Changes

|isbn=14736808830241636604|title=The Skeleton KeyTrading Game: A Confession|author=Erin Kelly|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The Golden Bones is going to follow me around for the rest of my life. How can I trust anyone? It all leads back to you!'' Nell didn't want to go to the reunion to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of ''The Golden Bones''. She'd had no benefit from it - in fact, it had made her life precarious and unbelievably challenging. I'd better explain. ''The Golden Bones'' was a treasure quest book painted and written by Frank and Cora Churcher. The story revolved around murdered Elinore whose golden and bejewelled bones were hidden around the country. The clues - some of them quite tortuous - were disguised in the words and pictures of the book - and all the parts were discovered except for the pelvis. As with such quests, some people were obsessive and the theories became more and more outlandish.}}{{Frontpage|author=Holly Webb|title=The Story of GreenriverGary Stevenson

|genre=Confident ReadersAutobiography|summary=Silken and Sedge, for all their differences, have If you were to bring up an image of a lot city banker in commonyour mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. Silken is a girl whose father A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Master Builder of what might be the finest beaver lodge There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the GreenriverLondon School of Economics. Unfortunately she Stevenson is also a kind of runt figure, bright - extremely bright - and as he has a result is patronised, and given the facility with numbers which most tokenistic tasks when it comes to fetching wood and shoring the dam upof us can only envy. She He also stands out for the unique artistic ability realised that most rich people expect poor people to singbe stupid. Otters like Sedge sing, but he tooIt was his ability at what was, as the son of the lady of the holtessentially, has pressure on a card game which got him to be a bit less feckless and more attentive to classan internship with Citibank. HeEventually, after all, will eventually inherit the job of keeping the otters safe from the wolf that both animal species fear the most, and from dreaded events like this turned into permanent employment as a Dark Springtrader.|isbn=1510109625

|authorisbn=Anna Kemp and David Wyatt1035021803|title=Into Goblyn WoodThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Hazel. For the last nine of her eleven It's twenty years, she since Freya Lockwood has been stuck as back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a foundling in a horrid, Victorian institutionrequest for help from her beloved aunt, generally peeling vegetables or acting as a servantCarole. She Freya'd arrived at the place at the same time as Pete, s former mentor and theyCarole're inseparably good friends nows close friend, until a chance for them both to escapeArthur Crockleford, is dead and enter the outside worldcircumstances seem suspicious, does not go to plansay the least. There Arthur was the reason why Freya had always not been back to the idea of a life idyllic in the nearby forestsvillage: Arthur, Goblyn Woodshe feels, and a tribe of Wild Childrenlet her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, but none of that comes she has not felt able to pass, as Hazel finds herself in be near the care of a professor at man or pursue the Natural History Museumprofession she loved. But life with him is not anything like what After the split, she might have expected it to be – and Hazel is determined to return to the Woodsworked in a cafe, restore her friendship with Pete – met and to work out just what is going married James (on in the forestrebound from the love of her life, both the light who was murdered) and the shade, Freya and the deathly darkJames have now divorced...|isbn=1398503835

|isbn=0241990165AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=Hope to Die (D I Fawley)All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Cara HunterBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It began rather oddly. There was a 999 call suggesting that a shot had been fired in an isolated house but the call hadn't come from 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the householder. A couple shape of PCs went things to make certain that everything was alright and come.'' I've heard it took quite a while for the elderly householder to answer the door. He somewhat reluctantly told them said that they'd better come intechnology' is what happens after you're eighteen. In the kitchen Well, I must confess that there was a body on the floor: the head had have been blown off with more than a shotgun and the corpse was holding a knife few decades of technology in its right handmy lifetime. Richard Swann told I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the police feeling that heit'd heard sounds s all getting away from me. Some of an intruder and had come downstairs to investigateit is - frankly - quite frightening. The ignorant young lout had called him 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'Grandad'' and come at him with a knifere talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Swann had shot him I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in self-defencea way I could understand.

