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'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].''' <! '''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->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 future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.}}

|isbn=12501685461786482126|authortitle=Sarah KozloffThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingElly Griffiths|rating=34.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= WorldBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich -building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and diesite was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. And what There was no skull. Was this a pleasure, thenritual killing or murder? Inevitably, to get a novel Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with world-building you actually want to delve intoDCI Harry Nelson. Sarah Kozloff It's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered worlddifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a complex history result of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, and the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedone night they spent together some three months ago. But it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into Her condition will be obvious before long, and the struggle not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptsickness.

|isbn=15439878770008551324|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love LifeThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Dr Thomas JordanNeil Lancaster

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=It''Learn s unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about loveapproach the police. The two greatest emotions are love Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and grief and love is he's prepared to tell the police where the opposite body of grief: ''if you love''a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, Dr Thomas Jordan tells ushe promises, ''you is someone big and it will inevitably grieve''be worth the police doing what he wants. Your love relationships begin And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the moment you're born remainder of his sentence and end only when you dieto get an early parole date. Whilst we all come into the world hoping Not much to give and receive love there are many people for whom love ask, is not quite it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating and she's even prepared to do the same mistakes other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and this eventually becomes resignation. For people anyone who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation works with him is a necessitykept well away from what's happening.

|authorisbn=Chris Hauty0008405026|title=Deep StateA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Hayley Chill is It's 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 fighterhalt. She is every kind of fighterNow, her mother, Helena, and well-trained her father are dead in most of themtheir bed. She Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's army infantry something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and she boxes for fun – her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and she wins-shut case is now a complex double murder. Always Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced. She wins because she }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is focusseda working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. She works hard Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, mentally handsome and physically, entitled and she knows how uses Edward to deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlledrun errands for him. This fight is against someone she is not expected Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to beatRobert. And she Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is being watchedleft to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1471185605

|author=H G Parry Jo Callaghan|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepLeave No Trace

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley When a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into found crucified on the real world. After years top of protecting Charleya hill in Nuneaton, Rob wants DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It's their handsfirst live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, it soon becomes clear Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends draws a lot of unwanted attention to use them for nefarious gainstheir AI Future Policing project. Rob and Charley must team up Will they be able to stop solve the madness - case in a battle to win before theytime, or will Kat find herself taken off the characters case and the world reach The End…, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=0356513777139851120X

|isbn=14447761851399613073|title=Haven't they GrownMoral Injuries|author=Sophie HannahChristie Watson

|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her sonOlivia, BenLaura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbotscardiothoracic surgeon. Actually, It's Laura is a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made perfectionist and a deliberate detour on trauma doctor. Anjali is the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck free spirit of the woods very often group and she was curious to see where becomes a family who'd come into money had lived before GP. When we first meet them they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen re at a car draw up drug and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas alcohol-fuelled party and Emilyit's going to end in tragedy. Beth remembered We don't know who suffered the names well tragedy or the consequences. Twenty- but these children were about five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three and five and Florafriends. This time, it's their teenage children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeenwho are involved.

|isbn=15291237630241636604|title=Miss AustenThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gill HornbyGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. 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. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. 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. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya'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 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 was 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)

|genre=Historical Science Fiction|summary=It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most 'Opening up new ways of thinking about the letters which she and other members shape of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Janethings to come. What is not known is ''why I've heard it said that 'technology'is what happens after you' she did this and at this stage - re eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than two hundred years after Janea few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's death all getting away from me. Some of it is - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcomingfrankly - 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're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than way I was expectingcould understand.

|author=Rory ClementsSunny Singh|title=Hitler's SecretHotel Arcadia

|genre=Thrillers|summary=So, Hitler had The Hotel Arcadia is a secret? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a certain sing-song aspersionterrorist group. But this Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a secret that is counter to thatwartime photographer and Abhi, and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know aboutthe hotel manager. His neiceAs Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman he seemed forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be very close cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his backcapture what's happened through her photography. Protected under a false identity Although they only ever sincetalk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the girl is completely ignorant terrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of her past, Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and the truth Margaret Thatcher is a very rare thingPrime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Martin BormannWell, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'gatekeeper. When you' to Hitler and his right hand manre from Yorkshire, knows – and Down South is desperately intent on wiping a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the slate clean move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and removing all connected with her existence from the Reichshe'll do anything to prevent that. So itShe's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against timeanyone.|isbn=1838770275

|isbn=02419851101398524085|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Cara HunterNicci French|rating=4.5

|summary=A very beautiful, Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked never turned up by a minicab driver on the outskirts of Oxford. She didn't want to go to the police station or the hospital: she just wanted to be taken homeHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. The driver wasn't so certain though are all worried but - strangely - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the policeher husband, Alec, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mothernot. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April FoolShortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's joke which had gone wrongfather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. No crime It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had been murdered Charlie and then committed and Faith didnsuicide when he couldn't want to take stand the matter any furtherguilt. Fawley and his team werenThe Salter children are not convinced but there't prepared to leave it at that s little else they can do but get on with their lives and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a historywonder about what really happened.

