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|isbn=02419890940008517061|title=The Perfect LifeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Nuala EllwoodStig Abell

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three childrenFormer Metropolitan Police detective, LavenderJake Johnson, Freddie and Barclayhas settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. The boys are There’s perhaps a bit little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a handful which 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 why the future she's making this trip on wants for herself and her own. daughter? The house would be perfect for them. It's For the same month but now we're moment they’re enjoying life in Wimbledon the present and we encounter putting the future on the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connorback burner.

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1786482126|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=So. Having done Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the impossible and unpicked the lock site was going to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has hold seventy-five 'luxury'grop'' to think aboutapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. But before that Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, soireesDr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez It's amusementdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't even know what , that she is pregnant with his child as a result of the one of those night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is. But he manages prone to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume sudden bouts of this seriessickness. |isbn=B093J9TF73

|isbn=B07GZ81J7C0008551324|title=When Fred the Snake Got Squished and MendedThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Peter CottonNeil Lancaster

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Meet FredIt's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Well, actually, you're going to be meeting Fred-Fred Neither side likes or has any respect for reasons which will become all too obvious very quicklythe other. But IDavie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'm getting ahead s prepared to tell the police where the body of myself: I'd better tell you a bit more about Fred. Fred missing person is a snake buried and even those of us who have a phobia about snakes are going to warm to himwas responsible for her death. He arrived as a present in a box with holes so that This person, he could breathe promises, is someone big and immediately became part of it will be worth the family, to the extent that they would take Fred out with them when they went out for a walkpolice doing what he wants. And that was where what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the problem startedremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Fred didnNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't have any road sense. Or brakesthink so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0008405026|title= Everybody Pees! A Stranger in the Family (Everybody Potties!Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary= Can potty training ever be joyous? It often isn'ts sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, as any parent will tell youand her father are dead in their bed. But really Initially, why shouldnit looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there't it be? We all have to learn s something about our bodily functions just the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as we have though it was going to learn about everything else when we are smallbe an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Why shouldn Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie't potty training be as much fun s disappearance: others (such asDerwent's boss, say, learning about why the sun and the moon take turns in the sky? |isbn= B098BJZYHHUna Burt) are less convinced.

|isbn=17876344930571379877|title=All Her FaultThe Kellerby Code|author=Andrea MaraJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It had seemed like one of those serendipitous events which sometimes happenEdward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Marissa Irvine had been hoping that the opportunity would arise for her son, Milo, to go on Robert's a play datetheatre director. She was concerned that he didnHe't have any friends at his new schools also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Milo would go home from Kerryglen National School Edward has been in an affluent Dublin suburb love with his classmate Jacob Stanza since their university days - and Marissa would pick him up from 14 Tudor Grove a little laterhe's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. What could be better? Only, when Marissa arrived at the house, expecting to meet JacobMost men in Robert's mother, Jenny, the door was answered by Esther, who didn't know Jenny position would stay away from Stanza or Jacob. The phone number she'd been given for Jenny was not recognised. Milo tell Edward that a relationship had disappeared. And so had Jennybegun between them but he's nannynot like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.

|author=Claire NorthJo Callaghan|title=Notes from the Burning AgeLeave No Trace

|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North When a man is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with found crucified on the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that top of a new and timely genrehill in Nuneaton, cli-fiDCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, or climate change fictionthe AI detective Lock. North It's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and their first live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelscase together, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)having previously been very successful with several cold cases. There But when there is a growing unhappiness second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with this limiting worlda potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and one group, the Brotherhoodpotentially, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.out of a career?|isbn=0356514757139851120X

|authorisbn=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)1399613073|title=Girls Who LieMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=34.5

|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the dark corners first day of Iceland have featured in medical school and their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowfriendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in AkranesOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author which is clutching at the few final straws lefta bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago Laura is a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, perfectionist and was never seen againa trauma doctor. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with Anjali is the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for free spirit of the girl back, group and she becomes a couple of delighted adoptersGP. But it left our three detectives When we first meet them they're at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away going to end in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placetragedy. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother We don't know who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodysuffered the tragedy or the consequences. Is the assumption Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that is so easy for will impact the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373Xthree friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.