|author= Kit De WaalSunny Singh|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesHotel Arcadia|rating= 43.5|genre= AutobiographyThrillers |summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dad/ They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book The Hotel Arcadia is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a lower class area of Birminghamterrorist group. Her father is Hiding from St. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by Sam, a wartime photographer and marrying a black manAbhi, the hotel manager. This intersectionality plays a large role As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to her racebe cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her class and room to try to capture what's happened through her genderphotography. Her parents loom large 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 written with care, love, and discovered by the kind of anger only a child can express to their parentsterrorists.|isbn=1472284836086154742X

|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1529153298|title=Dark MusicThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=35|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaksIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going onI mean, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthhonestly.. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. ) She's a Chilean in the Stockholm policenot what's worrying Miv's family, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, and just outside the stadiumthough. Women have been disappearing. BeppeWell, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutesthey've been murdered, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationhave 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how Miv's upset because she might dress – 's overheard that kind) are told her father wants to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it allmove the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation Down South is a shamblesfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. But taken off For Miv, the casemove would mean leaving her best friend, she can no longer help solve the crimeSharon, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allll do anything to prevent that. Until, She's not worried about the dangers or that may be, she manages her Mum's stopped talking - to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attemptanyone...|isbn=1529413192

|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1398524085|title=The Calculations of Rational MenHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Daniel GodfreyNicci French

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ItCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marrfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Just to put what happens in contextHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindsnot. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe MarrShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, it's not find the missile crisis thatbody of Greg's at father, Duncan Ackerley, in the front of his mindriver. He's been convicted of murder. With It was an easy assumption for the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard police to think otherwise than make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP Queen's Bench, a relatively new prisonguilt. HeThe Salter children are not convinced but there's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, little else they can do but get on with their lives and learning to be wary of the McArthur brotherswonder about what really happened.

|isbn=18469761461035906708|title=The Bone RoadDiva|author=N E SolomonsDaisy Goodwin

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Heather BishopWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, the former Olympic cyclistNew York, flew in December 1923 and only moved to Bosnia to surprise her boyfriend, cycling journalist Ryan MackinnonAthens when she was thirteen. She even took their bikes so they could have a few daysHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' break to make it more manageable in the regionStates. It When she was a little worrying back in Athens - supposedly so that he didn't seem exactly pleased to see she could get appropriate training for her: voice - she even wondered if he had a woman in was raised under the hotel room. Heather had to give up competitive cycling after Nazi occupation by a traumatic brain injury four years before: she was still fit but mother who mercilessly exploited her reactions and made no secret of her memory were not up to the standard she would need to race again. Sometimes she couldn't be certain about what she had or hadn't done and she simply couldn't cope in difficult situations. She didn't entirely trust herselfpreference for her elder sister, Jackie.

|author=Judith EagleChristopher Edge|title=The Accidental StowawayBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=Patch is Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a little girl who has been passed from one relation to anothermovie marathon at their local cinema, until it seems a place that there is nobody left for her to go tohas the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Her father died when she was very youngAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and her mother ran away. many, many snacks! The family lawyerHowever, after consultation with ‘someone’as the movie starts, arranges for her to go to a school in Liverpoolthey very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, but on her arrival there, she gets caught and they are swept up in into an adventure with a little boy called Turo who works on a steamshipthey couldn't even imagine. During a chase with him (when she But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is both trying to going on? Will they ever get her rollerskate back and running away from to the police!) she winds up on the steamship hiding in a lifeboatcinema, and before she knows it, the ship has left the docks and she is an accidental stowaway!to their real lives?|isbn=05713631211839942738

|isbnauthor=0760379874Rachel Greenlaw|title=Super Easy Knitting for Beginners|author=Carri HammettCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=CraftsTeens|summary=''I learned to knit can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in the nineteen-fifties: it wasnmy heart.''t  Rosevear, a choiceremote and partially forgotten island, it was a requirementsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Girls learned Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to knit survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to embroider end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and boys did wood and metal workMira's father. My knitting wa accompanied by Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a lot 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 criticism and quite a few tears: it was a long time before I realised family secret that there was pleasure to be had lies buried deep in the skillsea. Nearly seventy years later itWith 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 the only thing that keeps my hands territory, Mira must be determined to stop at all supple. The turning point was a booklet published by Patons which gave all nothing to save the basics future of her home and some patterns. I've been looking for something simple to recommend to people who'd like to master the skillones she holds most dear. So, how did ''Super Easy Knitting For Beginners'' work out?|isbn=0008664730