|isbn=15294002791035906708|title=Six Wicked ReasonsDiva|author=Jo SpainDaisy Goodwin

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home We tend to Spanish Cove after an absence think of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in factMaria Callas as Greek, that's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He but she was cagey about exactly where he'd been but he seemed contentborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, if not happyNew York, in December 1923 and only moved to be homeAthens when she was thirteen. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen the ''in memoriam'' in the paper: this Her original surname was the first he'd heard about what had happened. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, Kalogeropoulos but his her father is delighted. In fact, hechanged it to 'Callas's determined to have a party. Only, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonelymore manageable in the States. He's met Ana, When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a Polish immigrantmother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, and they're getting marriedJackie.

|author=Penny ChrimesChristopher Edge|title=Tiger HeartBlack Hole Cinema Club|rating=4.5

|summary=Lucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'Fly never meant to end up in the cage with a man-eating tiger. She just saw her chance All big movie fans, they're looking forward to skedaddlelots of exciting films, and she took it. And even when many, many snacks! However, as the cloud of soot cleared movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and she saw the golden eyes of a killer staring they are swept up into hers, she still didnan adventure they couldn't turn round and climb back up even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the chimney straightaway. 'Cos there was worse waiting for her next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back on to the roof.''What an opener! And there's plenty more cinema, and to come!their real lives?|isbn=15101070451839942738

|author=Tanya LandmanRachel Greenlaw|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingCompass and Blade|rating=3.5

|summary=A young woman''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herthe answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote and years in a dreary schoolpartially forgotten island, moves survives on luring ships into Thornfield Hall with only the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one intent – of the seven who swim out to have something like survey the life she wants ruins – rescuing any survivors and with only one job, any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to tutor a young half-French girlend the wrecking, whose they capture the island's leader and Mira's father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems Desperate to be darksave him from death, brooding Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and troubled – but that's nothing compared with only coordinates to the darkerguide her, more broody and even more troubled she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the housesea. YesWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, if you know Jane Eyre then you know as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the rest – but if you donheart of the smuggler'ts territory, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book Mira must be determined to turn stop at nothing tosave the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.|isbn=17811291260008664730

|author= T R HendrickJames Sherwood Metts|title= What if They KnewPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionConfident Readers|summary= It's 2025. Underneath Things have been a lodge in bit sticky for the Blue Mountain resort in PennsylvaniaEarthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, is a secret facilityoften replacing jobs they're paid to do and other tasks that took time to accomplish. Here, Dr Benton Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf starting to think of the Benefactorother, new ways to spend time, their anonymous funderalong came an awful pandemic. AlreadyLife was pretty much shut down and, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place to another. Butalong with it, unbeknownst to all the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether - travel through time. And he's ready to testmany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=17342772111736128426

|author= Catherine SteadmanMatthew Tree|title= Mr NobodyWe'll Never Know|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersLiterary Fiction|summary= Don't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a successful actress drunk and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the 'fight scene' chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chaptersany of his artistic passions all failed miserably and who had endless crises of self confidence. It was almost as if the author wanted So Tim applied himself to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but then was somewhat left with too much to do in the closing stagesachievable ambitions.|isbn=1984890646B0CVFXPGP8

|isbnauthor=1473681847A G Slatter|title=In Her Eyes|author=Sarah AldersonThe Briar Book of the Dead

|genre=ThrillersFantasy|summary=Ava lives '' There's a charmed lifepart of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong wayat last. I just want to enjoy it for a while. One evening she returns '' Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a night out with town under the protection of the Briar's, a friendfamily 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 before as such since she can finish was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her bedtime routinegrandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, her homethe town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her life. As challenges come her way left, are under attack: masked men have broken in right and are demanding money from her husbandcentre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, while putting her young daughter cowers beside himat the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. In Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the scuffle than ensuesBriar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, Ava is hurtunder threat.|isbn=1803364548}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529900360|title=The Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, badlySturgis was reluctant to ask for his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a while. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened Finally, but she knows it was life-changingRobin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the involvement was something that the man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. With her daughter still fighting for her life Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a room down remote property in Bel Air. He was the corridor, Ava has a lot heir to contend with as an Italian shoe empire and she tries to recover, wills her daughter is married to recover, an extremely rich man and attempts to piece together what happened and whyit's not the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?

|authorisbn=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton1529395224|title=Wonder Woman: WarbringerLetting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Graphic NovelSecret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary=DianaSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the strain that being unique on her island, is -call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the victim opportunity of doing work experience with a lot of tauntsfamily friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, and claims of nepotismhe was at Liverpool University. Ithadn's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her t - as with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be so many students - been his dream since he was a strong young womanchild. Perhaps too strong for the islandIf anything, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going he'd wanted to disturb be a lot moreprofessional footballer...|isbn=1401282555

|isbn=17860756950861541774|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Helen SedgwickSteve Burrows|rating=54

|summary=It began with the discovery of a body under the swings in the childrenDCI Domenic Jejeune's playground. It was Dr Alexis Crosse close friend and he was found by PC Simon Hunterformer colleague, who loved him deeplyDanny Maik, but who had reason has taken a short holiday in Singapore to mistrust himmeet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Crosse Maik was involved in a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with foreigners), a community which regards anyone not born knife - and brought up there as an outsiderhe killed a Ghurka. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you've only got Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to look at her skin light that suggested that he might have planned to realise that, and her husband, Fergus, well, murder the man. Now he's could be facing the death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a little strange too, not entirely ''here'diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all.

