of two vicious piratesalong came an awful pandemic. She hides away, so that they don't find Life was pretty much shut down and kill her too, and then to escape them completely she runs away to seaalong with it, dressing as a boy and joining all the notorious Ned Low's pirate ship as a cabin boy. She soon finds herself in the thick of things when there is a mutiny many daily social interactions on board, and from there we are caught up in her rip roaring tale of life on the ocean waveswhich they depend so heavily.|isbn=08615474381736128426

|author=Tananarive DueMatthew Tree|title=The Reformatory|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary= Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. After a scuffle with a white boy, twelve year-old Robbie Stephens Jr is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, otherwise known as the Reformatory. It's a place with a brutal and dark reputation. But the segregated reformatory is a chamber of horrors, haunted by the boys that have died there. In order to survive the school governor and his Funhouse, Robert must enlist the help of the schoolWe's ghosts – only they have their own motivations...|isbn=1803366532}} {{Frontpage|isbn=1471180158|title=Maybe Tomorrow|author=Penny Parkesll Never Know

|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Jamie Matson works in an upper-class grocery storeTimothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, for a man drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who's a control freak with all the subtlety had endless crises of a half brickself confidence. Jamie's sonSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Bo, 'has cultivated his abilities rather than his problems'. He's asthmatic and the more you read, the more you'll suspect that he's on the autistic spectrum. Sometimes Jamie needs to take time off at short notice - she's a frequent flier in the local A&E daydreams and sometimes Bo's not fit enough to go to school. Missed shifts or the need to be away on time to pick Bo up from school are occasions when Jamie can be controlled and put in the wrong. It was going to come to a headset himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Harry AllenA G Slatter|title=Children The Briar Book of the SunDead

|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= Ra Eun Seo lives in '' There's a North Korean part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.'' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the 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-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a talented singersteward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. Life is hard When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and food is difficult to Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come byher way left, so Seo right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her friends Nari and Min go foraging every eveningat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, looking for tree bark Ellie must decide who to trust and edible grasses determine what to supplement do as the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at homeBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=18051404931803364548

|authorisbn=Edel Rodriguez1529900360|title=Worm: A Cuban American OdysseyThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=WeIt hadn're in childhoodt 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 we-shut cases which didn're in Cubat need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. The revolution has happenedFinally, and Castroit was Robin, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a CommunistDelaware's partner, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field who nudged Milo into asking for allhelp again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. WellThe next case did look simple, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time awaythough. Our narrator's family weren't Two lovers were murdered in the happiest swimming pool of places here, an uncle refusing to be a remote property in Bel Air. He was the good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off heir to some minor pro-Communism skirmish, such as Angola) an Italian shoe empire and the father being watched and watched, she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned uponthe Italian. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to ease some But which of them was the heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720primary target?

|authorisbn=K P O'Donnell1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Vital Link (A Spark in the Ashes)Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands

|genre=Science FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary=VL-15, Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a prototype robot, is desperate GP and Rowlands didn't want to understand who she is. Unfortunately, before she could find any answersfollow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the world ended, consumed in an apocalyptic war between the nations of Drexel and Renada. Over halfstrain that being on-a-century later, civilisation is starting to rebuild. Dr Amelia Wong is determined to continue her call put on his father's legacy, building a world where machines and humans can live together in harmony, but internal frictions and external enemies might bring it all crashing down againlife. Craig Anderson, leader When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a family friend who was a group of salvagers called vet and was convinced this was the Exhumersjob for him. Before long, has he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his entire life turned upside down when dream since he unearths was a prototype combat robot: none other than VL-15 herselfchild. Even after being buried for 65 years If anything, her determination hasnhe't diminished in the slightest, and no errant machine, no savage human tribe and not even Drexel's ravaged ecosystem will stop her on her quest for answers…|isbn=B0CKRYFRZMd wanted to be a professional footballer.

|isbn=18389544810861541774|title=The MisperA Nye of Pheasants|author=Kate LondonSteve Burrows

|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereDCI Domenic Jejeune's no doubt about thatclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. He Maik was the fifteeninvolved in a street brawl -yearhe would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a knife -old holding the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawhe killed a Ghurka. He pulled the trigger Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but due evidence came to the vagaries of the jury system light that suggested that he was found not guilty of both the might have planned to murder and the manslaughter of the officerman. And so lives must go onNow he could be facing the death penalty. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving the capital Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and hoping for a quieter life in the countryside but when a missing teenager is found on her territory shewouldn's drawn into a wider investigation - and back into the orbit of Ryan Kennedyt help Danny at all.