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorJames Sherwood Metts|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for TroublePlanet Storyland|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Alice EclairThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. A perfect eye AI and very careful hands automation have made her one of Paris's best young cake makers and decoratorsbeen proceeding apace, making sure her motheroften replacing jobs they's establishment is a classy affair. Not bad for a thirteen year old. Oh, re paid to do and a perfect eye and a very careful handler and remote trainer have also made sure she is a very competent young spyother tasks that took time to accomplish. Her first real mission will be Just as they were beginning to chase a traitor across the country – working behind the scenes on a posh sleeper train get used to all this technological change and starting to the south think of Franceother, and hoping against hope that she can prevent documents allowing foreign agents new ways to creep into the country from getting into nefarious handsspend time, along came an awful pandemic. But while nobody would have her Life was pretty much shut down as a spyand, along with it, can she possibly leave behind her rookie status and find all the baddy?many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=18399409561736128426

|isbnauthor=0760379912Matthew Tree|title=Super Easy Quilting for Beginners|author=Editors of Quarry BooksWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsLiterary Fiction|summary=I learned patchworking from necessity: old or outgrown clothes needed Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be turned into something new different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and usable when I was in my twentieswho had endless crises of self confidence. It would be a while before it became a pleasure So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than a chore his daydreams and set himself high but I've never felt completely at home with quiltingachievable ambitions. I needed something a little more stylish than my usual buttons or knots. ''Super Easy Quilting for Beginners'' seemed like a good place to start. So, how did it stack up?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1788360737A G Slatter|title= Artivism: The Battle for Museums in the Era Briar Book of Postmodernism|author=Alexander Adams|rating=2|genre= Politics and Society|summary= Can art ever be apolitical? All art is political because art is not made in a vacuum. It is made by people. Antonio Gramsci stated that ‘’Every man… contributes to modifying the social environment in which he develops’’. Therefore, all art must be political, even implicitly. Alexander Adams in his new book ‘Artivism: The Battle for Museum in the Era of Postmodernism’ is adamant that art is freer when it is art for art’s sake. The recent trend of so-called artivism has caused artists to become more overtly political (read: left wing). Their seemingly grass roots movements have been astroturfed by large “left-wing” donors and media elites hoping to create a more globalist and progressive regime. Or at least that’s what Alexander Adams believes.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1408712172|title=The Cliff House|author=Chris BrookmyreDead

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=''Many There's a part of them didn't know each other, one me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of them didn't know anybodymy own, including Jenall mine, one of them quite possibly hated her, and two of them definitely hated each otherat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. What could possibly go wrong?''

ThatWithin 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 round-up town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for Jen's hen party which magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to take place on Clachan Geal an island just south of Barrabe born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. They're all staying in The Cliff House, hosted by LaurenWhen her grandmother suddenly dies, and itEllie's cousin Audra becomes the utmost in luxury living but then Jen can afford it. SheBriar Witch, the town's just sold leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her muffin business for millions but is staying on to run it. She's got As challenges come her doubts about way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the long weekend: fiance Zaki Hussain has been acting a little strangely of late and wouldn't explain rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her what at the email he was hurriedly deleting was aboutheart of a maelstrom of chaos. Added Reeling from one family secret to thatanother, he's just about forced her Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to bring his sister, Samira, whom Jendo as the Briar witches's never metlegacy, on the tripeverything they have sacrificed to survive, on the grounds that she's been stuck at home with newborn twins for the last six months and desperately needs the breakis under threat.|isbn=1803364548

|isbn=17883607021529900360|title=Charles, The Alternative Prince: An Unauthorised BiographyGhost Orchid|author=Edzard ErnstJonathan Kellerman

|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=For over forty years, Prince Charles has It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been an ardent supporter of alternative medicine badly injured but he felt responsible and complementary therapieseven 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''Charlest need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. Finally, it was Robin, The Alternative Prince'' critically assesses the PrinceDelaware's opinionspartner, beliefs and aims against who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the background of involvement was something that the scientific evidenceman she loved needed. There are few instances of his beliefs being vindicated and his relentless promotion of treatments which have no scientific support has done considerable damage to The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the reputation swimming pool of a man who remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is proud of his refusal married to apply evidence-based, logical reasoning to his ambitionsan extremely rich man and it's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Will Carver1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Daves Next DoorSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionAnimals and Wildlife|summary= Five strangers come together in one moment as Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a suicide bomber prepares GP and Rowlands didn't want to detonate follow in his vest footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of doing work experience with a London tube linefamily friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. As their fates overlap Before long, the story is told in backwards orderhe was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a child. If anything, leading up he'd wanted to the fateful momentbe a professional footballer.|isbn= 1914585186}}