|author=Alastair ChisholmAlexander McCall Smith|title=Orion LostThe Perfect Passion Company

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth The Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her parents board younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the transport ship Orion ready business, as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a new life on Eos Fivewhile. Their new home Katie is still being terra-formed coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and life there isn't going 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 be easy44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but it ''is'' going with some new characters who quickly begin to be charm. Katie has no experience in running a fresh start. As Bethbusiness, or in match-making, but Ness has full confidence in her abilities, and there's mum puts italways her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, ''There's William, to lend a future waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisions, create our own lives.''hand…|isbn=17880059291846976596

|isbn=07535532360811771741|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingInstaKnits for Baby|author=B J FoggMelissa Leapman|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCrafts|summary=Go on, admit it - youMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby''re not quite perfectgives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. You still have those oddSome will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, quirky, even loveable (to you) habits that seem to annoy other peoplecosy afternoons in front of the fire' variety. Other people, of course, The projects are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which divided by the time they could so easily correct'll take to complete - less than five hours, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another wayfive to ten hours, I get cross with myself because I forget ten to do things or do some actions twenty hours and more than I should twenty hours. All the projects are attractive, modern and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the conceptsuseable. I constantly fail and then perhaps show my age when I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the listwonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being picky.

|author= B T KeatonDean Koontz|title= TransferenceThe Bad Weather Friend|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionParanormal|summary= Barrabus Madzimure Benny is about to diehaving a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, stranded on and someone has delivered a mining planet millions of lightreally weird, disturbing coffin-years from sized object to his home, executed for high crimes against the Church, the ruling body of Earth. Except heand it's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the magic of Transferencething that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the ability very last person to transplant deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person's soul or consciousness into a different body - and a power . So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things delivery to worry abouthis house is a new friend, a Church employee named Corvus bad weather friend called Spike, who has arrived from Earth been sent to interrogate help himsince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. All Thaniel wants Spike is going to see his family againtake care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isnBenny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny't going to give in without a hell of a fight..s wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=B082WPHTHH1662500491

|author=Christine BrownAdam Stower|title=Bucket Showers Murray and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaBun

|genre=TravelConfident Readers |summary=In the summer of 2008Murray is supposed to be a humble, this book's author was spending her days working in an office job in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere elsetidy and friendly cat, doing something else. Long story shortone who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, she ended up volunteering in Ghanawell, West Africawhatever takes his fancy next of the two. Now coincidentally, in the summer of 2010, this review But he's author was spending a bad magician''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere elses cat, doing something elseso his favourite bun has been turned into a hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and ''she'' ended up just 3 countries awaythe catflap they both use can chuck them out, volunteering in Sierra Leonenot into the regular back garden, West Africabut into a world of frightening adventure and whiffs. So you can see why This time round it drops them into a Viking land, when this book came upwhere a troll hunter is expected – well, said reviewer one much bigger than Murray was delighted , to be honest, but he's turned up and he'll have the opportunity to read and critique it.do…|isbn=171024299X0008561249

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|isbn=B07XLM3SM61529431735|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelThe Winter Visitor|author=Helena DixonJames Henry

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916It's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the care of her grandmothermore surprising. A great deal of money had He'd been spent to find out what happened to her and exiled on the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwiseCosta del Sol as a wanted drug smuggler for a decade. Kitty The return has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother about because he's had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge a letter from his ex- and Kitty could not understand why. Shewife, saying that she's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people ill and the naval college on the edge of town before - and shehasn's done every job in the hotelt long to live. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmotherIt's friends have been roped in hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to keep an eye on things ''his underwear and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired sent to take charge a watery grave in the boot of security at the hotela stolen Ford Sierra. Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?

|author=Seishi Yokomizo Alex Bell and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)Tim McDonagh|title=The Honjin MurdersGlorious Race of Magical Beasts

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=To many readers, the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' Eli is enough to make a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the book one to read; preferably quantified wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the words 'clever' or 'good'evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. For those who need moreEli lives with his lovely gran, here too – for there is the extra background – we're in rural Japan a generation missing in the 1930sfamily. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting marriedA few short years ago, although Eli's parents were both lost to the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned uptitular race, what with it being arranged at great hastea globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company of a magical beast. She only This has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, made the race anathema to the pair – but when a bad incident at the celebrations have gone ahead as plannedeatery leads to a confession from gran, Eli knows his only for the wedded couple hope is to be slashed dare to death in their private annexe before enter what he most hates, with the sun rises on their marriage. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in sole aim the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use prize of a traditional musical instrument magic at the time of end – the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itonly thing to possibly save his gran.|isbn=17822750020571382231