|isbn=B0925KS87N0241636604|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Neil LancasterGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined If you were to find the grave - and it took some finding - in bring up an overgrown old cemetery. It was image of a strange thing for Scotlandcity banker in your mind, you's premier criminal re unlikely to dothink of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, but Tam where he was getting old familiar with violence, poverty and there were things he wanted to doinjustice. Only, There was no posh public school on his family didn't hear from him again after CV - but he'd said that he'd found had been to the grave London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - the one and he has a facility with numbers which said most of us can only envy. He also realised that it shouldn't most rich people expect poor people to be opened - and stupid. It was his three sons began to worryability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Tam JuniorEventually, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worriedthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.

|authorisbn=Emily Critchley1035021803|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the authorAntique Hunter's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} {{FrontpageGuide to Murder|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, itIt's hard twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to read the words English country village where she grew up. She''Good Neighbours'' without adding s back now because of a sing-song request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya''thats former mentor and Carole's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streetclose friend, thoughArthur Crockleford, Arlo is dead and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbscircumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. They're one of 18 households on Arthur was the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're reason why Freya had not quite like all been back to the other families (he's an ex rockervillage: Arthur, she's a former beauty queen) but feels, let her down badly. Even though they've made some friends and their kids have settled were inbusiness together as antique hunters, and it's all going okshe has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. Until it isn't. One hot After the split, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up she worked in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt cafe, met and chaos, but for married James (on the rebound from the residents love of Maple Streether life, the worst is yet to comewho was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|isbn=1789098211

|authorisbn=Lisa ThompsonAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=The Small ThingsAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)

|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Although Anna has friends at school, she feels like she never really fits in''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come. Her family don't have enough money to let her do ' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after school activitiesyou're eighteen. Well, and so she feels like her life at home is boring I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in comparison to theirsmy lifetime. When a new girl joins her class, Anna is asked I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to partner her, me but things are complicated because I'm left with the new girl, Ellie, feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is unwell and so can't attend school in person- frankly - quite frightening. Instead Of course, she joins in with I could research the class by using a robot. Can Anna overcome possibilities and the challenge of making friends with probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone through a robot, who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and is she even interesting enough to be who could deliver information in a good friend to Ellie?|isbn=1781129649way I could understand.

|isbnauthor=0008350388Sunny Singh|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha UwagbaHotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and SocietyThrillers |summary=''To be The Hotel Arcadia is a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students luxury hotel in England study a book an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanterrorist group.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to Hiding from the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and nineAbhi, the hotel manager. It was her mother As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who came firstare still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with her father joining them later. The family was hard-workingSam who refuses to be cowed by events, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness keeps on venturing out of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. When Otegha was ten Although they only ever talk over the family acquired a car. For Oteghaphone, education meant a scholarship their friendship grows as Abhi tries to a private school in London help her keep safe and then a place at New College, Oxfordthey both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|isbn=086154742X

|isbn=17876318691529153298|title=The Rising TideList of Suspicious Things|author=Sam LloydJennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Lucy LockeIt's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good 1979 and decent life in the aftermathMargaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) She's now married to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucynot what's worrying Miv's daughter and Finfamily, the child she had with Danielthough. They Women have financial difficultiesbeen disappearing. Well, some caused by Nick Poveythey've been murdered, Danielbut to have 'disappeared' doesn's partner and t sound quite so-called best friendfrightening. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a childrenMiv's home but itupset because she's difficult overheard that her father wants to think that Nick has Danielmove the family 'Down South'. When you's re from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best interests at heartfriend, particularly where LucySharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or money, is concernedthat her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.