|isbn=15291257900861541774|title=The Family RemainsA Nye of Pheasants|author=Lisa JewellSteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In July 2019DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Jason Mott Guy Trueman. Maik was mud larking on the banks of the River Thames when involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he came across was facing a man armed with a bag of what appeared to be human bones. Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu knife - and Saffron Brown from forensics were there to investigatehe killed a Ghurka. The bones were indeed human: Initially, he faced a young woman had been killed by a blow charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the head many years ago - probably as long as twenty-five - but the bones had not been in man. Now he could be facing the river longer than a yeardeath penalty. There was no identification but the bag contained vegetation, some of which was quite unusualDomenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Jennifer MasonAlexander McCall Smith|title=Partitions of UnityThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5

|summary= Here at Bookbag TowersThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we first met Elizabeth Cromwell, dominatrix run by Ness and unintentional detective operating as an alternative to all the online apps in [[Preposterous: An Elizabeth Cromwell Mystery by Jennifer Mason|Preposterous]]providing a more personal, when tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she investigated could come and unravelled look after the business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a series while. Katie is coming out of disappearancesa break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at 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. In ''Partitions of Unity' Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, she sets her mind to solving lend a murder....hand…|isbn=B09LQR9FRF1846976596

|authorisbn=Fiona Parashar 0811771741|title=A Beautiful Way to Coach InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=Business and FinanceCrafts|summary= So what am I doing reading this book, using this book, and being audacious enough Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to review it? Truth is I bought it out of curiosityblankets. I was at an onSome will be quick knits -line launch for others are of the book and Fiona’s description 'long, cosy afternoons in front of her Vision Days appealed to methe fire' variety. I wanted The projects are divided by the time they'll take to see if there were things in there that I could use with someone I am currently helping / supporting / trying complete - less than five hours, five to mentor – without committing them ten hours, ten to a full daytwenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, which I know would send them scurrying for their burrowmodern and useable. I also wanted to see if perhaps show my age when I could give myself a Vision Day, to bring wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me away from their vision and back to my ownbeing picky.|isbn=103211603X

|isbnauthor=1913750353Dean Koontz|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue MacyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionParanormal|summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a subreally weird, disturbing coffin-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances sized object to Stretch Your Cranium his home, and Tickle Your Humerusit'' which probably tells you all s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that you need has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to know about deserve all this brilliant bookbad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ'')his house is a new friend, gives you a definition and then includes the word in bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a sentence so that you know how it should be usedgood person. You also get an engaging Spike is going to take care of Benny, and frequently amusing illustration too. I donwill certainly take care of Benny't think Is enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491

|author=A C WiseAdam Stower|title=HookedMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers |summary=It’s been twenty-two years since Captain HookMurray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and friendly cat, now going by just ‘James’one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, has been in Neverland. Living a new life in Londonwell, he has never completely escaped whatever takes his pastfancy next of the two. But now he senses the edges of the beast circling around 's a bad magician's cat, so his life in Londonfavourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in the street with Wendycatflap they both use can chuck them out, he knows that not into the line between this regular back garden, but into a world of frightening adventure and Neverland is growing thinwhiffs. The beast This time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is finally coming expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to get himbe honest, but he's turned up and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once again.he'll have to do…|isbn=17890968390008561249

|isbn=1787301745B0C47LV1PC|title=ConfidenceFragility|author=Denise MinaMosby Woods|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=WeCan you make a 're back in the world of podcasters Anna and Fin, whom we first met in [[Conviction by Denise Mina|Conviction]]. It was Anna who'd organised the Yo birthing person'family' holiday: her exjoke? And if you could, Hamishis the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is now with her best friend, Estelle and her children are living with themthat the answer for both could well be.... Fin (who was married to Estelle) is there too and it was Anna who invited his girlfriend, Sofiano. It ''Fragility's not long before everyone realises that was a bad mistake. Sofia's difficult and with everyone trapped inside their holiday accommodation - a lighthouseis set as the city of Portland, Oregon, in a storm - she cautiously begins talking about Anna's past, including her real name and the rape. This was something which Anna had intended to tell emerge from the girls - twelve-tear-old Jess and ten-year-old Lizzie - when restrictions imposed during the time was right. And this wasn't the right time.covid pandemic