|isbnauthor=1035025299Alexander McCall Smith|title=Went to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Nina Stibbe The Perfect Passion Company is returning a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to London for all the online apps in providing a sabbatical more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after being the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for twenty yearsa while. She's been Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at Victoria's smallholding the chance to come home to Edinburgh. 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 Leicestershire which isn't all that conducive to writingher abilities, as and there's always something smallholding happening - as you might expect. The other side of the decision was sealed when a room became available her very helpful (courtesy of Deborah Moggachand rather handsome) at neighbour, William, to lend a very reasonable rent.hand…|isbn=1846976596

|isbn=B0CKD1L5JL0811771741|title=Radio Free OlympiaInstaKnits for Baby|author=Jeffrey DunnMelissa Leapman

|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary= Petr is an orphanMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. Rescued by Some will be quick knits - others are of the strange, reclusive Bear, he is brought up far from bustling cities and busy human society'long, cosy afternoons in front of the forests of Washingtonfire's Olympic Peninsulavariety. After Bear dies and a brief sojourn in human companyThe projects are divided by the time they'll take to complete - less than five hours, five to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and armed with only a pirate radio transmitter, Petr goes on a journey through more than twenty hours. All the forestprojects are attractive, broadcasting the strange, wild modern and rarely heard voices he encountersuseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|isbnauthor=1635866243Dean Koontz|title=The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook|author=Kristina McGrath and Sarah Walworth Bad Weather Friend

|genre=CraftsParanormal|summary=''I quickly discovered that putting words and numbers on Benny is having a page wasn't enoughterrifically bad day. Creating a pattern that was correctHe loses his job, clearhe loses his fiancee, conciseand his house gets trashed. Oh, and consistent required someone has delivered a great deal of trial and errorreally weird, patiencedisturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and perseverance.it'' (Introduction byFrancoise Danoy) A friend recently showed me a knitting pattern for which she'd paid good money. s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The first line of thing is, Benny is the instructions began: ''Cast off 100 stitchesvery last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person.'' It was clear So fortunately for Benny it turns out that no good could come of this - the instructions didn't get any better - and (finally) PayPal obliged with 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 refund when the seller refused as she couldn't afford the repaymentgood person. The pattern looked prettySpike is going to take care of Benny, but the creator didnand will certainly take care of Benny't have the basic knowledge s enemies, if he, Benny, and skills to enable her to connect with her knitters. She should have read ''The Knitting Pattern Writing Handbook'Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesStower|title=Oscar's LionMurray and Bun|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We start incredibly bluntlyMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, with Oscar hoping one who is able to have his mother – or fathersleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, but mother is more likely – read him whatever takes his very favourite book a couple fancy next of times before he has to be ready for schoolthe two. But when he enters his parents' bedrooms a bad magician's cat, all he sees is so his favourite bun has been turned into a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepishhyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and admitting that he won't be hungry for another two days. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it the catflap they both use can be shown as an unspoken threat to chuck them out, not into the bully that ruined regular back garden, but into a birthday party for Oscar the other monthworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. And This time round it can shapeshiftdrops them into a Viking land, so he can take it to school and it can get him out of where a problem. And it's wonderful to have around the house troll hunter is expected – not limiting his biscuit intakewell, being one much more lax about the rulesbigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's turned up and so on. OK, it canhe't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.ll have to do…|isbn=00085967510008561249

|isbn=B0BC3YTCMRB0C47LV1PC|title=Good Girls DieFragility|author=Ayura AyiraMosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=General Literary Fiction|summary=Can you make a ''Yo birthing person''This story joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is not the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that the answer for everyoneboth could well be.... no.''

Lavender Daniels was three weeks short of her fifteenth birthday when The Incident happened. She was a very bright student, a bit too nerdy if truth be told, and suffered from vitiligo - people were afraid to hug her in case it's contagious. It's not easy being a black girl whose skin Fragility'' is 84% white. She had a crush on seventeen-year-old Reggie Anderson but never thought he would notice her. Then he did: Lavender was very good at math and Reggie asked if she would tutor him. She readily agreed: tutoring was something she gladly did at church: this was just an extension. She went to his house and he raped her. In shockset as the city of Portland, Oregon, she even allowed him cautiously begins to give her a lift home.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic

|authorisbn=V Castro1529431735|title=The Haunting of AlejandraWinter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins'This was a part of her past that had to stop with herreturn all the more surprising. She would be He'd been exiled on the one to confront thisCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. The return has come about because he'' At some point during her lifes had a letter from his ex-wife, Alejandra lost herself. She feels as if saying that she is playing parts for others in her life – her husband 's ill and her children – without ever giving any thought hasn't long to her own desires, her own future, her own identitylive. Day by day she goes through quotient motions without anyone seeing that there It's hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is something fundamentally wrong. For invisible to all but Alejandraabducted, there is a darkness threatening stripped to consume her. More his underwear and more she is visited by sent to a ghost, a weeping woman watery grave in the boot of a fraying white gown dripping with water, who leaves distress in her wakestolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1803365617 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Richard KadreyAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The Pale House DevilGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=HorrorConfident Readers|summary=Ford and Neuland are Eli is a couple of, well, guys for hire I guess, though really the way I thought of them through busy lad – by day an apprentice in the book was as a couple of strange detectives! One of them is living, you seewondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the other is undead, and so one of them kills evening a helper at the living, dessert cafe his gran owns and the other kills the undeadruns. (Only not each otherEli lives with his lovely gran, obviously)too – for there is a generation missing in the family. TheyA few short years ago, Eli're on s parents were both lost to the titular race, a job globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in New York that goes badly, and so they head out to the West coast to try to lay low for company of a while and find some other work to keep them goingmagical beast. But This has made the race anathema to the pair – but when a young woman called Tilda hires them to kill bad incident at the 'something' that appears eatery leads to be haunting a wealthy gentleman's house they find themselves uncovering a whole lot confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of family history, and a terrifyingly powerful creature that they've never come across before!magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=18033638940571382231