|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1398524085|title=Kate on the CaseHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine Charlotte Salter was expected at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kateher husband's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Armed with a plucky fatherHer children, that booksons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her talking mouse called Rupertdaughter, she is Etty. are all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see worried but - strangely - her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Howeverhusband, this is a train ride with a differenceAlec, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catnot. Shortly afterwards, a thief – Etty and two glowing eyesGreg, shining from find the darkness body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in a blink-the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and-youthen committed suicide when he couldn'll-miss-them stylet stand the guilt. ItThe Salter children are not convinced but there's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalistlittle else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened...|isbn=184812970X

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1035906708|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=The second trilogy We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our heroManhattan, ArchieNew York, back in London in the world of the BornDecember 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. It Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends make it more manageable in the Merge, but Archie has done his bestStates.... well, except When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and except made no secret of her preference for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak awayher elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ

|isbnauthor=0571365884Christopher Edge|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia PritchettBlack Hole Cinema Club

|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxiousLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, even as a childplace that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few exciting films, and far between. many, many snacks! On a visit to a therapistHowever, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adult, adventure they couldn't even imagine. when she was completely unable But as they lurch from one film genre to speak about the next, can they figure out what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the result - or so we are given cinema, and to believe.their real lives?|isbn=1839942738

|author=Alex CotterRachel Greenlaw|title=The House on the EdgeCompass and Blade|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on 'I can hear the edge song of a cliff, literallythe sea. Is that crack in The call of the garden getting bigger? Is deep, the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faithanswering beat in my heart.''s family. Her dad has disappeared Rosevear, a remote and her mum is struggling to copepartially forgotten island, barely leaving her bedsurvives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. So that leaves Faith in chargeMira, taking care of like her mother before her little brother Noah, taking care is one of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah 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 schoolend the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and avoiding awkward questions Mira's father. Desperate to save him from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he obsessed is secretive and with what he claims is only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a ghost family secret that lies buried deep in the cellar? What should she do about sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the house? Can she find a way watched streets of foreign islands to raise enough money to fix it? Whatthe heart of the smuggler's happened territory, Mira must be determined to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages stop at nothing to get funding for the house? She carries save the weight future of all these worries on her constantly, home and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long ones she can keep on keeping onholds most dear.|isbn=17880086260008664730

|isbnauthor=0008269041James Sherwood Metts|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie WhitehousePlanet Storyland

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She might Things have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working bit sticky for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years beforeEarthlings. She AI and her fifteen-year-old daughter automation have moved out of her parentbeen proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way re paid to do and other tasks that took time to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young childaccomplish. He's married Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of other, new ways to Nataliespend time, now along came an awful pandemic. Life was pretty much shut down and has a young child but he's still got , along with it in for Robin, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426

|isbnauthor=1786332388Matthew Tree|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerWe'll Never Know

|genre=ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly - Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and ''The First Day chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of Spring'' was one such occasion. The writing is superb his artistic passions all failed miserably and completely compellingwho had endless crises of self confidence. The characterisation is excellent and the plot grips you and won't let go. SoTim applied himself to his studies, what's the problem? Well, the problem is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boyset himself high but achievable ambitions. She's completely cold about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8

|author=Catherine SteadmanA G Slatter|title=The Disappearing ActBriar Book of the Dead|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp '' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of successmy own, all mine, at last. Great successI just want to enjoy it for a while. If '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the rumours are trueworld, award season 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 going the first non-witch to treat be born into her wellfamily for generations and as such since she was young, acknowledging her for training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her latestgrandmother suddenly dies, critically acclaimed production. SheEllie's going places but socousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, unfortunatelythe town's leader, is and Ellie takes her place beside her partner. And As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the places he's going take him towards liesrare ability to communicate with the dead, deceit and putting her at the heart of a pretty young thing in the form maelstrom of his new co-starchaos. It's a good time for Mia Reeling from one family secret to escapeanother, Ellie must decide who to trust and pilot season in LA provides just determine what to do as the excuseBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.|isbn=14711897831803364548