|isbn=178763566X1529431735|title=Listen to MeThe Winter Visitor|author=Tess GerritsenJames Henry|rating=4.5

|summary=WeIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins're in Boston with Amyreturn all the more surprising. When she set out He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for university this morning it was a spring day and she wore her new, buttery-leather pumps but as she comes out of the library she knows that theydecade. The return has come about because he're going to be ruined s had a letter from his ex- and unsafe - in the snow wife, saying thatshe's now falling. As she crosses the road, a car comes out of nowhere ill and hits her. It doesnhasn't stoplong to live. Two months later, we It're with Angela Rizzoli, mother of Detective Jane Rizzolis hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to his underwear and sent to a keen defender of watery grave in the suburb boot of Revere, north of Boston, where she livesa stolen Ford Sierra. Nothing gets past her and whilst her boyfriend, Vince Korsak, is in California, looking after his sister, she has the time Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to watch what's happening in the neighbourhood. The people who are moving in at no 2533 have aroused her suspicions.home?

|isbnauthor=0008395632Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Natalya Eli is a busy lad – by day an escortapprentice 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. WellEli lives with his lovely gran, her name's not ''actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it too – for there is a nod to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulskigeneration missing in the family. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostitute, run by a pimpA few short years ago, whoEli's turning tricks parents were both lost to fund a drug habitthe titular race, forget it. Dora is a professional globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in all senses the company of the worda magical beast. She This has an agent, Elspeth, who takes 30% of her income and deals with made the race anathema to the payments pair – but checks out when a bad incident at the clients eatery leads to see that Dora a confession from gran, Eli knows his only hope is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customspossibly save his gran. |isbn=0571382231

|authorisbn=David Solomons178763681X|title=A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the GalaxyKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Gavin is being followed, seemingly constantly, by the new (very annoying) girl Chef Paul Delamare took a teaching job at a residential cookery schoolin Belgravia. Only this is not your typical boy meets girl storyHe didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Because in this instance, Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the girl in question is Nikischool to assist Paul, and she is who had a galactic princess (nobroken arm, really, she is!) but it didn't turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. So what will Gavin do when The one thing he becomes embroiled in a situation wherehadn't expected was for someone to turn up dead. Unfortunately, potentially, Earth he was the person who discovered the body and everyone on it will knows that the police consider that person to be blown to smithereens, all because of Niki?|isbn=0857639935the prime suspect.

|author=Alex CotterSarah Marsh|title=The Mermaid CallA Sign of Her Own

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't existAfter a bout of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in the public eyeSuddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – Living in a far northern English resort – without them. A hundred years and change agotime when the use of sign language was seen as something only savages do, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced Ellen is sent to return a school where she is taught to help out with the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the town's tourism industrylip read, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success storyphysically restrained from signing. Alice, a girl who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one dayFrom here, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful ends up in her huntanother school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. When At the shysame time, doubting Thomasina that Bell is Vivien collides with the exuberantworking on other inventions and ideas, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in water – will they find?a complicated tangle of espionage.|isbn=18399419011035401614

|isbn=17398051001803816759|title=Loving the Enemy: Building bridges in a time of warThe Unravelling|author=Andrew MarchWill Gibson|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyScience Fiction|summary= It''Loving s 2038 and Joe is a bored cop policing the Enemy'' tells wealthy and peaceful New York City. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then something goes horribly wrong with the quite extraordinary story of author Andrew March's grandparentsAI system that now runs everything, making life easier for many, who first met when grandfather Fred Clayton went and riots start to Dresden spread. Finally, Joe gets to teach in do some real policing. In the early days aftermath of the Nazi regime in rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned to bring her home. Joe isn't the 1930s. Fredonly one trying to save Suki - Dylan, a sensitive British superfan and thoughtful mantech nerd, had some vague ideas of "building bridges" which may guard against is also on the growing hostilities between nations unfolding in Europe at case. What went wrong? Did the time. Fredsystem fail or was it hacked? And how is Suki's attempts to separate individual people from ideology weren't universally successful but he did make friendships and connections that lasted for a lifetime. kidnapping connected?