|authorisbn= Christophe Medler1529900360|title=Madrigal: A Closely Guarded SecretThe Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary= Set against the backdrop of the English Civil WarIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, a secret plan (codeSturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-named Madrigal) is discovered by Sir Robert Douse in shut cases which didn't need the summer help of 1642a psychologist only worked for a while. As a loyal servant of the King Finally, and Head of the Secret Serviceit was Robin, it is RobertDelaware's duty to uncover partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the details of involvement was something that the plan and follow man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the clues to uncover one swimming pool of the most guarded secrets a remote property in history—especially since Bel Air. He was the plot could affect heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the KingItalian.|isbn=B095HY8SXQ But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Tasha Suri1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Jasmine ThroneSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyAnimals and Wildlife|summary= On the night of her sacred burning, Princess Malini defies her brother Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and refuses Rowlands didn't want to step follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being on to the pyre-call put on his father's life. She is immediately sent to be imprisoned on When he was seventeen he took the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once filled opportunity of doing work experience with a community of people family friend who got powers from was a vet and was convinced this was the mysterious deathless watersjob for him. But now the temple is nothing more than an overgrown Before long, decaying ruinhe was at Liverpool University. One day, Malini witnesses It hadn't - as with so many students - been his dream since he was a girl kill someone with magicchild. Instead of reporting her for such a gruesome crime If anything, Malini claims that the girl saved her from an attacker and begs for the girl he'd wanted to become her own personal maidservantbe a professional footballer.|isbn=0356515648

|isbn=B088YWF5BC0861541774|title=The Lies We TellA Nye of Pheasants|author=Jane CorrySteve Burrows

|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a council estate short holiday in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed Singapore to have been a lovingmeet up with an old ally, stable familyGuy Trueman. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he sort of halfwas facing a man armed with a knife -promised and he'd be in bykilled a Ghurka. Her husbandInitially, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he's still going might have planned to murder the man. Now he could be going to work and he needs his sleepfacing the death penalty. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and overhears him tell his mother that hewouldn's killed someonet help Danny at all.

|author=Joseph KnoxAlexander McCall Smith|title=True Crime StoryThe Perfect Passion Company|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Joseph KnoxThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a new genre with his latest novelmore personal, "True Crime Story"tailored service. The story follows Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residencebusiness, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Split into four parts, the reader Katie is taken through the life and disappearance coming out of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sistera break up with a bad boyfriend, other family, friends and professionals, such as so jumps at the policechance to come home to Edinburgh. The various accounts help the reader get And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to know Zoean Edinburgh we already love, or at least thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Zoe she presented Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to otherscharm. However Katie has no experience in running a business, or in match-making, the twists but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shockedrather handsome) neighbour, William, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?to lend a hand…|isbn=08575277031846976596

|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Naday Meldova0811771741|title=No, No, No!InstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman

|genre=For SharingCrafts|summary=They say the best picture books are the simplest onesMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. And nothing could Some will be truer quick knits - others are of this latest from Justine Avery, a Bookbag favourite. the ''Nolong, No, No!cosy afternoons in front of the fire'' is based around variety. The projects are divided by the simplest text imaginable. time they''Noll take to complete - less than five hours, nofive to ten hours, no! Okay, okayten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. Yes All the projects are attractive, you maymodern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' Thatbut that's it! But, like all the best picture books, this tiny snippet of text is a veritable tardis - so much bigger on the inside that it appears on the outsideme being picky.|isbn=1638820457