|isbn=B0B575J99N1529421284|title=Beneath Laying Out the PorticoesBones|author=Brooke AdamsKate Webb|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionCrime|summary=Elizabeth Miller was thirty-four and a teacher at a prestigious girl's school in York. It was ''comfortable'' but she longed for something more one of those flash downpours that the British weather often delivers in lifea heatwave. She'd ''still not found In a gully, a human skeleton came to the right vocation nor met the right man'' surface and now was forensic testing proved the time body to make a changebe Lee Geary, who had disappeared nine years earlier. She needed challengesHe'd been a known drug user and had learning disabilities, so it could have been a simple case of misadventure but DI Matt Lockyer wasn't convinced. There Geary was a little trepidation when she applied for the professoressa job in Bologna. After a telephone interviewtownie, she so what was offered he doing out on Salisbury Plain alone? There are connections to the position suicide of Holly Gilbert and it wasn't long before she was exploring to two other deaths which were not considered suspicious at the beautiful citytime. There were some natural doubts before her first class but it went surprisingly wellLockyer and DC Gemma Broad of the Major Crimes Review Unit (that's cold cases to you and me) investigate.

|isbn=15291258980571379559|title=Godmersham ParkThe House of Broken Bricks|author=Gill HornbyFiona Williams

|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=''If it were not for the casual dereliction The House of the odd gentlemanBroken Bricks's duty, there would no women to teach well-bred daughters at all.'' Anne Sharpe was thirty-one years old when she arrived at Godmersham Park to take up is the position story of governess to twelve-year-old Fanny Austenfour people. She had no experience of teaching Tess Hembry's roots are in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier there, but this was a case instead, she lives in the house on the riverbank, built of necessitybroken bricks. Until Insubstantial as it might look, it's stood the death passage of her mothertime, Anne had a comfortable life storms and was loved by both parents although her father was frequently absent from the householdfloods. When her mother diedHer husband, Richard, struggles to grow his vegetables, her father cast her off to complete the delivery rounds - and would to bring in sufficient money. They have nothing more to do with hertwin boys - Sonny and Max, the rainbow twins. No explanation was offered but she would receive an annuity of £35 a yearSonny's colouring reflects his mother's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. Her maidPeople don't believe that they're related, Agnes, would receive nothing but was fortunately taken in by some neighboursmuch less twins and there's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that she's his nanny.

|authorisbn=Lev Parikian 1529425867|title=Light Rains Sometimes FallLost and Never Found (A D I Wilkins Mystery)|author=Simon Mason

|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary= If you’re a writer yourself, or an aspiring writer, or someone who pretends to writeIn Oxford, then you know that there are unnumbered types two D I Wilkins. Raymond Wilkins is of booksNigerian descent, Balliol educated and always exquisitely dressed. Some you read for fun D I Ryan Wilkins, some for distractionson of Ryan and father of Ryan, some for vicarious emotionis not. He's not any of those things. He's white, some to learn originated from a trailer park, barely educated (reading's not ''really'' his thing) and his wardrobe consists mainly of shell suits and trackies. They're usually in lime green or acid yellow. You might wonder if you're being introduced to a random way, some police procedural written for focussed researchlaughs. Well, and some because they you're not. The two men are just different sides of the same policing coin. Sometimes the combination works brilliantly well. Sometimes it's problematic.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mosby Woods|title=A Whirly Man Loses His Turn|rating=4|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= The West isn't the dominant force it once was. Nobody in the West is quite sure how to mend this or even if mending it is the best course of action. Governments areflailing. A war here, broadly speakinga push for climate action there. A feeling that nobody is in actual charge. Imagine then, there was a man with precognition. Imagine the kind strategic advantage in this asset; a man who can tell you what will happen given any set of thing you think you might like to writecircumstances. OrThat man would be valuable, indeedright? Perhaps the most valuable asset in history. Imagine then, are actually trying that this man loses this ability. What would governments do to write.get it back?|isbn=1783966386B0C9SNG8R1