|author=Monica ConnellDean Koontz|title=Against a Peacock SkyThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=TravelParanormal|summary= Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her PhBenny is having a terrifically bad day.D He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. in social anthropology. I think Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it 's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is important to know the thing that. She went on a grant-supported triphas trashed his house! The thing is, with a relatively specific objectiveBenny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. She wasn't He is a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-lanice person. She wasn't a mere tourist passing through A really nice person. She went with So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. She also wentnew friend, presumablya bad weather friend called Spike, with the academic discipline of how who has been sent to find these things out, how to organise them in her mind, how help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to "understand" them in the context take care of her own paradigmsBenny, and how to keep enough notes and files and photos to help her create some greater sense will certainly take care of the experience after the event. FortunatelyBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, she also went with a sense of open-ness and curiosity and Harper (a willingness to muck-in, to break her own rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled upwaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=17806004291662500491

|isbnauthor=1409181669Adam Stower|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers |summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders Murray is supposed to be a humble, tidy and looked likely friendly cat, one who is able to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew sleep and eat and eat and sleep and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death , well, whatever takes his fancy next of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgetwo. SheBut he'd been brutally stabbed and Marianas a bad magician's niececat, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had so his favourite bun has been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridgeturned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the death of Mariana's husbandregular back garden, Sebastian, in but into a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierworld of frightening adventure and whiffs. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of ZoeThis time round it drops them into a Viking land, where a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but he's mother turned up and Marianahe's sister, Eliza.ll have to do…|isbn=0008561249

|authorisbn=Maisie ChanB0C47LV1PC|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsFragility|author=Mosby Woods|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Danny Can you make a ''Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is eleven years oldthe question if you did, and what he really, really loves to do would it land? The catch is drawthat the answer for both could well be. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny.. no. 's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about 'Fragility'' is set as the drawingcity of Portland, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own roomOregon, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out cautiously begins to be his grandmother who has come over emerge from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around restrictions imposed during the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001Xcovid pandemic

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1529431735|title=RabbitsThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard February 1991 and fast structureEssex is bitingly cold, and to which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the average person no obvious entry pointmore surprising. A bit like He'd been exiled on the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life Costa del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websdecade. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who The return has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time itcome about because he's different. This time the game seems the most dangeroushad a letter from his ex-wife, nay lethal, the most broken itsaying that she's ever been – morally ill and otherwisehasn't long to live. Unfortunately for K, in trying It's hard to sort out what the game feel any sympathy when Hopkins is doing, if it's even being playedabducted, stripped to his underwear and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only sent to find out that a watery grave in the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing boot of a stolen Ford Sierra. Is it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=C J CareyAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=WidowlandThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It's April 1953Eli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend in the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around evening a bit, helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII runs. Eli lives with his wifelovely gran, Queen Wallistoo – for there is a generation missing in the family. For yesA few short years ago, Britain caved in the lead-up Eli's parents were both lost to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know ittitular race, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the same blood as world in the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''company of a magical beast. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, This has put all of that gender into made the race anathema to the pair – but when a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to bad incident at the drudges, and beyond those, right on down eatery leads to the childlessa confession from gran, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy Eli knows his only hope is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroineto dare to enter what he most hates, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task sole aim the prize of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it magic at the end – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come only thing to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitpossibly save his gran.|isbn=152941198X0571382231

|authorisbn=Louise Beech178763681X|title=This Is How We Are HumanKnife Skills for Beginners|author=Orlando Murrin

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Veronica is Chef Paul Delamare took a devoted single mother teaching job at a residential cookery school in Belgravia. He didn't really want to but celebrity chef Christian Wagner had a way of getting both men and women to do what he wanted. Paul ''somehow'' got the impression that he'd be at the school to her sonassist Paul, who had a broken arm, Sebastian - but she canit didn't give him everything turn out that way. The teaching - and the problems - are all his own. The one thing he wants. Sebastian has decided that ithadn's time t expected was for him someone to have sexturn up dead. But as an autistic 20 year-old Unfortunately, he was the person who discovered the body and everyone knows that's easier said than done. And it's starting the police consider that person to cause them both problemsbe the prime suspect. |isbn=1913193713